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Sophronia intended to pull the dumbwaiter up from the kitchen to outside the front parlour on the ground floor, where Mrs Barnaclegoose was taking tea.Etiquette & Espionage
Senior Lieutenant Alexander Logachev loved radiation the way other men loved their wives. - Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Seated in the council room of the Assassin's Keep, Celaena Sardothien leaned back in her chair. - The Assassin's Blade
It was hard to imagine how Claire's day - even by Morganville standards- could get any worse...and then the vampires holding her hostage wanted breakfast. - Feast of Fools
A high white moon cast its light on the city below as brightly as the sun was said to shine in northern countries. - A Whole New World
Just out of reach, just beyond you: the rush and froth of the surf, the sharp smell of the sea, the crisscrossing shape of the gulls, their sudden, jarring cries. - Acceptance
"She couldn't remember the first book she had eaten." - Horrid
There is a tradition in our kingdom, one all castes of demon and human follow. - Girls of Paper and Fire
Until she met the exploding statue, Annabeth thought she was prepared for anything. -The Mark of Athena
Last summer, climate scientist Johan Rockström and some other people wrote that we have at most three years to reverse growth in greenhouse-gas emissions if we're going to reach the goals set in the Paris Agreement. - No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
On the day Zadie and I turned thirteen, Father surprised us with a trip to the floating market - our first glimpse of the world beyond Varenia. - Kingdom of Sea and Stone
I'd never given much thought to how I would die - though I had reason enough in the last few months - but even if I had, I would not have imagined it like this. -Twilight
Luis Marin was writing a report at Trinity's airfield east of town when he found out that the world was ending. - Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Path of the ApocalypseWho that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? - Middlemarch
Every town in England has a story. - UnspokenThe ornate script on the board twisted in the candlelight, making the letters and numbers dance in my head. - The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
The orange gas giant, Zeus, hung low above the horizon, huge and heavy and glowing with a ruddy half-light.To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini
"Wait!" The agent pulled the nylon belt across from one pole to the other and clicked it into place, blocking passage to the gate. - The Rivals
“BLOCK!”“Where?”
“I can’t tell you where—you’re supposed to follow my movements!”
“Well, then, slow down.” Snow Like Ashes
The first snow of winter had begun whipping through Velaris an hour earlier. - A Court of Frost and Starlight
The first time I met her was at the tail end of one of those endless weekday nights you could only have at a school like Sherringford. - A Study in Charlotte
Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
This is the story of an adventure that happened in Narnia and Calormen and the lands between, in the Golden Age when Peter was High King in Narnia and his brother and his two sisters were King and Queens under him. - The Horse and His Boy
The city stretched up like quartz against the fading sunlight, the colors of the sky deepening with every second that slipped by. - Shift
The doctor flung his arms open as if he would embrace his prisoners, one tied to a chair and the other in a cge suspended from above. - Ironside & Aegis: Origins
I was lost, it was already dusk, I had been driving for hours and was practically out of petrol. - Ice
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The Spook's Blood (other topics)Realm Breaker (other topics)
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Neil Gaiman (other topics)E.L. James (other topics)
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