The Shelters of Stone
Jean M. Auel
Random House Publishing Group
<p><b>This eBook includes the full text of the novel plus the following additional content:<br> </b>• An exclusive preview chapter from Jean M. Auel's <i>The Land of Painted Caves</i>, on sale in hardcover March 29, 2011 <br></p><li>An Earth's Children® series sampler including free chapters from the other books in Jean M. Auel's bestselling series<br></li><li>A Q&amp;A with the author about the Earth's Children® series<br><br> <b>The Shelters of Stone</b> 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 spiritual leader of the Ninth Cave (and the one who initiated Jondalar into the  Gift of Pleasure), she meets a fellow...</li>