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First Sentence: A fug of tobacco smoke and damp clammy air hit her as she entered the café. Ursula is born…and dies…and is born again. Each life lasts a little longer. With some, we pick up where the previous left off. With others, she has been able t...more |
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First Sentence: Teddy, you would have been proud of me. Somewhat agoraphobic Em Moore was part of a writing team focused on the biographies of the famous. Now that her partner, Teddy, is dead from a single-person automobile crash, it is up to Em to fi...more |
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| First Sentence: On an early morning in mid-August, EPA Special Agents Tim Singewald and Lenox Baker left the Region 8 Environmental Protection Agency building at 1595 Wynkoop Street in downtown Denver in a Chevrolet Malibu SA hybrid sedan they’d chec...more | |
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Speaking from Among the Bones (Flavia de Luce, #5 )
by Alan Bradley (Goodreads Author)
read in April, 2013
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First Sentence: Blood dripped from the neck of the severed head and fell in a drizzle of red raindrops, clotting into a ruby pool upon the black and white tiles. Pre-teen Flavia de Luce is excited about the opening of the 500-year-old tomb of Saint Ta...more |
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First Sentence: It was March, well past midnight, and it was cold. Free-lance investigator Dek Elstrom is still trying to fight his local city hall to regain zoning rights to the tower—no castle, just a tower—in which he lives, but strange things star...more |
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― George Plimpton
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With the grene leaves whisp'ring overhede, or the Streete cryes all about.
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For a jollie goode Booke whereon to looke is better to me than Golde.”
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With the grene leaves whisp'ring overhede, or the Streete cryes all about.
Where I maie Reade all at my ease, both of the Newe and Olde;
For a jollie goode Booke whereon to looke is better to me than Golde.”
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― Paul Gauguin
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