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| All This, and Heaven Too | Rachel Field | DEAR GRAND-AUNT
HENDRIETTA, Although I never knew you in life, as a child I often cracked butternuts on your tombstone. | Buy | |
| Darconville's Cat | Alexander Louis Theroux | Darconville, the schoolmaster, always wore black. | Buy | |
| White Fang | Jack London | Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean toward each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. A vast silence reigned over the land. | Buy | |
| No Thoroughfare | Charles Dickens | Day of the month and year, November the thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five. | Buy | |
| Tom Cringle's Log | Michael Scott | Dazzled by the glories of Trafalgar, I, Thomas Cringle, one fine morning in May, 1806, when I was thirteen years old, asked an old uncle to intercede with his former comrade-in-arms, Sir Anthony Hollowell, vice-admiral of the Red Squadron, a Lord of the Admiralty, to find me a berth on one of his Majesty's ships of war without delay. | Buy | |
| The End of the Night | John D MacDonald | Dear Ed, Well, we had the big day here, and we sent the four of them off to their reward with what Satchel-Butt Shires, our lovable Warden called "splendid efficiency". | Buy | |
| Dear Enemy | Jean Webster | Dear Judy: Your letter is here. I have read it twice, and with amazement. Do I understand that Jervis has given you, for a Christmas present, the making over of the John Grier Home into a model institution, and that you have chosen me to disburse the money? Me--I, Sallie McBride, the head of an orphan asylum! My poor people, have you lost your senses, or have you become addicted to the use of opium, and is this the raving of two fevered imaginations? I am exactly as well fitted to take care of one hundred children as to become the curator of a zoo. | Buy | |
| The Poet | Michael Connelly | Death is my beat. | Buy | |
| Pollyanna Grows Up | Eleanor Hodgman Porter | Della Wetherby tripped up the somewhat imposing steps of her sister's Commonwealth Avenue home and pressed an energetic finger against the electric-bell button. | Buy | |
| Dere Mable | Edward Streeter | Dere Mable: I guess you thought I was dead. Youll never know how near you was to right. We got the tents up at last, though, so I got a minit to rite. I guess they choose these camps by mail order. The only place there flat is on the map. Where our tents is would make a good place for a Rocky Mountin goat if he didnt break his neck. The first day the Captin came out an says "Pitch your tents here." | Buy | |
| The Sin Sniper | Hugh Garner | Detective Inspector Walter McDumont of the Metropolitan Toronto Police homicide squad jockeyed his three-year-old Galaxie along Dundas Street East in the morning rush-hour traffic. | Buy | |
| Spartina | John Dudley Casey | Dick Pierce swung the bait barrel off his wharf into his work skiff. | Buy | |
| Death Kit | Susan Sontag | Diddy the Good was taking a business trip. | Buy | |
| 24 Hours | Louis Bromfield | Dinner was finished at last and old Hector Champion sat like Lucullus, white and bloated, fingering a tall crystal Burgundy glass and surveying the beautiful table. | Buy | |
| Cocksure | Mordecai Richler | Dino Tomasso braked before the high, familiar gates with the coupling snakes woven into the wrought iron. | Buy | |
| The Fruits of the Earth | André Gide | Do not hope, Nathaniel, to find God here or there - but everywhere. | Buy | |
| Tom Sawyer Abroad | Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) | Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures? | Buy | |
| The Honorary Consul | Graham Henry Greene | Doctor Eduardo Plarr stood in the small port on the Parana, among the rails and yellow cranes, watching where a horizontal plume of smoke stretched over the Chaco. It lay between the red bars of sunset like a stripe on a national flag. Doctor Plarr found himself alone at that hour except for the one sailor who was on guard outside the maritime building. It was an evening which, by some mysterious combination of failing light and the smell of an unrecognized plant, brings back to some men the sense of childhood and of future hope and to others the sense of something which has been lost and nearly forgotten. | Buy | |
| The Honorary Consul | Graham Greene | Doctor Eduardo Plarr stood in the small port on the Paraná, among the rails and yellow cranes, watching where a horizontal plume of smoke stretched over the Chaco. | Buy | |
| The Peacemaker | C S Forester | Doctor Edward Pethwick, mathematics and physics master at the Liverpool School, was sitting at a window in his room adjoining the senior physics laboratory. | Buy | |
| Dombey and Son | Charles Dickens | Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great armchair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and it was essential to toast hom brown while he was very new. | Buy | |
| The Bell | Iris Murdoch | Dora Greenfield left her husband because she was afraid of him. She decided six months later to return to him for the same reason. The absent Paul, haunting her with letters and telephone bells and imagined footsteps on the stairs had begun to be the greater torment. | Buy | |
| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | Lyman Frank Baum | Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife. | Buy | |
| Come and Get It | Edna Ferber | Down the stairway of his house came Barney Glasgow on his way to breakfast. | Buy | |
| The Testament | John Grisham | Down to the last day, even the last hour now. I'm an old man, lonely and unloved, sick and hurting and tired of living. I am ready for the hereafter; it has to be better than this. | Buy | |
| Corelli's Mandolin | Louis de Bernieres | Dr Iannis had enjoyed a satisfactory day in which none of his patients had died or got any worse. | Buy | |
| Outbreak | Robin Cook | Dr Iannis had enjoyed a satisfactory day in which none of his patients had died or got any worse | Buy | |
| Flowers for Algernon | Daniel Keyes | Dr Strauss says I should rite down what I think and remembir and evrey thing that happins to me from now on. I dont no why but he says its importint so they will see if they can use me. I hope they use me becaus Miss Kinnian says mabye they can make me smart. I want to be smart. | Buy | |
| The Dolliver Romance | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Dr. Dolliver, a worthy personage of extreme antiquity, was aroused rather prematurely, one summer morning, by the shouts of the child Pansie, in an adjoining chamber, summoning old Martha (who performed the duties of nurse, housekeeper, and kitchen-maid, in the Doctor's establishment) to take up her little ladyship and dress her. | Buy | |
| The Song of the Lark | Willa Sibert Cather | Dr. Howard Archie had just come up from a game of pool with the Jewish clothier and two traveling men who happened to be staying overnight in Moonstone. | Buy | |
| Captain Corelli's Mandolin | Louis De Berniers | Dr. Iannis had enjoyed a satisfactory day in which none of his patients had died or got any worse. | Buy | |
| The Road to Wellville | T. Coraghessan Boyle | Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, inventor of the cornflake and peanut butter, not to mention caramel-cereal coffee, Bromose, Nuttolene and some seventy-five other gastronomically correct foods, paused to level his gaze on the heavyset women in front of him. | Buy | |
| The Awakening of Helena Ritchie | Margaret Deland | Dr. Lavendar and Goliath had toiled up the hill to call on old Mr. Benjamin Wright; when they jogged back in the late afternoon it was with the peculiar complacency which follows the doing of a disagreeable duty. | Buy | |
| Assignment - Lili Lamaris | Edward S Aarons | Durell flew from New York via an Alitalia airliner directly to the Ciampino Airport outside of Rome, and he used the regular bus service to get to his hotel on the Via Veneto, not far from the Palazzo Margherita, where the American Embassy was located. | Buy | |
| Assignment--White Rajah | Edward S Aarons | Durell ran and fell and picked himself up and ran again. | Buy | |
| Assignment--Death Ship | William B Aarons | Durell squinted into the Caribbean glare, searching the distance where the stricken liner Sun Rover could be expected to emerge from its shroud of salt haze. | Buy | |
| Assignment - 13th Princess | William B Aarons | Durell thought he must be dreaming. | Buy | |
| The Corsican Brothers | Alexandre Dumas pere | During the early part of the month of March, in the year 1841, I traveled in Corsica. | Buy | |
| Seven Gothic Tales | Isak Dinesen | During the first quarter of the last century, seaside resorts became the fashion, even in those countries of Northern Europe within the minds of whose people the sea had hitherto held the role of the devil, the cold and voracious hereditary foe of humanity. | Buy | |
| The Return of the Great Brain | John D Fitzgerald | During the first week of August in the year 1898 a trial was held in Adenville, Utah. | Buy | |
| The Eighth Dwarf | Ross Thomas | During the war Minor Jackson had served with the Office of Strategic Services, in Europe mostly, although some four months before the fighting there was done they had flown him out to Burma. | Buy | |
| From the Earth to the Moon | Jules Verne | During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was
established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland.
It is well known with what energy the taste for military matters
became developed among that nation of ship-owners, shopkeepers,
and mechanics. Simple tradesmen jumped their counters to become
extemporized captains, colonels, and generals, without having
ever passed the School of Instruction at West Point;
nevertheless; they quickly rivaled their compeers of the old continent, and, like them, carried off victories by dint of lavish expenditure in ammunition, money, and men. | Buy | |
| The Fall of the House of Usher | Edgar Allan Poe | During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher | Buy | |
| An American Tragedy | Theodore Dreiser | Dusk--of a summer night. | Buy | |
| Venus Envy | Rita Mae Brown | Dying's not so bad. At least I won't have to answer the telephone. | Buy |