Five First Lines -- Answers

Several people guessed, and came up with three out the five First Lines of Favorite Books. You can see who by looking at the Comments. I don't see a reason to wait a week to give the remaining answers, as the guesses have petered out (almost literally).

The rundown, including those already identified:

1-Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Eleanor Pruitt Stewart

2-For the Life of the World by Alexander Schmemann

3-We Die Alone by David Howarth, a true survival story from WWII

4-Perelandra by C.S. Lewis

 5-The Land Was Everything by Victor Davis Hanson. Hanson spoke for my father and thousands of other farmers like him--and Hanson himself--about the farmer's life in California's Central Valley.

Thanks to everyone who looked in on these puzzles. It's a treasure hunt that is perhaps most fun for the one who finds the treasure to hide it in the first place, and I might just do myself the favor of posting another five first lines sometime.