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W. Michael Gear

    1. leden 1955

    W. Michael Gear je autorem, který čerpá ze svých rozsáhlých zkušeností v terénní archeologii a antropologii. Tato odbornost proniká do jeho psaní a dodává mu autenticitu a hloubku, zejména při zkoumání historických témat a lidské minulosti. Jeho práce se vyznačuje pečlivým výzkumem a vypravěčským stylem, který oživuje historii pro současného čtenáře. Gearův odkaz spočívá ve schopnosti spojit vědeckou přesnost s poutavým vyprávěním, čímž přibližuje čtenářům fascinující světy minulosti.

    W. Michael Gear
    People of the Weeping Eye (North America's Forgotten Past)
    People of the silence
    Bone walker
    People of the Thunder
    Temné dědictví
    Kdo je Abel
    • Kdo je Abel

      • 560 stránek
      • 20 hodin čtení
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      Detektivní román odehrávající se v současné Americe popisuje vědecký pár, který přijde o život během genetických výzkumů. Genetik Scott Ferris tajně naklonoval pračlověka. Jeho okolí odmítá uvěřit tomu, že by tento rozvážný a inteligentní mladý muž udělal něco takového. Je jeho jednání neetické? Nebo je v zájmu vědy něco takového možné? Církevní představitelé se bouří a policie v čele s FBI má plné ruce práce ochránit svědky i živoucí důkaz...

      Kdo je Abel
    • Další z řady sci-fi románů odehrávající se na okraji dnešního antropologického vědeckého světa vypráví příběh manželského páru, který vychovává šimpanze bonobo. Umber, hlavní hrdinka knihy, je šimpanzí slečna, která umí číst, zná znakovou řeč, ráda se pěkně obléká. Až jeden kolega upozorní Jima, který se Umber ujal a vzal ji do své rodiny, že není normální, aby byla opice tak inteligentní. Kolem celé rodiny se začínají stahovat mračna v okamžiku, kdy farmaceutická společnost, která šimpanzí holčičku do rodiny umístila, chce Umber získat zpět.

      Temné dědictví
    • People of the Thunder

      • 512 stránek
      • 18 hodin čtení
      4,5(73)Ohodnotit

      By 1300 AD, the Sky Hand people had crushed and enslaved the Albaamaha people and built their high-walled capital, Split Sky City, to dominate towns up and down the Black Warrior River. But a violent wind is brewing that may topple the city's mighty walls. Great armies are on the march, and a cunning new leader, Smoke Shield, has risen. He will lead the Sky Hand people either to stunning triumph or to bloody doom. Old White, Trader, and the mystical Two Petals are journeying across the Choctaw lands straight into the chaos. Old White, the Seeker, must play a delicate game of espionage. For Trader the slightest indiscretion--let alone the temptation of forbidden love--could lead to disaster. Two Petals, the Contrary, faces the toughest choice of all : She must betray herself and her friends to Smoke Shield or live forever in the backward grip of madness. And Spirit Power has laid a far deadlier trap for them in the rainbow colors just beneath the rolling surface of the Black Warrior River. A novel of desperate political intrigue and spiritual power, People of the Thunder once again demonstrates the New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear's mastery of American prehistory. Explore the ancestral heritage of the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and Yuchi peoples as the majesty and genius of the vanished Mississippian mound builders' civilization comes to life.

      People of the Thunder
    • A blend-of ancient history and intriguing mystery of one of the most enigmatic people to ever inhabit this continent--the Anasazi.

      Bone walker
    • People of the silence

      • 643 stránek
      • 23 hodin čtení
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      In A.D. 1150, the Great Sun Chief of the Anasazi people learns that his wife has given birth to the child of another man, and now that daughter, Cornsilk, with the help of a young man named Poor Singer, must flee the wrath of the Great Sun Chief.

      People of the silence
    • 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 man driven by a secret so terrible it may topple the greatest city in North America. When the far-off Katsinas told Old White it was time to go home, he had no idea that his journey would take him to the head of the Mississippi, where he would encounter the mystical Two Petals--a  youngsoul woman obsessed with Spirit Power, who lives life backwards. But before Two Petals can find her way out of the future, Old White must heal the rift in her tortured soul. To do so, he will need the help of Trader, a loner consumed by his own dark past.  People of the Weeping Eye is an epic set against the might and majesty of the great Mississippian Chiefdoms. The Gears have breathed new life into North America's forgotten heritage with a sweeping saga that will forever change your appreciation of our country.   

      People of the Weeping Eye (North America's Forgotten Past)
    • People of the Masks

      • 576 stránek
      • 21 hodin čtení
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      As the prophets have foretold, a child of power has been born unto the Turtle People of the Iroquois Nation. The Elders call him False Face Child, for he is the son of a powerful spirit. A living talisman, the child has inhuman eyes--black mirrors, ageless and deep--and all fear him.All but Jumping Badger, the most powerful war leader of the Bear People. He destroys an entire village to take the boy to use as a spiritual weapon. But his triumph is short-lived. The Bear People suffer terrible visions and hear the voices of the spirits. Strange ailments and mysterious deaths take them one by one.Though he is a seer, False Face Child is also a sad and lonely young boy named Rumbler. Twelve-year-old Wren befriends him and together they escape across the winter landscape of New York and Ontario with Jumping Badger close behind. He now fears the boy's power and seeks to kill him. Their only hope is to stay alive long enough to find Rumbler's legendary father, known only as The Disowned.An epic journey, People of the Masks is another riveting volume in New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear's North America's Forgotten Past series.

      People of the Masks
    • Pariah

      • 496 stránek
      • 18 hodin čtení
      4,2(14)Ohodnotit

      Now in paperback, the third book in the Donovan series returns to the treacherous alien planet where corporate threats and dangerous creatures imperil the lives of the colonists.Corporate assassin Tamarland Benteen's last hope is the survey ship Vixen. Under the supervision of Dr. Dortmund Weisbacher, the scientists of Vixen are tasked with the first comprehensive survey of the newly discovered planet called Donovan. Given that back in Solar System, Boardmember Radcek would have Benteen's brain dissected, he's motivated to make his escape.The transition that should have taken Vixen years is instantaneous. Worse, a space ship is already orbiting Donovan, and, impossibly, human settlements have been established on the planet. For Dr. Weisbacher, Donovan is an ecological disaster.Down on Donovan, Talina Perez takes refuge in the ruins of Mundo Base with the wild child, Kylee Simonov. But the quetzals are playing their own deadly game: one that forces Talina and Kylee to flee farther into the wilderness. Too bad they're stuck with Dortmund Weisbacher in the process.Back in Port Authority, Dan Wirth discovers that he's not the meanest or deadliest man on the planet. Tamarland Benteen is making his play for control of PA. And in the final struggle, if Benteen can't have it, he'll destroy it all.

      Pariah
    • Unreconciled

      • 496 stránek
      • 18 hodin čtení
      4,2(326)Ohodnotit

      The continuing story of the residents of the planet Donovan as survival becomes more of a struggle.

      Unreconciled
    • 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