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| . . . And Ladies of the Club | Helen Hooven Santmyer | The Waynesboro Female College in the eighteen fifties and sixties was a fitting subject, along with the Court House, the churches, the "gentlemen's mansions," for a steel engraving of the sort then fashionable,-- | Buy | |
| 10,000 a Year | Samuel Warren | About ten o'clock one Sunday morning, the dazzling sunbeams irradiating a dismal back attic in one of the courts adjoining Oxford Street, London, at length awoke a young man lying in bed. | Buy | |
| 101 Dalmations | Dodie Smith | Not long ago, there lived in London a young married couple of Dalmatian dogs named Pongo and Misses Pongo. | Buy | |
| 1876 | Gore Vidal | "That is New York." I pointed to the waterfront just ahead as if the city were mine. | Buy | |
| 1919 | John Dos Passos | Oh the infantree the infantree With the dirt behind their ears ARMIES CLASH AT VERDUN IN GLOBE'S GREATEST BATTLE 150,000 MEN AND WOMEN PARADE but another question and a very important one is raised. | Buy | |
| 1919 | John Roderigo Dos Passos | Oh the infantree the infantree With the dirt behind their ears ARMIES CLASH AT VERDUN IN GLOBE'S GREATEST BATTLE 150,000 MEN AND WOMEN IN PARADE but another question and a very important one is raised. | Buy | |
| 1984 | George Orwell | It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. | Buy | |
| 2000 Kisses | Christina Skye | Some things were almost as good as sex. | Buy | |
| 2001: A Space Odyssey | Arthur C Clarke | The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended. Here on the Equator, in the continent which would one day be known as Africa, the battle for existence had reached a new climax of ferocity, and the victor was not yet in sight. | Buy | |
| 2010: Odyssey Two | Arthur C Clarke | Even in this metric age, it was still the thousand-foot telescope, not the three-hundred-meter one. | 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 | |
| 54-40 or Fight | Emerson Hough | "Then you offer me no hope, Doctor?" | Buy |