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Texas

Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors

In the first account of a flood of new research findings, an acclaimed New York Times science reporter tells the dramatic story of the lost ages of human history. In just the last few years an explosion of discoveries - driven by information from the human genome - has empowered researchers to address many long-standing questions about the deep human past. Nicholas Wade has drawn on the new findings to present the first portrait of a special and hitherto mysterious group of human ancestors - the ancestral human population that lived in Africa 50,000 years ago and from whom everyone in the world today is descended.

Before the Dawn

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This picture improved book brings together more than 40 eclectic personal shrines, offering a diverse and vibrant vision of sanctuary. Inspiring and beautiful. #Altars #Spirituality #DayOfTheDead #Religion #Creativity #Memory #Ancestors￼ #Photographs #Interviews #Sacred￼

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Pennsylvania

Sacred Spaces in Everyday Life

Describes forty personal shrines, their sacred and secular uses, and the spiritual benefits derived by their owners

Altars and Icons

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Illinois

recovering the lost history of our ancestors

Before the dawn

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Adopted at the age of thirteen and encouraged to pursue her love of music, twenty-year-old Dell Jordan risks her future and a musical scholarship to Julliard to seek the truth about her past to embark on a secret journey into Oklahoma's Kiamichi Mountains to seek answers about her Choctaw heritage. Original.

A Thousand Voices

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#skilgenerationalrelationships #historical #ancestors #wwii #carnival #nice #guardianship 

a novel

Akin 

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X-Library Copy
A Scholastic Biography
#biography #HispanicAmericans
#history #LatinAmerican #ancestors

New Jersey

The Stories of Ten Hispanic Americans

A collection of mini-biographies follows the achievements of U.S. Navy Admiral David Farragut, baseball player Roberto Clemente, singer Gloria Estefan, schoolteacher Jaime Escalente, and six other notable Hispanic Americans. Original.

Standing Tall

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#paperback #ancestors #bookerprize #bookmarkjourneyfiction #fen #grahamswift #fiction #eastanglia 

When his school decides to phase out history from the curriculum, a history teacher abandons his formal lessons to tell his students stories about his native Fen country of East Anglia and its inhabitants

Waterland

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A Novel

The ghost of a real-life historical figure helps elderly Catherine da Costa convince her granddaughters to travel across Europe with her and helps them find a link between past and present by leaving mysterious journal entries along their travel route. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

The Ghost of Hannah Mendes

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#ancestors #nativeamerican #fables #folklore #paperback

Michigan

In Native American history, there are many legends about UFOs, gods and aliens. There has always been a connection between Native Americans and beings from other parts of the universe, referred to as Star People. Perhaps due to familiarity with celestial fixtures, it has been easier for Native Americans to relate events they have experienced on earth with things such as the formation of the Pleiades. The experience of tribal individuals with the Pleiades is featured quite prominately in legends across many tribes including Cherokee, Onondaga, Lakota and others. It is not hard to believe they would identify an event with a star, being the nature and history of tribes was to exist outdoors. The night sky would be paid much more attention by one who did not live indoors. Regardless of the tribe or the whether the interaction is through a god or star people, there is proof that the ancient people of North America believed they have been visited by unexplainable beings from the heavens. The stories in the collection tell of many different tribes and their experiences and the outcome of walking with these beings.

Star People, Sky Gods and Other Tales  of the Native American Indians

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#paperback #race #geography #creative #American #cultural #ancestors

Iowa

Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape

With a New Preface by the Author

Through personal journeys and historical inquiry, this PEN Literary Award finalist explores how America's still unfolding history and ideas of "race" have marked its people and the land.

Sand and stone are Earth's fragmented memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. One life-defining lesson Lauret Savoy learned as a young girl was this: the American land did not hate. As an educator and Earth historian, she has tracked the continent's past from the relics of deep time; but the paths of ancestors toward her--paths of free and enslaved Africans, colonists from Europe, and peoples indigenous to this land--lie largely eroded and lost.

A provocative and powerful mosaic that ranges across a continent and across time, from twisted terrain within the San Andreas Fault zone to a South Carolina plantation, from national parks to burial grounds, from "Indian Territory" and the U.S.-Mexico Border to the U.S. capital, Trace grapples with a searing national history to reveal the often unvoiced presence of the past.

In distinctive and illuminating prose that is attentive to the rhythms of language and landscapes, she weaves together human stories of migration, silence, and displacement, as epic as the continent they survey, with uplifted mountains, braided streams, and eroded canyons. Gifted with this manifold vision, and graced by a scientific and lyrical diligence, she delves through fragmented histories--natural, personal, cultural--to find shadowy outlines of other stories of place in America.

"Every landscape is an accumulation," reads one epigraph. "Life must be lived amidst that which was made before." Courageously and masterfully, Lauret Savoy does so in this beautiful book: she lives there, making sense of this land and its troubled past, reconciling what it means to inhabit terrains of memory--and to be one.

Trace

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#paperback #spiritguides #ancestors #ghosts #angels #thedivine #newage #spirit

Washington

Spirit Speak: knowing and understanding spirit guides, ancestors, ghosts, angels, and the divine

#paperback #ancestors #christianfiction #adventure #mystery 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Plunge into the world of seen and unseen forces in The Guardian. Anna Riley has just come into possession of a two-thousand-year old scroll that God gave to John the Disciple. Her mission--to guard the scroll and unlock its secret. Jason Lang, her protector, has his work cut out for him as they begin their journey around the world, facing corruption and dodging bullets--all the while trying to keep his attraction to Anna at bay. Will he succeed in defending the woman he's vowed to protect? Will Anna, forced to trust other people to stay alive, fulfill the challenge that she's accepted?

The Guardian

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Uncover Your Past and Chart Your Future

A practical, hands-on guide for using tarot to connect with your ancestors and gain access to their insights for healing, self-protection, and personal powers. With a tarot deck in hand, readers will learn how to identify and access ancestral gifts, messages, powers, protectors, and healers. Tarot expert Nancy Hendrickson guides readers through the basics of finding recent ancestors, and navigating the confusing maze of DNA and ethnic heritage. As a longtime tarot enthusiast, she shows readers how to incorporate a metaphysical tool into a world of tradition. Ancestral Tarot spreads are included in relevant chapters. Each chapter includes three journal prompts that lead readers into self-discovery around ancestral gifts, wounds, and patterns they may have inherited. The better we know our ancestors, the better we know ourselves.

Ancestral Tarot

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Florida

Aggie, a companion to the Master's ward Leah in the days following the Ministration, challenges the motives of the religious leaders of the Divine Beings, the birds, in a compelling novel of dark secrets, powerful legends, and desire.

Murkmere

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Women elders offer their visions for our planet. Rachel Naomi Ramen calls this book “A fascinating collection of stories and wisdom told as if the future matters.” #Grandmothers #NativeAmericans #indigenous #NativeAmerican #storytelling #MotherEarth #Teachings #Ancestors￼ #spirituality #mindbodyspirit

Women Elders Offer Their Vision for Our Planet

Documents a gathering of 13 grandmothers (older female indigenous spiritual leaders) from around the world in 2004, along with other women elders, with biographical portraits of each grandmother and elder, and presentations of their guidance, wisdom, and prophecies for the modern world.

Grandmothers Counsel the World

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#familyhistory #family #1977 #vintage #ancestry #ancestors #familytree #lineage #scholastic 

Kentucky

Digging for My Roots

#hardcover #southwest #discoveries #davidroberts #lostworld #ancestors #history #nativeamericans #archeology

Maryland

Discoveries in the Ancient Southwest

For more than 5,000 years the Ancestral Puebloans--Native Americans who flourished long before the first contact with Europeans--occupied the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States. Just before AD 1300, they abandoned their homeland in a migration that remains one of prehistory's greatest puzzles. Northern and southern neighbors of the Ancestral Puebloans, the Fremont and Mogollon likewise flourished for millennia before migrating or disappearing. Fortunately, the Old Ones, as some of their present-day descendants call them, left behind awe-inspiring ruins, dazzling rock art, and sophisticated artifacts ranging from painted pots to woven baskets. Some of their sites and relics had been seen by no one during the 700 years before David Roberts and his companions rediscovered them.

In The Lost World of the Old Ones, Roberts continues the hunt for answers begun in his classic book, . His new findings paint a different, fuller portrait of these enigmatic ancients--thanks to the breakthroughs of recent archaeologists. Roberts also recounts his last twenty years of far-flung exploits in the backcountry with the verve of a seasoned travel writer. His adventures range across Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and southwestern Colorado, illuminating the mysteries of the Old Ones as well as of the more recent Navajo and Comanche.

Roberts calls on his climbing and exploratory expertise to reach remote sanctuaries of the ancients hidden within nearly vertical cliffs, many of which are unknown to archaeologists and park rangers. This ongoing quest combines the shock of new discovery with a deeply felt connection to the landscape, and it will change the way readers experience, and imagine, the American Southwest.

The Lost World of the Old Ones

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Massachusetts

Darkness, air, water, and sky will come together. . . Several moons have passed since six cats set out from the forest on an urgent journey to save all their Clans. Now those six are traveling home again, but on their way through the mountains, they meet a tribe of wild cats who seem to have their own set of warrior ancestors . . . and their own mysterious prophecy to fulfill. Stormfur can't understand their strange fascination with him, but he knows the danger they face is real. Meanwhile, back in the forest, Firestar's daughter Leafpaw watches ThunderClan's world crumble around her, as the humans' terrible machines destroy more and more of their home. Will the questing cats make it back in time to save the Clans, or will they be too late? . . . and shake the forest to its roots.

Warriors: the New Prophecy #2: Moonrise

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Mississippi

A Step-by-Step Guide to Uncovering Your Family's History

Here is an easy-to-follow approach to the fascinating hobby of genealogy. Every family has a story, and this book can help kids uncover the secrets and adventures of their own ancestors. From lists of helpful organizations to sample interview questions, state-of-the-art computer programs to Web sites, this guide will help children become family historians. Each chapter begins with a real anecdote, enticing young readers with visions of what they might find hidden in their ancestors' pasts.All varieties of families are represented here - extended, adoptive, and blended, from many races and cultures - with emphasis on the unique role that each has played in the founding and development of the United States.

Through the Eyes of Your Ancestors

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The author of the rapturously acclaimed memoir The Devil That Danced on the Water seamlessly turns her hand to fiction and delivers a novel that is a lush and beautiful portrait of several generations of African women. In Ancestor Stones , a young woman from West Africa, who has lived in England for many years, returns after years of civil war. The family's coffee plantation has been placed in her hands, and she turns to her aunts—women who were mysterious and a bit intimidating to her younger self—who begin to tell their stories.  They are timeless tales of rivalrous co-wives, patriarchal society, and old religions challenged by Islamic and Christian incursions; they are modern stories of European-owned mining companies, the repressive influence of mission schools, corrupt elections, and the postcolonial African elite. Through their voices a family history interwoven with the history of a country emerges—one of a society both ancient and modern, of a family of strong women refusing to live as second-class citizens. Powerful and sensuously written, Ancestor Stones is a wonderful achievement that recalls The God of Small Things and The Joy Luck Club , and establishes Forna as a gifted novelist.

Ancestor Stones

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Georgia

Southeastern Indians Prior to Removal

Provides a method of geneaological research for readers who wish to trace their ancestry to the Five Civilized Tribes.

Nicholas Wade

Before the Dawn

Jean McMann

Altars and Icons

Nicholas Wade

Before the dawn

Lisa Wingate

A Thousand Voices

Emma Donoghue

Akin

Argentina Palacios

Standing Tall

Graham Swift

Waterland

Naomi Ragen

The Ghost of Hannah Mendes

G.W. Mullins

Star People, Sky Gods and Other Tales of the Native American Indians

Lauret Savoy

Trace

Ivo Dominguez JR

Spirit Speak: knowing and understanding spirit guides, ancestors, ghosts, angels, and the divine

Robbie Cheuvront; Erik Reed

The Guardian

Nancy Hendrickson; Theresa Reed (Foreword by)

Ancestral Tarot

Patricia Elliott

Murkmere

Carol Schaefer

Grandmothers Counsel the World

Michael Schreier & Julie Frankle

Digging for My Roots

David Roberts

The Lost World of the Old Ones

Erin Hunter; Dave Stevenson (Illustrator)

Warriors: the New Prophecy #2: Moonrise

Maureen Taylor (Illustrator)

Through the Eyes of Your Ancestors

Aminatta Forna

Ancestor Stones

Rachal Mills Lennon

Tracing Ancestors among the Five Civilized Tribes