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Chapter 2: James by Percival Everett
THAT EVENING I sat down with Lizzie and six other children in our cabin and gave a language lesson. These were indispensable. Safe movement through the world depended on mastery of language, fluency.
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Chapter 1: James by Percival Everett
HOSE LITTLE BASTARDS were hiding out there in the tall grass. The moon was not quite full, but bright, and it was behind them, so I could see them as plain as day, though it was deep night. Lightning bugs flashed against the black canvas.
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Chapter 1: A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas
Cassian raised his fist to the green door in the dim hallway—and hesitated. He’d cut down more enemies than he cared to tally, had stood knee-deep in gore on countless battlefields and kept swinging,
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Chapter 2: The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1) by Freida McFadden
When you live in your car, you have to keep things simple. You’re not going to be hosting any major gatherings, for one thing. No wine and cheese parties, no poker nights. That’s fine, because I don’t have anyone I want to see.
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Chapter 1: The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1) by Freida McFadden
Nina Winchester leans forward on her caramel-colored leather sofa, her legs crossed to reveal just the slightest hint of her knees peeking out under her silky white skirt.
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Chapter 2: Happy Place by Emily Henry
Think of your happy place, the cool voice in my ear instructs. Picture it. Glimmering blue washes across the backs of my eyes. How does it smell? Wet rock, brine, butter sizzling in a deep fryer, and a spritz of lemon on the tip of my tongue.
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Chapter 1: Happy Place by Emily Henry
A cottage on the rocky shoreline, with knotty pine floorboards and windows that are nearly always open. The smell of evergreens and brine wafting in on the breeze, and white linen drapes lifting in a lazy dance.
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Chapter 2: A Bad Sign - The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
Forty-seven years before construction workers discovered the skeleton in the old farmer’s well on Chicken Hill, a Jewish theater manager in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, named Moshe Ludlow had a vision about Moses.
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Chapter 1: The Hurricane - The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride
There was an old Jew who lived at the site of the old synagogue up on Chicken Hill in the town of Pottstown, Pa., and when Pennsylvania State Troopers found the skeleton at the bottom of an old well off Hayes Street, the old Jew’s house was the first place they went to.
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Chapter 1: First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston
It starts with the little things: an extra toothbrush in the glass holder next to the sink, a few articles of clothing in the smallest drawer, phone chargers on both sides of the bed.
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Chapter 2: The Inmate by Freida McFadden
When I pull onto the street of my parents’ house in my old blue Toyota, I’ve got a laminated ID badge for the Raker Penitentiary in my handbag.
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Chapter 1: The Inmate by Freida McFadden
As the prison doors slam shut behind me, I question every decision I’ve ever made in my life. This is not where I want to be right now. At all.
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Chapter 2: The Hunter (Cal Hooper #2) by Tana French
The next day is the same as the last, dew burning off quickly under a blue empty sky. Cal checks in with Lena, who reports that Trey is grand and eating everything in the house bar the dog food, and then spends the morning up in his back field, where he has a vegetable patch.
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Chapter 1: The Hunter (Cal Hooper #2) by Tana French
Trey comes over the mountain carrying a broken chair. She carries it on her back, with the legs sticking out round her waist and held over her shoulders. The sky is a blue so hot it looks glazed, and the sun is burning the back of Trey’s neck.
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Chapter 2: The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
The journey to the groom’s church takes almost half a day. The boatman steers them down a maze of unfamiliar canals overhung by flaming red hibiscus, the houses so close to the edge she could touch a squatting old woman winnowing rice with flicks of a flat basket.
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Chapter 1: The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
Always 1900, Travancore, South India She is twelve years old, and she will be married in the morning. Mother and daughter lie on the mat, their wet cheeks glued together.