#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...

Once again Jean M. Auel opens the door of a time long past to reveal an age of wonder and danger at the dawn of the modern human race. With all the consummate storytelling artistry and vivid authenticity she brought to The Clan of th...

Auel manages to make all her characters fascinating and for the most part convincing, no easy feat, since unlike the foundling Ayla they speak with hand gestures, make abstractions rarely, and neither laugh nor cry...We find ourselves...

Jondar is the ultimate civilized Cro-Magnon, a well-muscled, artistic, spear-throwing Cary Grant. And it is Ayla...who invents oral sex, horseback riding, a new technique for making fire, and a better way of dragging the kill back to ...

Returning to humankind's earliest days, the fourth novel in the Earth's Children series. Courageous heroine Ayla and companion Jondalar leave the Mammoth Hunters and travel into the dark, spectacular lands of an unmapped world--always...

Prehistoric couple Ayla and Jondalar, along with their animal entourage, abandon their isolated life and rejoin Jondalar's tribe, the Zelandonii. Ayla has trouble adjusting to Zelandonii ways, and some of Jondalar's people resent her....