The harsh post-glacier landscape is the setting for the fifth  novel in the series about native American prehistory, in which the  pregnant Kestrel flees westward from her vengeful husband after  witnessing her lover's murder. 75,000 first printing. Tour.

People of the Sea

Kathleen O'Neal Gear

W. Michael, Gear

Forge

Michael and Kathleen Gear, bestselling authors and award winning archaeologists are famous for writing novels about prehistoric America that are fast-paced, steeped in cultural detail, and smart. Here, in their most ambitious work to date, they combine their distinctive trademark of high action with a rich psychological drama. Four thousand years ago, in what centuries later will be the southern part of the United States, a boy is thrust into manhood long before he's ready. Young Salamander would much rather catch crickets and watch blue herons fish than dabble in the politics of his clan. But when his heroic brother is killed, Salamander becomes the leader of America's first city. He inherits his brother's two wives, who despise him, and is forced to marry his mortal enemy's daughter to forge an alliance for the trade goods his people desperately need. But he's only fifteen winters old! Technically he's not even a man, and most people consider him to be the village idiot! Worse, each of his wives has secretly been ordered by her clan to kill him. Cast adrift in a stark wilderness of political intrigue where assassins are everywhere, young Salamander has no choice but to become a man-and quickly. For his own greatest enemies are closing in, intent upon destroying him and his clan and taking over Sun Town for themselves. It would all be a simple matter if he could just run away, but he can't. He has three problems: Their names are Night Rain, Pinedrop and Anhinga. His wives. Despite what their clans have ordered them to do he loves them. And he loves the children they have given him. As the end draws close, he realized he has only one duty he cannot shirk-to protect his family. Salamander will do it. No matter the cost in blood.

People of the Owl: A Novel of Prehistoric North America

Literature & Fiction

United States

Forge Books

The Visitant

Genre Fiction

BOOKS-ON-TAPE, INC.

Ever since he became one of several scientists chosen to raise apes bred by the pharmaceutical giant SAC, Dr. Jim Dutton, his daughter Brett, and the bonobo ape Umber have been a family. Umber types, reads, speaks sign language, and even contemplates the nature of God. Then a colleague forces Jim to confront the reality he's tried to ignore: Umber and the other SAC apes are "augmented" apes, more similar to early hominids than to anthropoids. When SAC abruptly demands Umber's immediate return, it becomes vital for Jim to discover why the corporation created this new species. The quest for answers will take Jim and his family to Africa where the struggle to uncover SAC's secrets becomes a fight for survival. "...an exciting, provocative story." (Publishers Weekly)

Dark Inheritance

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Raising Abel

People of the Fire

St.Martin's Press

People of the Lightning takes us to ancient Florida, to a village of fisher folk who must face their deepest fear: Pondwader, now a lanky boy of fifteen summers. He is the White Lightning Boy--the first of his kind to be born in tens of tens of summers. His white hair, pink eyes, and pale skin make him fearsome enough, but legends foretell that a Lightning Boy will make Sister Moon bury her face in the clouds and weep falling stars--and the winds of destruction will be unleashed.The folk manage to trade him in marriage to Musselwhite, a woman warrior who does not really want him. She must face an old enemy who has captured her beloved husband, an enemy who is determined to destroy her. What good to her is this soft-hearted youth? She has yet to learn that Pondwader is a Lightning Boy. He can hear voices in the wind, telling of coming horror....

People of the Lightning

Contemporary

San Val

People of the Wolf

In the dawn of history, a valiant people forged a pathway from an old world into a new one. Led by a dreamer who followed the spirit of the wolf, a handful of courageous men and women dared to cross the frozen wastes to find an untouched, unspoiled continent. This is the magnificent saga of the vision-filled man who led his people to an awesome destiny, and the courageous woman whose love and bravery drove them on in pursuit of that dream.A sweeping epic of prehistory, "People of the Wolf brings the true story of the ancestors of today's Native American peoples to life in an unforgettable saga of hardship and determination, conflict and passion.

New York Times Bestselling AuthorGunfighter Theo Belk is rootless, ruthless, and deadly -- all traits needed to survive on the lawless Western frontier. Haunted by the ghosts of the men he's killed, Belk sets out to destroy the man who murdered his parents while a younger Theo watched. The gunfighter has become a romanticized American icon, but Gear dares to take us inside the troubled soul of a man teetering between destruction and salvation.

Long Ride Home (Thorndike Press Large Print Western)

Thorndike Press Large Print

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