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Richard Ford _ Canada
First, I'll tell about the robbery our parents committed. Then about the murders, which happened later.
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Peter S. Beagle _ A Fine and Private Place
The baloney weighed the raven down, and the shopkeeper almost caught him as he whisked out the delicatessen door.
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Ray Bradbury _ Fahrenheit 451
It was a pleasure to burn.
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James Joyce _ Ulysses
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.
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Steve Martin _ Born Standing Up: A Comic's
I did stand-up comedy for eighteen years.
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Paul Beatty _ The Sellout
I suppose that's exactly the problem--I wasn't to know any better.
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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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