Across the Seas of Darkness.

Camelot was gone and Arthur lay in the sleep of the forever undead. Only a small band of loyal men were left, guided by the magical wisdom of Merlin. United, they braved uncharted seas toward the mysterious Lands of the West. With them they carried the Thirteen Magic Treasures of Britian and the power of Merlin's Ring.

Ahead of them lay unknown lands that offered lush wonders and ecstasies beyond their dreams and savage creatures that drove them into horrors beyond any nighmare.

For Ventidius Varro, a Roman centurion who had given his service to Arthur, this was to be an odyssey of soul-stirring glory and heartbreaking discovery...an an odyessy that would bring him the love of a beautiful woman and take from him his son Gwalchmai.

And before Gwalchmai, godson of Merlin, lay an even darker and more mysterious quest.

This book offers a different view on the entire Arthurian saga. It takes in a vast spectrum of concepts, from Merlin, the great Wizard, to the last reminants of Rome, to The New World, and Beyond, to Atlantis, 10,000 years gone, and its wonders. Altogether a great read, It suffices all genres of readers as only a good historic fiction can. And then it brings up the enevitable question... How much is fiction?????????

Given that the Regency period (Australian Colonial where I'm from) is my favourite, perhaps my opinion is completely biased. But out of all of Warner's excellent books, this one is my favourite. I believe it has designs of greater variety than her others and they are truly beautiful. They are also versatile - I have items made from this book in all of my houses, which include an 1830s Sydney mansion, an Australian Victorian decorated to the Federation (1900) era, a modern Melbourne townhouse, a San Francisco Victorian with Arts & Crafts interiors and an English Georgian mansion! The projects range from simple crewelwork cushions that will take an hour to gorgeous carpets that may take months to complete.

Warner uses DMC threads, popular amongst most miniaturists - except for me, and I have found the patterns straightforward to adapt to my preferred Danish Flower Thread, Gumnut Yarn Daisies and DMC Medici, as Warner does not use an enormous colour range of similar hues. She does, however, use enough colours to maintain the detail and give a convincing miniaturisation of full-size items. This also means that most stitchers with limited experience can attempt these patterns assured of turning out a quality piece of needlework. Although sizings are given for fabric of different counts, I have found the carpet designs don't work as well on the 32 (or finer) counts I prefer - the finished carpets end up the size of mats, rather than the area rugs the designs are quite clearly meant to be. So if you are comfortable working in, say, 20, 22 and 24 count, these patterns are perfect for you. The wide variety of projects - curtains, bed and wall hangings, cushions, carpets and footstools are some - means that everyone is bound to find something they feel confident to tackle.

This is my first time order the miniature books from here , normally , I read the miniature books from Japanese issue . But after I received the books from here . I changed my mind at all ! Especially this book give me many many wonderful idea to make the quilt , rug , carpet ..etc I love it at all ! Don't miss it ! U will love this book ever !

July 29,2000 This was A great book! I recomend it to anyone.

This mystery is great - the people,the incidents,the end result are all very captivating.It's exciting and fast-paced,and the lessons are clearly understood(but are not preached!) throughout the book.I liked this book a lot,and hope you would enjoy it too!

I think the BOXCAR CHILDREN is extremely fun to read. It tells about adventurous kids who are running away from their grandfather. While running away they had many adventures. The four kid's names are: Henry, a boy who is strong and is the oldest, Jessie, a girl who is adventurous and knows how to cook excellent food, Violet a 10 year old girl who is smart, and Benny, the youngest, well mannered, and funny boy. Henry worked for a man named Dr. Moore because he wanted to make money to buy food to eat. He also worked for Dr. Moore so that he could support his siblings. These kids are very creative. I really like this book. I think everyone should read this book because you could learn something. It is a good bedtime story too because, you could have wonderful dreams instead of scary nightmares. I give this book 5 stars.

After their Grandfather has bought a bookstore and rented it to his friend, Henry, Jessie, Violet and Benny are helping out. As a reward, they each get to pick a book to keep. But the Boxcar Children find mysterious clues of a person entering the store and even their rooms at night, unseen. Then Violet's books disappear. Can they get to the bottom of this?

I loved the mystery girl.Iwould read this book again!You have to read this book.I loved the milled prat when ever thing got wried. I have to go! BY!!![...]

The Mystery Girl was the best book I've ever read because it was very mysterious.I liked it when Benny always said how he liked to eat alot.I also like how the end ended but,I'm not going to tell you the end you read it and you find out how great it is.

I read this book. It was very good. I read it 3 weeks ago. I'm Aaron. You also can see a review by me at The Mystery Of The Empty Safe. They also find hidden cocunuts, monkeys. Very cool. You should buy it.

When the aldens visit their Grandfather's friend's mall they get a job in Penny's Emporium. They love working in the store until strange things happen and the grouchy mall monitor makes things miserable. however, they keep their heads up high as the try to solve the mystery of what happened to Benny's coconut and the missing merchandise.

This book is so neat! It is a great mystery story and is fun to read. Since this book is part of a series, you might expect all the books to be boring, right? Wrong, some are actually really good! I think this is the best of the series that I have read so far! Read this, you won't forget it!

When the Boxcar Childre want to plan a party for Grandfather they go to the attic and pick out some clothes. While they are searching Jessie finds a picture of their Grandmother and shows it to Grandfather. He says the necklace she was wearing got lost the day after their wedding when she was helping the Caters clean up. The Boxcar Children see a picture of a lady with the necklace on in the newspaper, that lives where Aunt Jane lives.They go to Aunt Jane's house and ask some questions to different people.When they hed back home the day of Mr. Alden's Party Mrs. Newton comes to their house(one of the people they talked to)with the necklace. She told them the story of how she got it she said that her son had been a caterer at Mr. Alden's wedding and stole the Necklace.

July 29, 2000

I thaught this was a great book because I like to act.

I really have to say none of The Boxcar Children books really scared me, but this one did. I loved this book because I love to act. It's about a girl named Jessie who tries out for a part in The Wizard of Oz at the theater in her town. There's also a girl named Sara who tries out for Dorathy. Sara gets cast as Dorathy and Jessie is the cowardly lion. But, alond the way strange things begin to happen.Can The Aldens solve the mystery before opening night.

Some ancient scrolls are proving that some vikings lived in the Kinetic City 500 years before Colombus discovered America. But some citizens including J. Angstrong Sneer think that the City Scrolls are fakes. So the super crew try to discover the truth about the scrools and...oops, I can`t tell you what is going up next. If you are doing a book report, I recommend you to choose this book. I also recommend this book for people who love adventure and detective books.

This was a really good book. This is my favorite series of books. This one is goofy and suspenseful. -Alex (age 9)

Burke does another fine job with this book. In addition, I recommend "Strategic Organizational Change" by Michael Beitler.

To me, this book represents the soul of OD. It defines for the practitionaire what it means to be an OD consultant, its values and consequently, the type of interventions we choose to use. A must buy.