6:45 p.m., Monday, 8 February 1954
Brighton
Mirabelle snapped off the light at McGuigan & McGuigan Debt Recovery and locked the office door.
British Bulldog, by Sara Sheridan
Brighton, 6:45 a.m., Thursday 19 April, 1956
Phil turned over in bed, pulling the sheet around his shoulders.
Russian Roulette, by Sara Sheridan
“‘What’s two plus two?’ Something about that question irritates me. I’m tired. I drift back to sleep.”
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
“Songs are mysterious.”
How to Write One Song, by Jeff Tweedy
“I wake up to my pink cane propped up against the dresser–a spot where I know I didn’t leave it before going to bed.”
It’s All or Nothing, Vale, by Andrea Beatriz Arango.
The Invasion of England by the Norman army in 1066 – Duke William of Normandy versus King Harold of England – would be far more than a regime change for the women of England.
Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History, by Philippa Gregory
On a hot afternoon in May 2016, five miles outside the young petro-city of Fort McMurray, Alberta, a small wildfire flickered and ventilated, rapidly expanding its territory through a mixed forest that hadn’t seen fire in decades.
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World, by John Vaillant
“The capacity for silence–a deep, creative awareness of one’s inner truth–is what distinguishes us as human.”
Sister Wendy’s Book of Meditations, by Sister Wendy Beckett
“Before the lost word, there was another.”
The Dictionary of Lost Words, by Pip Williams
“The fire pit was about twenty-five feet long by ten feet wide, and perhaps two feet deep.”
Job: A Comedy of Justice, by Robert A. Heinlein
Korea, Sunday, July 2, 1950
At midnight, the British, American, and French prisoners were taken from the Seoul police headquarters and bundled into the back of a North Korean army truck, guarded by soldiers holding submachine guns and bayonet-tipped rifles.
Betrayal in Berlin: The True Story of the Cold War’s Most Audacious Espionage Operation, by Steve Vogel
One of the two Heinleins I never finished, though I got about halfway through this one.
Melvin Butler, the personnel officer at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, had a problem, the scope and nature of which was made plain in a May 1943 telegram to the civil service’s chief of field operations. “This establishment has urgent need for approximately 100 Junior Physicists and Mathematicians, 100 Assistant Computers, 75 Minor Laboratory Apprentices, 125 Helper Trainees, 50 Stenographers and Typists,” exclaimed the missive
Hidden Figures…
Margot Lee Shetterly
“Call me Ishmael”
Quarter Share by Nathan Lowell
I love those books.
“This is a book about books, and the people who made them.”
The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives, by Adam Smyth
“I’ve finally got it figured out.”
If You Shoot the Breeze, Are You Murdering the Weather?: 100 Musings on Art and Science, by Alan Dean Foster
“The Reverend Tomos Parry Davies, minister of Church Bethel in the village of Llanfair, sang loudly to himself as he drove up the pass from Caernarfon.”
— Evan & Elle by Rhys Bowen
“The man in the Antares bar-lounge didn’t quite bang his head on the curved star-ceiling on this, his fourth attempt.”
Icerigger, by Alan Dean Foster
“OMG, I love your shoes.”
We’ve Decided to Go in a Different Direction, by Tess Sanchez.
February 23, 2007
The old shack stood in stark contrast to the gleaming new structure that towered over it.
Legacy, the sixth Event Group book by David L Golemon
“We live at a time when the fate of our liberal democratic system is being intensely questioned, autocracies appear to be on the march, and too many people speak despairingly and cynically about the ability of the democratic countries to provide good government for their citizens.”
“I spent fifty years of my life working in politics as a member of Parliament, a minister, leader of the opposition, and prime minister. Throughout that period I developed a profound faith in the merits of our Canadian democracy.”
— My Stories, My Times, Jean Chrétien
(so it’s more than one sentence. I thought the whole intro needed quoting. 
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When Martha Lillard turned five, she had a birthday party at an amusement park.
The miracle of vaccines
RAINA MacINTYRE # VACCINE NATION
“The nickname of the train was the Yellow Dog.”
Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty
“We’re so glad you’re here!”
Obitchuary: The Big Hot Book of Death, by Spencer Henry and Madison Reyes.
The floodplain of Yam Suph (the Sea of Reeds), 1556 BCE
The great multitude of humanity stretched out as far as the eye could see.
Carpathian, the eighth Event Group book by David L Golemon
Gen. Douglas MacArthur walked out onto the porch of his cottage on the battered Philippine island of Corregidor in the early evening of March 11, 1942, joining his wife Jean and the couple’s four-year-old son, Arthur – all packed for that night’s perilous escape.
Rampage: MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila, by James M Scott
“If you imagine the ideal West Point cadet, you’ll come up someone very much like Don ‘Whitey’ Herzog.”
Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point by David Lipsky