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| For My Country's Freedom | Alexander Kent | Lady Catherine Somervell reined in the big mare and patted her neck with a gloved hand. | Buy | |
| Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier | Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. | Buy | |
| Rebecca | Daphne du Maurier | Last night I dreamt I went to Manderly again. | Buy | |
| The Long Lavender Look | John D MacDonald | Late April. | Buy | |
| The Desert of Wheat | Zane Grey | Late in June the vast northwestern desert of wheat began to take on a tinge of gold, lending an austere beauty to that endless, rolling, smooth world of treeless hills, where miles of fallow ground and miles of waving grain sloped up to the far-separated homes of the heroic men who had conquered over sage and sand. | Buy | |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe | Late in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting alone over their wine, in a well-furnished dining-parlor, in the town of P-----, in Kentucky. | Buy | |
| Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Late in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting alone over their wine, in a well-furnished dining parlor, in the town of P----, in Kentucky. | Buy | |
| The Keys of the Kingdom | Archibald Joseph Cronin | Late one afternoon in September 1938 old Father Francis Chisholm limped up the steep path from the church of St. Columba to his house upon the hill. | Buy | |
| Alexander | Willa Sibert Cather | Late one brilliant April afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson stood at the head of Chestnut Street, looking about him with the pleased air of a man of taste who does not very often get to Boston. | Buy | |
| The Citadel | Archibald Joseph Cronin | Late one October afternoon in the year 1921, a shabby young man gazed with fixed intensity through the window of a third-class compartment in the almost empty train labouring up the Penowell valley from Swansea. | Buy | |
| The Secret People | John Beynon Harris | Late one September afternoon the inhabitants of Algiers discovered that they could suffer from a new kind of noise in their sky. | Buy | |
| City of Night | John Francisco Rechy | Later I would think of America as one vast City of Night stretching gaudily from Times Square to Hollywood Boulevard--jukebox-winking, rock-n-roll-moaning: America at night fusing its darkcities into the unmistakable shape of loneliness. | Buy | |
| Vineland | Thomas Pynchon | Later than usual one summer morning in 1984, Zoyd Wheeler drifted awake in sunlight through a creeping fig that hung in the window, with a squadron of blue jays stomping around on the roof. | Buy | |
| The Galaxy | Susan Ertz | Laura Alicia Deverell was born on May 10th, 1862, at precisely a quarter past one o'clock on a Thursday morning. Those interested in that pseudo-science astrology or astromancy may trace her life and character, if they wish, among the stars, where no doubt it is all written. | Buy | |
| Brown on Resolution | C S Forester | Leading Seaman Albert Brown lay dying on Resolution. | Buy | |
| The Indwelling | Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins | Leah Rose prided herself on thinking under pressure. She'd been chief administrative nurse in a large hospital for a decade and had also been one on few believers there the last three and a half years. | Buy | |
| Town Tamer | Frank Gruber | Lee Ring tied his horse to a pole behind Riley Condor's Kansas Saloon, rolled a cigarette and lighted it, while his eyes searched the alley to the right and left. | Buy | |
| Murder Has Your Number | Hugh Garner | Lee Wing cruised his owner-driven taxicab down Toronto's Yonge Street, under the concrete bridges of the freeway and down the hill towards the stoplights where York Mills Road became Wilson Avenue on its quadruple-named crossing of the city and its boroughs. | Buy | |
| Nan of Music Mountain | Frank Hamilton Spearman | Lefever, if there was a table in the room, could never be got to
sit on a chair; and being rotund he sat preferably sidewise on the edge of the table. | Buy | |
| Leave Her to Heaven | Ben Ames Williams | Leick and the boatman adjusted a bridle on the canoe so that it would tow without yawing, and they loaded the dunnage into the motorboat, and then Leick came to where Harland was waiting. | Buy | |
| Lucky | Jackie Collins | Lennie Golden had not set foot in Vegas for thirteen years, even though it was the city of his conception, birth and first seventeen years of life. | Buy | |
| The Spook Legion | Kenneth Robeson | Leo Bell was a counter clerk in a Boston telegraph office. | Buy | |
| Love's Labor's Lost | William Shakespeare | Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, Live regist'red upon our brazen tombs And then grace us in the disgrace of death; When, spite of cormorant devouring Time, Th' endeavor of this present breath may buy That honor which shall bate his scythe's keen edge And make us heirs of all eternity. | Buy | |
| Paco's Story | Larry Heinemann | Let's begin with the first clean fact, James: This ain't no war story. | Buy | |
| Dangerous Liaisons | Pierre Choderlos de Laclos | LETTER I: Cecile de Volanges to Sophie Carnay at the Ursuline
Convent of ----- You see my dear Sophie I am keeping my word. Frills and furbelows do not take up all my time; there will always be some left over for you. Nonetheless, I have seen more frippery in the course of this one day than I did in all the four years we spent together; and I think our fine Tanville is going to be more mortified by my next visit to the convent (when I shall certainly ask to see her) than she could ever have hoped we were by all those visits of hers to us en grande tenue. | Buy | |
| Love and Friendship | Jane Austen | Letter the First from Isabel to Laura | Buy | Read |
| Lesley Castle | Jane Austen | Letter The first is from Miss Margaret Lesley to Miss Charlotte Lutterell | Buy | |
| On the Beach | Nevil Shute (Nevil Shute Norway) | Lieutenant Commander Peter Holmes of the Royal Australian Navy woke soon after dawn. | Buy | |
| The Four Feathers | Alfred Edward Woodley Mason | Lieutenant Sutch was the first of General Feversham's guests to reach Broad Place. He arrived about five o'clock on an afternoon of sunshine in mid June, and the old red-brick house, lodged on a southern slope of the Surrey hills, was glowing from a dark forest depth of pines with the warmth of a rare jewel. | Buy | |
| Fang and Claw | Frank Buck | Life in the jungle is a constant struggle for the survival of the fittest. | Buy | |
| Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family | Howard Phillips Lovecraft | Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous. Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species--if separate species we be--for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world. | Buy | |
| The Road Less Traveled | Morgan Scott Peck | Life is difficult. | Buy | |
| Blue Camellia | Frances Parkinson Keyes | Life was sometimes puzzling to Lavinia Winslow, but it was never dull, and she could remember when it had begun to seem both bewildering and more exciting. It was the spring after her father had been so sick, and she had made her grandmother and grandfather Winslow a long visit. | Buy | |
| City and the Stars | Arthur C Clarke | Like a glowing jewel, the city lay upon the breast of the desert. Once it had known change and alteration, but now time passed it by. Night and day fled across the desert's face, but in Diaspar it was always afternoon, and darkness never came. | Buy | |
| Lady Baltimore | Owen Wister | Like Adam, our first conspicuous ancestor, I must begin, and lay the blame upon a woman; I am glad to recognize that I differ from the father of my sex in no important particular, being as manlike as most of his sons. | Buy | |
| The Cardinal | Henry Morton Robinson | Like many a Florentine before him, Captain Gaetano Orselli, master of the luxury-liner Vesuvio, was inordinately fond of jewelry. As a younger man he had not wholly resisted the temptation to overload his person--especially his hands--with costly stones; but now in his meridian forties a purer taste was asserting itself. The gem for its own sake had become a canon with Captain Orselli. | Buy | |
| The Exorcist | William Peter Blatty | Like the brief doomed flare of exploding suns that registers dimly on blind men's eyes, the beginning of the horror passed almost unnoticed; in the shriek of what followed, in fact, was forgotten and perhaps not connected to the horror at all. It was difficult to judge. | Buy | |
| The Excorcist | William Peter Blatty | Like the brief doomed flare of exploding suns that registers dimly on blind men's eyes, the beginning of the horror passed almost unnoticed; in the shriek of what followed, in fact, was forgotten and perhaps not connected to the horror at all. | Buy | |
| A Sweetness to the Soul | Jane Kirkpatrick | Like the slow rising of the river after an early snow melt in the mountains, he seeped into my life, unhurried, almost without notice, until the strength and breadth of him covered everything that had once been familiar, made it different, new over old. | Buy | |
| Dragon Seed | Pearl S. Buck | Ling Tan lifted his head. Over the rice field in which he stood to his knees in water he heard his wife's high loud voice. | Buy | |
| Richard Carvel | Winston Churchill | Lionel Carvel, Esq., of Carvel Hall, in the county of Queen Anne, was no inconsiderable man in his Lordship's province of Maryland, and indeed he was not unknown in the colonial capitals from Williamsburg to Boston. | Buy | |
| Years of Grace | Margaret Ayer Barnes | Little Jane Ward sat at her father's left hand at the family breakfast table, her sleek, brown pigtailed head bent discreetly over her plate. She was washing down great mouthfuls of bacon and eggs with gulps of too hot cocoa. | Buy | |
| The Faerie Queene | Edmund Spenser | Lo I the man, whose Muse whilome did maske, As time her taught, in lowly Shepheards weeds, Am now enforst a far vnfitter taske, For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine Oaten reeds, And sing of Knights and Ladies gentle deeds; Whose prayses hauing slept in silence long, Me, all too meane, the sacred Muse areeds To blazon broad emongst her learned throng: Fierce warres and faithfull loues shall moralize my song. | Buy | |
| Gods of Riverworld | Philip José Farmer | Loga had cracked like an egg. | Buy | |
| Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loin. | Buy | |
| Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. | Buy | |
| Simon Called Peter | Robert Keable | London lay as if washed with water-colour that Sunday morning, light blue sky and pale dancing sunlight wooing the begrimed stones of Westminster like a young girl with an old lover. | Buy | |
| Bleak House | Charles Dickens | London. Michaelmas Term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall. | Buy | |
| The Moneychangers | Arthur Hailey | Long afterward, many would remember those two days in the first week of October with vividness and anguish. | Buy | |
| The Girls of Slender Means | Muriel Spark | Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions. | Buy | |
| Return of the Jedi Storybook | Joan D. Vinge | Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, the leaders of the Rebel Alliance were gathering to plan the next move in their battle against the evil Galactic Empire. The Rebels had been fighting the Empire and its cruel leader for a long time. They were trying to win freedom for all the worlds the Empire oppressed, but they were badly outnumbered. | Buy | |
| A Fable | William Faulkner | Long before the first bugles sounded from the barracks within the city and the cantonments surrounding it, most of the people in the city were already awake. | Buy | |
| The Case of the Roving Rolls | George Wyatt | Long time no crime. | Buy | |
| The Matlock Paper | Robert Ludlum | Loring walked out the side entrance of the Justice Department and looked for a taxi. It was nearly first thirty, a spring Friday, and the congestion in the Washington streets was awful. Loring stood by the curb and held up his left hand, hoping for the best. He was about to abandon the effort when a cab that had picked up a fare thirty feet down the block stopped in front of him. | Buy | |
| Pet Sematary | Stephen King (used pseudonym Richard Bachman) | Louis Creed, who had lost his father at three and who had never known a grandfather, never expected to find a father as he entered his middle age, but that was exactly what happened . . . although he called this man a friend, as a grown man must do when he finds the man who should have been his father relatively late in life. | Buy | |
| The Brimming Cup | Dorothy Canfield Fisher | Lounging idly in the deserted little waiting-room was the usual shabby, bored, lonely ticket-seller, prodigiously indifferent to the grave beauty of the scene before him and to the throng of ancient memories jostling him where he stood. | Buy | |
| Tobacco Road | Erskine Caldwell | Lov Bensey trudged homeward through the deep white sand of the gully-washed tobacco road with a sack of winter turnips on his back. | Buy | |
| By Love Possessed | James Gould Cozzens | Love conquers all--omnia vincit amor, said the gold scroll in a curve beneath the dial of the old French gilt clock. | Buy | |
| Soldier's Pay | William Faulkner | Lowe, Julian, number, -----, late a Flying Cadet, Umptieth Squadron, Air Service, known as "One Wing" by the other embryonic aces of his flight, regarded the world with a yellow and disgruntled eye. | Buy | |
| Dear and Glorious Physician | Taylor Caldwell | Lucanus was never sure whether he liked or disliked his father. He was only certain that he pitied him. Simple men of no pretensions could be admired. Wise men could be honored. But his father was not simple or wise, though he considered himself the latter. | Buy | |
| Lucien Leuwen | de Stendhal | Lucien Leuwen was expelled from the Ecole Polytechnique for having gone for an untimely walk on a day when he, with his fellow students, had been ordered to keep to their quarters. It was on one of those famous days of June, 1832. | Buy | |
| House Divided | Ben Ames Williams | Lucy Hanks, pulling corn, hating the weary task, moved slowly up the clearing. She wrenched off the full ears with a resentful vehemence, tossing them in little piles behind her. | Buy | |
| The Thirty-First of June: A Tale of True Love, Enterprise and Progress in the Arthurian and Ad-Atomic Ages | J B Priestly | Lunaday, the 31st of June, brought to Peradore the kind of summer morning we all remember from years ago but seem to have missed ever since. | Buy | |
| Fear | L. Ron Hubbard | Lurking, that lovely spring day, in the office of Dr. Chalmers, Atworthy College Medical Clinic, there might have been two small spirits of the air, pressed back into the dark shadow behind the door, avoiding as far as possible the warm sunlight which fell gently upon the rug. | Buy | |
| The Devil's Cure | Ken Oppel | Lying wasted in the quarantine room of the prison infirmary, Frank Hayworth had refused all medication, even the pills that would at least numb the pain as his lungs filled with fluid. | Buy | |
| The Golden Compass | Philip Pullman | Lyra and her daemon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen. | Buy |