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  • #1
    Andri E. Elia
    “Do flyers become archers when you give them a bow? No. They need arrows, too.”
    Andri E. Elia, Borealis: A Worldmaker of Yand Novel

  • #2
    Alan    Bradley
    “The holiday village had sprung up in Bryant Park, and the ice rink and booths were bustling with early Christmas shoppers. It smelled like fried food and scented candles, mixed with the occasional blast of diesel from the traffic inching along 42nd Street. When I think of how New York City smells, this is it.”
    Alan Bradley, The Sixth Borough

  • #3
    “Decker smiled and shrugged off their laughter. The humour was only barbed if you sat on the outside, and now he was one of them.”
    R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

  • #4
    Michael G. Kramer
    “Acting Rear Admiral Gillet said, “Captain Scultetus, please try to understand that Britain and Germany are at war! The HMS Armadale Castle has been ordered to wipe the Swakop River Radio station off the map!”
    Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

  • #5
    Raz Mihal
    “My heart shivers, feeling divine love for all soul images in search of romance.”
    Raz Mihal, Just Love Her

  • #6
    Max Nowaz
    “If you always try to subjugate people by coercion, because you are strong, then sooner or later you will run into somebody who is just as strong, if not stronger. Then you'll be in trouble.”
    Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

  • #7
    Elizabeth Tebby Germaine
    “Was there something … something evil …getting at Hugo? This bizarre and unwelcome thought surfaced in his mind. Were demons and evil spirits only to be found in the bible stories, or maybe this was some sort of challenge to him to deal with without help from anyone, least of all from the One who he constantly questioned and tried to understand …”
    Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, A MAN WHO SEEMED REAL: A story of love, lies, fear and kindness

  • #8
    Susan  Rowland
    “Mary’s hands clenched. She’d been through fire, what with a murder, and white supremacists. And what about Caroline, who had gone undercover to rescue the Scroll’s Key Keeper? Where were the College’s thanks for that?”
    Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

  • #9
    Tatiana de Rosnay
    “family secret that was about to disrupt her”
    Tatiana de Rosnay, The Other Story

  • #10
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.”
    Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day

  • #11
    Umberto Eco
    “He had prepared his death much earlier, in his imagination, unaware that his imagination, more creative than he, was planning the reality of that death.”
    Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

  • #12
    Harriet Ann Jacobs
    “Keine Bande sind so stark wie die, die durch geteiltes Leid geschmiedet werden.”
    Harriet Ann Jacobs, Erlebnisse aus dem Leben eines Sklavenmädchens (Ungekürzte Gesamtausgabe)

  • #13
    Stephanie Perkins
    “And, suddenly, I want to touch him. Not a push, or a shove, or even a friendly hug. I want to feel the creases in his skin, connect his freckles with invisible lines, brush my fingers across the inside of his wrist.”
    Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

  • #14
    Ammar Habib
    “A death is like a ripple on the lake, lasting much longer than the impact that created it.”
    Ammar Habib, The Orphans of Kashmir



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