<DIV><DIV>Designed for quick reference in a busy office, this handbook is a concise, practical guide to everyday clinical problems in adolescent medicine. This ready-reference manual is written by noted experts to provide immediate, authoritative answers to questions about common medical and behavioral problems in teenagers. Numerous tables, bulleted lists, and charts help practitioners find information quickly, and a formulary offers guidance in prescribing for teenagers. Coverage includes every important topic in adolescent gynecology and up-to-date strategies for evaluating and treating obese teenagers. Other key concerns addressed include sports medicine, substance abuse, and adolescent violence and suicide.

For beginning gardeners and veteran green-thumbs-this uplifting collection of stories is filled with what every gardener knows-gardens fill lives with a special richness because they are a living reminder of the beauty in the world. <P>Chicken Soup for the Gardener's Soul celebrates all the magic of gardening-the feeling of satisfaction that comes from creating something from nothing; the physical and spiritual renewal the earth provides; and the special moments shared with friends and family only nature can bestow. Written by hobbyists and celebrity gardeners, the stories relate the joys and challenges of gardening, with chapters on Blossoming Friendships, The Family Tree, Love in Bloom, The Seasons of Life, Overcoming Obstacles and Potpourri.

"A writer of incomparable magic."

--Romantic Times

SHE WAS A SIMPLE COUNTRY MISS--CAUGHT UP IN A WORLD OF DANGER AND ROMANCE!<P>Zoe Grainger arrived in London for a Season under the auspices of her dreadfully vain and disagreeable sponsor, Lady Clara Buttershaw. But even the awful Lady Buttershaw could not spoil Zoe's chances for love, especially when a chance encounter threw her in the way of Lieutenant Peregrine Cranford.

And as love embraced Zoe, so did danger. For when Zoe discovered that her brother had become the target of the nefarious League of Jewelled Men, she courageously endeavored to protect him--and the man who had come to claim her heart. . . .

Patricia Veryan is a winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award <P>from Romantic Times<P>

Headstrong heiress Alie+a7nor de Tournan is moved to tears when she sees the wounded Jehan de St. Simon, the renegade knight who has stolen her dower lands and ruined her chances for marriage, thrown into her father's dungeon.

"The reigning queen of period romance" (Rave Reviews) returns with a Regency novel mixing equal parts suspense and romance. A wounded soldier from the Napoleonic Wars arrives at his country mansion (reputed to be haunted) to find on his doorstep a beautiful, Italian lady who believes her father was killed there.