Warner Books

I love this book. I read it a while a go, and I have been trying to find more in the series for a long long time, but it isn't in any library I can find. This is a great book, a greater series, and I would highly recomend it to anyone who wants to snuggle up to a great book and relax.

Enter Simon Hawke's world, where magic works and a reluctant magician named Wyrdrune is thrust into the dark world of necromancy. Simon Hawke paints a clear picture of the characters and the situation, reminiscient in some ways of Piers Anthony's fantasy works, but with a darker edge.

Hawke starts the series with the Wizard of 4th Street and continues it in several other books. Each worth reading. If you enjoy fantasy, you'll like this series. It's Ursla K. LeGuinn's Wizard of Earth Sea - meets Pier's Anthony's Xanth Series.

I am not much of a book reviewer. I just know what I like and I really liked this book and all the books that follow in the series (I think there were 7) and even the spin-off novel from The Wizard of Santa Fe called Cats Eye Gomez.

If you enjoy a creative twist in your reading then you will find Simon Hawke's books are a joy to read.

I just wish I could find his books somewhere so I could share them with my friends and nephew.

Simon Hawke brings about a unique look at the tales of Merlin as his long slumber had ended. He awakens to see a world gone mad. The world goverments are in chaos as all types of power are gone. They call it the Collapse. Merlin realizes that he and he alone can bring the world from ruin and he does so. Now it is the 22nd century almost fifty years since he cam back to the world. Fifty years of magic users and that with which to bring humanity back from despair. The world has seen a new age and with it things that the old world never saw until that fateful day. An acution house has many things to offer from a dig in the euprahties among them three gems engraved with symbols of untold of power. A young warlock currently thrown out of magic college for a spell that went wild tries to steal them right in front of the people willing to bid on them. this young man thinks they might be his ticket to get back in and study once again at the feet of Merlin himself. This young man is named William Kerpinsjy his magical name is. At the same time a young thief going by the name of Kira also has idea of stealing the gems. Unknown to them both the worlds greatest assasin Moprheus wants these gems as well. Unlike those going to steal them he intends to buy them. All seems to be going to each others plan until the true maddness happens. I won't give to much of this wonderful novel. I read these in high school and loved them. If you can find a copy of this book read it.

Can you imagine Merlin, Modred and Morgan in Boston or New York in the year 2200? The usual power sources have been depleted and now the world runs on magic as some run on java. Experience the adventure of Wyrdrune, Kira and a couple of other characters in a world once again full of magic and see the first experience with the dark ones after eons. Definitely a book worth reading.

Need to jumpstart your New Year's resolution to spend more devotional time with God? Although it's designed to be picked up anytime (not just the New Year), Rebecca Barlow Jordan's 40 DAYS IN GOD'S PRESENCE: A Devotional Encounter might be a good place to begin.

If you're a reader who likes structure, these devotions will be your cup of tea. Each devotional reading follows the same format. First, Jordan chooses a biblical character or event to center the devotion on. In "The God of Visual Lessons," the reader learns about God's control and design for the world and his ability to speak through object lessons as she tells the story of the prophet Jeremiah watching a potter and his wheel. Sometimes, she weaves in a contemporary story, as when she writes of Caleb urging the Israelites to face the giants, and then tells of a young woman overcoming the "giants" of multiple physical handicaps. Jordan sometimes adds personal anecdotes, although they can be a little vague (she alludes to a rocky time in her marriage, but doesn't get more specific than this). Her tone is consistently conversational, warm and friendly.

One of the most heartfelt devotions centers on the term of endearment "Abba," with which we are invited to address our heavenly father. Jordan deftly weaves both biblical context for the usage and contemporary story together to give the reader a new appreciation of the love God has for his children.

Another, centered on Job, may inspire some discussion over her final conclusion that "Sometimes in the presence of God, silence may well be the best policy," which is a little confusing and perhaps debatable. It might be argued that there's nothing wrong with asking God hard questions (as David did in the Psalms) as long as we recognize we may never have answers in this life that we understand. (God knows our questions anyway!) Perhaps the key point she makes is that we can always approach God and find grace for our circumstances. A good reminder.

At the end of each four to five page devotion is a "Personal Truth" that neatly summarizes the point of the devotion, followed by a "Personal Prayer" that the reader is invited to pray to apply the devotional truth. Then Jordan asks a "Personal Question" designed for reflection. "When was the last time you had a true God encounter? Is there someone God wants you to speak to, or something for which you need to take a stand? When do you most enjoy God?"

New Christians or those unfamiliar with the Bible will find that Jordan usually does a good job giving background on her characters or events, although sometimes the reader will need to do some additional reading for context (in one devotion, for example, the Sermon on the Mount is referenced but not explained).

Unfortunately, the temptation to use cute sayings crops up, which may put off more serious readers ("When it rains, it pours. But when he reigns, the Son shines" or about Bathsheba: "her pregnancy test turned up pink. But David suddenly didn't feel in the pink.") She also cites some examples that need endnotes (such as the woman who left her toddler in the car, or the twin volleyball players). However, many of the writers quoted and referenced by Jordan are well-chosen (Brother Lawrence, Richard Foster, Oswald Chambers) and many readers will appreciate her cheerful, upbeat tone.

Christians looking for short, scripture-based devotions with personal applications will enjoy this volume. Those who find it helpful will be able to follow it in July 2006 with Jordan's 40 DAYS IN GOD'S BLESSING.

--- Reviewed by Cindy Crosby.

Sometimes in reading the Bible, we forget that its real stories of real people stretch across the centuries to our daily lives. The stresses and growing-places of Bible-time people are also ours and show how we should live before God today. As Rebecca Barlow Jordan re-creates each Bible story, she invites us to seek more of God's presence in our own lives. Don't be misled by the brevity (four pages) of each devotional guide. Taken a day at a time, thought-through and prayed-over, this book can be a life-changer.

This beautiful devotional book is perfect as a study during the Lenten period, when those who love God seek to know and love Him better. I highly recommend it--for any time of year!

I had to stop on the second day of my 40 journey with Rebecca Barlow Jordan to praise this beautiful book. I must confess I've become so entrenched that I've continued reading well past day two. She has an easy style that draws you with a desire to know more. With this insightful perspective of God's presence in my life, I have been reminded that He is as close as the air I breathe.
Thank you for a fresh encounter with our living Lord.

Ten years ago author Ian Wilmut shocked science and the general public when he revealed his team of researchers had cloned the first sheep from an adult cell. His revelation was to spark a controversy not just in science, but among consumers and the general public. AFTER DOLLY: THE USES AND MISUSES OF HUMAN CLONING continues the discussion, surveying the current state of the field of cloning, discussing the science behind Dolly's creation and its refinement since, and posing a strong statement on the moral necessity of cloning to cure disease. A pick for both general-interest collections and any who would understand the nature of human cloning issues today.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

The most famous sheep in the world, and the most famous lab animal, was Dolly, born in 1996. She was the first mammal cloned from an adult differentiated cell, but she was not at all the first clone. Ian Wilmut was a scientist within the Scottish research team that cloned her, and ten years on he has written a useful book, with science author Roger Highfield, _After Dolly: The Uses and Misuses of Human Cloning_ (Norton) which not only gives the history of producing Dolly, and Dolly's life story, but also describes the developments in cloning since then. Wilmut has necessarily become an advisor on the ethics of cloning and embryo research, and while there will be many who disagree with his utilitarian views set down in his book, they do represent a thoughtful scientific opinion of where cloning and embryo procedures ought and ought not to be used.

Wilmut makes clear that Dolly was not the first clone, but the first mammalian clone produced from DNA derived from a differentiated adult cell; he gives a history of pre-Dolly cloning. While the ideas behind cloning are simple, carrying out the procedure is extremely difficult, requiring precise manipulation of unimaginably small cell parts. The manipulation machine, for instance, by which a technician looks into a microscope and carefully removes or replaces cell nuclei, sat on a desk that sat on a heavy metal plate that in turn sat on squash balls to absorb any vibrations from a door slamming or even a radio playing. Wilmut favors human embryo research because of its potential outcomes. The earliest embryo (even sometimes called a pre-embryo) is a blastocyst, a microscopic ball of around a hundred cells in a hollow sphere. There is not enough differentiation within the blastocyst into even primitive nerves, and so we may definitely say that the blastocyst has no awareness and no capacity to feel pain. Wilmut for this, and many other reasons given here, feels that there is no possibility of cruelty to a blastocyst, and that they can be subjected to experiment. He does feel that embryos deserve elemental respect; they should be used in research when there is no other means of doing the research, and any embryo thus used should be used with the consent of the adults whose DNA was joined to make it.

Wilmut is firmly against what he sees as the folly of cloning humans, and that the production of "designer babies" even if feasible (they are not even close) ought to be rejected. Again, this is a judgement based on practicality: he asks us to imagine rich parents who hire a staff to engineer an intellectually gifted child, only to wind up eventually with "a sullen adolescent who smokes marijuana and doesn't talk to them." Also he points out that cloning has huge risks and costs in making a clone; for Dolly, for instance, 277 donor udder cells were transformed into only 29 embryos, only one of which prospered in the surrogate mother. And no one really knows how good a clone Dolly was; she had a good life and seemed to enjoy being sociable due to her fame, but she lived less than eight years, not a good outcome for a pampered sheep. Dolly was a remarkable experiment that helped us better understand the biochemical mechanics of reproduction; Wilmut is strongly against any such experimentation on humans. His book gives up-to-date reporting on where scientists are and are heading, including the catastrophic mistakes by the once admired, now disgraced Woo Suk Hwang of Korea. Wilmut's passionate arguments about using the current technologies sensibly and ethically to benefit future generations ought to help in understanding the ethics of the most controversial area in biology.

Ian Wilmut - with the help of science journalist Roger Highfield - tells the exciting story of how he and his group cloned Dolly, whose donor cell came from the udder of an adult sheep. Much of the book describes the science surrounding the multistage procedures of cloning. The challenges are enormous because of the immense complexity of the reproductive process and for technical reasons. The nuclear transfers themselves were done under a microscope on cells much smaller than the dot at the end of this sentence.

Cloning has been successful in many species of mammals but according to Wilmut, attempts to clone humans are not ethical, feasible, or even desirable. The success rate is extremely low, abnormalities of pregnancy are the norm, the newborn mammals that survive are frequently not entirely normal, and identical genotypes ignore the environmental factors that influence individuality. This can be tolerated in cattle, but certainly not in humans. Using stem cells to cure disease is an entirely different story. Scientists are learning how to manipulate these cells to become replacements for diseased tissue in humans.

In 50 years, scientists may be using stem cells to cure Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, Diabetes, heart disease, and perhaps scores of other diseases. They might learn how to grow customized organs in the lab, rendering transplant waiting lists and immune suppressive therapy unnecessary. In 10 years, they should have somewhat of a handle on a few of these diseases and stem cell treatments or cures for a couple of them. Unfortunately, this valuable research has been slowed by political and ethical controversy.

Wilmut takes a respectful and humble view of these valid ethical issues and the religious objections surrounding experimentation on a human embryo. His bottom line, however, is that the real immoral act would be to withhold definitive treatment of disease from that group of us who are already born.

"After Dolly" is written for a wide variety of readers, requiring knowledge of high school biology and a little genetics. Wilmut modestly gives away virtually all the credit to his team and other researchers, while thoroughly examining the science and history of this dynamic field. Amid the hysteria and media frenzy surrounding Dolly's birth and life, and the tons of newsprint generated about the possibility of cloning humans, Wilmut was perplexed by the lack of details written about how and why they cloned her. He is now excited to finally tell this story.

Ten years ago today, on July 5, 1996, the famous sheep called Dolly was born. There were no press announcements, for her "creators" had yet to submit the paper on the experimental methods and results to a professional scientific journal. It was not until February of the following year that most of press and the world got to hear of this extraordinary accomplishment with mammalian cloning. There is probably no single scientific experiment that has caused such controversy as this one, with most of this controversy coming from a misguided and publicity seeking press.

The authors present in this book an overview of the experiment from standpoint of Ian Wilmut, as one who was directly involved in bringing about the birth of Dolly. Written with the assistance of a professional writer, Wilmut gives the reader a fascinating look into the science behind Dolly, and also make commentary on the biological and genetic science that came after her birth. All of these developments are very exciting, and are ample proof that we are living in extraordinary times. Genetic engineering is a fascinating technology, and hopefully it will continue to play a large role in optimizing the health of all organisms, human and otherwise.

As expected from his public discussion, Wilmut is against reproductive cloning. However, his warnings against its practice he backs up with scientific argument, detailing the many problems that arise in attempts to clone mammals. The authors do touch on the ethical arguments against human cloning, but their arguments on this account are faulty, and have been successfully countered by other individuals, and will not be repeated here.

Wilmut comes across in the book as being a very practical, patient, and humble man, and one who is definitely fed up with the public outcries and misrepresentations of biological science in today's newspapers and magazines. The reader is left with the impression that Wilmut felt honored to be involved in the Dolly experiment, and even might have been slightly surprised at its success, comparing for instance his laboratories with other more equipped laboratories across the ocean.

Cloning from adults at the time was "proved" to be "impossible" by some molecular biologists of the time, as the authors point out. One can only imagine then the excitement when Wilmut and his team verified through ultrasound that the Dolly fetus was healthy. And their determination to proceed with the experiment, in spite of the "impossibility" proofs, is another strong argument for ignoring the opinions of experts when doing scientific research. Frequently the experts are correct, but their words are not sacrosanct, as laboratory experimentation in this case proved all too well. One hates to think of the research that has not been done because of discouragement from "experts."

Since the book is about genetic engineering as it progressed after the birth of Dolly, one expects to find discussion on transgenesis and pharming, and this is indeed the case. The authors give an encapsulated but effective overview of the developments in genetic engineering primarily from the viewpoint on how they will affect human health.

The authors are optimistic about the future of genetic engineering, but are hesitant to engage in utopianism. They want to leave the impression that genetic engineering will have a minimal impact as compared with what has been done via natural evolution. But as the technologies of genetic engineering become more perfected, and as mammalian cloning becomes better understood, it is fair to say that genetic engineering will have a major impact in the twenty-first century. If it enhances human intelligence and health, if it makes couples happy with children born through human cloning, if it creates thousands of new transgenic animals and plants, in short if it radically changes the biosphere as we know it in a way that makes life on Earth more harmonious, then Wilmut and his team, along with all the other genetic engineers, deserve not only our utmost respect and praise, but also our envy: for taking the first steps into a fascinating new frontier.

Is this a songbook wich contains all the piano partitures???

hi, I wanted to know the title songs of this book please!!
thank you

No, I don't own this songbook. I'm just hoping to hear from someone who can give me the song listing. I don't want to buy it unless I know what tunes are in it. Thanks

david

THESE ARE THE SONGS IN THE BOOK!

Los Dos Cogidos De La Mano
Pisando Fuerte
Se Le Apago La Luz
Viviendo Deprisa
A Golpes Contra El Calendario
Como Te Echo De Menos
Cuando Acabas Tu
El Escaparate
Este Pobre Mortal
Mi Primera Cancion
Que No Te Daria Yo
Di Tu Me Miras
Tu Letra Podre Acariciar
Vente Al Mas Alla
Cancion Sin Emocion
Ellos Son Asi
Eres Mia
Ese Que Me Dio La Vida
La Fuerza Del Corazon
Lo Ves?
Mi Soledad Y Yo
Por Bandera
Quiero Morir En Tu Veneno
Se Me Olvido Todo Al Verte
Amiga Mia
Aquella Que Me Diste
Corazon Partio
Ese Ultimo Momento
Hoy Que No Estas
La Margarita Dijo No
Si Hay Dios
Siempre Es De Noche
Un Charquito De Estrellas
Y, Si Fuera Ella?

HOPE THIS HELPED!

After wasting my eight bucks to see AVP in the theaters, I caught myself constantly wondering why they didn't use this story? It is brilliant and a classic. The storyline is so much better than what was presented on film.
The idea of having a film take place in the same time period as the Alien movies is much more appealing than the whole undiscovered Antartic temple crap. On top of that, the graphic novel was full of non-stop action whereas in the film, there was only about twenty minutes worth of action in the whole thing.

Anyway. . . .this will be one of the greatest graphic novels that you will ever own. The story is brilliant, the art work worthy and the feeling of staisfaction when finished reading it excellent.
Get it before they are no longer available.

This was as you may know the mini- series that stared it all.AVP is going to be known as a dark horse cult-classic. Well any way the story begins on a human ranching colony on a desert planet named ryushi when an unknown ship breaches the atmosphere and lands near the gazeing ground of some type space cattle the ranchers rease.The ship starts placing alien eggs every where. Then the cattle get facehugged.When the round comes time the cattle become sick, hours later aliens are hacthing and startin a hive. soon after wards predators show up, kill a family all but a little boy and two people go missing and catlle are dying left and right.the colony build up baracads and get the only weapons they have. But the predators get through and start killing colonists and start killing aliens. This was a great stroy and a must buy for your colllection.

W A R N I N G:
This comic book is exactally like the book Aliens vs. predator: Prey. I recommend that you read the novel before the comic, or you will not understand a lot of it. I liked the book much more than the comic because there is more detail and a better understanding. read the book first folks!

This comic is awesome. It has Aliens, Predators, humans, and guns. Chestburster action also. The movie is set way in the future. The predators have now captured Alien Queens so she can make eggs. Then, the Predators put the eggs in an area on a planet where there's life that can get impregnated by the Face Huggers. Then, the predators go and hunt the Aliens. But, something goes wrong on one of these trips. The ship carrying the eggs explodes, the Aliens are let on the loose, they invade a humanized colony, bad stuff happens, people die, The main protagonist who happens to be a Predator is introduced, and stuff happens. Awesome comic, and a must have.

Andrea Bocelli's soaring voice reaches out and flies with you from the start of the first song, Canto de la Tierra. The music makes you want to cry, laugh and most of all, listen. My favorite's are: Nel Cuore Lei, with Eros Ramazotti, Sogno and Canto de la Tierra.

I am totally in love with the man and his voice, so I join all his millions of fans who appreciate his magnificent voice. This is one of my favorite albums of his collection, and I have most all of them. I may be prejudiced when it comes to Andrea, but then I am not alone. Buy and enjoy. I have for three years now and have not tired of it yet, nor expect to.

All the songs in Italian and also the translations are in this book. The piano arrangements are faithful to the keyboards heard on the CD. Moderate, easy to read style. Amazon had this listed as a hardcover book which may mislead you to think this is a book to read about the making of the CD but it is a compilation of the sheet music for each of the songs.....no text other than that. A few promotional photos too. Guitar chords also included. It was just what I wanted.

This Songo Music book serves its purpose well. It has all the Italian and English translations of the lyrics, and the music which can be played on piano from this Beautiful CD. So if you want the lyrics in a much easier to read format then in the liner notes of the CD so you can sing along then this is a must buy. And if you want to play along on Piano this is a must buy as well. The Prayer, Canto Della Terra and Songo are just beautiful songs and its a pleasure to be able to sing along.

This book by Mary Lide is an excellent historical novel. The timing of the novel is the mid-12 century around the time that Henry II became King of England. Ms. Lide places historical characters in tight juxtaposition with her own invented ones, and the writing is so seamless that it is hard to determine where history ends and fiction begins. It is very apperant that Ms. Lide is a learned medeival scholar. She knows this era and the colourful people of it. In the book we see Henry II and his infamous Queen - Queen Eleanor. We also meet many of the lords and ladies in his retinue, and we have Ann and her Lord Raoul. Ms. Lide does a fine job in her depiction of Ann of Cambray. What an indomitable figure she was. The legacy that she left should not be overshadowed by all the other things that happened during the Plantanganet reign.

Ann of Cambray is the 1st in a trilogy. The other 2 are "Gifts of the Queen" and "A Royal Quest." The 3rd book was also published under the title "The Hawks of Sedgmont" in some countries. I read them every few years and they haven't lost their appeal. Once started, very hard to put down. Mary Lide is a excellent author and one of my all time favorites. Her portrayals of Henry of Anjou and Eleanor of Aquitaine fit as does her descripton of the period. I recommend this book to anyone interested in good writing, historical accuracy, and unforgettable heroes and heroines...

Ann of Cambray was written in such a manner that one would think they know the final outcome, but--- not so! Mary Lide's way of telling her story was exceptional and well thought out. I'm sure Ann and Raoul were meant to meet, meant to love and meant to grow old together. Ann of Cambray embodied all the romanctic's notions of the time and I loved it. It is a 'keeper' on my bookshelves, I have read it at least 4 times to date and look forward to my next meeting with them

Ann of Cambray is worth hunting Z-Shops and Auctions for. It is the beautiful tale of an intelligent and passionate woman living in the 12th century England. This is no fluff-romance tale. It is a tale of death and destruction, loyalty and alliances, murder and intrigue. Ann's love for her overlord complicates her life and sends her all over the kingdom in a desperate attempt for everything to be peaceful and settled. Castles and Kings fall in the struggle, men die and women mourn. And through it all Ann of Cambray forges bravely on. A wonderful tale written by an Oxford historian. Fascinating detail and endless surprising twists of fate.

I havent red this book but it souns cool

this was a wonderful collection of interviews of Stephen King. It would be interesting to see another collection done, with some of the more recent interviews and thoughts from him.

In this collection of essays, both new Stephen King fans, and SK'ers alike can enjoy a unique, indepth and personal view into the mind of the world's greatest horror writer. In Bare Bones King does just that -- he Bares his Bones, showing us the reader what really goes on inside his head. You are taken down into a dark cavern that few men have traveled into and survived. (Well, at least literarily -- not literally). As stated above, I was so impressed and intrigued by these works that I bought all three copies available: the 1st edition paperback, the first edition hardcover, and number 588 of 1152 limited handnumbered copies. Truly a "missing link" in any King collection. If nothing else, Bare Bones is a "must-read".

This is maybe the most interesting book about Stephen King available. If you want to know something about him, you have to read it, because you won't learn more anywhere else. Not even in his own 'On Writing' by the way.

Maybe it would be interesting too to read more actual interviews, but these one help a lot. Okay, it's not always that interesting, like in the conversation about his radio station and sometimes weird, like in the one about 'Maximum Overdrive' if you have seen it. And of course a lot of things are repeated.

But it's really a must for King-fans.

The novelisation of the big 1989 movie. It also includes a photo section in the middle, as lots of those sort of books of the time did. It is competently handled, even asking "Have you ever danced with the devil by the pale moonlight?"

Batman faces off with Jack Napier as he becomes the Joker, and discovers the links to his past. He also has to deal with the prying of Vicki Vale.

Accompanying the release of the 1989 smash hit, Tim Burton movie Batman, Dove Books on Tape released this audio book. Acclaimed author Craig Shaw Gardner took the screenplay for the movie, and did an excellent job of reorganizing the story for audio. Making the project complete, veteran actor Roddy McDowall provided the voice, doing an excellent job of playing the roles of the maniacal Joker, the sultry Vicky Vale, and the serious Batman.

Overall, I found this to be an excellent audio book. The story is quite close to the original movie, and Roddy McDowall pulls off a real coup, doing all three major characters in a believable and interesting way. Indeed, I highly recommend his performance as the Joker to everyone.

I loved this audio book, and highly recommend it to everyone. This is a prized part of my library, and my only regret is that I cannot now get it on CD!

Batman Is one of America's Favorite Superhero. This Book is very good. There is a lot of action and suspense in this book. Criag Shaw Gardner did an exceilent job on this book




if you liked this on then read batman Returns, Batman Forever & Batman & Robin

It's strange. You'd never guess that a book based on a screenplay could be any good, but you'd be wrong in this case.

Craig Shaw Gardner, my favorite movie-tie-in author, wrote this book, taking a good screenplay and turning it into a truly masterful, exciting, and touching book!

To start off with, the book has whole sections that were cut from the film, giving it more depth and character development. Hmmm.... character development.... there's a whole lot of it. The book truly gets inside the head of everyone, Batman, The Joker, Alexander Knox, Commisioner Gordon, and even Vicki Vale, and all have varied outlooks on the book's events. The Joker sees everything as hilarious, and twisted, Vicki's stressful situations are more developed, Knox is detailed as a hard-boiled reporter (Moreso then the film), Commisioner Gordon is very interesting, in the fact that he likes Batman, but is sworn to his duty to arrest the vigilante, and he's very dedicated and tough, and Batman/Bruce is incredibly written. The writing for Batman's mind is at it's best toward the end, when Batman tries to get up into the Cathedral, while trying not to faint from the wounds he got by crashing the Batwing, and he fades in and out of reality as he remembers the night he lost his parents.

I mean, the film is excellent, but the book is not to be missed. It's deep, profound, moving, and truly exciting in the way Gardner writes fight scenes. Fast and furious, but also surprisingly detailed. I've read this thing so many times that the pages are starting to fall out, and I am continually surprised at the quality of the book. A truly enjoyable read from start to finish.

If you're a fan in the least, you'll pick up this wonderful book!

I found this book in the attic covered under piles of dust. I did not know what it was about as it did not have a cover or anything telling what the book was about. I decided to give it a try and was immediatly submersed in the world of the 1800's. I could not put the book down after the first page. it took me about 2 days to complete the whole book. The author, Giles, is very descriptive and exciting writer. Usually i do not like to read books set in the 1800's, but this book is excellent. It is about the life of Rebecca Fowler. It starts with her early life chasing the man she loves and evovles as Rebecca does into her life story. It talks of life in the wilderness and then life while she is involved in a Shaker community and life thereafter. This is an excellent book and i cannot wait to read more book written by Giles.

From beginning to end I was drawn into the lives of all the caratures. Being from Kentucky and visiting Shakertown, I was able to use my imagination and see different sides of how they lived. It brought out both the pros and cons to their living. I also liked how a woman in that time was able to be strong and go with her "beliefs".

I have read many of Ms. Giles books and this one is by far my favorite! She truly reached out to me and because of her book I am contemplating converting to Shakerism! She makes the characters come alive, feel their feelings, and even though she shares it from a point of view against Shakers, she lets you form your own opinion. I worked at a Shakertown but nothing was as moving to me as this book!

I read this as a child, and again as an adult. I re-read it after I went to the Shaker community in Northern Kentucky and enjoyed it much more, but give me "Hannah Fowler," "Six Horse Hitch" or "Johnny Osage" (all by Janice Holt Giles) anytime! She is a terrific author who has done better than this effort. But, it is still a good story...worth the read.