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Lists of books, many of which received at least one starred review (indicating a work of unusual merit) from the following review sources: Booklist , Publisher's Weekly (PW), Kirkus and Library Journal (LJ). Additional titles of interest may be included on the lists. Titles are generally listed alphabetically by author.
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Sheep Stars
Page Modified: August 19, 2008
Books to flock to . . . about sheep
Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine, unless noted.
Fiction
- Who Are You, Linda Condrick?
Author: Carlon, Patricia
Publisher: Soho $ 22 ISBN: 1569472580 Date: 2002
Kirkus
The contentious relatives living on the remote Forst sheep station are united against an interloper from Sydney who was hired to nurse old Mrs. Forst in her last illness. Now the heir, Gregory Forst, has become engaged to marry her and the others fear that they will be turned out of the valley. A bushfire rages, threatening all of their homesteads. And then, the charred body of a swagman is found. How did he die? Could he have been murdered? By the outsider, the nurse? Who, really, is Linda Condrick?
Updated 5.31.07 - Marchlands
Author: Kuban, Karla
Publisher: Scribner $ 23 ISBN: 0684831651 Date: 1998
Booklist PW
Fifteen-year-old Sophie Baer lives on a sprawling sheep ranch in Wyoming and is obsessed, despite the warnings of her mother, with finding her father and discovering why he left 11 years before. After a frighteningly violent reunion, Sophie seeks refuge and illumination from her grandmother.
Updated 5.31.07 - On the Night
Plain
Author: Lennon, J. Robert
Publisher: Holt $ 23 ISBN: 0805067221 Date: 2001
Library Journal
A brave, beautifully written story follows a man who reluctantly accepts his birthright in a hard-luck Montana sheep ranching family, from the critically acclaimed author of The Light of Falling Stars.
Updated 7/5/01 - The Good Man
Author: Lee, Edward, Jae-Suk
Publisher: Bridge Works $ 21.95 ISBN: 1882593944 Date: 2004
Kirkus
With this striking novel, Edward Jae-Suk Lee delivers the beautifully and poignantly told story of Gabriel Cuttman, an aging Korean War veteran--a good man who has done bad things and is struggling with a terrible secret.
Updated 5.31.07 - Baaa
Author: Maccaulay, David
Date: 1985
After the last person has gone from the earth, sheep take over the world, make the same mistakes as man, and eventually they too disappear.
Updated 5.31.07 - Blackbelly
Author: Sharfeddin, Heather
Publisher: Bridge Works $ 21.95 ISBN: 1882593979 Date: 2005
Kirkus LJ
A contemporary western that suspensefully traces the consequences of a crime of bigotry, this is the story of an unjustly accused sheep rancher's struggle to reclaim his life, and that of a woman close to him in a remote Idaho town.
Updated 9.17.05 - Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Story
Author: Swann, Leonie
Publisher: Doubleday $ 22.95 ISBN: 9780385521116 Date: 2007
Booklist
LJ
A witty philosophical murder mystery with a charming twist: the crack detectives are sheep determined to discover who killed their beloved shepherd in this internationally bestselling tale.
Updated 3.15.07 - The Android's Dream
Author: Scalzi, John
Publisher: Tor $ 23.95 ISBN: 0765309416 Date: 2006
To avoid war, Earth's government must find a type of sheep used in an alien race's coronation ceremony. To find the sheep, the government turns to Harry Creek, ex-cop, war hero, and hacker extraordinaire, who scours the Earth looking for the rare creature. They find it, in the unknowing form of Robin Baker, pet store owner, whose genes contain traces of the sheep DNA.
Updated 5.31.07 - Ostrich
Author: Thomas, Michael A.
Publisher: Univ of Nebraska$ 17.95 ISBN: 0874173515 Date: 2000
Booklist
This delightful comic novel from Michael Thomas will make readers smile, chuckle, then laugh out loud at the antics of the Eckleberry family and their human and animal companions.
Updated 5.31.07 - Seeking Whom He May Devour: Chief Inspector Adamsberg Investigates
Author: Vargas, Fred
Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 14 ISBN: 074328402x Date: 2006Kirkus
Each day, inhabitants of a small community in the French Alps find another of their ewes with its throat cut. When one of the villagers too is killed people begin to wonder: could it be the work of a werewolf? Soon suspicion falls on Massart, one of the villagers.
Updated 8.28.06
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