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Panther in the Sky

James Alexander Thom · 684 pages

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The Pearl Sister

Lucinda Riley · 510 pages

"From the breathtaking beaches of Thailand to the barely tamed wilds of colonial Australia, The Pearl Sister is the next captivating story in New York Times bestselling author Lucinda Riley's epic series about two women searching for a place to call home. CeCe D'Apliese has always felt like an outcast. But following the death of her father--the reclusive billionaire affectionately called Pa Salt b

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People of the Wolf

W. Michael Gear, Kathleen O'Neal Gear · 435 pages

As the Ice Age comes to an end, the climate is changing and game is scarce. Led by a youg shaman who receives a Dream from the spirit of the Wolf, a handful of courageous men and women dare to cross the fragile land bridge linking the Eurasian continent to the Americas to find an untouched, unspoiled continent. Set in what is now Alaska, this is the magnificent saga of the vision-filled man who le

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Walk in My Soul

Lucia St. Clair Robson · 619 pages

**Tiana was a Cherokee woman. She grew up learning the magic, spells, and nature religion of her people. Before Sam Houston became the father of Texas, he was a young man who had run away from his home in Tennessee to live among the Cherokee. He came to love Tiana. As the Cherokee would say, she walked in his soul. But Sam was a white man, and Tiana, a Cherokee. And the dreams each had for

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The Dreaming

Barbara Wood · 494 pages

Absolutely splendid - it sweeps you away. Cynthia Freeman, New York Times bestselling author Set in the untamed landscape of mid-nineteenth century Australia, The Dreaming is a rich and potent tale of hidden passion and broken taboo from acclaimed novelist Barbara Wood. Australia, 1871 Following her mother s sudden death, Joanna Drury sets sail from India and arrives in Melbourne to claim the

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People of the Silence

Kathleen O'Neal Gear, W. Michael Gear · 568 pages

By A.D. 1150 the Anasazi had created an empire in the Southwest that would never again be equalled in North America. Master astronomers, traders, and architects, they built extraordinary roads linking thousands of square miles. Their Great Houses stood five stories tall and contained hundreds of rooms. Yet at the height of their civilization, cataclysm struck; the Anasazi began to destroy themselv

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Soul of the World

David Mealing · 656 pages

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The Ice-Shirt

William T. Vollmann · 432 pages

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Thirteen Moons

Charles Frazier · 422 pages

At the age of twelve, under the Wind moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy. It is during this time that he grows into a man, learning, as he does, of the raw power it takes to create a life, to find a home. In a card game with a white Indian named Featherstone, Will wins a mysterious girl named Claire. As Will's de

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Ghost Hawk

Susan Cooper · 336 pages

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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

Stephen Graham Jones · 441 pages

In 1912 a strange confession is given, over several nights, to a Lutheran priest who transcribes the life of a vampire who haunted the fields of the Blackfeet reservation, looking for justice. A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran Pastor is discovered within a wall and what it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to two hundred and seventeen Blackfeet dead in the snow. To

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Little Big Man

Thomas Berger · 444 pages

Believe it or not, Jack Crabb is 111 years old. He is also the son of two fathers, one white, the other a Cheyenne Indian chief who gave him the name Little Big Man. As a Cheyenne, Crabb feasted on dog, loved four wives, and saw his people butchered by horse-soldiers commanded by Custer. As a white man, he helped hunt the buffalo into extinction, tangled with Wyatt Earp, cheated Wild Bill Hickok--

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Dances with Wolves

Michael Blake · 304 pages

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Light in the Forest

Conrad Richter

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Alaska

James A. Michener · 1,000 pages

This is a Historical ?? novel about Alaska. It starts very slow with the geological activity that forms Alaska. The migration on peoples into and the development of Alaska as only James A Michener could write it.

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Barkskins

Annie Proulx · 736 pages

"Bark Skins open in New France in the late 18th century as Rene Sel, an illiterate woodsman makes his way from Northern France to the homeland to seek a living. Bound to a "seigneur" for three years in exchange for land, he suffers extraordinary hardship and violence, always in awe of the forest he is charged with clearing. In the course of this epic novel, Proulx tells the stories of Rene's child

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Blood on the River: James Town 1607

Elisa Carbone · 246 pages

Twelve-year-old Samuel Collier is a lowly commoner on the streets of London. So when he becomes the page of Captain John Smith and boards the Susan Constant, bound for the New World, he can't believe his good fortune. He's heard that gold washes ashore with every tide. But beginning with the stormy journey and his first contact with the native people, he realizes that the New World is nothing like

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Ishi, Last of His Tribe

Theodora Kroeber · 213 pages

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Bone Rattler

Eliot Pattison · 462 pages

From Edgar Award–winning author Eliot Pattison comes a compelling, multilayered novel rich in historical detail. Aboard a British convict ship bound for the New World, Duncan McCallum witnesses a series of murders and apparent suicides among fellow Scottish prisoners. A strange trail of clues leads Duncan into the bloody maw of the French and Indian War.

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The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

Thomas Keneally · 178 pages

A short Australian novel telling the story of an aboriginal worker who rebels against his overbearing employer, wreaking a trail of destruction

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Walkers of the Wind

William Sarabande · 420 pages

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Circle of Stones

Anna Lee Waldo · 465 pages

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