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Nick Hornby _ Juliet, Naked
They had flown from England to Minneapolis to look at a toilet.
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Nick Hornby _ About a Boy
So, have you split up now?
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Gail Honeyman _ Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely
When people ask me what I do--taxi drivers, hairdressers--I tell them I work in an office.
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Erik Larson _ The Devil in the White City:
How easy it was to disappear: A thousand trains a day entered or left Chicago.
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Rick Riordan _ The Lightning Thief
Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood.
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H.G. Wells _ The War of the Worlds
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
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George Orwell _ 1984
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
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Mitch Albom _ The Five People You Meet in
This is the story of a man named Eddie and it starts at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It may seem strange to start a story with and ending, but all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.
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