Barry Books

In Gunner's Run by Rick Barry, Jim Yoder, a World War II B-26 gunner, falls from his plane and parachutes into Nazi Germany. He is quickly caught and thrown into prison. Having turned his back on God years ago, he makes his peace, knowing he may never get back home. But once he and God are communicating, Jim's prayers are answered. He manages to escape the prison, don a German soldier's uniform, and start the long trek towards France.

He sleeps the days away and travels at night, steering clear of the roads, eating raw potatoes and anything he can find. He meets friends and enemies on his journey, assumes several identities to get past Nazi forces, and dreams of the day he can get back to Indiana and see Margo, the girl he hopes to make a future with.

I enjoyed Jim's suspenseful journey to stay out of the Gestapo's clutches and how he depended on God to get him through. Having a grandfather who fought in WWII, it was fascinating to see stories of people trusting God and working together to help each other out of enemy territory. Gunner's Run put me smack in the middle of a side of WWII I never studied.

When Jim Yoder, a waist gunner aboard a B-26 during World War II, accidentally tumbles out of his plane and parachutes into Nazi Germany, he quickly realizes the gravity of his situation. Though fluent in French, he doesn't know German, so how will he communicate? Worse, he doesn't have any money or even a weapon to protect himself. Trapped in a German cell and realizing he'll need a miracle to survive and escape, he turns to the God he rejected after his mother's untimely death and begins a suspenseful and adventure-filled trek across enemy territory.

After his initial escape, which is amazing in itself, Jim begins a cross-country journey not for the fainthearted. Wearing a German soldier's uniform, he avoids roads, sleeps in barns, and catches rides on empty train boxcars. He stumbles across Jews hiding in the woods and crosses paths with both friends and foes. All the while, he wonders if he'll ever escape and fondly remembers life back in Indiana and a certain young lady who captured his fancy. A new worry surfaces: will Margo wait for him or date other Christian men (and perhaps get married) before he returns to the United States? This anxiety makes his escape even more urgent. It also compels him to depend more on God to keep him safe and to show him the way home.

I especially like how Barry wove in a clear picture of God-dependence throughout Jim's journey. Add to that a suspenseful, action-packed, and meticulously researched tale that never lags in pace or tension, and Gunner's Run is a powerful Christian novel not to be missed. I was intrigued when the plot progressed from tense and sometimes humorous episodic predicaments to Jim's sobering discovery that the Gestapo is hot on his trail. This ratcheting up of tension and suspense kept the pages turning as I wondered how Jim was going to escape, especially when his situation only becomes more dire. Don't miss this action-packed story of faith and survival.

Set during World War II, Gunner's Run is a novel for Christian young adults following nineteen-year-old Jim Yoder. The call of duty takes Jim far away from his home, his nation, and his attractive friend Margo, thrusting him into mortal peril in Nazi Europe. To survive, Jim must learn to trust the God that he used to disbelieve. Rife with historical detail, Gunner's Run brings both history and faith alive and is especially recommended for church reading lists for young members.

Great story, lots of suspense and I feel it would make a great movie. Sharing it with my friends, so far...they love it too!

This is one of those books that I read at one of those moments in life where I just starting to understand myself. And this booked helped. I hold it very close to my heart, and I hope that you will too. Even though I agree with some of the other reviews (about underdeveloped characters) I find that a minor flaw in such an awesome first novel for Ms. J. M.

J.M. McDonell does a wonderful job in exploring what it means to be a friend and to love someone. David is constantly struggling with the choices that Miranda makes in her relationships with others. I wouldn't say that he is jealous of Miranda's lovers in a sexual sense, but he is so awestruck by her charisma and beauty that he doesn't want to see her get hurt. He has to come to terms with his feelings for her - Is she the one who is going to change everything about his way of life? Does he love her? It seems as though J.M. McDonell did a marvelous job in developing David, Miranda, and few other characters, but there were other characters that didn't seem to be important to the plot (like the veterarian, and Ben). I think that she could have made each of the characters more developed and meaningful to the story. She could have made a stronger connection between some of the characters. I felt as though there were many wasted pages in her novel on which she would introduce these meaningless characters, never intending to incorporate them into the plot. Despite the underdeveloped characters, I enjoyed reading Half Crazy. I think that McDonell could have made the book more captivating by not taking up space with names and descriptions that weren't integral to the plot.

Though interesting and enjoyable (read on a plane-trip), at times I felt as though the ghosts of Holly Golightly and Dunne's Grenville women were lurking in the mist. Miranda did exhibit a vunerable fragility that made her character believable; David was a 2 dimensional Truman Capote wanna-be? Or so it seemed to me. All in all, an entertaining romp, though more like late-night snack at Van Cleef's rather than Breakfast at Tiffany's!

I don't know why I pulled "Half Crazy" from the shelf that day several years ago, but once I'd read the first few sentences, I knew I had to check it out and devour it en toto. I've read it five or six times, all told, and I never get tired of reading about Miranda, delving into her story.

Praise for the Vissells for sharing their recipes for the road of love and marriage. In a market full of divorced people giving advice on an area they have failed in .... this book is welcome wisdom from a couple who have navigated the stages of a committed permanent relationship.

Because this book is about relationships, people assume it is for couples. All of life is relationship. This is an intimate revelation of how the Vissells have worked within the framework of their own relationship to grow and heal the space that seperates and causes pain in all relationshops, weather it be a man and wife or parent and child or a soul with self. It is daring and tender and full of hope and joy. I highly recommend it if you choose to go deep and look in the mirror. A challenge to love self, in order to love others, and the world.

newmoon7@rockisland.com Wendy Phillips

I found this book to be very perceptive & insightful. The Vissells are very knowledgeable about the matters of the heart & relationships. While reading this book, my partner and I fully discussed each chapter, and agreed that soul mirroring is a benefit to every relationship.

I started reading this book after my partner moved out. We were still trying to piece things together. He finally decided that it was OVER. I kept reading the book. It helped me to focus my attention on myself and not on the other person that I was (am?) in a relationship with. For me, it was a Godsend.

Barry Grosskopf has incredible insite into the dynamics of intergenerational miscommunication. So often, knowing the story changes everything. This is an excellent read for anyyone who ever encountered conflict with an close family member. In other words, it's an excellent choice for everyone. It's on the top 10 list of important books that I've read and I've been reading for 55 years.

Psychiatrist Barry Grosskopf draws upon his years of experience and his patient histories in Hidden in Plain Sight: Getting to the Bottom of Puzzling Emotions, a guide to understanding how powerful emotions and emotional responses can be formed, why and how trauma ranging from addiction or sexual abuse to PTSD can be spread intergenerationally, how intimate relationships such as marriage can further the healing process, and why it is important to have compassion and understanding for one's parents, no matter how atrociously they have behaved, before one can effectively and consciously embrace one's own healing ability. Written in plain terms for readers of all backgrounds, Hidden in Plain Sight is a highly informed and informative look at how powerful emotional responses affect the biological wiring of the human brain and nervous system, particularly in the case of childhood (or even infancy) incidents leaving a lasting imprint, with useful strategies for learning to adjust to and cope with the fallout from trauma or abuse. Highly recommended.

Early in this remarkable analysis of why people are the way they are, Dr. Grosskopf lets the reader have it. Although Freud has become an easy target, still he did invent his discipline, and he has much to teach. But he suffered, as this author so clearly writes, "The restricted focus of self-analysis [that] left Freud with substantial gaps in his own self-understanding." With a cunning that William James would admire, Grosskopf reaches into the wisdom of ancient texts, and reminds us that it isn't always just about us. What informs us is what went before, and thus it is that the generational influences-often so unseen to us-are, nonetheless, still in there. Kandel's new biology of memory substantiates this idea.
Freud never considered his work finished, and was overly influenced by his own neurotic clientele. HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT is another step down the road that began in Vienna.

Reviewed by Catherine Phelps for Readers Views (1/07)

Dr. Barry Grosskopf makes his home on Vashon Island in Washington with his wife. His psychiatric practice focuses on the underserved, underprivileged and difficult-to-treat patients. His book is written with stories of some of his patients, their pain and healing. In this easy to read book, Dr. Grosskopf describes how all of us, whether seldom or frequently feel an unexplained pain within along with sadness.

Few of us have had enough open communication with our parents or grandparents to be able to empathize with the struggles and triumphs they have endured. However, by questioning them or other elders in our extended family, the answers may be found to our present pain. Unknown to our conscience mind, this understanding could be the key to peace within our nuclear family.

The traumas we endure are many, from war to domestic violence. When left unspoken and hidden within ourselves, the scars of this trauma can show its effect across generations. Through understanding our parents and their parents' pain, an understanding of our fear and pain can come to light. Whether this pain manifests itself from us to our children or spouses, healing and freedom from the shackles of trauma can occur.

The message spoken the loudest within this book is that we are not required to love our parents and grandparents. Rather, by understanding how they felt with their personal problems and trauma brings understanding to us for their actions. Throughout our lives, we need to ask ourselves, "Where are you?" We will often find that our reaction to a situation is being shaped by what happened a generation or possibly two ago. By acknowledging this reaction, our future actions can be changed to healing and not continuing they cycle of trauma.

Whoever is currently dealing with unresolved anger and pain would find words or wisdom and a guide to healing by reading, "Hidden in Plain Sight." It is especially geared towards those who have suffered traumatic losses and pain.

Do you understand how your parents really felt as a child or young adult? What trauma, such as war, poverty or abuse did they suffer? By finding the answer to these questions, and truly understanding how they felt, you will begin your own self-healing.

This Bible contains hard to find family-genealogy pages in a NRSV edition. It is oversized, leather bound, and has large type. As a bonus, there are colorful portraits of old testament characters, and maps and an index. A fine gift for a new family.

I purchased ISBN:0195283600. This particular edition differs a bit from other reviews I've read--no portraits, etc.

It's an Oxford, so if it were possible for me to have gotten an NRSV with the Apocrypha in genuine black leather from someone else, I'd have done it gladly. Oxford generally cuts corners in the Bible-making process.

Because it will be a secondary Bible for me, I'm not terribly peeved about Jesus' words NOT being red, there being no concordance, and there being no dictionary of any kind. The leather is nice but a bit stiff. The spine, however, is sewn and very flexable--a major plus for a long-lasting Bible.

I like the fairly handy size very much. Bibles are gennerally made way too big. The paper is very quality and the font selection and paragraph-style page layout is very nice as well.

Reguarding the translation itself: I'm particularly pleased with the traslating of the Old Testament and Apocrypha, well done and very readable. I'm not at all offended with the gender-inclusive rendering with certain passages, as footnotes mark each diversion from the originals. When I began reading the Bible, I started with an original Living paraphrase because the KJV was just too much for me. I soon learned that the translation was so terribly compromised for readability, I was missing out on a lot of important meaning. The NRSV is a fantastic balance between readability and accuracy, if you ask me. Thinking of giving a Bible to new believer or someone just starting to study it? Give them an NRSV!

If you're considering this particular printing for your main Bible, I'd suggest shopping around first. But overall, I'm satisfied.

This is a superb example of one of the most scholarly translations of the Holy Scriptures available! The large print makes it immensely readable and the price is reasonable for such a quality book. The addition of the Apocrypha makes it the essential Bible to have in your home library and a family treasure for generations! I highly reccommend this translation and this particular copy! Modern language, large print, this Bible can reach every member of your family with it's timeless message of hope.

A graceful and clear translation of the Holy Bible, the NRSV maintains fidelity to the original Greek and Hebrew texts while producing an edition equally at home when read from the lectern at church or on the couch at home. The translators have carefully reviewed words which refer to men only, and, when appropriate, translated them to include all the faithful. For example, when the Apostle Paul addresses the "brothers", the NRSV substitutes "friends" or "brothers and sisters." They never tamper with masculine references to God. It is their contention that this slight modification actually makes their translation more accurate. For example, when St. Paul says, "Brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant concerning the resurrection," this version reminds us that the sisters should also not be ignorant. The complete version with the Apocryphal / Deuterocanonical books contains the fullest collection of books received as sacred Scripture by any historical branch of the Christian Church. By including such difficult-to-find books as 3 Maccabees and Psalm 151, they have produced the only easily obtainable Bible for the whole Church.

Imagine what a news report this would be: Scientist Sister Creates Superhero Brother! It's certainly a story you'd want to read.

Poor Horace Splatley is not only the shortest kid in town, he has a sister who is bigger and younger! After experimenting with a crazy recipe for strange purple cupcakes, she forces Horace to eat them and wear a purple costume. (It's sure not easy having mad scientist in the family!)

But little Horace has the soul of a hero, and soon finds himself flying around town and confronting a giant guinea pig who appears in the schoolyard. Will Horace save the town? The story is fast-paced, very silly and very entertaining.

Horace Splattley: The Cupcaked Crusader is sure to have young readers begging for a second helping of laughs.

This is coolio as my friend says. I also L-O-V-E it. Who wouldn't? Everybody would like if they read it. If you don't you're C-R-A-Z-Y! All the books are cool. It's so cool when Horace eats the cupcakes and you guess what superpowers he gets! His controling sis is so scientific!

this is the best book you will ever read. it is about a kid who eats her sisters cupcakes and turns into a superheroe.he has to fight a giant monster and an evil scientist.this book is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!i hope you read it!

My mommy bought me this book. I liked this book very much. It was very funny. I liked that the cupcaked crusader had superpowers because he ate cupcakes, that was exciting. The powers only last for a few hours and it was sad when he lost them. I like that this book is about a boy, there are many books about girls already. The pictures very neat too.
I am now reading the second book and hope it is as good as the first one. Maybe it will be even better.

I got this book for an introductory Human Resource Management class I had to take at my university. No complaints with the book. I didnt read it all, but most of what I read was well written.

I was required to use this text book in my Human Resource Management class for my MBA requirements. I do not have an HR background so a lot of the information presented in this book is new to me. The authors do a great job of presenting the material in an easy to understand manner. There are a lot of real life examples and case studies that are interesting to read and help to put the concepts in to perspective.

This book will be a great reference in my professional life. It has employment laws, recruitment strategies, training and placement strategies to name a few. This is a must read for any HR professional and it really brings to focus the need for a stronger HR presence in companies to help them stay competitive.

I used this book to study for the Excelsior College exam in Human Resources Management and I got an A. It was very well written and easy to follow.

This is a textbook for advanced students of Human Resource Management, but even old hands in this field can gain a new insight on different topics which are very often neglected such as career development or separation and retention. Beside the discussion on different subjects the editors are bringing in comprehensive bibliography as well as discussion questions and a modern approach by using the web for additional exercises.

I bought this book about 15 years ago and loved it. The stories were well thought out, original and just plain good. I still have my copy of this book and occasionally pull it out to read again. If you want to read several very good short stories this is the book for you

I read a borrowed copy of the original paperback of It Came from Schenectady, oh, gee, perhaps twenty years ago (hey! kids! this was, like, back before the Internet (or Amazon) was around to make book finding really easy!). I never saw a copy in a book store, so I missed my chance to have one of my own. It is a pleasure to see back in print.

This is a wild ride from one of the really inventive minds in science fiction. The stories range from thought-provoking to hilarious.

I'll second the motion of another reviewer who encourages a serious reading of the introduction. Longyear has one hell of a sense of humor.

Read the introduction in this book. I know introductions are usually a waste of space, but Longyear is hilarious. And he gives you such deep insight into where he gets his ideas that you just can't pass it up.

I've lost track of how many times I've read and re-read this collection of short stories. Some are funny. Some are sober. They are all fascinating.

This is a spiffy collection of short stories by the author, and includes the stories listed below. Rating my enjoyability of each of the component stories (on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the highest):

Rating & Title
9 - Forepiece (Prologue)
8 - Collector's Item
7 - Dreams
7 - The House of If
6 - The Initiation
9 - The Portrait of Baron Negay
8 - SHAWNA, Ltd.
8 - A Time For Terror
9 - The Homecoming (Hugo Nominee)
8 - Twist Ending
10 - Catch The Sun
9 - Adagio
7 - Where Do You Get Your Ideas ?

Although the most loudly trumpeted piece in this collection is "The Homecoming" (which was nominated for a Hugo award), my personal favorite is, by far, "Catch The Sun", which could easily have been a major award winner in it's own right, if it'd been published as a stand alone novel. In hindsight, I'd guess the only reason it didn't get the Hugo nod is that it was published right on the heels of Homecoming, in the same calendar year, right after the latter was nominated ... and was thus ineligible. In any case, it's the best of the bunch, in my reckoning.

This collection is a solid offering by Longyear, even though the title is a bit obscure, and doubtless deterred sales by confusing people walking past it in the book aisles.

Style wise, the stories in this collection are an odd mix of quirky ideas, developed into stories by the author. Some follow the same general style as Harlan Ellison and The Twilight Zone motif, and others are more in the hard scifi vein.

Overall, this is a very strong and enjoyable collection ... well worth the cover price, even if you have to buy it new.

a collection of keiths works, from the beginning to the very end. installations, sculptures, as well as his paintings on buildings and objects grace the pages of this large format book. a definite for every fan of this kutztown boy. describes keiths life through letters and stories from friends, photos, and many beautiful full color works by the artist. bright and bold, just like his life.

A VERY COMPREHENSIVE LOOK AT WORKS FROM THE WHOLE OF KEITH HARING'S RELATIVELY SHORT CAREER, YOU GET A DEFINITE FEELING OF HIS WORK CHANGING BEFORE YOUR EYES. THE TEXT, OF WHICH THERE IS AROUND 20 PAGES, MORE THAN ADEQUATELY SUMS UP THE THEMES AND AIMS OF THE ARTIST . THERE IS ALL YOU COULD WANT REALLY:

· ART HISTORICAL CRITICISM( WITH FREQUENT REFERENCE TO THE ONSUING PLATES) · INTERVIEWS WITH KEITH HARING HIMSELF · A FULL LIST OF ALL THE EXHIBITIONS AND STREET ART HE DID · SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY · 182 PLATES

YOU GET A REAL FEEL FOR WHAT THE ARTIST WAS ABOUT, SO WOULD BE AN IDEAL FIRST BOOK ON KEITH HARING, AND A GOOD REFERENCE BOOK FOR THE ART HISTORY STUDENT!

I know a bargain when I see one. Sussman's book juxtaposes Keith's drawings and paintings alongside interviews with Keith's contemporaries (they even bring in Junior Vasquez), without any attempt at being complete. The price is lowered because of a black Sharpie line on the top of the pages. That's it! If you have any interest in Keith Haring or even art in general, this is a great way to look at a great artist.

This is a book I picked up at the Whitney exhibit in 1997 - it's a great variety of all Keith's work. His style has varied over the years and this book does a great job showing his evolution. My favorite part is the fact that many of his pieces from his youngest years are included. It's always interesting to see where your favorite artist started.

Kitty Nirvana: The First Ginger & Shadow Collection is a webcomic anthology following the (only slightly exaggerated) adventures of author's two cats, who were adopted from an animal shelter when they were 6 week old kittens. Ginger is the queen of cool cats, self-assured, manipulative, suave, while Shadow is more nervous, soft-hearted, sentimental, and unusually pacifistic among carnivores. Their adventures with one another and their family are sure to strike a chord among cat lovers of all walks of life. "'I'm really getting fed up with this diet thing.' 'You're just built for comfort, not speed.'" The charming black-and-white art captures the essence of cartoon felinity in this wonderfully entertaining collection. Highly recommended, especially as a giftbook for fellow feline fanciers.

I can so relate to these two felines. My wife and I have two cats, Tigger and Shadow... look so much like these characters as a matter of fact. I love good humor, especially anthropomorphic style cartoons like Opus, Snoopy, Red & Rover. I put Barry Corbett's characters and his ability to make me laugh right up there with the others. Looking forward to book #3.

Cats. We are useful visitors in a world they are quick to make clear to us belongs to them. Putting two of them with opposite personalities (based on his real life pets) in a hapless family, as cartoonist Barry Corbett says, creates strips that practically write themselves. Some of these are funny. Some insightful and a few are a little self-conscious (and if there is one thing cats are not, it is self-conscious). By the way, I once had a cat that when annoyed with me would hit at the computer keyboard. I would see pages and pages of "nnnnnnnnnnnn...."

I liked the series where Ginger is trying to teach the introverted, people pleasing "Shadow" how to be cool. There's also an interesting parallel when Ralph Garrick, the burly man of the house, tries to clue in the male Shadow on male/female differences. I love it that the rather hip mom is off to a Star-Trek convention and the segment on cats learning "the Zen of sleeping" is inspired. There's a lot to like, even parts that fail (a cat with a black patch in search of the great, white woodchuck that cost him his eye) show cleverness. And, anyone who has a cat (I have four) can attest to the authenticity of lines like this: "I could use a catnap. It's been about 23 minutes." The accomplished drawings are full of energy and cat grace. Yet there is something that still needs to evolve here. And it will.

In a single page of prose, titled "Diary of a Comic Strip," the author tells how his cast of characters and his technique have grown over the years. You can see the same thing in early Peanuts collections. It is as if the personality of each character has to come into its own over time. When that happens, there are more than cute observations about cats and human foibles. There is fresh insight into something shared by both the reader and the cartoonist. It's recognition that is both surprising (we thought we were the only ones who felt it) and reassuring (now we know that others feel this way too). Our reaction when that happens: to laugh.

Cats have been perennial fodder for comic strips from "Krazy Kat" to "Cicero's Cat" to "Heathclif" to "Garfield". Unlike Garfield, "Ginger and Shadow" is funny, beautifully drawn and right on the money when it comes to the not so secret lives of cats. Anyone who's ever owned a cat (if anyone can actually own a cat, I think cats would beg to differ on that point) can relate to the feline follies of Ginger, Shadow and a wide variety of other characters including Patch, Pilferin' Pete, Feral Frankie and the human family that puts up with it all. Barry Corbett, known on the web as the creator of "Rafferty" and "Embrace the Pun", has another winner with this strip. If you're saying to yourself, "Sure, but it's no 'Funky Winkerbean' ", you need to take your meds and curl up with a copy of this book to see what a real comic is all about.

No cats were harmed in the writing of this review. For the record, this reviewer has never seen "Cats", but is pretty sure "Kitty Nirvana" is way better and definitely a lot cheaper.