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Beyond the Blue Horizon: How the Earliest Mariners Unlocked the Secrets of the Oceans

By Brian Fagan - Published 2012

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Brian Fagan is a marvel, not just in his encyclopedic knowledge of history, archaeology, and anthropology, but in the way he offers up ...Read Review

Secrets of the Wolves

By Dorothy Hearst - Published 2011

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In this second volume of the Wolf Chronicles series, young wolf Kaala deals with the fallout arising from her heretical belief that wolves ...Read Review

People of the Bear Mother

By T. D. Austin - Published 2011

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Author Austin, impressed by Jean Clottes’ book on the Pont’ d’Arc cave-painting discoveries of Jean Marie Chauvet in 1994, sets out to imagine ...Read Review

The Land of Painted Caves

By Jean M. Auel - Published 2011

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Epic

Having read the previous five books of this series, I looked forward to this sixth volume, expected to be the final one and ...Read Review

The Dawn Country

By Kathleen O'Neal Gear - By W. Michael Gear - Published 2011

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The Dawn Country concerns the peoples of the Iroquois in the generation before the coming of their great peacemaker Deganawidah, when the several ...Read Review

Stories from the Billabong

By James Vance Marshall - Published 2010

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Children/Young Adult Historical Fantasy

Stories from the Billabong is a collection of aboriginal myths and legends inspired by the dreaming of the Yorta Yorta people whose traditional ...Read Review

People of the Longhouse

By Kathleen O'Neal Gear - By W. Michael Gear - Published 2010

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Saga

This 17th installment of the Gears’ North America’s Forgotten Past series chronicles hostilities between several Iroquois tribes. In the story, eleven-year-old Odion ...Read Review

Coming of the Storm

By Kathleen O'Neal Gear - By W. Michael Gear - Published 2010

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Saga

In 1539, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto landed his forces in Florida and began a brutal three-year exploration of what is today the southeastern ...Read Review