Raising the Stones by Sheri S. Tepper

Publisher: Spectra / Bantam, 1991, 530 pgs. ISBN:0553291165. Mass mareket Paperback in very good condtion. Glossy covers with edgewear, a small tear on the back side cover edge. Well-bound with a bright & clean text, previous owner's name on the front free end paper. "When the human settlers arrived on Hobbs Land, the native intelligent specvies, the Owlbrit, were already almost extinct. Before the last one died, a few years later, the humans had learned a little of their language, their ideas and theirb religion. It seemed the natural thing for the settlers to maintain the last Owlbrit temple, with the strange statue that was its God."