“Two straws–one dream–all for a dime on Mainstreet, U.S.A.!”
Remembering Woolworth’s: A Nostalgic History of the World’s Most Famous Five-and-Dime, by Karen Plunkett-Powell
“A Brief History of Time” by Stephen Hawking?
Moby-Dick, innit?
“The battle for women’s right to vote–suffrage–began in a much different world from the one we inhabit.”
All Stirred Up: Suffrage Cookbooks, Food, and the Battle for Women’s Right to Vote, by Laura Kumin
“When we were new, Rosa and I were mid-store, on the magazines table side, and could see through more than half of the window.”
Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro
“Once everyone who’d be attending this meeting of the inner circle of the Habsburg court in the Netherlands had arrived, King Fernando invited them to sit with a gesture of his hand.”
1637: The Coast of Chaos - Eric Flint, et al
silenus, I have now recieved five copies of the RoF series that were damaged by my previous dog. So my collection is complete and up to date.
Good job! I’m still missing a few of the outlier books that have come out recently.
“This… is ‘audible.’”
“One gray winter day, I was cross-country skiing, head down, through the snowy woods outside Breckinridge, Colorado, when luckily I looked up.”
Look Big: And Other Tips for Surviving Animal Encounters of All Kinds, by Rachel Levin
“The dead human was lying on the deck, on their side, half curled around.”
Fugitive Telemetry: The Murderbot Diaries, by Martha Wells
“More than two hundred years ago, scientists began a quest to order and name the entire living world–the whole squawking, scuttling, blooming, twining, leafy, furry, green and wondrous mess of it.”
Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science, by Carol Kaesuk Yoon
“Down in the basement of an old firehouse at the end of Central Avenue, on the edge of the North Saskatchewan River, are stacks of books and maps that tell the untold story of how it all began.”
Bower, a Legendary Life, by Dan Robson
“At ten o’clock of a rainswept morning in London’s West End, a young woman in a baggy anorak, a woollen scarf pulled up around her head, strode resolutely into the storm that was roaring down South Sudley Street.”
Silverview, by John Le Carré
“Darling–The kids are good, but they miss you.”
Alternate Peace, edited by Steven H Silver and Joshua Palmatier. (Note that this is an anthology; the above sentence is from the first story, “O-Rings”, by Elektra Hammond.)
“What might be the three most expensive words ever spoken were uttered on October 15, 1987.”
Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex And How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple, by Jeffrey Kluger
“Gunnar Heim halted in midstride.”
The Star Fox, by Poul Anderson
“‘What the hell goes on here?’ Whitey Ardmore demanded.”
Sixth Column by Robert A. Heinlein
“It’s been a jackpot year for catching reruns of old historical riffs.”
Making Book by Teresa Nielsen Hayden
“Gaius Publius Marcellinus galloped his horse along the marching line of his Sixth Cohort, racing toward the site where two of his men had been slain by skulking Iroqua warriors.”
Clash of Eagles, by Alan Smale