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Earth's children volume 3
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Set in the challenging terrain of Ice Age Europe that millions of Jean Auel’s readers have come to treasure, The Mammoth Hunters is an epic novel of love, knowledge, jealousy, and hard choices—a novel certain to garner Jean Auel even greater acclaim as a master storyteller of the dawn of humanity.
Ayla, the independent heroine of The Clan of the Cave Bear and The Valley of Horses, sets out from...
Ayla, the independent heroine of The Clan of the Cave Bear and The Valley of Horses, sets out from...
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Pub. Date
[2017]
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108 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, photographs ; 20 cm.
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Introduces the period approximately 20,000 years ago when global temperatures were much colder and ice covered much of the planet, and describes how animals living during that time adapted to the environment.
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2018.
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xi, 375 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 21 cm
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Moctu and the Mammoth People is a fascinating and well-researched thriller about a strong, dark-skinned early modern human boy who must fight his rival for leadership of his tribe and the right to mate the beautiful and talented Nuri.
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Earth's children volume 1
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Leave 21st century London and go back to Ice Age Europe. Follow Ayla, a Cro-Magnon child who loses her parents in an earthquake and is adopted by a tribe of Neanderthal, the Clan. See how the Clan's wary suspicion is gradually transformed into acceptance of this girl, so different from them, under the guidance of its medicine woman Iza and its wise holy man Creb. Immerse yourself in a world dictated by the demands of survival in a hostile environment,...
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Earth's children volume 4
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As Ayla and Jondalar travel across Ice Age Europe they encounter savage enemies and brave friends in their search for a place they can call home.
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Earth's children volume 2
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This odyssey into the distant past carries us back to the awesome mysteries of the exotic, primeval world of The Clan of the Cave Bear, and to Ayla, now grown into a beautiful and courageous young woman.
Cruelly cast out by the new leader of the ancient Clan that adopted her as a child, Ayla leaves those she loves behind and travels alone through a stark, open land filled with dangerous animals but few people, searching for the Others,...
Cruelly cast out by the new leader of the ancient Clan that adopted her as a child, Ayla leaves those she loves behind and travels alone through a stark, open land filled with dangerous animals but few people, searching for the Others,...
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Pub. Date
[2014]
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xxiii, 164 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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The author provides evidence of the following : the end of global warming ; the beginning of a "solar hibernation," a historic reduction in the energy output of the sun ; a long-term drop in the earth's temperatures ; the start of the next climate change to decades of dangerously cold weather ; the high probability of record earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
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Earth's children volume 5
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The Shelters of Stone opens as Ayla and Jondalar, along with their animal friends, Wolf, Whinney, and Racer, complete their epic journey across Europe and are greeted by Jondalar’s people: the Zelandonii. The people of the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii fascinate Ayla. Their clothes, customs, artifacts, even their homes—formed in great cliffs of vertical limestone—are a source of wonder to her. And in the woman Zelandoni, the...
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Earth's children volume 6
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this, the extraordinary conclusion of the ice-age epic series, Earth’s Children®, Ayla, Jondalar, and their infant daughter, Jonayla, are living with the Zelandonii in the Ninth Cave. Ayla has been chosen as an acolyte to a spiritual leader and begins arduous training tasks.
Whatever obstacles she faces, Ayla finds inventive ways to lessen the difficulties of...
Whatever obstacles she faces, Ayla finds inventive ways to lessen the difficulties of...
14) The lost colony
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Can humanity survive on a new world? The last survivors of the human race escaped a ruined Earth. Their new homeworld -- Eos -- seemed perfect at first. Warm. Hospitable. Safe from the grid. But everything isn't as it seems. The first colony of settlers have disappeared. Their settlement is still there, but everyone is gone. As Dr James Sinclair digs into the mystery of the lost colony, he discovers a series of spheres, buried on Eos. Are they the...
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Pub. Date
c2002
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xii, 753 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Description
After their epic journey across Europe, Ayla and Jondalar have reached his home, the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii, the old stone age settlement in the region known today as southwest France. Jondalar's family greet him warmly, but they are initially wary of the beautiful young woman he has brought back, with her strange accent and her tame wolf and horses.
17) The Arctic code
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Dark gravity sequence volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
The Earth is in the grip of a new Ice Age, and when twelve-year-old Eleanor's scientist mother disappears in the Arctic, Eleanor sets off on a dangerous journey to find her--and uncovers a mystery, a crime, and evidence that Earth has been visited by extraterrestrials.
18) Giant sloths and sabertooth cats: extinct mammals and the archaeology of the Ice Age Great Basin
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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xxvi, 421 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
19) Hot, hot, hot
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Pub. Date
2004
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Description
Oscar and Arabella, two woolly mammoths, try to cool off during a very hot summer.
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