People of the Silence (The First North American Series)

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Summary: All of the "People Of The" books are wonderfully done...
Review: as the misbegotten daughter of the Blessed Night Sun, Cornsilk finds herself taken on an unexpected adventure, where she finds an unexpected love, and an unexpected father... truely a masterpiece!

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Summary: Read the 1st 8 books in the series, can't wait for the other
Review: Fact and fiction combined! Never a dull moment.

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Summary: Drift back in time and become part of The First People
Review: I absolutely love this series! The stories are compiled with archaeological data and Native American creation stories. Each story is carefully woven with details of the villages and lifestyles, their spirtuality, and with the authors imagination, a powerful saga of what could have brought the destruction to the Anazasi. The story of Poor Singer, learning to be a spiritual singer, and Cornsilk, searching for the indentity of her real parents after her village is destroy, and their joining up on a quest to a village that may destroy one or both of them is just too fascinating to put down.

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Summary: The Best So Far of a Great Series
Review: I agree that this is an amazing book. It is the best of the series, I think. I've read them all except the last two, so we'll see what those are like. Anyway, it's a lot like the other first people books - competition for power and competition to maintain survival of a certain kind of people and their way of life. But this is more poignant because we know that this Pueblo civilization vanished with hardly a trace. They were a great and sophisticated nation but that didn't slow down their extinction. The book is a page-turner and I highly recommend it.

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Summary: The Best So Far of a Great Series
Review: I agree that this is an amazing book. It is the best of the series, I think. I've read them all except the last two, so we'll see what those are like. Anyway, it's a lot like the other first people books - competition for power and competition to maintain survival of a certain kind of people and their way of life. But this is more poignant because we know that this Pueblo civilization vanished with hardly a trace. They were a great and sophisticated nation but that didn't slow down their extinction. The book is a page-turner and I highly recommend it.

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Summary: hate to see the story end
Review: I have read all of the "The People" series and just started "The People of the Mist". I anxiously await each new book. They are entertaining and informative at the same time. When a book can make me feel like I'm there, the author has hit his mark. Keep them coming

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Summary: Made up for the lapse with "Lightning"
Review: I will read anything about the American Southwest. I love it out there, and this book took me back there to Big Sky Country. This book gets back to the old style, The One, Power, Spiral, Singers, Wolfdreamer...and a very, very, clever way to tie this story to some events in "River".
Oh yeah, along the way there is a twisting plot about a killer, a madman ruler and a mystery about who's child is that of a ruler.
Great read!

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Summary: I'm going to Chaco
Review: In People of the Silence, the Gears have done it again. Only better. Their attention to details is carefully woven into an epic who-done-it fiction that also includes brief references to People of the Wolf, Sea, Fire and River. My next vacation is to Chaco -- via Cahokia!

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Summary: It's descriptively captivating...
Review: It gives you enough information, from beginning to end, to stay interested. The places, the events, the cultures throughout each of the named clans are very luring. I've never wanted to experience any historic culture, like I feel myself in these named cultures. The suspence and tretchery accounted for in the book is enough for me to want to know more about the series of novels that are associated with the authors Kathleen and W. Michael's writing. They are very good.

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Summary: wonderful
Review: It takes you there. You begin to love the charachter's and want to stand up and cheer for them! I loved this book, like I've loved the whole series. I just finisdhed book 10 and I wish there where more.