books about: short     books:     Short      The Alchemist Paulo Coelho HarperCollins, 2006 A classic This classic, beautiful tale about following one's quest and the power of the "Personal Legend", as the author calls it, was an easy and enjoyable read. I found the story of Santiago's (the main character's) spiritual travels through Spain very inspiring. It ...             The Shack William P. Young Windblown Media, 2008 Wonderful Blessing I am ordering "The Shack" for all of my seven children. It warmed my heart, when I needed it badly.This book enhanced my thinking of what God is and how he loves us. My friends are also reading this book.             Home: A Novel Marilynne Robinson Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 Coming back HOME to Gilead Four years ago, I briefly inhabited Marilynne Robinson's small world of Gilead and was the better because of it. Now she returns her readers to Gilead with a new meditative novel that, I'm pleased to say, is just about every bit as good as its prequel. Set in the ...             A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini Riverhead, 2007 Very touching This is a must read if you have read Kite Runner. I loved this book from start to finish.             Backup Jim Butcher Subterranean, 2008 Jim Lays A Golden Egg My copy of this tiny treasure arrived the other day and I thought of celebrating with a beer. However, upon reflection, I realized that beer, although perfectly apt for the latest Harry Dresden adventure, would be completely inappropriate for this particular ...             Midnight: A Gangster Love Story Sister Souljah Atria, 2008 Midnight First off if you are looking for a sequel to The Coldest Winter Ever, this aint it, you will be very disappointed. Though the story is about the charachter Midnight from the Coldest Winter Ever, this book is about his life before the Santiagos. As a matter of fact the ...             Just After Sunset: Stories Stephen King Scribner, 2008 Stephen King -- who has written more than fifty books, dozens of number one New York Times bestsellers, and many unforgettable movies -- delivers an astonishing collection of short stories, his first since Everything's Eventual six years ago. As guest editor of the bestselling Best American Short Stories 2007 , King spent over a year reading ...             The White Tiger: A Novel (Man Booker Prize) Aravind Adiga Free Press, 2008 Extraordinary Debut Novel The conceit of Adiga's "White Tiger" -- told in the form of letters from Balram, a successful Indian entrepreneur, writing to the President of China to explain how he rose from poverty and became successful -- has been discussed by other reviewers on Amazon and I doubt ...             A Mercy Toni Morrison Knopf, 2008 A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize?winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier. In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class divisions, prejudice and oppression were rife, providing the fertile ...             Suite 606 J.D. Robb, Mary Blayney, ... Berkley, 2008 four well written speculative fiction novellas "Ritual in Death" by J.D. Robb. NYPD Police Lieutenant Eve Dallas and her spouse Roarke attend a gala that is interrupted by a satanic vicious homicide of an Indiana transplant. ."Love Endures" by Mary Blayney. Recently widowed Summer Cassidy has enough on her ...             The Secret Scripture Sebastian Barry Viking Adult, 2008 A Clear View Roseanne Clear is an ancient woman living in an Irish asylum to which she was committed "for social reasons" after she bore an out-of-wedlock child. She has been a resident for so long that no one knows how old she really is or exactly what the circumstances of her ...             The Best American Short Stories 2008 (The Best American Series) Houghton Mifflin, 2008 Recommended I look forward to this series every year, so it was with high hopes that I opened up this year's editon and began to read. The format is the same as it has been for years, with Ms. Pitlor cherry picking stories and handing over a hundred or so vetted stories to the ...             Fireproof Eric Wilson, Alex Kendrick and Stephen Kendrick Thomas Nelson, 2008 love fireproof book I went to the movie and had to have the book. It is wonderfully written. It goes great with the Love Dare book.             The Living Dead Stephen King, Joe Hill, ... Night Shade Books, 2008 Excellent Zombie anthology What could be more enjoyable than a Zombie story anthology? How about enjoying one during and after Hurricane Ike, with no power and candlelight?? How about one that includes three of my all-time fav authors (Dan Simmons, George R. R. Martin and Stephen King)? How ...             Many Bloody Returns (Sookie Stackhouse) Ace Hardcover, 2007 Loved it. I really enjoyed this book. Especially 'How Stella Got Her Grave Back.' I thought the title was very clever. 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