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Kathleen O'Neal Gear
1) The ice lion
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Teen members of a group of archaic humans, Lynx and Quiller, flee the increasing coldness and monstrous predators for a new land, where they meet a strange old man who tells them how to save the world.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the brutal Ice Age caused by the ancient Jemen war, many archaic human species, including Denisovans and Homo erectus, hover on the verge of extinction. There seems no way out, until the greatest Neanderthal holy man, Trogon, has a vision. Legends say the truce that ended the old war left one hostage in the hands of the victorious rebels: the god-like Jemen leader, known as the Old Woman of the Mountain. According to Trogon's vision, only one...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's been 925 summers since the Jemen introduced zyme, a bioluminescent algae, into the world's ocean and unwittingly triggered an Ice Age that has consumed most of the planet. All but a handful of Jemen flew to the stars, but before they left, they recreated several extinct species that had thrived in the last Ice Age. After almost a thousand summers, the archaic hominins that struggle along the edges of massive glaciers are dwindling. All they...
Author
Series
First North Americans volume 9
Language
English
Description
With this novel, the Gears take readers to the Chesapeake Bay of 600 years ago, when the unprovoked and brutal murder of a young woman on the eve of her wedding threatens to turn the entire Algonquin Nation against itself in a brutal war that could destroy them as a people. With People of the Mist, the Gears take us to the Chesapeake Bay of six hundred years ago, when the unprovoked and brutal murder of a young woman on the eve of her wedding threatens...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A novel on 11th Century Indians in the area of New Mexico. They were the Anasazi and the book traces their customs, politics and wars. A tale of human sacrifice and massacres, as when a chief orders the execution of a village to thwart a prophecy that a stolen child will return to conquer his people. By the authors of People of the Lightning.
Author
Series
DAW book collectors volume No. 1848
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This standalone fantasy brings an ancient Egyptian mystery to life against a modern background, in a tale expertly crafted by a seasoned anthropologist. Set against the glory and tragedy of ancient Roman Egypt, this novel brings to bring to life the greatest love story of all time. Sixteen-year-old Hal Stevens is a budding historical scholar from a small town in Colorado. A virtual outcast at high school, he has only two friends: Roberto the Biker...
9) Maze master
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
ix, 337 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
LucentB is a retrovirus that's inevitable, unstoppable, and utterly catastrophic for humanity. The US government believes the only person who can find the cure is the geneticist who tried to warn them about it and then disappeared: James Hakari. They assign the task of finding him to his former student Anna Asher, who in turn recruits paleographer and religious studies scholar Dr. Martin Nadai. The brilliant but insane geneticist is leaving clues...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
300 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Young Wrass, still being held captive, along with several other children, in Gannajero's camp, organizes the children for an assault on Gannajero's warriors. Meanwhile Koracoo and Gonda are coming for the children and they have allies: a battle-weary Mohawk war chief and a Healer from the People of the Dawnland.
Author
Series
People of the Longhouse series volume 4
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
379 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A conclusion to the series featuring Dekanawida the Peacemaker finds the growing League of the Great Law of Peace threatened by marauding warriors from the People of the Mountain, who Dekanawida urges to join the League to save their shared world.
13) Fire the sky
Author
Series
Contact : the battle for America volume 2
Contact the battle for America volume 2
Contact the battle for America volume 2
Contact the battle for America volume 2
Contact the battle for America volume 2
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
431 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After being fought to a standstill by the courageous Apalachee Nation, Spanish invader Hernando de Soto has changed his tactics. He will employ promises of peace to accomplish what cannot be achieved by violence alone. Lured by a young man's tale of gold and aided by an arrogant princess's treachery, he makes his way through the beautiful southeastern landscape. One by one, the ancient Nations fall victim to his lies as rulers and commoners alike...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
366 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this third book of the People of the Longhouse quartet, dangerous sorcerer Atotarho sets into motion a cataclysmic battle that threatens to destroy the Iroquoian world. Only three people are brave enough to challenge him: a disgraced warrior known as Sky Messenger; his friend War Chief Hiyawento; and a powerful clan matron named Jigonsaseh. To stop the madman, they must find a way to bring five warring nations together"--
16) It sleeps in me
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
256 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
Language
English
17) The visitant
Author
Series
Anasazi mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
364 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
19) It wakes in me
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
268 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
First North Americans volume 10
Pub. Date
1998.
Physical Desc
416 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
