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one lesson I learned from this book that I kept in mind throughout my teenage life: don't EVER change yourself to impress a guy, just be yourself! Enough said!

13 year old Dawn is now trying on some red lipsticks.... The reason she's doing that because she's dating with Lewis, Logan's cousin. But the date has mistakes!

Dawn is about to meet her pen pal who is also logan's cute cousin! She feels like she's not good enough so she gets herself a bizzare makeover and tries to be someone she's not. But at the end of the book, she starts being herself again and gets along fine with him. Mary Anne was being a bit superficial in the book and not acting like her sweet self at all, but it's still a good read.

Dawn's Big Date is one of those books you can read over and over again, and still be entertained. Dawn is finally going to meet her penpal, Louis, who is also Logan's cousin from Kentucky. Before he comes to Stoneybrooke, Mary Anne gives a FEW hints and suggestions to Dawn about how she should look when Louis sees her, what make-up she should wear, stuff like that. Dawn bends over backwards before Louis arrives, picking out new outrageous clothes, tons of make-up, and fancy new hairstyles, just so she will give Louis a good impression. But when he finally arrives, he doesn't seem to like the new Dawn. Uh-oh... The side plot of this book is very good as well. Norman Hill is an overweight kid, who is being constantly teased by his sister and friends, and hounded by his parents. The baby-sitters want to help Norman out, but how? Then Stacey suggests that Norman tears one of his sister's mean drawings, and he begans to feel some self-respect, which is a tremendous help. Overall, this book was excellent. One of my favorite BSC books ever. Read it!

In dawn's Big date, Dawn tries to change her hairstyle, her clothes and her makeup for a date with Lewis, Logan's cousin. But Dawn is worried, will Lewis and the Baby Sitters like the New Dawn"?. when they had the date, Everything seems to get wrong. Will Dawn's date with Lewis be a total disaster? Anyway, Lewis is only visiting in Stoneybrook like what Mary Anne said in Dawn and the older Boy. And Lewis is only fourteen and guess how old travis was? sixteen!

The other 5-star reviews have it right, this is one terrific story that is difficult to put down once begun. However, this book provides more than an engaging account of a lost battle and the subsequent periods of escape and captivity by the author. The author delves deeply into the psychology of the captor/captive relationship - both in general and the specific dynamics of this war.

What I found fascinating is the maniacal desire of the communist Chinese to obtain some measure of legitimacy for their actions, both political and militarily, in signed statements, confessions from their captors, and in the comical re-education classes.

It becomes apparent that for these captors and captives at the Pyongyang Political Prison, this period was a test of the legitimacy of their way of life - philosophically, politically, and morally. And while these men lost the military battle for the hills near the Imjun River early in the war, they held the intellectual and moral high ground until the day they returned home. This was their victory.

This account of the fight put up against overwhelming odds by the "Glorious Gloucesters" at the battle of the Imjin River in April 1951, and the subsequent imprisonment as POWs of most of the survivors, deserves to go down as a classic tale of warfare and heroism.

The author, Captain (later General Sir) Anthony Farrar Hockley, who was adjutant (e.g. battalion chief of staff) of the first battalion, the Gloucestershire Regiment, originally wrote the book in the mid fifties, shortly after his return from captivity.

During a major Chinese and North Korean offensive during the Korean war, the 1st battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment held their position on the Imjin river against many times their numbers for three days. There were heavy casualties on both sides - shortly after his capture the author counted more than two hundred Chinese bodies on one slope of one hill after one morning's fighting.

After supplies and a relief column failed to get through, the battalion was forced to retreat and most of the survivors were captured while trying to get back to Allied lines. The first seventy pages of the book describe the battle: the remaining 216 describe the author's experiences in captivity, including his attepts at escape.

I can't improve on the description of this book in the foreword to the 1955 version which was written by Major General Brodie.

"Captain Farrar-Hockley, then Adjutant of the Glosters, who himself was outstanding in the battle and afterwards, has written the most graphic account of a battle and of escaptes from captivity I have ever read.

This is a book which ought to be read by every soldier and prospective soldier.

Here he may learn what is meant by real discpline and inspiring leadership."

I must have read this book at least seven times, and also acknowledge the author as a great military historian (22? books), as well as being a knight of the realm. He was a gutsy Adjutant of the Gloucestershire Regiment at the Battle of the Imjin River in the Korean war. He pens a rivetting story about his exploits in escape from the North Koreans and the Chinese. I believe that he remains the most escaped prisoner of war in history.

He was decorated for his gallantry in Korea, and retired a Field Marshall, (five star general). I believe as the Allied Supreme Commander of NATO?

His story is an inspiration to all persons military, and to many who may have never even spoken to one. He suffers his captors and their tortures to become an extraordinary personality.

I'm about to read it for the 8th time!

Do yourself a favour, touch through these pages a hero from the "forgotten" war.

An account of the stand of the 1st Battalion, the Gloucestershire Regiment, at the Eastern crossing of the Imjin River during the Korean War 1950-1953, by the Adjutant of the Battalion at the time. It continues with an account of the captivity experienced by the author: of his journeys up and down North Korea, now an escapee, now recaptured; of interrogations in Pyongyang Political Prison, of life with the Chinese both in and outside prison Camps; and of the men with whom he shared those experiences.

General Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley shares his personal experiences from the Korean War in "The Edge of the Sword". The result is a powerful book recounting battlefield heroism and the highest standards of conduct during his 30 months of captivity.

This incredible book begins with then Captain Farrar-Hockley, the Battalion Adjutant, in position on the hills overlooking the Imjin River in April 1951. After four human waves of Chinese soldiers attempting to overrun their positions, the British broke contact and attempted to rejoin the rapidly retreating allied forces. After days of brutal combat, they were surrounded and surrendered to Chinese forces.

General Farrar-Hockley details each of his six escapes from either the Chinese and North Korean forces. Along with these gripping tales, he also shares the emotional stress caused by some of the various torture methods, including the particularly cruel water-boarding.

In 1955, President Eisenhower created the Code of the U.S. Fighting Force to serve as an ethical guide for US combatants who fall into enemy hands, as a result of actions of US prisoners held captive during the Korean War. The current code contains seven articles providing a moral compass in the areas of leadership, resistance, escape, and faith in your country. In this book, General Farrar-Hockley's tale exemplifies each of the key articles of the US Code of Conduct taught to all US service-members.

This book is a powerful, inspirational story that belongs in the library of every modern day warrior.

This book is easy to follow and understand. It uses real world examples and is somewhat interesting. For being my introduction to statistics, this book has made it oh so easy. Recommend it for beginners.

This is THE BEST elementary statistics book I have read. Covers all concepts in a very easy to understand manner. The examples and solved problems show you eaxctly how a problem can be approached. For non-statiscians who want to use statistics to analyze their data, this is an excellent starting point. Wont boggle you with extensive formulae and derivations. But will tell you how and why the tests were developed and why and where you should use a particular test. Excellent ready reference for any data analyst.

easy steps approaching to statistics and good examples to practice the text.

I have read many statistics books but never one I understand on the first read. This book is for the true beginner. Excellent.

This is by far the best stats book I've found. I actually used this book instead of the one assigned for my graduate course. Everything is explained very clearly from step 1 and on. The book assumes you have very little or no stats knowledge. There are plenty of examples to further clarify each concept, and full explanations are provided. The book is very well-written and the chapters are well connected.

I also found the pictures/graphics extremely helpful, especially in the sections on probability. I can finally make sense of combinations and permutations and other probability concepts.

Also extremely helpful is the way the book explains which formulas to use when, and why they should be used in that instance. This helps to pull everything together and see how many of the concepts relate to one another. I think this is key to understanding stats.

I've gone from fearing stats to actually enjoying it, all because it now makes sense thanks in large part to this book.

Well I don't normaly do this but I was looking something up on the internet and I ran across a reveiw for this book and it made me really mad. It said, and I quote "Tragedy unravells the lives of a man, his wife and his young lover." Sounds like a really bad third rate romance novel am I right? Well, I just wanted to set the record straight on what this book is really about. Bracken is not the bad guy in the story as the other reveiw made him out to be, infact its his wife that left HIM for another man. He does fall in love with Dinah--but he doesn't do anyting about it until he is sure he can marry her properly and not make a scandel. Their are two other love stories in this book as well, Fitz and Gwen and Archie and Vergina, that will make you smile like your the one in love. I recommend this book to anyone-though I would read Dawns Early Light and Yankee Stranger first. Thane's writing is simple and beautiful and makes her readers feel as if they are actually in the story and expirencing the same emotions as her characters. I have yet to come across another author that makes me as crazy and a happy as Elswyth Thane.

This is one of those books you keep and read every year. Although a number of stories touch and diverge, it is Dinah and Bracken's romance that I return to over and over.
Thane's description of Dinah's flowering under the attention from Bracken is so sweet. The setting, England on the brink of WWII, is richly described. The difficulties they must overcome seem insurmountable, but love conquers all.

This is another example of Elswyth Thane's magnificent writing skill! Elswyth Thane has the great talent of combining historical facts and figures with fictitious and romantic plots without overdosing in either element.
In Ever AFter, the story opens on Susannah, now aged and spinsterish but still writing as fervently as ever. On Eden, now married to journalist Cabot Murray and the mother of three grown children. Bracken, her eldest, is a somewhat resigned young man who shows promise in the feild of journalism. His sister, Virginia, is a blossoming and flirtatious southern belle who hooks nearly every man who looks at her. And Fitz, the son of Sedgwick and Melicent Sprague, Fitz's only companions it seems are his piano and Sue. He is the outcast of the family, the one oddity that no one understands except Sue.
As Fitz leaves the shelter of Williamsburg and his songwriting, he takes a job with Cabot's paper in New York and there meets Gwen, an actress who will change his life's course forever. Meanwhile, Sue, Bracken and Virginia set out for England for the Jubilee celebration. There they encounter Sir Gration Forbes-Carpenter, who is a war veteran from the war in Africa. This leaves Sue with a choice that will plague her conscious forever; her spontaneous friendship with Sir Gration or her deep and forbidden love for Sedgwick...
However, Sue is not the only one who finds love in England. Bracken, still hurt from his not-quite-finished divorce with Lizl Olezei, finds Dinah Campion. Immediately touched by her young and sweet innocence, Bracken is forced to conceal his love for her until she is of age to marry.
Matters become more complicated as the steadily growing conflict between Spain and Cuba erupts into war. Fitz and Bracken are forced to go to Cuba as war correspondents and must leave their newfound loves behind.
Take my advice if you have already read Dawn's Early Light and Yankee Stranger and read this book. You won't be disappointed.

For many years my favorite of the Williamsburg Novels (I even named my only son after the main character!) "Ever After" is a delectible evocation of late Victorian life in America and England. One of the blessed qualities of the writing of Elswyth Thane is that she can take each character of each generation of her families and make them vivid, alive, humanly recognizable, and -- most amazing feat of all -- DIFFERENT! Dinah Campion is no more Tibby Mawes than Bracken Murray is St. John Sprague, and all Thane's heroines, from Tibby to Eden to Virginia and beyond have their own decidedly varied personalities. Less war-oriented than her first two novels, "Ever After" tells the story of loves delayed (as loves and lives always are) by the interruption of violence into well-ordered lives. With her usual deft pen Thane not only reconstructs turn-of-the-century Williamsburg for us, but turns her talents to late 19th century New York and England as well. More than any other of her books, I think, this one depicts exquisitely the settings where her characters live and function: the fascinating city that was New York in the Gay 90s -- early vaudeville with its colorful characters, fashionable Park Avenue where the very rich dressed and partied and lived in isolated splendor, the seamier side of existence where vices of every kind could make the frightened sister of a tawdry vaudeville suicide expect to have to pay back the men who rescue her in the "usual" way. And Thane's beloved England sparkles through her eyes, not only in its upper-class, fox-hunting, tweed-wearing, manifiestations, but in the lonely lives led by the ignored and repressed offspring of the rich and elite. Through Thane's skill as a story-teller and the window she seems to possess into the human soul, what might be a completely unbelievable tale of love at first sight becomes an entirely comprehensible exercise in passion and self-restraint. Music fills this book, literally and figuratively, and the Spanish-American War, when it erupts into these sophisticated and civilized pages, takes us away from that music only momentarily. The disputes and disagreements of war are not the main conflicts in this novel; love postponed, love seemingly impossible, love triumphant are the themes, and Thane lifts us out of ourselves and into the hearts of her characters with all the skill of a conjuror. A honey of a book, and a dilly of a portrait!

I read all of Thane's "Williamsburg novels" in the 1970's in what I remember being original library editions, and liked them very much. A couple of years ago, I ran into what looked to be a clean copy of "Ever After" at a local bookstore, and bought it, happy to have a copy of a work I remembered from my childhood. On reading it, though, I was confused to realize that it had been expurgated -- the references to drinking were almost all excised. Thane was an author of her time, writing about another time, and in both of them social drinking was an accepted thing, but none of her characters drank excessively, and it would be hard to interpret her books as endorsing alcohol, so the edits were very mysterious. There was no re-writing involved, and in one case the cut left a grammatical glitch that reads very awkwardly. I asked around when I first realized this, but could find no one that had any additional information on the press or its policies.

The copy is from something called Hawthorn Press, and the only bibliographic information it has is from the original printing in 1945. The copy feels too new to be of that vintage, though, so I'm not sure what the actual edition is. Just realize that you might wind up with slightly less story than Thane originally wrote.

A terrific read. Brian really hits it on the nail. As a sales training company owner, and book author myself, who is at a crossroads right now in his life, Brian King's story and advice is one for any 30 something. An extremely perceptive individual, Brian reminds us that our "issues" are everyone's issues. His lessons remind us to not wait until we are confronted with physical crises before we address our emotional crises. Lessons such as helping others - WITHOUT THE GOAL TO BE HELPED BACK - are huge. His "Hara" of the only two things you can control- Who You Are and What You Do is dead on accurate. For anyone who has ever thought they are alone in the world and seeking human fulfillment, this is a must read.

Todd B. Natenberg<

I would highly recommend this book to anyone who truly wants to improve themseves and the quality of their lives.The book is written in a interesting and sometimes humorous way so that it is not like an average self help book.I would say this book is an absolute must for anyone with Cancer or any other life altering disease.It is widely known in the medical field that attitude is largely responsible for survival of a dread disease.This book can help you Cure your negative feelings to enable you to work on getting well.

While the title is decidedly ominous, the author doesn't really mean to suggest that we are all doomed to suffer the ravages of a life-threatening illness. Rather, we are given a poignant account of a young man's encounter with testicular cancer. We journey through the author's passage from physical illness to physical and spiritual wellness, beginning with an emotional narrative of his disease and how it affected his life as well as the lives of those around him. But the underlying metaphor, in fact, the reason for this book lies in the subtitle: "Cures for the Negative Thoughts That Are Cancerous to Our Lives."

Like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, many of us are looking for a wizard to help light our way, to provide answers to better help us cope with life's pitfalls. And, like Dorothy, at the end of a long, and sometimes arduous voyage, (King does suggest a bit of homework) the reader discovers that true power and wisdom come from within.

Then why bother to take this trip? Well, for many of us, the answers we seek are not as accessible as we would like. King imparts a perception that helps us tap into a component of ourselves that is sometimes cleverly hidden. He becomes a friend, offering compassion and a beam of light, so that we know we are not alone in our travels. And, if given the choice, most of us would rather travel with a companion.

"Everybody Has a Tumor" is an inspiring book about this authors ordeal with testicular cancer and how he overcame it. I recommend this book not only for all cancer patients and their families, but for anyone who has been through anything tragic in their lives. Overcoming tragedies in life is not easy - this book offers COMFORT and HOPE for all who read it! While it teaches anyone suffering from an ailment that they must not allow their minds and their spirit to feel the same way their body does, it also teaches those whove suffered a tragedy in life to move on and not allow that tragedy to break their spirit.

Brian King's personal story is not only inspirational but offers the most important component of overcoming, and that is hope. Without hope we have nothing. Brian also shares some of his wisdom , based on his personal experiences, to guide us along the way. Take the journey and experience the hope.

Vivien Sung has to be congratulated a million times: her book is a lesson of style, design, culture and - above all - the highest knowledge of art!
It is a little masterpiece I have now in my bookcase.

I bought this book without the slightest beginning knowledge of Chinese culture or history. I just thought it looked interesting. Now, I can tell anyone who is interested in this type of book that it was wonderfully illustrated, extremely easy to understand and intensely knowledgeable and helpful. I am in awe of all the "little" things about Chinese history and culture, and this book goes thoroughly through all of it's promised categories with ease of understanding and helpful information.

This is a quick reading book, but is also a very helpful reference tool. I now know what not to give/not give as a gift, and I even know why! It is helpful in what to surround yourself with or others, your home, business, gift giving or for different types of lifestyles or happenings. Five-fold Happiness is a great gift for anyone of any age, or a wonderful read for yourself. I think that anyone who begins this book will finish it over and over again.

Enjoy and Learn!

I just bought this book and I could not stop reading it. Very very good. Well done, Vivien.

I picked up this book and found that many of the items in it are related to Feng Shui symbols and its origin. It's meant to give beginners a glimpse into the Chinese culture. It's bilingual with Chinese on one side and the English translation on the other side. The pictures are nice. I recommend it for beginners, but it is also a nice coffee table book.

Ever look at the art around your favorite Chinese restaurant and the designs on the plates, and wonder if they have a hidden meaning? They do. And Five-Fold Happiness beautifully shows and clearly explains it all. What a reference! Read this, and dazzle your friends with your insights next time you go out for lo mein.

For Executive's Only is a valuable career resource. The authors provide a practical and actionable plan to not only find your next job, but more importantly, find out what your next job should be. This is far more involved than a typical self help book that gives resume pointers. The book walks you through an entire self assessment and career targeting process that is based on Strategic Planning processes used every day in business. The punch line - Why put any less effort or strategy into building your personal career?

A quick read - I read it on a plane trip - that can provide years of useful advice.

Bill Belknap has been a consultant of mine for several years, and his pithy, straight-forward style is embodied in this book. I would describe it as a "see the forest through the trees" perspective on self-assessment and selling oneself. Whether it's selling a product, consulting services or oneself, Bill's perspective is high level, to the point, and action oriented. Very useful!

Anyone in a job humting mode will find this book chock full of great advice. Not a 'cookie cutter' approach, it challanges the reader to think outside standard hunting techniques that could cost thousands through outplacemnent firms and ties them together in an easy to read and apply philosophy. Well worth the investment.

The Five O'Clock Club strategy shows you how to build an entire cadre of self-marketing tools for the job search including the all important, attention-grabbing resume. Advice is specific and down to earth with great examples. You'll swear they walked in your shoes. Carol O'Brien

If you've just heard that your department is being reorganized, or you've simply had one too many bad days at work, order this book rush delivery and set aside the next night for an easy, practical and inspiring solution to your next job search.

I was able to get through the book in one night, and then start the next morning out of the box with a solid game plan, knowing exactly where to start on my search. There's no fluff here, just a straightforward guideline of what to do the first day, the first week, and on through negotiating your offer and starting your new position on the right foot.

This is not a self-help book; this is a tactical guide emphasizing strategic planning. It suggests one should dedicate the same energy, research, preparedness, long and short term organization, and confidence that we give to any presentation or business initiative to our search for the next great career move. And in doing so, just as you'd never suggest your firm enter a market you didn't truly believe in, you should only consider industries, companies and managers where you're certain your values and skills will be a successful fit. "So here is your challenge: don't settle for just a "good job". Plan for a great job. And to plan for a great job means you must seek work where and how you will perform best." This really resonated with me, it is true that for every work challenge I'd prepare vigorously, anticipating questions, laying out a timeline, etc. but I was not giving that same level of attention or forethought to my job search.

It's hard to believe that such a quick read can encompass 1) a confidence-building and eye opening assessment of your past successes and interests, 2) a reminder of the importance of a whole-life balance (if your life outside of work is neglected, your job performance and morale will inevitably suffer), 3) the importance of finding a firm that supports your core values, 4) clear steps towards researching your target industries and firms, 5) a manageable networking plan including great ideas for new contacts ("my mother in law plays bridge with the mother of the CEO of ???") 6) the importance of and how to hone a polished answer for the interview question "so tell me about yourself" 7) and - boy do I wish I'd done this before signing on to my last job - performing due diligence on your new manager, and your manager's manager.

This book is a winner, intelligent and savvy, and laid out in a way that reduces job search anxiety. You know exactly what should be on your to-do list each day, and how to tell if you're staying on course, and if not, how to steer it back in the right direction. Even if you think you know everything there is to know about finding your next position, buy this book. I guarantee you'll have many "aha" moments, many reminders of what you've been doing right, what you can do better, and a winning crib sheet for any aspect of your search.

This book has been checked out from the library at least 10 times before we found a copy of our own. We also have another David Peters favorite in "Strange Creatures", and can't wait to get a copy of our own. I only wish that someone would put out a new edition of the books, so we could get them new. With the scale pictures, and the wonderful drawings, it keeps our 8 year old reading for hours (and it has since she was 5). If you get a chance to get your hands on one, grab it.

This incredible book first caught my eye in the school library when I was in 4th grade; this same book is now found fascinating by my children ages 6 and 7. The illustrations are beautiful and the text is written in a way that even a young reader would understand. I find it really saddening that the book is out of print, because I would really like to replace the well-worn copy that I have handed down to my kids. Trust me, this is a book that you can certainly pass down for future generations to enjoy (no exageration)!!!!

This is a book that transcends generational barriers and age barriers in language and content. I got this book when I was eight and the way Peters fluidly coalesced extinct and extant creatures into one book influenced my entire outlook on life! I still refer to the book in university now that I'm an ecology major.

This book, although texted for the 10-15 yer old reader, is excellent enough to be enjoyed by readers of all ages. It briefly examines all manner of large creatures, both extinct and living, and by full-color, scaled drawings, with a man and and woman for visualization, shows how truly huge such things as apatosaurs and blue whales really could be. One of the interesting features is that each and every creature is drawn in the same scale, so such things as triceratops and modern rhinos, and mammoths and elephants and tyrannosaurs, may be compared. You will receive some surprises. I recommend this book to all readers.

When my boys were in grade school, they LOVED this book. Now they are in high school and college and they still love it! It is filled with wonderful illustrations drawn to scale and an informative easy to read text. A delightful book for all ages.

Godschild Covenant
Godschild Covenant, written by Marshall Masters, is a very unique, poetic and uplifting book. In it, Mr. Masters shows great insight into the immense strength of the human spirit, insight which many people alive now have been unable to notice, whether it be because of their busy lifestyle or their aspirations toward a specific goal.
From beginning to end, Godschild Covenant demonstrated moving, poetic tenderness. While restricted by circumstances, the story of the sexual love between Anthony and Tanya was shown to be heart wrenching and full of the emotional beauty of a love between two soul mates.
This unique book is futuristic, yet full of truth. It uplifts the reader from the normal, mundane, everyday existence to a place that all of humanity will eventually reach. Ahead of his time, Marshall Masters is giving humanity a message, a prediction, which will soon come to pass. Meanwhile, Marshall, with his mastery of imagination and narrative skill, leads the reader through entertainment to the truth of a realistic, yet hopeful land, the land of the Godschild Covenant.
This story surpasses all other novels and works of fiction.
It is an immensely rewarding journey; it is so inspiring, so enticing that it makes one want to reach the last word of the book, while still feeling sorry for the fact that the book is drawing to an end.

Ming Friedman
April 27, 2003
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This is a superb novel!

Marshall Masters has excelled himself with his first foray into fiction. With vivid imagination he has successfully combined the genres of action, thriller, sci-fi, murder and romance into one, fascinating, action-packed, hard-to-put-down book.

The characters are so life like and the environment the book is set in is so real-to-life, that I was completely drawn in, feeling as though I was actually there, experiencing every moment and emotion.

The story focuses on the power of the human spirit and it's will to survive in the face of desperation and destruction upon Earth. I was taken on a journey with Anthony Jarman, a seemingly ordinary but spiritually gifted man who struggles to accept his new responsibility within society as an ELMO (End of Life Management Officer); joined him on his dangerous quest to find his one and only son, kidnapped by extremist politicians; and followed his gentle, heart-wrenching discovery of true love with his soul mate.

This is a powerful and uplifting novel, which will provoke readers to ponder the actual reality of a higher realm of existence; a topic, which is so often taboo in today's society. It has elements of historical fact; describes scenarios that almost mirror current real life events and takes the bold step of sending out a message to readers about our own future and what it may hold.

A must read for all avid bookworms!

Godschild Covenant, the return of Nibiru, presents the reader with a rip-roaring good read combining the best of several genres. Classification is difficult as it's as much a science fiction novel as well as an adventure novel. Combining the two genres as well as including several aspects of new age spiritualism and being able to hold the whole thing together would seem rather difficult in perspective. Marshall Masters has managed to do it all. From factual technical aspects to fine points in descriptive narration the author manages to do a top job. Recommended for all ages this is a fine debut novel.
Howard Crawford - April 2003 Darringtonoutback.com

Mobipocket Review
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Godschild Covenant, written by Marshall Masters, is a very unique, poetic and uplifting book. In it, Mr. Masters shows great insight into the immense strength of the human spirit, insight which many people alive now have been unable to notice, whether it be because of their busy lifestyle or their aspirations toward a specific goal.

From beginning to end, Godschild Covenant demonstrated moving, poetic tenderness. While restricted by circumstances, the story of the sexual love between Anthony and Tanya was shown to be heart wrenching and full of the emotional beauty of a love between two soul mates.

This unique book is futuristic, yet full of truth. It uplifts the reader from the normal, mundane, everyday existence to a place that all of humanity will eventually reach. Ahead of his time, Marshall Masters is giving humanity a message, a prediction, which will soon come to pass. Meanwhile, Marshall, with his mastery of imagination and narrative skill, leads the reader through entertainment to the truth of a realistic, yet hopeful land, the land of the Godschild Covenant.

This story surpasses all other novels and works of fiction. It is an immensely rewarding journey; it is so inspiring, so enticing that it makes one want to reach the last word of the book, while still feeling sorry for the fact that the book is drawing to an end.--Mobipocket.com

I wish to add one more statement to an earlier review of Godschild Covenant.

Marshall's insight from Godschild Convenant that described the 3-Gorges Virus shows exactly what is happening in China - the spreading of SARS. According to the Indian News, China has created this virus from its Bio-weapons lab. This is another of Marshall's phrophetic warning from his book.

i love this book if your a guinea pig lover its a must. if your not familiar with the series its about this girl named mandy and her parents are vets. in this story there having a animal show and mandy and her friends want to enter there guinea pigs but 2 of the guinea pigs gets sick well they live to see the show?!?! find out in guinea pig gang

Animal ark books are amazingly brilliant. Although I've only read one I'm eager to read more. When I bought this book my mum thought I was too old for it, she said it was for younger children but I think not matter how old or young you may be if you love animals you'll love animal ark books!

Guinea pig gang is absolutely amazing,at least that's what I think. I love animals and this book was just the thing for me to read at the poolside on holiday or in my bed in fact,anywhere. I totally loved that's why I deciced to review it for my school essay it was so brilliant! I just want to say the author did a wonderful job,well done! It definately deserved the 5 stars I gave it!

I totally agree with that one review, it doesn't matter how old you are if you love guinea pigs, or just pets in general you must read this book! I wanted the book for Christmas, I love guinea pigs and I'm 26 years old. The cover is too precious! I just had to have it! This story introduces to people to what wonderful pets guinea pigs really are. This is a wonderful story about friends who have a passion for guinea pigs. I highly reccomend this story for any age. Kristy-guinea pig owner for almost 20 years!

Mandy and James meet a girl in their class named Lisa, who says she has a guinea pig, but she won't join the guinea pig gang. Mandy and James find out that the guinea pig isn't Lisa's, it's her sister Jenny's, but Jenny doesn't take care of her guinea pig. Will Lisa be able to get Jenny to give her her guinea pig, and join the guinea pig gang?