| Green Light | Lloyd Cassell Douglas | Uncommonly sensitive to her owner's moods--for he had imputed
personality to her--Dr. Paige's rakish blue coupe noted at a
glance that this was one of those eventful mornings when she
would be expected to steer her own course to Parkway Hospital. | Buy | |
| The Portrait of a Lady | Henry James Jr | Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more
agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as
afternoon tea. | Buy | |
| The Haunted House | Charles Dickens | Under none of the accredited ghostly circumstances, and environed by none of the conventional ghostly surroundings, did I first make acquaintance with the house which is the subject of this Christmas piece. | Buy | |
| The Transgressors | Jim Thompson | Under the far-west Texas sky, a pale, wind-swept blue in the late August afternoon, the big convertible swayed and swung lazily, jouncing its two occupants--a prostitute and deputy sheriff--into brief contact; it seemed to crawl toward the horizon like a large black bug, caught inside an up-ended, transparent bowl. | Buy | |
| Old Mortality | Walter Dill Scott | Under the reign of the last Stuarts, there was an anxious wish on
the part of Government to counteract, by every means in their
power, the strict or puritanical spirit which had been the chief
characteristic of the republican government, and to revive those
feudal institutions which united the vassal to the liege lord,
and both to the crown. | Buy | |
| Isle of Dogs | Patricia Cornwell | Unique First fit her name like a glove, or at least this was how
her mother always put it. Unique came first and was one of a
kind. There was no one else like her--and this was a damn good
thing, to quote her father, Dr. Ulysses First, who had never
understood what genetic malignancy blighted his only child. | Buy | |
| Kipps | H G Wells | Until he was nearly arrived at manhood, it did not become clear to Kipps how it was that he had come into the care of an aunt and uncle instead of having a father and mother like other little boys. | Buy | |
| So Big | Edna Ferber | Until her was almost ten the name stuck to him. | Buy | |
| Rocket Boys | Homer Hadley Hickam Jr | Until I began to build and launch rockets, I didn't know my
hometown was at war with itself over its children and that my
parents were locked in a kind of bloodless combat over how my
brother and I would live our lives. | Buy | |
| Cass Timberlane | Sinclair Lewis | Until Jinny Marshland was called to the stand, the Judge was
deplorably sleepy. | Buy | |
| Deadly Edge | Richard Stark | Up here, the music was just a throbbing under the feet, a distant pulse. | Buy | |
| Alice of Old Vincennes | Maurice Thompson | Up to the days of Indiana's early statehood, probably as late as
1825, there stood, in what is now the beautiful little city of
Vincennes on the Wabash, the decaying remnant of an old and
curiously gnarled cherry tree, known as the Roussillion tree,
le cerisier de Monsieur Roussillion, as the French
inhabitants called it, which as long as it lived bore fruit
remarkable for richness of flavor and peculiar dark ruby depth of
color. | Buy | |
| The Black Bag | Louis Joseph Vance | Upon a certain dreary April afternoon in the year of grace, 1906,
the apprehensions of Philip Kirkwood, Esquire,
Artist-peintre, were enlivened by the discovery that he
was occupying that singularly distressing social position, which
may be summed up succinctly in a phrase through long usage grown
proverbial: "Alone in London." | Buy | |
| Cloudsplitter | Russell Banks | Upon waking this cold, gray morning from a troubled sleep, I realized for the hundredth time, but this time with deep conviction, that my words and behavior towards you were disrespectful, and rude and selfish as well. Prompting me now, however belatedly, to apologize and beg your forgiveness. | Buy | |
| Women In Love | D H Lawrence | Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father's house in Beldover, working and talking. | Buy | |
| Women in Love | David Herbert Lawrence | Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-day of
their father's house in Beldover, working and talking. | Buy | |
| The Man Who Laughs | Victor Hugo | Ursus and Home were fast firends. Ursus was a man, Homo a wolf.
Their dispositions tallied. | Buy | |
| To-morrow Morning | Anne Parrish | Usually Friday was a day of drooping flowers and fish that had
begun to smell, drooping and smelling among dusty gods and
goddesses, complained of by those aproned young ladies who were
drawing from the antique, and frowned at intently by those whose
still-life studies they were. | Buy | |
| Act of God | Jeremiah Healy | Usually they call first. | Buy | |
