Burns Books

_Slow Burn_ is not for the faint-of-heart. People are spontaneously combusting all over Dallas, Texas, and the heroines have to figure out why before they explode themselves.Roxanne Longstreet's protagonists are unusual - a pickpocket and a hooker with a heart of flint - but Longstreet makes the reader care about her characters.The plot keeps you guessing, the writing keeps you involved. Read this book, but not on a dark, stormy night when you are all alone.

Librarian, stripper, and author, Crystal Reed is at the end of her book tour when she stops at a local Miami radio station to be interviewed. From the moment she steps into the sound booth, she feels drawn to Garrett Vartan, the disc jockey. It seems as if he has actually read her book and Crystal is aroused by his countenance and Texas looks. As they are walking to their cars, she gives him her card with her phone number on it hoping he will call her and later that night he does. Crystal can't wait to see him again, but she is scared to death of him finding out her secret.

Radio disc jockey Garrett Vartan is intrigued by Crystal Reed. She is not what he expected at all. Attracted to her, he is pleasantly surprised when she gives him her card with her phone number. Listing the many reasons why he shouldn't call her, Garrett doesn't listen and dials the phone. Thirty minutes later, she is meeting him at the door to her apartment.

Slow Burn by Madison Chase grabbed me and wouldn't let me go. Fully understanding Crystal's hang-ups and insecurities, I kept hoping that Garrett would be man enough to take care of her and make her believe in the power of love. Slow Burn made me sweat and tingle and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it!

Talia
reviewed for Joyfully Reviewed

Slow Burn is one of the few novels that I remember with fondness from my just beginning reading days. One of the first romance novels I ever read, the story of Marnie and Tate has stuck with me. Marnie is involved with Lance, Tate's son. Tate offers Marnie money to break it off with Lance. Marnie is angry, of course, even though she had had every intention of breaking it off because she did not feel the same way about Lance as Lance felt about her. Lance gets kidnapped, and Marnie sees the kidnapper's face, but cannot remember because of the trauma. Tate sets Marnie up at his ranch. The (...) tension begins building immediately and explodes into an inferno. The story is laced with Marnie's father being an Alzheimers patient, and the heartbreak Marnie feels because of this. In the end, Marnie remembers the man's face, though Lance escapes under his own steam. Tate then breaks it off with Marnie because he believes his son is in love with Marnie and that Marnie would be better off with a man younger than he, even if he will suffer to see his son and Marnie together. Marnie gets back together with Tate in the end because Lance tells his father that he is okay with Marnie and Tate's relationship. A wonderful book deserving five stars, you won't regret buying this one. A keeper for sure.

So many of these series romance titles lack a description, how's a girl to find that old favourite she's looking for without them?

Adam - The tough renegade whose secrets she longed to uncover...
He was a wanderer, a stray whose troubled gaze barely hid his anger and despair, but Joanna Taylor kne she'd offer Adam Dursky a job at her Minnesota lodge. Drawn to a loneliness in him that echoed her own, she couldn't fight the fierce desire his touch awakened in her, nor her yearning to feel a woman's deepest passion in the embrace of a strong lover.
Sweet Surrender
Adam had tried to stop running from ghosts and shadows, but only the silken seduction of Joanna's caress kept the terrible memories at bay. Determined to convince his adorable roughneck that forgiveness was better than regret, Adam insisted that Joanna make peace with her own past. Could a redheaded rebel who'd given up on love heal the pain of a hero who'd thought he'd lost his courage?

- The first Cindy Gerard book I ever read and it is truly one of the best short format romances I've ever read. The characters are strong and convincing and all in all, it's a wonderful read that hints of the sheer strength of talent one finds in her later - longer - books.

Just looking at this book makes you wish you were in a snowstorm right now! Kicky 3-color illustrations on every page really bring the flavor of children in the snow, playing, getting money by innovative ways, and more. The text is very simple, almost like a [...] and Jane book. (although the 70's theme is more recent in style.)

Very sturdy covers will take a lot of handling and not show it. A nice size to hold and read. Very highly recommended.

If you want a book written by some one in the field, this is it. The books often used in grad school, ie. Kittel or Ashcroft & Mermin, tend to be favored by instructors who usually are theorists. Burns' book was the "under-ground" favorite of physics grads students getting ready for the oral exams in solid state. No one "officially" told us to get this book, but older grad students would recommend it to younger ones to prepare for their qualifier. Now that I've been "in the field" of solid state physics so-to-speak a few years, I look back and realize this book was the most useful for actual practice of solid state.

I read this book in my twenties and the story has stayed with me all my life. I have even been asked to read one of his poems on television from my hundred and ten year old copy of his life and works.

James Barke being the prime exponent in his knowledge of Robert Burns, has produced books of such detail about the bards early life that the reader is drawn back into the past to the Ayrshire countryside where Burns is living. Although he is a womaniser and a sometimes drunkard, he has such charm and charisma that almost everyone with whom he comes into contact cannot help but like him.

He is constantly in debt but it never seems to get him down. He scribles his hopes thoughts on anything available. He describes his contemporaries in such visible terms that you can see the poverty or the luxury in which they live.

James Barke conveys all of this in enviable detail and makes a mockery of other attempts to recontruct the life af Robert Burns. This book and the others in the series are 'must reads' for all admirers of Burns works

This book contains ALL LYRICS AND TUNES of Robert Burns, as well as the background,history and annotation of every song. To sing these songs is endless joy! A must have for every folk song fan, and for everyone who want to know what the serious study of folk musicology is.

It help me see my best friend, through new glasses. It made me love him more each day.

Souls on Safari? An Irish priest, who lived for a long time in Africa, now having a pilgrim church in California, and looking like Grizzly Adams?
Sean OLaoire has a big heart, and so he unifies many aspects of our human journey - this is the meaning of Safari - in his life and his message.
He's a lateral thinker, a revolutionary, someone you can't shut up, a story teller with great knowledge of life, widely traveled, who used every stopover on his journey to learn - to listen and to love.
His mission, into which he tunes in very passionately, goes from incarnation, via the evolution of spirituality, up to enlightenment and beyond.
Love is just the beginning...
A Safari into the heart of life and wisdom, which includes everything and excludes nothing.