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The Plains of Passage by Jean M. Auel
Category: Fiction | Series: Earth's Children Ser.
The fourth novel in the Earth's Children series, Jean M. Auel's internationally bestselling epic of life 25,000 years ago when two kinds of human beings, Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon, shared the earth. Ayla and Jondalar have left the safety of the lands of the Mammoth Hunters and embarked on a seemingly i ...Show more
The Plains of Passage by Jean M. Auel
Category: Fiction | Series: Earth's Children Ser.
Ayla, the heroine first introduced in The Clan of the Cave Bear, is known and loved by millions of readers. Now, in The Plains of Passage, Ayla's story continues. Ayla and Jondalar set out on horseback across the windswept grasslands of Ice Age Europe. To the hunter-gatherers of their world--who have ne ...Show more
The Plains of Passage (#4 Earth's Children) by Jean M. Auel
Category: Fiction | Series: Earth's Children Ser.
Ayla, the heroine first introduced in The Clan of the Cave Bear, is known and loved by millions of readers. Now, in The Plains of Passage, Ayla's story continues. Ayla and Jondalar set out on horseback across the windswept grasslands of Ice Age Europe. To the hunter-gatherers of their world--who have ne ...Show more
The Sauron Defeated: the End of the Third Age by Christopher Tolkien
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: History of Middle-Earth S.
In the first part of this book, the author completes his account of the writing of "The Lord of the Rings" - beginning with Sam's rescue of Frodo and giving a different account of the Scouring of the Shire. The second part is an edition of "The Notion Club Papers" written by J.R.R. Tolkien.
The Science Timeline Wallbook - Unfold the Story of Science - From The Stoneage to Today by Christopher Lloyd (Illustrator); Patrick Skipworth (Illustrator); Andy Forshaw (Illustrator)
Category: Children's | Series: What on Earth Wallbook Series
Take a trip back in time more than 2,500 years to the first ever Olympic Games - then journey through hundreds of the most extraordinary stories of sport through to the present day. This unique history of sport includes a two-metre long fold-out timeline containing more than 1,000 pictures and captions ...Show more
The Sea - Nature and Culture by Richard Hamblyn
Category: Animals & Nature | Series: Earth Ser.
Sailing across time and geography, the imaginary and the real, The Sea chronicles the many physical and cultural meanings of the watery abyss. This book explores the sea and its meanings from ancient myths to contemporary geopolitics, from Atlantis to the Mediterranean migrant crisis. Richard Hambly ...Show more
The Severed Tower by J. Barton Mitchell
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: The\Conquered Earth Ser.
J. Barton Mitchell's sci-fi tour de force Conquered Earth series set in an alien-invaded post-apocalyptic world returns as the children forge deeper into the most dangerous lands in search of The Severed TowerHolt, Mira, and Max have fled Midnight City with Zoey after watching her repel an entire Assemb ...Show more
The Shaping of Middle-Earth by J. R. R. Tolkien; Christopher Tolkien
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: The\Histories of Middle-Earth Ser.
Poems and prose, maps and chronologies, detours and diversions along the road to Middle-earth . . . Christopher Tolkien has gathered archival materials that his late father, J. R. R. Tolkien, used to create the world and the history behind his classic stories. This fourth volume of The History of Middle ...Show more
The Shaping of Middle-Earth (History of Middle-earth #4) by Christopher Tolkien
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: History of Middle-Earth S.
The fourth volume that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkien's epic tale of war, The Silmarillion. In this fourth volume of The History of Middle-earth, the shaping of the chronological and geographical structure of the legends of Middle-earth and Valinor is spread bef ...Show more
The Shelters of Stone by Jean M. Auel
Category: Fiction | Series: Earth's Children Series: Book 5
The Shelters of Stone by Jean M. Auel
Category: Fiction SPECIALS | Series: Earth's Children Ser.
Ayla and Jondalar have reached home: the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii, the old stone age settlement in the region known today as south-west France. Ayla has much to learn from the Zelandonii as well as much to teach them. Jondalar's family are initially wary of the beautiful young woman he has brought b ...Show more
The Shelters of Stone (#5 Earth's Children) by Jean M. Auel
Category: Fiction | Series: Earth's Children Ser.
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, e ...Show more