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| Bridge to Terabithia | Katherine Paterson | Ba-room, ba-room, ba-room, baripity, baripity, baripity, baripity --- Good. | Buy | |
| Unleavened Bread | Robert Grant | Babcock and Selma White were among the last of the wedding guests to take their departure. | Buy | |
| Upon Some Midnights Clear | KC Constantine | Balzic had had a deck built on the back of his house. | Buy | |
| Family Values | KC Constantine | Balzic sat stiffly in the first row of straight-backed wooden chairs in the Conemaugh County Courthouse Annex chambers of District Ralph Parma, except Parma wasn't sitting in his chair. | Buy | |
| Sleep Till Noon | Max Shulman | Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Four shots ripped into my groin, and I was off on the biggest adventure of my life . . . But first let me tell you a little about myself. My name is Harry Riddle, and I am a sensitive, retiring person. | Buy | |
| Robur the Conqueror | Jules Verne | Bang! Bang! The pistol shots were almost simultaneous. A cow peacefully grazing fifty yards away received one of the bullets in her back. She had nothing to do with the quarrel all the same. | Buy | |
| The Kingdom of Slender Swords | Hallie Erminie Rives | Barbara leaned against the palpitant rail, the light air fanning her breeze-cool cheek, her arteries beating like tiny drums, atune with the throb, throb, throb, of the steel deck as the black ocean leviathan swept on toward its harbor resting-place. | Buy | |
| House of the Spirits | Isabel Allende | Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy. | Buy | |
| Off Keck Road | Mona Elizabeth Simpson | Bea Maxwell remembered the first time she'd driven out to see the new part of town. It was 1956 and she was home from college for the winter break. After Christmas, though she had to get away from the house. Her sister and her sister's entourage had taken over the place. Her sister always traveled with an entourage. And it was still nine days before Bea could return to the sorority if Madison. | Buy | |
| The Robe | Lloyd Cassell Douglas | Because she was only fifteen and busy with her growing up, Lucia's periods of reflection were brief and infrequent; but this morning she felt weighted with responsibility. | Buy | |
| The Valley of Silent Men | James Oliver Curwood | Before the railroad's thin lines of steel bit their way up through the wilderness, Athabasca Landing was the picturesque threshold over which one must step who would enter into the mystery and adventure of the great white North. | Buy | |
| Doctor Thorne | Anthony Trollope | Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following title, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbours among whom, our doctor followed his profession. | Buy | |
| Coriolanus | William Shakespeare | Before we proceed any further, hear me speak. | Buy | |
| The Silence of the Lambs | Thomas A Harris | Behavior Science, the FBI section that deals with serial murder, is on the bottom floor of the Academy building, at Quantico, half-buried in the earth. Clarice Starling reached it flushed after a fast walk from Hogan's Alley on the firing range. She had grass in her hair and grass stains on her FBI Academy windbreaker from diving to the ground under fire in an arrest problem on the range. | Buy | |
| The Unvanquished | William Faulkner | Behind the smokehouse that summer, Ringo and I had a living map. Although Vicksburg was just a handful of chips from the woodpile and the River a trench scraped into the packed earth with the point of a hoe, it (river, city and terrain) lived, possessing even in miniature that ponderable though passive recalcitrance of topography which outweighs artillery, against which the most brilliant of victories and the most tragic of defeats are but the loud noises of a moment. | Buy | |
| The Honest Whore, Part One | Thomas Dekker | Behold, yon comet shows his head again; Twice hath he thus at cross-turns thrown on us Prodigious looks, twice hath he troubled The waters of our eyes. See, he's turn'd wild; Go on, in God's name. | Buy | |
| Angela's Business | Henry Sydnor Harrison | Being an author actually at work, and not an author being photographed at work by a lady admirer, he did not gaze large-eyed at a poppy in a crystal vase, one hand lightly touching his forehead, the other tossing off page after page in high godlike frenzy. | Buy | |
| Under Fire: An American Story | Oliver North | Being fired is never a pleasant experience, which is why it's normally done behind closed doors. My own firing was handled rather differently. The room was packed, the doors were open, and millions of Americans were watching television. | Buy | |
| The Schoolboy's Story | Charles Dickens | Being rather young at present - I am getting on in years, but still I am rather young - I have no particular adventures of my own to fall back upon. | Buy | |
| Foundation and Empire | Isaac Asimov | Bel Riose traveled without escort, which is not what court etiquette prescribes for the head of a fleet stationed in a yet-sullen stellar system on the Marches of the Galactic Empire. | Buy | |
| Point of Origin | Patricia Cornwell | Benton Wesley was taking off his running shoes in my kitchen when I ran to him, my heart tripping over fear and hate and remembered horror. | Buy | |
| Small Change | Marge Piercy | Beth was looking in the mirror of her mother's vanity. | Buy | |
| A Murder is Announced | Agatha Christie | Between 7:30 and 8:30 every morning except Sundays, Johnnie Butt made the round of the village of Chipping Cleghorn on his bicycle, whistling vociferously through his teeth. | Buy | |
| The River's End | James Oliver Curwood | Between Conniston, of His Majesty's Royal Northwest Mounted Police, and Keith, the outlaw, there was a striking physical and facial resemblance. | Buy | |
| Anthony Adverse | Hervey Allen | Between the villages of Aubiere and Romagnat in the ancient Province of Auvergne there is an old road that comes suddenly over the top of a high hill. To stand south of this ridge looking up at the highway flowing over the skyline is to receive one of those irrefutable impressions from landscape which requires more than a philosopher to explain. In this case it is undoubtedly, for some reason, one of exalted expectation. | Buy | |
| Blue Highways | William Least Heat-Moon | Beware thoughts that come in the night. | Buy | |
| Cloud Atlas | David Mitchell | Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of recent footprints. | Buy | |
| Greatheart | Ethel May Dell | Biddy Maloney stood at the window of her mistress's bedroom, and surveyed the world with eyes of stern disapproval. | Buy | |
| Rogue Roman | Lance Horner | Big, shiny green flies buzzed over the morsels of rotting meat that littered the dusty floor of the courtyard. | Buy | |
| A Time to Kill | John Grisham | Billy Ray Cobb was the younger and smaller of the two rednecks. At twenty-three he was already a three-year veteran of the state penitentiary at Parchman. Possession, with intent to sell. He was a lean, tough little punk who had survived prison by somehow maintaining a ready supply of drugs that he sold and sometimes gave to the blacks and the guards for protection. In the year since his release he had continued to prosper, and his small-time narcotics business had elevated him to the position of one of the more affluent rednecks in Ford County. | Buy | |
| Show Boat | Edna Ferber | Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse. | Buy | |
| Shogun | James Clavell | Blackthorne was suddenly awake. For a moment he thought he was dreaming because he was ashore and the room unbelievable. It was small and very clean and covered with soft mats. He was lying on a thick quilt and another was thrown over him. The ceiling was polished cedar and the walls were lathes of cedar, in squares, covered with an opaque paper that muted the light pleasantly. Beside him was a scarlet tray bearing small bowls. One contained cold cooked vegetables and he wolfed them, hardly noticing the piquant taste. Another contained a fish soup and he drained that. Another was filled with a thick porridge of wheat or barley and he finished it quickly, eating with his fingers. The water in an odd-shaped gourd was warm and tasted curious--slightly bitter but savory. | Buy | |
| The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You! | Harry Harrison | Blodgett is a peaceful planet. | Buy | |
| The Tempest | William Shakespeare | Boatswain! | Buy | |
| The Mystery Of The Laughing Shadow | William Arden | Bob Andrews and Pete Crenshaw were still two miles from their homes in Rocky Beach when they had to turn on their bicycle lights. | Buy | |
| The Power House | William Haggard | Bob Snake was talking to his friend Jim Mott. | Buy | |
| Hearts in Atlantis | Stephen King (used pseudonym Richard Bachman) | Bobby Garfield's father had been one of those fellow who start losing their hair in their twenties and are completely bald by the age of forty-five or so. Randall Garfield was spared this extremity by dying of a heart attack at thirty-six. | Buy | |
| Autobiography | Gilbert Keith Chesterton | Bowing down in blind credulity, as is my custom, before mere authority and the tradition of the elders, superstitiously swallowing a story I could not test at the time by experiment or private judgment, I am firmly of the opinion that I was born on the 29th of May, 1874, on Campden Hill, Kensington; and baptised according to the formularies of the Church of England in the little church of St. George opposite the large Waterworks Tower that dominated that ridge. | Buy | |
| Rabbit, Run | John Updike | Boys are playing basketball around a telephone pole with a blackboard bolted to it. | Buy | |
| The Women of Brewster Place | Gloria Naylor | Brewster Place was the bastard child of several clandestine meetings between the alderman of the sixth district and the managing director of the Unico Realty Company. | Buy | |
| Four Past Midnight | Stephen King (used pseudonym Richard Bachman) | Brian Engle rolled the American Pride L1011 to a stop at Gate 22 and flicked off the FASTEN SEATBELL light at exactly 11:14 P.M. He let a long sigh hiss through his teeth and unfastened his shoulder harness. | Buy | |
| Roses Are Red | James B. Patterson | Brianne Parker didn't look like a bank robber or a murderer--her pleasantly plump baby face fooled everyone. But she knew that she was ready to kill if she had to this morning. She would find out for sure at ten minutes past eight. | Buy | |
| The Scottish Chiefs | Jane Porter | Bright was the summer of 1296. The war which had desolated Scotland was then at an end. | Buy | |
| Giants in the Earth | O E Rölvaag | Bright, clear sky over a plain so wide that the rim of the heavens cut down on it around the entire horizon. | Buy | |
| Felix O'Day | Francis Hopkinson Smith | Broadway on dry nights, or rather that part known as the Great White Way, is a crowded thoroughfare, dominated by lofty buildings, the sky-line studded with constellations of colored signs pencilled in fire. Broadway on wet, rain-drenched nights is the fairy concourse of the Wonder City of the World, its asphalt splashed with liquid jewels afloat in molten gold. | Buy | |
| A Canticle for Leibowitz | Walter Michael Miller Jr | Brother Francis Gerard of Utah might never have discovered the blessed documents, had it not been for the pilgrim with girded loins who appeared during that young novice's Lenten fast in the desert. | Buy | |
| A Canticle for Leibowitz | Walter Miller Jr | Brother Francis Gerard of Utah might never have discovered the blessed documents, had it not been for the pilgrim with girded loins who had appeared during that young novice's Lenten fast in the desert | Buy | |
| Native Son | Richard Wright | Brrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinng! An alarm clock clanged in the dark and silent room. A bed spring creaked. A womans' voice sang out impatiently: "Bigger, shut that thing off!" | Buy | |
| The Call of the Wild | Jack London | Buck did not read the newspapers or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego. | Buy | |
| The Cardinal of the Kremlin | Tom Clancy | Business was being conducted. All kinds of business. Everyone there knew it. Everyone there was a part of it. Everyone there needed it. And yet everyone there was in one way or another dedicated to stopping it. For every person there in the St. George Hall of the Great Kremlin Palace, the dualism was a normal part of life. | Buy | |
| Brown's Requiem | James Ellroy | Business was good. | Buy | |
| Sir Mortimer | Mary Johnston | But if we return not from our adventure," ended Sir Mortimer, "if
the sea claims us, and upon his sandy floor, amid his Armida
gardens, the silver-singing mermaiden marvel at that wreckage
which was once a tall ship and at those bone which once were
animate,--if strange islands know our resting-place, sunk for
evermore in huge and most unkindly forests,--if, being but pawns
in a mighty game, we are lost or changed, happy, however, in that
the white hand of our Queen hath touched us, giving thereby consecration to our else unworthiness,--if we find no gold, nor take one ship of Spain, nor any city treasure-stored,--if we suffer a myriad sort of sorrows and at the last we perish miserably--" | Buy | |
| Michael, Brother of Jerry | Jack London | But Michael never sailed out of Tulagi, nigger-chaser on the Eugenie. | Buy | |
| The Seven Minutes | Irving Wallace | By eleven o'clock in the morning the sun had come out, and now the women of Oakwood, most of them housewives in summer attire and most of them at the wheels in their own cars, were converging on the business district to do their shopping. | Buy | |
| The Unparalleled Adventures of One Hans Pfall | Edgar Allan Poe | By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement. Indeed, phenomena have there occurred of a nature so completely unexpected--so entirely novel--so utterly at variance with preconceived opinions--as to leave no doubt on my mind that long ere this all Europe is in an uproar, all physics in a ferment, all reason and astronomy together by the ears. | Buy | |
| Death by Degrees | Eric Wright | By March the preliminary skirmishing was completed. | Buy | |
| The Moon Is Down | John Ernst Steinbeck | By ten-forty-five it was all over. The town was occupied, the defenders defeated, and the war finished. | Buy | |
| The Sheltered Life | Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow | By the open French window of the dining-room Jenny Blair Archibald was reading Little Woman for the assured reward of a penny a page. | Buy | |
| The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit | Sloan Wilson | By the time they had lived seven years in the little house on Greentree Avenue in Westport, Connecticut, they had deserted it. | Buy |