As the ordinary violence of dawn sweeps across the lower Coromandel coast, a sprawling village comes into view.

David Davidar

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Marley was dead: to begin with.

Charles Dickens

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Baby," groaned the guy-Ted? Tad?-something like that-and crushed his lips against the side of her neck, shoving her face against the wall of the toilet stall.

Jennifer Weiner

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This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market.

Barbara Kingsolver

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In the midst of a thick forest, there was a castle that gave shelter to all travelers overtaken by night on their journey: lords and ladies, royalty and their retinue, humble wayfarers.

Italo Calvino

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From above, start with the privileged view.

Maureen Howard

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Stavia saw herself as in a picture, from the outside, a darkly cloaked figure moving along a cobbled street, the stones sheened with a soft, early spring rain.

Sheri S. Tepper

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Toward the end of February 1954, James Beard was at work in his Greenwich Village kitchen doing what he most loved to do: cooking delicious meals.

Laura Shapiro

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Women have always been spies.

Harriet Rubin

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Jerrie Cobb reached down and pulled the heavy layers of arctic clothing over her navy blue linen dress.

Martha Ackmann

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