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A natural disaster leaves a young girl wandering alone in an unfamiliar and dangerous land until she is found by a woman of the Clan, people very different from her own kind. To them, blond, blue-eyed Ayla looks peculiar and ugly - she is one of the Others, those who have moved into their ancient homeland; but Iza cannot leave the girl to die and takes her with them. Iza and Creb, the old Mog-ur, grow to love her, and as Ayla learns the ways of the...
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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 3
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English
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Ayla and Jondalar meet the Mamutoi-the Mammoth Hunters--people like Ayla. Ayla finds herself torn between the wildly jealous Jondalar and the master carver Ranec.
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This sequel recounts Ayla's three years of solitude in a cave after being pronounced 'dead' bythe Neanderthal clan who had raised the Cro-Magnon girl as their own. Her story alternates with that of Jondalar, a handsome young man of immense sex appeal who is journeying with his brother because he can't seem to find himself.
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Long winter trilogy volume 3
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English
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"Can humanity survive on a new world? On Eos, the last survivors of the Long Winter face their greatest challenge yet--and race to unravel the deepest secrets of the grid. The thrilling conclusion to the Long Winter trilogy"--Publisher's description.
10) The Solar War
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Long Winter volume 2
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English
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They decimated Earth during the Long Winter. Now the Grid has returned, and they won’t stop until the human race is extinct. On a ruined world, humanity s last survivors fight against impossible odds. In their darkest hour, they discover a new hope for survival. But it comes at an unthinkable price, with consequences that will change everything. We thought the war was over. We were wrong. After the Long Winter, Emma Matthews and James Sinclair hoped...
11) The Arctic code
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Dark gravity sequence volume 1
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English
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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.
12) The ice ghost
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DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
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279 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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In the brutal Ice Age caused by the ancient Jemen war, many archaic human species, including Denisovans and Homo erectus, hover on the verge of extinction. There seems no way out, until the greatest Neanderthal holy man, Trogon, has a vision. Legends say the truce that ended the old war left one hostage in the hands of the victorious rebels: the god-like Jemen leader, known as the Old Woman of the Mountain. According to Trogon's vision, only one person...
13) Hot, hot, hot
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2004
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1st U.S. ed.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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Oscar and Arabella, two woolly mammoths, try to cool off during a very hot summer.
14) Winter world
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A new ice age on Earth. A mysterious object in space. And a desperate mission to save humanity from extinction. Each month, Earth grows colder. Snow falls in summer. Glaciers trample cities across North America, Europe, and Asia. Chaos erupts. Around the world, people abandon their homes, fleeing the cold, flocking to regions where they can survive the new ice age. Nations prepare to go to war for the world's last habitable zones.
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Dark gravity sequence volume 2
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English
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Desperately searching for the other Concentrators that are fatally disrupting Earth's orbit, Eleanor and her companions are labeled as terrorists by G.E.T. forces that would eliminate all but a few select people.
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Aldana Libros/Greystone Kids
Pub. Date
2023.
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1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 25 x 26 cm
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English
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"This almost wordless picture book set in the dawn of human life imagines how art and storytelling were born from the power of one young girl's observation. Once upon a time, during the Pleistocene, somewhere between two-and-a-half million and ten thousand years ago, small groups of people traveled their known world, hunting for food, seeking shelter, and slowly becoming more like the people we are today. As far back as 40,000 years ago (and maybe...
18) The beginning
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Dreamer volume I
Publisher
Dreamer Literary Productions LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition paperback.
Physical Desc
324 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
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English
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Set at the time of earth's last Great Glacial Period, when Europe was inhabited by Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons, this is the story of Tris, his father Tor, and their friend Black Wolf. As the story unfolds, Tris's dreams figure prominently.
19) The gathering
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Dreamer volume II
Publisher
Dreamer Literary Productions LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition paperback.
Physical Desc
314 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
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English
Description
In this sequel to The Dreamer, the People from the East (Cro-Magnons) begin to settle in increasing numbers on the long-held territories of the Old Ones (Neanderthals). Black Wolf volunteers to accompany Tris and his family to the annual gathering of the People from the East to help them to negotiate a resolution.
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Dreamer volume III
Publisher
Dreamer Literary Productions LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition paperback.
Physical Desc
316 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
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English
Description
This third book in The Dreamer series introduces the Denisovans, another population of ancient humans. They have wandered onto the lands of the Old Ones and the People from the East, and it looks like the People of the Wolves intend to stay for a while.
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