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Today is the most impossible day of my life. -- Win, book 3 of The Atlantis Grail series by Vera Nazarian.
Littera scripta manet -- the written word remains.
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It was all because of the Berlin Wall.
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We are judged.
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He was standing in a shadowed corner, his back to a wall,
observing but not observed.

The 11:05 Murders
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The Great War, it is said , was started with the throwing of one rock.

The Forsaken
Donald Allen Kitch


I read and reviewed the 11:05 Murders a few weeks ago. It is a good book.
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"To the sound of the even clip-clopping of the heels of her high-top shoes, Bridget heaved a sigh of contentment."

The Saga of Bridget and Amanda
Carole Love Forbes
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The hunter left his truck at the end of the gravel road and trudged into the fresh December snow.
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There are moments of great luxury in the life of a secret agent.

Live and Let Die, by Ian Fleming
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Wow, a classic James Bond novel! That must be really old, AC Michael.
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.

This marks my first foray into the fantasy world of J.R.R. Tolkien. How excited I am.
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Zachary Taylor wrote:In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.

This marks my first foray into the fantasy world of J.R.R. Tolkien. How excited I am.
Enjoy the adventures, Zachary Taylor! Those books are precious.
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The red pin on Charla Taylor’s screen indicated she’d arrived at her location, but the dirt path winding through the thick evergreens didn’t show much promise.
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Mary, daughter of King Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon, was born at four o`clock on the morning of Monday 18 Febuary 1516 at Placentia, the royal palace at Greenwich, on the River Thames.
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How does anyone become their true self?
Leading by Alex Ferguson.
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Adam stooped down, picked up a flat pebble, and tossed it playfully at a tuft of reeds just out of the river bank.
Who told You That You Were Naked by William Combs.
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