Stand Still, Summer is an impressive and enduring collection of vivid poetic descriptions of people, places, and seasons by a poetry able to express her fantasies and fancies in a lyrical, memorable language. One Day I'll Know: One day I'll know/The joys that come with tempered age of wisdom,/The peace that comes rewarding careful days,/When (with perhaps a teardrop in the eye)/I lay aside the wild, bright cloak of youth/(A careless youth of unwise, vainglorious acts,/But wild and sweet were morning suns and moons)./One day I'll feel/The quiet calm that follows every storm,/Mature, ripe thoughts that come with only age,/Will come like ripening grapes upon the vine,/Replacing undeveloped thoughts of green/Young years; when glory of the sunset comes/One day.

My mom and dad read these stories to my sister and me everynight before bedtime. I can't wait to pass on the tradition!

Twins, Susan & Christine Pratt take jobs as counselors at a summer camp. When they find out that someone is out to destroy the camp they decide to investigate and end up switching places as well. This is one of the first times these girls switch places to solve crimes in the series. It is a great story filled with adventure, romance and fun. This is a great light-hearted mystery for younger kids.

I never actually read this book, but the title speaks for itself. Besides since my dad wrote this, it must be great. Heck pay the 10 bucks for this book-its truly an experience. Take a look, read a book, its reading rainbow, reading rainbow.

In San Francisco, Dr. Blue Calhoun, medical provider to much of the poor, knows that he will never overcome his failure no matter how many good deeds he performs. Almost as soon as he reaches his home, a lad points a gun at him demanding he remove a bullet from his back. He quickly learns the lad is a woman, Isabel Fish-Wooten. He performs the surgery, but to his shock she flees into the night.

Later, Blue learns someone killed a cop. He wonders if the mysterious Isabel is the culprit. With a citywide manhunt searching for the cop killer, his teenage son brings a semi conscious Isabel to him for treatment. As Blue learns her mystery, he falls in love, but is he placing his beloved son and cherished nurse in jeopardy because his heart rather than his brain is doing the thinking?

A SUMMER AFFAIR is an engaging historical romantic mystery starring two likable lead protagonists and a strong secondary ensemble. Readers will particularly admire the strong willed courageous Isabel. The suspense never lets up as the plot twists and turns more than Lombard Street leaving the audience wondering what will happen next in this taut thriller.

Harriet Klausner

This is a beautiful novel and very unusual for its genre. We find ourselves in the glittering hills and creepy back alleys of Old San Francisco of the 19th centery, and what an adventure it is. Dr. Blue (Theo) Calhoun is a widower who lost his wife in a tragedy, and now he's losing his only son as the boy (a hunk, too) is headed off to West Point. Into his life tumbles a woman in disguise, who has been shot and needs a safe place to recover. This had me going, totally. There's a plot about opium importation and a shooting and great sex, and I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. Highly, highly recommended.

I luckily stumbled over Klima's books while living in Berlin, from where I made frequent trips to Prague. If you have ever visited Eastern Europe you will find some special enjoyment in reading this powerful novel.

Everything about this book compells you to read it until your head hurts. Then read it again, lend it to your friends and then demand it back to read again. The dialogue is obessive, compulsive and passionate and throws you into the worlds off the two main characters. You will swirl when they swirl and dive when they dive. This is one book I have re-read just to try and understand "how does the author manage that"! Brilliant, buy it.

I have read three of Nolan Carlson's books and I liked them all. I liked how he split the adventures of the boys into the chapters. I think that you Carlson is the only person who will start a secqil(spelling?) at the same place as the first book starts. I hope he writes more stories like that because those are the only one I will keep reading after I say I will stop. I really was interesting in his books.

This play was originally a failure when it was produced on Broadway. It was not until the 1952 Circle in the Square production directed by Jose Quintero and starring Geraldine Page (who also played the part to perfection in the 1962 film version) that the show became a success. The original production must have been poorly done, because the play is a masterpiece even when one simply reads it. An allegory that takes place in Mississippi during the first decades of this century, the story concerns Alma Winemiller, a proper but slightly affected minister's daughter, and John Buchanan, a young doctor with a penchant for the fast lane. Over the course of the play, the two come to understand each other with more clarity and compassion, until they are each transformed. The character of Alma is said to have been Williams' own favorite. This is Williams on a par with "The Glass Menagerie" and "A Streetcar Named Desire." -- NOTE: This is the acting edition of the play and differs slightly from the reading edition, which includes a deleted prologue showing John and Alma as children.

This is one of the few books which I can say are actually really good. Although it was a little too short for me, the characterization, the emotions, and the plot was so fantastic, it made up for the length. I could actually visualize the story as it unfolded. It was a really well done book.