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Hester's eyes slid closed. Such recitations did not belong in church, even if Galen was quoting chapters four and seven of the Song of Solomon.
“Relatively few people in town were paying close attention to the issue; a much bigger controversy in the local papers during that long, hot summer was whether flying the United Nations flag at town hall was a gesture of international cooperation or “evidence of communist conspiracy,” as one newspaper article put it.16”
― Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
― Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
“a single opossum, through grooming, destroyed nearly six thousand ticks a week.”
― Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Coronaviruses and Beyond
― Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Coronaviruses and Beyond
“In the nineteenth century, cholera struck the most modern, prosperous cities in the world, killing rich and poor alike, from Paris and London to New York City and New Orleans. In 1836, it felled King Charles X in Italy; in 1849, President James Polk in New Orleans; in 1893, the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in St. Petersburg.”
― Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Coronaviruses and Beyond
― Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Coronaviruses and Beyond
“Yet a small number continued to believe that the Amur held future promise—no longer as a land of furs and gold and grain, but as a waterborne supply route conveying provisions from the relatively fertile lands of western Siberia to the Russian fur colonies, or as an outlet for trade more broadly on the vast Pacific Ocean.”
― Black Dragon River: A Journey Down the Amur River Between Russia and China
― Black Dragon River: A Journey Down the Amur River Between Russia and China
“Still writing tales?” he said. I told him yes and he nodded once, returning his attention to the snake. Very few of the boys I grew up with had finished high school, but they accepted that I was a writer. I was merely doing what other men did—following in my father’s footsteps. Sonny was a plumber. The son of a local drunk was the town drunk in two towns. Sons of soldiers joined the army. That I had become a writer was perfectly normal.”
― My Father, the Pornographer: A Memoir
― My Father, the Pornographer: A Memoir
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