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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...

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.

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.

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

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.   

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 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.... 

A romantic novel set in Montana. Colleen Merrill, drawn by dreams of an Indian warrior, travels to Montana with her brutal husband to establish a homestead. She meets and falls in love with Lieutenant Matthew Douglas, a U.S. Cavalry officer. Wounded Bear, a young Cheyenne warrior and medicine man, has been told in a vision that a golden haired woman has the power to save his people from invasion by the white man. He seeks out this woman and finds Colleen. The two become lovers.

Lovely Andiora is a Huron Indian in seventeenth-century North America. A seeress with a bond to the spirit world, she has beheld a frightening vision-of a blond man in a black robe, whose coming will bring death and despair to her people. Father Marc Dupre is a French missionary who has come to Quebec to preach Christianity. He is not prepared for his own growing love for Andiora, an attraction she shares with all her heart. But more than a forbidden union threatens them both. A mysterious epidemic is devastating the Hurons, and vengeful shamans blame the "Black Robes" from Europe, crying out for the priests' deaths. Menaced by war and disease, torn between their desires and their sacred callings, Marc and Andiora struggle to find peace and fulfillment.

Anika French's groundbreaking research reveals a dire prediction: climate change could lead to humanity's extinction within years. After her findings are published under her committee chair's name, powerful figures seek to exploit her statistical program, resorting to extreme measures like murder and kidnapping. Dr. Maureen Cole, along with specialists and bodyguard Skip Murphy, must protect Anika while grappling with the catastrophic implications of her work. As the threat of a "fracture event" looms, dark forces begin to test her alarming model with lethal consequences.