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  • The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

    A young New Yorker grieving his mother's death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this "extraordinary" and beloved Pulitzer Prize winner that "connects with the heart as well as the mind" (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review).Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how to talk to him, and tormented above all by a longing for his mother, he clings to the one thing that reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into a wealthy and insular art community.As an adult, Theo moves silkily between the draw... [Read More]
    100 Best First Lines From Novels

    • ASIN: 0316055441
    • ASIN: 0316055441
    • ISBN: 0316055441
    • Brand: Back Bay Books
    • Manufacturer: Back Bay Books

  • The Girl Who Lived: A Thrilling Suspense Novel

    Ten years ago, four people were brutally murdered—one girl lived.No one believes her story. The police think she's crazy. Her therapist thinks she's suicidal. Everyone else thinks she's a dangerous drunk. They're all right—but did she see the killer?Best Mystery-Thriller eBook of the Year — Independent Publisher Book Awards 2018Winner Best Thriller — National Indie Excellence Awards 2018Winner Best Thriller — Silver Falchion Award 2018Finalist eBook Fiction — Indie Book Awards 2018Silver Medal Suspense — Reader’s Favorite Book Awards 2018Voted Most Loved Cover — NetGalley ReadersGrab your copy of this award-winning psychological thriller today!As the anniversary of the murders approaches, Faith Winters is released from the psychiatric hospital and yanked back to the... [Read More]
    100 Best First Lines From Novels

    • ASIN: B076FNQWTF
    • ASIN: B076FNQWTF
    • Manufacturer: Greyson Media

  • Before We Were Yours: A Novel

    THE BLOCKBUSTER HIT—A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly BestsellerFor readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale comes a “thought-provoking [and] complex tale about two families, two generations apart . . . based on a notorious true-life scandal.”*Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family’s Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge—until strangers arrive in force. Wrenched from all that is familiar and thrown into a Tennessee Children’s Home Society orphanage, the Foss children are assured that they will soon be returned to their parents—but they quickly realize the dark truth.... [Read More]
    100 Best First Lines From Novels

    • ASIN: B01M14UN1J
    • ASIN: B01M14UN1J
    • Manufacturer: Ballantine Books

  • The Nightingale: A Novel

    A #1 New York Times bestseller, Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year, and soon to be a major motion picture, this unforgettable novel of love and strength in the face of war has enthralled a generation. France, 1939 - In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn't believe that the Nazis will invade France … but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and tanks, in planes that fill the skies and drop bombs upon the innocent. When a German captain requisitions Vianne's home, she and her daughter must live with the enemy or lose everything. Without food or money or hope, as danger escalates all around them, she is forced to make one impossible choice after another to keep her f... [Read More]
    100 Best First Lines From Novels

    • ASIN: 1250080401
    • UPC: 753922637631
    • ASIN: 1250080401
    • ISBN: 1250080401
    • Brand: St. Martin's Griffin
    • Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin

  • All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book, National Book Award finalist, more than two and a half years on the New York Times bestseller listFrom the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the stunningly beautiful instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a min... [Read More]
    100 Best First Lines From Novels

    • ASIN: 1501173219
    • ASIN: 1501173219
    • ISBN: 1501173219
    • Brand: Scribner
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

  • 100 Years of The Best American Short Stories (The Best American Series ®)

    The Best American Short Stories is the longest running and best-selling series of short fiction in the country. For the centennial celebration of this beloved annual series, master of the form Lorrie Moore selects forty stories from the more than two thousand that were published in previous editions. Series editor Heidi Pitlor recounts behind-the-scenes anecdotes and examines, decade by decade, the trends captured over a hundred years. Together, the stories and commentary offer an extraordinary guided tour through a century of literature with what Moore calls “all its wildnesses of character and voice.” These forty stories represent their eras but also stand the test of time. Here is Ernest Hemingway’s first published story and a classic by William Faulkner, who admitted in his biog... [Read More]
    100 Best First Lines From Novels

    • ASIN: 0547485859
    • ASIN: 0547485859
    • ISBN: 0547485859
    • Brand: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
    • Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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    100 Best First Lines From Novels

    • ASIN: B000I9YLUI
    • ASIN: B000I9YLUI

  • It (Blu-ray)

    It (Blu-ray)The horror thriller “IT,” directed by Andrés Muschietti (“Mama”), is based on the hugely popular Stephen King novel of the same name, which has been terrifying readers for decades. When children begin to disappear in the town of Derry, Maine, a group of young kids is faced with their biggest fears when they square off against an evil clown named Pennywise, whose history of murder and violence dates back for centuries.]]>
    100 Best First Lines From Novels

    • ASIN: B074ZMJZ6P
    • UPC: 883929571499
    • ASIN: B074ZMJZ6P
    • Brand: New Line Home Video
    • Manufacturer: WarnerBrothers

  • The Last Mrs. Parrish: A Novel

    THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AND DECEMBER PICK FOR REESE WITHERSPOON'S HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB"Filled with envy, deception, and power, it’s a great reading escape. And there is a thrilling twist at the end!!" —Reese Witherspoon“Will keep you up. In a ‘can’t put it down’ way. It’s ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’ with XX chromosomes.”—The Skimm“Deliciously duplicitous. . . . equally as twisty, spellbinding, and addictive as Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl or Paula Hawkins’s The Girl on the Train.”—Library Journal (starred review)Amber Patterson is fed up. She’s tired of being a nobody: a plain, invisible woman who blends into the background. She deserves more—a life of money and power like the one blond-haired, blue-eyed goddess Daphne Parrish takes for granted. ... [Read More]
    100 Best First Lines From Novels

    • ASIN: 0062667580
    • ASIN: 0062667580
    • ISBN: 0062667580
    • Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks

  • Sara's Game: A Psychological Thriller (The Sara Winthrop Series Book 1)

    There's only one way to win this chilling mind game: survive.Two years ago, Sara's husband left for the gym one morning...and never came back.His car was found. He wasn't.Unbelievably, the police report said, "No foul play suspected." There were a few unreliable sightings over the following months, but little else.Now, on the last day before summer break, her three children have gone missing from their schools, all at the same time.And the note under her windshield wiper asks one cryptic question: Are you ready to play the game?Reader Note - Sara's Game: A Psychological Thriller is a USA Today best seller, was previously #2 on the Kindle books best sellers list on all of Amazon, and has been downloaded over half a million times worldwide. Grab a copy today and begin your nail-biting advent... [Read More]
    100 Best First Lines From Novels

    • ASIN: B009FBK5CI
    • ASIN: B009FBK5CI
    • Manufacturer: JCL Publishing Psychological Thrillers

  • FIRST 100 WORDS

    Padded board book introducing 100 essential first words and pictures
    100 Best First Lines From Novels
    FIRST 100 WORDS

    • UPC: 15134249
    • Color: Green
    • Rating: 4.576

  • Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels - eBook

    From one of the best-known editors in modern science fiction, this lively and authoritative guide will appeal to both newcomers and connoisseurs of the genre alike. Informative and readable, David Pringle's choices focus on landmark works by the likes of Ray Bradbury, Alfred Bester and J.G. Ballard, unearth less prominent talents such as Ian Watson, Octavia Butler and Joanna Russ, and highlight breakthrough novels by William Gibson and Philip K. Dick. An essential guide to science fiction
    100 Best First Lines From Novels
    Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels - eBook

    • UPC: 733794071
    • Rating: 5.0

  • Girl Online : The First Novel by Zoella

    "Penny has a secret. Under the alias GirlOnline, Penny blogs her hidden feelings about friendship, boys, high school drama, her crazy family, and the panic attacks that have begun to take over her life. When things go from bad to worse, her family whisks her away to New York, where she meets Noah, a gorgeous, guitar-strumming American. Suddenly Penny is falling in love--and capturing every moment of it on her blog. But Noah has a secret, too, one that threatens to ruin Penny's cover--and her closest friendship--forever"
    100 Best First Lines From Novels
    From YouTube sensation Zoella comes a debut coming-of-age novel that perfectly captures what it means to grow up and fall in love in today’s digital world. Girl Online is the first book to be published by Keywords Press, an imprint under Simon & Schuster dedicated to today’s digital stars.I have this dream that, secretly, all teenage girls feel exactly like me. And maybe one day, when we realize that we all feel the same, we can all stop pretending we’re something we’re not. That would be awesome. But until that day, I’m going to keep it real on this blog

    • UPC: 38811475
    • Rating: 3.786

  • Girl Online : The First Novel by Zoella

    From award-winning YouTube sensation Zoe Sugg, popularly known as Zoella, comes her New York Times bestselling debut young adult novel, which perfectly captures what it means to grow up and fall in love in today's digital world. I have this dream that, secretly, all teenage girls feel exactly like me. And maybe one day, when we realize that we all feel the same, we can all stop pretending we're something we're not... But until that day, I'm going to keep it real on this blog and keep it unreal in real life. Penny has a secret. Under the alias GirlOnline,
    100 Best First Lines From Novels
    From YouTube sensation Zoella comes a debut coming-of-age novel that perfectly captures what it means to grow up and fall in love in today’s digital world. Girl Online is the first book to be published by Keywords Press, an imprint under Simon & Schuster dedicated to today’s digital stars.I have this dream that, secretly, all teenage girls feel exactly like me. And maybe one day, when we realize that we all feel the same, we can all stop pretending we’re something we’re not. That would be awesome. But until that day, I’m going to keep it real on this blog

    • UPC: 45842794
    • Rating: 4.375

  • Ship of the Line : The First Voyage of the Enterprise 17017-E1

    This prequel novel to the blockbuster movie "Star Trek: First Contact" reveals the untold story of the lost years between that film and "Star Trek Generations". October 1997 marks the 10th anniversary of "Star Trek: The Next Generation", and this book by bestselling author Diane Carey features Captain Morgan Bateson--a character played and popularized by Kelsey Grammer of
    100 Best First Lines From Novels
    Ship of the Line tells the story of the first voyage of the U.S.S Enterprise NCC-1701-E, under the command of Morgan Bateson. Captain Bateson, a man from the 23rd century now living in the 24th, sees what no one else can see: that the Klingon Empire is building its forces and preparing to strike against the Federation.Seizing his one chance, Bateson takes the U.S.S Enterprise on a mission to counter the Klingon threat, only to be thwarted by his enemy, a Klingon who has nursed a grudge against Bateson for decades. Standing in the way of Bateson's scheme and the

    • UPC: 171502016
    • Rating: 3.0

  • 10 Best Opening Lines in Novels

    Personal choices from the Telegraph's 100 best opening lines in fiction. 1) "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) ...
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    The Most Famous Opening Lines in Literature

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