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		<title>Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde</title>
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Genre: Dystopia
Main characters: Edward Russett, Jane G-23
Time and place: a future world built on colortocracy; the year is 00496
First sentence: &#8220;It began with my father not wanting to see the Last Rabbit and ended up with my being eaten by a carnivorous plant.&#8221;
Summary: Young Edward Russett&#8217;s life has pretty much been established: he is to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kaysbookshelf.com/2010/03/shades-of-grey-by-jasper-fforde/</link>
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		<title>Cleopatra&#8217;s Daughter by Michelle Moran</title>
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Genre: Historical Fiction
Main characters: Cleopatra Selene and her twin brother Alexander Helios
Time and place: 30-25 BC, (mostly) Rome
First sentence:  &#8220;While we waited for the news to arrive, we played dice.&#8221;
Summary: After Egypt was conquered and Cleopatra committed suicide, her three children with Marc Antony were taken to Rome. Because the conqueror, Octavian, didn&#8217;t want [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kaysbookshelf.com/2010/03/cleopatras-daughter-by-michelle-moran/</link>
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		<title>The End by Lemony Snicket</title>
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Genre: Children&#8217;s books
Main characters: Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire
Time and place: elsewhere :)
First sentence:  &#8220;If you have ever peeled an onion, then you know that the first thin, papery layer reveals another thin, papery layer, and that layer reveals another, and another, and before you know it you have hundreds of layers all over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kaysbookshelf.com/2010/02/the-end-by-lemony-snicket/</link>
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		<title>Scot on the Rocks by Brenda Janowitz</title>
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Genre: Chick Lit
Main characters: Brooke Miller
Time and place: New York and L.A., about 2007
First sentence: &#8220;A recent New York Times article said that “new love can look like mental illness.”&#8221;
Summary: Brooke Miller is a Manhattan attorney whose life seems perfect: she has a nice job, good friends, lives in &#8220;the poshest building in all of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kaysbookshelf.com/2010/02/scot-on-the-rocks-by-brenda-janowitz/</link>
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		<title>Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater</title>
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Genre: Young Adult
Main characters: Grace Brisbane, Sam Roth
Time and place: Mercy Falls (a small town in US, near Duluth), about 2000-something
First sentence: &#8220;I remember lying in the snow, a small red spot of warm going cold, surrounded by wolves.&#8221; 
Summary: Grace was eleven and playing in her backyard when she had been attacked by wolves. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kaysbookshelf.com/2010/02/shiver-by-maggie-stiefvater/</link>
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		<title>The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan</title>
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Genre: Epic Fantasy
Main characters: Rand al&#8217;Thor, Nynaeve al&#8217;Meara, Egwene al&#8217;Vere
Time and place: the world of the Wheel of Time (mostly Fal Dara, Tar Valon, Cairhien and Falme); year unknown
First sentence: &#8220;The man who called himself Bors, at least in this place, sneered at the low murmuring that rolled around the vaulted chamber like the soft [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kaysbookshelf.com/2010/02/the-great-hunt-by-robert-jordan/</link>
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		<title>Catch-22 by Joseph Heller</title>
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Genre: Satire + Historical
Main characters: John Yossarian
Time and place: a larger version of Pianosa (an island near Italy), 1943 or so
First sentence:  &#8220;It was love at first sight.&#8221;
Summary: The book deals with army life during the war. The author has imagined how life might have been in a (somewhat) ordinary squadron stationed on an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kaysbookshelf.com/2010/02/catch-22-by-joseph-heller/</link>
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		<title>Pompeii by Robert Harris</title>
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Genre: Historical Fiction
Main characters: Marcus Attilius Primus
Time and place: mostly Pompeii, August 22-25, 79
First sentence: &#8220;They left the aqueduct two hours before dawn, climbing by moonlight into the hills overlooking the port – six men in single file, the engineer leading. He had turfed them out of their beds himself – all stiff limbs and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kaysbookshelf.com/2010/02/pompeii-by-robert-harris/</link>
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		<title>F Is For Fugitive by Sue Grafton</title>
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Genre: Mystery
Main characters: Kinsey Millhone
Time and place: Fresh Beach, California; 1983
First sentence: &#8220;The Ocean Street Motel in Floral Beach, California, is located, oddly enough, on Ocean Street, a stone&#8217;s throw from the sea wall that slants ten feet down toward the Pacific.&#8221;
Summary: &#8220;Every violent death represents the climax of one story and an introduction to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kaysbookshelf.com/2010/02/f-is-for-fugitive-by-sue-grafton/</link>
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		<title>Matchless by Gregory Maguire</title>
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Genre: Fairytale retelling
Main characters: little Frederick Pedersen
Time and place: I&#8217;m guessing Denmark (Andersen was Danish), and the 19th century or so (or who knows, Denmark still has a Queen as we speak :) )
First sentence: &#8220;On an island so far north that it snowed from September to April, a boy named Frederik kept himself warm [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kaysbookshelf.com/2010/02/matchless-by-gregory-maguire/</link>
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