“The mob bayed just outside the church doors, bellowing for the blood of the abolitionists huddled inside, but Elder Arthur wasn’t frightened.”
The Unexpected President - The Life and Times of Chester A. Arthur, by Scott S. Greenberger
Apologies for the belated reply – I’ve been offline for over a year, so I just saw your post.
I read 41 of the books early last year – almost every one the library has, plus a couple I bought. Got burned out, though, and stopped with two or three left to read. Really ought to go back and finish them…
“Bingo,” my friend Grzegorz Niedzwiedzki shouted, pointing at a knife-thin separation between a slim strip of mudstone and a thicker layer of coarser rock right above it.
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World, by Steve Brusatte
Welcome back, SCAdian!
“History does not repeat, but it does instruct.”
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
BTW, SCAdian, check this out: Khadaji’s Whatcha Reading Thread - July 2022 edition
Just came from there. 
The other book I’m reading:
In the minutes before the operation began, the Marines made small talk.
Last Stand at Khe Sanh: The U.S. Marines’ Finest Hour in Vietnam, by Gregg Jones
“It’s a beautiful afternoon in the hills of Mission Viejo.”
See What I’m Saying: The Extraordinary Powers of Our Five Senses, by Lawrence D. Rosenblum.
“In the month of July of the year 1348, between the feasts of St. Benedict and of St. Swithin, a strange thing came upon England, for out of the east there drifted a monstrous cloud, purple and piled, heavy with evil, climbing slowly up the hushed heaven.”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sir Nigel (p. 9). Kindle Edition.
“Honorable Judge Dee…”
The Shadow of the Empire, by Qiu Xiaolong
“The stranger got into position under the streetlight at 11:00 p.m., as agreed.”
Better Off Dead by Lee Child and Andrew Child
“Am I allowed to eat a noodle?”
Fifty Things That Aren’t My Fault: Essays From the Grown-Up Years, by Cathy Guisewite
“In 1996 I found myself I found myself seated next to the actor Nigel Hawthorne on a plane, and we got to talking about our respective work.”
Putting the Rabbit in the Hat by Brian Cox
“As a boy, I wanted to be a train.”
Machine Man by Max Barry
“A FedEx package awaited me in the mailroom.”
Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You, by Sam Gosling
“See this house perched not so far from the granite cliffs of Hob’s Head?”
All the Murmuring Bones, by A. G. Slatter
What surprised the Parisians, standing in little groups along the Champs-Elysées to watch the German soldiers take over their city in the early hours of 14 June 1940, was how youthful and healthy they looked.
A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and Resistance in Occupied France, by Caroline Moorehead
The Jewish migration to the United States began in the nineteenth century, largely from central Europe.
Gangsters Vs Nazis: How Jewish Mobsters Battled Nazis in Wartime America, by Michael Benson
Poets of all ages and of all denominations are unanimous in assuring us that there was once a period on this gray earth known as the Golden Age.
Dodo by E. F. Benson
“The world has never known an empire as great as Rome’s; certainly, in terms of long-lasting influence, the Roman Empire has few or no peers.”
How the Barbarian Invasions Shaped the Modern World: The Vikings, Vandals, Huns, Mongols, Goths, and Tartars Who Razed the Old World and Formed the New, by Thomas J. Craughwell.
“Tempest Raj tested the smooth, hardwood floor once more.”
Under Lock and Skeleton Key, by Gigi Pandian.
“On the night of October 4, 1966, Val and I, both in late middle age, attended the opening of Many Are Called at the Museum of Modern Art–the first exhibit of the portraits taken by Walker Evans in the late 1930s on the New York City subways with a hidden camera.”
Rules of Civility by Amor Towles