Free books: Poetry
The Kadin (1978)
I've read most of Small's early romances, but never The Kadin. Can't explain that one. I'm glad I finally did, and I greatly enjoyed it, despite its flaws.First, the good stuff. For a debut novel, Small seemed determined to never let the reader go without description of setting and decor. It is c...
Stray Horse (2001)
More Than a Skeleton (2005)
Dr. Jonathan Weber and his lovely wife Shannon are back in Isreal. Shannon is finishing details related to her last archeological dig and Jonathan is a guest lecturer at the university. Stories of an interesting man named Joshua Ben-Josef begin to surface. He is performing miracles, has 12 follow...
Jump (2002)
"Jump" is a dramatic and riveting story told by Mike Lupica. In this seductively powerful thriller, a beautiful young woman accuses Ellis Adair, the best basketball player in the NBA, of rape. Though he claims innocence, the modern day media still bashes and antagonizes him for being involved in ...
Eloise (2007)
Coyote Wind (1996)
This is a book about character and place. The murder mystery moves the story forward, but is used mostly to tell us about the character of Gabriel DuPre. In fact, it doesn't really work well as a murder mystery because its solution comes mostly from a deus ex machina in the form of a local quasi-...
The Nicholas Feast (2007)
Once again, I found myself stumbling along with the dialect in the beginning, but as with the Harper's Quine, I reached the point where the context and my enjoyment of the storyline and characters let me find my way. (To this end, I still think the e-book version is one of the better choices for ...
The Holiday (1993)
The Holiday was published in 2008, as it is set in Corfu I thought it would be the ideal book to take with me on holiday this year. It was really interesting to read her descriptions of the beautiful island of Corfu whilst I was actually there, I actually read the chapter where the lead chara...