Rebecca Books

Shattered Lullaby will take you through a wringer of emotions. Honor and ego war with life and death until love emerges the winner. Definitely worth reading!

Through many years, Rebecca York has never failed to provide me with a wonderful read.

This one is no exception. The 43rd Light Street series is, in my opinion, one of the finest in romantic suspense.

Latin men can be some of the sexiest. In Shattered Lullaby, Miguel most certainly is. Whether Jessie is an angel is debatable, but it's sufficient that Miguel thinks of her in those terms. He wouldn't be her hero, otherwise.

Author Ruth Glick's characters are easy to love and hate. Ruth is a fine writer who never disappoints. You'll love this book. -Lee Emory

Jessie Douglas immensely enjoys her work with Baltimore's underprivileged. While working late into the night on a needed report to provide funds to an impoverished family, a teenager enters the office to demand she accompany him in order to help the feverish Dr. Miguel. She follows the lad to Miguel's pad where she finds the sick healer struggling with malaria that he originally caught in San Mateo. Jessie and Miguel have been very attracted to one another, but for some unknown reason, he shuns her like she is the plague.

As Jessie helps Miguel recover, he wonders if she will betray him like the previous female he trusted. In San Marco, the clinic run by Dr. Valero, a noted plastic surgeon, was attacted by thugs, leaving everyone dead. The assailant, Carlos Jurado, knows that Valero is the only person who can identify that he still lives after receiving facial surgery. Valero is hiding in the Baltimore slums, but Carlos is coming.

SHATTERED LULLABY is a taut romantic suspense that raises the quality level of the already superior "43 Light Street" series. The lead protagonists are a fabulous couple, who must wonder if love can surmount a professional killer and his thugs. The mean streets of the city also add a touch of authenticity not often seen in category romance. Sub-genre fans will take Rebecca York's newest tale to heart even as they scour used bookstores for previous works by this top author.

Harriet Klausner

Rebeccasreads highly recommends SHELTERWOOD, illustrated by Rebecca Haley McCall as a perennial joy. A story to be read every year, no matter where you live. This artist's images are endearing & memorable, as is what Susan Hand Shetterly has to teach about what timber loggers do, the forest in which they work & the creatures who live there.

Outstanding!

That's right, you can learn something, too! "Shelterwood: Discovering The Forest" is packed with information about the environment that will enlightened you as well as your students. For instance, did you know that a baby porcupine is called a porcupette? The teacher's guide contains fifteen chapters worth of creative forest related information. Within the guide, there are eighty well designed activities for children ranging from the third and sixth grade levels, including such topics as how to identify different species of trees, plants, and animals. Also, there are up to thirty three hand-outs that include anything from instructions on how to identify different animal tracks,or simple explanations on a tree's ever changing life. Included in the guide are several tree trivia questions with the ability to stump the best of environmentally educated minds. Of course, the trivia questions also come with well detailed answers that leave you full with knowledge. The teacher's guide may be designed for students, but I guarantee that the students won't be the only ones learning. This is the best source of environmental information for teachers who bring, or hope to bring, nature to the school year's curriculum.

This is a truly beautiful book! The story is simple - a grandfather teaches his granddaughter about the trees and animals in the forest. The text and superb illustrations convey the gentleness of the grandfather/granddaughter relationship as well as the beauty of the forest and need for stewardship. I loved it!

Is good to see this book is not just written by nutriologist, there is an important contribution of clinicians dedicated to specific areas.

The 4th edition of Small Animal Clinical Nutrition is significantly different from the first 3 editions -- expanded, more information, different editors, different organization, etc.

Much of this volume is more technical than the average reader wants or needs. It is a textbook used in veterinary schools. But a dedicated reader could gain much from it. Even the average reader could benefit from the chapters on commerical pet foods and on home prepared diets.

If you are one of those people that want to be able to find answers to questions on your own, no matter how technical, this is a good book for you.

First, this review is being written from the perspective of a pet owner, NOT a veterinarian. I do have 20 years experience interacting with human clinicians (doctor, pharmacists, nurses, etc.) so I am familiar with more medical jargon than most people. However, I believe that a motivated student could gain a lot of knowledge from this book. I have used it much more than I anticipated since I got it.

The book covers the following animals:
Dogs
Cates
Small Mammals (Ferrets, Rabbits and Rodents)
Reptiles
Birds

However, the majority of the focus of the book is on dogs and cats.

There is an entire chapter dedicated to homemade pet food and all the considerations that are required if you are going to undertake such an endeavor. There is far more to it than I realized to make certain that your animal is getting all the nutrients that they require for good health.

The book covers a lot of simple information like how many calories to feed an animal varied by age and activity level.

There are entire chapters dedicated to Nutritional Management of Animals that are experiencing health problems, these are:

Hospitalized patients
Obesity
Adverse Reactions to Food
Skin and Hair Disorders
Dental Disease
Orthopedic Disease in Dogs
Cardiovascular Disease
Renal Disease
Canine Urolithiasis
Feline Lower Urinary Tract Disease
Gastrointestinal and Exocrine Pancreatic Disease
Hepatobiliary Disease
Endocrine and Lipid Disorders
Cancers
Fatty Acids in Inflammatory Disease
Dietary Effects on Drug Metabolism

If you have a question about nutrition for your dog or cat, the answer is undoubtedly in this book somewhere. If you aren't familiar with medical terminology and don't want to be, this might not be the best book for you. However, if you are a motivated student, you can gain a lot from this book even without a current knowledge of medical terminology. I highly recommend this book to animal lovers that want to make the best nutritional choices for the furry members of their family.

This is the quintessetial book about weather in the UP of Michigan. The combination of history, science, and fascinating stories makes this a book for every weather fan in and outside of Michigan.

Wonderfully written. As as lifetime "yooper", I know what they mean by the saying "only in the U.P., if you don't like the weather wait 5 minutes it will change". Great book Karl.

Written by weather forecaster Karl Bohnak, So Cold A Sky: Upper Michigan Weather Stories is a compilation of true tales of upper Michigan's extreme weather conditions, from pioneers who braved bone-chilling temperatures to settle the northern part of the state to modern snowstorms and heatwaves. Written in a straightforward narrative style and illustrated with numerous black-and-white photographs and artworks, So Cold A Sky is an enthralling chronicle of the eternal story of man versus nature. An incredible testimony to the endurance of Michigan's hardiest human inhabitants.

This carefully researched book about the spiritual lives of children, independent of their religious beliefs, is refreshing and heartening. The authors conclude that children naturally bond to clouds, to trees, to animals, to other people, to almost anything and everything, visible and invisible, but that modern culture, especially schools, deaden this relational life by isolating children - teaching them to be alienated individuals half-alive in worlds of facts. It reminds me of the works of Kent Nerburn, that describe Native Americans living in worlds of relation rather than modern bubbles.

*The Spirit of the Child* introduces the topic of children's spirituality, making use of David Hay and Rebecca Nye's valuable research of children in England. David Hay, formerly the director of the Alister Hardy Research Centre at Oxford University, and Rebecca Nye, at the University of Cambridge, offer a theory of spirituality that includes religion but is not limited to this area. Spirituality is marked by unusually intense experiences of many possible varieties, and is an inborn aspect of human nature, the result they believe of evolutionary development. Yet Western culture has suppressed this aspect of children to the point that they are often embarrased and self-conscious about the topic. The authors describe their own research with children, including the identifying terms that children use to describe spiritual experiences. They also describe previous research that relates to spirituality of youngsters. Children's spirituality is an important, emerging area of child development that needs to be considered in greater detail by researchers and theorists, as children's spirituality is an almost completely overlooked area of children's development, yet it deserves careful consideration by educators, parents, and others interested in children.

Also see... for details related to a recent international conference on children's spirituality, at which David Hay was a keynote speaker.

The authors report and reflect on the results of their research on children's perceptions of spiritual experience. Based on interviews with children, the authors come to describe the spirituality of children as "relational consciousness" -- the child's innate sense of relationship with others, creation, one's self, and God.

This significant research supports the work of Sofia Cavalletti, Jerome Berryman and others in providing children with access to a language that is worthy of the experience children already have of "God's presence" in their lives. It also supports the work of Vivian Gussin Paley, in which she engages children as young as 2 years old, in telling and acting out their stories -- tapping into the child's innate capacity to find and to give order and meaning to an otherwise ambiguous world through play and fantasy. Moreover, the research provides a basis for creating curricula designs that integrate rather than fragment the child's studies in various disciplines.

The research invites religious educators to look again at their approach to religious education. Ultimately, a primary objective in religious education, as in all of education, is not to indoctrinate but to engage the children in the use of skills that enable them to reflect on the meaning of their unfolding experience and to share that with others. This book is valuable not only to religious educators but to anyone responsible for providing childcare.

I often find that I have to weed out over half of the ideas I find in a resource book before using plans in my classroom. This book actually INSPIRED me to create extra lessons for each unit to keep the fun going. The only thing that would improve this book is if it were a few thousand pages longer.

These teachers are geniuses! They should be awarded some sort of literary award for this collaboration of exciting ideas!

The creativity and inspiration found in this early education book would be an asset to any teacher's bookshelf. As a reference for "how to entertain while teaching" it is unsurpassed. Kudos to the authors and I look forward to more of their work.

Received in A-1 condition. I liked it so much that I ordered a 2nd for a friend that is dealing with a dieing parent. She had a difficult time sleeping at night,she reads one story a night and is finding peace with her pending loss.

I have always been somewhat of a "night owl," often reading into the early morning hours. The first time I picked this book up, I could not put it down... I loved all the stories, but especially the ones by Nancy B. Gibbs

I love this book! I sometimes get lonely and scared at nights and this book was a sign from God, I keep it near my Bed and when I need a sign or some answers I close my eyes and pick a page I always feel better after reading it!

This book is a wonderful resource for parents of twins. I would recommend this to anyone having a multiples. It is very complete and has something for all ages.

(...) this book covers EVERYTHING FOR EVERYBODY! It will take you from pregnancy through the college years and beyond, and has information for the stay-at-home parent as well as the working parent, for those dealing with special needs to those coping with multiple loss. The information/advice is sensible because it is based upon the experiences of mothers of multiple birth children who belong to the National Organization of Mothers of Twins Clubs. This group definitely knows what parenting twins, triplets, quads and more is all about! The highlighted quotes included in the book show that this is a book written about real-life situations, with real-life solutions.

I just read this book and my twins are 8 months old, but I wish I knew about it when I was pregnant. This book covers everything from feelings you may experience when you first find out your expecting twins to how close adult twins are to each other. It draws much of its information from surveys filled out by members of twins and multiples clubs throughout the nation so the info is first-hand, down-in-the-trenches info! Throughout the book there are interesting and helpful stories from moms of multiples. This is good, useful info. Also, the book has lots of interesting statistics about twins such as the fact that the Yoruba tribe in Africa has a twinning rate of 1 in 22 births! Wow!

The book is not for audience who read personal accounts just to feel sorry for the unfortunate people and afterwards feel a little bit more comfortable with their own life.

It is written by a journalist in a matter-of-factly style, without the author's subjective feelings. Therefore it can not be dismissed as just another victim's personal "emotional striptease", as Therapy Culture's critic Frank Furedi calls them).

It is rather for the active, not passive, audience who is doing something about it, making small changes that can transform the world into a better place, making here-and-now the world a better place for those who managed to survive all sorts of unfortunate events, because they can learn that although sometimes it just does never happen at all, nevertheless when it does it is beautiful that it does happen at all, miraculously beautiful.

Carefully researched and beautifully written, UnspeakableTruths and Happy Endings is perhaps the most understandable andconvincing coverage of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to appear to date. Author Rebecca Coffey transcribes vividly and in depth, and with compassion and balance, several troubling, heartrending tales of human cruelty, analyzing their consequences, placing them in context in view of the heated debate that surrounds PTSD. She has done us all a great service with her thoughtful and restrained analysis of the diverse attitudes surrounding this complex issue. With the crush of increasing population upon us, violence induced unresolved stress is rapidly becoming a "need to know" subject for all of us. It won't go away in our lifetime. I heartily recommend this book as more than an introduction. It should be required reading for survival in today's world.

In Unspeakable Truths And Happy Endings: Human Cruelty And The New Trauma Therapy, author Rebecca Coffey offers a spirited, comprehensive discussion of the role of mental health professionals who, in an effort to help men and women traumatized by horrific circumstances and events, sometimes destroy their clients families. Yet the value of reviewing past traumatic events such as incest, physical abuse, emotional neglect, adultery, alcoholism, substance addiction, abandonment, etc., in order to make peace with the past is clearly beneficial and a proper aspect of psychological treatment. Unspeakable Truths And Happy Endings takes a nicely balanced view of the roles and limitations of telling, listening, psychotherapy, and psychotherapists in the healing process. Coffey offers a new and more enlightened understanding for psychologists, counselors, and clients that will help to insure a successful outcome to dealing with the unspeakable and be ultimately assured of improved mental health and psychological well-being.

I have been using this book as a major source of information/ideas for my undergraduate senior thesis which focuses on weight bias in the University setting. It can be read from beginning to end or on a chapter-to-chapter basis. It contains great summaries and information about the most pertinent studies in the field, related studies and recommendations for new directions. About half of the book deals with the social consequences and taking the perspective of the obese person while the other half deals primarily with research regarding the development and propensity of weight bias. I highly recommend this source for social researchers, interested students and curious readers alike!

This is a collection of essays and research reports about bias against the overweight. I think the primary intended readership is professionals involved in helping people with weight problems, although it is clearly written and deserves a wider audience.
Victims of obesity suffer in many ways. As adults they often have an increased liability to physical illness. Their major cause of suffering, especially at younger ages, is the effect of the condition on physical appearance, and the discrimination they endure on account of this. The commonest obesity-related related cause of death amongst teenagers is suicide. Suffering is often increased by efforts to force them to become thin, and complicated by the fact that most of them would like to be thinner.
To a large extent, what the book does is to document the severity and extent and sources of this discrimination. This may sound unnecessary but the discrimination is often so subtle and pervasive that that "consciousness-raising" is necessary.
While I hope not to sound as if saying anything that legitimizes bias, there are certain aspects to overweight that complicate crusading against bias and that none of the authors fully grapple with. Being short or dark-skinned or paraplegic are always completely outside the victim's control, whereas the possibility always exists, however faint, of losing weight. This possibility is used by the anti-fat bigot to justify making life more difficult for overweight people. (See, for example, California's SB 78)..

This book sheds light on the stigma of obesity. It is so prevelant in our society. The editors have done a marvelous job of bringing it to our attention.