books: short straw

books: short straw

books:

Short straw

Ellease Southerland

Amistad, 2005

Let the Lion Eat Straw - indeed the perfect book
At a local bookstore gathering that brings readers and writers together, an editor from Amistad referred to this as "the perfect book." Sure, the perfect book. What is the perfect book? Then she passed out copies and while home sick one day, I read it. Now, after ...

Short Straw

Stuart Woods

Signet, 2007

A good story although bland for thriller fans
This review is for the Signet paperback, May 2007, 375 pages. SHORT STRAW was on the USA Today's Top 150 Best-Selling books list for eight weeks reaching the peak position of 43. Stuart Woods has 26 novels on this best-seller list. Ed Eagle, a successful lawyer, ...

Tracks in the Straw: Tales Spun from the Manger

Ted Loder

Augsburg Books, 2004

A necessity for Christmas!
"Tracks In the Snow" is a delight as our eyes open a little wider each time we return to enjoy Ted Loder's brilliant collection of nativity stories and modern fables. As the wood shavings fly, we find ourselves puzzling with Joseph in his loneliness as he wrestled with ...

Short Straw Bride (Harlequin Historical, 339)

Dallas Schulze

Harlequin, 1996

I enjoyed it...
This was my first Dallas Schulze book & I have to say that I really like her simple style of writing. A little mystery or adventure would've been great but it was still very good. I really enjoyed the brother & best friend of Luke & Eleanor. I thought they deserved ...

A Straw Epic and Other Stories: Rajasthani Tales
Vijay Dan Detha

Fordham University Press, 2008

The rollicking folk-based tales of Rajasthani writer Vijay Dan Detha have been winning national literature awards in India since the 1970s, but have only recently been available in English translation. Detha has a gift for selecting the most provocative tales he hears from his fellow villagers and recreating them in a literary form as engaging ...