What's the First Line in the Closest Book?

[A Taffer]

PARIS, July 10---France expelled three high-ranking Cuban diplomats today in connection with the worldwide search for a man named Carlos, who is believed to be an important link in an international terrorist network.

- The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum

 

[Nienor]

PARIS, July 10---France expelled three high-ranking Cuban diplomats today in connection with the worldwide search for a man named Carlos, who is believed to be an important link in an international terrorist network.

- The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum

Good book

 

[symphonyb]

Music making is not optional for God's children.
(Music Education in the Christian Home Dr.MaryAnn Froehlich)

 

[MarvinAndroid42]

"Tom!"
No answer.
"Tom!"
No answer.


- "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mr. Clemens

 

[savvy]

"The small boys came early to the hanging."

Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett

 

[MarvinAndroid42]

Amory Blane inherited from his mother every trait, except the stray inexpressible few, that made him worth while.

-"This Side of Paradise" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

[Nienor]

There are, it has to be said, an awful lot of places to live out there.

-The Science of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Michael Hanlon

 

[tanya88]

"The morning sun shone brightly on the canvas of the covered wagon, promising an unseasonably warm day for mid-October."

from: Love Comes Softly by: Janette Oke

 

[MarvinAndroid42]

-The Science of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Michael Hanlon

What does that book talk about, the physics of missing the ground, how to build a Krikkit warship, etc? Never heard of it! Good read I suppose?

 

[HisJavajunkie]

I shall try in this book to give, to the layman and laywoman and even the laychild, some cool information about the phenomenon of language in general and about one language in particular.

From: A Mouthful of Air-Language, Languages...Especially English
By: Anthony Burgess

 

[Gentle]

The proton beam deflector of the Belmont Bevatron betrayed its inventors at 4 o'clock in the afternoon of October 2,1959.

Eye In The Sky-Philip K Dick

 

[HisJavajunkie]

What could Tommy Dorsey have been thinking in 1940 when he installed his orchestra in the Monkey House of the Philadelphial Zoo to perform a concert for the apes?

What Were They Thinking -- Bruce Felton

 

[hoek]

"The basic idea of this book is simple: to tell the story of the Crusades as they were seen, lived, and recorded on 'the other side' - in other words, in the Arab camp."

The Crusades Through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf

 

[HisJavajunkie]

The summer I turned ten I smelled jasmine everywhere I went. Lying -- Lauren Slater

 

[Black_Ivy]

"We are at rest five miles behind the front. Yesterday we were relieved, and now our bellies are full of beef and haricot beans."

from All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

 

[VickiY]

"When I arrived in America in the early sixties for my higher education, I brought with me a naive faith in the Christian religion, the Church, and the God of my forefathers and grandmothers."

The Mountain of Silence: A Search for Orthodox Spirituality

Kyriacos C. Markides

 

[HisJavajunkie]

Since its early use in Spanish monasteries where silence was prescribed for the monks but where manual communication was permitted, to an ever-increasing number of churches and synagogues providing services to deaf people today, sign language has played a major role in religious settings.

Religious Signing -- Elaine Costello

 

[AmeriLovesJesus]

"I want to remember everything You teach me, Lord, and build on that. Why do I loose my grip somtimes?"

From "You Still Here, Lord? By Karon Phillips Goodman

 

[Tricia4Jesus]

'My love,My love, let me come into your dreams'

Spellbound, Nora Roberts

 

[Black_Ivy]

"AM-TEP was the King's chief craftsman, an artist of consummate skills. It was night, and he lay sleeping on his workshop couch, tired after a handsomely productive evening's work."

from The Road to Reality... by Roger Penrose