As a gift, the salesman said, the store would give me a narrow leather belt with my initial “L” on it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Calder was going over everything he’d seen Mr. Watch ever do that was puzzling—why did he spend so much time in the art section of the store? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Well, I’ll tell you, for the last ten or twenty years, instead of digging, I been buying my bait at a fishing store. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The auto-parts store sat two doors down from the movie theater. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Souvenir store,” Ben whispers in front of me, and I know immediately he is right. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

She tried to think of him as a father who’d buried a child, but she couldn’t forget how he’d shamed her in his store. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, enjoy these pictures of my haul this last Saturday from the antique store up the street from my house. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I start crying and screaming for no reason, raging with unexplainable anger stored deep inside of me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

After she left the dress department, Mrs. Trepid wandered around the store, touching purses and scarves and slips. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Come over to the store,” he said, “and I’ll show you.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. He’s got some kind of business thing he’s working on, a sporting goods store or something, trying to get it off the ground.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

We teenagers are given extra camp money to spend in the store on makeup and clean, if threadbare, dresses. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Appliance store, hardware store, parking lot, grocery store. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

They go to school, hand you change at the store, take your order at the drive-through, and sack your groceries. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The mulefa made many kinds of rope and cord, and Mary Malone spent a morning inspecting and testing the ones Atal’s family had in their stores before choosing what she wanted. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

My only freedom was to swipe pennies from the store drawer and walk downtown with Dee-Dee to buy romance magazines like True Love and True Romance. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each one I look at for longer than a second starts to play a preview of a Memory that I had stored. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She came home from the store with all kinds of junk food I could take. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Who knows what surprises Titan might have in store for us? Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

So it was a kind of magic, being here in this antiques store with a boy whose eyes were just the right shade of honey. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

If I had to go to the corner store and do fractions I wouldn’t even bother going, I’d just look for a store that didn’t have fractions. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

But instead of answering me, the store owner turned away and left me standing there. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He permanently borrowed about a dollar, enough to grab a few quarter waters—the colored sugar water sold in small plastic bottles at the corner store. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Not the kind that would come later, the cutting kind he remembered so well and that still made his mouth water when he walked past a grocery store or fast-food place. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, nursing-home residents resemble oddly dressed graduate students, and beautiful women in adult diapers are driving very slowly and blocking the grocery store aisles with their carts. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

On the street I went down to the corner where the Arabs have their little store. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

One of the mysteries was where he kept his stock since his was not a very large store. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come on,” Audrey said with a grin as she stepped into the store. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

The sole right he wanted was to be left alone, unmolested by the IRS and corrupt city inspectors and street criminals, so he could just run his stores. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alone in her apartment, she cried and cried, crumpled on her living room rug that was so rarely used it still smelled of the store. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The editor stood facing the other men in the store with rage in his eyes. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not dare look at Burdow, but he remembered the sullen, piglike eyes that had stared at him in the store that morning. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing—only the finest nickel-and-dime store in all the world! A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You thought the traveling suit Dessie made to go to San Jose was store bought.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

That was what the papers were saying, too, along with the politicians and the men who congregated in little groups at the country stores. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everywhere around him stores were opening—suits, dresses, overalls, shirts, skirts, blouses, trousers, all made and ready to be worn. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

In Ramallah, Poppy stopped at a store open late for plumbing parts, so he could engage a plumber to head to Sitti’s house the next day. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The basement itself was “gargantuan,” Volpe says, with enough room for a couch and a settee to make up a little waiting room, almost like one of the department stores. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Eugenia helped run a beauty supply store farther down in East Oakland, out past Fruitvale, and she’d been there for over a decade, they learned. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I saw Griggs wiping glass shelves in the jewelry store and I beckoned to him. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had taken the Owner over half a century, but at last every St. Anthony’s suitcase ever made was inside the walls of his store. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

She remembers Danny always having guns, keeping one stored beneath the driver’s seat of his car. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He explained that he wasn’t their main milk supplier, but the bakery used only family-farmed milk and the grocery store still had a few customers like Ma Charles, who didn’t trust big dairy farms. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

His previous experiences with the odd device that stored and revealed thoughts and memories, though highly instructive, had also been uncomfortable. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

But most of the people gathered in the meadow wore everyday clothes: faded work shirts or T-shirts and chinos, floral-print dresses that could be found on the discount racks of any department store. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was, in fact, time to bring him some more stores anyway. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“This is an independent record store. That means it’s family-owned. You’re stealing from real people. Do you know how hard it is for small businesses to survive when people like you just take stuff?” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I will be telling my—you will not just speak to me however you want. We’ll see about this store of yours.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Grandma began pulling on her cotton work gloves and mixing the baking soda we'd got at the store with the vinegar and water. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I stayed on the bed all morning, telling the fierce little bundle of feathers in my hand that there was deer meat in store for her if she would just wait with me. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marty thought I was laughing at something else, so he got started, too, and pretty soon we were all laughing, and so everybody at the icecream store was looking at us. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They don’t like too many locals in their stores when they are trying to sell to tourists, and they hate children still in their school uniforms who aren’t going to buy anything at all. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She begins to save cuttings from the fabric station in the store; every scrap goes into a steamer trunk with my name on it. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Feed your brothers breakfast. I’ll stop at the store on the way home so we can have an extra-nice treat for supper tonight.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe she could go back to that store and offer to work. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

They turned off Interstate 25 at a sign that said KAYCEE, drove past a convenience store, and eventually turned onto a dirt road. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Some older grandchildren helped him—for a small cut—to process the honey, which was later sold either in Rael’s store or directly from the Chateau Martinez. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The organic food in stores like Whole Foods is organic because it is grown without chemical fertilizers or pesticides. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He stores the toothbrush on his portion of the upright mattress coil. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It was July, and Hugh and I were taking the Paris Métro from our neighborhood to a store where we hoped to buy a good deal of burlap. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It was only a boat store after all. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“A Black woman was selling incense in front of a store,” Daddy said. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

What use can would-be farmers make of a ton of wheat grains on the stalk, if they have not first figured out how to harvest, husk, and store them? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “You said if there was anything else you could help me with, that I should just let you know. Well, I need to see all of the store’s receipts.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I waited for half an hour in the bitter cold, regretting that I had not remained in the warm store, but unable to go back inside. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In addition, Anthony had an extensive collection of articles and memorabilia that she had collected over the years and stored in scrapbooks, trunks, and boxes. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It’s standing right there in the middle of the store, with a bench underneath it. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I tapped the Record icon at the edge of my display so that whatever happened next would be stored in a vidcap file I could play back and study later. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t play when it comes to violence because her parents got real extra when they tag-team-robbed a convenience store, assaulting the owner and his twenty-year-old son. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I drive down the dark, empty road behind the grocery store to where Batavia’s mythic Lincoln Tree once stood. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t tell Dad that we’d been right near the store and I’d chosen not to go because it was too hard. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

It was the most popular store in the market. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

With reporters camped outside my door, I can't really go anywhere, so I find a hardware store that delivers, and decide to paint my apartment. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

We begin furiously texting as we try to figure out what to wear, what to eat, and what stores we will hit. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

She said the older kids would take them to local stores or sell the papers themselves. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few weeks after running into the boy, I’m on my way to the store to buy eggs, walking quickly, weaving around slower people crowding the sidewalk. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody knows how she managed to get the material from her father’s store. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was going to work in a ten-cent store and she did not want to work there. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Things had got real bad at the store. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“David, when you’re finished, get your shoes on. We need to go to the grocery store and buy something for lunch.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could already hear the chatter of my neighbors before I stepped inside the produce store owned by Hafsa's family. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“One more thing. Why the message? Why’d you warn me with a message at the store? ” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

A café burned, and so did a furniture store, an A&P grocery store, several abandoned houses, a dry cleaners. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

When I went to the store to get them, no one pushed me out of line for anyone else. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There are specialty stores where they sell dog meat but at a very expensive price. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah sells groceries right here in dis store, Tea Cake, if you don’t happen tuh know.” Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

We were just in Times Square, and visited the massive Hershey’s store there, where we got far too many edible souvenirs. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Their grandparents’ store had the best fruit on the West Side of San Antonio. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The box had been stored in a section of shelving with a flashing LCD that read “Magazines & Periodicals. 1930s.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know—the way people have been acting. I was afraid if they saw me coming into your store, they might stop trading here.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though I love looking at old and used things, I kind of hate thrift stores because they make me feel itchy and remind me that I have no money. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

A glacial sun filled the streets, and a high wind filled the air with scraps of paper and frosty dust, and banged the hanging signs of stores and storefront churches. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Folks in Clarkston sent their kids to Clarkston High School, went to services at one of the churches on Church Street, and bought their groceries at a local independent grocery store called Thriftown. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Her eyes followed him out of the store. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But at ten o’clock in the morning, when he reached Catarino’s store, the girl had left town. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She walked back along the docks to the sidewalk and entered a grocery store. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Amish were friends of ours and especially of Mr. Klein’s, being the main customers at his store. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

And they were not believed; the owner of the store was being brought there to make the identification. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Jordan, who was working days now, had gone to work, and Gerald had found a part-time job at the fried-chicken store around the corner. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before going back to the highway, he stopped at a convenience store to get more beer. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They ended up at a sandwich place just down from the store. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

A lady in the grocery store fanned herself as a little dog yapped through the screen door. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The men went into stores and gas stations. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the list be thin, I slip in that old stinky white fella that live behind the feed store, the one lost his mind from drinking the shoe polish. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It was a conversation one might overhear at any rural filling station or feed store; but hearing it made me feel curiously happy, and at ease with the world. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Daddy, can Shetora stay here with you? Her afternoon nap be coming up pretty soon and she won’t do so well at the auto parts store.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked down to the store to look, and it was. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

His smile is gone, probably because we’re disturbing the peaceful environment of his store. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Black folks, our customers, they’d come into the store and buy BC powder, fill up on that, that was their doctor. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the course of the negotiations, certain promises were made by the merchants- for example, to remove the stores’ humiliating racial signs. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

As for the director, he described Rutherford as “a large, rather florid man, with thinning fair hair and a large moustache, who reminded me forcibly of the keeper of the general store and post office.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I went slowly to the door of the store. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother had too many bottles of perfume; they lined her dresser like a store shelf: stunted bottles, tapering bottles, rounded bottles. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Go to the store and get us some water. I don't plan to ever leave this court.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

It was expensive stuff, white cream laid, imported from England; the best they had at the store in town. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m just saying. It was a total thing. I was at the grocery store almost every day, getting fresh dill pickles for you.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I. .. own ... stores,” he roared, one word at a time, thick tongued. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Arkansas, where we cured our own meat, we ate halfinch slabs of ham for breakfast, but in St. Louis we bought the paper-thin slices in a strange-smelling German store and ate them in sandwiches. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

On every block, there are stores displaying wristwatches with flowered bands, black radios blasting Vietnamese songs, televisions projecting hand puppets talking to happy young children, and red traditional dresses on headless mannequins. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After processing, the dots are then stored on a magnetic disc, something like a phonograph record. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of old men were sitting in chairs in front of a store. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Just as I was telling him about the rally and how good it would be for the community, he said no and something about it being “against store policy.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tateh would talk to her in the store and try to act like it was casual; then on Friday nights, the Sabbath, Mr. Rabbi would go out. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walkway was lit up, and the store windows were lit, so she moved through patches of sharp light. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Glass-fronted stores passed by in a blur, then James turned sharply and hustled upstairs. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

We sauntered through all the big department stores, touching expensive things without the white clerks giving us a second look. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a person struggling to pull a handgun out of his coat, his forehead matted with sweat as he prepares to hold up a convenience store. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the morning, me and Winn-Dixie went down to sweep the pet store, and I took a Littmus Lozenge for Otis. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Once she was out of the store she had to frown a long time to get her face natural again. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The Summer Session—a few dozen boys being force-fed education, a stopgap while most of the masters were away and most of the traditions stored against sultriness—the Summer Session was over. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ernie, the owner, seemed to be expecting me and gestured to the repair bay in the rear of the store. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jake came running out of his liquor store, phone up against his ear, shouting, too. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The room where the food was stored was as impregnable as a fort. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had picked up a Lily Press from the grocery store on his way out, so he sat at the room’s small desk, flipped on the lamp, and began to read through it. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The light was anchored at the store, shooting up into the heavens, bathing the countryside in a weird kaleidoscopic glow. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Emily and James wandered through the store, scouting for the best hiding spot. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Other pages of the newspaper had photographs of burning buildings, boarded-up stores, and desolate streets. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I had heard it said that, on a bet, he had carried a barrel of molasses on his back from the general store down past the saloon. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately for them, the place they’d chosen for their smoking experiment was the same one where Dusty Muleman had stored several surplus boxes of fireworks. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the clothes smelled like a hospital, perhaps from being stored in mothballs. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In my interview, I had been promised a thirty-minute lunch break, but this turns out to be a five-minute pit stop at a convenience store, if that. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But me and Moms and Diego were already racing out of the store together, laughing and telling each other to hurry and get in the car. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

And there are paper stores where you could buy daybooks and pens. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Have you been charging things at stores again?” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

She leads the way down the block, past the candy store, the bakery, the diner, to the park on the corner. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I was waiting for you to go to the store. When you didn’t come home, I walked down myself, and I saw a girl in a car that looked just like you.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

As the announcement day neared, I began making harried after-work trips to the department stores at Water Tower Place, rifling through the dwindling midseason supply of winter wear, hunting the clearance racks in vain. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They would leave with the bag tucked out of sight, sometimes drawing furtive, disapproving glances from those who knew about the store’s reputation for such transactions. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I think a Wednesday at one o’clock would be fine since the stores close anyhow. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I went the long way around, of course, by the pond and the store so that I could approach along the road as I had left. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Conlan goes to the store and tells the clerk he forgot to give her Green Stamps the last time she was in, and she knows very well she’s lying. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

See if your store gets many customers with these sentries outside.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Considering the crate half concealed by the fringed curtain at the back of the store, I highly doubted it. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

One of my first tasks at the store is to help decorate for Christmas. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Mom took it back to the store and got her money back. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes I do that if I have to remember what to get at the store.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Harlem’s numbers industry hummed every morning and into the early afternoon, with the runners jotting down people’s bets on slips of paper in apartment house hallways, bars, barbershops, stores, on the sidewalks. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “Which is why they should put a coffee store next to the Cyclone at Coney Island! Get it?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Its function was to produce ice, store the perishable goods of exhibitors and restaurants, and operate an ice rink for visitors wishing to experience the novelty of skating in July. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“I had to go to the dentist,” I says because it’s not any of his business where I eat but I’ve got to be in the store with him all the afternoon. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the back of the store, behind a counter with an old-fashioned cash register, stood a middle-aged woman with olive skin, long black hair, rimless glasses, and a T-shirt that read: The Goddess Is Alive! The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

They ran along uneven sidewalks in front of stores, then houses. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the store was closed he’d slide the note under the front door. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few weeks later, Beatrice herself was at the store with Jeremiah when she reached for a package of bacon at the meat counter. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Thomas couldn’t begin to guess what was in store for him; he’d seen a Griever, but only a glimpse, and through a dirty window. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“You don’t. Not until you go to the store and get the film developed. It’s old school. But it’s in there.” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Sitting on the bench in the front of the store were Max Smitherman and Johnny Ray Johnson. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I waited for our lunch, I wandered along the store aisles, stocking up for supper. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Posters announcing Klan rallies, bearing the slogan “Be a Man, Join the Klan,” became a common sight in store windows and on telephone poles in small towns and major cities across the state. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if it’s a Georgia thing or only an Arthur thing, but if there’s an elderly man in a grocery store, I’m there price-checking prune juices for him. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Today’s her day off from the store, and I bet she’s looking forward to spending the day alone painting. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He gestured to his companion, stepped out from behind the imaginary lamp post, set his coat and hat and strolled back to where Janie was as if he had just come in the store. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I went into one store after the other along Dryades and Rampart Streets. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I nod but don’t answer, because I am now distracted by the thousand Charlies racing toward me from the front of the store. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The air would hang warm and heavy, and sometimes there wouldn’t even be room to pogo because the store would get so packed. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

She had a store of aphorisms which she dished out as the occasion demanded. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Light poles are like palm trees, bus stop benches like hammocks, and corner stores like island bungalows. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

I thought there might be a store that needed help. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

All of the stores were brightly lighted, but there were few people in the streets. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take one last look at the phone booth through the window of Don Luciano’s store. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Government offices in Washington and other cities, as well as many stores, closed for the day. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He just bit down on his bottom lip, and occasionally he would shake his head like he was picturing the picture of me in that store over and over again. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

There was a bakery store to one side of it which sold beautiful charlotte russes with red candied cherries on their whipped cream tops for those who were rich enough to buy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man in a blue jacket emblazoned with the store logo stood in the doorway, smoking. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

We might hit up eight or ten stores in a day.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But it wasn’t Holly’s fault that she had always known she could walk into a store and ask for expensive sneakers and get them. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Of course we have to hit that Pink store that just opened, too. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The sandwich rolls are delivered to Jimmy’s store early in the morning, before he gets there. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

He pulled into the furniture store’s parking lot at about five o’clock one day, planning to wait and watch as she left at the end of her shift. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

They took me to the department store and announced they were going to buy me a bra. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Jack stores the new crutches in the trunk of our car. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

But their Christmas ended in late afternoon on Christmas Eve—I saw department store clerks working against time to replace a holiday window display with deathly white piles of towels and sheets. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could pretty much see everything from there: a school, a bunch of tourist stores and cafes, some ski cabins, and a grocery store. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I felt like a kid in a candy store! The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She clawed one of the balloons my mother had gotten at the party store. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

After school, Jenna and I ride our bikes down the bumpy road to the country store to get decorations for her party. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Max is pointing to a small grocery store with fruit displays out front. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But his sanctuary at Bókin began to become known, and stories appeared in the press about his going there, together with interviews of the store’s proprietor, Bragi. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Strange. You look at the stores here, that is all they sell.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

They got off in the city center next to an old stone church, which she did know, opposite a big department store, which she didn’t. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lie in bed thinking about those days when the streets smelled like smoke and ash, when the stores where we’d just bought candy were closed and all boarded up. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The day after her suicide was the first time I found myself at their store, standing outside the front door. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

In the appliance store, when the clerk had asked if he was interested in the nineteen-inch screen Billy had said no, he wanted the thirty-two-inch screen. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fred passed under the neon letters over the store entrance like he was crossing a finish line. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

She spent her mornings teaching in the classroom and her afternoons in the Silk Room, where the uncut fabrics were stored. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He was still determined to capture Benedict Arnold, whose Loyalists were on a rampage in Virginia, looting Richmond and raiding communities where Patriot supplies were stored. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You the only one. You’re smart to stay away from the general store, though. You go there, your pockets empty real fast. They got the prices so high, even a penny whistle costs two bits!” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

"Why you being so mean, man? Lady was just doing her job," I asked Noodles while squeezing different yarns like they were cantaloupes in the grocery store. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Then gradually as he sat there his thoughts turned to a picture that had long been stored inside him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

That's not weird for stores in New York, but it just didn't seem like a good idea to have a cat hanging out in a yarn store. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I lean back in my seat, stare out at the dark windows of the store. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The stores we had talked about had all been renamed. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he went into the jewelry store to buy a pearl necklace--or perhaps only a pair of cuff buttons--rid of my provincial squeamishness forever. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I walk into my very first vintage store, like the ones Janae described up near her college in Syracuse. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Her lips were wide and purple, like those African dolls you see in tourist store windows but could never afford to buy. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

At that moment a woman and two men stepped from the jewelry store; I moved to one side to let them pass, my mind intent upon Grigg’s words. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She purchased a small overnight case at the Goodwill store. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although the store was cold he took off his coat and turned up the blue-striped cuffs of his shirt so that they would not get in his way. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Take the bags into the store,” he told Ugwu, pointing, as if Ugwu did not know from all the times he had come in the past to bring food for the refugees. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Matthew waited until the guy walked out of the store before hurrying to their dad. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Every few seconds I’d look for cop cars even though we were a long ways from the store and I supposedly didn’t care. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

But they knew that in a town there were many houses, and a store full of candy and calico and other wonderful things—powder, and shot, and salt, and store sugar. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would store them in the shelter and eat only one a day. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon we came down the block of restaurants and souvenir stores. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The stores, the signs, the sidewalks, the cars were all covered with a film of black coal dust, giving the town an almost monochromatic look, like an old hand-tinted photograph. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

We gave each one a number, then stored it carefully away. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

At sunset, after the second milking, I would go back to the cave, always by way of the road and the store. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

At the end of every day, the butchers lovingly cleaned and stored their knives and cleavers, the tools of their trade. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Gillam Park had nothing civilized around it and was far from a grocery store or doctor’s office. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Him. I know y’all moving, and I’m glad, but the neighborhood still needs more men like you. Even if you just running a store.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

If I unrolled it, I would give myself access to what supplies might be stored below. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Men were lugging brand-new sofas out of stores. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It went like this: Her mom used to walk to the grocery store early in the morning while the kids were still asleep. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

We came from behind the counter and stood outside the store to look at them. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We should go to the fabric store and pick out something really cool! You could do flames or flowers or just a solid, like hot pink!” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

For a while it’s nothing different, the same expanse of sky, the same strip of highway, large liquor stores and fast-food chains on either side. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He went to his sister’s fish store on Ludlow Street and persuaded her to give him a consignment of herring on credit. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Habib had opened a small dry goods store in downtown Kabul to support the family after the opium crops had been destroyed. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The hardware store had big windows that I liked to look in. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not that she did not see someone in the store, but whom did she see? Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our first stop is at a store with another wooden sign: three eggs, a bee, a cow. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spare brush was one of many stored in a metal basket. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The best way to store the ingredients of water is to make them be water. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was well to have a comfort in store on Harriet’s behalf, though it might be wise to let the fancy touch it seldom; for evil in that quarter was at hand. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Each day in the store I watched the brutality with growing hate, yet trying to keep my feelings from registering in my face. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Relieved, I set off to a neighborhood grocery store. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Using the copier in Walt and Billie’s office, he paid his parents a few cents a copy, charged customers two cents less than the comer store charged, and made a tidy profit. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, as his face calms, he blinks out of it, exits, and moves on down the street, the convenience store forgotten. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Cousins, nephews, sons and daughters-in-law waited on the rest of the store, but Lee never left the cigar counter. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He takes a cab from his office to her neighborhood, getting out at a liquor store to buy a bottle of wine. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She would understand; that was how he felt in the stores. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

One evening as the store was closing, Larry and a friend managed to sneak a sip from the white fountain. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pretend there were mamas stored in a cave somewhere on the other side of the island? Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“He offered to take me home or to my father’s grocery store. Before we could decide, One-Fifteen pulled us over.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Throwing it over our mule’s back, I started for the store. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandpop reached out and palmed Genie’s cheeks like Ma did tomatoes in the grocery store. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I emerged from the store a few minutes later dressed in my new threads. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

When I was little, she stopped acting and worked in a sports-equipment store. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fled the store, not caring where I went. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Once at my grandfather’s store, I had given him a piece of candy. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you want a down payment on a store, bring the owner of the store you work in now. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

From a hunting store, he’d gotten a new quiver of arrows for himself, some rations, and a coil of rope. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Fowler continued, “You know that we have a signed confession from our former employee Yvonne Grayson. Yvonne admits stealing Legos from our store—God only knows how many—to give to her friend’s son here.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I walk into a store and the employees either ignore me or they’re hovering over every move I make because they think I’m going to steal something. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The tractor had come out of the trees and ran in plain view down the blacktop, covering the last half mile to the store. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Jasper barked furiously, and darting between my legs into the room he tore to the open door of the store. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Mama and I used to walk past his furniture store to admire the window displays, but we never could have afforded anything in it. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

On Tuesdays Wednesdays, and Saturdays, I worked at a convenience store called Handy Stop, which is located right beside I-40. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“I used to work in a store like that.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except for my dad, because he was too busy videotaping everyone with a camera he rented from the video store. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

And we went down to a clothes store, and sat in the dressing room for a while. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t be so stressed about getting this promotion if you took the hardware store job,” Mom says under her breath. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The store man is talking and talking, but my head feels as tiny as a butterfly's—too small to make sense of anything. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Who doesn’t love a good pet store opening? Especially if they have balloons.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

At the Big Top Mall, some stores sell new things, things like balloons and T-shirts and caps to cover the gleaming heads of humans. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

This close, it was clear this particular Time Suck wasn’t as large as the one that had frightened them at Mr. Archie’s store. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The road past the store was empty except for an old cow with a broken horn hanging near her face. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She walks down Garden Avenue to a small grocery store which sells penny candy. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked out the window and into the store. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“You know they’ve got some great record stores in Chicago,” Dad said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

She just kept raising her kids, working various jobs as a barber, notary public, chemical mixer at a cement plant, grocery store clerk, limousine driver. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

My cell has assigned me, along with Sonia, also a university student, to this apartment above a little comer store. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was thinking I could get a job. Maybe work at the hardware store, since Dad doesn’t want to.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Mama and I would occasionally go downtown to Macy’s and Gimbel’s or to the many stores along 14th Street, then a big shopping area. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Certainly my father ran his stores with an iron attitude. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s an actual grocery store instead of a deli. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Starks piled fodder under the big tree near the porch and the mule was usually around the store like the other citizens. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The woman in the second store was reading a book. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

How much more profitable the store would be! Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gave the cab the address of a clothing store on High Street, close to the OSU campus. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Three years ago for her birthday, my dad surprised her by hiring part-time help for the store so she wouldn’t have to go in every day. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

After a few days he took pains to let the community at large know that his store was to be closed for a week while he went to St. Louis on business. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew roughly where it was, just not which store specifically. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Neighbors would drop by while Hugh was off at the hardware store, and I'd struggle to entertain them with a pathetic series of simple nouns. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Once, when I was a kid—I think I was about nine—I was with my mom at a grocery store,” I tell him when we pass the cleaning supplies. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They didn’t talk too much around the store either. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

A large food processing company offered to buy the rights and sell the hot dogs in stores, but Milton, mistakenly thinking that popularity is eternal, rejected it. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He idled in the barber shop and purchased a few trifles at the ten-cent store. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The grocery store made me feel like we didn't count, like we were nobody or nothing, like I wasn't Melba. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Her maiden name was Ford, and her father had owned a small grocery store. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

This land was waterless, furred with the cacti which could store water and with the great-rooted brush which could reach deep into the earth for a little moisture and get along on very little. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is stunned that in this town there are no sidewalks to speak of, no streetlights, no public transportation, no stores for miles at a time. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He thought that the corn might be some kind of crow's food store, in which he was seen as an invader. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

We’ve been at it for four months and the store still refuses to hire Negroes. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But if the looters decide to ignore the “black owned” tags, they could end up hitting our store. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Across the street, the liquor store is open, a magnet to the wiry man in the sagging tan suit cajoling people for spare change. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembers one number back home—at a tire store where he worked. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Won’t matter. Like I said, every single department store and grocery store—even the dollar store—has security personnel.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

He hadn't gone to the store, and he didn't have any money anyway. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

She never asked about the stores themselves, about what vegetables were selling, how the employees were working out, nothing ever about the painstaking, plodding nature of the work. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it was kind of amazing, since the original pizza-slice-sized store would have fit maybe ten people tops, and that would have been shoulder-to-shoulder. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Grainy scenes, but no less terrifying: grocery stores ablaze, smoke billowing from their rooftops, walls gnawed to studs by flame. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

One of the gangs shot up a candy store in the other gang’s territory. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

We walk around for half an hour, looking for a store that’s affordable, and I just want to give up and bury my face in a Cinnabon, even though they always make me sick. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Violet lifted her head to the sky and laughed with the excitement in store when she got home to look. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We danced around the kitchen and sang along with the songs on the playlist while we waited for Dad to come back from the store. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Never mind, you’ve got the tarlaton for the big party, and you always look like an angel in white,” said Amy, brooding over the little store of finery in which her soul delighted. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hear me? I need you to run the store. And your mother needs you. ” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They parked on a side street, then wandered about until a suitably crowded variety store presented itself. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like how when I go with my grandma to one of the nice grocery stores out in the suburbs and she tells me to “talk like you got some sense.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Each floor is one apartment with windows overlooking the street or the grocery store parking lot behind us. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There was a dizzying array of people to pay and collect from, houses to improve and maintain, bills to deal with, invoices to issue, supplies to buy and store. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She blinks a few times, considering, then Isabelle comes up and announces that the regional manager will be visiting our store tomorrow, so everything has to be “zoned to the nth degree.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was serendipitous when writer Thomas Keneally walked into the luggage store that the Pages owned in Beverly Hills and became fascinated by the story Mr. Page told him. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Or have raccoons and foxes gotten into our stores? Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Item #12 was an old boot box from an Alexandriaville shoe store Haley had never heard of. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

They had had a hard year, and after the sale of part of the hay and corn, the stores of food for the winter were none too plentiful, but the windmill compensated for everything. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“You remember that day when you come into the store?” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The city was trying to attract businesses to its new Research Triangle Park and the civil rights pioneers figured that local stores, wanting to avoid any bad publicity, would be “pushovers.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Storage in human beings has been well investigated, and we know that the average person is storing potentially harmful amounts. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was dusky inside the store after the outdoor brightness. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our dad had such a habit of bringing home cases of chocolate that my mom had made me a place to store them. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

What more could he ask for, but this — the late-day sun gilding the top of his new store gold as the knob of a flagpole. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night she and I went to the store and hung the banner out of a second-story window. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

How-ever, I understood that I was loudly discussed in the stores and on the streets—that the druggist and a couple of others had risen to my defense when the discussions became hot. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For instance, did you know there are people in this store—in all department stores, actually—who walk around looking like ordinary customers but are really security police making sure no one is stealing?” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The signs say that it used to be a church, then a liquor store. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The robot riffled through the papers stored inside its tummy. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

They passed no one who appeared to be a Mexican-American until they had left the business district of still-closed offices, stores, and cafés. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

It looked like a year-round Halloween store, with a few stray ghost decorations on the window and a rotting pumpkin by the entrance. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She walked behind him when he went to work and hung around on the corner near his store all day. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It’s not as bad off as the store, but a broom and a dustpan won’t make it better. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

We pass the extraordinarily well lit and extremely crowded window display of an electronics store. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

We’d walk to the corner store in search of her daily green Irish Life Saver. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched him jaywalk across Fremont Boulevard and enter Fast & Easy, a little grocery store run by an elderly Vietnamese couple, Mr. and Mrs. Nguyen. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They stored crystals in their eyes to detect polarized light. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the ship’s hold were stores for at least two years, including a recent innovation: concentrated Bovril sledging rations for the trans-Antarctic run on dogsleds. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

This was the store to which Pa came to trade his furs. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

And you can see your granddaddy at the store. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Yellow lights were still burning in several stores, and a juke box that had played steadily for one hundred hours finally, with a crackle of electricity, ceased, making the silence complete. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the street from it is known territory: Simpsons department store. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Moon Orchid remembered many of them from the village; the cigar store owner, who looked like a camel, welcomed her. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Didn’t you have the right to know where something came from, so that you knew what malfunctions might be in store? Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Flournoy said he and his wife would come, but most folks either acted like they didn’t hear the invite or else huffed out of the store without buying a thing. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“The people in our neighborhood robbed his store for food, and he couldn’t even defend himself.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She got up, stored some of the smoked meat in her pack, spread the rest in the sun to pack later, and hurried out to the caribou hide. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been Mrs. Richardson who had held her, Mrs. Richardson who had heard all the doctors’ prognoses, the dire warnings about what might be in store for her. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

All we have at Bailey’s Wharf is a crossroads near school where there’s a post office and the firehouse, a gas station that sells bait, a video store, and the 7-Eleven. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

There was about a dozen people hanging out in front of the store by the time we got there. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

So, though there was still some store of weapons in the Shire, these were used mostly as trophies, hanging above hearths or on walls, or gathered into the museum at Michel Delving. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

We need beach gear and, according to Olly, souvenirs, so we stop in a store called, helpfully, Maui Souvenir Shop and General Store. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Brandon started making enchiladas but had to run back to the store when he realized they were out of cheese. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“That store will be the first thing looted in the famine,” Dad said. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

You can also cash in your points at the Book Scavenger store for book-hunting supplies—or for more books, of course! Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Do you want a piece of cake before you go? I bought a pound cake from the grocery store. Isn’t that your favorite?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The stores them-selves had fared little better: it was a single-story building with a flat roof, and bare cinder block was visible in places. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

In the street, down a ways from the jewelry store, Shorty slaps my hand. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stores in the mall have fake snow in the window corners, like I’m supposed to believe it snowed through the roof, right? Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

“I’m living for Mr. Hayes’s Instagram,” Harriett says as we step out of the frozen yogurt store, a smoothie in one hand and her phone in the other. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Mr. Archie and Anna, once unstuck, provided supplies from their hardware store. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Mom’s telling Clint’s mother, whose name is Sarah, about some new athletic clothing store opening up next week. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Over a barely digested lunch, the three scientists realized that this intermediate molecule had to shuttle from the cell’s nucleus, where genes were stored, to the cytoplasm, where proteins were synthesized. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

There was a kitchen, a room for sleeping, and a room in back to store cotton and weave cloth. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Excuse me, Miss, but do you know where a knitting store is around here?" When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“What makes you think that government-owned stores are free of fourolds? That statement itself is fourolds. Didn’t you see all the shop signs that were knocked down? Most of those stores belonged to the government.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It looks like something you’d buy at a pet store. For a dog named Fluffy.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Three weeks after Dusty was let out of jail, they arrested him again for attempting to steal cigarettes from a food store. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Go to the store and buy those groceries. If those boys bother you, then fight.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last standing wall of the clothing store cracked and tumbled down with a dull rumble. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

All my grades are neatly organized in a spreadsheet, and I have copies of every test, project, and paper stored in folders. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Back then, they never had tools to do anything with Somkit’s stash, but now it seemed like his friend had enough supplies to fill a hardware store. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

His mind took the image and transported him back to Dawit’s store, to the guns raised upon his father, and he froze. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Ermis missed the occasional three-hour bus rides they had taken to Tegucigalpa to buy things, his mom’s spaghetti, how they would go to the tortilla store together. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

This pretty little girl who was born by day wants to get taken to the candy store. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I set such great store by him,” he said finally. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have something as cool as a secret room hidden under our house, and Mom just uses it to store food?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

One by one he stored the pieces of information in his mind, unwelcome, unforgivable. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I ask it: What do they store in you, warehouse? Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I would have thought the store had been here longer. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Mama Ya-Ya,” I say, “I’m going to go to Mr. Ng’s store. I think I should get more water. Canned foods. Is that okay? We can put it on account?” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I needed to lay in a store of good feelings as well as stovewood before asking permission to go camping. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Since such stars with higher temperatures and pressures run rapidly through their store of nuclear fuel, their lifetimes are much shorter than the Sun’s. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are only five houses in total along a little strip of the road, one with what looks like a small general store tacked onto the front. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“It looks like I have to go to the store to get some spaghetti.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

A new customer comes into the store and over to Ronnie. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I wish the store had the kind with jelly inside.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

When a plumbing and bathroom fixtures store opened up across the street from our bank, my mother said the bank would soon have all its money drained away. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I set the forks and knives on our individual place mats, these impulse buys at the corner store when our money situation was a little better than it is now. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I can hold my own in a fistfight, but I'm not about to get shot to save some corner store fifty bucks in loot, or whatever this thug pilfered. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And the stores are smaller with less flashy signs, and all of them have stands outside selling beach towels and sunscreen and Styrofoam coolers. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Hold court right there in the middle of the store. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The only stores we go into are for skinny girls, so I’m glad I don’t have any money to buy anything. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Cartwright Farm had a store for its workers. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For years, millions of gallons of sticky molasses had been stored in a building-sized metal tank. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

He closes up the store and we ride home. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Belle had to ring up a few kids buying their after-school junk food, so I wandered around the store. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

That same morning I had gone to get his water from the pond—in the same general direction as the store—and reappeared carrying things of mine, milk can and knife. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Not only were the men separated from their work, they were cut off from their homes, credit at the company stores, and identification as a Coalwood citizen. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

All Moss could picture was his father lying outside the store, the blood pooling behind his head, his mother crying as she held Moss back and away from his papa’s body. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I might be crossing soon. I can’t work at the fruit store forever. There’s nothing for me here. I’m sick of this place.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Styx stayed quiet the rest of the way to the hardware store. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Lovely Orchid, the youngest aunt, owned either a shoe store or a shoe factory in Hong Kong. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He let himself into the dark store with his key and switched on the front lights. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

And, he thought, it’ll be nice to see Buster Friendly on TV again, instead of just listening on the radio in the store truck. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

We ran and ran and ran, until finally we came up on Mr. Charles's store, which, luckily for us, stays open 24/7. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Two blocks beyond, she came to a store that had no sign in its window. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Three girls came to the door of the Loft’s candy store. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He headed for the store, nodding at the four men sitting outside on the porch, and side-stepping the white hens that were strolling about. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind us, a man w as pushing his way out of the store. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They saw bookshops and card stores, clothing stores and a wine-and-cheese store. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fourteen dollars for a child’s dress!” she said as we left the store. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They had all agreed to meet later that afternoon at Rogers Peet clothing store, where they were scheduled to pick up their newly tailored clothes. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

We were to meet her at five-thirty at the ice cream store. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why I didn’t think of it when Daniel said they owned a store. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was like this dragon’s hoard of worthless brass that not even Smaug’s underachieving brother would want—and with real estate being so expensive in the city, the cost of storing them was probably astronomical. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He became argumentative, a barroom brawler, and he would wake up rolling in his own filth in Catarino's store. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

We’re about to go inside the store when we hear this thump, like someone has bounced a Super Ball against the store window, only there’s no one there, and no ball. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He knew the flood would come, and he had bidden his son build the chest, store it with provisions, and embark in it with his wife. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because as soon as they step inside the convenience store, the white clerk behind the counter looks between him and G’ma, and her eyes narrow. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Then Loma shook both fists in the direction of the store. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

That information was stored in my student profile, but only my principal had access to that. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was weird to see so few lights on in the stores and restaurants. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Then he got a job at a nice clothing store. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“The Trials are a test of my mettle. I might not know what's in store, but must be prepared anyway. I must conquer my weaknesses and exploit competitors’ weaknesses. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Not that she thought about it much, but any trip to the grocery store or the mall presented the possibility that she would encounter some kind of ugliness. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

That muggy summer afternoon, the strikers and deputies exchanged insults, sparking gunfire along the route from the store to the mine. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Yeah, they most likely linked us to the tied-up store worker, got our descriptions, and maybe they even knew we were from the Lighthouse, but it’s not like we’d hurt anybody really. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The businesses here are hangers-on, relics from about twenty years ago—a sad and very old department store, a shoe store that smells like mothballs, a toy store, a candy shop, an ice cream parlor. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I’m storing today’s game as a new Memory World in my account. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Were the women fondled in kitchens and the back of stores? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it would be so a man wouldn’t have room to store his happiness. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In three-way mirrors at department stores, I’d see my profile dramatically defined by a long nose, but it was really only the color of my skin that caught my attention. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went down to the basement, to the closet where his mother had stored everyone’s winter clothes. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Even before the British got into their transports, word had come back to Boston that the King’s fort at Portsmouth had been seized and His Majesty’s military stores stolen by the rebellious Americans. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing the woman as she was made them remember the envy they had stored up from other times. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Not for the first time, I wondered how many other little stores all over Pakistan our produce might reach. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I pass by it every now and then, especially during the holidays because that store has the nicest Christmas displays. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“It was felt that it would be easier to integrate stores in Durham,” Moore explained, “because the merchants would not want the publicity attendant to a long boycott.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He’d been followed around stores, and stared at on buses by women who clutched their purses tight enough to poke holes in the leather. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The western boundary of the Black Belt met the eastern boundary of Packingtown at Wentworth Avenue, presenting the opportunity for all sorts of cooperative interaction between the races: in stores, schools, parks, each other’s homes. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Home stills were as illegal as the southern moonshine-making devices, but Americans everywhere found that they could buy them in many hardware stores. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I also had offers from a pizza-delivery chain, a shoe manufacturer, and an online store that sold custom avatar skins. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Mameh and I would walk down those dirt roads behind the store and so many of those roads dead-ended into woods. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He headed for downtown Berlin, where he saw large mobs swarming around Jewish-owned department stores, smashing the display windows and looting. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He closed the store and moved to Indiana. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Outside again, Dicey waited until they were out of sight of the store; then she transferred everything from the suitcase to the canvas bag. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she does stuff like that, my father puts his forehead in his hand and store people and conductor people look at her like she is nutty for sure. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That must be the store, it’s the same lettering. The Eaton's Catalogues are buried in there.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I opened the box of cold pills before we were out of the store and popped three of them into my mouth. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I saw the corpse this morning as I was going to the store,” she said. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few cars are parked in front of the grocery store. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Speed’s sons let out a chorus of amens as Mike told a story, saying, “This man came in the store once yellin, ‘I’m gonna come cross that counter and get you.’ The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The Parker House was located right across the street from the old Gold Leaf Bank building and the cluster of office buildings, craft shops, clothing stores, and restaurants called Old Town. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I knew there was no hiding from Fiona in that tiny store. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

We’ve been here for only five minutes when the manager of the store comes out and says, “You Negroes stop harassing my customers.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There are Muslim schools, stores, restaurants, and of course mosques. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood surrounding the Professor’s store was made up of inexpensive apartment houses, little family-owned shops, and small, aging homes. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” she announced stiffly, “I’m only twenty-seven, so there! “Here’s another candy store!” she said. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon afterward a child died after taking medicine acquired at the store. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But the large store was crowded and he suddenly couldn't remember where the books had come from. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The Levittown Shop-a-Rama, site of the Kennedy campaign rally and touted as “the largest shopping mall east of the Mississippi,” was anchored by a Sears and another department store called Pomeroy’s. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I told them it was made of red brick and was bigger than Grandpa’s store, a lot bigger. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Staring wistfully at a store window filled with wedding dresses. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

In Solomon’s store he found Omar and Solomon shaking sacks of okra into peck baskets and he still felt the sense of lightness and power that flying had given him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t of known then that her trip was still on, since Grandpa had been too busy to come home to dinner that day and just ate sardines and crackers at the store. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

In Tempe, segregation never seemed to be a big deal; in Greenwood things were different It wasn’t just the schools; restaurants, movie theaters, stores, even the neighborhoods were divided into white or colored. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The store itself was a pleasant place if only she didn’t have to sell things. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The inside of the store had a clean, warm but fragile scent, like odorless flowers in a hot room. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He showed up at Matthews & Co.’s store and paid a call on an acquaintance. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I carefully placed the newspaper back in the box and stored the box in the satchel, but held on to the compass. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Did she have a DVD player, because they’d gotten this VHS player at a thrift store for only five dollars—Five dollars! We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Just as there is no law requiring informed consent for storing tissues for research, there is no clear requirement for telling donors when their tissues might result in profits. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, she looks back down at the bin and scrutinizes each object for clues, for some bit of information to store away and examine later. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

At the phone booth outside the store, I put in a dime and call Mother. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I just wanted to go to the museum store to see what I could buy. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Dimple stretched out her stiff muscles as she made her way to the cluster of stores and restaurants across from the parking garage. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“A few months ago Daddy said you quit the store. I haven’t seen you since.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Tell the man in the store, Lucky Strike.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

"We were at a yarn store. He was taking black yarn. For Needles." When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

It contained a bookcase: I soon possessed myself of a volume, taking care that it should be one stored with pictures. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

So, too, were the girls’ stores of rainwater and smoked fish. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Soon patrolmen under the command of Captain Horace Elliott began making regular walks past the store, where in accord with custom they stopped to chat with the young and personable owner. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Even though his part-time job at the auto parts store has him leaving before seven, he’s still on time. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

We pop in and out of a bunch of other stores, sometimes just to feel the fabric and check the prices. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

In the area, there were two small primary schools, a general store, and a dipping tank to rid the cattle of ticks and diseases. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Evans and Mr. King were to enter the store and do the actual robbery. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the day my mother stored our pots and pans beneath the bed, but at night she stacked them in the corner so Lois and George could sleep there. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It was such a different way of shopping than going to a store with price tags on the products! A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

There were few other people walking, and the stores all had their steel gates locked in place. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

After that experience in my parents’ store, who could blame her? The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

"Some boys tried to break into the store Friday night. You hear about it?" The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She multiplies on the walls like bacteria, standing, sitting, flying, with clothes, without clothes, following me around with her many eyes like those 3-D postcards of Jesus you can get in the cheesier corner stores. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“In my house I do as I see fit and store as many boxes as I feel like! Don’t stick your nose into my affairs!” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It has cloth seats and air conditioning and a separate place to store luggage. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Every time she saw a Target department store—and we passed dozens of them—she would peg the store’s sign with a few bulls-eyes at a hundred miles an hour. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I was standing in line at the general store when this little white boy cut in front of me. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

And there I was, couldn’t even get away from the store to protect my own Mother. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yesterday being the day of independence for the United States, Wimpy had a barbecue behind his store. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I had walked past television sets in the stores and wanted so badly to look up close or touch, but I knew better. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I remember getting lost at the grocery store when I was four. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I will raise white cats and sew white curtains for the windows and sometimes come out of my door to go to the store to buy cinnamon and tea and thread. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The whole store is like an attic, full of stuff someone’s grandparents once owned but had no more use for. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Longstreet dreamed, storing up energy, knowing the fight was coming and resting deliberately, relaxing the muscles, feeling himself loose upon the earth and filling with strength slowly, as the lungs fill with clean air. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the news-stand she bought a copy of "Town Tattle" and a moving-picture magazine and, in the station drug store, some cold cream and a small flask of perfume. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The master copy of information—i.e., the gene—was stored permanently in a deep repository or vault. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“You look like a girl a man could rob a store for.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

A separate consequence of a settled existence is that it permits one to store food surpluses, since storage would be pointless if one didn’t remain nearby to guard the stored food. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then I see one of my old shirts peeking out of a box, a faded red-and-blue button-down from the thrift store I was always too embarrassed to wear. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He also said we had to watch out for cop cars in case they were looking for who tied up and robbed that old store dude last night. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The usual crowd was present—Singer, Blount, various men who worked in stores along the block and in the mills down on the river. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Shoppers can pass those labels under a special scanner in the middle of the store. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Then, I went downstairs to ask my sister if she could drive me to the store again, so I could get Mary Elizabeth something nice. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I found what seemed a sure thing in the back of a Captain Marvel comic book in Kellam’s store. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had their own factory on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and a growing list of customers, including a store uptown owned by another Jewish immigrant family, the Bloomingdale brothers. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I looked up to see Mr. Cooper staring at me through the store window. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The inside of the toy store seemed louder and brighter than before. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Michelle, the girl who sits behind me and whose father owns the biggest hardware store in town, cracks her gum in my ear. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Until then, I had not seen the factory-outlet stores in the open country selling shoes and clothes. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stop at the store for licorice whips, which Carol buys. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Where I actually went was the locksmith’s store, which is Frazer and Sons, on Seventy- ninth. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Or does he sit up nights searching out a Verse for every potential infraction, and store this ammunition at the ready for his daughters? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For robbing a white man’s store, black girl. That’s what for.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“He even drove us to the grocery store.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She walked away from the porch and found something to busy herself with in the back of the store so she did not hear Jody when he stopped laughing. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The summer before I started high school he made me go with him to one of the new stores on Sunday afternoons to help restock the shelves and the bins. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next door to Claire’s is a candle store, where Elizabeth gets a small candle marked “Tranquility” for her mom. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I’d seen the store, but I’d never stopped there — not having much need for any supplies required for being outdoors over an extended period of time. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Lina had not seen colored pencils in any store for ages. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

As Mrs. Predmore told it to Mama and she told it to me that night on the veranda, Miss Love had flounced into the store like she owned it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

They’d walk away from me if they saw me walking down the road coming toward them, and if they came into the store, they wouldn’t even look at me. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Systematically, in her kind, concerned voice she conjured up the macabre future in store for them. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

One hundred pennies will pull a pocket low and clank loudly on the store counter. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

A few weeks after the store went out of business, my father decided to take us down to Georgia to join the poultry industry. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

This is an interesting kind of problem, made to order for computers if they came in sizes big enough to store in nearby galaxies. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she held them, she remembered the powerful wanting she had felt in that dusty store, and the feeling of it was mixed up with fear and shame and darkness. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was a jewelry store where you could get a pair of hoop earrings for five dollars. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Miss Love didn’t have one close friend in Cold Sassy and no doubt was lonesome, being used to working around people at the store. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

"From a store, or were they on someone's feet?" asked Squid. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

First thing I did was to take him to the stores and fit him out with suitable equipment. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Francie often passed by the store, looked at it and was thrilled. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What kind of help? Are you hungry? I’ll bring you some seeds from the barn loft. I know where they’re stored.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

We dashed around the corner of the nearest store. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Needles still litter the house, but I’ve managed to put away the decorations and store them back in the closet. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She would talk to her husband, yes, but he was dying, and she was the one who now managed the store and bore its responsibilities, and she had come to a decision. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Not knowing what if anything Grandpa had told when he got back to the store, I was getting uneasy about shading the situation. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She would go to thrift stores and buy old stuffed animals—faded teddy bears, ratty plush dogs, threadbare rabbits—the cheaper the better. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Toxic and hazardous wastes were stored in another: corner of the dump, where you could find old batteries, oil drums, paint cans, and bottles with skulls and crossbones. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was thinking about her one day, walking home from the grocery store on Gibb Street. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a graying man in a little gray store, a crossroads place where I stopped for a box of dog biscuits and a can of pipe tobacco. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out that corn was an excellent way to store and trade wealth. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

We had no stores up there, so we had to go through white neighborhoods to shop downtown. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Our local hardware store gives away little bags of popcorn on Saturdays, so that’s an option, if you get there early enough. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But the great waves had cost me all the food and weapons which were stored in the cave, as well as the canoe I had been working on and those hidden under the south cliffs. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

On either side of them were the stores, which Miyax recognized by the many people who wandered in and out. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pointing at Harry with his black, withered hand, he said, “You are setting too much store by the prophecy!” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“He owns the barbershop next to my store.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t as if we were in Brooklyn, where the candy store, the record shop, and my best friend were around the corner. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Next time you come back I’ll see if I can dig up a picture of that old store,” he said. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up a brick from the sidewalk and flung it through the store window, then I rushed at the building. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

They drank in the sun’s power all day, stored it, and fed it back out each night. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Benny shrugged and turned around, disappearing through the swinging doors that led to the back of the store. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

A man store owners and landlords liked because he set the children’s toys in a neat row when they left them scattered on the sidewalk. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pet store clerk hangs a closed sign in its window, but I'm relieved to find the pottery studio's door opens when I push it. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Of course somebody must of gone to the store and told Grandpa there was a tall stranger with a silver-trimmed saddle up at his house. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He said he had worked in the same store with my father and Uncle Bright Star overseas. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He was pulling on my dress and whining a bit, and this store owner comes over with a wooden paddle and says, ‘This little n-word bothering you, ma’am? Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Starks left the store to Hezekiah Potts, the delivery boy, and come took a seat in his high chair. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Everyone was busy now, for all the garden vegetables must be stored away. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He also set up a modest general store where the tenants could buy whatever they needed without having to make the trip by oxcart all the way into San Lucas. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Apu made him an offer—“I could use some help around the store’’—he accepted. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They knew because of Valley’s lessons that they sometimes stored their meals for later, but if there were already bones in the den, someone else hadn’t been as lucky. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

After checking all four corners at Atlantic and Court Street, I finally had to break down and ask someone where the store was. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

She began to walk the long way around to the store to avoid the playground, the elementary school, the bus stop. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The only thing left to do in the Hideout is set up my thrift store purchase. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“You didn’t, say, stop at the store to stock up on supplies? Nothing of that sort, Mr. Miyamoto?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

You can just be walking with somebody or going to the store and get shot because some dude don’t know how to shoot straight. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

She stood up from the rocker and started toward the open door of the store. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

People trickle onto the street, and more buckets of sloshing water are hauled into the store. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

On a tall mast on top of the store he had a little round platform and there he was on skates going around and around. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cordelia rummages in the fridge and brings out an opened package of store doughnuts. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The incident revolved about Sam Gardiner, the pudgy, round-faced proprietor of the general store in Newton. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t remember how many days passed or how many jars we’d added to our stores before Dad told us more of the story. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Someone threw a Molotov cocktail into one of the mom-and-pop stores and Cissy said the firemen were probably going to use those powerful hoses on the people like they used on Dr. Martin Luther King. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

She swept up the store and hauled out the trash. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Between meals, if his mother did not stand guard, he was constantly pilfering at the wretched store of food on the shelf. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He whirled from me and went to the front of the store; he came back a moment later, his face red. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know if she was wondering just how good a time they’d had in New York City or worrying what folks would say if Grandpa told it at the store about Miss Love dancing. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Whenever we shopped at the grocery store, they behaved as though they were worried about something. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Billy Pilgrim wasn’t beguiled by the back of the store. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He exited the store and circled around back, taking a shortcut to get back to the apartment complex. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

This street had all kinds of stores and places to eat. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The most risky and unpleasant adventure outside my home when I was very young was to go grocery shopping where a white man, Mr. Waylans, owned the store. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Hospitals and stores holding medical supplies were getting shelled. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The following day, Mr. Trepid made his way to the same jewelry store, carefully removing his watch before he entered. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Emilika lifted a curtain that divided the front of the store from the back. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I hoped the people at the store watched the news. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The bees must have been storing honey there for years. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took the little list of ingredients he had printed out for me, and went to a grocery store, where I got a can of Red Devil lye, two eggs, and two medium-sized white potatoes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stores are piled on top of each other, like gift boxes in all the colors of the rainbow. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Know that the blacks who spend money in your store and help put food on your table and send your children to college cannot open their own stores. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I left the library in a purple froth and found Harry lounging in front of the general store. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I saw in a store once some German posters for retrospective festivals of her work. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Winston Lacks was a burly man with a beard that grew to his belly—he drank almost every night in a saloon hidden in the basement beneath the general store. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Those who had stored their supplies carted their haul into private residences in any conveyance they could. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

When they came to the final door, Toby had no idea what to expect—a video store filled with VHS tapes? We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Afterward, Daddy would let me go in the colored store for a cold drink and sucking candy. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But the warehouse where she’d stored the rest had been unaccountably “robbed”—of furniture, appliances, and most of those silver anniversary gifts. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was only one place I didn’t want them to go with me and that was to Grandpa’s store. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

C.P. was anxious about finding another job, but during a conversation with the owner of one of the stores on his route, he learned that a nearby service station was for sale. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Most folks immediately take to the general store, a line of dark faces lining up out front waiting to spend their money. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“I told you who it was. It was that spotted man with orange hair. The one who carries things at the toy store.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s dying, the store is, like the rest of the town and Mr. Phelps spends all his time despairing. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

A lone Turk who had roamed into the town years ago and who languished with his family behind the little store where they sold linens claimed passionately to his wife that the mute was Turkish. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Coach had given me my uniform the day before, after humiliating me at the sports store. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

It’s never “All right now, Big Mav’s daughter who works in the store.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

But Hollister’s store was empty, at least it looked that way from where they stood. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

To provide ourselves with a source of nutrition that will keep, aside from the hundred cans of food we’ve stored here, we bought three hundred pounds of beans. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Half the white stores depended on its patronage; Valentine residents filled the squares and Sunday markets to sell their crafts. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

If she were, I wouldn’t have even come into the record store. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

With the last of her savings she’d headed over to the photography store on West 17th, where a young man sold her film and paper as she tried not to stare at his yarmulke. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The man who was to enter the store and check it out is sitting at the other table. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

Momma found the first movie for a dollar at a thrift store back when we lived in the Cedar Grove projects. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The grocery store was where women gathered to socialize, and children came along hoping for a few pennies for a treat. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

They spent a long time wandering through stores, looking at toys and records and pianos and birthday cards. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He aimed that last comment at the store, but got no response. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

If they were for storing cotton, as Haas surmises, they would have been, in this textile-mad society, an emblem of state power and wealth, the ancient equivalent of Fort Knox. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He runs into our store and douses it on the flames, but he’s forced to jump back too. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

In the alleyway behind the store a few shopping carts, all badly rusted. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The old store’s wood shelves were painted a dour green, but stuffed with a rainbow assortment of canned food and bags of chips, pasta, and even marshmallows. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

A stored food surplus built up by taxation can support other full-time specialists besides kings and bureaucrats. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I did not either get it off a Frenchman. I bought it in a store in Richmond.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In orientation, we learned that the store’s success depends entirely on us, the associates; in fact, our bright blue vests bear the statement “At Wal-Mart, our people make the difference.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandpa Nate went to the Jiffy store and bought three bags of ice, and we loaded them into the wagon. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

When our genes could not store all the information necessary for survival, we slowly invented them. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The post office being in one corner of the drug store, Dr. Clark is required to fly a U.S. flag. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Quite a surprise was in store for them. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The whole time we were at the store, I kept thinking, I don’t want to go with JT. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I unpacked my suitcase and glanced at the door, wondering what lay in store for me on the other side. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Rishi reached over, grabbed her hand, and pulled her into the darkened alley between a shuttered jewelry shop and clothing store. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She had just got hired at a new job doing store security downtown. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Whoever had unhooked Walmart’s glass sliding doors from their tracks hadn’t done a good job of finding a safe place to store them. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“That fool got a point. Folks will need a store around here. Everybody else gon’ leave.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Except how could he work for a man who had sold him a store that was sinking? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“These are the counts from three turns ago,” Marsh told Jon, offering him a thick sheaf of papers, “for comparison with our present stores. Shall we start with the granaries?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

After that they went out of the store. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or in desperation, sell some blood at one of the store fronts down the street from the agency. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

That meant that if I took my usual route, he would see me approaching the store from the pond, and would know at least which side of the valley I was living on. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The streets of Odessa were empty, with no signs of life except the perpetual glare of the convenience store lights on one corner after another. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

No. “You want me to go to the grocery store?” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

A saleswoman at the jewelry store testified that she recognized Wes as one of the four men who’d robbed the store. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

If there was moonlight, you could see out there, down the back roads behind our store where the black folks lived, and from the balcony I’d look for him. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Big Meadows had a campground, a lodge, a restaurant, a gift shop/general store, and lots and lots of people spread around a big sunny grassy space. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The abandoned stores, equipment and vehicles made an avenue of scrap that spilled across their path. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Why I never saw fifty dollars until I was twenty-one years old, with all the other boys with the afternoon off and all day Saturday and me working in a store. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

One employee brought a pressure gauge from the lab into a store to test the suction capabilities of a vacuum cleaner model. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

His father gave them all envelopes of varying amounts of money, never thinking that just once they might like something he actually went into a department store and selected. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, a few stores over. I think it was in front of Copy King.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

And so Dell studied biology in college, which didn't go well because he couldn't store facts. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

At this the tall king, clarion in battle, called to his lady and her waiting women to give them breakfast from the larder stores. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew something important had just happened in that store. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

"We can go check the pet store," Noodles said. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The smell—dill pickles mixed with tobacco and peppermint—took me right back to Uncle Holt’s store. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The biggest surprise lay in store for the migrants who had sold property and brought cash from the South, expecting to purchase a nice home in their new city. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He would spend the day in the rear of the store writing wild notes, which he would send to Amaranta with flower petals and dried butterflies, and which she would return unopened. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I was always so glad to get out of the store. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Normally she buys boxes of cards, marked fifty percent off at department stores in January, always forgetting, by the following winter, exactly where in the house she’s put them. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They smile a little ominously, as if they know already what is in store for us. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The store is a small single room with floor-to-ceiling shelves, each overflowing with books. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I figured maybe she went to the store or something, so I sat on the sofa and waited. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

At the fabric store, we are not Colored or Negro. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Hunting out the window for something to draw, I consider the line of stores and restaurants across the street, but they look tired and “between.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the brackets stick out far enough to accommodate two panels, I could store eight additional panels that way. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They gave way to brush, and then the store came in sight. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The video store at the mall had dozens of different puzzles that were not electronic. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the hat store they stood behind Mama’s chair while she held the baby in her lap and tried on hats. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ones like: “Peace and prosperity upon this store.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he had, quite sensibly, decided that I was living in the store. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Despite prejudice, the immigrants exhibited a pioneering spirit, building ethnic churches, grocery stores, and fraternal halls. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

The five-and-dime was my very favorite store because it had things we could afford to buy and we always came home with something new in our hands. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

So Grandpa drove us to an art supply store where she bought me a calligraphy pen and a bottle of ink. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Starvation would force me to come to the house or the store. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

To be honest, they could’ve found a statue of Buddha in virtually any store around campus. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Turns out one Howie Holman from Detroit, Michigan, had been gunned down behind the counter of his own store, leaving a wife and three kids behind to clean up the mess. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He went back inside the store and signed another X for another tallboy. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We kissed in bookstores and record stores and dressing rooms. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They found some great salty caramel chocolate at a candy store. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I stood up again and went out of the park toward the liquor store where I bought the watch and Tic Tacs and hit the pay phone to call Jaden collect. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

When they emerged into the far corner of the store, he gestured with a flourish. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The town was much smaller than Ensenada, but it had a few hotels, stores, and service stations. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“This is east barn,” Francia says, “where we store things ready to be traded. Wait here.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Hanging from a department store rack was a sleek, sparkly dress in a doll’s size. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Silently, they crossed the little street together, heading toward a bank of narrow storefronts—mostly clothing and record stores—on the other side. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

A long shadow crossed the hold to the galley store, where the ship’s boy unlocked the door and began poking among the barrels, a silhouette of long limbs and curls on the curving timbers. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

When I arrived at the store, nobody was there except a lady at the front cash register. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Camilla smiled, not exactly at me—a sweet, unfocused smile, quite impersonal, as if I were a waiter or a clerk in a store. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

On it floated great chunks of golden grease, more delicious than the butter from the gussak store. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

From Valentine’s Day on, Grandpa never went back to the store after dinner on Wednesdays. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Garrett and I start with the downstairs bathroom, seeing as our water is stored in the bathtub adjacent to the toilet. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

By the entrance, in an old white house, was the office, which was really a general store. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Boghetti was short, stocky, and dynamic, a demanding teacher with a vast store of knowledge about vocal technique and a stern manner with his students. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

I think about what I bought at the thrift store. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

At an army-surplus store, I bought flannel shirts, thermal underwear, thick wool socks, the kind of blue work pants that auto mechanics wear, and a new pair of steel-toed boots. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Two, that’s the same price they are at the store. Three, why you not in school?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I can tell by how close his voice is that he's following us out of the store. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Then she had to go down to the candy store to get the Sunday paper; then to the cigar store to get Papa a nickel Corona. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Wishart was kind, but no one else at the store was. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We make our living by catching electrons at the moment of their excitement by solar photons, swiping the energy released at the instant of each jump and storing it up in intricate loops for ourselves. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

O'BRIEN Mr. Harmon, did you discuss with anyone that you would act as a lookout or that you would check out the store? Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

For by now he is aware, in stores, of cashiers smirking at his parents’ accents, and of salesmen who prefer to direct their conversation to Gogol, as though his parents were either incompetent or deaf. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Their juices, stored in tanks, become more precious than caviar. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

There were white leather chairs organized neatly in two corners of the store, and a large table with several laptops for browsing. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Did you put the pennies in the gum machine at the store?” she asked. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

As always when things got behind in the family or at the store, I was the one who took up the slack. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

They used to laugh at him and his old ragtag store behind his back, but over the years they made Old Man Shilsky rich and nobody was laughing then. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it didn’t help any, I was still shut out, and I stopped going to the display store altogether. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

There used to be an ice cream store, somewhere in this block. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

You drive to the grocery store and then get out and drive around the store in a cart? How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But this time, I ignore the piano and walk to the back corner of the store. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He would track me to the store, from the store back to the pond, and from the pond to where I sat; but Mr. Loomis could not see that from the house. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, and I’ll store it on the bookshelf when I’m not using it.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Murphy has brought to my attention that a couple named the Nielsens, friends of hers, own the general store on Center Street. Five years ago they lost their only child.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She was by the linen store tying her apron when Sister Drummond came up. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It all had to be kept stored in only one place: in my head. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Late Friday afternoon, after we had finished cleaning the last of the supers and storing them away, Zach went out to take a look under the hood of the honey wagon. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I didn't breeze on out of the store like I normally do. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

His fat, mottled cheeks were so pouched at the bottom that it was dif-ficult not to believe that he had little stores of food tucked away there. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

But they lead only to the back walls of stores. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“So, can you get me some dry corns at the store where you work?” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They rode half an hour longer before they finally came to the filling-station store. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

If Andrew was in town, he would be at Allen’s store or at the Eight Ball shooting pool. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” I said, “I found a Less Fortunate at the grocery store.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as Mom noticed what was going on, she pulled me out of the store. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

She said it like the store was going to be wonderfully fun. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Both he and the men in the store had spent the entire day hunting for Emma Lee’s assailant in the brush and swamplands of the beach. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ma fixed pots and scythes and rakes and picks for eggs or some such, took what we needed, then traded the rest to Ralph Pitcher for store credit at the mercantile. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Grandpa was really pleased, for Miss Love in the store window was a sight to behold. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

With not a lot of time to spare, Volpe asks me to rush into downtown Lincoln, find a hardware store, and purchase a caster the same size as the one that broke. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

It looked as if someone had taken an ancient marketplace and squashed it together with a modern grocery store. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Maybe never be able to do anything but sweep up this crummy store. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d also kill cows in the kosher faith for the Jews in town to eat, and we often kept a cow in the yard behind the store. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tossed the scissors down a food aisle and we all tore out of the store. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I was sitting behind the counter of the store one afternoon and a car full of men wearing white sheets drove past. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A lot more visits. I even fixed up the spare room where I stored my fishing gear so you would have a place to stay. Sometime, it’s almost like you live here.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were full of sorrow and anger, but mainly they were powerfully anxious about the seedpod store. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

One ended up running a small department store in Brooklyn. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He grabbed the doorframe and swung himself into the store, followed by one of his Soulless Minions of Orthodoxy, Chip Cusumano. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

If it were necessary we would promise them a whole quartermaster’s store. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wimpy’s is the fancy grocery store where mostly Americans and other foreigners shop. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Mr. Castleman was the renowned neighborhood baker, and his wife managed the front of the store. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

For the most part, that adoption was linked to our adoption of food production, which required us to remain close to our crops, orchards, and stored food surpluses. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were no mangoes among the fishermen’s great stores, but sucking on his piece of sugar cane reminded Salva of those happier times. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

On examination his fat was found to contain stored dieldrin, which had been metabolized as he lost weight. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He took one last look at the rainbow-encased store, then raked his fingers through his hair. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I was on one of our archaic computers, checking to see if BJ’s online had an item we had sold out of in the store, a forty-dollar piece of junk chiminea. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

She’d only gone to the corner store for a pack of cigarettes. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even though the store is the same, people are not. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

At an open shopping center on Valley Boulevard, they bought two canteens in a hardware store and some food in the supermarket. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The three of us roll up to the store and step inside, taking in our surroundings. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

If a store tried to pull the sales stunt too often, these are the people who would figure it out and complain to management and tell their friends and acquaintances to avoid the store. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She began to plan all sorts of refinements: upper platforms to store food, a rope ladder, a barrier of thornbushes, a thatched roof to keep out rain. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I was getting out of the cab, Chris was walking down the block, coming from the store. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“And of course, I’ll have to cancel my offer for the children to construct a decoration for our store,” Tuttle said. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He was like a little kid being set free in a candy store. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I was in a department store with Mama and we were on the escalator—goin’ down. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was annoyed because I’d wanted to stop at the art store for some pens for the field guide with the money my dad had given me—a ten-minute mission. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He made Martin promise to finish his work, and the son assumed the old man meant him to take over the feed store. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Plus I felt weird about being the only person in the store. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Holmes, newly free and land rich, brought a new woman to the fair, Georgiana Yoke, whom he had met earlier in the year at a department store, Schlesinger & Meyer, where she worked as a saleswoman. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I popped it open to a random page in the middle, ready to accept whatever fate had in store. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

"And Ali, you and Noodles take that cart back around to the store. I told Manu I would bring it right back." When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

For a while as we walked I tried to talk to Lynn and Amber, but they were obsessed with a cute dress they had seen in a store. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The girlfriend said, “I’m off to the store.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Memories, on the other hand, are stored redundantly in many locales. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t forget to stop at the package store,” said Henry coldly. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He's never watched our mother barter over fish and spices in Indian grocery stores. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We enter the all-purpose store and sit down at the luncheonette counter. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

While he, Ned, was but a jeweler in someone else’s store, Holmes controlled a small empire—and had yet to turn thirty years old. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

There were also—in the store—seeds of all kinds: corn, wheat, oats, barley, and most kinds of truck vegetables and fruit—almost everything that will grow here. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I made a shelter of brush at the foot of the rock, which kept off some of the water, and ate the food I had stored in the basket. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

As at his own wharf, one side was built up solidly with counting houses, warehouses, sail lofts, stores. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They brought so much snow into the store on their boots that one of the box boys, Earl Camp, stayed busy all afternoon with a mop and a towel, cleaning up after them. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“How about I prominently feature your store on Dollywould in exchange for you cutting us a break on this?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The first hint of it was Mr. Morton going around the schools teaching Christmas carols, but the first sure sign was the store windows. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

April wasn’t sure if he heard Marshall say, “He’s that man who carries things at the store.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every hardware store, garden-supply shop, and supermarket has rows of insecticides for every conceivable horticultural situation. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

We packed a few belongings, stored the rest in our barrack, and left our Carcachita, our old jalopy, locked and parked in front. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

A two-story gray building that had been a store downstairs and had an apartment upstairs. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I saw a honey jar back at the store, and the man said ...” “Oh, you’ve come for honey. Well, why didn’t you say so? Come on in the front parlor. I’ll get August.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew I couldn’t afford a new one at a department store or music store, and I don’t know if I can even afford an Elliot guitar, but I have to find out. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning I took the watch out of the wooden box where I kept my geode, put it in my purse, and brought it back to the store. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The store is nearly empty tonight, so I can browse a bit before sitting at the register. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

In the comer store, the butcher closes out his register. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like a store, he thought, just like a store, and he could not remember later how many he ate that day but he thought it must have been over twenty. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew if he went to whooping at me, Papa might chance to look out the store window and wonder why I wasn’t weeding the garden like he said to. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“You would have known, too, if you had gone to his store more often.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

She bought a bunch of mason jars at the craft store and wrapped them with colored paper, then arranged flowers in each jar. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I told myself I could handle whatever the segregationists had in store for me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We did not see any troops; only abandoned trucks and stores. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

We stored them in the musty shed across the parking lot from Scanlan, stacked atop one another from September through May, nesting grounds for spiders and the occasional rat or garter snake. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

There was an ominous silence in the store. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben can buy them at Mr. Phelps’s store if he really wants them. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I've seen more elaborate pyrotechnics at the grand openings of grocery stores, but the audience was kind and everyone made an effort to pretend that the display was magnificent. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He comes to an abrupt stop in front of the store, like he just noticed it. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

She had a few seconds left, to make her store of Lancelot that must last her through the years. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the rest of the world, the store is a slight aberration of normal. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I went to the postoffice and got the mail and drove on to the store and parked. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But Ma Charles, store milk comes from cows. At the dairy farm.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Cameron, this is too much,” she called after me, but then I was out of the store, back on the sidewalk, free from her generosity or pity or kindness, all of it. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

It looks like a regular store— shelves of DVDs and old VHS tapes and a rack of magazines, all under this harsh fluorescent glow. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Our treasured and nostalgic picture of the village general store, the cracker-barrel store where an informed yeomanry gather to express opinions and formulate the national character, is very rapidly disappearing. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

On entering the store, they stopped and glared at me. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The skyscrapers have been replaced by small, closely packed stores with bright awnings. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He saw a little girl pick her way through the snow and stop at a corner newsstand; a man hurried out of a drug store and sold the girl a paper. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ames stored these in plastic bags, which he put inside his briefcase. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

His goal is the Richmond and Danville Railroad Line at Amelia Court House, where he has arranged to store food and supplies. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Before dark I had emptied one of the baskets in which food was stored and used it to dip out the water that came over the sides. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He will find the house of course, the store and the church, but he must have found a lot of those on his way. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

We could go home, lock the door, and fight over the TV like we always do, or we could help Daddy at the store. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Years later, I’d fall in love with a guy who, like Suzanne, stored his belongings in heaps and felt no compunction, really ever, to fold his clothes. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We set out in the new car, a used Ford Papa had bought for the store, so he said. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cringe at the thought of shopping, then remember Alice likes stores. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d haul us to jail and maybe even have a beating in store for us. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still he knocked, until finally a tiny girl perched on a stool in the fresh-killed meat store said, “Yes?” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old dime stores and sweet shops were closed, Kresge’s, Woolworth’s, Sanders Ice Cream. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I ran into the avenue where in the light of a flaming liquor store I saw three old women scurrying toward me with raised skirts loaded with canned goods. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dragged myself back to the store, dreading the showdown I knew was coming. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are made of sugar, my bun. Come to the store with me now!” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

How come stores never have black Santa Clauses? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nick walked into the Penny Pantry store and asked the lady behind the counter for a frindle. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the back half of the store there was a loft and a spiral staircase that led up to it. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

One wall is a grocery store, where coffee, canned soups, bread, and pancake mixes are stacked on shelves. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The beers and whiskey he had stored so continuously in his system set in a reaction. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Last fall, the line at the hardware store snaked around the block for the surplus paint, left over from a hospital project on the other side of Havana. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They spent the greater part of the day closeted in the bedroom in hermetic conferences and at dusk they asked for an escort and some accordion players and took over Catarino’s store. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

And the rooms do not have rice paper doors but a big piece of wood like the stores in the village. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Despite efforts by Howard Fuller and Ann Atwater to calm the situation, a score of angry black teenagers sped down Main Street, tossing garbage cans and bricks through a dozen store windows. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

When she had everything stored at the back of the cave, she built a fire, boiled pumpkin, and toasted a few soldier termites she cornered in the baskets. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Could we hide a book in your store?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He had taken that name and it said so on the store awning and Francie believed it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent most mornings digging potatoes and carrying them back to the barn to store in the feed bins while Piper went off searching for natural morsels like watercress and sweet chestnuts and honey. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Mom and Dad visited the stores, Jim and I were deposited at the Pocahontas Theater to watch cowboy movies and adventure serials with hundreds of other miners’ kids. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They had drifted from store to store, Esperanza a successful poet on her book tour and Moss a world-renowned fashion designer helping her with her wardrobe. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I’m taking the kernels to the store to sell them,” she said to the boy. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, he went into the store and told the clerk what had happened. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

They thought the carefully stored bag was probably full of gold; at any rate, they wanted to see what was in it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Look, let’s say you’re at the store, and all you want to buy is a candy bar, but there’s a real long line. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

But of course he stored away everything he heard. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom took off work early so we could trawl through vintage-clothing stores. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

This store is more than just a pharmacy. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I pass through the main lot and turn into the open asphalt on the north side of the store, where employees park. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

You could go downtown and see colored people working in the dime store behind die counters, even handling money with cash-register keys around their necks. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

And incidentally, that store clerk totally blew it—Leah's dad had given her money for the shopping trip. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Later that evening Dad and I went to the grocery store and stocked up on several bags of lemons and my secret sour ingredient, Lemonhead candy. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you go to Logan’s music store and listen to one of the new phonographs?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Furthermore, to even enter the damaged store, strewn everywhere with debris and broken glass, would have required an agility that she did not possess. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

They proved that the store did not even sell the sausages she was carrying. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

When we got to the store, I let go of Laleh’s hand to get the door, and she ran straight for the counter. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She could back the trailer up with the goods in it, unload it at the store, back the car into the yard, unhook the trailer, and park the car in the garage, backing in. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another policeman takes the store man away, and our policeman takes us into a small room and asks us to sit down. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

There was a wide platform in front of the store, and at one end of it steps went up to it out of the sand. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Francie read them all avidly, then sold them at half price to the neighborhood stationery store and put the money in Mama’s tin-can bank. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We run past the Hot Looks store, where all the mannequins have hourglass figures and massive breasts, and I unknowingly let out a huge sigh. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

On the left is a list of businesses that trade with and hire Negroes, and on the right is a list of stores to boycott. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Seeds were stored in seed pots from one season to the next. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Rambling through the Southeast in the 1770s, the naturalist William Bartram observed Creek families storing a hundred bushels of hickory nuts at a time. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And then, like Ma had said, he asked if me and Rose would like to come down to his store and build versions of our Lego cities for the front windows of Tuttle’s Toy Emporium. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

There are still stores that refuse to hire Negroes, still places where we go and get treated like we’re nothing.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I topped the tank off with some more water from a sealed container that I'd stored in the trailer earlier. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever she had in store for me, it was more private. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spotted him coming out of barbershops with windows the color of coal dust, from tiny booths that sold partridges, from battered, open- fronted stores packed with old tires piled from floor to ceiling. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I can even walk into a restaurant to eat by myself or go to a store to shop for clothes. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A mom was getting out of a car with shopping bags from the kind of store that gives big square shopping bags. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Lemoncello’s hockey game is awesome,” said Mike as they drove to the store. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

There was a small steel door that led into a second room where bottles of gas were stored. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

She talked about it in capital letters as if it were a feature at the grocery store. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you still working at the store?” she asked me. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

By sundown, when the stores were closing, their pockets were filled with cash and the car was heaped with salable, pawn- able wares. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pie—it was an apple pie—had been bought in a store and oven-warmed, and was very, very good indeed. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Their news of the world comes from the thin local paper Gerald brings back each day from the general store. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He may have reasoned that if I was encamped in the store and saw him coming, I might be frightened, and might try to drive him away. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Well, lets go to the candy store and get some,” Suesetta says. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

As soon as I graduate, I begin to manage the store. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I lean my back against a pet store window, trying to catch my breath. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The tight feeling was still in him and he knew that it would remain until they were actually doing the job, until they were in the store taking the money. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Bernie? Last night some punks broke into the store and cleaned me out of rifles, half my handguns, and all the rest of my ammo!” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

To this day I do not remember actually entering the store. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Each morning at five thirty, six days a week, Mrs. Nielsen makes breakfast for her husband, usually fried eggs and toast, and he leaves for the store to open for the farmers at six. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Valentin knows a store where they speak Spanish. He will take me there. It probably sells dresses for girls, too. Get Concha to take you the day she registers our first letter to Mamá.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Every afternoon as soon as school was over she hung around at the corner near the store where he worked. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Yet when this book went to press, storing blood and tissues for research did not legally require informed consent, because the law governing such things doesn’t generally apply to tissue research. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The article confirmed that store windows had been broken and merchandise was grabbed. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The second I walked out of the store Byron was next to me and he was in a lot better mood. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Russian tailor and his sons become men’s suit manufacturers supplying several men’s stores The sons and the father become prosperous The sons’ children become educated professionals. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

These few errands left me chilled to the bone, so cold that not even the window displays at the clothing store called The Fad could draw me in. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The store man gets inside our van too. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

So if I treat myself to an outing in the tiny fenced-off area beside the store, the only place where employees are allowed to smoke, I get about nine minutes off my feet. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were on the wooden walkway behind the stores and restaurants. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The checkout lady at the grocery store would be rude to me and her simple unkindness would unnerve me for the rest of the day because I never knew—I had no way of knowing— A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

No Hollywood movie stars in the Safeway store to sign autographs. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I couldn’t stand it any more, I fumbled around the side of the mattress where I stored that Gatorade bottle Joey brought me when I was sick. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The following summer the hotel placed Katherine as a clerk in its lobby antiques store, making much better use of her charisma. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The mistress of the stores brought up provisions of bread and wine, with victuals fit for kings, and Telemakhos stepped up on the painted car. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light changes and we drive two more blocks, passing Mr. Malloy’s shoe repair store. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Moss learned more about Javier and Eugenia, learned about when they’d come to the States, how long she’d worked in a laundromat before getting a better job at a beauty supply store. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They were our neighbors, the people we saw while standing in line at the bakery and the hardware store. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She could go into the houses of people she didn’t know and hidden alleyways and little rooms in the backs of stores. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In a neighborhood where you had to be tough just to get to the store with money for a loaf of bread, Kenny wasn’t tough at all. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood had not a single chain store in it. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

"Tell Becca that when she feels up to it to come by the store for a piece of candy," said Mr. Pike. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The houses and the stores had all the right colors and shapes, for they had been built not by demons but by the Tang people. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He jumped from foot to foot as he waited, every drop of expectation he’d stored inside throughout the day coming out. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He pulled Breaking the Maya Code off the shelf and handed it to James, then gestured for them to follow him back up to the front of the store. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The smell from the store was warm and familiar. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

We wouldn’t be going to that store anymore. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lola loves to tell us her memories of these colorful little stores and shacks in the Philippines where everyone stops for sodas and treats on hot, humid days. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

We look around the grocery store, spending a lot of time in the candy aisle observing how different the flavors are—green tea Kit Kat bars, wasabi drops, squid-flavored gummies, and melon soda. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The State doesn't even suggest that he was in the store during the robbery. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nanjing Road was lined with big stores, and always bustled with activity. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sacked all I could and tried to store it, but my mother would growl and make faces because of the stink. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

A reporter will interview a sobbing woman who saw the accident in front of the department store on Bartlett Street. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Anxiety plays in your background like bad grocery store music. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

A store of that type always offered an interesting possibility for exploring, but April was really looking for something else at the moment. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The small combined store, repair shop, and lunch room behind the gas pumps was as unprepossessing as any I have ever seen. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

To reach them, the men had to crawl on hands and knees over the stone ballast, then wriggle forward on their stomachs over the crates of stores. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

When the store owners would trade the old rolls for new bills, we’d open them at home to see what was inside. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

When we go downtown, we go to the fabric store, where the white woman knows my grandmother from back in Anderson, asks, How's Gunnar doing and your girls in New York? Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Florer thought that the liquid smelled like the axle grease sold in his store, and he rushed back and showed the sample to others, who confirmed his suspicions: it was oil. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I’m about to tell him I do, but already he is yanking me to the front of the store and out the opening door to the sidewalk. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

From her position—high and to one side—she couldn’t make out the sign; but from the interesting clutter in the show windows it seemed to be some sort of secondhand store. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some very practical minds had on occasion tried to divert his attention to another part of the store. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not like a corner store or a weekend dinner-plate situation or nothing like that. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

He slipped the envelope from his jacket pocket, reached in, pulled out the papers, and tilted them toward the faint light coming through the store window. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He just puttered around the store with a silly little grin on his face. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He finished his fussing and surveyed his store, almost like he was scanning the room for what task he could do next. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He never appeared at the store at all that day, or at our house, either. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

We’re standing just in front of the store when two black teenage girls walk out laughing with each other. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the people in the store kept their eyes closed and heads on the ground. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

In another commercial neighborhood, gangs ransacked every grocery store, littering the streets with squashed fruit, flour, eggs, and sugar and turning the neighborhood into what resembled one giant dump. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

There’s even a merry-go-round in the store where you can take pictures with Santa Claus. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

When she came down from the doctor’s office she stopped for a moment at Bell’s candy store and bought a two-pound box of mixed chocolates. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was shopping in a Banana Republic at the mall with my friend Leah, and a clerk was following us around the store, keeping an eye on us. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I mean, when I went into the store, it was a thought, but only a thought. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I place my last two tiny shoppers next to a toy store and stand back. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Do you want to walk to the store with me?" Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Downtown, white people wore suits and white shirts to jobs in offices and stores. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

We hurry past a pet store and a post office and into the café, both of us shivering. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“You know I put in my application to just about every store on the Fulton strip. I shoulda done what Charlise did, stay local and get those white people and their boutiques to hire me.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

We stepped down twice into another room dominated by glass-front refrigerator cases that served as the counter for the store. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

All fish analyzed, whether taken alive or dead, had stored DDT in their tissues. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It reminded her of a used-clothing store or the dressing room of a struggling theater company. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom pauses by an escalator, examining the store map. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

It was a very old building, the kind with bathwater that still had to be stored in drums, windows without glass, and privy scaffolds made of bricks. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He narrowly missed a collision with Leafie, stepping out of Dye’s store. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

While the boy slept he began to go methodically through the stores. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Advil, aspirin, some kind of over-the-counter sleeping pills I stole from Kate and then stored in an old prescription bottle of Mom’s. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Mr. Taylor and the high church officials were the first to file around the bier to wave farewell to the departed and get a glimpse of what lay in store for all men. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sam continues to the back of the store. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

From the back of the store, a woman’s voice called: “Fleecy? Don’t scare the customers, now. Bring them here, will you?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Here are a few instruments typically found in classrooms, or that can be purchased inexpensively at a music store or online. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

‘That’s Portsmouth. Fort William and Mary. They have only a handful of men on duty there and a vast store of powder and ball.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a sharp sense of style, they stripped Joel Moskowitz’s shoe store of its higher- priced and more fashionable models, leaving only some orthopedic offerings and a few Florsheims. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I tried the store twice and called up your house, but they didn’t know where you were,” he says, digging in the drawer. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pietism laid great store by helping congregations find God themselves, through personal acquaintance and knowledge of the scriptures, through humility, non-confrontation and piety, through an ethos of hard work, and through education. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Hannah’s parents were on the news every night, warning that if the huge shopping center went up, it would put the downtown stores out of business. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The rest of the afternoon we spent sight-seeing, riding up and down seesaw hills in cable cars, walking in and out of American stores. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she moved slowly along Alain Street, looking in the store windows. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

"No more of them booty-funk incense either," Simeon said, opening the door, his laughter lingering in the store after he and Kenzi left. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

At the store, Nick dialed the Dancing Trout. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s as if she went to the paint store to match them up. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

As the news of the repeal was broadcast over the radio, stores like New York’s Gimbels and Bloomingdale’s immediately opened their liquor departments. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

And somebody else, an aunt, is retiring from her job in that candy store. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stored the roots in a carrying basket. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t hear it, but I saw a fire truck race by the store, a yellow blip, and disappear. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was about a half mile away, just off Carrollton, a nearby road lined with warehouses, chain stores, and gas stations. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

On Main Street, in stores, in factories and offices, in every sector, black and white mixed all day as a matter of course. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Every day that week, I cut my roll as soon as I got to the store, and every day Jimmy shook his head no. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

The lawyers finally convinced a judge that a septuagenarian staying at a hotel would not need to loot a store for sausages. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Perhaps I could live in the store or church. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The ceilings are really high and beautiful with tons of natural light, and I see actual trees and lush greenery in the terminal right next to luxury-brand cosmetic stores. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Are you going to the store? I’m out of tampons.” Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

“No, I need to stop by the stationery store to get stuff for studying anyway. I’ll go.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

We talked, stored the dry herbs, or played cards. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Who knows what destiny has in store for us,” he asked Cora on his first visit, “and what kind of people we will have the pleasure to know?” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I think he knows that Sam’s Club has most likely been cleaned out of all of its bottled liquids, just like every other store. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

When they did, Neil said, “We’re going to the jewelry store this minute and pick out a ring before you change your mind.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had gone to a second store and forgotten to start back from the first. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was better to let her talk until the words petered out, like those wind up chattering teeth you could buy at the joke store. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Grandfather would point out the fancy dry goods store I was building next door. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could close up the store herself this once. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Then, to keep from feeling guilty, Nhamo devised a method to protect her stores. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t bound to 600 square feet of ghetto retail space like my father, who more or less duplicated the same basic store in various parts of the city. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

After that first meeting, Grandpa Nate and I took Tillie Nachman, a former New York City person who had never learned to drive, to the stationery store so that she could buy the invitations. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

She is walking down Fulton Street in her mauve velour jogging suit, past the shabby May’s department store with mannequins from another era, past shuttered shops and bus-stop benches draped with sleeping bums. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She helps care for the four children in the house while Gloria tends to customers in her little grocery store. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

They walked along the front of the first section of the shopping center, but saw only a restaurant and some clothing stores. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The children ran off to hide and tell each other everything that they had stored up during the long months of separation. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

All three powers merely continue to produce atomic bombs and store them up against the decisive opportunity which they all believe will come sooner or later. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I’m sure she meant to give it to Charlie before he left for the store but forgot because of their little incident in the kitchen. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

In many instances, the colonizer forces burned fields and stole or destroyed the foods and seeds the people had stored. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

One day I went to the optical counter of a department store to deliver a pair of eyeglasses. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He probably would've talked me out of cutting my shoes up and stealing the silver bullets from the sports store too. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Or maybe it went underground with her body, buried in the cemetery across the street from the liquor store. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

For the second half of the experiment, Dijksterhuis went to the furniture store IKEA, where people were making much more complicated and expensive purchases. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

There was no corner liquor store with ratty guys hanging out in front of it. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Also, he set great store on a man doing right by his family. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

They went back through the store again looking for another cart but there were none. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

In the store, they had appeared glowing but dignified. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

My sisters and I walked down to the candy store on Fulton without Uncle Darnell. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Prom there we took the bus to a pet store and I had a huge grin on my face because I was right about my Christmas-comes-early feeling. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the girl pushes it open, I feel the cold hit my face like I’ve walked into the frozen food aisle at a grocery store. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They stopped at a hundred miniature stores with crooked floors so Poppy could greet the owners, kiss-kiss on both cheeks, introduce the family, and be offered coffee or tea, though he kept saying no. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had a habit at meals of telling things he’d heard at the store or read in the paper. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The suitcases, I should tell you, were a set from one of those expensive fashion stores that Oklahoma rich people drive to Dallas to shop at. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It felt too weird to think about being in someone else’s record store. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Men of property too among the crowd, but nobody seemed to get any further than the store. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

She once conducted another experiment in which she set up a tasting booth with a variety of exotic gourmet jams at the upscale grocery store Draeger’s in Menlo Park, California. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

When I told him my name he smiled weakly and looked in the store for Kwang. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

At which point, Herbie Goldfarb, on whom all the cop cars outside somehow hadn’t registered, tripped gaily through a pebble barrage and into the store to buy a candy bar. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am yours always, Celia For twenty-five years, Celia wrote her Spanish lover a letter on the eleventh day of each month, then stored it in a satin- covered chest beneath her bed. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He drifted from group to group, listening to conversations and storing up information. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama had to pick us up and carry us, kicking and screaming, out of the store. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had reached the edge of town, by the little gas station/grocery store where the lumberjacks had dropped us. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Even after getting shot twice in the chest and once in the head, Sergeant Prothero stumbled off and ran about ten feet, finally falling in the green bushes that surrounded the jewelry store. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

But most of the stores were closed and the owners had pulled the metal gates down over the front windows and doors, padlocking them shut. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Stepping stones of polished black marble led around either side of a five-story-tall apple tree, every bough glittering with golden apples, and I don’t mean yellow golden apples like in the grocery store. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

When they got to the grocery store, her mom bought them each a day-old cream horn and a cup of twenty-five-cent coffee. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“He shore looked dead when I come in the store,” said Mr. Pearl. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Stopping by the candy store made every day start off sweet. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The thought of having to move to Fresno and knowing what was in store for me there brought tears to my eyes. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mom’s plan was for her and Maureen to go into the dressing room of a store with an armful of new clothes for Maureen to try on. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“We need to go help Daddy protect the store! In case looters show up.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The shop owner ran out of his store, puffing and cursing. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

They invited him to dinner and arranged to meet him beforehand at the store where Antonapoulos worked. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

After school I went to the store as usual, but Papa told me to go on to Grandpa’s and stay there. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Smaller stores were built around the town for the convenience of the population. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t seem able or willing to come closer to the store, but that wasn’t much comfort to Frank. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The store owner was a gruff white man who, like many of the whites in St. Albans, was on his way out as we blacks began to move in. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went into the kitchen, where there was an electric stove and a refrigerator that no longer worked and was used to store glasses and dishes so Poppy couldn’t get at them. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

As he neared the corner drug store, which stayed open all night, he wondered if any of the gang was around. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He’s been waiting for us to join him so we can all go to Busan together, but we didn’t want to leave our store.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Phyllis whispers, “Keep some of your money for the candy store.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Here were no tenements or raucous shabby stores. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So that means ...” “He’s taking things from the storeroom for the mayor. And he’s giving some to Lizzie, and selling some in his store.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“They keep more items stocked in the back of the store.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Sonny’s rough period was only getting worse: most of his income now came from a food-stamp ring he ran out of Lawrence’s convenience store, and soon he found himself in jail for narcotics trafficking. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

On the way, I stop by the dollar store and get myself a gold notebook like Daddy’s and a new pack of pens. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Usually before leaving Antonapoulos waddled gently to the glassed case in the front of the store where some meats and cheeses were kept. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

So you work in a record store while you study to become a teacher? If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

J.T. and Digger were punching each other in the arms and made a beeline for the store, but I walked up to the front to thank Carl for the ride. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I looked around the store one last time, pretending my eyes were a camera, and snapped mental shots to tuck away for safekeeping. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Vivian told her stories about decorating the family store for the holidays, putting these ornaments on a real pine tree in the window. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The next day we made our way toward the beach, every once in a while stopping at a gas station or store to make sure we were on the right track. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

One of these was reserved for the very finest wines, stored in amphorae, great earthenware jars with pointed bases, resting in metal stands. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

It became apparent he was one of those young men who possess an impressive store of facts, but no truths. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I don’t have to be running off for cigarettes or to the liquor store. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know the man behind the counter, because the hardware store had been bought and the new owner hired people outside of Norvelt. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

This gets me out of ladies’ but puts me a lot farther from the store exit. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But, if they close the shoe store, how will you make money?” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

A simple trip to the grocery store could be overwhelming. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was Monday and all, and pretty near Christmas, and all the stores were open. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Another time, a man tried to open a competitor to the Turners’ general store. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Seven, Sekani, and I found it when we came home from the store. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

General Electric alone had fifteen carloads of exhibit materials stored on the grounds. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

And then she was off on a tale about her mother taking Jen shopping in a city ten hours away, just because she’d heard a store sold good purses there. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

We can thereby ingest, store and communicate a prodigious amount of information about the surrounding world. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was early twilight when he reached the Burdow place, where the wagon that Jethro had seen in front of the general store in Newton now stood in the cluttered barnlot. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When I’m at the store by myself, the cashier sneers, ‘Go back to Saudi Arabia.’” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

He had a wooden Indian outside his store which stood in a threatening stance on a wooden block. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kids ran through the store, tossing balls at one another, laughing happily. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I had some idea of opening the store and operating it along the lines that Anne had planned, but I soon gave it up. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between the blazing white banks of the town stores, among the tree silences, a black tide flowed. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

During this time the village eats sparingly, mostly from stores of seeds harvested in autumn. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every one of my senses is tingling as Ms. Saintima asks us to imagine pulling the door of the store open and breathing in the steamy, meat-scented air. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Those little ninety-nine-cent chains he bought at the beauty supply store didn’t count. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

And it’s like he needs to have all his words stored up and ready to go before he speaks. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She got up and peered into some store windows, talked to no one, and then she started on the long walk back to our house. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I didn't have to go to a store to buy it.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Daniel doesn’t say anything as we walk along Martin Luther King Boulevard toward his parents’ store. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

There was a sutler’s store, a white wagon, a man selling a strange elixir with the high blessed chant of a preacher. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My fantasy was soon interrupted when someone entered the store. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of 1967 our rent was hiked; my father’s busfare was hiked; prices at the store were hiked; my father’s wage remained the same. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

What's crazy is that we don't ever really see our mother that much anyway, mainly because she also has another gig at a department store in the city. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

They were walking down the block, coming from the corner store, Noodles ripping paper off cheap dime candy and tossing it on the sidewalk. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Shoe stores with windows chock-full of the latest fashions, with people clustered on the sidewalks peering in to see what’s new. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pharmacy was looted but the store itself was oddly intact. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

My mind immediately went to that little girl who wanted my autograph in the clothing store. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Would you mind not shaking the tambourine in the store?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

A woman came in and asked about a lamp that Carl had out in front of the store. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

His hard stare was for the other reason store clerks’ eyes never let up. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I already told you I’m not working in a hardware store,” Dad says. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Peck, for she was the rider, had brought a letter from the general store in the village. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond the shelter along the street below were stores—all closed now: newsstands, coffee shops, stationery shops, but no houses. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He sure don’t like working in that store,” Elizabeth once observed to her aunt. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The dressmaker with her frilly, colorful creations draped on hooped wire, the overstuffed emporiums and their wonderland of goods, the rival general stores on either side of Main Street. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

We would be moving to Puerto Plata with the children by the first of December, opening up a little store at the front of the house. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this one agent said maybe he could interest some supermarket chain in buying the factory for a store. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was still thinking about Caillebotte’s Paris street on her way to the grocery store. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He stored the meals in the refrigerator so they were ready for Barlea when he came in the door from his long night and morning of work. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

That, added to the six dollars weekly from Mr. Platernis and four apiece from the other three stores, made a total income of thirty dollars a week. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Auntie Lin explains how mad she got at a store clerk who refused to let her return a skirt with a broken zipper. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hassan would go in the evenings after closing his store, and purchase from the butcher’s wife, while the physician went in the morning to shop from the butcher’s son. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Because every ninth night, eight gold arm-rings of equal beauty will drip from it. You can reward people with them, or store them, and your wealth will increase.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

He lined it with bits of dirty newspapers and rags, and whenever he found a trinket or a keepsake he carried it home and stored it there. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

A large crowd had gathered around the stage at the far end of the fairgrounds to hear what the band had in store for them this year. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She wins a trip to the toy store. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

But if Nixon had any more plans in store for Ellsberg, he never got the chance to enact them. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Around eleven-thirty, Charley Bloom threaded his way through the members of the Senile Brigade still trading gun stories on the porch and entered the store. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other monsters went crazy, charging the convenience store, then running away as the rainbow light burned them. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

My only fear was that one day Coach Whit would lead us on the wrong route—the route that went past the sporting goods store, where I was probably a wanted fugitive. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I was nine the first time my dad took me to a hardware store, and I’d thought the place was so cool my brain just about exploded. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The big difference is that all these management tools, data, or even photos are not stored on your computer as software. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Perhaps in her drugged sleep she had picked something up and stored it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You could have stored it somewhere. Couldn’t Peachy Helen have fit it into her apartment?” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Trixie also hoarded all of the telephone books, which were stored in some cluttered drawer in her desk. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picked out everything I needed at the store, and stood in line at the checkout. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

When I came out of the record store, I passed this drugstore, and I went in. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Hazel, Frank, and Percy were left alone in the dark, staring across the road at a closed-up convenience store. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I wonder what else is in store for Sam today. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he had been standing in the crowd before the department store. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Saturday, he stayed most of the afternoon, going to the grocery store for Monique and even sweeping the living room. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Asked you to draw me a map to the feed store. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Freddie’s janitor duties at the department store were supplemented by his function as a messenger and package deliverer. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The store—” His eyes have tears in them, and then mine do too. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

On the way out the door, Camp asked Papa would he mind stopping by the house before going back to the store after dinner. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“You can’t just trade for stuff in a real store,” Bobby Gene said. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I been wantin’ a red-eye marble I seen at the general store.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We even went to some of the same parks and stores. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Jimmy locked the steel gate, leaving Alex with the uncomfortable sensation of being a prisoner, even though he knew he and Julie were safer if the store was locked shut. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She looks like jewelry, or something that belongs in a store window. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I saw you running out of the hardware store from the factory window.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Burnham and his firm went on to build scores of other structures, among them the Gimbel’s department store in New York, Filene’s in Boston, and the Mount Wilson Observatory in Pasadena, California. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The counter is crowded with tired and hungry men, and they all look at me as I look at the store owner. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the store there was a clearing, larger than Pa’s clearing in the woods at home. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every carnival since 1893 has included a Midway and a Ferris Wheel, and every grocery store contains products born at the exposition. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

That world of grocery stores, walk-up flats, cheap restaurants, poolrooms, bars, storefront churches, and pawnshops seemed to hold a natural lure for me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In another Daniel-less universe, I did go to USCIS, but I didn’t meet Daniel in the record store, so our chatting didn’t have a chance to delay me. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The puppies were kept on board the ship, where they occasionally got loose and ransacked the stores. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Soon, Speed stopped opening the letters and let them pile up in the backroom of her store until they stacked thirty envelopes high. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Bite back your tongue,” scolded my mother when I cried loudly, yanking her hand toward the store that sold bags of salted plums. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Mary Elizabeth asked me where I had been all day on the phone that night, I told her that I went to the store with my sister. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Emily scanned the people moving in and out of the stores and restaurants, the cars parked at the meters, the bus shuttling down the street. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

His room was now used to store flour and lentils. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The music of little dots being eaten up and ghosts following the smiling yellow cartoon was the only sound in the candy store. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“I just left your store. Where are you?” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Wasn't there an old joke about the wife who talked so much on the telephone that her desperate husband ran out to the nearest store and telephoned her to ask what was for dinner? Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the other servants always gossiped about everyday sights they had seen in town: the back stoops of stores always blocked with the frozen bodies of beggars. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered if they stored it in an external tank or just dumped it on the street. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Food's not a problem; there's plenty of space to store things. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The store had a dazzling array of formal dresses perfect for some of the special events I had coming up. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Not in the store, not on the street, you ain’t never seen a pea this sweet!” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Nielsen leaves the store at five to start dinner; sometimes I go home with her, and sometimes I stay and help Mr. Nielsen close up. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

We’re picking up Lolo’s new medicine before the store closes for Thanksgiving. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I sit on a bench outside of the store and wait for Sam. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

All that day there was much talk about the forthcoming lessons; a great deal of store was set by being able to vanish and reappear at will. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Now it was high summer, with the hay drying in the fields and all the village praying for the rain to hold off until the grain was safely cut and stored away for winter. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And these subjective states, in turn, were automatically stored away somewhere in me. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

George had been working at a Pier 1 furniture store in Houston before his car accident. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I want to slam them into a wall or punch them through a store window. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Nothing has changed—the school, the pink comer store, the crooked barbed-wire fences covered with drying clothes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

If not, she will take her savings and return to Honduras to build a little house and corner grocery store. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“I can find my way. You pointed the store out to me this morning.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Or maybe because it was like the store took all her energy and time. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Accused? Didn’t he admit that he broke into the store?” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

"That drug store business was just small change," continued Tom slowly, "but you've got something on now that Walter's afraid to tell me about." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“You need milk this bad, there’s probably a store where you can get some like normal people,” he said. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

They probably don’t really like pale skin but they certainly like walking into a store without some security dude following them. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The store did a big trade in everything but cars that day. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Henry Waters Taft, a well- known antitrust lawyer and brother to President William Howard Taft, frequented the Greenbrier, and one day in the store, Katherine taught him Roman numerals. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It was one Saturday, a day that I had surprisingly not been put on the schedule to work at the store, that my mother called home and I answered. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The front door to the store was wide open. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

It is important to remember, therefore, that the fat-soluble insecticides become stored in individual cells, where they are in position to interfere with the most vital and necessary functions of oxidation and energy production. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Pointing to Cambodia on the map, he explained that communist forces were using this territory to store supplies and stage attacks in South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Grace nodded, trying to figure out how to get out of both the conversation and the store as soon as possible. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He felt the heat radiating up from the receiver, hoping to take heart from this release of stored energy. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matilda took all this in and stored the knowledge away carefully in her mind. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, I gave my mother the stack of photos to store with the rest of Caitlin's letters. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

They are the shoppers, I am the antishopper, whose goal is to make it look as if they’d never been in the store. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fourteen panels I took to Pathfinder provided the 18 kilowatt-hours that the batteries could store. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And after school,” Mr. Nielsen says, “you will be expected to help in the store. We’ll pay you an hourly wage, of course. You know about the store, Dorothy, do you not?” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

There are Jamaican jerk restaurants, bulletproofed Chinese restaurants, bulletproofed liquor stores, discount clothing stores, and beauty salons. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“But there are two gasoline pumps at the store. There must be gas there.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

My sister Precious got a job working in the little corner store and had her second baby—Rockell. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I went in the afternoons, right after school let out, it was usually just the two of us in the store. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

At that point, I knew for sure this was a better idea than just buying a bag of cookies from the store. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Years ago it was a warehouse to store coal, but when it fell into disuse, it became a meeting place for illegal trades and then blossomed into a full-time black market. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I could hide in the cave which I had stored with food and water, for it was surrounded by thick brush and the mouth of the ravine could only be reached from the sea. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

In exchange for gasoline, Lima and other New Orleans police officers broke into convenience stores and took cigarettes and chewing tobacco. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I unwrapped the bar of soap I’d picked up at a liquor store, and eased into the water on the shallow end, but it was way colder than I expected. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“There’s plenty of sugar in the store. I saw that. And it keeps. But when it’s gone—what then? You see, that’s foolish and shortsighted.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

And I guess it worked, because I used to sing it around the house and in the grocery store. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

To be sure, he dug out the original biopsy sample, which had been stored on a shelf since 19 51. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He was holding up a sign with the same fancy lettering as the store I’d seen earlier. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Black Cave was on the south coast of the island, near the place where the canoes were stored. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then things get real quiet even though the beat coming from the music in the store switches from mellow bachata to earsplitting salsa. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Fatima swept up crumbs from the floor while her father stored chopped vegetables in the refrigerator. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

When the mob arrived at the property several out-of-work men and tsotsis who were our leaders conferred on what to do with the dogs in order to break into the stores. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cora missed the white stores and their abundant shelves, but she still had her evening walks home, and her game with the changing window displays. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

We noticed at both clothing drives that the clothes had a distinct smell: damp and moldy, like they’d been stored for a long time in wet cardboard boxes. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The awnings over the closed stores were raised and the buildings had a bare look in the bright sun. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It had its center and fountain, but there were fewer stores and it was quiet enough that the dogs could sleep on the street and not be bothered. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he had finished all the engraving on hand he would dawdle around the front of the store with the watchmaker and the salesgirl or wander out to some soda fountain to drink a Coca-Cola. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

When we find a store called Paper Tokyo, we walk down separate aisles that stop right below our chins. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Anyway, she’s also dragged me to, like, a million stores to try on dresses. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Thinking about animals reminded him of the ostrich he had seen in the pet store. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Because these small amounts of pesticides are cumulatively stored and only slowly excreted, the threat of chronic poisoning and degenerative changes of the liver and other organs is very real. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

And now the liquor store wasn’t a few blocks away, it was directly across the street. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The field, with the pond, stretched to my right; ahead of me lay the road and the store. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I waited a full hour, keeping time on my thrift store watch, to make sure we were far enough behind the goatherd to not meet up with him again. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

After Walter described the location of the store, we were able to track him down. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They were storing all the fragile pieces in the cellars, including the harpsichord. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They found just what they needed behind the doughnut shop and the furniture store in the next block, and brought them back to Egypt. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was one of those fellows who was always sitting on the benches outside the general store in Bumblebee, playing checkers or sleeping. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

As he started the motor, I looked at the shed where I knew my toys were stored, but I did not dare ask about them. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

A kiss that has been stored up for days, a kiss that has been stalking me impatiently, waiting to be released. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She had also found a store of kerosene and a sparker in the mix of trash in the galley. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

There, at noon and again at around three in the afternoon, unnoticed by others in the furniture store, we would rinse our hands, faces and mouths, and softly meditate. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is the only customer; he can hear the sound of a vacuum cleaner running at the rear of the store. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The junk shop was still there; the stores were all the same. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s about a girl and her older sister who get to leave school and go to the hotdog store for lunch. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Eventually I compromised, and walked half a mile in the wrong direction toward the gap, keeping the store between me and his line of sight. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I could hear him chuckling as he walked toward his store. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the slain had been avenged—and more important, the insult to white order repaid with interest—the civilians returned to their farms and factories and stores, and the patrollers resumed their rounds. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t matter where— the store, the post office—as long as she gets to ride in her little car seat in the back. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Like when a store advertises their biggest sale ever, and they mean their best. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A group of Turners went to the Howards’ general store and spoke roughly to Mrs. Howard. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Since the store was across the tracks on North Main, we were hidden behind the moving boxcars, and I decided to keep on walking. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Really weird, because as I was walking around all the stores, I didn’t know what present my dad would like to receive from me. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I feel like I am collecting the lessons each faction has to teach me, and storing them in my mind like a guidebook for moving through the world. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Many times she had seen him in the grocery store waiting his turn in line behind Negroes and God knows what. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I study the bulletin board at the back of the store where people put up notices. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure, I exhale C02 with every breath, but I don't have any way to store it. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, Papa told me. Said you came in the store.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“This is better than store candy,” I say. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

"I went to go pick up the uniforms at the sporting goods store, and guess whose photo was taped to the window?" Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

There’s the sewing machine table that they store in here. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The purpose of the 2 men entering the store on that Monday was very simple. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I stopped, for I could make out the form of a man stretched be-tween the sleeping house and the store tree. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the counter, Nick—who usually refrained from speaking to Herbie because he wanted the skunk smell out of his store as fast as possible—had an idea. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shortly after noon the Stancomb Wills and some of the remaining stores were safely back in camp. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“You know. Paul was just trying to help someone inside the store. That’s what he says. And then there’s the whole stopping people from stealing thing.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I'm perplexed by her amusement until I realize that with the Careers' stores eliminated, she might actually stand a chance. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She’d take me to some bargain clothing store and tell me what our budget was, and I’d have to find something to wear. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She described the house where he lived, told them about the store where he sold shoes. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because if they did open stores, no one would insure them. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“An honest-to-goodness spy!” cried Lettie as the three of us crouched behind the wooden Indian in front of the hardware store. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

But he never went into the store while Charles Parker was inside. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Nick swung out from behind the counter, ambling across the store to his ammo shelves. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he took it with him every fall when he went over to Verplancks Point to sell cattle and buy supplies for the store. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was compelled to build yet another room to the house to store his harvests in, or they would not have had space to walk in the house. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

A sleeping bag, a pillow, and two blankets—but no change of clothes except for the extra shirt I had brought from the store; the rest I had taken back to the house. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The huge plate-glass windows of the Stop & Shop have been broken for a couple of years, since people looted the store during a hunger riot. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We went to the pet store on 81st and Madison and looked at the puppies. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

After a practically sleepless night, the next morning I started for the store. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We can walk to the store. I gotta open up anyway.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

"Well it didn't. Not like watching a video's going to teach me how to hold up a candy store." Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

After he picked me up, we stopped at a party store near the highway, where Mr. Object bought a six-pack of Smirnoff cocktails. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Something moved in the window of the store and a shot rang out. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

But he had always been so proud of it, of how long it took him to grow it, of how he had chosen the beads himself in a crafts store in Soho. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I have seen him jump over bushes to make sure someone did not leave the store without a little stapled booklet. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I was sweeping floors at our grocery store, saving up for my first pair of J’s, when Natasha ran in. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He watched her walk into the convenience store. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

To this day I don’t know exactly where he went, but a few weeks later he’d strut into the store, put down his bags, and say, “Where’s my money?” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

You eat fast food or the hot dogs and Styrofoam cups of soup that can be microwaved in a convenience store. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nathan grabbed it along with its charging cord and ran back into the store. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

It’s not easy to sidetrack David, especially when it involves the video store, but he does like to count cars. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jethro was shaking inside when he walked out of the store into the pale sunlight. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wore clothes far better and more expensive than what was sold in the store. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They’ve been trying to catch that trout for twenty-five years. There’s a store in Boston offers a twenty-five dollar fishing rod to anybody that can catch him.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other people in the store, some of them our friends, stood absolutely still, fear in their eyes. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go to store and buy my food, but very fast. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They have a mall that sells nothing but gold—every store, floor to ceiling, gold. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Ethel led Cora upstairs while Martin returned the wagon to his store. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The Aurora team would also trek inland, laying down stores of food for Shackleton’s group to pick up and use on their final run to the coast. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Miss Love having worked for Grandpa at his store for two years or more, she must already know he was stingy and set in his ways. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

My face was hidden by the mask in the photo, but Adrian wasn’t the only CHS student in the store, and they recognized me immediately. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I helped Belle out around the store for a while. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

They floated in barrels of brine in grocery stores. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“And here, I stole you some toiletries from the camp store.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

While I was away, I had scoured every video store within a hundred miles until I’d found the complete box set of The Honeymooners. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I had set it down in a corner at the back of the store. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Ever now and agin you make enough to cover the mortgage and taxes and pay off the store thet give you credit. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Besides his trips to the grocery store and his clockwork poker games, Gramps's comings and goings were mysteries to me. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He was a compliant Catholic schoolboy who sold furniture at a department store to help pay for college before taking a job at a suburban high school. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

They dragged themselves to the cellar, which was nothing more than a dirt room underground, built a century ago to store canned goods and potatoes. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And the fruits—mango, guava, avocado—these we had barely glimpsed before, in the big Kroger store in Atlanta, yet now the trees reach right down and deliver such exotic prizes straight into our hands! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Where you want me to take you, your house or the store?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Stories went around town about how Jenny had broken up with him and he was so angry, he burned down the store to kill her. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He thought that he should have gotten a couple of extra sets of wheels from the other carts in the store but it was too late now. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

She drove past the store, and had to make a U-turn in the parking lot of an old apartment complex called the Lakes. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Now the store leaped alive with flashing lights and flickering shadows. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have water from the well and food stored My thoughts race. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes after the second man hurried away, Goll took off his apron, carefully extinguished the store’s gaslights, and left, locking the door behind him. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The goals she sets for her store are totally unrealistic and she knows it. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

They had owned small groceries or jewelry stores. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Or: “Do you know how the mavro men shave? With a powder! I saw it in the store window.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I reasoned thus: Though English was my native tongue and America my native land, she, an alien, could operate a store and earn a living in a neighborhood where I could not even live. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t a real big thing until they started terrorizing stores and then they beat up a lot of people and stabbed that one kid. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they resell the mushrooms to restaurants and food stores. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I walked...to the store before coming here. I wanted to get you some gummy bears.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He will use the 50-peso card to call his old boss at the tire store. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

In Jamaican parlance, a store is not a store, it is a “Chinee-shop.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Together they opened a series of small piece- goods stores, painstakingly learning the details of small- business entrepreneurship. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The two spies had better luck in Concord, where they learned that the Patriots were grinding meal into flour for soldiers’ rations and were storing “powder and cartridges.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe she drives once a day to a convenience store to buy a sandwich and some Mountain Dew, but most of every day is spent here, on or near this carpet. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

She did not call the fish store, nor did she thaw chicken. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then Blair and his friends filed out of the store, promising to return the next day. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Why can’t they stay here? You could buy a terrarium from a pet store—and another lizard who can show them how to...do lizard stuff. I could help you look after them.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

A dog, an old beagle with an age-white face, wandered out of the auto-parts store and began to sniff at something on the sidewalk. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched my reflection not only in the mirror, but in store windows and across the television when it wasn’t on, trying to get a fix on my looks. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, Jule borrowed the car to pick up propane for the grill at the hardware store on the other side of the island. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I turned down a busy street with a whole bunch of stores on it, just because it seemed like the easiest place to blend in. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

She has seen one in a store window. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

I catch myself against the front of the general store as he chuckles. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

For the million people who lived in Soweto, there were no stores, no bars, no restaurants. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Oh no, she wants chocolate. I’m going to the store today and get everything you need.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The colmado is the only store on this settlement, a litde island of shacks in the middle of an ocean of cane. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

All at once Kit was aware that this New England, which had shown her the miracle of autumn and the white wonder of snow, had a new secret in store. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“He don’t go to work no more. Lost his job at the feed store last week.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Even though I pleaded not to go to the store because it was my birthday, I knew that Grandma always got her way. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Everyone was going out to get in their upcars and go get some stuff at the store. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom wanted to go to a restaurant, but Dad found out it was cheaper to order a precooked turkey, gravy, stuffing, and sides from the grocery store. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Well, I heard little Loma threw a pure fit down at the store today,” said somebody else. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She even took me to the store so I could use some of my candy money to get a present for him: a basketball hoop to put on the back of his bedroom door. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

That’s the first thing lie gets at the grocery when he goes to the store, that and coffee. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Established in 2001, the tortilla store is an innovative attempt to preserve one of earth's greatest cultural and biological assets: the many local varieties of maize in the narrow “waist” of southern Mexico. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“How do we know Melody doesn’t have answers stored in her machine? Us normal people aren’t allowed to use computers.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Half the stores on the wide street seemed to be pawnshops and check-cashing agencies, and the other half were shuttered. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Your grandfather is no longer himself, and the store sells less and less. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

That night I stopped in a liquor store and bought a half gallon of the cheapest rotgut on the shelf, just as Dad had requested, then took a taxi down to the Lower East Side. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In December of that year, the group learned that the British intended to seize a cache of ammunition being stored by a colonial militia near the entrance to Portsmouth Harbor, fifty miles north of Boston. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new job in London is not in a gallery; it’s a stockroom that supplies stores with wholesale reproductions of popular and famous paintings. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The following week I went to Fred Singleton’s sporting- goods store. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He also built houses, school buildings, churches, a company store, a bakery, and an icehouse. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Their house was filled with those protective saint candles you get at the grocery store for a few bucks. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He seemed odd in the grocery store—cheerful enough, but distracted and restless. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t think a lot of people know it’s even there because it’s tiny and squished between two other stores, both of which have been closed since we moved here. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“We can get food and the stuff we need from that store over there.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She glanced out the window, at the stores and houses flashing by. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can take you over to the store tomorrow if you want.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

They could only buy essentials at the grocery store, like milk, bread, and canned soup. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Someone turned around and punched the bus driver in the face, the bus driver ran to a store nearby and called the police. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Duh. I work at a kitchen supply store—how much money do you think I make?” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

We had to walk six whole blocks in the snow to the fancy grocery store to get them all, which you’d think wouldn’t be worth it, but Dad said it would be. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then one day she came down to the store with a sign she had made. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He had to complete this impossible quest, which at the moment meant reaching the convenience store alive. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He gestured at a dark stairway with boxes stored on it. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“No stopping at the candy store. No stopping to talk to friends. Straight there, straight back. You hear me?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Dimple hurried Mamma to the counter to pay before she could begin looking around the store for kaajal. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They make space for him to store some paintings as well. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In the store the shrimp looked gray and thin. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

We’d open up the store at seven a.m. and Sam would saw lumber, cut ice, stack the meats out, stock the shelves, feed the cow in the backyard, all before we Ieft for school. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The amount of information that one must obtain and store in order to track the ever-changing relationships of even a few dozen individuals is staggering. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How’s it going, sweetheart?” she asks me, as if we just bumped into each other in the grocery store. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We thank Mr. Washington and carry our bundles out of the store. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I make for the exit, and in the city wind I’m an instant icicle, a Nate-pop, and duck back into the store to throw my jeans on over my flag-size shorts. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

You mean I could walk up the grand stairway at Pizitz department store and order a hot dog, French fries, and a Coke in the mezzanine cafe? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She was baking plain white bread instead of buying it at the store. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A druggist named Erickson recalled how Holmes used to come into his store to buy chloroform, a potent but unpredictable anesthetic in use since the Civil War. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I figured I'd buy it in some store that was open on Sunday and then I'd take it up to the park with me. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

It was the only place to store my things. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

When we were walking into our third store, we saw this pretty red two-piece in the mirror. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Everything that had been stored under the bunks had been thrown clear, which didn’t make any logical sense to him. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Morning begins with a trip, by car, to the Holiday gas station’s convenience store, where I buy a pop container full of ice and a packet of two hard-boiled eggs. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They found Hollister in the middle of the store, sorting paperbacks out of a cardboard box. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I thought it was a store,” she said. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The food coloring didn’t show up as brightly in the sea as it did in the store bottles, but you could definitely see it. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

After a moment or two I heard shrill screams coming from the rear room of the store; later the woman stumbled out, bleeding, crying, holding her stomach, her clothing torn. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fat Barry, the day manager from the store across town, joins in, and works up a red-faced sweat before the song is over. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The storekeeper carried the canoe and the paddles out in front of the store and set them down in the street. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

He had not seen Red Pettus watching him from the interior of the store. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Galanter stored gloomily out at the field, looking a little deflated. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

We’d needed supplies bad and was out of credit at the store and hadn’t had near nothing to eat in days, so Pap had axed Miss Tanner for some work. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Together the stores provided the family with a comfortable life in Kacanik, until ethnic violence tore their homeland apart. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Take you over to Charleston to that big glass mall and go in that big department store and buy everything pink and yellow for little girls. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

He went to a drug store and bought one for a dollar. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The store had been sold out of skis and prescription eyewear for three years. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Farther down the street, a group of homeless people are settling in, spreading their blankets and pitching their tents in the entryway of a shuttered store. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The chief taster said that several of them were excellent and that he had already had some brought into the stores. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s been eating more than his share of the stores and lying idle while we sweat and faint in the heat,” Nathaniel complains. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I don’t climb out my bedroom window and down the drainpipe like Judy; I go to school and work in the store and help with dinner and do my homework and go to bed. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Up to the night of the looting of the store, they had lived out of it. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The cashier at your store was very rude to me. My son ordered a burger, plain, no cheese. You see, he’s allergic.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

When I get back to the store, it’s nearly ten and Jill, the resident stuck-up-ex-cheerleader-turned-food-service-worker, is in the back, doing prep work. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was an ad for a department store. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I said I would go into the Safeway store And find the manager. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked when the store’s sound system crackled to life. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

He had tried to rob a store, and the guy behind the counter pulled out a gun and started shooting. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Can you believe he's even gonna try working in the stockroom at the store she works at? When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The packages were wrapped perfectly—too perfectly, the way packages are done up when they have been wrapped by a nameless clerk in a store. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“You know that your brother didn’t break into the stores, right?” said Lil. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The store had marked up milk to ten dollars a carton. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“I’ll get you some wine tomorrow. Meat, too. I told him if he doesn’t share the stores with you and me, he’ll be doing his own laundry and mending soon.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The store clerk even talked to me and took the money right out of my hand. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I wondered if he even thought about what he’d just done at the store. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She knocks and startles him to attention, and he arrives in the store, still exhaling pot smoke. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He ran for the store as fast as his zipperless pants allowed. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I asked Grandma once more when God would make it our turn to stay on the sidewalk and touch what we wanted to in the store. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They rose to find the ice cream store. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I videotaped the outside of the store and then started working my way down the street. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t cost you anything! Anyone would think the quartermaster’s store belonged to him! And now get on with it, you old blubber-sticker, and don’t you miscount either.” All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men who seemed to rise up out of the sidewalks were rushing into the store fronts above me, their voices rising excitedly. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just then a group of five white children walked into the store, also carrying lunch pails and school bags. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Mr. Waylan’s store was one of my favorite places because going there was sometimes like going to a neighborhood party. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After school I go to Grafton Hill Laundromat up the hill, next to the liquor store. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Holmes installed a variety of other businesses in his remaining first-floor stores, including a barbershop and restaurant. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“I know it is. But you can handle it. I told Clarence what happened,” he says of Mr. Wyatt, his friend who used to own the store. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Some fifty NCC students, joined by four white students from Duke, walked into the Woolworth’s store on Main Street and filled up the seats at the lunch counter. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Using the map on his phone, Benji led them to the store. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were lots of common little shops like grocery stores or poultry markets and wooden tenement houses, some four stories high, into which the poor demons crowded. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

A phony business was set up, be it a candy store, a comic-book shop, or a florist. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Trees store vast amounts of carbon in their trunks, branches, and leaves. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Passing a large store window, I stopped and stared. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone else does that, and we buy it at the store. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She stood for a long while before the window of Mister Singer’s jewelry store. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Like I hadn’t said a word, he was still offering me the store, just like Aunt Loma offered me her blank book. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

His father turned to gently remind him that the store took business calls on that line. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then the tualapi found the wheel store, and tried to smash open the great seedpods, but that was beyond them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

We marched to the Safeway store after playing in the park for an hour. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wearing the glasses, I wandered into the comic-book section of the store and randomly pulled a comic off a rack. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Our online store was growing rapidly, and my sisters needed me to be more than the face of the company. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

This was to distinguish her from our mother’s mother, who we called Grandma-over-in-town because she lived fifteen miles south, in the only town in the county, which had a single stoplight and a grocery store. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But the store hadn’t asked her to take the job. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” she said, “I went to Abuela’s house and watched TV with her, but she was coughing a lot, so I just let her rest. Then I went with my dad to the store.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

For lunch, I bought a pint of milk and a ready- wrapped bologna sandwich in a roadside store. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bopped down the magazine aisle toward the back of the store, where the chips were. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He grinned as if he had unearthed a store of treasures, banging a pipe here, examining a wire there. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

If your music is already stored as a computer file, there are programs that will transpose it for you and display and print it in the new key. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Singer was the last to reach the store that morning. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I convinced them to open a DVD library in the corner of the store, like a public service preserving our cinematic history. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

There always were so many more white people than black people shopping in that store. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He showed them how to chop carrots and blanch greens, shifting our family away from the fluorescent sameness of the grocery store and toward the rhythm of the seasons. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The photo shoot is in a building cold enough to store ice. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

My sisters walked with me to the candy store around the corner on Fulton. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

As more and more blacks found jobs in the stores, the character of the street changed. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The downsides of a growth spurt means that my mom insists on buying clothes that are two sizes too big for me when she’s at the consignment store. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

April remembered that when she had seen him in the store, he had seemed quiet and shy, and in the lineup he looked bewildered, as if he didn’t understand what had happened. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She followed her mother into the stinky store crowded with stacked shelves of crooked stick and wire cages. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the peaks store rain and distribute it more evenly, and per- haps, being more wooded, they draw more rainfall. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She rushed out to the delicatessen store and beguiled the man into letting her open a charge account until Saturday payday. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll bid the women set out breakfast from the larder stores; honor and appetite—we’ll attend to both before a long day’s journey overland. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they walked, it started to rain and they had to run and find shelter in the doorway of a vacant store. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there are pretty little bottle stores on the back roads of this state. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I need new pants, but it’s impossible to buy them at a thrift store since I can’t try them on. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I am impressed with her store of china,” said Dr. Trefusis. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“I remember when this store opened,” Morgan says. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Spurge, red with rage, yelled, “You, Ysoret Clivers, are a—” And then he called Clivers all the names he’d been storing up for all the years. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

When you’re lost in Brooklyn, the next corner store should only be a block or two in any direction, and they’d always be able to point the way to a nearby train. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The rest, though she longed for it, she stored inside her house. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are lots of stores that are just for the tourists; I don’t bother with those. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

This numbers joint fronted as a candy store. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He told us about an hacendado, a large landowner, who used his company store to keep his father and other peasants in a state of endless debt. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The students, however, remained seated quietly but resolutely on the lunch-counter stools until the store closed. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

As it happened I ran down the road toward the store and the church. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“You didn’t want to leave the store,” the grandmother cut in. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Even the sketchy guys who hung out in front of the corner liquor store lit up when they spotted Craig, calling his name and high-fiving him as we passed by. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I let Mom buy me a terrible pink backpack so that she’ll let us leave the store. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then later, if someone asks you where you got the candy bar, you’ll say you bought it at the store. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

When we walked down Crenshaw, she looked in the big plate glass windows of the stores along the way over and over. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Then he pulled into a small town named Holtville Springs, where there were some tiny stores he could light up at night and restaurants to sit in, ordering meals. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He heard the chink of money, which meant that she was going to send him to the store. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

They quietly occupied the stores, some sitting at tables reading and working on homework assignments, until the owners shut down their establishments in the middle of the afternoon. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

At the grocery store with my parents, sliding down long, too-bright aisles, and Emma is there, cooling her hands in the ice at the fish counter, meltwater running everywhere. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I’m about to ask which days he’ll be doing the extended classes when I see Arthur standing underneath a store’s awning, hiding out from the rain. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

There was a small grocery store nearby where my father, before his arrest, had maintained a simple charge account. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liam and I had walked past it so quickly as we made our way toward the back of the store, I wasn’t altogether sure that I hadn’t imagined seeing them. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I saw the lights of an all-night grocery store. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They built a department store over part of it and then tried to erect a government building over another part. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

A few doors away we came to a hardware store. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both Miss Trotter and Ma Charles called any meat roasting in an outdoor fire “barbecue,” when barbecue to us was sauce from the grocery store or sweet and spicy red dust on potato chips. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

There were shops everywhere, and I looked around for the knitting store while Noodles looked around for girls. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Lucy took me to the pet store so I could see the snakes and she even arranged for me to hold one. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Then she drives us to the thrift store. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

But they made an unforgivable error: they told the poor man exactly what was in store for him. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I told Colin that my mother was sick upstairs, and that I was just rushing home from the store. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

She didn’t say where she had been, besides the store, or what had happened. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to meet her, even speak to her, but I drove to her store and parked across the street, to wait for her to come out. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I retrace my steps back to the school, where the block is almost empty and most of the stores’ gates are already down. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Each day Bobby collected his mail at the store, kept for him behind the counter. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Gold stopped on the street, in front of a drug store. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Speaking of mice,” said Mr. Fitzgibbon, who had driven to town that afternoon, “there was quite a stir today at Henderson’s hardware store.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I asked, staring at the grass growing underfoot, a living carpet that felt as soft as anything you could buy in a store. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

"Nobody told him to go hold up that store," I said. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

That as punishment, his mother hadn’t taken him to the store? Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

First Avenue was where Indians—the cream of Alexandra’s quarantined society—lived, behind their sell-everything stores and produce stalls, which were the ghetto’s main shopping centre. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rondell’s just as hungry, man—and he’s twice as big as me—but he hasn’t even asked once how come we’re not just stealing from stores. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Some black men had robbed the store and taken him to the basement and bound him and beaten him up. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy stands guard in the entrance of the store. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Why couldn’t my daddy ask him to keep them down at the store? Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

All up and down the business section of the neighborhood were burned-up stores. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

It takes about six kicks to open the door of the general store and tho there clearly ain’t no one here at all, I still look round expecting to be punished. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

And would the store ever be quite the same, now that two of the people I couldn’t stand were there every day? Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

We put the bags in my backpack before we leave the store. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

A whisper of shortage caused us to buy and store food. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Tension,” Mama says, and sends me away from the store for extra naps. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Squatting at the front window yesterday, Milton had seen looters break into every store down the block. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“He ain’t. They give him eggs for stamps. He puts stamps on their letters and then trades out the eggs at Grandpa’s store or at Williford, Burns, and Rice in Commerce.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

We thought that it should be in the country, but not too far from a town, so that we would have access to grocery stores as well as barns and gardens. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the afternoons I was allowed to play in front of the store. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Someone must have known of a store or connected with a farm. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s this store on Main Street though, all they have is used books. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She owes the grocery store up the block so much money, it cuts off her line of credit. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

These animals lie in ambush in every toy store and children’s zoo. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Well, that's easy to do. It's quite a mess. All those stores scattered here and there and on top of one another like a messy closet of hat boxes." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

They visited another jewelry store, Goldman’s, and sauntered out of there with a man’s gold wristwatch. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The ones in our refrigerator came from the grocery store,” she said. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

She applied for a cashier job at a convenience store. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Every trip I make to the store is pure torture now. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sale signs were stationed all over the store and taped on the windows too. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Lady Constance took one of her women to examine the stores. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Jewish shops, stores, businesses, and private homes ransacked and destroyed. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

He and his cousin Gerald were on their way over to Cherie’s house to kick it with her brother and they stopped in at a liquor store to get something to drink. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

For extra money, they’d opened a “colored” convenience store where most customers paid in IOUs; they also ran an old cinderblock juke joint where Henrietta often danced on the red- dirt floor. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

And something about the way it was said had made him hot-foot it home, else why would he leave the store on a busy Saturday? Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

In it, an old man was lighting streetlamps as night fell, and he passed a clock store. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Bernabe likened the painted cattleguard to the sort of stickers—“Protected by Acme Burglar Alarm System”—store owners who could not afford burglar alarm systems put on prominent display in their business windows. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trolley stop was on a quiet block with a few stores, lots of trees, and freshly cleared sidewalks, but it was another twenty minutes to the Carutherses’ family mansion. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She cut the rest of the caribou leg into bite-size chunks and stored them in her sled. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, there were streets where colored people owned all the stores; whole blocks of handsome colored men and women laughing all night and making money all day. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This one time, we took a jar of lightning bugs into the grocery store...” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Colin turned into the store's parking lot and stopped the car, but made no move to get out. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

He and Pancha acted out running into each other in the grocery store sometime in the distant future. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The store is under the Number 7 train and rattles like a maraca. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

We can live through next winter on what is in the store, and so can the cows and the chickens. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Nearby streets were lined with black-owned grocery stores, barbershops, beauty salons, and restaurants. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

"And if it runs out I can stop at a drug store. You can buy anything at a drug store nowadays." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He worked all through the morning at die wood, breaking down dead limbs and breaking or chopping them in smaller pieces, storing them neatly beneath the overhang. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he’s on a rock like that one, and sometimes he’s in the clouds or on a store window or a stain on a building. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

My mother was coming down the hall as I left Grandpa’s room to hurry back to the Saturday night customers at the store. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

In a box where he stored souvenirs he came across old pictures taken before their marriage. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I waved dude off and looked around the parking lot, at all the people going in and out of cars and stores and walking with shopping bags full of brand-new stuff. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

For a time he was a janitor at a fancy department store. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had no desire to teach, so I sold our house and moved into Anne’s store. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He always wrote his letters at the store. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

We went behind the stores, to alleyways of trucks and trash bins and staring cats. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I did have a pouch of dried potatoes that I kept stored by the rock, because sometimes I didn’t feel like leaving to eat with the others. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

She may have crazy-looking teeth, but man, can that woman run a pizza delivery store. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I gradually broke off many of the contacts that Anne had made and let the store become a junk shop. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was coming out of the hardware store when I heard a guy down the street shouting, "Stop, thief!" How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Which is why, after leaving it outside for a year, Mr. Cobble took it down and kept it in a secret place inside the store and brought it out only to meet a challenger. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m goin’ by the store and get me a pencil,” I said. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I stepped into the store for a closer look. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Daniel’s mom and dad sell the store to an African American couple. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

A few chase her out of the store. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It was too bad she hadn’t made it clear that day at the store that Grandpa deeded her the furniture, too. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Three packs of Skittles and five Swedish Fish at the corner store. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The newspaper office was broken into and valuable material destroyed; Lafe Edwards’ saloon was given similar treatment; but the general store was untouched. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

An older man and a little girl came out of the busy store. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She walked up the stairs into the store, and we all followed. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Like the bathroom in the back of the store, or behind the Dumpster. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

"That's different. I worked for Mom and Dad. All the stores at the mall want a Social Security number," she vented. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

And Mr. Morrison would rub his palms together and go to his store, hoping some drummer would come by that day. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I think what convinced her is Papa’s dying and me being away at school and the business losing money and Mama having to mind the store pretty much by herself. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Water stains formed brown abstract paintings between the store windows. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I panted up the steep, dark stairs, in too much of a hurry to turn on the light, and tripped over some pots stored on the steps. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

James looked at the parking meters, the liquor store across the street, the bus stop in front of them. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Lizabeth let the clock ticktock a little bit, then say, “I believe you could buy dry corn at a feed store, Biddy.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A lovely, laughing big-legged girl who worked as a clerk in a Chinese department store. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went up to the manager and said in my cheeriest voice, “Good afternoon. I am from the People’s Center summer camp, and I buy dinner groceries at this store.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Colonel Smith had indeed marched on to Concord, possessed the town, destroyed such military stores as had not yet been hidden. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just about the only business left standing in Churdan is the grain elevator, the tall structure where corn is stored before it is shipped elsewhere. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She called to the clerk sitting at the back of the store, “Monsieur Labisse, I’m taking the book on photography. I’ll bring it back soon.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Paul says he did what he did because he was protecting some white lady in the store,” Jill added. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

At one point, Tom and the sergeant paused at a store to get provisions. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He saw Jan standing in the doorway of a store. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not because she liked it, but because she kept waiting for the story to change, kept waiting for the day she’d turn the page and a woman would get to go to the husband store. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

My father habitually bought sundry pieces of furniture whenever he stepped into a store; he showed little judgment in his choices. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the mule was in front of the store, Lum went out and tackled him. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

If everything uploaded to the Thunderhead was stored in the backbrain, then not just public records were there, but personal as well. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

We leave it at the store so they can take down the hem. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They’d had to go to a department store with a three-way mirror so that he could see for himself. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Christmas lights twinkled in the windows of the stores they passed. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

At the urging of Father Nicanor, he arranged for the transfer of Catarino's store to a back street and he closed down several scandalous establishments that prospered in the center of town. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

With anxiety I watched his eye rove over the gay stores: he fixed on a rich silk of the most brilliant amethyst dye, and a superb pink satin. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

She could check out books from the library or she could buy puzzle books from the grocery store if that was all she was interested in. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Men were playing instruments taken from a music store. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

At the different stores we visited, we couldn't even try on clothing to see if things were the right size. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I love how the store name is hopeful. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“This store is probably not the best choice for you two.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z