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Matthew’s body lay limp on the white sandy shore with a cool ocean breeze flowing through his matted, wet hair.
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"I shouldn't have come to this party."

THUG, The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas.
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Your scientific men but seldom have much music in their souls, and concerning this Shakespeare grows severe.
-songs every child should know by Delores Bacon
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The houselights dim and the crowd is on its feet, expectant.

A Perfect Union of Contrary Things
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Lieutenant Mangesh Sharma was not a happy man.

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"Lest anyone should suppose that I am a cuckoo's child, got on the wrong side of the blanket by lusty peasant stock and sold into indenture in a shortfallen season, I may say that I am House-born and reared in the Night Court proper, for all the good it did me."

__Kushiel's Dart, Jacqueline Carey
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Time had degraded the videotaped image of the cowering woman.

Dying Scream by Mary Burton
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When the train stopped I stumbled out, nudging and kicking the kitbag before me.

A Month In the Country, J L Carr
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
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Matthew’s body lay limp on the white sandy shore with a cool ocean breeze flowing through his matted, wet hair.

Island Games - Caleb J. Boyer
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I hate First Friday.

Red Queen- Victoria Averyard
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It's a lovely little flat, the agent says with what could almost pass for genuine enthusiasm.

The Girl Before
By: JP Delaney
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They say when trouble comes close ranks, and so the white people did.

The Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
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"Miss Manners had never covered how to turn down a date when the lady in question already had her hands in the man's underpants."

Fair Play by Samantha Wayland
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"Reverend, you have a visitor."

Raven's Peak by Lincoln Cole
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
Why at the beginning of things is there always light?
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