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by (shelved 7 times as hook)
avg rating 3.77 — 488,891 ratings — published 2021

by (shelved 3 times as hook)
avg rating 4.09 — 20,775 ratings — published 2024

by (shelved 2 times as hook)
avg rating 3.95 — 110,140 ratings — published 2022

by (shelved 2 times as hook)
avg rating 3.84 — 24,776 ratings — published 2020

by (shelved 2 times as hook)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,091 ratings — published

by (shelved 2 times as hook)
avg rating 3.58 — 9,732 ratings — published

by (shelved 2 times as hook)
avg rating 4.20 — 33,240 ratings — published 2017

by (shelved 2 times as hook)
avg rating 3.88 — 436,038 ratings — published 2022

by (shelved 2 times as hook)
avg rating 3.44 — 8,277 ratings — published 2013

by (shelved 2 times as hook)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,693 ratings — published 1940

by (shelved 1 time as hook)
avg rating 3.91 — 152 ratings — published

by (shelved 1 time as hook)
avg rating 4.27 — 8,347 ratings — published 2004

by (shelved 1 time as hook)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,433,457 ratings — published 1897

by (shelved 1 time as hook)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,033,879 ratings — published 2023

by (shelved 1 time as hook)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,797,615 ratings — published 1818

by (shelved 1 time as hook)
avg rating 3.82 — 681 ratings — published 2024

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avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published

by (shelved 1 time as hook)
avg rating 2.70 — 10 ratings — published

by (shelved 1 time as hook)
avg rating 4.03 — 370,858 ratings — published 1911

by (shelved 1 time as hook)
avg rating 3.64 — 29,906 ratings — published 2016

by (shelved 1 time as hook)
avg rating 4.11 — 733,705 ratings — published 2013

by (shelved 1 time as hook)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,812 ratings — published 2023

by (shelved 1 time as hook)
avg rating 4.08 — 180,784 ratings — published 2022

by (shelved 1 time as hook)
avg rating 4.22 — 68 ratings — published

by (shelved 1 time as hook)
avg rating 3.95 — 127 ratings — published 2016

by (shelved 1 time as hook)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,186 ratings — published

by (shelved 1 time as hook)
avg rating 3.97 — 4,738 ratings — published

by (shelved 1 time as hook)
avg rating 3.94 — 80,022 ratings — published 2023

by (shelved 1 time as hook)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,939 ratings — published 2023

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avg rating 3.95 — 133,152 ratings — published 2022

by (shelved 1 time as hook)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,404 ratings — published

by (shelved 1 time as hook)
avg rating 3.67 — 201,045 ratings — published 2022

by (shelved 1 time as hook)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,115 ratings — published 2022

by (shelved 1 time as hook)
avg rating 3.71 — 7 ratings — published

by (shelved 1 time as hook)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2004

by (shelved 1 time as hook)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,027 ratings — published

by (shelved 1 time as hook)
avg rating 4.21 — 14,695 ratings — published 2023

by (shelved 1 time as hook)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,478,047 ratings — published 2016

by (shelved 1 time as hook)
avg rating 3.99 — 710,114 ratings — published 1987

by (shelved 1 time as hook)
avg rating 3.36 — 1,513 ratings — published 2022

by (shelved 1 time as hook)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,244 ratings — published 2014

by (shelved 1 time as hook)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,899 ratings — published 2013

by (shelved 1 time as hook)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,416,662 ratings — published 1868

by (shelved 1 time as hook)
avg rating 4.13 — 54 ratings — published

by (shelved 1 time as hook)
avg rating 3.79 — 9,868 ratings — published 2021

by (shelved 1 time as hook)
avg rating 3.20 — 1,407 ratings — published

“Despair could never touch a morning like this.
The air was cool, and smelled of sage. It had the clarity that comes to Southern California only after a Santa Ana wind has blown all haze and history out to sea — air like telescopic glass, so that the snowcapped San Gabriela seemed near enough to touch, though they were forty miles away. The flanks of the blue foothills revealed the etching of every ravine, and beneath the foothills, stretching to the sea, the broad coastal plain seemed nothing but treetops: groves of orange, avocado, lemon, olive; windbreaks of eucalyptus and palm; ornamentals of a thousand different varieties, both natural and genetically engineered. It was as if the whole plain were a garden run riot, with the dawn sun flushing the landscape every shade of green.”
― Pacific Edge
The air was cool, and smelled of sage. It had the clarity that comes to Southern California only after a Santa Ana wind has blown all haze and history out to sea — air like telescopic glass, so that the snowcapped San Gabriela seemed near enough to touch, though they were forty miles away. The flanks of the blue foothills revealed the etching of every ravine, and beneath the foothills, stretching to the sea, the broad coastal plain seemed nothing but treetops: groves of orange, avocado, lemon, olive; windbreaks of eucalyptus and palm; ornamentals of a thousand different varieties, both natural and genetically engineered. It was as if the whole plain were a garden run riot, with the dawn sun flushing the landscape every shade of green.”
― Pacific Edge

“It was a dark and stormy night...”
― Paul Clifford
― Paul Clifford