It was one of her best. I couldn't put the book down it was so intresting. It gives you a real sence of the girls persanalities. It is like you get suked into it. You should defenetaly read it. i did it for a book reaport and it was the only book reaport i injoyed doing, i got an A+ on it.

This book was my favorite out of all three. It was scarier, and since the characters were alrady known well, it went by faster. You can tell who is the suspect, but I had a hard time figuring out what they were doing. I was also more concerned in this book. I am an animal lover, so this book really intrigued me, with the mystery of the seals.

A terrific military thriller. Filled with action and suspense it is the best book ever written about the Navy Seals. Fictional but could easily be tomorrow's headlines.

Nucflash is the closest to the first book. Great action scenes and great scenarios for operations. These books have the perfect pace for the reader who loves a great blend of speed, action, and techology, without stretching it to 1000 pages.

Whoever this author is, he sure packs his SEAL novels with plenty of tactical details. The target reader is someone who revels not only in the big geopolitical picture, but also in such minutiae as the correct stacking order of a train, or how SEALs get heavy equipment loads up a caving ladder, or what is the proper swim formation to board a ship. It's all here, and it's all woven into the plot with outstanding believability. Most of us will never know if the details are correct or authentic, but this guy's writing sure sounds realistic. If you're a SEAL fan, don't miss this book!

A fine addition to the line of books dedicated to Naval Special Warfare Operations. Well paced and excellently researched, providing the reader with more inside information that they can possibly imagine. It tells a story that can only appear in print as "fiction", but has great real-world importance. How will SEALs fight the next war? Read this and find out.

This book is one that should be rated as a classic for all of the people that enjoy really well written war stories of our times. Even though tthe story is not based on true life accounts, this book really impressed me. I bought the book about 2 years ago and have read, and reread it many a time. I feel that this book really represents how a man will react in such a hostile environment. Lt. Baxter learns how to cope with himself in such hellish reality. If you are considering a career in the military, you should really read this book.

This is as close as a person can get to being a SEAL without going through BUD/S! Let the butt-kicking commence as the US Navy SEALs plunge into the Rung-Sat Special Zone in the Delta led by a Maverick XO named Mariacher(pronounced Myokker). The war can be won if the SEALs of Teams 1 and 2 can fight it their way. It's a battle that rages in the jungle between Charlie and the SEALs and at MAC-V and the Pentagon between the SEALs and the REMFs. Who will win? Read it and find one of the best fiction novels ever written about the courage, tenacity, and true ass-kicking strength of the US Navy SEALs

"Soon you will kill Seal not become one," says young Kyo's father, but Kyo had different ideas. Finally the moment Kyo had been waiting for, he was going to hunt his first Seal. Kyo found a seal and was going to kill it when he found how innocent looking he was. As Kyo began inspecting her he realized how sweet and kind she was. Kyo named this friendly creature Tooky. Kyo's Uncle George was coming down to hunt a seal for the Big City Zoo. George goes hunting with Kyo, and Kyo realizes his friend is in danger. Kyo tries to convince George that there is really no seal in Tooky's breathing hole, and leads George away from Tooky's usual breathing hole. They go on a wild goose chase, but don't find any seals. The next morning George went out to Tooky's usual breathing hole, because he had a feeling Kyo was lying. Uncle George finds Tooky, and tranquilizes her. Kyo has to stop his George from taking Tooky to the Big City Zoo, breaking their friendship, and revealing his secret.

I think this was a great book. Towards the end of the book it really grabs your attention because during the book you really fall in love with Tooky. Kyo was a very courageous boy to be able to hold on to his secret.

This book is about a young Eskimo boy named Kyo, who is going to shoot his first seal, but when the time comes, he looks into the seal's eyes and puts the harpoon down. Kyo becomes very good friends with the seal and decides to name him Tooky. One day, Kyo's uncle comes from the city to capture a seal and bring it back to the city. Every morning Kyo and his uncle go to look for a seal, so Kyo points him the opposite direction of her normal breathing hole, but one morning, his uncle gets up earlier than Kyo and finds the hole. Kyo tries to convince his uncle to let the seal go, but it was no use.

I think this was an extraordinary book! This is definitely Deborah Davis' best book. It leaves the reader in suspense. I highly recommend this book to anybody who likes books that are about relationships between animals and people, and about friends and how far they will go for each other. This book is for all ages. It made me feel like I was actually there through the happy and the sad times.

This book was amazing to me the first time I read it and continues to touch me deeply....so much so that I just spent $90. for an old used copy so that I could own it and return to it again and again. It is the story of all women, women who are taken from their true selves to serve others, in places that are foreign to their souls. And, of course, the story of her return. A children's book, but one that speaks to all ages. Magical. Timeless. I have heard that this story has been told in many languages for many hundreds of years. I would welcome any information that anyone has about this.

This story has a gripping plot with a wonderfully poignant ending. Children will empathise with the dilemma facing the mother and her children in this tale.

I found this story among the books on tape at our local library. It was one my children had not read and so I took it out to preview it. Listening to it during my hour-long drive to and from work, I found this story haunting.

One terrible night, a cloud of some unspecified but man-made substance passes over the surface of the entire earth, causing all living organisms unfortunate enough to be found above ground to vanish suddenly. The central characters, a recently widowed mother, her son and her son's friend, awake after spending the night in a makeshift fort in the old foundation of a silo to a world in which everyone in their small English village and in the world beyond, and most of the animals, have disappeared. The only evidence that the disappeared ever existed is the hair they left behind on their pillows and in the cars that litter the roads, having crashed as soon as their drivers were gone.

What I found most haunting about the story is the way the author evokes the emptiness of the world in which the protagonists find themselves, especially its profound silence. Since the birds and insects disappeared along with most of the people and other animals, there is simply nothing to make noise. A true silence pervades the changed world, silence the survivors have never known. Many is the time since listening to The Sixth Seal that I have noted the noise that constantly surrounds us all no matter where we are - the songs of birds and buzzes of insects, music from passing cars and houses, the rumble of automobiles, distant trucks and airplanes flying high overhead.

This story focuses not on how the apocalypse happened, but on how the survivors cope with the horror of the empty new world to which they awake. The disaster described seemed particularly relevant in the age of genetically modified organisms and biological weapons. The behavior of the characters is not that of the frenetic heroes of movies, but of individuals numb with shock and struggling to find the will to survive. This story struck me as a strikingly realistic vision of how people would act in the face of a suddenly depopulated world, what choices they would face and how they might choose. I recommend it to all ages, especially as a book to listen to on a long car trip.

I found this book in a pile of discarded libary books, it was 15 years old, i was drawn to it only because i had enjoyed other Mary Wesley books. However the 'The Sixth Seal' turned out to be nothing like the rest. I found it impossible to put down, it made me comtemplate things that in my short 13 years i had never before considered. In truth the book terrifies me, but reassures me at the same time, i feel in some way perpared now for a world disaster. I am now 17 and have just rediscovered the book for the 4 time and am enjoying it just as much. What surprises me is that i have meet no one else who has let alone the book, i tried to make a friend read it but she never did, just so that i could share it with someone else. I most definitely recommend this book and i would love to hear from anyone who appreciates it as much as me.

If you like stories that out of the unusual ~~ this book is definitely for you. Yorke writes a beautiful haunting story of love and life and death ~~ longings and dreams and heartaches. Kate packs up her father and foster son to an isolated fishing village up in northern California ~~ or as she likes to say, she followed the fog. Wayne read an article in a newspaper about the fisherman's life and enraptured by the lonely life of fishing ~~ he told Kate he was moving up there. Kate agreed to take him and her father followed along.

They come to the village slowly eroded by the salt water and the fog ~~ it is always cold and wet there. People are depressed and very supersititious ~~ and there was the laurel tree that oozes sap and "foretells" a fisherman's death at the sea whenever it oozes. There is the local witch/mystic. The village is not pretty nor is it peopled by friendly people. Undaunted however, Kate, Wayne and Gerald decide to stay and make a go of it. However, as they become ingrained in the village's life and with the residents, they wonder if tragedy would be worth the loss of love.

This is a thought-provoking book. It tells of perils of life and love and hope after tragedy ~~ it is a book that will haunt you with its vivid descriptions of the sea and life by the sea. It will lull you into thinking life is grand then tragedy hits ~~ then you wonder how you'll survive. Kate deals with losing Wayne to adulthood ~~ and deals with the news of her son that was abducted 18 years before. She deals with how to live life again ~~ and inspires those around her to believe in love again. Even after death.

This is one of my favorite books this year. It was by chance that I picked this book up ~~ and I hope to read more of her works ~~ as she is a promising writer who captures dreams and write them down for us to read. And she's a beautiful, lyrical writer. It's a definite must-read!

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I bought Song of the Seals based on its cover, and am so glad I did! It turned out to be one of the best novels I've read in a long time. I fell in love with the characters. Kate Vegas has survived one of the worst things that can happen to a woman and mother, and faces whatever comes with strength. The teenaged girls, Jenny and Nicole, were so real and interesting, they reminded me of my own daughters. Even the fishermen struck a chord in me. I couldn't stop reading until three in the morning, and was sad when I was finished. Christy Yorke is a great writer, with sentences that are so beautiful they brought tears to my eyes. I'll definitely get her others.

This book is adorable and little "Trapper", the seal on the front and other drawings throughout the book adds to the charm of this little book. A great story about seals and also a wonderful lesson - to leave nature alone, to be enjoyed by all. A good book to read to young children - hopefully to learn to appreciate all of god's creatures and nature. Truly a delight!

I was in second grade when I fell in love with the series. My friends at school reccomended I should read it. I was (like I am now) smart then, reading eighth grade books. But since the baby seal on the cover lured me in, I had no choice. After ward, I scavenged every where for it. READ IT. IT'S EASY AND WHOLESOME!

i love this boo