Brown Books

My daughter is 5 3/4 years old and Spooky Riddles is the eighth book she has read all by herself. She says it is her favorite joke book ever, and it is great for kids. It's especially good if you're looking for jokes to tell your friends at Halloween parties.

My 4 and 6 year olds love this book. It's great easy reading for them and they love the punchlines! Even Grandpa laughed!

My friend Alan recommend to me this book it in spanish class and i have spent many joyful hours laughing over this book even at the age of 15 the cute simplitic riddles bring a simile to your face. I just want to htank Big Alf for telling some great spooky riddles.

My 6 1/2 year old LOVES to read this book! The riddles are funny and easy to understand. Each page has about 10 words to read so it's not too challenging but not too easy either(my son becomes frustrated with too many words per page). He also loves to tell these riddles(jokes)to family and friends. Pictures are silly looking not scary at all. Highhly recommended.

I read this when I was 4 and loved it. I'm 16 now and I'm still telling the same jokes. I havn't read it in years, but I remember almost all the jokes. What do you call a mummy that eats cookies in bed? A crummy mummy!!! Bwa ha ha! Gets me every time. What do you call a mummy that eats cookies in bed? A crummy mummy!!! Bwa ha ha! See? These are the best riddles known to man.If you read them, you'll be as funny as me! What does a witch ask for at a hotel? Broom service! Har har har! I love this book.

At the first time (1992) I bought The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics it impressed me with details. The 2000 edition is my third and I do not have any doubt: this is the most complete guide about the Olympic History.

When I first bought this book, I thought it would be like all of my other Olympic Resources. Giving some imformation, but not every detail you could want. This book replaces all of my others when it comes to stats, politics in the olympics, drugs, and others. Although not having many pictures, it makes up for all of the wonderful info it contains. Tell me that you knew that only 1 country entered in the, get this, a team parallel bar competition in 1896. I reccomend it to anyone.

If you are interested in the history, politics, rules of the games, and human-interest stories of the modern Olympics, this is the book to have by your side while you watch the games this September.

I bought this book to research a trivia question, started reading it, and couldn't put it down. Never having been too interested in sports or the Olympics, I was surprised how quickly I was caught up in Wallechinsky's book. Now, I can't wait for the games to begin.

Complete summary of summer Olympic results from 1896 through 1996. This book is a necessity for any serious Olympic author or historian. If your going to compare results in Sydney to past records or athletes, you must have this book. Organized in a way that makes it easy to find an event and year.

All those moments you'll see that bring back Olympic memories you can't quite pin down--this is where to answer those nagging questions, and to get comprehensive background info. This will increase your viewing pleasure so much. And it gives you something productive to do with your time when NBC is going "up close and personal," or gassing about "honor," or showing rhythmic gymnastics or water polo. We get a new edition every 4 years.

Stanley and his brother accidentally release a genie from a lamp and then go on a wonderful adventure. Each family member has a wish come true and learns that you may not really want what you wish for. Good lessons learned. My 5 year old loves these Flat Stanley books. This book appeals to both boys and girls.

Wow! It makes perfect sense to me that the author of this super entertaining adventure was a story editor and assistant film producer in Hollywood. As I was reading Stanley And The Magic Lamp, I kept thinking that it would make a really cute family film that every age would enjoy.

When Stanley Lambchop finds a magic lamp, he also finds a genie who can grant him wishes.

How would getting all your wishes granted change your life? Beyond anything you can imagine will all come to pass in Jeff Brown's wonderful book. This is a must-read for your imaginative child.

The charming illustrations by Scott Nash add to the fun of Stanley's adventure.

I read a good book called Stanley and the Magic Lamp. Stanley finds a lamp and wishes to get answers for his homework. Then he gets an askit basket and puts his paper in and gets his answers. This book is very entertaining and funny. Read the book to see what happens when Arthur, Stanley's little brother, and Stanley make more wishes from the genie. See what happens when he starts wishing for bigger wishes.
-Tiffany

We began with Flat Stanley when reading chapter books to my young son, then we began reading the whole set of 'Stanley Books'. We have loved them.

The books are fun enough and interesting enough to keep the attention of a four year old over the course of several nights. There are a few pictures and they are charmingly illustrated.

In this book, the plot is centered around Stanely and a magic lamp. The story is fun and although a fantasy type book, easy for even young children to grasp.

Enjoy.

What a terrific book to read to your class! My 3rd grade class loved this book as we were beginning to read chapter books. We eventually read the next Jeff Brown book called Flat Stanley. Then we joined a group and mailed our Flat Stanleys to children and schools all over the world. This book is a must for your classroom library.

This is a great version of the story of The Steadfast Tin Soldier -- always one of my favorite stories as a kid. My son, age 7, loves this book and we read it over and over. The illustrations are excellent and I recommend it. My son found it in his school library but when we went to buy our own copy, it was out of print. So we had to buy it used but it was well worth the effort to have our own copy.

This book tells the classic tale of the one-legged tin soldier who falls in love with a paper ballerina. The soldier suffers a series of misadventures, including being placed at the helm of a doomed paper boat, being chased by a rat, and swallowed by a fish. It's a wonderful tale that will hold older children spellbound. The illustrations are delightful. All told, the book has about 2000 words.

I taught 1st grade for 4 years and all of the teachers in my grade passed this book around at Christmas to read to our class. I cried everytime I read it. It has a wonderful message and my kids in my classroom always loved it! I have now (finally) purchased my own copy of this book to read to my little girl. It is a classic and I know she will love it as much as I do. Every home should have this book to read at Christmastime.

This is a really good book. It has all the characteristic's that made the original a cherished and remembered fairy tale. It is a great gift for any young child, and can be enjoyed by adults too. It maintains the feel of the original tale, but is more like a poem. The art work on each page is beautiful, and the pictures are totally devine. I would recomend buying this for a different and fully enjoyable version of the original.

A little boy had a set of tin soldiers that were made from a melted spoon. One soldier was missing a leg because there was not enough metal left over from the melted spoon.

Tossed aside by the boy, the one-legged soldier sees a paper cut out figure of a ballerina. She is poised on one leg and he feels an instant bond. He has found another one-legged toy and believes this to be love.

The steadfast tin soldier has a series of mishaps. He falls off the window sill into a stream. From there, he is transported to a rat infested sewer. He is swallowed by a fish and through an unlikely stroke of luck, winds up back in the boy's playroom with the other toys and the ballerina.

The ending is what gets to me every single time. A gust of wind lifts the paper ballerina up and she flutters into the fire place, winding up a charred heap of ashes. Devastated, the tin soldier joins her. The remaining metal that was once the tin soldier is a charred piece of heart shaped metal.

I still think this is a very sad story. The photographs really emphasize the feeling this story evokes.

Its good to hear so many people are really getting the feel of what life out here is like. My name is Nate Patterson and I'm in the book. Robb came to Spanish Ranch, in Tusscarrora, Nevada while I was Jigger Boss. Its good to hear that so many people can really look deeply at what a real cowboy's eyes hold. Many photographers come to the ranches and try to capture the "cowboy life" but Robb did an excelent job.

Still is not simply a book of cowboy tintypes. This book has depth as it is filled with revealing portraits of cowboys created with an antiquated process that requires true craftsmanship. Because each tintype is crafted by hand (and beautifully done), they each have unique and unreplicable characteristics analogous to the portraits of the cowboys themselves. In additon to the craftsmanship, there's an impressive amount of these portraits with each subsequent one being just as interesting as the previous. Accompanying the portraits are several stories from the cowboys that add a more personal element to the book. Still is a beautifully executed book of tintype cowboy portraits that I highly recommend to anyone.

I have always been fascinated with old world photographic processes. After browsing through the book several times I was struck with the portraits themselves. While these portraits were recently done you easily get the feel that these cowboys are from a time gone by.

An incredible way of life incredibly captured by a talented photographer

Beyond the beautiful photographs the piercing eyes in these portraits tell it all.
These cowboys and cowgirls are serious about what they do and how they do it. Serious
about living life to the fullest on their own terms.
I must be honest and tell you I am not a big fan of cowboy photography or any photography
that romanticizes a culture or group of people. Pretty pictures are a dime a dozen and mean little
in the understanding of the people being photographed. Think current day celebrity portraiture.
These portraits show dedication to documenting a people and way of life long forgotten
by modern day Americans. I think you will feel the spirit of these people when you look
at these tintypes and read the stories of the cowboys in their own words. This book belongs in any serious collection of the American West way of life.

I ordered this book after hearing an interview with the author/photographer on NPR. Captured in the spirit of yesteryear, these photographs of modern cowboys are just beautiful!

In his book Street Smarts from Christian Martial Arts: 40 Life Lessons from a Karate Master, J. Brown positively and significantly contributes to a trend which finds much common ground between martial arts and Christianity. As a seminary student about to be ordained as a Lutheran pastor, Brown presents a wealth of Scriptural teaching for enrichment and guidance. As a martial arts master with much life experience, Brown's insights benefit the reader in the study of martial arts as well as wisdom for life in general.

In the initial chapters, Brown introduces his holistic and balanced approach to humanity which resounds throughout the book. Since a person consists of body, mind, and spirit, each of these must receive nourishment and training. The body he defines as the physical portion of a human, the mind as the non-material side of humanity which "thinks, feels, wishes, and chooses," the spirit as the non-material side which relates to God and demonstrates a moral nature in relation to other people. While asserting balance among these three sides of humanity, Brown emphasizes the spirit as the most vital. Having been redeemed by Christ on the cross and baptized into His name, one's identity comes from the gift of new life in Christ. The body and mind complement the pursuit of this balance. The book then proceeds with forty brief chapters, each encapsulated by a one-sentence "life lesson" to introduce the chapter's theme. Each chapter elaborates upon its theme with this balance as a parameter. By thus integrating the physical and spiritual, Brown nicely avoids a Gnostic tendency apparent in so many books on spirituality today.

Although the themes of his chapters vary greatly, a common thread is the thoughtful, winsome manner in which Brown shares wisdom from scripture, martial arts instruction, and his life experience. For example, chapter seven has the title "Submission and Authority" followed by the encapsulating life lesson: "Submission and authority go hand in hand, working together to sift the sand." Brown begins by explaining the ranking system in martial arts and its significance. He emphasizes submission to authority as a key for learning a martial art. Then he describes how many relationships (children, spouses, teachers, employees, etc.) rely upon acknowledgement of authority. Being aware of God's authority and His perfect will, Brown tells how one is led to confess one's sinfulness. Thereupon, one receives the gift of absolution or forgiveness by Christ's sacrifice on the cross. For an additional example, chapter eighteen is entitled: "Thank you." The life lesson immediately under the title reads: "There's nothing more beautiful in life than the presence and joy of a thankful optimist." Brown tells how he has had the honor of teaching martial arts to students with various handicaps. From working with such special students, he learned that one can overcome many challenges and that thankfulness helps focus upon the most important things of life. He then relates the touching story of his mother's courage in the face of a debilitating illness. Through such experiences, Brown has come to appreciate many life blessings, particularly his blessings in Christ. The chapter then includes a multiplicity of Bible passages about thankfulness and their meaning.

While Brown clearly proclaims Christ's gift of salvation, the book more so concerns wisdom for the sanctified life which flows from that gift. Thus, the Christian content of this book most closely resembles the book of Proverbs. Life often requires a practical wisdom of skillfully avoiding pitfalls and exercising sound judgment in various situations. Such wisdom emphasizes personal character. Above all, wisdom is an attribute of God most clearly revealed in Christ the Savior. Brown skillfully emulates this scriptural approach from wisdom literature.

Brown's book provides interesting reading and benefit for a variety of audiences. While a Christian student or instructor of martial arts can most fully relate to the book's contents, any reader be enriched by the book's emphasis on wise, practical living as well as Brown's interesting, touching, and humorous biographical notes. Brown's presentation of Law and Gospel can even serve a mission purpose to reach someone without Christ. As a professor of religion and martial arts instructor myself, I highly recommend this book for anyone's reading pleasure.

Street Smarts from Christian Martial Arts: 40 Life Lessons from a Karate Master is a compilation of forty inspirational vignettes of wisdom and experience by author J. Brown, a sixth degree black belt and devout Christian. J. Brown exhorts that self-defense is far more than simply warding off physical attack; it is a life attitude of being mindful of one's own actions to keep oneself out of dangerous situations. Street Smarts from Christian Martial Arts addresses not only how the author dealt with bullying and other difficult situations - such as how he defused a potential fight in a seedy bar when he was confronted by a tough guy with seven friends - but also the spiritual dimension of faith in Jesus Christ as protection against the "fatal blow of the devil." "No matter what we do, how good we get, or how hard we try, we will always fall short of the perfection necessary to get into Heaven. Luckily, we have Jesus, the ultimate self-defense master. He came to win the battle over sin and death... By believing in Jesus and placing our faith in His power, we can be assured of spiritual victory." A profound blend martial arts and Christian insights into dealing with the harsh realities of life, highly recommended.

J Brown's new book "Street Smarts from Christian Martial Arts" is a wonderful blending of Martial Arts and principals for Christian living. Taking experiences from his many years of Martial arts training he combines them with Bible verses and philosophy to produce Christian lessons useful in everyday life. Furthermore he does it in everyday language so you don't have to be a Theologian or an expert in philosophy to understand and use these lessons in your own life. Master Brown proves that the Martial arts and the Christian life style not only go together, but also complement each other.
This book is an excellent addition to anyone's library whether they are a marital arts student or instructor, or Christian student or instructor. Everyone will get something helpful out of it.
I will be using his book as an aid to my personal devotions, teaching my Karate class and teaching Royal Rangers.

Paul Woodman, Second Degree Black belt Goshin-Do Karate, Assembly of God Royal Ranger Commander and Author of Warrior for the Lord [...]

I really enjoyed reading J Brown's: Street Smarts from Christian Martial Arts. The life lessons are sincere and thought provoking, and the insights Master Brown provides are refreshing. I was most happy to read that Brown discloses childhood stories, and laces his thoughts with humor and wisdom. A great read for anyone seeking pearls of wisdom in the form of life lessons.

Master Brown does a great job of emphasizing the need for a balance between mind, body, and soul. To do this, he uses concrete illustrations from martial arts to make his points. I found the book to be educational as well as something I could use as a devotional thought for the day. I recommend Street Smarts from Christian Martial Arts to anyone seeking a unique perspective on the Christian life.

I came to this Bissell by way of Elmore Leonard. After reading Get Shorty and Pagan Babies, I did some research on Leonard and found that his writing style, the way he he writes dialogue in particular, was heavily influenced by this book.

Bissell was a Harvard-educated guy who spent time working on a steamboat on the Mississippi River. In this book he captures the experience: the grueling work, the long hours, the danger, and most importantly, the people and the way the talk. He doesn't coddle the reader one bit. There are very few explanations regarding the technical terms used and most of the time, I had no idea what he was doing other than the fact that it was work and that it sounded hard.

He makes a point of contrasting life on the steamboat with life on land. Most of the book takes place on the boat with brief excursions into the port towns up and down the river where he writes of bar fights, love affairs and... well, that about covers it, actually.

I saw a lot of similarities between Bissell and Leonard. Particularly in the way dialects were handled. Leonard uses dialogue to drive the plot forward. Bissell uses it more to set a mood. One thing I didn't like about the book: After he makes his way onto the steamboat and is established as a deckhand, the story just sits for long stretches of time (I'm sure that's what these men working on the river did as well). The fact that Bissell doesn't give much explanation to the terms he uses or the work he does makes the long descriptive stretches of daily life on the steamboat hard to get through. Despite that, I'll rank Bissell as one of my more satisfying surprise discoveries in a long while.

The chapters were about the lock at Keokuk, republished in the anthology on American Lit that we used, a few years after the book came out. I agree, more profs should teach Bissell. Bissell also wrote the Rivers of America volume on the Mononagehela, based on his piloting experience there, and the book (7-1/2 Cents) which became the musical Pajama Game. This was based on his experiences running his family's garment factory. Then he wrote Say Darling about how the musical was made. ASOTR was a hit when first published in July 1950--it was reprinted twice in July and again in October.

This is one of the greatest pieces of American fiction ever written. You must check out this hard-to-find classic. If I was an English professor, I'd definitely teach this book

Bissell's story of life on a towboat is a perfect complement to Twain's "Life on the Mississippi". I have spent almost thirty years working on the River and if I had to recommend only one book that explains what the people and towboat life is like, this would be the book. His depiction of river characters and their dialog is perfect. It may be more a reflection of the type of people who go to the river to work, you can draw a line from Mike Fink stories through Twain and Bissell and find those same people riding boats on the rivers of America's backyards. I believe I read somewhere that Mickey Spillane said Richard Bissells' writing showed him what dialog in a book should be. Bissell's other river book, "High Water", should not be missed. Both books should be available through the Minnesota Historical Society Press.

I am one of the few people out there who not only know who Richard Bissell is, I'm trying to collect all of his books! I actually bought a first edition of ASotR once, thinking it was the only edition, started to read it just long enough to realize how great it was, and lost it. I've read every novel and most of the nonfiction Bissell wrote, and this was going to be the last 'new' (to me, anyway) thing I read by him. I'd read about it plenty of times in glowing blurbs on the back of his other novels.

Now, I have to find another one. Do you have any idea where I could find a copy of either the paperback reissue or the original hardback edition? Help a man on his quest!

By the way, if you like Bissell, you should probably try reading Charles Portis, who may be even better.

In my view, this book is an excellent introduction to the Struts 2 framework. The authors approach to the reader is well thought out and the book is actually a "good read". The conversational tone with which the book was written lends itself tremendously to the reader grasping a firm hold of the technical information. It's not "dumbed" down at all, it's just explained very well. Each chapter builds on previous information presented to provide a clear picture of how the framework operates.

According to the authors, there is foundational knowledge that must be understood before Struts 2 can really become a useful tool in a developers hands. (See chapter 4: Adding workflow with interceptors.)

They do an outstanding job of taking the reader though the key concepts of the frameworks architecture. At the end of each chapter, I understood what they were saying and I had a clear idea of the concepts they were attempting to get across. Not many technical books do this very well, however, this one does.

As far as Struts 2 being the "best" framework? I won't go there. However, Struts 2 looks to be more than capable of handling the requirements when developing both simple and complex web applications. It appears there have been lessons learned from Struts 1.

In summary, it is the opinion of this reader that if you want to learn and *understand* the Struts 2 framework this book will get your there and you will enjoy the journey as well.

This is a proper "In Action" book. I do strongly recommend it. If you plan to buy only one reference in the subject, look no further this is it! Down Brown is a Struts PMC member and an authoritative voice, among others he is the author of the Struts 2 REST plugin which is a superb addition to the framework from version 2.1.2

The book is very well written and easy to follow. I personally found the explanations very concise and appreciated the most their unique and clear way of breaking down and explaining all code snippets. This is really a great reference.

The first two chapters are a very good introduction to the framework. I am a pure version 2 user and had to learn most of these concepts from online documentation and from the Struts mailing lists.

Among all the topics covered I enjoyed and appreciated the most the coverage of:
- Interceptors
- OGNL and Type Conversion
- Validation! before this book, you could only find the relevant coverage of this topic scattered online in e.g. WebWork articles outdated
..for Struts 2. The authors did an excellent job explaining validation in chapter 10
- Really unique was the coverage of:
..... Unit testing actions
..... Tiles plugin
..... execAndWait interceptor "processing your request, please wait .."
..... UI component templates
..... Writing Struts 2 plugins

On the big plus side, the authors did a superb job keeping the book agnostic to minor versions of Struts 2 i.e. there were several differences from 2.0.x to 2.1.x and I was very happy to see that the examples and explanations were not outdated for the later.

On the down side and as a trade off I can only complain that the book left the Ajax topics out; maybe also because there have been many changes on this topic from minor versions of Struts 2 e.g. the ajax theme of Struts 2.0.x was converted to the dojo plugin in version 2.1.x. In any case, I somehow find the Ajax topic in Struts 2 to be one of the best documented online.

I believe that the Practical Apache Struts 2 Web 2.0 Projects (Practical Projects) book from Ian Roughley is a very good complement to this one. If you want to find coverage on topics like Security and Ajax in Struts 2 you will want that one too. The only issue there is that the coverage of the ajax theme is partially outdated for the newest version 2.1.2 of the framework

Struts 2 In Action is the best resource (hard or soft copy) for Struts 2 available. I took a look at this book as someone with quite a bit of experience using Struts and Struts 2. I really thought I had a good understanding of the core framework before, but many of the topics that lack online documentation were covered in more depth than I had seen in the past. As an example, many others have shied away from covering OGNL because it is a language all by itself. In this book you will find what I consider to be the most thorough explanation of how OGNL fits into Struts 2 and how to use it yourself. I was tempted to give the book 4 stars because there are a few things that I thought could have gotten more coverage, like Spring/Hibernate integration and AJAX, but I realized that it really would be impossible to cover everything in one volume. Struts 2 is a large and comprehensive framework and with anything of that scale, a good understanding of the fundamentals is the best way to start. This book delivers.

If you are wondering what is covered, you will find comprehensive coverage of the following -
- writing actions
- action workflow basics
- type conversion
- OGNL
- form tags
- non-form tags
- results
- intro to Spring/Hibernate integration
- validation
- i18n
- struts 2 plugins
- migration from struts 1

I had to learn Struts2 quickly since I recently changed jobs and my new team has several web application projects built using Struts2.

Overall, I thought the book was done very well if you are looking for a good introduction to Struts2. The first 8 chapters are very good.

The main negative is the source code for the book's examples. The authors provide one very large war file with all the source code embedded into the war file along with an overall web application divided into sub-applications for each chapter.

This packaging of the source code into the war file made it difficult for me to create individual projects in my development IDE that demonstrated just the material in a specific chapter. I had to spend quite a bit of time breaking down the source code into individual web projects and then figuring out on my own what jars needed to go into each project, what the struts.xml file needed to have, and what ever else was necessary to separate out just that chapter's sub-application so I could run that example and play with it.

Where this really became a problem was in chapters 9 and 10. Chapter 9 is a very advanced introduction to integrating Spring and Hibernate/JPA into Struts2. I never could get this chapter's example to work correctly.

However, chapter 10 on the validation framework then uses the same code as chapter 9, so you really cannot separate out the code for either chapter 9 and 10.

The validation framework is likely something even beginning Struts2 developers will want to use, while Spring/JPA/Hibernate is for more advanced developers and should have been well after the chapter on how to use the validation framework.

Also, the authors really don't give you a good understanding of what Struts2 jars you need to have to build a basic Struts2 application. There is some information about this in chapter 13 (setting up your IDE) but this information should really be at the beginning of the book. Also I don't think the list the authors provide is accurate since my basic HelloWorld (get the user to enter a name, call an Action class, and then display Hello userName in new jsp) worked with far fewer jars. Note there is apparently a new example war that just is a basic Hello World so there may be some information in that war file. That war was not on the manning web site when I purchased the book.

This book is good but be prepared to struggle working with the code examples if you want to work on the examples in your own development environment.

I recommend the authors create separate complete war files for each chapter's example to make it easier for users to just get that chapter's example code into their development IDE.

Lastly, the book does get 4 stars because the author's explanations of the basics of Struts2 (chapters 1-8) is very easy to follow for experienced Java developers. I'm now ready to tackle the Struts2 applications in my new job.

I took a chance and pre-ordered this book because I have recently started a Struts2 project and wanted to learn more about the framework. The book did not disappoint.

The authors explained the concepts behind the framework clearly and used examples that were immediately useful. The book is a little too short and in many cases a few more details would have been appreciated but it seemed to be a deliberate decision to leave out some of the less common use cases to avoid cluttering up the book. Thus, this book is ideal if you are new to Struts 2 but have some prior experience with Java web development.

I like the fact that an entire chapter was dedicated to integrating Spring and Hibernate into the framework. It brings all the bits and pieces from the online documentation together in a cohesive and comprehensive package.

Chapters were also dedicated to validation, internationalization, best practices and migration from Struts classic. The authors spent several chapters on how the Value Stack and the ActionContext worked and how OGNL fits into this framework.

All in all there is enough information in this book to start and to produce a complete Struts 2 application.

35 years after reading this the first time, I found myself wanting to read all about Sue and her friends again. I have spent the last 32 years in nursing, and am still going strong in school as well as actual practice. The stories are fun, heartwarming and an excellent opportunity to re-visit the wonder of being new to the art of nursing. Great reading for a young person who thinks she (or he) might want to pursue a career in the hands and heart profession of Nursing.

I loved these books as a child, and 40 years later (30 of them, nursing) I still love them. The books are a fascinating time capsule of nursing in the 1930's through '50's. The surface of nursing has changed immensely, but the spirit of it is shown vividly in these stories: respectful, non-pitying caring for people in their crunch times. And on a third level, they're fine stories of growing up, in any age.

This is the first book in the series. It starts with Sue joining forces with her soon to be best friends Kit and Connie on a wonderful and some times frightening adventure in nursing school. This is the way nursing should be taught ......with the students living in the hospital having classes in the morning and working with patients part of day.
This book gives a delightful view of a bygone era. I highly reccomend this series for all ages.
An interesting bit of trivia......Helen Boylston was living with Laura Ingalls Wilder while writing some of the Sue Barton books. Helen and Rose Wilder were friends.

This is the first of the "Sue Barton" series. In this story, Sue enters nursing school. She meets two girls, Kit and Connie, who become her best friends. And during their first year there, Sue learns the techniques of nursing as she is gradually moved from one department to another in the course of her studies.

One running concern the student nurses have, is whether they will have the courage to risk their lives in a life-or-death emergency. Sue is especially doubtful about this. Then, one night she herself is rushed into surgery for an emergency appendectomy. Then, while recovering on the ward, she suddenly comes up against a delirious patient who is trying to escape from the hospital. Can Sue stop her --even if the situation puts Sue herself into danger?

This is a wonderful story. Having been first published in 1936, some of the dialogue is a little dated, but otherwise, the story moves quickly and builds to an exciting and logical climax. Highly recommended.

Sue B beats Cherry Ames hands down. Both are nursing series and I like them both but Sue Barton series includes character and plot development that the Ames books just don't have though they are amusing. Sue Barton is fully fleshed out character that you want to succeed.
This book is about her probationary year in which she has several exciting adventures that firmly awaken her to why she wants to be a nurse.

Full of suspense and intrigue, Sweet Revenge is a real page-turner. D.J. Brown's words paint a vivid picture of loss, betrayal, and revenge. Her protagonist, Claire Cunningham, evokes sympathy from the reader - her story is heartbreaking and believable. This book is a must read for those who love mystery and suspense as well as for those interested in reading a finely-crafted story.

Wow! Style is easy to read and the suspense keeps you turning page after page! I couldn't put it down!

Sweet Revenge by DJ Brown holds your attention from cover to cover. The writer has developed the characters such that you are drawn into the writing. When the character cries, you cry. When she panics, you gasp for breath.

All mothers can identify with the feelings that the lead character displays. And anyone with children empathizes with her struggle to retain her sanity.

This drama is well-written and a good read.

Things seem to have finally smoothed out in Claire Cunningham's life. Her four-year-old son, Toby, has recovered from the death of his father, even though he still clings to Claire a little more than he should. And, Claire has a boyfriend, Michael. But when Toby expresses his doubts about Michael, "His mouth smiles at me, but his eyes look mad," Claire decides to end the relationship. Before she has a chance to inform Michael that their affair is over, Claire's life turns down a dark and devastating road - taking away everything that is important to her, leaving her with nothing but hate - and the need for revenge.

In the middle of the storm that rages around her, Claire meets a rancher, Glen Howell. Glen is kind and solicitous, but Claire reacts with fear because of his green eyes. What is it about green eyes that frighten her? As Glen and the Chief of Police try to put together the pieces of Claire's broken life, she discovers secrets that hold a horrible truth - something she will decide to deal with in her own way.

Claire's justice is fueled by revenge. And there will be a price to pay. SWEET REVENGE will search the hearts of all concerned - including the reader's. A surprise ending is delivered with finesse. You won't forget Claire's story for a long, long time.

Brown delivers SWEET REVENGE with excellent writing and masterful story-telling skills. This is an easy to read, but hard to put down novel that presents more than a story. It presents an experience.

I highly recommend SWEET REVENGE and can hardly wait for D.J. Brown's next novel.

D.J. Brown has done a bang up job with this unnerving story. It's focused, well-written, and not a book to be taken lightly. I expect to be haunted by it for quite some time to come.

Claire Cunningham and her delightful four-year-old son Toby are kidnapped from a mall parking lot and taken to an old abandoned house out in the country. As most mothers would, Claire fights with all that's in her to protect Toby, but her strength is not enough to hold off the inevitable. One of the foulest, most vicious bad guys I have ever seen described - Jake - repeatedly rapes and beats Claire into submission or unconsciousness. His simple minded sidekick Mickey joins in at first, until the shame of what he's done prevents it. God only knows what Jake does to the precious Toby while Claire is unconscious. The abuse and torture go on for several days, during which the captives get no food or water. Toby seems to be in shock at first. He sleeps too much, or stares into space, and then the seizures set in. Jake murders Toby and then Mickey in a fit of rage, then simply drives away leaving Claire wounded and dazed.

The kindly and concerned Glen Howell sees Claire stumbling along the highway carrying Toby's lifeless body. She doesn't know where she is or what has happened, only that her son needs help.
Then begins a painful trip back to reality, and the horrifying revelation that Jake and Mickey did not act on their own.

All I can say is that Sweet Revenge is aptly named. I doubt too many readers will sit in judgement when Claire takes matters into her own hands. The romantic in me wanted Claire to hook up with her long legged protector, Glen, but Ms. Brown stays true to the subject at hand.

I was impressed with this book. My compliments to D.J. Brown for telling this story with a single-minded purpose. She writes with such clarity that I had the sense of experiencing a true happening. I hope, however, that this story wasn't true..