Bøker av Belinda Austin

A story of Pueblo, Native-American racism, enslavement, and religious persecution by their Spanish conquerors, and by other white people who followed. An old shaman and his granddaughter take a road trip from New Mexico to Harvard to pick up 2,047 family skeletons stolen from the ghost Pueblo of Pecos. Did you know that there are still about a million Native American bones at museums, still waiting to be identified and repatriated for sacred reburials?The Surgeon General of the United States once paid money to anyone who would bring him the fresh skull of a Native American. Did you know that America has a dark past of private collectors who mounted Native American skulls on fireplace mantles or literally stored their skeletons in closets? Did you know that President George W. Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush, dug up Geronimo's grave and stole his skull to be used as initiation into the Skull and Bones Society at Yale?The desecration of the Pecos graves was the beginning of American Archaeology. You may know these bones. The Pecos skeletons were the research subjects for, among others, the landmark study which proves exercise prevents osteoporosis. This book tells the story of an extinct, indigenous people who contributed so much to mankind. Return of the Bones is based on a part of NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY few are familiar with.WINNER NEW MEXICO ARIZONA BOOK AWARDS

Jupiter has become a digital girl, stuck inside the computer! She must escape before a virus deletes her. Lightning crashes through the window and lights up the camera mounted on the computer. Gnomes escape through the camera hole and attack Jupiter with paperclips, ballpoint pens, and other office supplies. The computer gnomes want revenge because middle-schooler, famous hacker, genius Jupiter blamed gnomes for eating her missing homework. A dangerous adventure is about to begin in a place where no human has ever gone before, a place where a computer virus can permanently delete a human, a digital girl. Jupiter still thinks with a flat, human brain. A flat, human heart still beats in her chest, and she is running out of time. From former Software Engineer, Belinda Austin, comes an imaginative tale of technology gone crazy!