Kittling: Books

  First Line: The right book in the hands of the right person at exactly the right moment can change their life forever . Since the death of...

  First Line: New Hampshire, 1950. The woman steps back from her workbench, surveying the completed boxy wooden structure . When head curato...

  First Line: Back in 1961, when women wore shirtwaist dresses and joined garden clubs and drove legions of children around in seatbeltless ...

  First Lines: No. Nup. That wouldn't do. It reeked of PhD. This was meant to be read by normal people .   Horse is based on the true s...

First Line: We walked at a clip, wresting ourselves from the damp embrace of the heather and ferns . The remote Aspromonte Mountains in...

First Line: Margaret was saying something, but he couldn't hear a word . J. B. Priestley was an extremely popular author in the lat...

First Line: For many years Henry Kitteridge was a pharmacist in the next town over, driving every morning on snowy roads, or rainy roads,...

First Line: Every seven-year-old needs a superhero . Seven-year-old Elsa's seventy-seven-year-old grandmother is her best and only ...

First Line: Agitated snow tumbles and whirls across the cockpit windshield . N avy helicopter pilot Lt. Alison Malone is not happy. Ins...

First Line: She only wanted to get out of town . April Vogt's boss at Sotheby's makes her day. When he tells his continental f...

First Line: Maura Beth Mayhew shut her sky blue eyes and let the unsettling words that had just been thrown her way sink in for a few ten...

First Line: With an audible sigh, Rose Lane rolled the letter out of her Underwood typewriter and signed it  --Much love as always, Ros...

First Line: "What does it mean when someone calls you swine?" Simon Horowitz asked suddenly, as his father's black Mercedes...

First Line: The girl lay on the surface of the sea, looking into the water through a mask, and was afraid . Peter Benchley is best know...

First Line: It is summer and luminous . When you're in your eighties and a widower, the last thing you want to do is to move from y...

First Line: I have never been what you'd call a crying man . That's what high school English teacher Jake Epping will tell you,...

First Line: Rural England, a farmhouse in the middle of nowhere, a summer's day at the start of the nineteen sixties . Of course mos...

First Line: It didn't take much imagination to guess what the other kids had called Harry Schmittberger when he was a boy . Harry Sc...

First Line: The county that stretches from Melbourne in the south to Sydney seven hundred and fifty miles up the coast is green with tree...