Most Popular Books by Steven Henry

The still-life painting tradition has been constant one in our society. The representation of an assemblage of objects from the everyday world has captivated artists and their audiences throughout history. Whether considering Dutch 17th-century paintings or cubist compositions, the interest remains constant. Donald Sultan''s works fit perfectly in this tradition, while at the same time offering a springboard into the next century. While Sultan''s subjects may appear ordinary, they become extraordinary by their representation. Fabulous oranges, lemons, and flowers dominate the surface with their brilliant colors and bold forms. They demand our attention by virtue of their medium, size, color, and composition. Sultan''s paintings, with their weight and scale, with their sculptural mass, and their references to the past, draw the viewer in by their boldness, confrontational directness, and surreal quality.

London, 1871 Life in the Whitechapel slums is dark, dirty, and dangerous, particularly for a young woman on her own. To survive, Coventry Adams must rely on quick wits and nimble fingers. Dishonored and damaged, cut off from her family, she makes a perilous living preying on those who would take advantage of her. But when she steals from the wrong gentleman, Coventry''s precarious existence is shattered. The man is a Minister of Parliament, engaged in negotiating a delicate international agreement. He is murdered that very night, and suddenly Scotland Yard wants very badly to find the girl who appears to be an assassin. A keen young detective is hot on her trail, convinced of her guilt. Pursued by policemen, foreign agents, and criminals, alone in an overcrowded city, Coventry must call on all her skill as a social chameleon, passing through every level of London society in a frantic race to uncover the truth before she is punished for a crime she did not commit. In the process, in spite of the risks, she must open her hardened heart and allow friendship and trust to blossom once more.

Her long and distinguished performing career included appearances with the world''s major orchestras and over a hundred recordings.".

Over the past three years I have grown accustomed to the puzzled look which appears on people''s faces when they hear that I am a mathematician who studies sleep. They wonder, but are usually too polite to ask, what does mathematics have to do with sleep? Instead they ask the questions that fascinate us all: Why do we have to sleep? How much sleep do we really need? Why do we dream? These questions usually spark a lively discussion leading to the exchange of anecdotes, last night''s dreams, and other personal information. But they are questions about the func tion of sleep and, interesting as they are, I shall have little more to say about them here. The questions that have concerned me deal instead with the timing of sleep. For those of us on a regular schedule, questions of timing may seem vacuous. We go to bed at night and get up in the morning, going through a cycle of sleeping and waking every 24 hours. Yet to a large extent, the cycle is imposed by the world around us.

Smile; you never know who might be watching Erin O’Reilly never wanted to be famous. But after taking down two organized crime families, the decorated detective is front-page news. Being a celebrity is uncomfortable enough, but someone else is competing for headlines. A murderer is stalking the New York streets, hunting beautiful, innocent women. Nothing boosts ratings like an obsession with a serial killer. Now, as Erin and her K-9 Rolf race against time to unmask a monster before the murderer claims another victim, they must deal not only with their opponent but with a pair of ambitious reporters investigating the first death. And when a second girl vanishes, a media frenzy engulfs a terrified and fascinated city. With an innocent life on the line, Erin and her squad will need every bit of detecting skill, diplomacy, and media savvy to navigate the treacherous currents of the modern news cycle. The greatest danger for Erin, as a newfound media darling, may be ending up part of the story.

Growing up in Orrville, Ohio, is a daunting task for a gay boy. In this Memoir, Steven captures the pathos of "coming out" to his family at the age of 21. With humor and with drama, Steven conveys his family''s background and their lives as being the only Jewish family in Orrville. He takes us with him on his journey from California to New York, then back and forth again. He talks of those in his life who spurned him, and those who gave him love. Steven takes us with him step by step showing us the good, the bad, the beautiful and the ugly. He recalls his experiences in the theatrical community and intersperses his original songs within his text that reflect the moment he describes. He is blunt with his language and assessments of what he experienced. He shares his pain as a man living with AIDS, and the successes and love that have been his. We become voyeurs as we join Steven on his tumultuous odyssey. Rabbi David Horowitz Rabbi Emeritus of Temple Israel, Akron, OH, and VicePresident of PFLAG, National Board of Directors As a fellow northeast Ohioan who made the trek through Orrville on my way to the College of Wooster in the mid 1980s, I am familiar with the physical space depicted in Steven''s Memoir, and yet I can only begin to imagine the trauma he has had to endure in the past two decades. While his visceral words convey sadness, they also serve as a call to arms-a call to work tirelessly to create the kind of world I was fortunate to grow up in-one in which parents, siblings, spouses, and children love and respect one another for who they are, regardless of their skin color, religion, sex, or sexual orientation. Jonathan Friedman West Chester University Singer/Songwriter STEVEN HENRY GOLDRING likes to play the piano, enjoys a glass of Merlot or a Stoli-martini, straight-up. He has opened for Joan Rivers, ruffled Barbra Streisand''s feathers and is HIV-positive, but that is only the beginning of his story.

Journey back to 1970s Seattle for a historical thriller where the German mob comes after Carl Traeger for a coveted book that could unveil a dark Nazi secret.

Live in the shadows long enough, you get used to the dark 2:00 a.m., the day after Christmas, and Detective Erin O''Reilly is ready for the biggest bust of her career. After months of deceit, danger, and death, Erin and her task force are in place to make a clean sweep of Evan O''Malley and his gang. But when the operation goes sideways, all their carefully-laid plans collapse into chaos. A close friend and co-conspirator is shot in his kitchen. A ruthless O''Malley enforcer is on the loose and bent on revenge. Everything Erin thought she could count on is going up in smoke. With a key witness at risk and new power struggles already simmering, Erin and her K-9 Rolf race through the dark Manhattan streets on a mission to finish off the Irish Mob. As bullets fly and buildings burn, gangsters, cops, and traitors hunt each other in the twilight of New York''s concrete canyons. The O''Malleys'' day may be ending, but they''re not going down without a fight.

"Forest Resource Economics and Finance is intended for undergraduate forestry students, but practicing foresters and policy analysts will also find it a useful reference. The text emphasizes economics as a way of thinking in which we compare added costs and benefits of actions in order to maximize net benefits. With the basics of capital theory, readers learn how to evaluate forestry investments in a way that embraces important environmental factors. Another key feature is a focus on analyzing current conflicts and tradeoffs that will continue to be prominent forestry issues in the 21st century: free market policies versus different levels of government intervention, economic development versus environmental conservation, private property rights versus public amenity rights, and timber versus non-timber outputs. This text also addresses additional topics not often found in other forest economic books including: economics of non-clearcutting management systems, economics of forest damage, risk analysis, inflation, environmental economics, capital budgeting, and regional economics. Add to this a micro-economics review, multiple-use and non-market good analysis, optimal capital management, benefit/cost analysis, timber supply and demand issues, appraisal and valuation, forest industry economics, and world forestry issues, and you have the most comprehensive forest economics text on the market. In addition to new and updated figures throughout the text, this newly-revised second edition provides an overview of important trends in the modern timber industry including advancements in engineered wood, international trade, global environmental issues, as well as community forestry and agroforestry."--Provided by publisher.