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Ayla and Jondalar leave the safety of the lands of the Mammoth Hunters and embark on a seemingly impossible journey across an entire continent. Their goal is the Cro-Magnon settlement in what is now southern France where Jondalar lived as a young man. Accompanied by the half-tame Wolf, the superb stallion, Racer, and the mare, Whinney, they brave both savage enemies and the elemental dangers of weather and terrain in their search for the place that will become Home.

Ayla and Jondalar leave the safety of the lands of the Mammoth Hunters and embark on a seemingly impossible journey across an entire continent. Their goal is the Cro-Magnon settlement in what is now southern France where Jondalar lived as a young man. Accompanied by the half-tame Wolf, the superb stallion, Racer, and the mare, Whinney, they brave both savage enemies and the elemental dangers of weather and terrain in their search for the place that will become Home.

A brand-new collection of short stories featuring the Queen of Crime’s legendary detective Jane Marple, penned by 12 remarkable best-selling and acclaimed authors. This collection of 12 original short stories, all featuring Jane Marple, will introduce the character to a whole new generation. Each author reimagines Agatha Christie’s Marple through their own unique perspective while staying true to the hallmarks of a traditional mystery.

The Land of Painted Caves concludes the story of Ayla, her mate Jondalar, and their little daughter, Jonayla, taking readers on a journey of discovery and adventure as Ayla struggles to find a balance between her duties as a new mother and her training to become a Zelandoni - one of the Ninth Cave community's spiritual leaders and healers.

Clan of the Cave Bear is the first novel in Jean M. Auel's magnificent best-selling epic of life 35,000 years ago. Leave the 21st century 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.

Forced to leave the Clan and her young son, Ayla sets out alone to travel the frigid steppes until she finds the valley of horses. Unable to find people like herself, the Cro-Magnons, she settles there and seeks friendship elsewhere. First she adopts a young filly, then a wounded lion cub. But far to the west, two young Cro-Magnon brothers have begun a journey. One of them is Jondalar, whose destiny is bound inextricably with Ayla's.

Leaving the valley of horses with Jondalar, the handsome man she has nursed back to health and come to love, Ayla embarks on a journey that will lead her to the Mamutoi; the Mammoth Hunters. But as she settles into this new life among a people at first strange and disturbingly different, Ayla finds herself irresistibly drawn to Ranec, their master-carver. Ultimately, she is compelled to make a fateful choice between the two men.

After a long and happy life with a loving human family, tabby cat Fuuta has passed into the afterlife. Eager to see Michiru again, Fuuta interviews for a position at Café Pont, which sits in the liminal space between the two worlds. Fuuta must investigate and deliver his messages without unnerving the living, or worse, upsetting the balance of the universe itself.

Upending the conventional theory that generational differences are caused by major events, Dr. Jean Twenge analyzes data on 39 million people from robust national surveys—some going back nearly a century—to show that changes in technology are the underlying driver of each generation’s unique makeup. In this revelatory work, Twenge outlines key shifts in attitudes and lifestyle choices that define each generation regarding gender, income, politics, race, sexuality, marriage, mental health, and much more.

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An entertaining first look at how today's members of iGen - the children, teens, and young adults born in the mid-1990s and later - are vastly different from their millennial predecessors and from any other generation, from the renowned psychologist and author of Generation Me.

Physician and Jungian analyst Jean Shinoda Bolen takes us to the horizon of our understanding about the special wisdom that comes to women after menopause in The Wise-Woman Archetype. Join the best-selling author of Goddesses in Everywoman as she plows ancient ground to uncover the roots of the sacred wise woman/crone archetype. Early societies, Bolen teaches, looked at menopause as a "withholding of the blood", not to make a child, as in youth, but to make wisdom.

Ayla y Jondalar se despiden de los cazadores de mamuts y emprenden un viaje de más de un año a través de Europa hacia las tierras de Jondalar, territorio de los zelandonii, lo que hoy en día es el sur de Francia.

La pareja, acompañada de dos caballos y un lobo amaestrado, se expone a grandes peligros al atravesar ríos, glaciares y desiertos. Pero también compartirá habilidades y descubrimientos con los diversos clanes que se encontrará a lo largo del camino...

Quelque part en Europe, 35 000 ans avant notre ère. Petite fille Cro-Magnon de cinq ans, Ayla est séparée de ses parents à la suite d'un violent tremblement de terre. Elle est recueillie par le clan de l'ours des cavernes, une tribu Neandertal qui l'adopte, non sans réticence, ayant reconnu en elle la représentante d'une autre espèce, plus évoluée. Iza, la guérisseuse, Brun, le chef et Creb, le magicien lui enseignent les règles de la vie communautaire, leurs rites, leurs peurs, leurs audaces.

Injustement chassée de la tribu Neandertal qui l'a recueillie lorsqu'elle était enfant, Ayla erre à travers les steppes désolées situées au nord de l'actuelle mer Noire, dans l'espoir de retrouver son peuple d'origine, les Cro-Magnon. Pour assurer sa survie dans cet environnement hostile, elle n'a d'autre choix que de chasser et d'apprendre à maîtriser le feu - activités qui, dans son clan d'adoption, sont l'apanage des hommes.

Der packende zweite Band des Zyklus «Die Kinder der Erde». Aylas Geschichte geht weiter. Sie trifft Jondalar, einen Mann aus dem Volk der «Anderen», und aus anfänglicher Abneigung entsteht Freundschaft und eine tiefe Liebe. Zusammen begeben sich die beiden auf eine lange und gefährliche Reise durch das spätere Europa.

If you have ever felt empty or emotionally out of control, you have been given the signal - it is time to make some changes. We have lost much in our journey through life - innocence, faith, vision, confidence, and openness. As we begin the process of transformation and make the necessary course corrections, these are the qualities we reclaim. In this study, you seek to comprehend the path you have chosen. This starts with understanding yourself and what it takes to connect to your deepest essence, for that is where your answers reside.

Au cours de leur périple, Ayla et son compagnon Jondalar font la connaissance des Mamutoï, un peuple de chasseurs de mammouths. Grâce à ses talents de guérisseuse, mais aussi à son étonnante familiarité avec les animaux, la jeune Cro-Magnon gagne rapidement la confiance et l'admiration de la tribu, qui accueille le couple avec chaleur. La situation se complique cependant lorsque Ranec, un artiste du clan, invite Ayla à venir admirer les statuettes en ivoire qu'il a sculptées pour honorer la "Grande Mère".

"Mammutjægerne" er tredje bind i serien Jordens Børn. Ayla forlader sin dal sammen med Jondalar, den mand hun har elsket og holdt sammen med, siden hun fandt ham hårdt såret efter et overfald af en løve. De møder Mamutoi-folket, Mammutjægerne, og Ayla nærmer sig dem med både frygt og nysgerrighed. Hun bliver optaget af deres musikinstrumenter, af deres levevis og bopladser - og ikke mindst tiltrækkes hun af den mørke, flotte Ranec, der er mester i at skære elfenbensfigurer. Mammutjægerne fascineres af hende, af hendes lægekunst, hendes dygtighed som jæger og hendes evne til at tæmme vilde dyr.

Después de unos meses en el Valle de los Caballos, la pareja formada por Ayla y Jondalar inician un nuevo viaje. Cuando se encuentran con los mamutoi, un clan de cromañones, deciden permanecer una temporada con ellos. En la relación entre Ayla y Jondalar surgen las primeras dificultades, cuando coinciden con Ranec, un hombre atractivo que se enamora de Ayla.