We are using John Graham-Pole's book in the adult art therapy classes at the Lombardi Cancer Center at Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC. Patients and staff participants alike have found inspiration and encouragement from the practical - and cheerful - application of creative self-expression to increase patient-staff communication and to reduce stress. I recommend it highly.

This is a unique, easy to read, well written self-help book that teaches the reader practical ways to use "art-making" to achieve greater health and happiness. It is written primarily for the person with a serious health problem, but it is useful reading for professionals caring for seriously or chronically ill persons. It teaches both groups of people how to bring art and self-expression into their lives.

The author has developed exercises to bring out the creative self-exppression each person possesses and to teach people to live for the moment, let go of negative thoughts or the pressure to achieve, and to enjoy the hidden artist within. The author's writing style is appealing because it is so rhythmic, flowing, and conversational that one feels as though one is sitting across from him and conversing. His style is direct and warm,and as one becomes engaged with the text and its exercises for self-expression, one comes away with a deeper understanding of,and a renewed appreciation of, the creative self-expression we all have hidden within us.

The author's writing is optimistic, hopeful, sensitive, and empathic. It is as if he has crawled into the skin of the person with an illness and is able to feel or think what he or she feels and thinks. He presents a holistic, integrated approach (using artistic or self-expression exercises) to help people take hold of theis lives, and in the face of serious illness, to feel in command. It is a moving and absorbing book with special insights into the world of people with serious illness.

John Graham-Pole, M.D. is authentic. His writing will be most beneficial for those (and their families) who are just now or will or perhaps already have learned what it is to be "ill". Listen, Read, Believe.

I believe everyone can benefit from this book because during our lives we will experience pain and grief in many and different ways. This book takes me back about 13 years. I recognize much of what I learned then, and (now) understand more fully some of what I didn't. G-P's subject is real. Understanding allows Peace, Thankfulness, and Blessings. God is Good.

When going through dread disease; chronic/acute;life-threatening, devastating illness; and/or depression, we often feel totally alone. We feel that others simply don't understand what we're thinking, experiencing, or feeling. Dr. G-P's authenticity shows he does understand. We are also shown another choice: Creativeness from within (and we all do have something to "say").

G-P listens and learns, observes and acts. I personally know he cares very much for his patients and his work, and I'm grateful every day of my life that Dr. G-P was our daughter's attending physician some 13 years ago. Today, I'm grateful for learning of this book and having the opportunity to read it, to share this book with others who want to be a creative, self-expressed person regardless of the circumstances of their lives or the lives of those they hold dear. This book is authentically written, gratefully received, and will be beneficial to all who read it.

Ann Graham Gaines's juvenile biography of "John Adams: Our Second President" is an excellent book for young students to find out about the patriot whose accomplishments were overshadowed by the men who were elected before and after him: George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. This book has only four chapters: American Patriot, A Weak Vice President, The Presidency, and Saving the Nation from War. So even though Adams only served one four-year term as President, his time in the office is the focus on half of Gaines's book. No doubt Adams himself would be grateful that the final chapter emphasizes what he considered to be his major accomplishment in office, which was avoiding going to war with France.

This book focuses on providing basic information about Adams, with "Interesting Facts" about his life and times added to the margins. Each chapter has a page devoted to details about a related topic: The Boston Massacre, Abigail Adams, the White House and the friendship between Adams and Jefferson. There are a couple dozen illustrations in the book, all of which are in color. The back of this volume includes a time line of John Adams's life, a glossary of three dozen words, information on all of the Presidents form Washington to Bush, Presidential facts, and internet sites and books for finding further information.

Older students or those looking for more detailed information about Adams in a juvenile biography should turn next to Marlene Targ Brill's biography in the Encyclopedia of Presidents series and eventually David McCullough's best-selling biography. The "Our Presidents" books are part of the "Spirit of America" series, which focuses on the American experience in terms of history, culture, and politics.

This book cleary shows French grammer with a great method of learning that appeals to all students of this language. While taking my French 3 course, I was stuck having to reveiw every single grammer rule in the school textbook every night for the upcoming tests. But this book showed the rules limpidly and easily introduced any begginer to intermeidiate level of French student how to learn any french grammer rule extremely easily.

Adam Morely tells his best friend Lauren Bryant he needs a wife because he is tired of the lack of passion sex with endless babes brings. He wants to come to share home cooked meals and to raise a family. Since he always asks Lauren for advice before impetuously plunging into something, he does so again. She says romance his intended.

Lauren begins receiving romantic gifts from a secret admirer. When her friends, work associates, and mother tell her it is Adam, she begins to believe and wonder if she should risk their friendship since they were Roswell, Georgia neighbors as kids. Soon, Adam and Lauren take the next step beyond friendship as they fall in passionate love beyond that of "buddydom". However, how will she react when she learns he is not her secret admirer?

Readers will find TEMPTING ADAM quite tempting and enticing as the lead couple makes a delightful duo in denial. The story line will remind the audience of the Bonnie Raitt tune, Something To Talk About as everyone else recognizes that Lauren and Adam love each other except the lead duet. Fans of sensual heated romances will relish Dorie Graham's engaging story.

Harriet Klausner