And just like that, the story clicked together. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you just refuse. We’ll put the story on cassette, a hundred and fifty pesos, with a signed glossy photograph thrown in for free.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some days, they would finish early and sit around telling stories. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, so you can throw her in the path of bullets, but she can’t hear a scary story?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The visitation is also a good time for laughing and remembering funny stories about the deceased. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The man’s story was as follows: as he and my father waited for the bus several police vans suddenly swooped upon the bus stop. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the next half hour Matthias related his story between mouthfuls of the hare’s tasty luncheon. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The fact that the lover was a god and could not be resisted was, as many stories show, not accepted as an excuse. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there are people out there, people exactly like me, who need someone to come along and tell their stories. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was a complicated and confusing story, why they had to be on this ship. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

In the canoes are the very creatures conjured up by Richard’s stories. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“So you’re going to finish my story for me?” she asks. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I decided I'd surprise Jay Cee and send in a couple of the stories I wrote in this class under a pseudonym. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

She had gotten so lost in telling the story she had forgotten people were listening. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Whatever their story, these wives were appendages, roses climbing on the trellises. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Baba Joseph would pace the aisle between the men and women and tell them stories or scold them if they hadn’t been good. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A country like the one they had before the war, one that some of them only know from stories? Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

They tell a miniature story: In the first, a tram has just arrived, a streetcar, repurposed for these transports. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I remembered the story about how a bunch of angels came down and rolled away the rock that was in front of Jesus’s grave to let him go to heaven. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

How can I explain to anyone that stories are like air to me, I breathe them in and let them out over and over again. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

He’s imitating Squints from the scene in The Sandlot when he’s telling the Legend of the Beast story. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until an hour later when we’d got the officers settled over their rum and water that she could tell me the story out in the kitchen. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never have people tell me their stories. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He didn’t have the whole background story about why I was so happy to be leaving Beecher Prep and starting over somewhere new. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

First, we sat around in Laura’s living room and told stories; then we danced into the night. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The stories of the living are all of one piece: a million colors along the same thread. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Beyond that was a void: ten stories of empty air and then rocks and churning sea. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Henri went over the story again and the girl’s eyes sparkled. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because I’ve heard so many stories that I don’t know which one is the most popular. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

She pauses like I should fill in this part of her story. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

One of the stories I love best about Lincoln is that after his election to office, he appointed some of his bitterest enemies to his cabinet. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I forgot that I haven’t yet told you the story of my one true love. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He knew the rest of the story already. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

There was so much I wanted to remember, so many stories. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Dr. Mudd, nervous and afraid, forgets the story he made up and rehearsed. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Every time Ophie tried to get a moment alone with her great-aunt there the cousins were, telling a funny story about school, or asking to help with dinner, or just being a general nuisance. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“You had better begin your story at the beginning,” said Arthur, “or we shan’t understand how it goes along.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now this story was growing darker with each day that passed, too. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The “Nightline” show had done a follow-up story on Morrie—partly because the reception for the first show had been so strong. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was he waiting for the story or just looking at me? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Every time a story is told, it changes,” Amah said. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

When the words were coming out of your mouth—not just Marco’s name, but the whole story—you felt like you were two different people. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was a large timbered structure, three stories high, the second and third levels leaning far over the alley upon which it faced. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The story passed among us that night, in the semidarkness, under our breath, from bed to bed. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next time I will bring the video camera, so his stories will be memorialized forever. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“And the Candor, for making you spill your life story for everyone to see ... they’re idiots too.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Little girl, you’ll be a story writer when you grow up.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, the New York Times carried a story about how some of the social agencies have asked representatives of the Muslim program for clinical suggestions. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jethro had forgotten for a while the sad-eyed President, whose pictures had been in the papers only days before, above the story of his own son’s death. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

For these women, my circumstances were a juicy story. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Remembering Nicodemus’s story, she looked at it, wondering if she could climb to it, if she could get it open if she did. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then he sat down and began to tell his story. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

"Come on in and let's talk," Otto had said, or so the story went. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The Burr story required a distortion of Hamilton’s honorable intentions in order to justify Burr’s fatal response. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

He was cheeky and liked a good story more than anything else. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

When the story cut out, I was buzzing with adrenaline. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

A loved one, a friend, or a neighbor had accused them of causing the death of a child, A few other people agreeing with these stories was all that was needed to have them arrested. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I retreat into the imaginary world of Soledad, inventing more twists and turns to her story, eager to write it all down before I forget. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

More often than not the stories were in response to some casual comment on my part or Mama’s. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

There were large archways and intricate etchings that told the story of the Twelve Towns’ origins. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

After dark, as the Post presses pumped out a second day of Pentagon Papers stories, Ben Bagdikian carried one of the boxes he’d brought back from Boston to his car. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I am astonished at the number of lives I can remember to tell Rhiannon about, and she is amazed that her single life bears as many stories as my multiple one. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He had only to complete this night, to keep the story out of the reach of the destroyers for a few more hours, and their witchery would turn, upon itself, upon them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t believe her, but she told him the story in enough detail that he became convinced she was telling the truth. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The front page of the Carolina Times had a story about a Negro college football coach who’d led his team to victory, and another about unfair treatment of colored workers in Raleigh. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The Times's Vietnam story was not at the top of the agenda, though it was briefly discussed. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When he tells the story, he has to pause, for maybe a minute, choking back grief. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

An actor noticed that Koch had used a British line from Wells’s story about hiding in the drains. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Then he started gathering old faerie stories too, legends about bogies and shamble-men. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Did you like me at all, or was our friendship a story too? The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had come for his ceremonies, for the chants and the stories they grew from. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Hey, if it wasn’t a worthy story, they wouldn’t be here.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

When I was handed this story, I just thought, “Oh wow, another story to edit. Gee, this is great! I wish I could do this every day.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

In the stories, the creature was said to shine brighter than the moon. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

On Fridays she takes Gogol to the public library for children’s story hour. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“They think this is a good story,” she said. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Later he said the wacky conversations in the story reminded him of his own family. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Given everyone’s nerves already, I decide not to worry them with the story. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wasn’t that lady’s fault,” Aunt Aggie said as she told me the story. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I said, “Well, I love Rosaleen, and I love writing stories and poems—just give me something to write and I will love it.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We could tell ghost stories. I know some nice new ones.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She kept a razor blade at the office and cut out poems and stories she liked for her scrapbooks. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you know the story of this place?” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The story I needed to tell—she was humming it. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

In the months after the Times story about the Fugees, Luma was frequently approached by teachers, parents, coaches, and volunteers who wanted her advice on how to handle various situations involving difficult children. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he repeats stories, but I don’t mind. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

But when we listened closely to their interaction and measured the ratio of positive to negative emotions, we got a different story. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Come to think of it, maybe that is why he carried his bag of stories. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a long story, shank,” the boy said. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It was true of course, though sprinkled with little inaccuracies that added to the story, making it strong meat for the hundreds of readers who wanted value for their pennies. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Not only do they drop the egg from three stories up, but they also have a point system for things like bounce factor and aerodynamic design. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I slid softly back into unconsciousness as soon as 1 no longer had the story to hold my attention. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

After the Associated Press picked up our January 15 story about George Dawson, who learned to read at 98, hundreds of inspired readers wrote him cards and letters. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went on and on, story after story about not trusting police officers because they always seemed to act like bullies. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Dinah tapped my leg with her cloth hand, and I knew she wanted me to tell Doc my story. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Puffing out his chest, raising his voice to an important pitch, Albert commenced his story. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

A member named Booty, who was one rank beneath J. T., came to Venkatesh with a story. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

It feels like we’re living that story right now, so I don’t know if we need to read a book about it. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Yan Chang revealed this story in such a natural and lively way that I applauded her clever ending. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Absolutely. And I think it’s time for you to start writing your own stories too.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I had heard stories about PG County from the same poets who opened my world. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Accordingly, the story goes on with these stars of the old war shield; they go on, lasting until the fifth world ends, then maybe beyond. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The story of the fact is a story in which the lowest and most unreliable form of knowledge was magically transformed into the highest and most reliable. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She recognized them from the stories she’d heard and the artifacts her mom had acquired for the museum. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I’d heard stories of parents who let their kids stay up all night, but I didn’t know them. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Mother used to tell a story from the time before she was married. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“N-n-o. It was...one of those jinn stories that I heard in India.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“I know the story,” I say in response to the Augurs question. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The first graders had the story read to them by their teachers, and sometime seven the kindergartners participated. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Malvonne lived alone with newspapers, and other people’s stories printed in small books. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every spring, our synagogue celebrates the story of Esther. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Several stories below us is the members’ entrance to our compound. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It told the story of Rama, one of the reincarnations of the god Vishnu, who fought a ten-headed demon to rescue his wife. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The cover story was about the Lazarus woodpecker. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I was already afraid that the stories I had written would not fit into the new, official mood. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some love stories are tragedies—epics, spanning years, and built on dramatic irony, wars, Russian winters, and hours of film. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I shook my head hard, as if to shake all the evil stories out of my mind. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Which book can you think of? Which part have we forgotten? Oh yes, that one! It’s ages since I thought about that story....!” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

"The full story hasn't broken yet," Kelly says. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Because if it wasn’t this story, it would have been some other story or some review of a movie or a review of a book that someone does not like. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

It is the story of the robin, the bird known to everyone. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

But Kim, like others with firsthand knowledge of the camps, concluded after meeting Shin that his story was as solid as it was extraordinary. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Neither do I, but I believe in the story!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He knew everyone in the house must have a story, but he never asked, because he didn't want any questions coming back at him. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Whenever Mom told the story, she would hold her arms rigid and clench her teeth and go bug-eyed to show how Brian looked. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In other words, Ross knew perfectly well that he would not be able to confirm the story by testing it, yet he continued to believe it nevertheless. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It told the story of an old fisherman named Sandago who catches an enormous fish. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He loved the story and was never tired of hearing it. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Every group had stories of terrible peril: boys who had been hurt or killed by bullets or bombs, attacked by wild animals, or left behind because they were too weak or sick to keep up. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both the crudity of the story of Cronus and the naïveté of the story of Pandora are characteristic of him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I whisper my mountain stories in his ear, stories of the ghost women and the stars in their hair. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

By that time, however, stories about the dead hiker, including excerpts from his diary, had been given prominent play in newspapers across the country. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to the family story, Samuel called the family together, girls and boys, and made them promise to take care of Joe after he was gone, for if they did not Joe would surely starve. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I could prove that there was an actual villain in Franny’s story. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Marjorie was telling a story about how a man exposed himself to her in Union Station, where she had gone to meet her daughter on the train from Kingston. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a long story and I’ll spare you most of the details, but we were waiting for my sister to make it back from Notre Dame. She’s home now, so we can get going.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

"I don't care whose stories they are," Bran told her, "I hate them." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When she was not making her office building sparkle, she was melding the print stories with her keen observation of the people around her. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I like The Hound of the Baskervilles because it is a detective story, which means that there are clues and Red Herrings. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mathew Carey took up the story: “Of these, one crawled out on the commons, where he died....Two died in the circus.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

She muttered her stories to herself while she cooked or cleaned or took the long walk with the other harvesters to the Bog. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He was still thinking about the story of the Battle of the Hundred in the Hands. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

There are many stories about the stars, but not a trace of the idea that they influence men’s lives. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Virtually every success story we’ve seen in this book so far involves someone or some group working harder than their peers. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The story on the front page wasn’t coverage of the demonstration. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

He wrote, “I don’t know what my story is.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She never quite approved of Ba’s stories, as she felt they made Minli impractical and caused her to daydream. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, Ivy was ravenous for more of Robin’s story, for anything she could get. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In the back of his mind, Ekon thought of an old story, the tale of another old scholar of this temple who’d gone missing without a trace. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

So Mo began to tell his story, without the rustle of pages, without the endless labyrinth of letters. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

All his stories had to do with swimming pools and swimming competitions. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s as if the others took samples of her story and spliced them together. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

I read the story of a man who hitched his plow to a team of shamblers and tried to use them to till his field. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

And regardless, I couldn’t pay her for her story. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

At night when Maya was little, in order to get her to sleep, her mom would tell the story of how they had brought her home from the hospital. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Let me tell you a story of when I went walking, the monster said. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

I’m too tired to go on with this story. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'd told Ms. Taggart my whole story, start to finish, with my eyes closed, while lying on the couch in her office. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Authors never included the whole story; they just got to the point. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“Maybe I have more than one story,” Maya shot back. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

There’s power in allowing yourself to be known and heard, in owning your unique story, in using your authentic voice. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And this was the story of all those who failed to wait on the counsel of the Lord; who made themselves wise in their own conceit and ran before they had the tidings ready. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

However, history textbooks for young people rarely invite students to question or think critically about that part of the US origin story. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t mean to bring you such upsetting news tonight. Your story ends happily, Håkon.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The more they asked, the more elaborate the story became until, by the end, it was nothing like what I had started with. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Bob, it’s a long story. I didn’t want you to be my enemy. I tried to make you a friend.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“How come so many of your stories have boys getting eaten by stuff, like rocks or crocodiles?” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The New York Times covered his exoneration and homecoming in a front-page story. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

However, I am getting ahead of my story. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The building itself was nothing special—four stories, the top three just rows of narrow, rounded windows, like an old office building. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Before the meal was finished and the story ended there were three friends instead of two in the little green-walled chamber. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

He lived as late as the second century A.D., but he does not question any of the stories. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was a pretty sad story, about one family’s struggle against the oppressive Japanese regime. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes,” he said, “life does seem to be unfair. Do you know the story of Elijah and the Rabbi Jachanan?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He just flipped from card to card, reading the get-well messages out loud to me like bedtime stories. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I wondered what stories she would come home with this time. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

As soon as he’d gotten the chance, he’d drawn over them with his own stories, buried them beneath layers of ink so he didn’t have to see them every time he looked in the mirror. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Ugwu preferred Jomo’s solemn ways and false stories, but Harrison, with his insistent bad English, was mysteriously full of knowledge of things that were foreign and different. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The way they knew that Bone Gap had gaps just wide enough for people to slip through, or slip away, leaving only their stories behind. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

A familiar buzzing grew in my fingertips, the sign that a story needed to be let out. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It started out with Patria scolding me for telling Nelson ghost stories. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But at the time of this story—when I was about 14—I’d never come face-to-face with a lion, ever. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kin said, “Well, if I’m going to tell ye my long story, we might as well be comfortable. Is there anywhere to sit?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The innkeeper had taken a seat during Jerome's story, and now he says, "That Bartholomew is a pig. The abbot's going to let him keep teaching the children?" The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

All of these questions ran through my mind at the thought of the story and of all the traumatizing things that women faced. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Sure, it was about their crazy love story, but still. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Why is the first story in the Bible about Adam and Eve and the second story about Cain and Abel?” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was two stories tall and painted an industrial green, and was so close to the railroad tracks that you could wave to the engineer from the front window. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But if corn is the star of this story, is it the hero or is it the bad guy? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It can tell you the incredible story of Georges Melies, his wife, their goddaughter, and a beloved clock maker whose son grew up to be a magician. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

It had been several days since Miss Sadie had left me hanging with her last story, about Jinx and Ned at the county fair, and that day I had the afternoon off. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Every camper knew the story behind the tree. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around my crowded office, at the stacks of records and papers, each pile filled with tragic stories, and I suddenly didn't want to be surrounded by all this anguish and misery. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A cork that had become special because it was part of a story. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

There was nothing demonic or unclean about them, no reason for them to be subjected to such violence, but the message on Nazi propaganda posters plastered all over the city told a different story. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Old Nan used to tell stories of boys who stowed away on trading galleys and sailed off into all kinds of adventures. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Well, I promised Grandpa I would record your stories also.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He did learn to write, and recounted his life story in an autobiography. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

This is the story my mind will keep of them. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She already had so much to worry about that I wanted to let her think I didn’t know the story about Daddy. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I said softly, “Sir, I labored for—” “The common man likes a story,” declared Sharpe. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Well, I have about four hours before we land in LAX, so I’m going to sit here and tell you a story of how my life was changed by this “little” high school teacher . The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The story included a couple of quotes from me—one was about Dad needing to work on his self-control, and the other was about how he wouldn’t hurt a flea. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Having children play Orff instruments and classroom instruments as sound effects using the aesthetics above, would add greatly to the stories, as would composing an original song for the stories. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

This was obviously the point where she, Gilly, was supposed to come into the story, but it still seemed far too remote, like something that had happened once to a friend of a friend. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

At the time when this story begins the Bounders, as they were called, had been greatly increased. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

No one in your world need know anything about this whole story. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

While upstairs, her face hot from the air rushing out of the vent, Desdemona resisted this new twist in the story line. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I can tell this will be a great story. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Who knows if destiny is just how you tell yourself the story of your life? I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Little Raphael,” as her sisters called her, had a decided talent for drawing, and was never so happy as when copying flowers, designing fairies, or illustrating stories with queer specimens of art. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Son, can you at least just tell her the story, beginning to end?” my mother requested. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“I would have told you the story myself,” she nodded wisely, “but it is better that you hear the legend from someone your own age...” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

This story, of course, is taken almost entirely from Homer. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, Marmee, that is very cunning of you to turn our own stories against us, and give us a sermon instead of a romance!” cried Meg. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is a story about something that happened long ago when your grandfather was a child. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Another thing I did that summer was to confirm Cico’s story. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I regretted being too proud to share our story with Teashop Aunty. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I could tell you an extensively strange story,” I warned. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He once said if we ever moved, he would leave our story on the walls. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“They—they don’t kill witches, do they?” said Tendai, who remembered some horrible stories. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

In stories about the Polenitsi, women warriors from the East, they were always described as being enormously tall and supernaturally strong. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Her friend was silent a long time after Aunty Ifeoma finished her story. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

But I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

A lot of the stories were about animals and being brave around animals, or things like why hyena is called hyena or why an animal acts the way it does. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The song was as sweet as light shining through stained-glass windows, as captivating as the story in a book. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Ever since that day we’d had such a good time laughing about the bosom stories, I hadn’t quite known how to act around her. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“I tend to tiptoe around the edges of any church I happen to see. But I’ll oblige y’all with a story, just to show I’m so very thankful for the hospitality and the vittles!” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

"I'm listening to a story now," Bran complained. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“And so you joined the army, and it saved your life,” I’d finish the story for him, trying to water down my voice, take some of the sting out of it. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I asked for another story, one that I might find more satisfying. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

If there were a story he could tell that would get him out of this barn and back on the road to Pax, he would tell it. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

But then when my father went away, my uncle started writing his own music, telling stories in his songs. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

There was a story about dolphins one time. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

You have only to turn to the literature of the period, with its stories of the mythological families such as Plantagenets, Capets and so forth, to see how the land lay. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here we are, two boys sitting in a cemetery as it begins drizzling, trading stories in my half-dug grave, as if we’re not dying today. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“You mean the news story from when he died? Let’s see.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t like hanging was something that only happened in a story. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Any kind you want—books with stories and pictures ’bout anything you can think of, I reckon.” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

I swim in the lake provided, and eat raisins and crackers spread thickly with peanut butter and honey while reading detective stories, and sulk because there’s no one my age around. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

We rush down the hill toward the glade and the sycamore hollow to see if my pen pal has written the next chapter of our story. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Women aren't allowed to get onstage like this, standing alone to tell God's story. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

At first, indeed, she failed to grasp the point of the story. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Bailey wonders how all of this might relate to a child in bed, or to bedtime stories, as he walks around the table. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The racetrack casualty list was full of stories of the cruel, the bizarre, and the miraculous. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

This girl shivers and crawls under the covers with all her clothes on and falls into an overdue library book, a faerie story with rats and marrow and burning curses. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Yes, I knew what I would do; I would write a story about the Indians . Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some days, she brings out cookies tells us stories of the old neighborhood when everyone was German or Irish and even some Italians down by Wilson Avenue. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

This private detective is the creation of San Francisco’s own literary son, Dashiell Hammett, and appeared in his novel The Maltese Falcon, as well as three short stories. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was by a rather popular writer named Mr. Dickens, who lived in London and published stories in the magazines. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

But when my sisters and brother came, they brought stories with them that he hadn’t included in his letters. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was more like she found the stories funny now. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I refuse to shy my way anymore through our Chinatown, which tasks me with the old sayings and the stories. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents told me one story just as they had heard it. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or did my mind, right before it left, leave behind this story line? Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He had leverage; I had pieces of a story and a psychiatrist on speed dial. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The story always left the other twin, the stronger twin, washed and dressed and lying in a basket. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There Mr. Carriaga told his story again and he had just finished when the constable came into the Adobe. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when he reread the stories, still it was research. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In any case, it’s easy to get sentimental about the dead, and to guard against that I want to tell a quick Curt Lemon story. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, I was reminded of that story while visiting Global Edge, an Indian software design firm in Bangalore. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Nobody was telling me a different story, and I was too young to think for myself. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The story told by myxotricha is as deep as any myth, as profoundly allusive. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And they say, I have many stories I could tell you, and then they go on and tell these stories to you, but mostly to themselves. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

She says, “One thing is certain. Lieutenant Baird needs to see this. There is so much of your story here. More than I think you have ever been able to tell him.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I understood little of her stories because her voice was faint and she froze in fear if I asked her to repeat anything. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

This is always a dangerous moment in a story, because the king is not a djinn, and a wish that is an insult can quickly become a curse. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Myrtle pulled her chair close to mine, and suddenly her warm breath poured over me the story of her first meeting with Tom. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Mam will make hot cocoa and we’ll be able to stay up while Dad tells us a story out of his head. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

At this point in the story, I feel obliged to interrupt and give you one last warning. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

That is the invariable end of the story—it is never found again. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been months since I dug into the story of Robinson Crusoe. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Regardless of what he said, I doubt he believed my stories about the sluggers. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

After running through all the available chlorinated hydrocarbons, control agencies turned to the organic phosphates, but here again the story of resistance was repeated. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Like I’d been carrying the weight of that story in me, not even knowing it was heavy. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It is three stories tall, with beige stucco walls and wide fieldstone panels flanking a varnished oak front door with leaded glass. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

From there it was a short stroll upward and I hopped back across to the second story roof of Anker’s. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“No, that’s my newest story. I was born like this. The truth is totally boring so I make up stories for fun. I have lots of them if you’d like to hear.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

As I spoke and pulled the story out of the sand, I kept an eye on the giant fetterlings. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Stop telling her such stories!” whispered Mo. He and Elinor never took their eyes off the church tower. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Dad hops from channel to channel, watching the same stories play over and over. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I shan’t. But that was an interesting story of Quinn’s, since you mention him. It’s a shame to have spoiled it. I suppose you knew his theory?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

What made the newsmen love the story was a group of stout middle-aged women who, by some curious definition of the word “mother,” gathered every day to scream invectives at children. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Decades later, when his confession could no longer hurt Booth, Thomas Jones did tell his story to a journalist who recorded it for history. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the next several months, as it often happens, I managed to erase the story’s flaws from my memory, taking pride in a shadowy, idealized recollection of its virtues. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to one story, he demanded that the people of the city of Canopus abandon their homes to settle in the new capital. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

It was only two stories high, surrounded by trees. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Everything around it was short and tan, and even the domes were only a few stories high. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

They might look like Native stories, but they were made up by people who are not Native. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

She was fascinated by the stories he had to tell her of historical troop movements and flanking maneuvers. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Snow was falling in earnest now—big silent petals drifting through the springtime woods, white bouquets segueing into snowy dark: a nightmarish topsy-turvy land, something from a story book. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She sighs and readies herself to tell me the story. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“You have not told us a story since the first day. At the ...” She hesitated a minute, afraid to name the memory, afraid a guard might hear and, somehow, steal it away. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s from Ovid. Metamorphoses. The story of creation.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He told Congress her story, saying, “Ms. Lacks was not acknowledged as the donor of the cells.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“You want me to tell her a story? What kind?” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“No, I meant, why does my mother think you’re here? I need to have my story straight before she gets back.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I am not in the mood for a dialect story.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The younger Deborah said she was glad that when she died, she wouldn’t have to tell her mother the story of everything that happened with the cells and the family, because Henrietta already knew. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

As they listened to his stories, everybody knew that this was a hunter whose heart was stronger and harder than any other’s in that part of the country. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

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

It is at this point that most stories of Galileo’s contribution to science begin. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I enjoyed your story about the sergeants’ latrines. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“That story seems familiar,” Percy sounded surprised, like an old memory had partially surfaced. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Jess had finally worked up the courage to tell Mom the whole story about losing Dad’s camera. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

The story I gave him isn’t like a pullover full of holes, dropped stitches that will easily unravel when you start to poke at them. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

She’d never forget the stories about Oakwald Forest, legends of dark, terrible glens and deep, still pools, and caves full of light and heavenly singing. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He said that she must be related to Old Cudjo, who was so slow-witted he never laughed at a funny story until a half hour after it was told. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

His story always ended as a stowaway at the trainyard and began as a thief in the Levee. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

In the apparent belief that Shin was as trustworthy as he was ignorant, Park told his life story. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

‘Well, well, well. Let’s see it. Is it going to be a love story? A romance? What’s it about?’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of Lola’s old ghost stories popped into his head, too. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

ReelTok is up nearly a million followers ever since he moved to Chokecherry to report on our story. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

They are used with admirable skill to enliven the story and make it seem real, never to hold it up or divert the reader’s attention from the main issue. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pick it up and finger the wrinkled pages, flip to the story on the Soviet Space Girl. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

"I could tell you the story about Brandon the Builder," Old Nan said. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I stared at Mrs. Devi, amazed at the telling of this story, which was so much like my story. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The rat puts one paw on his hip and looks like he’s ready to tell Trub a long story, until he sees me—or rather, the uneaten food in my hands. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

It is easy for you to see, no doubt, hearing the story like this, conveniently arranged and narrated. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

This was an all too typical South African story. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One book, The Gay Genius, by Lin Yutang, told the story of Su Tung Po, the Chinese poet, artist, philosopher, and civil servant. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I wanted to know the rest, wanted the story of Miigwans’ escape, because I thought just by knowing about it, somehow, it would make our escape seem all the more plausible. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“Your story will be that you ran away the night before your birthday,” Dr. Cable said. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I’m pretty sure even some of the kids in Little Rock and Memphis heard stories about Lily’s own black widow. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Or at least the story that was told to her. She herself remembered just tatters of it. I told her she should go out with you, but she said she wasn’t good enough.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I remember hearing stories about what the Congs did to prisoners. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d like to take a moment here to pass things along to someone who is better qualified to tell this story,” she said, looking to her right. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“It came rather as a great surprise to us that a story...,” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

In world history, I told Mr. McElroy, “Who really cares about the creation stories of the aboriginal tribes of eastern Australia?” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Plus, now it was a story Willy’d bring up at the kitchen table if he wanted to get out of what I told him he needed to do. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Billy, my Billy, gave it to me soon after we met. Said it was a nightingale, like me. We then put it into the story.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He walked around the yard, overhearing one bewildered story after another. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

For homework, Mr. Daniels said we have to write a paper describing how we feel about a short story he read today. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I heard my mother laughing as my father told some sort of story. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Deborah told the man she’d been talking to me for a book, and he warned her not to talk to white people about her story. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She ended the conversation by telling me I had landed the gig, and she hoped her children would get the chance to meet me one day because she found my story so inspirational. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The e-mailed stories ranged from suspensions and expulsions for “antisocial behavior” to censorship of student publications to new restrictions on computing, Web browsing, and especially gaming. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, the only true thing he said to us was that there have been stories about extra-powerful wands for hundreds of years.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It was a popular story in its day and brought attention to cryptograms and secret writing. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The storyteller, usually an elder, would pose this unanswerable question at the end of the story in the presence of the children’s parents. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

When Dad was within listening range of the story, he added to it by saying the house stunk for days afterward. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The story came as a considerable shock to me,” she wrote, and she had an uncanny “feeling of being resurrected.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I can’t tell the girl in the blue dress that this story was silly because she might have a fit. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Her favorites were The Diddakoi, the story of an orphan girl who faces persecution, and The Secret Garden, where a girl and a boy, who is sick, escape to a beautiful garden. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

We add our own stories, each visitor, each visit, each night spent at the circus. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Sometimes these stories were what linguists call temporal narratives. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I get my mom to buy the Monkey House book, and I read Alicia a couple of the stories over the phone. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just bet two jots on a boy who wants to study bedtime stories,” Manet groused, gesturing to me with his fork. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think I like it only because it’s so pretty, but I want to wear it as the girl in the story wore her bracelet, to remind me of something.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

She built little stories—not very convincing, somewhat overwritten—around the people on the ward. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

My father's stories had given me a glittering image of the city of Kraków, three hundred fifty miles and light-years removed from the life I knew in Narewka. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Never mind the time. This story’s special. I wrote it myself,” I whispered, hoping not to wake Ali. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A part of me still believed all those childhood stories he’d told us about how invincible he was. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I wonder if you tell each other stories,” said Nhamo to the elderly baboon, who was dozing with her paws tucked under her knees. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It almost, but not quite, supplanted my image of myself banging out stories on the typewriter. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Everybody has a story, Nana used to say when I was younger. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

My dad starts telling a story in English, and everyone is laughing. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

There are just people with their stories, getting dinner. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He shook his head, not quite accepting her story. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He remembered the circle around him opening wider and wider as the monster told the story of all that he’d done for the invisible man. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Apollonius of Rhodes told at length the Quest of the Golden Fleece, and in connection with the story a number of other myths. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“MidPass and the Ridge have never gotten along. Something to do with the stories of Alke, and which belonged to whom.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

We feasted, we laughed, we played games, lost and won, we told the best stories. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to stay focused on my coming calc exam, but I was starting to feel like maybe there was more string to the story. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I sat next to her, rubbing her hands and telling stories from home. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“So this,” she says, “this goes back a long way. When I was in, like, fourth grade, I started writing a story in this notebook. It was kind of a detective story.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Arthur was my biggest fan, and I doubt anyone would love the story as much as Arthur does. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Here, she will say, a little story complete in her head, are you ready. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Feathers’ mouth is ajar—Suma’s holding her blanket over one eye, even though I’m sure they can’t know what half the story means. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The paper lay open on the breakfast table, and it was clear from my mother’s expression that she’d already read the story. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I unfolded the story I’d brought along, turned to the first page, then put it down. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone kind of knows the story, but most people have never actually read it. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

But another version of the story springs up sometimes, one of him with pockets full of a few thousand dollars, gambling winnings he kept for himself, on his way to the Rocky Mountains. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

But I don't want to read faster or older or any way else that might make the story disappear too quickly from where it's settling inside my brain, slowly becoming a part of me. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The next story is about a small freighter that runs aground off Far Rockaway in the middle of the night. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if it’s the baobabs or Ma’s story that makes me feel so happy, but I can’t stop grinning. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

One of the prisoners had just seen her story on TV. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“People are here because they want to hear your story.” How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I wonder why Ben read it out loud if we can’t hear the story in stasis. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Let me try and finish. I’ve been delaying telling this story for a long time.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

To make the time pass until the next shipment of food arrived, we told stories and played games. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That was just a cover story,” Poulsson now informed them, touching the match flame to his pipe. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is the famous story of how Galileo dropped different weights from the Leaning Tower to show that they would arrive at the ground below together. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

But for once she had no story to tell. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Characters from stories, like the ones she’d been told all her life, were taking off their masks and saying, I was never a tale, but a truth. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Menagerie had been built to look like a tiered cage, its first two stories left open but for the widely spaced golden bars. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It is after all so easy to shatter a story. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which stories would help to drive away the fear that had crept into the house last night? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He speaks for almost two minutes as the story’s narrator. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

"It's a love story and everything. Guess who's going to be in it! What movie star. Guess!" The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

If the firewood burned, Frank died: end of story. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And when she had finished all about Joseph, she would say “Ain’t no earthly power can make a story end as pretty as Joseph’s; ’twas the Lord.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Poe won a short story contest and the prize was publication in a local paper. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She would begin telling the story, perhaps repeating it to a homesick villager, and I’d overhear before I had a chance to protect myself. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I’d come out of my shell, bringing my camera with me, and people would finally listen to the stories I have inside me. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I am quite good at discerning lies. I hear none from you. Your story also fits with what Hazel Levesque told us.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A girl who saves her life by telling a cruel sultan a bunch of stories? Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

By the time I had finished the decimals that Ms. Ling had assigned, Big Rose had already laid the first story of her tower. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Jam wasn’t even sure what she meant by believe—that Redemption would believe the story she was about to tell him? Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The monologue sets the arc of the story. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I’m sorry I’ll never get to see your face, and feed you, and tell you bedtime stories. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I guess could call this the story of my story. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

And then I’d listen as women with babies on their laps, some of them still teenagers themselves, told me stories. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Everyone was nudging each other and I could tell that some of the other folks in the room had heard that story before. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

In Paris and Western Europe, the story was “essentially a one-day sensation,” with the West German press handling it “as if it were in the Chicago gangster tradition.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered something from an early part of Miss Sadie's story. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

And yesterday, after class, he’d shoved the short story anthology deep into his locker, refusing to bring it home. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She hugged the grain bag and considered telling a story to pass the time until she felt sleepy. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I will get the real story,” I say. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Long story short: I need to bring twenty-eight square meters of solar cell. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She made that kind of story possible with the library that she and William left behind. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The whole story plays out in my mind—she will be on the news every day because she is a white girl and white girls who go missing always make the news. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“The story goes that the Romans stole something important from the Greeks, back in ancient times, when the Romans conquered the Greeks’ cities.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

This is not a new story: I was an inferior force. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

All afternoon, while we read Bible stories out loud and watched Miss Rhonda’s teenage son do magic tricks, I thought about that note in my pocket. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Emily had left her binder, The Gold-Bug, and the Poe short story collection on the table when they went to chat with Raven, so now she closed those. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The apartment building was three stories high, two apartments per floor. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if the stories are true, I'm more than intrigued. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Five minutes later, they were all safely down, and James was excitedly telling his story to a group of flabbergasted officials. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

For my friends, I decided to juice the story up a little. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She always makes me tell the same story over a week or so later to see if I slip up on any details. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t have endless nostalgic stories like Dad does. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The story of the Selfish Giant is in my head now, living there. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

In homes, they sat breathlessly on their couches, their eyes glued to the story playing out. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The week after Dan Lawrence’s story had been heard in Newton, Ross Milton printed an open letter in his paper. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of my three-year-old brother, and pictured him standing in Tony’s place, telling this ghastly story. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

One night Mr. Chris told them a story of two little boys who were the very first white people to spend a whole winter in this very valley. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The story he told was one of Odysseus’ masterpieces. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t know it was all that complicated. The girl joined the zoo. One more animal—end of story.” The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They all knew how to weave a story onstage that transfixed an audience. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Myron often regaled me with stories of the lame stuff they used to do together in that room—play board games like Risk and Stratego, trade baseball cards, set up their own Nerf basketball leagues. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

"Those stories don't tell the half of it. The scribes wrote them down centuries afterward. They didn't know the truth." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The story had stuck because the lesson was vague. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to ask her everything that happened summer fifteen, make her tell me the stories Mummy doesn’t want to talk about or doesn’t know. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The person had specifically said they were looking for a book with three stories, and Mr. Griswold’s had only one. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I stuttered, not sure if she’d mind my having figured out she was the Hungarian woman in the story. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Too bad. It sounded like something from a story,” Suya said with a wry smile. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

But over time my eyes and ears adjusted, so that I began to feel at home with those fragments of my people’s history: stories of pioneers, my ancestors, striking out across the American wilderness. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Does that mean that a newspaper should try to stay away from a story that might bother someone? The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

"Let me tell you a short story," she says. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“And that is the end of the story.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

After introducing himself, he facilitated a conversation that would last about an hour, asking people to share their stories and describe their concerns about life in the neighborhood. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She laughed and said, “I tell you one thing—the story’s not over yet. You got your work cut out for you, girl. This thing’s crazy enough for three books!” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I settled cross-legged on the floor beside his charpoy and began the story of the man who came to ask my baap to write to the government because the government’s train killed his cow. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her wildness is of such degree, I fear approaching her too quickly even in a story. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The worst stories Oscar tells are the ones about El Jefe. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

In later years, when Mama Lessie told me this story, I wondered, If he was an uncle, why did Johnny have white skin? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They taught less vigorously and told fewer stories, lessons became duller and more careful, and yet this seemed to be what the badge wearers wanted. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“But I knew it was coming. Why would he want to be with me? I’m too much to handle, story of my stupid life.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I knew everybody would tell stories about Mary. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Gertrude was jealous of her son’s company and spent many hours with him, laughing at his clever stories and hearing tales of his journeys. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Between her update and the previous story, I am able to mark my paper map to show the relative positions of the opposing armies. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

And the story of the HeLa cells, from what little I know of it now, has all those elements. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Then we had to tell him the whole story. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I listened while Miles Umlatt went through the whole story again. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

What was even more exciting, Sassur told me there were many books, each one with a story in it. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He asked why I’d chosen Jewish history, and without thinking I blurted that I’d learned of the Holocaust only a few semesters before and wanted to learn the rest of the story. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When Myers protested that he didn't have more incriminating details because, well, the story wasn't true, the investigators weren't having it. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Resa always knew what story he needed at any given moment. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She wanted to get to the end of this story. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He insisted that Alice, Nellie, and Howard were with “Miss W.” in London, and that if the police would only check his story in detail, the mystery of the children would be solved. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Once you know their stories, they’ll sing to you as well.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Nothing much came of this encounter in the main story, except that the knight, whose name was Belleus, was introduced to the Round Table by Lancelot as soon as he was well again. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You understand how this works better than anyone. Everybody will want to hear their story, and every time they tell it, people will talk about what you did here.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The story over, the demands of their own hard, rough lives began to re-assert themselves in their hearts, in their nerves, their blood and appetites. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Key in one hand, he led me up the steps to the second story. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

After verifying Phelps’s story, Anthony decided to help the woman and her child find a place to live in New York City. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The story could not be true, but this old gentleman so loved it that I could never convince him of its falsity, so I didn’t try. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ask your librarian to help you find a copy of a book that includes the lyrics and story of Hamilton: A Musical. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

And what if one of them, the story’s narrator, was left behind to face the invaders? Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I let that story circulate uncorrected, as it was preferable to the embarrassing truth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And she wondered how she’d ever be able to tell the story. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I asked the renter, “Can I tell you my story?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

This is the story of a thousand sisters fighting and flying. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Lily is my older sister, in case you didn’t know, which you didn’t, because I’ve only just started the story. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Olanna did not like to hear these stories, nor did she like the furtive way the guests glanced at her legs, as though to discover a lump that would explain why she could not walk. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Radar and I were watching some half-funny stoner comedy on HBO, and I had started to get into the story when Radar said, “Garage door.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s a long story,” I said, not bothering to explain. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

But best of all, I think, is the simple advice given by the style book of a national newspaper: that punctuation is “a courtesy designed to help readers to understand a story without stumbling”. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

And yet here was a Reader’s Digest story providing a tip-off for any Japanese official who happened to see it. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

And I realize in this moment how much goodness has been woven into my story. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

A more satisfying ending, in both stories and music, is usually provided by giving clues that an end is coming, and then ending in a commonly-accepted way. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Henry replied, “Four to one,” but then Victor picked up the story. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was right; she would just have thought it was another of his stories. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

"It's an autobiography. The story of my life, so far. There's lots still happening every day, so I'm just trying to keep up with...well, myself." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The email said they’d read about me in the press, loved my story, and wanted to pitch me for the show. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I say it’s a compound, or multiple, love story, pure and complicated. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

She leafed through the pages, skimming for signs of Reed’s name among the dusty paragraphs and disjointed phrases, but the stories were gone. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t help thinking of the story she’d told Jason - about the Cherokee hunter who had broken his taboo and turned into a snake. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Of course, my story truly began years before that day, but I will start here for now, for many good stories begin with the day when a life changes. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Usually, I adored telling these stories and hearing them told. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The creature they sought was something out of stories. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Matt realized these men belonged to the Farm Patrol and thus, judging by Celia’s stories, were very dangerous. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cross an iron bridge over a ravine of railroad tracks, find the brick walls rising stories above me, go through a set of double doors, and then I am inside the factory. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“This is the entire story of our world. We must keep it intact. More than intact.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There was nothing to tell,” Naheed went on, but she was beginning to see her story growing wings and feathers and flying away, too far for her ever to catch again. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

The woman in Boston thought the story had some real zip to it, so she called the network news editor in New York. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I certainly do know heaps of stories, but I learned most of them from Gramps. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He has more stories than I’d requested in the first place. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Yet no one knew the truth about Petey herself; they had gotten her story all wrong, and from all the wrong people. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

All the buildings in St. Nick were fourteen stories tall. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

They show the outside of the hospital where a reporter files her story. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You surely don’t believe a word of Black’s story?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

But the mother ignored the gesture and went on with her story. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Oh, hell, what had happened had happened and he would stick to his story. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“A wonderful story,” said the woman in delight. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Liyana was in seventh grade, her class had a story by Saroyan in their textbook. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

When Ivy handed all the drawings over to her homeroom teacher, she told Ms. Lafontaine that they were supposed to be seen as one piece, one story. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I try and animate my face as I recall the event, a true story, in which I'd foolishly challenged a black bear over the rights to a beehive. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

And I hoped I could find stories that would help me. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The clue is the first line of another Poe story.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Each one of these has a story to tell,” he said. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The poor waitress asked for her autograph and everything, and probably still tells that story to customers. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The attic just hoped the new girl’s story would end differently than that of the last one. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“What did you find up there, really? I take it that the story about the pontoon was a lie.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

As words from the Koran reverberated through the room, I thought of the old story of Baba wrestling a black bear in Baluchistan. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Why didn’t you call me?” said Julian, perplexed and perhaps a little slighted, when Charles finished his story. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The next few stories are centered around one night. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

That was when the magazine Popular Electronics ran a cover story on an extraordinary machine called the Altair 8800. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I long to share my stories with her, but discretion holds my tongue and silence feeds my loneliness. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“You don't owe me an apology. But thanks for listening. It’s kind of weird saying that story out loud.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

According to another story in the newspaper, it was Burt who reported Vaughan’s disappearance. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Here’s a quick peace story: A guy goes AWOL. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought I knew what she meant, so in my next composition I wrote about the lesson I learned from reading the story. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

O'BRIEN Do people in jail look for stories to report to the police? Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surely this religion had more than one story in its bag—religions abound with stories. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The story went on to state that Mrs. O’Leary had been angered at being removed from the county relief rolls and had sworn to get revenge. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

By figured that dumb story was enough to scare me off and he started walking in the direction of the public swimming. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

This same story about a slave named Tice Davids was being told in the Big House, too. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to a story told by several members of the Stanton family over the years, Bayard was in love with Elizabeth. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Over the next week Maddie pieced together the pilot’s story in a storm of newspaper clippings with the mental wolfishness of Lady Macbeth. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

At lunch, she told me stories about her family’s cruise to Newport, Rhode Island, and how she slept in a real lighthouse where they told scary ghost stories and everything. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She even knew one story about an old warrior who came back as a potato. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

She would even let me borrow more books than I was supposed to, because we both loved mythology stories. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“She knows all the stories. Trust me. I’ve been hearing them since I was a baby.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She remembered how interested Alys had been, hearing her tell her own story, of the cutting. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Could it be true that the journal was actually a magical collection of the Spider’s stories? Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Circuit Judge William Bradford, after hearing a number of stories about Rush’s bravery and cures, wrote, “He is become the darling of the common people & his humane fortitude & exertions will render him deservedly dear.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Once she got started on a story, she did not acknowledge interruptions. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Long story short, I barely squeaked out a tie for seventh on the vault. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I, however, am a different story. I have not taught in years. I will not. Probably not ever again. So...” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

We still share the care and feeding of Camel, but the three of us no longer exchange stories during the long nights spent on the rails. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

When my mother tells the story, this is the point where she pushed herself up on her elbows, giving the midwife’s pale, sweaty face some powerful evil eye. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“The first thing we have to do this morning is finish reading the story we began yesterday,” he said enthusiastically. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

"I know a story, but I'm fuzzy on the details. Maybe you can help me fill them in." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I had heard all the stories about how Dad had been shot at. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Enrique was talkative, full of stories about growing up in East Oakland. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I suppose if that definition is strictly held to, then a writer of stories is a liar—if he is financially fortunate. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

As for the actual story itself: there will be no more math. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Everywhere he looked, he saw a world made of stories, the long ago, time immemorial stories, as old Grandma called them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, that is a very sad story,” Connor says, and pretends to look devastated. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Connor looked at Mom with interest, so she took that as her cue to tell the story for the millionth time. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It would be a story to tell our children. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

In our top story tonight, investigators say a fire at the home of former Atlanta Police officer Garrett Tison was deliberately set. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“She isn’t here either, no matter what stupid stories you’ve made up in your head.” The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In the next aisle, Mama goes for the biggest bag of rice I’ve ever seen, and I imagine her cooking me magic beans and rice, like in Daddy’s stories. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

We picked up our microphones again to find out the story of Eric Morse. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, anyone who saw the two of them walking together knew the truth behind that story. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Around the fire at dinner that night, Tally told the story of how she’d hidden in the river when the rangers’ helicopter first appeared. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“But answer me this: how can a story end happily if there is no love? But. Well. It is late. And you must go to sleep.” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Instead, I read Daddy’s story about Isaiah Dunn, Superhero, playing in a championship basketball game. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

It makes me angry and upset, but I know all these stories are true. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“The Shoemaker and the Elves” returned as the first story. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was tempted to write my story, how I had washed ashore in an old skiff, a ruined letter and a ruby ring tucked into my swaddling. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

All you could see for sure was that Sing Sing was the ending, at least for a while, to 2,300 sad stories. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would become perhaps the biggest underreported story of the twentieth century.... The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

For hours I’d listened to her tell stories about designing and testing spacecrafts and satellites. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I explain to Alice that the project is a collection of true stories about maids and their experiences waiting on white families. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Cherrie and the others especially enjoyed Roosevelt’s ability to tell a good story, keeping everyone entertained with tales of his adventures in the Wild West, in Africa, and as president. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The tata stared out the doorway with indifference, but the mama paid attention and nodded earnestly while Mama Boanda chattered on and on with a very long story. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sat around the living room and talked, telling stories about the old days on Ada’s farm, laughing and joking and trying to have a good time, and suddenly John’s name would come up. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a liveliness to both Mr. Birkway and my mother, and an excitement—a passion—for words and for stories. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

And then the pencil races along the page, the Spinney flickers out of sight, and I find myself back in the story. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

We had to read a story about a man who discovered a secret treasure. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Most importantly, we don’t know what stories they told. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their story could’ve been over and done right then and there. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I missed how the story ended, my eyelids too heavy to keep them open. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Joseph was overcome by the story, and neither he nor Frankie noticed how much time had passed. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Then he would text the picture to Davies with something clever, like “So you found a snakeskin, huh? Why don’t you tell me the story again?” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Every day, as he worked on the survey of Salem, he heard more stories of trouble at sea. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I read a lot of mystery stories now and books about kings and queens from old times. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

At night, lying on his mat, he could not picture himself doing the brave things his father had done, or his uncles, or the heroes of the stories. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nah, that story’s just one of those things you tell kids to teach them lessons, isn’t it? ‘Don’t go looking for trouble, don’t pick fights, don’t go messing around with stuff that’s best left alone! Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“I mean, being a journalist. You get to find out everything. You get to tell people’s stories and figure out the truth and write about it.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Is it true,” she said slowly, “the story Frith brought back with him from Kerrith last night, that Mrs. de Winter’s boat has been found?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

But this is the story of explorer Ernest Shackleton, and his twenty-seven men who survive years in Antarctica after their ship is crushed by ice, and she can’t help but get swept up into it. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“What’s the capital of Finland?” my mother asked me, looking at the magazine story. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

After, I started to ask him if he’d liked the story, a giggle rising in my throat, when Hassan began to clap. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell me a story, please,” Poppet says after a while. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I can’t help remembering Fort’s stories about people who vanished into thin air, sometimes from the same area. You don’t think this could be anything like that, do you?” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

‘And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself and how to write them. It is the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The story of the bird which had fought for Thlayli in the storm had lost nothing in the telling up and down the burrows of Efrafa. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no more stories after that, and no more escapes—at least, not into the orchard, or anywhere outside his own mind. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I mean, i/we decide to go with her story. Which I really think we should.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She whispered the story as the night enfolded them. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve gotten so far with this story that I’m nervous any negative feedback might make me quit. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The type of story that everyone loves to see in ballets or books or movies but hates to hear about in real life. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They spake to one another in a tongue Aina had not heard in long years; and I could tell that they related stories of places they had been as children. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I explained everything about my mother dying when I was small, my father going to' his Maker earlier this summer after a tractor accident, which was the story I was sticking with. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here's the real story of how I got the money for Prim's goat, Lady. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It was actually a pretty good story, now that she had someone to tell it to. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“A Dracula mystery story,” she said, eagerly exhibiting her book. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, in case she became a famous writer, Lynn practiced writing little stories in her diary: Once upon a time a funny witch cast a spell on all the world’s creatures. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Is it because you believe her story about not doing the first swastika? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I was born in the middle of World War II. From earliest awareness, my mother’s stories always timely, I watched for three airplanes parting. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Your inspiration for a music or integrated lesson plan can be a song, an instrument, timbre, vocal sound, poem, story, rhythm, speech pattern, etc. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Oh, my young friends," he cried, beaming, "my young friends, it is indeed a beautiful story. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You come to a place like this and you expect a bunch of lawyers. But she was a whole different story.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I didn’t understand why he was trusting me, but then he told me his own stories and I remembered: Shawn had been his older brother, too. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Late at night, Lolo used to tell me and my cousins ghost stories in the dark. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I decide to tell him the story Lita told me my last night with her, the one that calmed me most. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I am the people in the other cars, each with his or her own story, but passing too quickly to be noticed or understood. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I knew that many of my favorite books, like the stories in Grandpa Hong’s bookstall, would be sorted away forever, declared poison under the new standards. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He threaded each in turn into the projector, scrolled through to find the stories, and read them with fierce attention. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last thing Mr. Daniels said yesterday was that we were going to write stories today and that it would be our chance to show him what we’ve got. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Have you read a story about the Three Sisters? An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Since large-scale human cooperation is based on myths, the way people cooperate can be altered by changing the myths—by telling different stories. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have to put any people in your story. What do you like about winter?” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Except one thing—in all those other stories, I bet anything, both parties were black. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Hollister said it was unusual to see a book with only one of Poe’s stories. Maybe there’s another collection by that name. Maybe this is a coincidence,” he said. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The story was so logically laid out, without the gimmicks of Penguin Island. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“And besides, it’s not like we’re going to Hollywood. This is for a youth filmmaking festival. It’s small and local and people would love this story.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I had been longer in Karhide now than the Investigators had, and I doubted that there was anything to the stories of Foretellers and their prophecies. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Thank you for . . . giving me sanctuary. It’s been ... I can’t describe how it’s been, since that story came out.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And you should also ask her about her war story. It is very different from mine.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The aunts and uncles push back their chairs and begin to tell stories. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

We’d sit on the rug in the parlor, and Big Mama—that’s what we called her—would tell us the story. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it turns out, the story has some little-appreciated but striking parallels with the American prehistory that we encountered in the preceding chapter. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Upon being interviewed for this story,Old Johnny Mercer said, “Noah, schmoa! This grove flooded when I was a boy of eight—I remember it well!” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It is the story of an eight-year-old girl, sweet and seemingly innocent, the prize of her picture-perfect family, who her mother suspects is a murderer. Allegedly 2017-01-24T00:00:00Z

Blacks around the country were yearning for a newspaper like the Defender that celebrated their success stories and exposed the injustices heaped upon their race. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He says the hardest part of telling a story is finding the beginning. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Most jailhouse gossip quickly makes its way to the inmates, but officers were uniformly insistent about keeping them ignorant about the story of the Playhouse Four, as the group had come to be known. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The story about his father was a lie, too—he’d twisted it all round. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their story about Mexico seemed unbelievable, and they thought the two were American spies. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Many years ago, the southern newspaperman Hodding Carter told the story of how as a young man he served on a jury. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Moral of the story here: Bad news is sometimes best not broadcast. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Blink and I, well, it’s a long story, but I—” “Stop talking, Joseph. You still have a fever.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He squeezed himself tighter into the doorway and tried not to think about the gruesome stories Papa’s men used to tell, about men who’d had their heads blown off by cannonballs. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Reed continued, watching for a flicker of recognition in Clarian’s pale face, “They tell this story ’round Liccaro, when the sun goes down in the dusty sky. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The story was so hideous she suspected it had to be true. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The building across from ours was three stories high, crisscrossed by iron stairs with narrow landings on which people grew tomatoes and geraniums in clay pots. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The story he had interrupted would remain unfinished. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy should’ve written “Isaiah Dunn and the Never-Ending Tale,” where the notebook has magic powers to keep the story going forever. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

But that would delay the end of this story, the one that started when Nick was in fifth grade. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally Cora’s mind tricked her and she’d turn the story into one of her memories, inserting the faces of ghosts, all the slave dead, who looked down at her with love and indulgence. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Liszt’s symphonic poems, on the other hand, were a departure from this trend in that they intended to conjure up in music the pictures or the stories themselves. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“I think there are like a hundred stories in the whole fandom. Abby and I were able to narrow it down to fifteen possibilities.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

They shimmered and rippled, and when I looked closer, I realized that the threads were fragments of stories—actual lines from tales I vaguely remembered—spun into golden silk. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Jay Cee handed me a pile of story manuscripts and spoke to me much more kindly. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Jalil told her the story of Queen Gauhar Shad, who had raised the famous minarets as her loving ode to Herat back in the fifteenth century. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The Archives was six stories tall, but I hadn’t known it extended underground as well. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Was it not a dangerous word, too closely connected to Hobbes and to dubious stories about sympathetic magic told by Digby—someone whom John Evelyn, another early member, could dismiss as an arrant mountebank? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

My friends and I had grown up with the stories of the brave revolutionaries who had saved China. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I realized was this: I was in my own story now, and I had the power to tell it—or not tell it—to my father. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

"You're not dying until I hear the rest of the story." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Ohmigosh, that is going to be, like, the best story ever for the judges!” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The story goes that Louis was nicknamed Satchmo because he had such a big mouth, a "satchel mouth." Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

With every story my grandmother came into sharper focus, but the woman taking shape from their collective memories was nothing like the woman I remembered. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Do either of you know the story of how the first king of the City of Bright Moonlight’s father turned into a tiger?” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

There were many wild and inaccurate stories about my experiences underground. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the Monday night news, they finally gave Khalil’s name in the story about the shooting, but with a title added to it—Khalil Harris, a Suspected Drug Dealer. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

It became one of the many stories he liked to tell friends. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

We can tell stories about what happened a week or a year or a decade ago. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The ridiculous story might have lived out a brief life in Columbia had the paper not put it out on the national wire, thinking it was the scoop of the season. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the only story told about Polyphemus for many years. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it’s a story on top of a story. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

There wouldn't be any churches with spires in his story, or green hills like those he would see outside. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Sometimes in the story the survivor dies after leaving directions with his rescuers, or again he is nursed back to strength. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had heard the story before, of course, but never so plainly from Beowulf's lips. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

He needed to rest for a while, and not think about the story or the ceremony. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And it finally brings us back to the story Marc learned in Israel and the one Marina found in Guyana. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“There is no one, I suppose, who can confirm your story of your identity, M. Hardman?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abu rarely spoke about his childhood, so these stories were all new to me, and I loved hearing about where I came from and what my father was like as a child. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I’d read the first most recently, so I started into Sense and Sensibility, only to remember after I began chapter three that the hero of the story happened to be named Edward. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Gently, Teacher explained the difference between a lie and a story. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In front of him was a gigantic black machine, two stories high. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

As I tell you these stories, I’m discovering certain things. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Minli walked silently after the rabbit finished the story, and for a while the only sounds were of the tree’s flying seeds falling into the water. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Evan had made up a lot of stories about Mr. Fink in that tree. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

The stories we tell ourselves make us who we are. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Seaborg’s early life told the same quintessentially American story of immigration and assimilation as Ernest Lawrence’s, although his upbringing was rather more insular and culturally constrained than that in the Lawrences’ educated household. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t believe I had never heard this story before! Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“It looks a little like a courthouse. I’m always fascinated by these old houses and the stories they carry.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I enjoy Namontack’s story, but I can see that Reverend Hunt is becoming discouraged. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

It was a story, in fact, very similar to the one you are reading right now, and the telling of it gave Despereaux strength. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Thus far the facts ascertained corroborated Wells’ story most persuasively. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This story thing would make him so proud, Isaiah,” Mama says, finally letting me go. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

If it was my dad’s funeral, maybe it would’ve been a different story. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

While we ate, I told Denna the full story of the fire in the Fishery. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A true war story, if truly told, makes the stomach believe. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most bizarre stories are making the rounds, yet most of them are really true. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“I am—I mean, well, I was....It’s a long story. Point is: I’m here to help.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I think it's time I told you the whole story,” he said at last. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Easy on the graphics, huh? Just the story. Just give us the story like it happened.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I push the deformed into my dreams, which are in Chinese, the language of impossible stories. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon there would be laughter, when the men of her khas told the story of what had happened in the grasses today. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He regaled her with stories of Uncle Al’s desperation, and Uncle Al himself made pleas on August’s behalf. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I am asking myself this now as I stand on a narrow ledge six stories above the ground. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The man at the other end listens to my whole story, wishes me good luck finding a lawyer for free, and hangs up. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I thought of writing a story about him until John told me the same bum had come up to him a month ago and said his name was Confederate. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You’ve said it to us a hundred times. Great photos say something about life; they tell a story. My picture does that. But you’ve also told us that great photos evoke emotion.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The story wakes up and walks all over the room. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Pap liked to tell Bible stories, often to me, dramatizing them as he sat in our small kitchen. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I began sending her stacks of information I uncovered about her mother—scientific journal articles, photos of the cells, even an occasional novel, poem, or short story based on HeLa. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He became a volunteer for the Obama campaign and she absorbed all of his stories about the doors he knocked on and the people behind them. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Did you know there’s a story called ‘The Black Cat’?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe it’ll be a stretch to find drama in Vivian’s portage—a happy, stable life does not an interesting story make, right? Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She had made him wash, taught him manners, and told him stories. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I need to get to the end of the story. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few months later, a reporter from Collier’s magazine by the name of Bill Davidson contacted Gey—he was planning to write a story identical to the one Berg had proposed. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Now America waited to see if the rough-and- tumble western boys from Washington State would write another chapter in the story. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“A storyteller? I mean, he always told us cool bedtime stories, but…” Sierra sighed. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“I remember a story about twin giants. They tried to reach Mount Olympus by piling up a bunch of mountains.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, you should get along well with Capricorn. He likes the same kinds of stories as you.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Everybody in that school seemed to have told Miss Annie a story. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

A narrator told the story but the actors were silent. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I forgot to pack her gigantic book of short stories because everything was last minute. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I even like bussing tables in the restaurant, chatting with guests when I have a chance, and swapping stories with my coworkers. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Or were they only stories told to children at bedtime? Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did you notice he forgot what he was saying right in the middle of a story? East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“How about you start from the top—of the story, not the backpack.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The story as Newton tells it will not do. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“They’re stories, boy. Stuff and fantasy. There was no elixir of immortality. If anything, it was just sugared blood.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

My parents always share stories and memories about me as a toddler, a baby, a “bun in the oven.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

There is a rabbit saying, “In the warren, more stories than passages”; and a rabbit can no more refuse to tell a story than an Irishman can refuse to fight. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was all settled in and ready for a good story when the door banged and pinch-faced Amanda Wilkinson came in. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It has no hero or heroine. It has no happy ending. But it’s a story you need to hear.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The story played over and over and over again, like watching a movie in virtual reality where it doesn’t really seem like you—like it’s real—but you can feel every blow, every break. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

As he ate his buffalo burger, he relived the stories Grandpa Nyles had told. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The big old stone building was three stories high and had been a part of my life since I was a baby. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

What was required was a new story, a new history told through the lens of our struggle. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Alexander’s stories on the tapes were fascinating because he’d lived his life as a wicked, dangerous man. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But this new data set tells a different story. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I think the stories were probably true, given the color of Cade’s hair, his blue eyes, and the paleness of his skin. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Her mother called the police after piecing together the breathless, frantic story Carla told. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

When I read William Saroyan’s The Human Comedy, I was immediately pleased by the narrator’s warmth and the charm of his story. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Much of history revolves around this question: how does one convince millions of people to believe particular stories about gods, or nations, or limited liability companies? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

How strange, I thought, to be involved in something that the whole nation considers among its ten most important stories. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They showed the same Gene Autry film all the time, and in this film, Gene jumped out of the second story of a building onto the back of a waiting horse. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was a good story, and I wouldn’t have minded hearing what Shady had to say about it. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Biff bowed his head and organized the story he had just heard into a neat pattern. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I just hope and pray our story has a happier ending! Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

From the other beggars I hear stories about plague victims, which areas the police seem most nervous about, and which have started to recover. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

"And Mama handed me to you in the yellow blanket and said . . He waited for me to finish the story. "And said . Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

I wondered why my mother would tell such a story on such a night, for it had George, Florah and me scared stiff. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then we shall say no more about it just now,” said Dumbledore more kindly, “but continue with our story where we left off. You remember where that was?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

"All those stories Mama and Baba used to tell, about their old home, the world they used to live in...Didn't you ever want to see it for yourself?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It told him stories it had heard from the Soul of the World, stories of men who sought to find their treasure and never succeeded. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liyana loved thinking of first lines for stories or poems or movies. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“But the war’s not the end of the story,” Viola says quietly. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

When Ethyne was a little girl, her mother told her story after story about the Witch in the woods. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Lancelot, half-way through the story, was already shouting for his armour. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to tell whose story they were laughing at, they were doing so much chattering. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Here was something to make them proud, something to give them hope after the despairing stories of Bull Run and Ball’s Bluff and Wilson’s Creek. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The oft repeated story of the Kaibab deer in Arizona is another case in point. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It had been all right when she was telling the story. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ben, it’s bad. He posted this story where he’s singing ‘I’ll Cover You’ from Rent and crying, and like...I don’t know. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

But my gut told me a different story, and I decided to listen to it. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The story of Galileo’s discoveries is, it seems, straightforward. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Probably because folk around here haven’t ever seen a real barrow, just heard about them in stories. When they find a hill with big mounds on it . . .” I pointed out the oddly shaped hillocks. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Perhaps there was something childish about all the paladins of Arthur’s story—if being simple b the same as childishness. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

How long had I wanted to get my stories out there, have my voice heard? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

One thing I was starting to understand was that August loved to tell a good story. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Principal Trask’s eyes flick between my armband and Bernard’s sock like they might just tell her a different story. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

New York Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winner Harrison Salisbury came to my city to investigate the stories of racial violence; he wanted to find out if the rumors were really true. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Preserving our people’s stories, Doc said, was the most important thing. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He’d been teasing old stories and rhymes from townsfolk for over a year wherever we stopped to play. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I lick the stories about people doing shocking things. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

But what this girl really needs is a story so she can go to sleep. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Somewhere in sight of Bear Butte, according to most stories. So I thought this would be a good place to start our journey.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

"Oh? And which story is that? Is that the one where I try but fail to gain immortality and die after many years a sadder, wiser man?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

At home among family was another story altogether. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

More than twelve thousand articles were published about the broadcast during the three weeks after it aired, though the story was on the front pages just two or three days. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Mingo opened with the story of his journey, the nights he spent begging the Lord for guidance, the long years it took to purchase his family’s freedom. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Somebody made that story up, Ash,” he said. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“This is who you are now. You need to commit the names and the story to memory.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

That was just a cartoon story that people cried about, but it didn’t stop them from hunting deer. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The only thing to distinguish each building is a number and a name; to either side of it are more units, absolutely identical, each three stories tall, arranged around a vast looping road. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I personally like Bel and the temple; it’s a good story, but with all the delays for translation it was going too slowly to hold people’s interest. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

If a story seems moral, do not believe it. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

O'BRIEN You use stories and you use people, right? Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

It opened a new page with the story. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I knew we’d come to the place in the story I feared the most. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over time my stories got more and more ridiculous: alligator wrestling in the Everglades in Florida, freak roller coaster accidents, skydiving trips gone wrong. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

"Beth, you shouldn't make up stories," Sansa corrected the younger girl, gently stroking her hair to take the harshness out of her words. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

While she had never warmed to Driscoll herself, it was not a story that boded well for any woman who worked for the Navy. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I’m just about to start telling a story when Fuchsia comes into the bedroom. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

We all waited patiently for father’s story to develop, because we knew he had a way of telling stories that very clearly illustrated the point he wanted to make. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stories ranged from number one, the launching of Sputnik, to President Eisenhower’s stroke and the passage of the Civil Rights bill. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Devastating as the destruction was, it would be the human stories and the human suffering that would best define what would become known as the Great Molasses Flood. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I told them the whole story then sat back with my arms crossed, scowling at Joe. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

In this way he became a personality and a number of stories were told about him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s the story from the Noise anyway so who knows what it was actually like before? The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Parts of his story had been awkward and stumbling, but some were stately and grand, as if he had been reciting them from some half-forgotten memory. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The family story is that he’s in school for the business side of fashion. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“But...there are more important things than what we want. Sometimes it isn’t about us. Sometimes we aren’t the center of the story. This is about Loo, now. Please, let me go.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Sentimentality about Lee's story grew even as the harder truths of the book took no root. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And when I have finished my three stories, the monster said, as if Conor hadn’t spoken, you will tell me a fourth. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“I appreciate you for telling me this story,” she said. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was risky, but we hoped that national press coverage of our side of the story would change the narrative. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I wish I could say I rushed back and confronted George to get his side of the story. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

From her mom’s stories, Aru knew that there were five main brothers. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I think we expected more hesitation, and maybe a story or seven about what happened at the schools. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He expected his story to dovetail into milkwarm commiseration, but before Nel could excrete it, Sula said she didn’t know about that—it looked like a pretty good life to her. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of a varied, magazine format, each episode follows a single story line — the exploits of an animated dog by the name of Blue. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They told me the whole story, which I pretended not to know too much about. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Freak nods, he's really into this story, and he's making shapes in the air with his hands. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s the sisterhood Mom’s always talking about. Five women who are reincarnations of legendary queens from the ancient stories. These days their job is to raise and protect us.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Her head spun and she was dizzy with the impact of all the seeing and all the making up of stories about the toys in the shop windows. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They laughed and told stories about Leo Valdez, their best friend. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

His eyes were fixed on a window on the right side of the second story. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

After two hours on a narrow ledge seven stories above a concrete parking lot and gathered crowds, Mr. George Pollucci let himself be helped to safety through a nearby window by Sgt. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Everyone in a story wants something,” he said. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“About yourself. You know about you. Everybody has a story.” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The story was all over the sports pages. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want to lose every night to neon beer signs and stories that were never as funny to the people who were hearing them. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I remembered a story my mother read to me long, long ago. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Werfel considered telling the whole story, which involved feuding families, a cruel son, a jade amulet, and a burning salamander, but it didn’t really seem like a good time. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

As we began to walk, Gideon’s stories came back to me in flashes, like views between the trees from a train window. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

What is often overlooked is that the black man falsely accused in the story was not successfully defended by Atticus. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I’m trying so hard to tell the story as objectively as I can, but it’s not easy. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Julie put in the great-aunt story because she thought we might have to blow the place up with her inside. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

It might surprise you to learn that many stories of how the “three sisters” came to be aren’t Native stories at all! An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a special remembrance for our own Lady of Chains. We reenact her story. Plus we give thanks for the honey crop. The Daughters of Mary come. It’s our favorite two days of the year.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I write the final words of this story, I’ve not seen my parents in years, since my grandmother’s funeral. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She got so she could tell big stories herself from listening to the rest. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Nothing but a bunch of stories about how we used to be slaves.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Yea! Hurrah! The story has a happy ending!” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The sock clung to him in my story,” she said, as if her answer ended the discussion. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I think the mind that could think this story was a curiously divine mind. We have had a few such minds in China too.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was all part of the unending wandering story he wove about them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the story was told to us through the waves of water while we were eggs or whispered to us by the roots of the lotus flowers. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been waiting for that kiss for days. I do like a story with some good kisses in it.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

She tried to write a story in which she was not the main character, in which some person she had never heard of before did things and felt things. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Based on what little we know, Ren’s being questioned by the police right now. I don’t buy the gas leak story.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I found my dad alone, nursing a beer at a table, so I pulled up a chair and began fabricating stories about my day while toweling off my face with napkins. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Each story was preceded by a detailed illustration, hand-painted in royal blue and crimson, silver and gilt. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mario thanked him for the bell and the story and everything. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

In history, Sally was still retelling the story, though everyone at school must have heard it about a hundred times by now. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

As much as I had a need to hear her story, she had a need to tell it. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Where once the city’s newspapers would have run an endless series of stories about the aftereffects of the fair, now there was mostly silence. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It’s not known where, or if, the intended story ever appeared. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

By the time our news story ran through, the local newscast was over. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I knew this because whenever they stopped laughing at my jokes and stories they’d say, “So how do you think I can get Daniel to ask me out?” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And you’d teach kids how to think in the same way that kids teach themselves how to think — in the form of the story. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You want me to spoil the entire story for you?” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I’d felt it like an itch in my chest while listening to my grandfather’s extraordinary stories. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

It’s ten o’clock and I’m in my bedroom, just thinking about the story. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In any story the two hardest things to be are a widow or an orphan. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Every one of them would have a story,” recalls Mosbacher, who wound up at the track after running away from an impoverished home. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Poe won a short story contest and the prize was publication in a local paper. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

My hanging clothes surrounded me like loving aunts and uncles telling old family stories. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The story is almost certainly untrue, but Galileo did do something equivalent: he rolled balls of different weights down a smooth slope. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“These kinds of stories always have stupid princes falling in love.” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

So, we stopped seeing each other, just before my class got to the end of the story. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

While the story was being told, they heard it without any of the reserve or detachment that the kindest of civilized humans retains as he reads his newspaper. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not trying to do anything bad. I just want to learn your mother’s story, same as you.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

When they arrived at her uncle’s home, he told them that the heat ray and black smoke were just part of an Orson Welles story. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“You know nothing of the Fae, if you think our stories lack their darker sides. But all that aside, this is a faerie story, because you are gathering it for me.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was afraid for a moment, until he remembered how that story ended. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Do you want me to tell you a story? The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Billy got sick. He ended up at the clinic where Marcus and Frankie’s mother works, and after he died . . .” “The story stopped?” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“They take perfectly normal people and turn their lives into pond scum. That’s why it’s fun to watch. If everything was perfect, there’d be no story.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

She stacked them with the Poe collection of stories on top. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The fights were a blur inside her, but she had seen enough to know what had happened to him, what he had done, why the story was locked up inside him like an animal. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I guess I’d been reading newspaper stories about it and hearing people shout over the whole thing for so long that I didn’t listen anymore—it just went in one ear and out the other. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a while they acted out their favorite scenes from the story. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

But finding them seemed to be a different story. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I told her all about how they put me on a psychiatric hold when I was twelve. Girls love that story. Especially the pretty ones.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Mother rested for several minutes, until she regained some color, then she told the story. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I heard Papa interrupt in a low voice, and the other man added something afterward, something about the Big People in Abuja not wanting such a story out now that the Commonwealth Nations were meeting. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Day after day the newspapers increased the tension by printing frightening, exaggerated, and mostly false stories of crimes committed by blacks on whites. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

About the stories Gram and I wrote together about them. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

For those who are just joining us, we've been covering this story for a few days now. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“I should have made Ade hold that story,” Papa was saying. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

To distract myself from my queasiness, I dived into my story. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

While she was demonstrating her skill at making the serpent wiggle, she told me the story of her life. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, it’s not the whole story, since there are many quite numerate people who have had little formal schooling. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this story, though false, took on a curious life in my imagination. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I hadn't read Jane Bowles's work but knew her husband's book The Delicate Prey, which was just about my favorite collection of stories in the world. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

She glared at Dad before returning to her story. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

See, the cool thing about Jessica’s story is that so much of it happens in one spot, making life much easier for those of you following the stars. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“Let the others tell whatever stories they wish, but between us let us share secrets.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I says, ‘My boy says I’m the one stopping him from writing in his copybooks. He’s been writing on this story for almost five years.’ A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under these stars and sky I used to hear stories, but now it seemed as if it was the sky that was telling us a story as its stars fell, violently colliding with each other. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

My story tumbles out, gaining momentum like a boulder rolling down a mountain. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other stories, closer to home, weighed heavily on Mr. Henderson’s mind. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He tells a story of a turkey farm where the turkeys all died because they were too stupid to go into their shed during a thunderstorm. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The missing ingredient in the story, of course, is the four- or five-second interval when the shots were actually fired. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Papa confessed that maybe it hadn’t been an Indian cemetery after all; maybe someone had made up that story. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A story is better if you have to wait a little bit for it to be spun out. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet none of these things exists outside the stories that people invent and tell one another. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

We kept asking, and finally she said, “If I had anything to say about your father, I would say it, but I don’t. End of story.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Came down near the stadium,” a woman says from half a room two stories up. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Isaac Tupperman. He’s why I’m telling this story. I went out with him for nearly two months. That’s how come I can remember the names of his favorite writers.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“My father said he heard that story when he was a Twelve.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

To my admittedly biased eye, the book’s central message has survived well, and the most interesting developments since its publication have involved four extensions of the story to the modern world and to recent history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“They even had a song. Something like Broken Wings by that band, Mr. Mister. I don’t even know, but I hope it was Broken Wings because it would make the story perfect.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Jason and Frank stood at the helm, talking in low tones—maybe telling stories of the legion, or sharing thoughts on being praetor. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

We just finished reading a story about a kid living in the projects who had to deal with peer pressure and gangs. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It had been the story of his life. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

All conspiracies are the same taut story of men who find coherence in some criminal act. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It says, Of course you’re real—like any thought or any story. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Things like that happen, at least in the stories you read. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

And they would need to have a good story to tell. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

El Diario, the Spanish newspaper, had covered the story in detail and featured a picture of the building facing Bushwick Avenue, with a dotted line from where the girl was thrown to where she fell. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The walls were whitewashed, like the walls in the upper stories of the house, and there were just as many doors. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I hope by now that you are skeptical of this kind of story. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“I told them the whole story,” he said. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Sorry, I got held up at work. Telling stories.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Between sips of nectar, I told them the story. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t it true that at the beginning of your story, you stated that you and Emmanuel Rivers were ‘just driving around?” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Right from the beginning, would she start with her grandpa and grandma and tell all the family stories? Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

That is the name of my story, forward and backward. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Guess who I’m not fooling with that story? Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I heard a nice little story the other day,” Morrie says. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The story of these two is alluded to in the Iliad:— Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of them preferred to bring their prisoners with them, as witnesses to their stories. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is the story of Vishnu incarnated as Vamana the dwarf. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I have the story laid out in my mind now, as straight as it’s ever going to be. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I wait, peering at the two stories of darkness below, gathering up the nerve to crawl across. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was more fascinated with Mr. Taylor’s morbid interest in his story than with the tale itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little story does not seem especially tiresome, as such stories go, but Argus found it so. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was feeling impatient, but I told them the story. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“I gave up practically the whole world for you,” I tell him, walking through the front door of my own love story. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Her father’s stories always made them sound so wise and powerful and grand. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

And lately, we hear more and more frightening stories of people from America getting sick or robbed while visiting. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Behind him, a transparent Aboriginal Custodian whispers calmly his Dreamtime story of creation by a fish. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

At lunch, she even sat with me, Red, and Dre, and told us every story about times she cut things, just because she was feeling a little guilty. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

She gives me an annoyed look, my question seeming to bring her briefly out of her story. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Grayson returned at noon, bearing zeps and sodas, and was not allowed to leave until he told Maniac one story about the Minor Leagues. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s been getting a real kick out of the stories I’ve been telling him about her. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Stieglitz has said before, he isn’t interested in stories about the old country. And it isn’t an article, not really. It’s just memories.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

But this was no time for stories—and she said as much. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Once they got going on that sort of thing, they all had stories and experiences to tell. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

RiRi made the face she pulled out when she wanted something, like an extra piece of camp bread or to sleep in my tent so I could tell her stories to keep the nightmares away. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The accompanying story asserted that an unnamed eastern college had approached Bolles just hours after the freshman race. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Another round, and Harley tells his story about two blondes in bed with him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

This story was way better than the legend of Skeleton Woman. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Dad, Mom, Mr. Anderson, a policewoman, and one detective came in after me, and once again I told my story. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

She spent the day telling stories to Mother and the njuzu girls. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His words destroyed the story she was writing but almost immediately supplied her with another. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But when its teeth met the gnarled roots and twisted branches of the scrub trees, it was a different story. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Ten stories high, then thirty, it blocked his view of whatever was behind it. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

I appreciated the media interest in my story, because our nation desperately needed to see that Muslims were just as American as anyone else. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

So I go back to writing down words that are songs and stories and whole new worlds tucking themselves into my memory. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

In this last version of the story no one ever claimed the money, so Uncle wasn’t stealing anything. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

During his visits, reporters kept tabs on him, printing stories about his cowboy adventures in the newspaper, which kept him in the public eye. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

In the story Toad keeps finding buttons — big ones, little ones, square ones — but none of the buttons he finds is the right button. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wrote a few little stories, what he’d been doing that week, a couple of jokes. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll tell you in a minute why I think I learned more than others,” Thomas said, dreading that part of the story. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

They also interrogated them separately to compare stories and sift through the lies to find the truth. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The Jesse Owens story had already galvanized much of the nation, driving home what exactly was at stake in these Olympic Games. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The purpose of their stay, the letters stated clearly, was to observe and explore the various unsavory stories which had been circulated about the house for most of its eighty years of existence. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Now I realized that this meeting was actually about a story I'd written, a story in English about a girl raised by sirens. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Described by some as incoherent ranting and too melodramatic, Bobby’s story, if it could be trusted on the basics, was truly horrifying. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But no one wants to think about it because it brings up Link and Pamela and the swastikas and stories of what happened forty years ago. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Were we going to talk about the story again? All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But my favorite story was still the one about Dead and Icky. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The story of the escape and their own account of the fight in the woods did much to alleviate Fletcher’s dismay. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Instead, it treated the Mormon ideology as a chapter in the larger human story. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Smelling the inside of the shark was another story.Robin pointed to areas of the gills while explaining to the crowd that water flows off the gills one way and blood flows the other way. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

True to her word, Mrs. Richardson filed her story and turned to the mysterious photograph. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Two and a half stories it stood, gracefully proportioned, with leaded glass windows and clapboards weathered to a silvery gray. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

They’re trying to remember six thousand years of history and all the versions of all the stories ever told. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

But it was Mother who spun the stories that made the things we studied really unforgettable. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the NIS, Shin told his story to counselors and psychiatrists at a government center for resettlement, then to human rights activists and fellow defectors, and then to the local and international news media. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Down south already feels like a long time ago but the stories in my head take me back there, set me down in Daddy's garden where the sun is always shining. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I wrote about the peculiar children and the hollows and how all of Grandpa Portman’s stories had turned out to be true. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

And I was already guessing what kinds of ridiculous things Mr. Wellins would say about those first stories, but, still, I thought they were probably some of the best writing I’d ever read. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She tells me the same stories about Grandpa again and again, like how his hands were rough from making so many sculptures, and how he could talk to animals. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Happy stories, too, and even a few peace stories. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he remembered Holly’s story rightly, she had already made some sort of attempt to leave the warren. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My mom and dad don’t tell me stories.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most Americans and many Europeans equate native Africans with blacks, white Africans with recent intruders, and African racial history with the story of European colonialism and slave trading. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Ophie! I was just telling you this story about the movie I went and saw last week. Chickadee, believe me when I tell you that the leading man was just the cat’s meow.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“But how do you know the story hasn't changed anyway? After you read Capricorn and his friend out of it. And now we’re stuck with them here.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Ba, tell me the story about Fruitless Mountain again,” Minli would say as her mother spooned their plain rice into bowls. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

‘Yes. If Salim’s picture gets into the news stories, somebody who’s seen him might come forward.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was growing weaker and weaker with the effort it took to continue speaking, but the story inside her was bubbling up again. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Just like that, the story started spilling out of me. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Though for the moment they weren’t acting as if they were going to harm him, Jonathan recalled stories he had heard about what happened to prisoners. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The queen of the gods, Turner. Write it as though she is telling the story. This is Juno here, regina deum, line nine. Thirty minutes seems about the right amount of time.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

But there were no stories on the wall. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Grandma told me the story, and I believe it, too.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not a single story has a magical priest who is terribly to be feared because he knows ways of winning over the gods or alienating them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a story about a silver necklace with a bird medallion. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

In the stories, the shepherd who abandons his duty is a villain. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He remembered that part like you’d remember a story someone told to you once, like you might nod in sympathy but it wasn’t like it happened to you. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Every time Ba told the story, she couldn’t help thinking how wonderful it would be to have the mountain blooming with fruit and flowers, bringing richness to their needy village. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, he’s the total hero of the story. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

He’d heard stories about amputees who had phantom pains where their missing legs and arms used to be. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“No it’s not. If you are just watching a movie, there’s no reason why the kids can’t tag along. I’m sure your friends will understand. End of story.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

It will never be real to her now, never anything more than photographs and films and stories published for people’s entertainment. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Her skin is smooth and her eyes light up when she’s telling a story. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

I love that story, because it shows how ignorant people can be. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Thank you. I wanted to thank you. My father would have loved that story. It’s the ...” I broke off. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I have to tell how it happened, so I invent a story and I almost believe it myself. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it is not quite the whole story. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

It's also possible that my story is giving her a massive headache. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

If I wanted to post somewhere public like Wattpad, I would be opening myself up to feedback from strangers who won’t care if this is the story of my heart. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

A spiral notebook was open on the desk in front of her, and she was making a list of possible lead stories. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Stating the topic is necessary because even the most explicit language can touch on only a few high points of a story. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Ovid is the best source for this story. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Overall, though, there was little that coincided with Jacob’s stories or my own observations. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, what sort of story do you like?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Even in his dazed state, Jason was pretty sure he remembered stories about Odysseus falling for other women during his travels, but he decided not to bring that up. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

When you see a filmmaker getting too fancy, you can bet he's worried either about his story or about his ability to tell it. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And you tell us the stories, after all. You be needing a place for that.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Norwegians at the whaling factory crowded Sørlle’s house, asking the manager over and over again to repeat the story Shackleton had told. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

They had come looking for an answer or a story or a piece of something, anything, to take away with them. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

She told the story about the pervy coach and the loss of the scholarship. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t done hearing her story of Manifest. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Associated Press picked up the story, and it was published in 43 states. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

She seemed to be particularly fond of bloodthirsty stories: tales of the beheading of unhappy lovers, or princes walled up alive. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Mama had taught her about them through stories. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

A recluse story contained more sense, but Royal thought the army part was claptrap. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“They say a new painting appears right before a story of greatness is about to be told.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Then on the third day a photo appeared with the story, and I glimpsed at and then focused on the portrait, and I saw him there. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I’ve read it twenty times. I bring it back to the bookshop, read other books, and then take it again. I like the stories.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

As an expert in interplanetary travel, I can tell you there are no scientific inaccuracies in the story. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, back to the story, Mamá. What else happened? Is there more?” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

There he was, in the midst of a few other regulars, telling one of his air force stories. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

One day, perhaps, I too will cross the Bridge of Forgetting like so many other stories before me.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Grandmother told me a story once about a man who had many wives and sons, but no daughters.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

This story was going to begin like all the best stories. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

I know he is a hypocrite; that he is shaping a story for himself to tell somebody, to tell his father; naturally. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took that prize from a slain father; presently the gods brought all to light that made the famous story. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lloyd: In school I wrote a story about how living in the projects is like being in a big maze that you almost can’t get out of. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, Barbarossa had nothing to do with us being here. Ida Spavento, the lady who had the wing before, told us about the merry-go-round. But that's quite a long story...” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, so say, like, you write these stories. How are you going to get them to David—your boyfriend, right? He’s on the outside?” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Horchow’s daughter, Sally, told me a story of how she once took her father to a new Japanese restaurant where a friend of hers was a chef. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Even Zeus doesn’t know. Now, I want to hear Grover’s story. Again, from the top.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“We heard the story about the fire in the theatre,” said Joseph, ignoring her. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

When they did writing, she was the only one who made up stories about girls with magic swords and great destinies. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

This part of the story called for reverence. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“It is only another name for trying to be good, and the story may help us, for though we do want to be good, it’s hard work and we forget, and don’t do our best.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would listen to the stories and I would cringe. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

These fictional dramas, like the evening news, tend to focus on individual stories of crime, victimization, and punishment, and the stories are typically told from the point of view of law enforcement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

After she married John Smith when she was twenty-four, she centered her life around family and church, yet she often told fond stories about her student days. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I never thought getting into college would be easy, but I was learning to focus and have faith in my own story. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Viserys had told her stories of the tourneys he had witnessed in the Seven Kingdoms, but Dany had never seen a joust herself. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The plants would grow there like the story, strong and translucent as the stars. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

We mostly write stories about our experiences and memories. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

A wave two stories high rolled up on us and ripped the boat into its crest, and then the sea dropped. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t matter that the story had begun, because kathakali discovered long ago that the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is six stories high, with wide windows arranged into a grid, divided by pillars of brick. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

His inspiring sermons retold the story of Moses leading the Jews out of Egypt and to freedom. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Fine. I’ll tell a story—but not the one about how I met Gum Baby. I saw what happened when I talked about that.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He served me tea and biscuits in a tea set that tinkled and rattled at every touch; he treated me like a grown-up; and he told me a story. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Resourceful girl, that one. Found her way back, told me the whole story. She’s worried sick, you know.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Most were three or four stories tall, each floor overhanging the one beneath it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He once told me that stories can make someone immortal as long as someone else is willing to listen. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

George had been talking about American life and telling stories since we’d left the airport, but I couldn’t concentrate on his words. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

But if Ruth was sometimes embarrassed, catching my eye in the middle of some story or other, she seemed confident I wouldn’t give her away. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they sat around the fire, the camel drivers exchanged information about windstorms, and told stories about the desert. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I feel very close to what I know of Armenian culture through Saroyan’s stories and look forward to learning even more.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’d heard stories of people lining up overnight just to get a bowl of soup. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s the whole point. People don’t look for you when you’re dead. Old enemies don’t try to settle scores. People don’t come asking you for stories,” he said acidly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

One story will lead to another one through some connection, and then he weaves them all together. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Cupid had told him the whole story and had begged for his help. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was my grandfather who had the idea that we should write this story. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seems a little too much like the “True Tales of the West” stories printed every week in the paper. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

How was this supposed to help me start a story? Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

My father’s life story stands alongside such monumental works as The Diary of Anne Frank and others. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We don’t know where he is, or how we’re going to get him away from Sigurd. In the stories, she helps sometimes.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

And Cor, who had very much wanted the story to be known, though he felt he couldn't tell it himself, didn't enjoy it so much as he had expected, and indeed felt rather foolish. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

I was reminded of a story I had read at the Boniface Estate when I was looking for things written about rats. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the stories under those headlines paid scant heed to Shady’s years of grueling labor. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Dear reader, you have to understand the point of all these stories. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She had inherited a story that was strewn with corpses and clotted with enmity, and was only trying to stay alive in it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Trouble arose only when authors used their stories to vindicate themselves against a great hurt or perceived injustice. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Don’t tell me the story,” she would say, smiling. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The last thing I wanted to do was convince her I was crazy with wild stories of the Chandrian So we rode in silence. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They were the stories of all the colored people she had ever known, the stories of black people yet to be born, the foundations of their triumphs. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

As a young reporter, he went to many corners of the country, following a story or, in many cases, following a job. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

For another, the story about his own discovery in the boat had filled him with excitement and with a sense of relief. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

She held his hands while he told her our story. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Virgil was eight years old the first time he heard the story of Pah. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He was looking at her, as though absorbing her details, memorizing her, for when he would tell the story of their meeting. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Harry Potter not knowin’ his own story when every kid in our world knows his name!” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

For three years she must have nurtured a feeling for him, kept it hidden, nourished it with fantasy or embellished it in her stories. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Tally swallowed, wondering if Shay had found out the whole story. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Because the version where she grows and takes her father’s house back—that’s not how the story goes. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“But if the story is good enough to sell to your readers, then you ought to give me some of the money you get from it,” I insisted. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In movies and in news stories, people said, “Something snapped.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The private detectives agreed to look into the sheriff’s story. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“If there’s going to be a story, don’t you think I’ve got as good a right as anyone to choose it?” he asked. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pilot talked some and Olive talked some, and both stories had to be put together before they made sense. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Grandad roaring about ominous stories in the Guardian didn’t make them real. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

At night we sat around the fireplace and ate baked apples spiced with sugar and cinnamon and listened to the cuentos, the old stories of the people. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my youth in the Transkei, I listened to the ciders of my tribe telling stories of the old days. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like the story of the mouse pulling a thorn from the paw of the lion. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

In Washington later that day, a judge barred the Washington Post from printing any more Pentagon Papers stories until the court could rule on the government’s case against the paper. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

As the story got really scary, everyone would squeeze in closer. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Nancy’s story was published, it felt as if the entire world had read it and then decided to call Room 203. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Why, Luke, you know the story. It was right before you were born, wasn't it? I’d always been special, able to see through the . . . what- ever-they-call-it.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

A story was something you made up out of something that might have happened. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so you agree—you walk with the stranger along the hot, dusty roads, picking up other recruits, who hear the same story. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t told a story for a long time—not since Mother’s picture burned up. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Normally Grandpa would of come up with a joke or a story then, but he kept looking towards the kitchen. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Remember when I told you the story of Beatrix,” she said, “the nun who ran away from her convent? Remember how the Virgin Mary stood in for her?” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The story wasn’t finished yet, but she ran it through as well as she could. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I mean, I knew that. Everyone talks about it. I only barely remember him telling stories, though. Like when we were really little, he used to.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Heard all them stories my dad used to tell, about five-hundred-pound fish flying ten feet into air, like they were launched from a cannon. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if he really had tumbled headfirst into a book of fairy stories, and all he wanted to do was share it with Blink. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“The date wasn’t wrong, I just think that if the universe is setting us up here that our story deserves a more epic first date,” I say. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Let me tell you a story about one little phrase in the music of life on Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A true story,” said Slant in teasing tones. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He would be safe in their house on Dart Street, he figured, far from any levees, with two stories, plenty of tools, and food. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Worm looked uncomfortable but didn’t dispute the story. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Our top story: A student rally turned violent earlier today at Midtown School of the Arts,” the newscaster says. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The quick version of this story is useless. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

But once Captain Smith begins his story, I don’t give the gentlemen another thought. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

When he was reached by phone, he told his side of the story. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He locks the flat door, and then hears a different story: about German planes destroyed by the Russians, sunken transport ships, and soldiers killed or captured. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

But this time it seemed she didn't want to tell him a story, although he had never needed one so badly. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He thought he liked the David and Joseph stories best of all. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told her the story of the Serpent King. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“I won’t tell Mother and Daddy, if you tell me the whole story.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They knew he was lying, Emenike who made up stories of rich parents that everyone knew he didn’t have, so immersed in his need to invent a life that was not his. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Tom Buchanan could be a Duke lacrosse player, Gatsby a Wall Street derivatives dealer whose life story unravels at the same time his deals do. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The homemade biscuits she’d make from scratch, while telling us great stories of when we were kings and queens ruling the lands, running free. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was the story as she saw it: Richard did well when he was confined and poorly when he wasn’t. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

We had heard stories of the faraway land below the mountains where the air was always hot and thick with water. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Once again, the data can tell the story. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

And after the long Thanksgiving weekend, Cara had her mom drop her off at school early so she could show the story to Mr. Larson before school. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

You speak for us; take our stories and let them know what is happening here. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pa’s story was a familiar one to any miner’s family: the coal dust ate up his lungs. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

This is the story of the Battle of Gettysburg, told from the viewpoints of Robert E. Lee and James Longstreet and some of the other men who fought there. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began to feel like I was getting the whole story for the first time, that I was being handed the missing pieces to the puzzle, and the world was making a little more sense. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, you just told me what happened at the post office, but I want the whole story.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

But thinking of Halloween reminded me of a funny story from when I was in fifth grade. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“See what I did? If you fold it like this you can follow a story that starts on the front page and finishes on an inside page. Would you like to try?” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“When I was a girl—I could tell you stories maybe you wouldn’t believe.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

On most nights, the people stayed at the site long after this gendarme had gone and told stories to one another beneath the big blank screen. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

There were racks loaded with mysteries, Newbery winners, historical fiction, biographies, and short stories. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Then we played a game where we made up life stories for the people sitting around us. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Anyway, it’s such a long story, and we are currently on vacation, so we’re just going to leave you with this video and a PowerPoint presentation. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

It had these very funny, crazy plays in it, and then it had this one story about a traffic cop that falls in love with this very cute girl that's always speeding. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Is this whole story some kind of joke to justify your difficulty with math?” asks my mother with a frown. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

It was strange to think that one day I might have my own stack of yellowed photos to show skeptical grandchildren—and my own fantastic stories to share. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She had even written her own children’s stories to use in the classes. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

End of story—at least if it’s a story about attempting to match earnings to rent. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That was cool. I want to be a writer, too. And a ballet dancer. I’m going to write stories and make ballets about them.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

But she stuck to her story and since there was no other explanation, people had to accept it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

You tell the story; you don't look for the camera technician to tell the story for you. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would tell me this story over and over, that my mother was just a baby herself when she had me. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There is a space, as we wait to see if the story will continue. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Her book had only one story and the one on the table had close to ten. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Jews resisted the bleak surroundings by sharing their hopes and dreams and stories with one another, as Mr. Luftig did with me. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

We set down a rule: Every aisle has to have a story. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Newspapers covered the story of the suffragists day after day. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Then, he just sums up, “I’d love to answer your questions. I’m very open about my story. Nothing crosses the line with me.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I wondered how I would escape if I was in a story. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“A story about how humans are frightened of death. If surviving was as simple as hiding under the Invisibility Cloak, we’d have everything we need already!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The story described the Coca-Cola truck driver who, distracted by the computer he used to get his delivery orders, killed a seven-year-old in the backseat of an oncoming truck. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The second story of the building was more of an attic; the entire floor was one open room, but it was a nice one. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

And after I was done, I would run around the wood with them, all of us acting out the story I had just read while Gram watched and laughed. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

In the story, God tests Job’s faith by killing his wife and his children and his servants, destroying his house, his animals, and all his possessions. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“It is unconscionable,” Kissinger said of the Pentagon Papers story. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Some of our lot are suggesting a story from somebody. We’re hoping one of your people would like to tell one, but we can begin ourselves, if you’d prefer.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The story of Father’s work, the work of so many others, spelled out on our walls. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Considered by many to be one of the best military autobiographies in history, Grant’s life story was a bestseller. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh my God, what if your first kiss had been here, like that, all forced and crazy. What a story you’d have for your first kiss!” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

That’s her favorite story cause when I tell it, she get two presents. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It is much easier writing about me in the third person than it would be if I tried to tell the story from my own point of view. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Komla knew every story, every proverb, every bit of tribal history ever told or sung or drummed by her people. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Don't they know about the horror stories we imagine to explain the secrets? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In a story traced back to 1150 AD, a husband forces a wife to eat her dead lover’s heart out of fury and revenge. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He could spin stories out of thin air faster than a spider spins its web. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Oh! What a wonderful story!” the French host said, her palm placed dramatically on her chest, looking around the table, as though to seek a response. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

There’s an inconsistency, a ghost in this story. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She smiled and said I could, saying, “Thank you for sharing that story with the class. Now they know, good things come from Greece.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

I remember Mitchell Sanders smiling as he told me that story. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, as stories so often show, what elders say youth disregards. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was large, three stories, which gave him plenty of things to get into and out of. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

One time, when I was telling him a story, his wife overheard us. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“But how often does stuff like this happen? Why would we want to come up with our own story when we could use something real? Something interesting and cool and different.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Why had he been given this useless ability to absorb the meaning of words, sentences, stories, books? Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Our story ends in the sky, where a robot was being whisked away from the only home she had ever known. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Even I knew that a dictionary didn’t have stories. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“But—” Fina says, “I mean, why did you write the story?” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He already knew the first time he saw Dimple’s picture that their story would become a sort of legend, just like Ma beating Pappa with that umbrella. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

That journal held Eddie’s humor, his silly jokes, his stories, his dreams. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I turned the pages slowly to make the story last, but my thoughts kept straying to my brother. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

And before he could bite it back, he heard himself say, “I can tell stories. I know a lot of stories,” before faltering into a painful silence. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

An extended possibility is to create a story, miming movements that reflect a steady beat while telling a simple narrative. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

When I drive Gramps around in his truck, I also tell him all the stories my mother told me. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I have heard others’ stories and recorded them in these pages; there is no need to animadvert to my own. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Stories could do that, but this wasn’t a story. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I really don’t want to finish this story. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“We have awhile yet to wait, that should be plenty of time to exchange stories.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I want to tell you a story about dreams,” said the alchemist. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” said Miss Franny, “maybe you wouldn’t mind waiting. I am telling India Opal a story about my great-grandfather. You are, of course, more than welcome to listen. It will be just one minute.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Is there anything as incredible as the love story of your own parents? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They did not yet realize that my story had traveled all around the world and that people were calling for me to be sent abroad for treatment. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Could this mix of motivation also affect the stories they tell? Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I had retreated, fled across an ocean and allowed my father to tell my story for me, to define me to everyone I had ever known. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She then told this one story about how she heard there was a sorority that made the new girls stand in their underwear while they circled their “fat” in red magic markers. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I would write a chapter over the weekend, and when I went home for the week, Gram would read what I had written and write the next chapter, until we finished the whole story together. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I arrange my face in the middle of the book, my hair spread like seaweed floating in the current of the story that sweeps me under and away to sleep. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

“From the story, the monstruo from the ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ story. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry. We just like to bluster. If you spoiled our wine, that would be another story.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I hear the stink bomb of a story. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t fathom his interest, but he continued to stare at me with penetrating eyes, as if my dull life’s story was somehow vitally important. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

When I tell this story to Mrs. Miller’s class, I don’t do the talking parts. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I remembered how those stories got you so excited and mad and worked up that you wanted to charge down into America and free all the slaves. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“We opened the door,” I went on relentlessly, spinning the lie as I talked, speeding up the story. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Why do I need to know this story?” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“The real story is dead boring. I grew up in London with me mum and dad, sister, brother, and a parakeet named Benny Hill.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he regrets having ever told Moushumi; he wonders whether she’ll proclaim the story of his father’s accident to the table as well. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Fred Gray had deliberately saved her for last, for her story was the most powerful. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Her nerves wouldn’t let her sleep, so she decided to tell Mother a story. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ranks included a carpenter and furniture-maker named Elias Disney, who in coming years would tell many stories about the construction of this magical realm beside the lake. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Nobody’s ever written a story about me before.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

And I'd let D.B. come out and visit me for a while if he wanted a nice, quiet place for his writing, but he couldn't write any movies in my cabin, only stories and books. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He told Percy stories about Bear and Raven, the Inuit gods, and all Percy could think was that he hoped he didn’t meet them. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

"Child," said the Voice, "I am telling you your story, not hers. I tell no-one any story but his own." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

And then they began to tell their story. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Women walk up to them, wearing flat slippers and telling slow stories of no consequence. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Over the next few weeks, Debbie would periodically type Sasha’s name into Google to see how the story was being covered around the world. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Even so, what was the point of this story? The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

We all knew the story of how the Virgin had presented herself to the little Indian boy in Mexico and about the miracles she had wrought. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They’ve told me all the same stories, and I complained to the department, yet nobody would listen.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Now imagine reading a nonfiction book packed with stories such as this—true tales soberly related—just before setting off alone on a camping trip of your own into the North American wilderness. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I see no reason why an interesting story cannot be made of it without using her name,” TeLinde replied. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Jam was fascinated by them, by the stories the teachers told in history class. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Slowly, I recognize a line from a story I used to read in the library, the one about a boy who got in trouble and was sent to his room without dinner. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Come home with lots of exciting stories but not too exciting because I don’t want anything scary to happen to you good-bye!” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

On the way home in the van, Annette told me the whole arm story. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But whatever. I’m the director, but I guess I don’t get to have an opinion. What should our story be about, then?” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Exactly what kind a stories you think you gone hear?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

You watch, listen to the stories the women tell each other, the way their gossip lifts up into the wind and moves through this land. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Marti once heard a story "about a bug embedded into the sole of an officer's shoe when he sent them to the local cobbler. So," she added, "no one had shoes resoled in Moscow." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I feared now to hear my own story. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The story described the supposedly secret American bombing raids in Cambodia. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Milla’s story is beautiful and tragic, but there are other messages to deliver. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The Infirmary was only two stories, small ones. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Don’t talk to me like you know the whole story,” I tell Hannah. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I could steal from a hundred stories and tell you a lie so familiar you would swallow it whole. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Great. This story was all promising with the beautiful girl who has a crush on me and the mystery and the intrigue, and then I get whacked.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

But Father Martin made me understand that the stories that came before it—and there were many—were simply pro­logue to the Christians. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“When I discovered the Poe manuscript, an idea clicked for me. I had long been a fan of Poe’s short story ‘The Gold-Bug’ and thought it would be fun to emulate the treasure hunt. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The story was supposed to be a secret, but of course that meant it had spread like wildfire across the camp. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Yesterday—sensible, clearheaded, right-thinking—I decided I must accept that my part in this story was over. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because you’re like a story that hasn’t happened yet. Because I want to see what you will do. I want to be part of the unfolding of the tale.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think I know a lot of their stories. But I do know they lived through the Korean War.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Florence’s mother had known this story, so it seemed, from the day that she was born. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The whispering stopped, and Mrs. Deopolis said, “Since it is a part of your defense, you have the right to read the story into the record, Mr. Larson.” The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

For some odd reason, these stories of fighting and misbehaving made her excited. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

For a longtime we just sit there, and I pretend to be listening to an Amity girl telling a story on my left. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Short stories, so far. But I’m working on a novel.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Kim finishes telling us his story and still he does not cry. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that I knew how the story came out, I could concentrate better on my task. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe that Hawthorne story was getting to me, I don’t know. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The story said that random urine tests had shown that 21 percent of Sing Sing inmates were on drugs, compared to a statewide prison average of 6 percent. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in their adolescent days during summer visits, the four girls used to shock their Island cousins with stories of their escapades in the States. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

How many times had he told me this story? Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I got to school on time every day, got my stories read to me every night, and the three of us waited and hoped and prayed. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“But, one time, he told me a story about how Grandma loved the snow.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

But some were sad human stories, like what can happen to you when your parents are not there. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a story there, but I didn’t dare come right out and ask who the father was. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They speak with the ease of people who have known each other for years, and the excitement of new friends with new stories. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I thought about one of the stories my uncle liked to tell me. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Not even the chronology is described in conventional language: the century is an aging person, a contemporary of the story’s protagonists. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

She stacked them with the Poe collection of stories on top. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was a story of how the outliers in a particular field reached their lofty status through a combination of ability, opportunity, and utterly arbitrary advantage. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Baby was with the younger children, crowded near the banana trees, listening to Papa Oji telling a story of how he shot down an enemy plane in Calabar with his pistol. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“He talked to it gentle,” the story went, “like a woman talkin’ to a young ’un.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were giants—five and six stories high and as long as the length of a large pasture. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to be telling this story. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way he asked reminded me of the way a kid would ask for the end of a bedtime story. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“The war isn’t my story to tell, really.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Everything's closed now, and the tourists who flood the wide sidewalks during the day have gone back to their hotels, towering fifty stories above us. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

The story was just getting bigger and bigger. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And to explain the sensation I have to tell you another story. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Sir Ott,” I would say, because I wanted her to go on with the story. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

After all, he knows his name has been in the papers—he must be alert to the possibility of people trying to get stories on him or information from him. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

With each reading each book took on new life, exposed new angles to the story, with the result that I was never bored. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Part of the story that Axel hadn’t known. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Do you really have any idea how you might be able to read Dustfinger back into his story? Or were you making it up?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I thought she was thinking about a story to tell. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Werner says, “Did you ever hear the stories they told about you?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Everywhere else in northwestern Europe the early records, the traditions, the songs and stories, were obliterated by the priests of Christianity, who felt a bitter hatred for the paganism they had come to destroy. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were not supposed to wonder what kind of husband was this Joakim, who would kill his own lovely wife rather than listen to her side of the story. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I fall behind in school," my mom explains, continuing the story. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The time seemed just right to ask Nokomis for a story. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

And humans will accept any story, however outlandish, when there’s something in it for them. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

This story is told in full only by Ovid. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dorm sports results, soap opera story lines, city politics. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I do not know that story,” the stonecutter said. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The greyhound yawned, her tongue rising like a hill in her mouth, then shook herself, sat down, and looked at Jeanne as if she, too, wanted to hear the story. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

But her house is not a bungalow, it has two stories. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I pictured this bird looking down from the branches to say, "You want me to do what?" before flying off, laughing at the foolish story he now had to tell his friends. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

As the squadron, in the demon pass of jets, edged offshore high above the green blaze of ocean, Lillian watched and listened from her second story veranda. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guard was more interested in rice pudding than my patchwork story. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was so much left unsaid in her story, that we saw playing in her eyes, as she spoke only part of it. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

But her pride and joy were the Nick Carter detective stories, with a dead body on almost every page, as she boasted. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe Mom will get to write about poultry shows too one day, and she’ll take me with her when she goes to cover the story, like she used to sometimes. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

But there are a surprising number of good stories too. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

There would be no treats, no back rides, no truck rides, and no after-dinner stories about treasures without him. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Black success stories lend credence to the notion that anyone, no matter how poor or how black you may be, can make it to the top, if only you try hard enough. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In many cases a true war story cannot be believed. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Since you’re a man of God, I’m going to tell you a story, confess some sins.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Even without both grandmas here today, I know the Dawson story by heart. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next evening, after my grandmother had given me my bath, she took me once again into the living-room for another story. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s been a very long time since we heard new stories,” he said. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Oh, she loved to write short stories. Little romantic stories. She wouldn’t let anybody read them. But she’d always be scribbling in her notebook.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t give up,” Petra whispered in her dream, and as if the story- frog heard her, it came upon a large acorn covered in vines. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He thought every good story should end with a big, exciting chase. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

How do you write of one who tells you more stories than you need to know? Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's an old story and there's been too much blood to excite you. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The stories about you tend to focus on...other aspects of love." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She passes the time by thinking about who these people might be and what their stories are. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

And he had everybody hooked and laughing at his stories about the good old days. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was like all those terrifying stories she’d heard about Hopkins her whole life were suddenly true, and happening to her. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In the days Before, I would have written something—a short story or a blog post or just random thoughts. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Why do you leave out the parts of your story that could rile up an audience? Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

All the others were too absorbed in the story. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Presently he came across an inner-page story that won his entire attention. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

For her whole life, Nicole had been playing a part in a story shaped by everyone from her mother to her friends, even to her beloved auntie. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

It seemed like a stupid thing to ask, but the gumshoes in detective stories were always trying to get suspects to talk so they could figure out what to do next. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Carter’s wounds ensured that the stories were taken half seriously, but not much more than half. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Audrey couldn’t stop smiling the whole time she recounted her story. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It’s also a story I’m telling, in my head, as I go along. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yesterday, she shared a turkey sandwich in the inn’s office with Robin and Jessa, who was visiting for the next couple of weeks, and told them the whole story. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

You didn’t steal someone else’s story and pretend it was yours. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Tell me your story,” he repeated, crushing a flake of ash on the neatly arranged desk with his index finger, flicking it into the trash can. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I have heard many stories about you, you know,” the stonecutter said. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

A skilled writer can interleave multiple story lines, or deliberately manipulate suspense and surprise, or engage the reader with a chain of associations, each topic shunting the reader to the next. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“How could there have been stories about space travel before—” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

My dad...he wanted to start his own business, another one of those birthday stories. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Without confidence in the possibility of moving up, there would almost certainly be fewer success stories. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

These folks have told me some of the funniest, saddest, and most thought-provoking stories Eve ever heard. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

His stories—he's told me pieces, mostly the good parts, as I've told him. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“She has exactly the same nickname in my story. How amazing. Be careful of her. She’s not a very pleasant character.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In fact, there were several newspaper stories, including one in the Washington paper, but I didn’t read a single one. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

King Loft men, who also knew tile odds, spent the night dancing, drinking, dicing and telling each other dirty stories. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was like the witch in the story. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Jahrling went home for dinner with his family, but after he had read his children their stories and put them to bed, he returned to the Institute and worked until late. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He talked about himself with an uncluttered simplicity, assuming that she enjoyed his stories simply because he enjoyed them himself. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He imagines his father, in his twenties as Gogol is now, sitting on a train as Gogol had just been, reading a story, and then suddenly nearly killed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You could make up stories, too, you know.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

When the family talked about his artistic endeavors, the stories went to his temper, not his talent. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It was in this setting that the evening’s entertainment would take place, a musical version of Cinderella, the most popular story ever told. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The first interviewee is... eager to tell her story.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

And high rates of immigration and immigrant success stories seem to hammer home the point: The rules of advancement have changed. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

With a few notable exceptions, most of the stories were thinly veiled accounts of the author's life as he or she attempted to complete the assignment. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He starts to tell me a story about Mom telling him to stop making Japanese food because it “made the house smell awful,” but he seems to change his mind before he says too much. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“The way the night stars help us when we're lost and tell all sorts of different stories?” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The story of the bed-wetting makes an impression. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever he told a story, he would gesture for emphasis, and now was no exception. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Amphion’s story, and Niobe’s, I have taken from Ovid, who alone tells them in full. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The story said that the man pulled his body away from the window to show an armless sleeve. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s always the same story but it happens a thousand different ways. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

According to Aunt Nancy’s stories, Byrd and Frank and Axel and Emmett and George and even Ray were all “one big happy.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“His stories are nearly always set in this region,” Elinor went on, “but I believe he lived abroad for a long time and moved back here only a few years ago.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

For many black South Africans, the story of the war was that there was someone called Hitler and he was the reason the Allies were losing the war. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Ma’s hand would always quit moving at this part of the story. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Last year, we learned about novels and short stories and plays. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The story told at bedtime, whether in Chicago or Alabama, the Golden Crescent or MidPass. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“It was in a story. About how the Witch ate a tiger’s heart. They all whisper it. It’s wrong, of course. You don’t have a tiger’s heart. You have no heart at all.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She explained that fillers are little items that are not considered important enough to he a story or to have a headline. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Anyone could see me, and I don’t have a good story to tell if they do. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The stories still persisted—every now and then, someone would swear on whatever god they put faith in that they had seen a dragon in the river—but dragons were extinct. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I told him the story, but he shrugged. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the evenings, after he had finished his supper of watery cabbage soup, Charlie always went into the room of his four grandparents to listen to their stories, and then afterwards to say good night. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Instead I found a small, budding excitement at the thought of hearing a story my father would have sought out. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“And as for telling whoppers, there probably never was your like. You tell some mean stories about dragons.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A story’s a story,” said Emma, “and now it’s time for bed.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

When Maribel was finished, I said, “Now you need to write down words that describe how Yu Li was feeling in the story.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Reporters seeking a great story sought to uncover the final act of Booth’s life: the disposal of the assassin’s remains. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But perhaps instinctively he did not tell those stories close to each other. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

While she cooked up the food—the aroma of onions, peppers, and garlic overpowering the stench of Grandpop’s liquor—Grandpop cooked up a few stories. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She asked, “Which story did you like the best?” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

On September 10, three days before news of the dead hiker appeared in the Times, the story was published on the front page of the Anchorage Daily News. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone kept asking him when the next part of the story was going to be published. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I think I’ve figured out the story problems,” she says this particular afternoon. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Resting in the Del Mar Hotel, Howard saw the Sun story and exploded. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As the story goes, the captain was the only man to ever get her out of those diamonds. She turned to dust as soon as he’d unhooked it.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I sighed, worried now that the story was coming out like this, so tangled up that I thought I might trip on it. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I had the feeling that I was an old story somewhere beyond the foot of the mountain. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t listen to any of them, any of the stories. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

You have achieved it with your first story. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even though Lyddie’s head was still choked with lint and battered with noise, she struggled to get the sense of the story. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I’m reminded of a news story, early in my editing career in Iowa, about a Pioneer Days celebration, complete with covered wagons and costumed “settlers.” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a long story. Ask Lena about it sometime; I believe she knows the tale.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I have also enjoyed going around the country and globe speaking to people about these stories—and then hearing back from all kinds of audiences about the Weses they’ve known, or even been themselves. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Yes, Johnson and McNamara were telling Congress and the public only part of the story of recent events in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When Francie first saw it, it was only up to the second story. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reporters from far-flung cities wired the same observation back to their editors, and stories of delight and awe began to percolate through the most remote towns. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Claudia spoke softly to Jamie, “You sure are a fast thinker. Where did you cook up that story about the furnace?” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I, too, have developed a liking for these stories,” I confessed, “for it pleases me to read of clever women who find love.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I kiss him and then take his hand and pass him another story I’ve written out in tiny print. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Maybe the story came from some part of me that wished I knew more, or at least had actual memories instead of feelings that may have only been inventions. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I flip through the pages, looking at cartoon after cartoon of our story, the colors jumping out at me. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

When they’re finally asleep—thankfully Frank’s angry news program works even better than a story tonight—I carry them one at a time from the couch into their bed. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The characters in the stories she read always seemed to go off without a thought or care, but in real life—well, the world was a dangerous place. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What happened to the King in the end?” asked the child, when the story seemed to have dried up. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

My gran still tells the story of when I was three years old and, fed up with being a prisoner, I dug a hole under the gate in the driveway, wriggled through, and ran off. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“And you asking me for a story, whateffer, with his reverence here among the ashes!” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shalimar left his, but it was the children who sang about it and kept the story of his leaving alive. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kitchen was in a rundown apartment in a clapboard house near the river, the kind with three stories and a rickety outside back staircase. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spent the whole evening absorbed in thought, ruminating on the story of the fox and the hens, and perhaps that was the night the boy began to become a man. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even so, I’m surprised when I hear myself using the library voice—when I hear myself telling the story for the first time. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time she left off all the divining gyrations and jingle-jangle antics and just started her story, plain and simple. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Trixie didn’t believe that story about the science project,” I tell her. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many American newspapers carried the story, praising the brave commanding woman who’d flown for the Soviet Union, allied with the United States against the Nazis. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

That was the part of the story I had problems with, too. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Hamilton was a musical celebration of America’s history and diversity, recasting our understanding of the roles minorities play in our national story, highlighting the importance of women who’d long been overshadowed by powerful men. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She would never have heard Vivian’s story, with all its resonance to her own. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Aunty Uju sounded defiant, even petulant, clenching her fist tightly around her own story. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

And then turned to other, even more familiar stories. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed so obvious now that it was too late: a story was a form of telepathy. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Aru always liked lying down in the panorama theater where it was cold and dark and silent, watching the stories of the gods and goddesses rotate around her. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The story had circulated all over the world, and mail, telegrams and telephone calls poured in. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'd tell you the rest of the story, but I might puke if I did. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“You know what the worst part of that story is?” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Over seven tapes and thirteen stories, her voice was kept at a slight distance by this steady hum in the background. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Duntz’s story concerned a father and son who shall here be known as John Senior and John Junior. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the story goes, when he was done birds flew down and pecked away the outlines—a development that gave Alexander pause, until someone suggested that it augured well for the town’s prosperity. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

I invent a story about her life and pretend I'm telling Madeleine. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Modern languages tell essentially the same story but add detail. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She tried to explain it to me afterwards, to tell me that the things in it had really happened, but to me it was only a story. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay. Um. You didn’t want me to look for him, so...that is the whole story.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I shouldn't leave, not without knowing more of the story. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The houses on the street were large by Baltimore standards, two stories with small front yards. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I cried, sitting by her bed, and I told her the story of us. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he had until early the next morning to gather the stories McNamara wanted. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He’d always answer them, tell her stories attached to the answer, pull out books and send her home with some, and it would always be Jam’s favorite part of the day. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Every night Mirabelle McCullough—or May Ling Chow, as some pointedly chose to call her—was a featured story on the evening news, always accompanied by photographs. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Charles stood at the bar in the village inn and Charles was laughing delightedly at the funny stories the night-stranded drummers were telling. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

During the day at the looms, she went over in her head the bits of the story that she had puzzled out the night before. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

In all the stories the little boy died at three of a summer chill, but Old Nan stayed on at Winterfell with her own children. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The fall did not halt the human story in western South America. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He always got happy talking about the good ol’ days, even though most of his stories ended with people getting messed up. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Knowing how the story always went, Celaena lifted the candle to the arches above the portals, looking for any inscriptions regarding the sure death that would meet her if she walked beneath a specific arch. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

But he’s not an outlier for the reasons you might think, and the story of his rise provides a blueprint for understanding success in his profession. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“He busted into the joint and started making demands about his girlfriend, so I straightened him out before the others could. But had I not been around, this story doesn’t end so happily.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe that is why Violet is a hairdresser—all those years of listening to her rescuing grandmother, True Belle, tell Baltimore stories. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t say anything for a long minute, waiting for her to finish the story. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

That was similar to “The Gold-Bug” story and what they had guessed the game would be. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

In the back room a young innkeeper stood out of sight behind the door, smiling as he listened to the details of a familiar story. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I figured she was going to tell me a story about some lady in her knitting group or something, but she said, “I found that note.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Then she asked Mary to tell the story about seeing her mother’s red toenails during the autopsy—the one Deborah had read in Gold’s book. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

They are no longer telling one story together. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

She has a story to tell at dinner parties. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Can we go now?" she asks when I finish my story. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I became a popular dinner guest, with my stories of hunting and horses, of scrapping and fighting mountain fires. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Oh! Jane,” cried Elizabeth, “was there a servant belonging to it who did not know the whole story before the end of the day?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

These success stories reinforce perceptions of mobility, as does cultural mythmaking in the form of television programs like American Idol and The Apprentice. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Ellsberg knew the story, so there was no single item he found shocking. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

All this talk about two stories makes me think of my dad. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear was no longer lying down; he had risen to his knees in the excitement of the story. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

But there is a new part of my story now. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

She was only two stories up, but a fall could still mean broken legs, and broken legs would mean that she was just as trapped as she’d been before. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

When I was telling Phoebe’s story to Gram and Gramps, I did not say much about my father. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Okay, this is the story of how my Lionheart mom got a Death Warrant on her head and had Nowhere to Run for a while. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

When I was finally allowed to read it, I very well knew this was no simple tale of rafting down a river but the everlasting story of America itself, with all our glory and shame. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“And if I tell you this story, you will give me the circus?” he asks. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The demons kept us locked inside a long, two- story warehouse for a week before it was our turn to be questioned. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this point there is a break in the story. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Then men tell true," answered the poet, "for that is how Heorot is by day. But by night it's a different story. After darkfall the hall stands abandoned. None dare go there." Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here comes the story,” I say, tapping the polka dots on the knees of her pajama onesie. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

I also told them the story behind the Moneekrom family I had made up. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

And when Mrs. Chatham finished her story, Nick’s mom was the first one to speak. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except, I could imagine him sitting between Mom and Nana, kicking me under the table as my brother unleashed his most embarrassing stories about me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The story of the African boy went that after he came aboard, he helped out on deck with various small tasks, a kind of apprentice. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Musa had grown popular among the boys and would always end the night with a different story. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It went faster that way, and the story developed surprising twists and turns. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But there’s a Sufi story that challenges the notion that people believe only because they need an opiate. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“So we need your help,” Hazel finished her story. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

And only in a story could you enter these different minds and show how they had an equal value. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Tell me about Peeby. Tell me that story, but don’t make it too awfully sad.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The opposing view, called the ‘Replacement Theory’ tells a very different story—one of incompatibility, revulsion, and perhaps even genocide. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Morrison, coming home, would tell of the day and get listened to, and he would try to retell the drummer’s stories—some of them at least. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was so old, it was written long before librex and story generators even came along. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The story of how Tyler decided to leave the mountain is a strange one, full of gaps and twists. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She could find descriptions of phenomena in ancient writings—the Green Phoenix stories, “The Seven Strange Tales of the Golden Bottle,” “What Confucius Did Not Talk About.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He even teased Old Tallow, but he loved giving her little gifts, too, and in the evenings he told stories until way after the owls began to call. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

What had she been thinking, that he would whistle up a winged horse and fly her out of here, like some hero in the stories she and Sansa used to love? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The story of how he had come by the vase was told in one of the last letters the young lieutenant wrote home. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I thought of the doddering old war veterans who sat along the gallery in front of the cotton gin and spat their tobacco and bored everybody with the same stories they’d been telling for decades. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He asked P. D. how the voting situation was in Mississippi and P. D. told the story of the Negro who went to register. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The voice of the wind in the pines reminded him of one of the stories his mother had told him about King David. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know all the stories too. We can figure it out ourselves.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She had heard stories about the cruelties of slavery from the older black people around Martinsburg, West Virginia. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

It’s three stories of towering stone, peaked roofs, and ginormous windows. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

The story was good—they had told it right and straight. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sat for hours under that tree, sat there until the sun faded in the west, and still Hassan insisted we had enough daylight for one more story, one more chapter. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even though Sean had warned him, he couldn’t stop the words from spilling out: “Speaking of stories, how did you get to America? Where were you before you came to Bone Gap?” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The boy cried “Gosh!” and “Sweet mother!” at every complication in her story, tucking his thumbs into the pockets of his overalls and rocking on his heels. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Pearl had told him most of Bebe’s story, and Moody, as in all things, was on Pearl’s side. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He tapped the side of his nose with a finger like an old gaffer telling a story. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

‘Marcus’s mum is outside in a squad car, with another officer, waiting. She wanted you to hear his story too. When he’s done, we’ll take them home.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then it was Emma’s turn, but she had no interest in telling her story. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Lying in bed at night, I made up elaborate stories to bring Linda alive in my sleep. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

What stories they have to tell about their adventures with the chimpanzees. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Every single story about guards seems to reinforce the brutal stereotype. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy had come to him by way of Calpurnia, told him his story, and had told him the truth. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Particular places might hold spiritual or religious significance for any Indigenous nation, such as a place mentioned in an origin story or where ancestors are buried. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Even if he repeated the story, it couldn't do me much harm. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She had written three such stories which were marked "C” instead of the usual "A.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This might be new for you, but they never go out of style. Trust me, I’ve got some stories.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Mirrors must have been expensive in the old days, so they made up that story to scare us.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Instead the Quetzalcoatl story first appears decades later. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

"Can we get on with the story? Nergal's in town, looking for the flower, and I teamed up with Ishtar and her daughter to stop him." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

We were kept on the bottom story, where we slept and ate off the floors. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Will the reader please take into consideration that this story was written before the writer’s fury had cooled? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I’ve remembered the stories that were my favorites, and sometimes I’ve even been able to remember the exact words an author wrote in some special scene. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I’d heard stories from all the young warriors who told me, “Wow, you know yesterday we chased this lion—” bragging about it. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That was quite an interesting story,” the emperor said, his voice dangerous. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

If we had, this wouldn’t be the beginning of the story. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She keeps repeating the story now with her eyes closed, her lips barely moving. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Even though I did not understand her entire story, I understood her grief. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was their mother’s favourite story, on the rare occasions when she troubled to tell them one, and they had learned it by heart. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked being told these stories, but it was odd hearing such personal information shouted rather than whispered. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It had started on the back porch when the story of my mother had collapsed, like the ground under my feet giving way. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother had had the people read her the story from their newspapers when she carried the laundry. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Desdemona recalled her mother telling stories about strange infants born in the village. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He had believed in the stories for a long time, until the teachers at Indian school taught him not to believe in that kind of “nonsense.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Clayton hoped to hear funny stories about his grandfather as a kid, or as a young musician during his “Mr. Louisiana Hot Lick” days, or of his days at sea in the navy. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Jefferson regretted to inform Adams that the story was untrue; he had not compiled a collection of the libels against himself. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Her story, like a number of others, shows how strongly the ancient Greeks disapproved of destroying or injuring a tree. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

H. G. Wells’s literary agent told the press that he never authorized changes to the original story that could cause such alarm. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

My TV is off, so while we wait for the new neighbor, I ask Stella to tell us a story. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Roy hadn’t thought of that detail when he was cooking up the phony story. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the old days, he thought, a man looked at a girl’s body and saw that it was desirable, and that was the end of the story. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“If you’re going to tell a story, there’s only one I want,” he went on. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Januka tells this like a horror story, the kind you scare your friends with in the middle of the night. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Come, Storyteller’s granddaughter! Do you have a story to share?” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Sheehan and Smith worked in adjoining rooms, each reading documents and typing stories as fast as he could. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They used to make up stories all the time. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In 1975, when my story ends, dwindling oil supplies again had people worried. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But it was the kind of story that doesn’t go away after the first time you tell it so you have to tell it over and over until it goes away for good. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d read a story in one of the old books in the attic about a bunch of kids finding a deserted pirate ship, and then a skeleton in one of the rooms. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The very gods themselves will sing her story for men on earth—mistress of her own heart, Penelope! The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She will be unable to piece together a coherent story of the trauma. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“That is a very old, very interesting story. Would you like me to read it to you?” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The story follows a guy named Rick Deckard, played by Harrison Ford. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Anyway, the reason I’m bringing this up is because the more we looked for Gordy Johnson, the more I started realizing that this story might not have a happy ending. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Frank was Frith all over again, giving his version of the story, as though it mattered, as though we cared. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The story of his great-grandfather, the samurai madman, was his own story, too, he saw now. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“We could take the world by storm, you know? It’ll be like we proved ourselves, like all those heroes’ journey stories about boys, only we’re girls.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

When Special Agent Gonzales continued to question us, we all followed Abuelita’s advice and stuck to the more realistic part of our story. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The Beecher-Tilton story was based on gossip spread in part by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Naomi had shown it to them on Christmas Day when she’d told them the story of how it’d been a prize for a dance-off that their mother had won on her birthday. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I—I thought maybe you might have a book on them Greek stories about nymphs and such.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The daily newspapers provided stories, but they didn't yet have the technology to print photographs. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He played with the little ones and read them stories and taught them things. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I would much rather it was forgotten. The story will only get repeated and exaggerated.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I recall one story my mother told us about a traveler who was approached by an old woman with terrible cataracts on her eyes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We will have visitors at our meet this afternoon. Channel Seven is sending a local news crew out to do a story on the team, and on Jessica.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

But the way she told her news stories was always designed to create a stir and get a reaction, and she was never disappointed. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

“He didn’t know who she was!” cried Sugar-Girl, breaking in to the story. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He was a funny horse,” said Francie after she heard the story. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

What you read shapes how you think about the world, whether it is history or story. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The local newspapers have actually done stories about us bringing Zlata here and how we’ve made monumental changes in our lives. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The story sounded ridiculous, but suddenly the piece of driftwood seemed more sinister, colder and heavier. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Ever since she joined Book Scavenger years ago and read all the stories shared on the forums about his San Francisco games, she’d hoped that somehow she’d get to participate in one in person. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Haint” was the word Gran had used in her stories to mean ghosts, or spirits of people and things that hadn’t moved on. from our world to the next. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She says, “Just go about it, Mason. Focus on the Dragon. Tell your story.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Yet some of Fabyan’s unlikely stories turned out to be true. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

A few days later, I Skyped with a producer named Kara, who went on about how she followed my career and wanted to know more about my life and story. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

When Dad came home that night, Mother told him the same story. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I reach into my drawer and pull out a purple folder where I drew some of the little monsters in the story. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

In any case, it is of little importance whether or not this story is true; the significant thing is, of course, what it reveals concerning my father's ideals. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, hearing the stories, remembering his own childhood, Matty was astounded. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

He’d pull the blanket to my chin, and I’d run my fingers down his gnarled knuckles and listen to stories about his job when he first came to America. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The New York Times ran a small story about the results, crammed in the back of the paper, on the obituary page. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But when she sang or told stories, her lips were rolled out, big and warm and soft. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had seen stories about this in the newspapers, and some of the men even joked with me about Winnie’s bellicosity. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On his way out, Rahim Khan hunkered before me and handed me my story and another folded piece of paper. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of the stories I'd heard all my life, the way Shaukat's jaw clenched at the mention of his name. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It is important to learn and know this history, but many people today lack that knowledge and understanding because of the way America’s story has been taught. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Something about the story, which seemed both unbelievable and perfectly understandable, all at once. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Pa Sesay, one of my friends’ grandfather, had told us many stories that night, but before he began telling the last story, he repeatedly said, “This is a very important story.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

And what she was asking for was not the kind of story that would lend anybody strength. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

In addition to the cold, her deep sense of unease was back, without the laughter and stories from earlier to chase it away. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She would call me into her room with the terrible stink and tell me stories. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was fascinated by the stories she heard told in that big bare room. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I spewed out the whole sorry story about how he’d run off and how I’d looked everywhere but I figured he’d rather be a stray than live with me. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

While the heavy-duty cleaners and scouring pad lifted the black from the white bathroom sink, Miss Patty Cake’s body was another story. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How do people normally go about relating their stories?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z