Help! Help! Mammoths walk into sea! Husband chase with big rock!Gotta love these PEOPLE books. I mean, what's not to love about a 1000 page novel where noble Native Americans battle their way through ancient landscapes that we know so little about?Problem is, the Gears spend so much time getting ...
People of the Earth (North America's Forgotten Past #3)by W. Michael Gear, Kathleen O'Neal Gear The story begins with a description of common practice in modern times of project managers wanting to hurry their projects as the consequence of history.White ash is a dreamer, who is taken by power fr...
I loved this book! It's such a good mystery! It was very nice that, once you've been initially exposed to all the many characters, the author will remind you of their relationship and the book in such a way as not to be obvious. This was very helpful and I wish many more authors could achieve th...
It has been a thousand years since Wolf Dreamer lead his people up through the dark hole in the ice to a rich, untouched continent bursting with game. But the world has changed. Most of the magnificent animals are gone, and the last of the great glaciers is melting, forming a huge freshwater lake...
This book was definitely better than the first, but I wonder if I think that way because you have all the players down and are more used to the society the story is placed in.This book takes place directly after the last one. While I found the first book to be confusing, this one was better, if ...
Maybe it's just because I like owls, but I actually really enjoyed this book in The First North American series. While it did reference previous books, it gave enough background that it isn't necessary to read it in order, this book can be a stand alone.Mud Puppy, later known as Salamander, has ...
People of the Lakes (North America's Forgotten Past, #6)Gear, W. MichaelGear, Kathleen O'neal The Mask of Many Colored Crow has been causing problems, although used to balance the world in in history the mask has developed its own identity. It begins to disrupt the world. The focus of power it ha...
At its pinnacle in A.D. 1150 the Anasazi empire of the Southwest would see no equal in North America for almost eight hundred years. Yet even at this cultural zenith, the Anasazi held the seeds of their own destruction deep within themselves....On his deathbed, the Great Sun Chief learns a secret...
A series written by the award-winning archaeological team Kathleen O’Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear. This couple has an incredible talent for bringing their field work on North American aboriginals into vivid focus. They develop their characters with such style you become certain you would know ...
People of the Fire (North America's Forgotten Past, #2)Gear, W. MichaelGear, Kathleen O'neal The world is dying. In drought and over hunting the animals are disappearing. The people are starving. The wolf bundle the legacy of first Man has weakened, all it power and prestige has been drawn out. ...
Sora, the High Chieftess of the Black Falcon Nation, has been banished by her own people until she can find healing for her broken spirit. Her seductive, murderous rampages have led to war with nearby clans and caused dissension in her own, as well. If another body was to turn up, Sora will certa...
A series written by the award-winning archaeological team Kathleen O’Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear. This couple has an incredible talent for bringing their field work on North American aboriginals into vivid focus. They develop their characters with such style you become certain you would know ...
Visitant means supernatural being of some sort, like angels or demons. They aren't real now but the world of an Anasazi revolves around them. Of course, what's important to the Anasazi is also very important to the scientists/researchers who dig them... the Archaeologists. The Visitant is two sto...
I'm starting to feel like I'm reading the same book. Young, seemingly incapable boy who must Dream a new spiritual path for his people. Old (but not too old) powerful woman dreamer who dances on the sides of both good and evil. Strong leaders who fall in love and help lead their clans away fro...
I was really excited to read this book, since the peopling of the Americas is one of my favorite subjects. Not only did I get a Master's degree in Archaeology, I live in the American Midwest, where much of the earliest remnants are found. But I was horribly disappointed. I could not even bring my...
People called Old White the "Seeker," a man never long with any people or place. For years he had wandered, leaving a trail of war, wonder, and broken love in his wake. Now he is headed home, called back by visions of chaos, blood, and fire. But there is more to the Seeker than most know. He is a...
Sora,flint,and Skinner were from different clans,but became fast friends,although Sora & Flint's friendship turned into love & they married. Flint's love for Sora becomes obsessive to the point that he killed a man for looking the wrong way at his wife.Unable to live with his murderous rages he d...
Reads much like a Dan Brown novel, and in that way it's pretty good. I know that the Gears have written many other books prior to this one, most of which follow the same historical fiction pattern, as best I know, but still I wouldn't be surprised if the inspiration for writing this book came alm...
Even before the sound of her voice died away, Redcrop knew something was wrong. She and the Matron lived in three interconnected chambers on the east side of Longtail village. The rooms, eerily quiet and cold, had an ominous stillness. Flame Carrier always awoke long before dawn and by now had a ...
Asson kept glancing up at the tree as he carefully made his way through the wet boulders that cluttered the shore. Sunlight, reflected from the ocean, glimmered over the chestnut, transforming its twigs into skeletal fingers that seemed to be pointing accusingly at his heart, as though Madyrut fo...
His two dogs trotted at his heels. “Why did you let him go?” Catkin asked from where she crouched under the slanting roof. “He’ll tell everyone where we are.” “I let him go because it doesn’t matter who he tells.” Catkin frowned. “Why not?” “Because by now the White Moccasins know exactly where w...
Smooth Pebble had arrived at her palace, rudely shoving the door aside, and calling, “Lady? The Clan Keeper and Matron need to see you now!” Piasa’s voice had hissed sibilantly within her: Take the Red Wing! As she hurried forward she clasped a cloak made of split feathers to her shoulders and gl...
Zarathan studied it from where he huddled in the shadow of the broken-down barn with his hands clasped over his ears, trying not to hear what was happening inside. Hours ago, when Cyrus and Kalay had first taken the Roman inside, the sound of blows and grunts had filled the air. Zarathan had quak...
A soft sizzling filled her chamber. A few Evening People gleamed through the gaps in the clouds, sparkling against the indigo blanket of night. Catkin stretched. The rich scents of ritual cooking filled her nostrils. For the past two days women had cooked rabbits, band-tailed pigeons, deer, and a...