Shorn

Shorn is an interesting title so I could be persuaded to pick it up, though not if it was face-out.

Books Received for July 2008, Week 1 (Pick Your Favorite Cover!) 2008

Marcia Shorn sat down next to me, whipping her long blond hair back, lighting two Marlboro lights, and handing me one.

Sealing off the Exits Christopher Snyder 2010

Shorn of money and phones and stranded several miles into the desert, the protesters began a long trudge back towards Cairo, hailing down cars on the way.

Bloody and bruised: the journalist caught in Egypt unrest 2011

Shorn of the services of Asif and Amir, the astonishing Pakistani fast-bowling conveyor belt keeps churning them out they're the only South Asian nation to have consistently produced top-quality quicks, including statistically the greatest opening bowling partnership of all time, Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis.

Pakistan Shows Resilience Amid Turmoil Richard Lord 2011

Shorn white sheep and their lambs are scattered across a pasture and their vacated field has been topped – the ungrazed weeds and coarse growth cut off.

Country diary: St Dominic, Tamar Valley 2011

Shorn of those, Black Freighter feels more like a grim but clever EC story than anything else.

I’m counting your heads as I’m making the beds: Chris reviews Tales of the Black Freighter | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

Shorn of its hefty costs, however, the No. 3 U.S. carrier by traffic could be an attractive prize for Delta or US Airways, with hubs in markets including Chicago and Dallas and a strong overseas presence.

Rivals Eye American Airlines Gina Chon 2012

My introduction to yarn bombing came courtesy of Knit the City, a tight-knit (sorry) London-based crew with fanciful names: my accomplices today are Deadly Knitshade, the Fastener and Shorn-a the Dead.

The graffiti knitting epidemic Maddy Costa 2010

Shorn of all subtleties and complexities, the chief struggle of men, and of groups of men, is for food and shelter.

THE SCAB 2010

Shorn of Lieberman's lockstep votes, Netanyahu would command a paltry 51 of the Knesset's 120 seats.

Bradley Burston: Israel's Netanyahu, The Man Who Can't Lose -- Or Can He? Bradley Burston 2012