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01-05-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Night lay heavy on Stygia." |
01-05-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "When it came to concealing his troubles, Tommy Wilhelm was not less capable than the next fellow." |
01-04-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "I didn't see it coming." |
01-04-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "I begin, as I must, with my father." |
01-03-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Camille said you stole a bag from a homeless guy." |
01-03-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Is the universe ruled by deterministic laws?." |
01-02-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "We search for certainty and call what we find destiny." |
01-02-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Benny Rhodes loved his own bald head more than anything else in the world he could think of." |
01-01-09 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "It's the first day, and I already feel like the water is three feet over my head." |
01-01-09 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Oliver Booth did not believe in New Year's resolutions." |
12-31-08 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Find the key." |
12-31-08 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "On the last day of the year, I got this weird phone call." |
12-30-08 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "The night wind brought a howl that was sharp and high-pitched, like a baby crying." |
12-30-08 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "In the year before I took up the French horn again, an important finding was made about the universe." |
12-29-08 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Felix Zhang is wearing one of his many Harvard sweatshirts." |
12-29-08 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "I come to the Cape to live deliberately." |
12-28-08 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "It was a slow Sunday afternoon, the kind Walden loved." |
12-28-08 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "I am." |
12-27-08 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Today, when I watch reality shows like Survivor or Fear Factor, I have to chuckle." |
12-27-08 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "You don't matter." |
12-26-08 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "This book is about a journey." |
12-26-08 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Travelling: the dank oily days after Christmas." |
12-25-08 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "No one knew what to make of The Book of the Damned." |
12-25-08 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Two words: Merry Christmas or perhaps Happy Christmas if such fits your geographic predeliction." |
12-24-08 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "The wipers cut semicircles through the show on the windshield." |
12-24-08 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "For a long time I used to go to bed early." |
12-23-08 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "One minute before the explosion, the square at Sainte-Cécile was at peace." |
12-23-08 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Using Amazon.com is easy." |
12-22-08 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "It is said that the difference between an adventure and a tragedy lies in the outcome." |
12-22-08 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "The citadel was dark, and the heroes were sleeping." |
12-21-08 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "It was Marla's idea." |
12-21-08 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "'Winter!'." |
12-20-08 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "The only question left, he felt, was how to handle the matter--how it was to be done." |
12-20-08 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "The alarm clock woke me this morning at the ungodly hour of eight." |
12-19-08 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "I never put up a barber pole or a sign or even gave my shop a name." |
12-19-08 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Lord Francis Powerscourt looked carefully at the number at the top of the page." |
12-18-08 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "I see you." |
12-18-08 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "The last camel collapsed at noon." |
12-17-08 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Kino awakened in the near dark." |
12-17-08 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Do you wish you received less email?." |
12-16-08 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "She gave a startled cry." |
12-16-08 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "There is no doubt that white people love coffee." |
12-15-08 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "I used to think that Red Bull was the most destructive invention of the past 50 years." |
12-15-08 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "When Micky Miranda was twenty-three his father came to London to buy rifles." |
12-14-08 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Dear Jesus: In case you don't know, I don't live in a group home no more." |
12-14-08 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Identity was once a fairly straightforward matter." |
12-13-08 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Things tend to even out." |
12-13-08 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Albert R. Shadle was the world's foremost expert on the sexuality of small woodland creatures." |
12-12-08 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "It was a nice day." |
12-12-08 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "And so here is my confession." |
12-11-08 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "When I was a child, sex was awesome." |
12-11-08 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "There's more than one way not to read, the most radical of which is not to open a book at all." |
12-10-08 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Only the most cunning weasels can survive thirty years of hard time in a cubicle farm." |
12-10-08 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "There is something enormously satisfactory about a weasel." |
12-09-08 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "I might as well say, right from the jump: it wasn't my usual kind of job." |
12-09-08 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Look at my button-down striped shirt!." |
12-08-08 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "On the day she died, the body of Marilyn Monroe went missing for ten hours." |
12-08-08 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "She was young and she was lovely and she was dead." |
12-07-08 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Silence is louder than noise." |
12-07-08 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "My earliest memories are of chaos, confusion, and fear." |
12-06-08 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "The first time someone hears the words 'lupus erythematosus,' he or she usually says 'What?'." |
12-06-08 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Whenever Sarah thought back to that morning twelve years ago, she remembered the chick." |
12-05-08 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "My name is Edgar Freemantle." |
12-05-08 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "It all started on December 5, 1978." |
12-04-08 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "It all began in realspace, on a subway train in South Korea." |
12-04-08 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "I first met Dean not long after my wife and I split up." |
12-03-08 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Beware thoughts that come in the night." |
12-03-08 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Arrow blinks." |
12-02-08 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "My name is Howard W. Campbell, Jr." |
12-02-08 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "January 18, 1988, was a bitterly cold Iowa Monday." |
12-01-08 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Europeans of the early 1700s showed a great deal of interest in the subject of the vampire." |
12-01-08 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "The midday sun whitened the city of Lahore to a bright haze." |
11-30-08 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Leigh was only a block and a half from home when she noticed the footsteps echoing her own." |
11-30-08 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Nine-year-old Pharoah Rivers stumbled to his knees." |
11-29-08 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "There were seven of us at Edgewater that summer, if you count my brother Jeebs." |
11-29-08 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Lucette had been suffering from insomnia for eight hours." |
11-28-08 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "I am usually up when the Piazza Farnese awakens." |
11-28-08 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "I dress to bring in the morning paper." |
11-27-08 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "I recall this particular married woman I'd had a short fling with when I was in my mid-twenties." |
11-27-08 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Then there was the bad weather." |
11-26-08 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Within twenty-four hours, everyone would know." |
11-26-08 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "The longest day of my life began tardily." |
11-25-08 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "I died today, which is so weird." |
11-25-08 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Charles Monet was a loner." |
11-24-08 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "It had been a long afternoon." |
11-24-08 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "The first time I walked through the Ramble at night I was terrified." |
11-23-08 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "She seemed to float above the ghostly evening mist like a menacing beast rising from the primeval ooze." |
11-23-08 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "John Coffee struggled for air as his bare feet slapped the winter sand." |
11-22-08 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Herself came to the house at Smith Square." |
11-22-08 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Last night at 3:00 a.m. President Kennedy had been killed." |
11-21-08 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "The air on the ward hung thick with the smell of flatulence, body odor, and sweat-soaked sheets." |
11-21-08 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Since this is a book about flatulence, I should probably begin by going back over a few of the basics." |
11-20-08 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Strange reports." |
11-20-08 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "Kysen hadn't wanted to come to the ghost-ridden and deserted city of heretics." |
11-19-08 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "The people who remained in this place have often asked themselves why it was that Ibrahim went mad." |
11-19-08 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "The prophet was drowning men on Great Wyk when they came to tell him that the king was dead." |
11-18-08 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad." |
11-18-08 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "I dreamed of a boy who was born in the land of Puritania and his name was John." |
11-17-08 PM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "The day the stock market falls out of bed and breaks its back is the worst day of your life." |
11-17-08 AM -- Amazon: US UK CA
| "I started puberty very late." |
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