<p>Writing this book and doing the extensive research was special to the author since she herself is 28% Native American Pueblo Indian and has many Native American friends, some whom were her playmates and schoolmates.WINNER NEW MEXICO / ARIZONA BOOK AWARDS! A Story in NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY very few are familiar with. A dazzling, family epic of love and forgiveness.In 1915 at the age of thirteen, Grandfather witnessed the desecration of the graves of his ancestors: 2,067 skeletons were stolen from the ghost Pueblo of Pecos. During the dark history of his peoples, their bones were more valuable than their lives. As he watched the remains of his ancestors driven away in trucks, he thought, bury my heart in their wounded graves, and fell to his knee, stricken with fear. Grandfather kept his secret for 84 years because he was afraid the men who dug up his family might come for him, too. In present day, he is an ancient ruin with one fist in a grave and the other in a wine bottle. He pleads with his granddaughter to drive him from New Mexico to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology in Boston, Massachusetts and bring home the missing ones.Hollow-Woman doesn't care about family trees, genealogy, or shared DNA. She works at a Native American casino and is of the modern ways, but she reluctantly agrees to drive the old buzzard cross country on his quest to rebury the ancestors at the rubble of their family pueblo. Grandfather claims the rest of the dead family hasn't had a night of peace since the others were ripped from their graves.Grandfather is a powerful shaman who believes his granddaughter does not appreciate heritage or the ancestry of her blood. He fashions a magical dream catcher that sometimes hurls her into the past to experience the lives of six centuries of generations, their sorrows, triumphs, and the dark side of the religious fanaticism of the Spanish Inquisition. During their road trip to find their stolen ancestors, she embarks on a spiritual journey and truly comes to appreciate the ties that bind the past and present of families.They discover what the Pecos skeletons have been up to for eight decades since being held captive at Harvard University, and how important their bones are to mankind</p>

Return of the Bones

Literature & Fiction

Garcia, Belinda Vasquez

Austin, Belinda

United States

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

The last thing Miranda ever expected was to see her brother's ghost at the fallen Twin Towers.It's bad enough a survivor at Ground Zero scares her with claims that if one dies violently, his ghost will haunt the place that holds his name. And to top it all, one of those thousands of ghosts follows Miranda to herhotel. The only certainty is the ghost grabbing her under the covers isnot her brother.Their parents' deaths separated Miranda from her brother when they were kids. The stranger at Ground Zero insists Jakebrought them together and it's no coincidence that of thousands mourning at Ground Zero, it's his best friend she bumps into. Some best friend.The man is more like a moocher. The cheapskate never has money, just ablood-stained wallet he broods over. Miranda has no choice but to hangout with the weirdo in order to unravel her brother's past.AsMiranda spends time with her brother's best friend, she begins to wonder who he really is. Against her better judgment, she becomes emotionallyentangled with a bitter alcoholic who has a secret linked to her brother and that blood-stained wallet.I Will Always Love You is part mystery, suspense, and romance, and takes place in the aftermath of 9/11, two weeksafter the planes hit the world Trade Center in New York City.The author has won a Best Historical Fiction New Mexico / Arizona Book Awards.

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