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2) Feast of souls: Indians and Spaniards in the seventeenth-century missions of Florida and New Mexico
Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Language
English
Formats
5) Aztec rage
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
New Spain fighter Don Juan de Zavala finds a secret from his past threatening the Spanish crown, a situation that causes him to be targeted by the seductive Isabella, a warrior-priest at the head of the Aztec revolt, and a brutalized Aztec survivor.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Description
With the conquest of New Mexico in 1598, Spanish governors, soldiers, and missionaries began their brutal subjugation of the Pueblo Indians in what is today the Southwestern United States. In the summer of 1680, led by a visionary shaman named Popé, the Puebloans revolted. Before then the many different Pueblo villages had never acted in concert (and never would again). Now, in total secrecy they coordinated an attack, routing the rulers in Santa...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 281
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 32
Lexile measure
1280L
Language
English
Description
"The unforgettable first novel that established Isabel Allende as one of the world's most gifted and imaginative storytellers. The House of the Spirits brings to life the triumphs and tragedies of three generations of the Trueba family. The patriarch Esteban is a volatile, proud man whose voracious pursuit of political power is tempered only by his love for his delicate wife, Clara, a woman with a mystical connection to the spirit world. When their...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mason Crest Publishers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Examines the explorations of Juan Ponce de Leon and other Spanish conquistadors in Florida and the southwestern region of what is now the United States, and discusses the founding of St. Augustine by Pedro Menendez de Aviles.
11) Aztec fire
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Spared from a death sentence by a gunmaker who buys his pardon for his skills with gunpowder, orphan Juan Martez becomes the colony's finest gunmaker and hides the truth about his native Aztec heritage.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Pirates, Buccaneers, Marooners, those cruel but picturesque sea wolves who once infested the Spanish Main, all live in present-day conceptions in great degree as drawn by the pen and pencil of Howard Pyle...It is improbable that anyone else will ever bring his combination of interest and talent to the depiction of these old-time Pirates, any more than there could be a second Remington to paint the now extinct Indians and gun-fighters of the Great
...Author
Series
Anthropology of Christianity volume 6
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English