Third time I’ve read it. 
Heh. I’ve read it twice myself.
“While I have been blessed to have always had a roof over my head and the honor of living with loved ones, when I was growing up, homelessness was a constant spiritual state.”
Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond, by Alvin Eng.
Prologue:
The war with Rome begins not with a clang of swords but with the lick of a dagger drawn from an assassin’s cloak.
Chapter 1:
Who killed Jonathan son of Ananus as he strode across the Temple Mount in the year 56 C.E.?
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, by Reza Aslan
“Few American presidents have descended from lines more distinguished for public service than the one that produced Benjamin Harrison.”
Benjamin Harrison , by Charles W. Calhoun
This is the story of an army, and only that Army – not of the many and various corps, divisions and regiments it contained.
Eighth Army: The Triumphant Desert Army That Held the Axis at Bay from North Africa to the Alps, 1939-45, by Robin Neillands
Executive overreach did not begin overnight.
9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America and Four Who Tried to Save Her, by Brion McClanahan
“Almost all of the course of human history northwest Europe will forever be a total mystery.”
Lotharingia: A Personal History of Europe’s Lost Country, by Simon Winder
“An arch of arterial blood sprayed across Issac Kohen’s blue scrubs, followed by the angry voice of Doctor Oberheuser.”
1637: The Transylvania Decision by Eric Flint and Robert E. Walters
–Sadly, Mr. Flint passed away in July 2022, so the long Ring of Fire series (over 20 novels and dozens of short stories) may never see a conclusion, or at least a tying up of loose ends, as this is probably the last to bear his name on the title.
One more: 1638: The Siberian Enterprise by Eric Flint, Paula Goodlett & Gorg Huff – Sep 2023
I have Transylvania on hold at the library. Hope not too many people thought to do that before I did…
I have hopes he made arrangements for the continuation of the series, and left notes dealing with the main line characters. His death wasn’t sudden, so maybe he had time to at least get some sort of resolution lined up.
Most introductory chapters are written in the well-grounded expectation that they will be blithely ignored.
An Exaltation of Larks - The Ultimate Edition by James Lipton
Howl, America, Howl.
New book by Os Guinness
“Blast! You scared it away!”
Dashing through the Snowbirds, by Donna Andrews (Meg Langslow mystery #32)
Every chapter of The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal begins with a recipe for a drink. For Chapter 1, it’s a martini.
The first sentence after the martini is: “Kneeling on the floor of their suite, Tesla Crane could just feel the vibrations of the centrifugal ring as it rotated around the interplanetary cruise ship Lindgren.”
“you could not tell if you were a bird descending (and there was a a bird descending, a vulture) if the naked man was dead or alive.”
Revenge, by Jim Harrison
(the first of three novellas of the book “Legends of the Fall”.
mmm
“in my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.”
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“I mean it, Stephanie!” Richard Harrington said.
A Beautiful Friendship by David Weber
“Buchanan county, Va., in which Hurley is located, is very sparsely settled and is very rugged,” reported the Washington Post.
The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery, by Bill James and Rachel McCarthy James
“Space is cruel to the human body.”
In the Quick by Kate Hope Day
“Hello, everybody, and welcome to my journal.”
Letters to the Pumpkin King by Seanan McGuire