W. Michael Gear
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
492 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A religious miracle: the Cahokians believed that the divine hero Morning Star had been resurrected in the flesh. But not all is fine and stable in glorious Cahokia. To the astonishment of the ruling clan, an attempt is made on the living god's life. Now it is up to Morning Star's aunt, Matron Blue Heron, to keep it quiet until she can uncover the plot and bring the culprits to justice. If she fails, Cahokia will be torn asunder in warfare, rage, and...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Set against the backdrop of the majestic Rocky Mountains and amidst a rich tapestry of Indian cultures--Sioux, Mandan, Crow, Shoshoni--Coyote Summer tells an unforgettable tale of love and reconciliation. Lost in the blowing snow and deep-cold of a Wyoming winter, young Richard Hamilton stumbles south along the foothills of the Big Horn Mountains. Desperate, fighting a battle with starvation and frostbite, Richard drifts closer and closer to disaster,...
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
349 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
On the shores of what is now northeastern Canada, a small group of intrepid settlers have landed, seeking freedom to worship and prosper far from the religious strife and political upheaval that plague a war-ridden Europe... 500 years before Columbus set sail. Vikings, the first European settlers to land on the shores of the new world, intend to make it their home--in spite of the Skraeling barbarians who stand in their way. In their swift and violent...
Author
Series
North America's forgotten past volume 17
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
300 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
5) Pariah
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Corporate assassin Tamarland Benteen's last hope is the survey ship Vixen. With a load of scientists aboard under the supervision of Dr. Dortmund Weisbacher, Vixen is 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 particularly motivated to make his escape.The transition that should have taken Vixen years is instantaneous....
6) Sun born
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
444 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A thousand years ago, the mighty Cahokian civilization dominated the North American continent from its capital near modern St. Louis. From Wisconsin to the Gulf of Mexico, settlers and priests carried word of the power of their gods. People who wouldn't bow to that power were conquered or slaughtered. At the heart of the empire stood a vast city, teeming with tens of thousands. Power rested in one being, Morning Star, a god resurrected in the body...
Author
Series
Publisher
Daw Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
452 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Timothy Ryan, head of the military psychiatric unit at Grantham Barracks, is meeting a new patient, a woman known as Prisoner Alpha. As she is being transferred, they are attacked by assassins, barely escaping with their lives. One shooter vanishes, leaving behind a dead companion unlike anyone Ryan has ever seen. But even more baffling is the puzzle of Alpha herself. She speaks in a strange tongue, and doodles in bars, dots, and little pictures...
Author
Series
Publisher
Daw Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Called the 'Ennoia, ' the woman who came within a heartbeat of killing prisoner Alpha in the Grantham parking garage is back. This time she's snatched Dr. Timothy Ryan. The Psi Team find themselves caught in a battle that has been raging across timelines for 2000 years. But, can they trust the Ennoia? Or is she using our timeline for her own purposes?" -- Dust jacket.
9) Unreconciled
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
488 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Where does one put a messianic cult of practicing cannibals? That becomes the question when Ashanti appears in Donovan's skies. She was designed for no more than four years in space. It's taken ten. The crew has sealed the transportees onto a single deck--and over the years, the few survivors down there have become monsters. Lead by the messiah, Batuhan, they call themselves the Unreconciled. Supervisor Kalico Aguila settles them at remote Tyson...
10) Adrift
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
504 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Maritime Unit had landed in paradise. After a terrifying ten-year transit from Solar System aboard the Ashanti, the small band of oceanographers and marine scientists were finally settled. Perched on a reef five hundred kilometers out from shore, they were about to embark on the first exploration of Donovan's seas. For the twenty-two adults and nine children, everything is new, exciting, and filled with wonder as they discover dazzling sea creatures,...
11) Abandoned
Author
Series
Publisher
Daw Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
438 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The continuing story of the residents of the planet Donovan as survival becomes more of a struggle.
12) Outpost
Author
Series
Publisher
Daw Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
422 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The first book in a thrilling new sci-fi action adventure, set on Donovan, a treacherous alien planet where corporate threats and dangerous creatures imperil the lives of the planet's inhabitants. A ghost ship, the Freelander, appears in orbit. Missing for two years, she arrives with a crew dead of old age, and reeks of a bizarre death-cult ritual that deters any ship from attempting a return journey. But maybe it's worth the risk, for a brutal killer...
13) Dissolution
Author
Series
Wyoming Chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Wolfpack Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
451 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sam Delgado, a conservative PhD candidate in anthropology, heads from New York to Wyoming to investigate a cave in the mountains with several other students, only one of whom is accustomed to anything but city life. On the drive out, they hear news that the U.S. banking system has been hacked and all credit card use shut down. Sure that things will be back up and running by their return, they press on, hiring the local Tappan family to guide them...
14) Moon hunt
Author
Series
Morning star volume 3
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
414 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"What happens when your god goes missing? The lord god of Cahokia has been spirited away to the Underworld and the empire teeters on the brink of disaster as clans fight for control. Night Shadow Star, the god's human sister, and Fire Cat, her warrior bodyguard, are the only two people who can bring him back. They descend into the Sacred Cave where monsters dwell, willing to sacrifice themselves to save their kingdom. What they find makes them question...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
462 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Lightning Shell marks the dramatic conclusion to the People of Cahokia sub-series by bestselling authors W. Michael and Kathleen O'Neal Gear. Spotted Wrist's squadrons are about to launch an assault on Evening Star Town. Meanwhile, the new Keeper's loyal squadrons have taken control of central Cahokia. Blue Heron's enemies have declared her dead, a supposed victim of the fire that consumed her palace. She's alive and in the end it will be her wits,...
16) Star path
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
457 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cahokia recovers from a year of chaos following a near civil war and the god incarnate, Morning Star, has declared that his human sister Night Shadow Star and her slave Fire Cat must make a dangerous journey to far off Cofitachequi. For an old threat has arisen on the other side of the great eastern mountains - their brother, Walking Smoke, a madman who is convinced that he is the true deity destined to rule Cahokia.
How do you say no to a god? Cahokia...
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
704 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The American Civil War tore at the very roots of our nation and destroyed most of a generation. To truly understand the madness and despair of such a horrendous conflict one needs to pick a moment. Or see that war through one family's eyes. In rural Arkansas, such was the Hancocks. Devastated by a cruel war, they faced down their personal hells and in spite of it all survived. Their survival is a testament to the power of love...and the American spirit....
18) The foundation
Author
Publisher
Wolfpack Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
424 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Captain Brenda Pepper is a retired special forces intelligence officer with a successful personal security business in New York when she's hired to ensure international banker Chantel Simond's safety at the Jackson Hole Economic Forum. Chantel Simond is a woman shrouded in mystery, not only for Brenda, but for Ohio senator Thomas Jesse Ortega. Newly elected to the senate, Tom Ortega is in Jackson to learn all he can before voting on Senate Bill S-107,...
Author
Series
Novel of the American West volume 1
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, a Cengage company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
271 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"As a cold rain falls on a morning in 1812, a ragged man slogs through the St. Louis mud to locate the famed Missouri River trader called Manuel Lisa and plead for a job. Lisa doesn't know when he hires the man called John Tylor that Tylor is a hated man. From his ex-wife's bedroom to Andrew Jackson's field tent and General William Clark's offices, an intricate web has been laid for him. Tylor, however, guards his secret well. But has he made his...
20) Fourth quadrant
Author
Series
Wyoming Chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Wolfpack Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A college student deals with the aftermath of the cyber attack which led to the collapse of the American banking system.