This book is the total package--an encyclopedic reference in an easily read and comprehended format. The practical perspective of the world's authorities is conveyed in every chapter. This book belongs on every physician's book shelf. A valuable reference as well as an up to date review. What a wonderful gift for yourself or any physician you know!

This is an extraordinary analysis of the narratives of Carl Rogers from varying psychotheraputic perspectives.

This was the first Barbara Metzger book I ever read and got me permanently hooked on all of her books.

Jacelyn is determined to save her dog from the local magistrate so she decides to kidnap his nephew. Only she mistakes her target and kidnaps Lord Leigh Claibourne, a rake and war-hero. When the pair is discovered in a compromising situation, Leigh is determined to do what is right. So he and Jacelyn travel to London to present a repectable engagement before the ton. But Jacelyn has other ideas as she leads Leigh from one scrape to another and proves that love is the best adventure of all.

This book has marvelous characters and great writing. Add the Metzger trademark "Keystone Cop" bad-guys and more zany characters and you have the best mix-up of outrageous humor and Regency fun.

Chicago senior citizen Emily Charters takes her grieving friend Lynn Francis on a Great Lakes cruise to help the younger woman cope with the recent death of her lesbian lover. On board the same ship is nasty and dictatorial Marcella Hemsley who has no qualms at being the queen of mean and abusing her reticent companion, her young niece Rebecca. Surprisingly since she seems to still be grieving her loss, Lynn finds herself attracted to Rebecca. Perhaps as shocking, Rebecca responds, at least to the friendliness offered especially by Lynn but Emily too.

However, someone murders Marcella whose corpse is found in her cabin. The police arrest Rebecca who had motive and opportunity. Unable to resist especially since Lynn is interested, Emily begins investigating. Helping her is police detective Jeremy Ransom, her partner on several other cases.

RANSOM AT SEA is a classic investigative tale that runs the inquiry gamut but is at its best while the lead couple interviews potential witnesses and suspects. The who-done-it story line dominates the tale as the elderly Emily and her junior "colleague" question an amusing ensemble to uncover who actually killed the offensive victim. Lynn's sexual preference is not hidden and handled with dexterity by Fred Hunter, as he provides a delightful mystery that readers will appreciate.

Harriet Klausner

This book is about a girl called Alys who travels from a town called a small town in Sussex(the town, Little Merdon, does not exist, but most{or all} other places mentioned in this book are real) to Scotland in search of her father and her brother, Robin, who are believed to be dead after the Battle of Bannockburn.She travels with her brother's friend Hugh, and during the journey experiencinces lots of delays and suprises.Ransom for a Knight gives you the feeling of what it was like to live during the reign of Edward II.It also adds useful bits history combined with suspense.

This book is for readers ages 9 to 199 who want a good book.I foung this book at my elementary school library in 5th grade.Unfourtuanetly,(please excuse my spelling) it was published in the 1950's and I can see it is now out of print.I am going to middle school next year, so I won't be able to get hold of this book, unless I can persuade one of my three siblings to check it out for me!

By the way, does anyone know if Barbara Leonie Picard is still alive? For other good books, check out the Redwall series or the Harry Potter series.

Red Chief, the red haired, freckle faced, 7 year old, is really a good kid. So he sets cats on fire and shoots arrows through the postman's hat. So he through Becky in the lake, he just wanted to get her clean. But why does everyone in Summit, Alambama (the flattest little town in the south) run when he comes out to play? And what happens when he is kidnapped by the two slick, charming, and unusually kind con-men Sam and Bill Driscoll? Red Chief (or Johnny Dorset by true name) adores them both, which is more than is to be said about their feelings toward him. Bill gets hit by Hurricane Red Chief the hardest. But what happens when they try to collect the ransom leaves them both on the short side of "The Ransom of Red Chief"!!!!

I have read many books by O. Henry and think that the ironic twists that each story has leaves you laughing or thinking at the end. The Ransom Of Red Chief...haven't we all known someone(a child) like this at sometime in our life???Next time your child threatens to run away, give them this book!

Red Chief, the red haired, freckle faced, 7 year old, is really a good kid. So he sets cats on fire and shoots arrows through the postman's hat. So he through Becky in the lake, he just wanted to get her clean. But why does everyone in Summit, Alambama (the flattest little town in the south)run when he comes out to play? And what happens when he is kidnapped by the two slick, charming, and unusually kind con-men Sam and Bill Driscoll? Red Chief (or Johnny Dorset by true name) adores them both, which is more than is to be said about their feelings toward him. Bill gets hit by Hurricane Red Chief the hardest. But what happens when they try to collect the ransom leaves them both on the short side of
"The Ransom of Red Chief"!!!!

An eccentric American professor of economics, Norton Dodge, travels throughout the Soviet Union during the 1960s and '70s and into the '80s. He spends several million dollars on dissident art, smuggling it out of the country, in deep violation of Soviet law but not the US's. John McPhee reports on the story, after the fact, and includes vivid descriptions of the artists and their relationships with one another, Dodge and the Soviet state. The Soviet state, of course, is the hulking force behind the story, responsible for making the artists dissidents and causing various among them, from time to time, to disappear or die. So McPhee asks Dodge how he managed to assemble the collection. Was Dodge a representative of the KGB? the CIA? McPhee defers to Dodge's explanations, but McPhee's recounting of his conversation with Dodge about CIA involvement in the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies may engender in the imagination of some readers a hint of the suspicion and paranoia that suffused the culture that originally created the art. About Norton Dodge and his collection (now housed at Rutgers University), the poet Konstantin Kuzminsky says, "Norton thinks art is international. I insist it's purely national." "Americans are afraid of everything which causes too much emotion and tragedy. That is the problem between East and West." Which suggests the gulfs in passion and experience separating this story of Russian art from the trig completeness suggested by McPhee's prose.

What's there to say? Jared's taken one of history's most fascinating times, & with his unique writing style, brought it to life in a way that few are able to.

You are there with the characters, living the plot with them, & I've only had that happen to me with one other book.

I can't wait for his next work to come out. BRING IT ON!