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His arrival in Philadelphia is one of the most famous scenes in autobiographical literature: the bedraggled 17-year old runaway, cheeky with a pretense of humility, straggling off the boat and buying three puffy rolls as he wanders up Market Street.

~Benjamin Franklin-Walter Isaacson
 
Deep breath in and ...

"An evening mist salted by the western sea was gathering on the low hills - reed - spattered rises running up from the rocks then back into the gorse- and bracken-covered country - and on to the roads that joined the villages, where lamps and candles flickered behind the shutters of the grey stone houses."

Human Traces - Sebastian Faulks
 
Trixie Snelling seemed to be working up to something over lunch this particular Tuesday, and really just killing time talking about scouring costume stores to find forehead ridges to please a client who liked to be dominated by a Klingon, but she never got to it because I had to take a call on my cell that my father had been eaten by a bear.
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Lone Wolf by Linwood Barclay


Oh, and Mehastings - I really enjoyed Ruff's Set This House in Order. If you've already returned it to the library I urge you to check it out again when you have time. Great story, great characters, and enough twists and turns to keep you turning the pages. One of my favorite reads this year.
 
Like a lot of little girls back then in that part of the world I viewed the future with a certain lack of enthusiasm, though for a different set of reasons than the rest of them.
-- from "My Little Blue Dress" by Bruno Maddox
 
"The solution is to let them kill each other," the small, energetic senior citizen in the windbreaker tells me over a fiesta omelet with extra jalapenos at a Florida Waffle House.

Licensed to Kill - Robert Young Pelton
 
This is how it feels when you realize your child is missing: The pit of your stomach freezes fast, while your legs go to jelly.

The Tenth Circle-Jodi Picoult
 
"Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcée."

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, Marina Lewycka
 
FrodoLIVES said:
Three children lay on the rocks at the water's edge.
~Daughter of the Forest, Juliet Marillier
Not a very good opening line but a great book. I'm halfway through with it and it's one of the best books I've read this year-so far. Unless the ending drastically changes things. :rolleyes:
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One of all-time fave books! ;)


Nothing in the sky with nothing.
Everfree by Nick Sagan
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A tall slim girl, "half past sixteen' with serious gey eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on the broad red sandstone doorstep of a Prince Edward Island farmhouse one ripe aftenoon in august, firmly resolved to construe so many lines of virgil.
'Anne of Avonlee', by L.M Montgomery.

very long.
 
To his ears, it was little more than a rustle in the leaves, a disturbance in the riverbank's undergrowth; but her ears were the ears of a warrior.

Warrior Queen: The Story of Boudica, Celtic Queen by Alan Gold
 
I'm reading two at the moment.

"My father said he saw him years later playing in a tenth-rate commercial league in a textile town in Carolina, wearing shoes and an assumed name."
~W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe

and

"I can't believe I'm on this road again, twisting along past the lake where the white birches are dying, the disease is spreading up from the south, and I notice they now have sea planes for hire." ~Margaret Atwood, Surfacing

Atwood is just a supernova of feel-good!
 
The DOW was down almost 600 points the week Devi decided to commit suicide.
Serving Crazy With Curry, Malladi, Amulya

This book nicely addresses the complexities of family relationships and expectations, along with a few Indian recipes.
 
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