Everybody in this town is named Solomon, he thought wearily. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I washed, changed my shirt, and went out in the town. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I managed to stay upbeat when we explored the town and ate lunch together as a family. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The excruciating details of Worley will sound pretty much like the excruciating details of every small town they’ve been in so far. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

One morning the photographer gave Mudgett a broken block of wood and asked him to take it to the town wagon maker for a replacement. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

There were little Xs by all the fire alarm boxes around town. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I feel like skipping town,” I tell her. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I found a gym a few towns over in Springfield. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Then the man of the house played the accordion, fireworks were set off, and drums celebrated the event throughout the town. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

And whatever had Pa going to town on a Saturday didn’t please her any. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

I soon found it didn’t matter if I scrubbed like a gal from a one-cow town or if I gave up on Ivory soap and turned to stronger cleaners. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seven knew the Gran’s home was high above the town, but it looked even higher from inside. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

His mum had her own bread and cereal which she bought at a health-food shop in town and which Conor thankfully didn’t have to share. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Immediately to the east of Wall is a high grey rock wall, from which the town takes its name. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

When Plum was three years old, BoyBoy came back to town and paid her a visit. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

One of the few healthy businesses in town was the sad trade in divorces, handled quickly and easily in cold offices that had once been noisy saloons. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he drove, John told Mom and Lori about the area, about the duck farms and the flower farms and the Indian origin of our town’s name. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In hundreds of little towns and big cities from coast to coast, kids were using the new word, and parents and teachers were trying to stop it. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure, Tanaburi was a scrap of a town with one school and a tiny temple, but they still had to follow the same rules as everyone else. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

It was like someone had hit “reset” on the whole town. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

And all around the nervous towns of Mars a similar thing had happened. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ride back to town was not fast. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

A hail of arrows that were like dark rain sped from oncoming yeomen, dropping the sentries on the bridge and picking off men of the guard manning the wall of the town. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

The mill towns, with all respect, are knots of worms. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house, like every other in the town, had been looted. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They live one town over from us, and I was looking forward to dinner with them. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sam helped them rehearse as they walked to town. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I’d go away off to some big town, get a hundred dogs, and bring them all back with me. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew it was the kind of town where influential white people could find out anything they wanted. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they would show up for parades whenever they were in town, proud of their neighborhood celebrity. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, back then, I worked every lousy job in town, you name it. I was a jack-of-all-trades. I painted houses. I drove cab...” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

That trip opened my eyes to other ways of living beyond my small town. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

His paintings, and those of the other New Dealer artists, now hung in cafés and bars all around town. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have an idea it was in with some other old stuff Effie Wilcox threw away when the bank run her out of town.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

You don’t know what these towns are like, but you love what happens to the air when they open their lips and let the names ease out. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we married— if I married anybody from this town—these would be my friends, and I couldn’t think of a thing to say to them. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She says there is still a hill outside of town that Papa used to climb. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of Ernestine’s sheiks drove a motorcycle madly around town, and used to buzz our place three or four times a night in hopes of catching sight of her. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found a telephone directory in a filling station and he wrote the name of the town on their map with a pencil. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The business of the town, the shops and markets and streets, lively despite snow-flurries and zero temperature, seemed like a play, unreal, bewildering. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first burial and the best-attended one that was ever seen in the town, only surpassed, a century later, by Big Mama's funeral carnival. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

On Wednesday, however, I actually make it out onto the street and head across town. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

By next morning Grandpa had found a way to thumb his nose at the whole dang town, so pious and hypocritical: he started giving out invites to Sunday morning preachin’ at his house. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Why, Connor, what are you doing on the five thirty-five heading to town?” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That book in the library. By Dr. Eastman. He wrote it in Louisiana. Carville, Louisiana. How many leper colonies can there be in just one town?” she said. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Oh! Yeah. They got a sign up. I guess quite a few folks come to see it. It does the town some good.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

A week later it was Halloween, the leaves started falling, and it seemed like the town was going to quiet down. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you punks ever mess with my boy again,” Bull screamed, “they’ll find pieces of you all over town.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A memory of a town we had attacked during a school dance had been triggered. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She stepped up the pace as they got closer to town. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I start calling around to motels again, now ranging even farther out from the city, into the northern towns, the western towns, St. Paul. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I come into the living room and explain my plan, which is for us to drive around town and take small cuttings from interesting plants. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Then he set them to dig a great pit in the center of the town, fifteen feet wide and twenty feet deep. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Pretty soon we were about as comfy as you can get in a rundown ghost town in the middle of nowhere. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“I need to be out of town for a week.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

At noon they were in sight of the town. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

From a single smell a whole town arose. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

But then his uncle’s wife was a foolish woman, fat and lazy, and forever clamoring for sweet food and for this sort of thing and that and for new shoes bought in the town. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

If there were any valuables on the bodies, Momma and a couple of the men would sell them in town, bringing back something fine. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Every morning the world flung itself over and exposed the town to the sun. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Rose and me walked into my place after a long day stumbling around town. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Their main function is to prevent the town's children from going through the opening, into the meadow and beyond. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

She’d have no chance at her dream job as a reporter for their town newspaper, the Squawking Crow. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

In the afternoons he played pickup basketball at the Y, and then at night he drove around town in his father’s car, mostly alone, or with a six-pack of beer, cruising. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gauguin is, he says, “disheartened by the good town of Arles, by the little yellow house where we work, and above all by me.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When he takes his furs to town, he will not need to trade for much store sugar. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a desolate, cratered face, sooty with care like an abandoned mining town. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The street is almost like a museum, or a street in a model town constructed to show the way people used to live. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just the play over in town, where his youngest daughter was singing the lead. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Not more than an hour after the Gypsies passed through town, I saw Lightfoot walking the railroad tracks towards Mill Town. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

In front of them, across the meadow, on the other side of the gap in the wall, now guardless, was the town of Wall. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I needed information about the wedding and none of the people in town seemed likely to talk. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

God had made that, for the town to bend to evil ends. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She knew they were sort of outcasts in town, but this was more than that. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I left town to look for my family,” the old man said in a frightened voice, as he managed to catch his breath. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Or we would cut through the town cemetery on the way home from school so Tateh wouldn’t see us; we’d spend a lot of afternoons sitting on the headstones talking. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went around the side of the church where I knew the boys from town hung around until mass began. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Capracotta, he had told me, there were trout in the stream below the town. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

And so, thought Siddhartha, I enter this town under a lucky star. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Xan climbed up a rocky outcropping to catch a view of the town before her final descent. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It galled her when they started moving into that section of town, and she always said it was their fault that Welch had gone downhill. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She thinks of the wild old seamen who lived in this town, smugglers and pirates, sailing over the dark seas, winding their ships between ten thousand reefs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Once I come to, some free folks up in the logging town was tending to me. A man and his wife, mighty fine folk. Took good care of me and didn’t want nothing in return.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He had invented his business—the circuit route through the small towns, the short stay of each girl, the discipline, the percentages. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He displayed his wound, told him of his flight that day, how he had rowed across the river with the object of wandering into the town, and how the river had laughed. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally he sold his suit and helmet and pump and went on a hell of a drunk and then he left town. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began to imagine the entire town was some sort of bizarre experimental prison camp without walls—a punishment center where criminals were sentenced to living only with other criminals. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

That town didn’t have much going for it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I suggested town names, Radar pulled out his handheld and looked them up on Omnictionary. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The track bed left behind looked like an ugly black scar slashing through town. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

At first the miles seemed to pass faster than they had on the trip into town, but for all that, Jethro began to grow tired after three hours or so had gone by. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

De Soto was still able to see some of the densely populated Indian towns lining the lower Mississippi. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I was a bit of a romantic. I wanted to get away from what I thought of as a very conventional small town and try my wings.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is an old rural town that has even a few bams, an alienated and microcosmic village within a large city. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

These houses were built by the municipal authorities for workers who needed to be near town. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rain or not, nobody in town that day wanted to miss out on seeing what sort of crew Ulbrickson had come up with that could displace his talented sophomores. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Some Hamptonites still recalled how the strange folks at the laboratory saved the town from the economic despair of Prohibition. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

We have never gotten anything in this town without fighting.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon Frightful toured the backyards, the tumbling buildings in town, and dumps at its edges. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The boy’s fearful feeling increased as he got nearer town. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s why, when you were out there yourself—in the towns, shopping centres, transport cafés—you kept an eye out for “possibles”—the people who might have been the models for you and your friends. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The cabdriver said, 'It sounds to me like you two ladies are from out of town,' and I knew right then that he was planning to rip us off." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Here’s what every minute of every day of my stupid, stinking life in this stupid, stinking town is like. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I imagined myself in crop tops around town, or in a bikini by the pool, my belly ring catching the sunlight. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was hard walking up the steps to Bill’s town house that afternoon because I didn’t receive a phone call all morning from Patrick. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

And there was so much about this town and its interests that I still didn’t understand. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I was too tired to explore it, however, and sat on the bench waiting to catch another bus into town. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sought out experienced hunters around town and asked them for tips about stalking game, dressing animals, curing meat. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mother was a substitute organist for several churches around town. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s no big deal for somebody to go running past our house; half the people in town seemed to jog around. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

“Nobody in town can see or hear you. You’ve got the entire valley.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

When Adam came in with her warm soup Charles said, “I’m going in town and drink some beer.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I pretended that other people in town besides us felt like this. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

For the town’s water supply, he tapped into a pristine ancient lake that lay a thousand feet below. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning they found Don Little unconscious on the town basketball court. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I walked back through the town, past sleeping houses and dark inns, my mood swung from elation to doubt in the space of three brief breaths. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The town cheered when the men waved and nodded at Jamison’s acknowledgment. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I got scared when Jerome traveled out of town and I had to stay by myself. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Since the recent unfortunate happenings at the German Fraternal Hall, everyone has been on edge and the mood of the town has been somber. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It takes twenty to get back to town.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down they came to the famous town—Telemakhos long in advance: we had to wait for Odysseus. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was all over town about Granny’s stroke. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

There’s no question that she did damage to the town by exposing raw nerves and bringing up the sins of Chokecherry’s past. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

We slowed past the depot, and now we were coming to Grandma’s, the last house in town. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

They dropped us at Mull’s Motel in Hiawassee, an old-fashioned, nondescript, patently nonchain establishment on a bend in the road near the center of town. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

But there were not many black people visible on this day and Paradise had the look of a town desolated by plague or the rumor of plague. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There was only one law officer in town, and when the Hell’s Angels came to town, he would crouch down in the back of his office,” Mark Langan remembers. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

As if this period was suddenly the new episode of a soap opera, and the long-thought-dead evil twin had just sauntered back into town. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He turned away and shut his door against the cold, and the travelers turned down into the heart of the shanty town where the living people had to stay. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Half of these were kills she’d brought down and skinned herself, enough to help them pay for passage out of Oxscini, if they ever got into town to trade them. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

By the time she reached the edge of town, Sefia’s arms were aching with the weight of the furs. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

On Monday I've got to go to a new school in a new town and be the New Kid Whose Parents by the way Are Getting Divorced. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

By bowling alleys, by train stations, in small towns on the way to bigger ones, anywhere where real estate was cheap and a lot of cars or people passed through. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He was out of town but you never knew when he’d finish a construction job and suddenly show up. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We got into the cab, and the cabman put the bags up on the seat beside him and climbed up and cracked his whip, and we drove over the dark bridge and into the town. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Converging on these towns, relos have segregated themselves, less by the old barriers of race, religion, and national origin than by age, family status, education, and, especially, income. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Their first target was a Cherokee town of about two hundred homes and two thousand people. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“The constable was not amused, and the gentleman was fined for slanderous action against a lady of the town.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

By this time we were heading into town on Highway 6, the road slicing through the wetlands park. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

On the one hand, there’s nothing he loves more than getting publicity for our town. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

You can see the town’s rendering sails, but also the Catholic church steeple and the rows of 1960s suburbans falling into disrepair. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t stop till I got to the next town. And I saw Old Monkey there. ‘You lookin’ mighty fine, Anansi,’ said Old Monkey. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

But since we couldn’t afford to pay the town’s trash-collection fee, our garbage was really piling up. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I had taught him the little I knew of reading and writing; now he could have taught me and most other people in the town. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we get caught our situation will be dire, but I have no idea what the next closest town might be, or even how far. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

What really caused indignation in the town was not the results of the elections but the fact that the soldiers had not returned the weapons. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The best spot for swimming was by the harbor, but getting there meant walking straight through town. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“They clean and they cook and they make babies and they all live in a big dormitory outside of town where they can’t interfere in men’s business.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Definitely the coolest vehicle on any road in this area of town. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

When we returned from town she would not allow me to go anywhere or do anything. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just the sort of pickup you saw in mainland towns like Everett or Bellingham, the kind kids drove around after football games or on Saturday nights, late. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Now in the whole town there was interest and discussion about this sporting event, but the most interesting question of all and the one that bothered the whole town was never spoken of. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Judge Monroe is out of town on vacation, so nobody is getting out before next Wednesday, it looks like.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tenorio has taken the body into town, and like the mad man that he is, he has stretched out the corpse on the bar of his saloon!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Cover it up, keep it deep and quiet, till yer so far outta town no one can hear you. Now, come on!” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Five minutes later, all sorts of black town cars and SUVs are pulling over on the side of the road. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

It was a book of philosophy at least ten thousand years old he had found in one of the villas of a Martian valley town. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two rival companies’ headquarters were on opposite sides of town. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

One Monday night, Blackburn came to Big Stone Gap, in a mostly poor corner of the state not far from Andy Blevins’s town. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Candice even tried texting her dad, who was coming into town for a visit, but he wouldn’t arrive until that afternoon. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

This ragged group then joined several hundred American prisoners of war on a forced trek to Mampo, a small town on the Yalu River, which forms the border between North Korea and China. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you go to a new town, start fresh? It might change your luck.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She took one of the few openings she could find: substitute high school principal in a small Indiana town near her home. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Lying on her stomach, she peered down on the town. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The battle for the town had left it in ruins. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next day Mirren and I take the small motorboat to Edgar- town without permission. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Until a little after noon, when he hit a cluster of buildings that passed for a town square. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The towns of the East Forest, from Ovark to the coast, had gathered their men and sent them against the invaders of Gont. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

But he was up there right now, with his glasses trained on the valley, on the town, a radio by his side, searching for Joe Mondragon. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Entering the Cadillac with equal desperation from two sides, they were soon accelerating down the beach road and back on the highway that headed from town. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day the sun shone, and Coraline’s mother took her into the nearest large town to buy clothes for school. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

We came into the town past the factories and then the houses and villas and I saw that many more houses had been hit. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

After that raid, everyone all over town started digging trenches. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s left town and hasn’t come back. I’m not sure if he ever will.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

All I can think of is this is the town where the KKK found a home forty-plus years ago. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“I don't suppose there are any opium joints in town?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

But they had hardly crossed the lawn when Lustig stopped and looked off across the town, down the quiet, dreaming afternoon street. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been warned that the town was crawling with soldiers, so he jumped from the train as it slowed to enter Musan station and headed southwest on foot. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

To the east side of the Griffin were the white people’s houses and their new projects—the expanded town square, the hospital, and the museum. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“I know we aren’t friends and I know this is stupid, but I can’t stop thinking about this. I just got to town and this is the first place I came.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The town up the road was overcome by yellow fever, he said. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

A man from another town was seated with us, a friend of my aunt’s new husband. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because Mom won’t expect me home yet, I sneak over to the parking lot, unlock Leroy, and ride to the east side of town. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Then he pulled into a small town named Holtville Springs, where there were some tiny stores he could light up at night and restaurants to sit in, ordering meals. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ricky bought it from the town dump with a jar of quarters—or so he claimed—a pedigree whose odor even the forest of air-freshener trees he’d hung from the mirror couldn’t mask. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

As the Cabineers roamed through the South, stopping at towns for either prearranged or hastily organized matches, Whitaker as best player would invariably play board one, and Bobby board two. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

All, of course, were happily unaware that their pleasant, anonymous town was quite doomed. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Not long after they crossed the state line, they came to a town called Chadron. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I was surprised to see Darcy in town last month. We passed each other several times. I wonder what he can be doing there.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

As I went on along the path I realized that a whole village or town was scattered about in the shadow of that slanting forest, all as random as Rer was, but secretive, peaceful, rural. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Seven had never heard of it used against an entire town though. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I’m on my way to pick up Ryan when it comes to me: Who always knows more about Chokecherry’s swastika problems than anybody in town? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Then we could ride all over town together.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Nan and I always did a drive-through in a new town, but our Hope Springs exploration didn’t last long because there wasn’t much to drive through. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Even Sheriff Dean stayed close to his home, which was down by the river and safely outside of town. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

At a town called Pakok we found some yams and peanuts. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would you want someone of Zeebo’s capability to handle the town’s money? Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

They were members of the town’s trash-collecting corps, and as they huffed and bent to lay the box over the hole, they smelled vaguely of pine and rotten fruit. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It being market morning at a neighbouring town some ten miles off, Mr. Pumblechook was not at home. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

He had already been told that she was a widow from the North, in town for only a few days to visit her people. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

She better get to work soon, telling people it’s not our town. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“They all over town. All the babies I done looked after.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But for us, who lived by the green, quiet fields, perilously close though these were to the town, nature still gave its muted message. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lieutenant Dana had led his troops into Bryantown, a well-known place of Confederate intrigue, commandeered the tavern, and occupied the town. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

That explained why the town was still in such a sorry state. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I definitely want out of this town, but I don’t want to leave Pop and Dad behind. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s only in town for 2 days, and I can’t believe this is how he wants to spend his afternoon. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

They drove back To town through the curve Of hills. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d booked a motel room in town for the two of them. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

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

In some of the small towns, people thinking I was with the band even mobbed me for autographs. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was, in fact, going to have a drink with several white devils on the other side of town. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Like one day after he caught Henry Pitts with a wagon load of his ribbon cane and took the cane away from Pitts and made him leave town. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The Gypsies had met them along the road after leaving us at the edge of town. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

A few lucky men got jobs at the lumber mill, the only real industry in town. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“The town’s really divided over this, and it’s only made worse now that SmartMart hired Arletta Paisley as their national spokesperson.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I told her about our atomic bomb drills and about our town and about The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The study that founded modern biology was buried in the pages of an obscure journal of an obscure scientific society, read mostly by plant breeders in a declining Central European town. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

During the morning I usually sat in the café and read the Madrid papers and then walked in the town or out into the country. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

A month ago, the Capitol’s firebombs obliterated the poor coal miners’ houses in the Seam, the shops in the town, even the Justice Building. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“You’ll learn to love it. Give it time. If I were you, I’d say, ‘I’m going to take this town by storm. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My town had grown and changed and my friend along with it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

On one page she saw a list of headings: exchange controls, rationing, the mass evacuation of large towns, the conscription of labor. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He had figured that all other towns were as empty as this one. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It just seems so strange that you should come here. Why, you could get a husband and a surrey and a corner house in town with no trouble at all, no trouble at all.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve talked on a telephone a couple of times. In town. But we don’t have one.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Good Lord, I thought everybody in town knew who I was. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Love stirred in the hearts of the young Brahmins' daughters when Siddhartha walked through the streets of the town, with his lofty brow, his king-like eyes and his slim figure. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

The route takes her down the street of a town, North Bend, and on a backcountry road through a long stretch of green meadow. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

My third son, Murugan, who was a servant, married a girl from the town in which he worked. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d contracted polio a few years back—the only person in town who had, as far as Stella knew. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But the pleasure fled when we reached the white part of town. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s awful that Mom and Dad lied to the whole town about your pregnancy. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

When he had walked nearly around the entire town without seeing anyone and was just beginning to grow desperate, he heard the hooves of a horse behind him. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The town had not known a winter as cold as this one for years. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I did not understand why men were hanged in effigy, or a boat dragged through town and burned on the Common, as if on grassy swells. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I thought Grandpa had prayed away all the town’s hard feelings, and maybe he really had. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

We crossed the frozen Ey a mile or so north of town. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Plus the whole town saw him whitewashing the curse words he painted on the parking lot of St. Basil’s, so it’s not like vandalism isn’t already in his bag of tricks. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

A roll is called, and the block guards rush us to the town square. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Whenever he came to this part of town, someone clutched their pearls so hard that it was impossible not to notice it. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

This dream of Mary Anne’s would die by morning like all the other dreams of the town. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

LINK: He gets really touchy about anything that makes the town look bad. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Before I could talk myself out of it, I was on my way to town. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Down that road is a town, and in that town—in your time, anyway—is a train station. Your medium of inter-loop travel is when—1940?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

At Greenock they performed two concerts in the town hall to two thousand people a night. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Without a single friend left in town, Dill had little use for free time. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

We didn’t know the names of other towns and villages and how to get there. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

What I’m here for—I heard you were in town. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Because of this, they would encourage factional strife in some of their subject towns in order to control them more easily. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

One of the main aims of the rebels when they took over a town was to force the civilians to stay with them, especially women and children. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Without a word, Shady and Jinx hid the empty bottles and various other gifts of payment in the hay of the wheelbarrow and headed back into town, both tired and on edge. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

When they got down to where the sidewalk started, some of them stopped and decided to turn back, too embarrassed to enter the white part of town whooping like banshees. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Seven grabbed Thorn’s hand just like she had in the Cursed Forest that night, and they took off toward the town. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

When I arrived, he was red-faced and teary-eyed, insisting that I go with him to the Northern town near Harvard University where he would attend college. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mm-hmm. Miss Sadie told me. I take a little milk over to her on my way back from town a couple times a week. Did you two have a nice visit?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

When she moved from public housing to a three-bedroom home in a suburban area in the Northwood section of town, she was trying to create more distance between her and the city’s imploding center. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

One wet afternoon the following November, a Greyhound bus deposited Perry in Worcester, a Massachusetts factory town of steep, up-and-down streets that even in the best of weathers seem cheerless and hostile. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Below them the town was laid out in harsh angular pat-terns. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jesse had picked the town’s only Chinese restaurant, run by white Mormons, he said. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

From one end of the Atlantic seaboard to the other, towns and even villages sent great shipments of food. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Laura stood up on the board and Pa held her safe by the arm, so she could see the town. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Living in a small town like ours, it’s hard to imagine that many people. Even Denver’s population is only a fraction of that.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Take me an hour just to get back to town,” said Nephew. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

No more wandering around town at all times of the day and night. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

It is a country of far-flung, lonely farms and a few widely scattered small towns and villages, of lonely trappers’ shacks and logging camps. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Scots are being slowly pushed back and we are gaining ground, since receiving the added help from London and the nearby towns. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

The spy asked: what town lies yonder? and the fanner told him Gettysburg, but the name meant nothing. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Especially considering that they came with the new house and the new school, the new town and a new daddy. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

After more shouting of advice and orders and useless comments, the town escorted the carcass off. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The view over their town, the place they grew up, makes them sentimental, and they grind together over the gearshift. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

During these hours, Odysseus and the swineherd were on their way out of the hills to town. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He always felt that the rich people in town, “the ones with their names on the buildings,” as he put it, lived in another world. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Even though the town did not resist being occupied, the Nazis had a list of prominent citizens, both non-Jewish and Jewish, and immediately arrested them. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

I did not say much to Father as we rode back to the Tang people s town. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She left the Worthington tomb, then, and she went looking for her son, whom she found, as she expected to, at the top of the hill, staring out over the town. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

They were there most mornings, and when I noticed them, they reminded me of how isolated and forgotten the town was, a sad, lost place adrift in the clouds. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you going to be playing shows around town?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Trembling with eagerness, Miyax asked Uma to tell her more about Kapugen, and Uma, spilling over with enthusiasm, told how the town and its people had grown poor and hungry several years ago. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

From their hats, they were all town ladies, not country. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Marv’s car staggers to a halt at my place, and we decide to walk into town from there. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Little plumes of smoke, like birthday candles, were popping up all over the town. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The fair wasn’t supposed to be held until August, but this wasn’t the same town he knew, it couldn’t be. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I saw no houses or street lights, either, just a potato-processing plant that was bigger than many towns—the giant Simplot complex—and seemed to extend for miles. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t need them,” I whispered, squinting out at the town, the shadows. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Villages had become towns and towns had grown to cities. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I no longer sold to Biswas; there were several other shops in the town now where I was paid better, and where I did not have to endure the sly, spiteful observations he made. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

We many of us had escaped, and so, upon the town’s falling, we would be conveyed to our former masters—at which thought, my spirits froze, thinking upon Mr. Sharpe and his devices. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Besides, he has long desired a peek inside the Lefèvre town house, which is something of a legend amongst his colleagues who work in interior design. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In Torrance and adjacent towns, Shin could eat, shop, work, and worship in Korean. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“He wants to fly out of town and never come back,” I replied. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The town had seen justice served too many times to count, but the rendering of the verdict was a new experience. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“I think. I mean, the library in my dad’s town has them.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

As he walked through town, Ellsberg watched villagers stooped over in the remains of their homes, sifting the ruins for anything salvageable. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He could not stand his home, his job, the town itself—he could not endure, day in, day out, facing the scenes and the people he had known all his life. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I drove into town, parked, and entered the courthouse looking for the district attorney’s office. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The shopkeeper lives in a two-story house outside town, with weavings and wall hangings that remind me of home. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

During the moonlit January nights Singer continued to walk about the streets of the town each evening when he was not engaged. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Smitty, I need you to find the other boys. We got to get them out of town too. At least for a little while—maybe just until school starts.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Back when we were in school, we had time in the afternoons to check the line and hunt and gather and still get back to trade in town. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The reckless passion of the heroine, Arabella, for a wicked foreign count is punished by ill fortune when she contracts cholera during an impetuous dash toward a seaside town with her intended. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

A photograph of the two of them was taken for the local paper in her parents’ town. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually it was agreed that the man was a deserter and denner addict come to their little town just in time to go crazy. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In those days it was rare for young people, really for anyone, to leave the town of their birth. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Most of the town is at the book burning, so I should be safe. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He was the only Japanese in town who owned a house. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

After he had produced this image Brunelleschi produced a second one, which we also learn about from Manetti, of the Florentine town hall and the square surrounding it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The jingle of tack and the rumble of the wagon said Pa headed out for town so I wouldn’t see him until noon to know just who Ma meant. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“But what if his town is about to fall? Do you know where he has come from?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Word was around that I had left town, and the narcotics squad was satisfied with that. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moody was half right, though neither he nor most of the kids in the town knew much about its history. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But the field at Indian Creek was like the refugees’ town square. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. The whole town planning a parade,” said Nero. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked slowly back across the town and approached by way of the alley. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He's not stuck in a bad part of town anymore. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Since Lord Ashton’s time was devoted to some important business in town, it was Miss Penelope Lumley who increasingly found herself on the receiving end of her mistress’s desire to chat. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

So: • Paintbrush Falls, New York: not real, but based in part on the town of Webster, New York, where I grew up. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

As they gobbled up the last of the sugary treat, they watched the busy streets filled with pedestrians, horse-drawn carriages, bicyclists, and every now and then a fancy automobile from the rich part of town. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

They decided that a small town like Sarpsborg in a small country like Norway was no place in which to make a fortune. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Long Island area included within the gypsy moth spraying in 1957 consisted chiefly of heavily populated towns and suburbs and of some coastal areas with bordering salt marsh. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

A stream went through the centre of the town and fields of grapes touched the houses. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

To be sure, some of these towns sent money and other items for Philadelphia’s relief. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The town believed that Henry’s action was just the fiery nature of youth, let alone a Sutpen, and that time would cure it. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bustling town, also called Port Mourant, sprang up, with schools, even a hospital. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

By mid-June, the cosmonauts and everyone affiliated with the space program had traveled to a small town, Tyuratam, east of the Caspian and Aral Seas in Kazakhstan, far from Moscow. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Bingley urged Mr. Jones’s being sent for immediately; while his sisters, convinced that no country advice could be of any service, recommended an express to town for one of the most eminent physicians. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Liked to wander in his fields, chat with his pickers, taste his berries, smack his lips, smoke his pipe, go to town for a sack of nails. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The theater in town was putting on a play, Annie, and my teacher said that if the director heard me sing, he would give me the lead. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

So Mom decided Dad and I should go into town to the library to look up the lady’s number, while she got some work done for once. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The church was a strange little white frame building stuck up on a hill behind the police station, built when the city was a country town instead of part of the metropolitan Washington sprawl. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

He would rage against the town on the opposite side of the river which drained a man of his freedom, and he would cry because the war had ruined his dream. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dropped nickels in twenty boxes all over town. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stores that sold kettles, yeasts, grains, and other supplies that permitted a person to distill his own liquor or brew his own beer sprang up in every town and city. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Across the river I could see the twinkling lights of the town. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Life in Clarkston was simple, and few from the outside world paid the town much attention, which suited the residents of Clarkston just fine. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

And when Dad banned me from all school sports teams as punishment, it wasn’t for plunging the whole town into darkness for three days. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m leaving town for a few days to visit my family,” said Etienne. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Lee said, with some irritation, “The town is of no importance.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The two of them are peas in a pod, but the sheriff is only following his daddy’s lead. He’s mean, but he isn’t smart enough to run this town on his own.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The women of the town early discovered his celibacy, and not being able to comprehend his rejection of them, decided that he was supernatural rather than unnatural. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Overhead but in the distance, toward town, where Vonetta must have ridden that bicycle, half of the sky was bright, and pushing against the bright was a darker blue. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“We got a law here in this town.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“The bodies go all the way to town.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

On his daily junket to town, Amarante Cordova had to climb over a dozen dead cottonwood trees that lay in his way like king-sized hurdles. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He drove under a bridge and found himself in a small port town. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Jasmine’s new home was across the way in colored town. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

To make money he worked nights washing dishes at an Italian restaurant in his parents’ town. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Regina was from a small town in Hungary. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

In town after town, through Kansas, New Mexico, and Arizona, the story was the same. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sounded out words from Jane Eyre—the paperback edition, not the first edition—all the way back into town. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“At least that’s what he says. He retired to some small town in Arkansas.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The beaches are devouring men—Americans, Canadians, Brits, Germans, Russians—and all through Normandy, heavy bombers pulverize country towns. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Once liberated, I hit Water Street and from there it was a straight trajectory to the fibrillating heart of town. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I am pushing a rusty wheelbarrow in a town where the air smells of blood and burnt flesh. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

If the wind blew this deadly fallout into rain clouds, it could literally rain down on nearby towns. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

What with bus fare in and out of Boston and peanuts and newspapers and abnormal-psychology books and trips to my old home town by the sea, my New York fund was almost exhausted. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“It is not our sons, it is something in town—get him some water.” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Expensive hotels line the coasts, but the town center doesn’t cater to tourists too much. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

When I’m in town, I invariably sit talking by the hour with my old friend Yama, the God of Death, and a private phone’s a must for our little chats. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

I was to hold mass on Sundays like father Byrnes did in the church in town. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He also understood its essential importance in giving his family a feeling of place and belonging in a new town. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The drifters were moving off down the track, and the deputies were heading back into town. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“No. If they get into trouble, we soon know about it from the people in town—or the police bring them back.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Not in the heart of the minuscule town, nor in the surrounding fields, nor in the area around Jot: Mondragon’s house, nor around the lawyer’s home either. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They represented nearly every city, town, and hamlet throughout Germany. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then after a few days winter was upon the town again. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

George's dad had hung it after he and Mom separated, but before he left town. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she took other jobs, cooking or cleaning house for people in the town. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How long would it take to go from here to the—to the town?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He closed the trunk, got into the car, and drove slowly back toward town. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

In 1982 he moved his family from an apartment to a house in the most elite section of town, the Country Club Estates. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The SS also forcibly removed Jews from their homes in the cities, towns, and surrounding countryside. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“No,” said Robin, “the fog has kept us from seeing. But whenever we tried to make a sally into the town, we were forced back.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I went up stairs and got the bank book out of her desk and went back to town. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As they say, two staffs in one town must come to blows, isn’t it so, Sir?” said the innkeeper, smiling and full of cheer. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

No one stared at Grans and me when we went to town to buy groceries. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Even though Hilly would never come to this part of town, she is a threat to us all now and I feel like her eyes are everywhere. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

And Pecola is somewhere in that little brown house she and her mother moved to on the edge of town, where you can see her even now, once in a while. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t take long before everybody in town got wind of what I was going to have to do. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She said that white towns had simply banded together to rid themselves of the black stronghold in their midst. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I stayed silent in Wynn’s truck all the way to town, a lump in my throat, refusing to say a word. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Mr. Stinson drove the postal RFD wagon that delivered the mail, so he knew and talked to everybody in the entire town, regardless of their race. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Taking no chances, they gathered all the money in the house, bundled up their baby, and prepared to leave town for a safer location. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He should probably take his mother food from town and a can of kerosene. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Witchlings, Seven’s family, and the Town Gran rode back to town on brooms. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

A flu epidemic hit in 1919, filling up the only funeral home in town, which was part of the hardware store. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun’s energy could be used to generate electricity, and to heat the town, and to grow crops. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The river running through the middle of town was slow and muddy. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Little town like this, that’s what keeps things on an even keel. These folk will carry a grudge for fifty years about what their Tom said about our Kari.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

According to the directory, Bell Street is one of the small side streets off the main street of town. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Her first boundary was the geography of her family, second her town, Salinas, and finally there was a dotted line, not clearly defined, which was the county line. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

She knew it had to end sometime, but she wasn’t ready yet, not in this final minute, not for her, not for her son, not for her town. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have to fly out of town first thing tomorrow morning. I could, however, do a late supper tonight....” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

By this time the gates, the great Scaean gates of Troy, had been flung wide, for the Trojans at last were in full flight and were crowding into the town. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The town, instead of doubting her innocence, pitied her candor. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Though it was always fun to watch Trip work, most of my attention was on a wagon that had rolled into the other end of town about a quarter hour ago. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Rapid City was a large town on the northeast edge of the Black Hills. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Running hard, he took his Peaks Brook trail to town. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The next day, he took me to town with him, took me to the old brick Court House, and let me watch while he had certificates of freedom drawn up for his children. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was a story that grew in the telling in one of those little towns where there’s always time to ponder all the different kinds of truth. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

To our left began the houses and buildings of the town. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus Trabb’s boy became their guide, and with him they went out to the sluice-house, though by the town way to the marshes, which I had avoided. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Everyone knows,” she said, “this town was built in 1868. Is this a game?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Bloom was beside her, she pointed to the town’s water tank on Capulin Hill. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

To a town settled and run by Survivalists. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

If they were going to church then there must be a town somewhere beyond this narrow road. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ll regret living in a town where no one wants you.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

It was as far from the park, the miserable thumping heart of the town, as she could get. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Get you a railroad” and “Get you a cotton mill” was what big businessmen in Atlanta advised any town that wanted to grow. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

In the course of their travels, the family visited Iron Mountain, Michigan, a small mining town in the forests of the Upper Peninsula that was Billie’s childhood home. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

For what purpose they had made this place, as a town or secret temple or a tomb of kings, none in Rohan could say. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He protested even the small amount of money the city dribbled out to provide services in black sections of town. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Together we walked down the gravel path in the park in the dark, under the trees and then out from under the trees and past the gate into the street that led into town. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“But why should it matter if it’s all a dream, though? Why wouldn’t a dream be able to walk across town? Not if it’s as old as the earth and as big as the world—” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The government offered very generous terms and incentives to relocate to the big towns, mortgages and tax relief. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

There are not a lot of Jewish mothers in our town or that many Jewish kids at our school. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some teachers ascribed the drop in academic performance to the effects of court-ordered desegregation as well as a rapid increase in the town’s Hispanic population. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But instead of telling Erna that her son was back in town, he told her that his wife, Lucille, was sick. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

A serious, short-haired dog-about- town with a curling tail sauntered into the alley, making his stations, but he smelled Cal and took a wide circle around him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They tell the reader, “You’ve already met this guy; no need to stop and think about a new kid in town.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

They hadn’t seen each other much over the previous couple years, but now Sasha was in town for winter break and they were getting together for the second time in as many weeks. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He placed Edward on his shoulder as he had that first night when he walked him through town, bringing him home to Nellie. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

On the outskirts of town, when we pass an orchard, I scamper up a tree to pick guavas, eating the sweetest, prettiest ones myself and tossing down the worm-eaten, half-rotted ones to the Doctorita. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drew a deep breath and looked out over the town I had saved. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The same town that gave the world the golden arches also gave it a biker gang that stood for a totally antithetical set of values. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

It went on straight toward the town across the low fields. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“This way, you guys,” Kyle said to the kids from out of town as he headed toward the nearest spiral staircase. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Chris had to check on them, he said, before they could be sent into town to the restaurant man who canned them with a pressure cooker. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

At seven that night the old woman wanted to go to town. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You live in this town and you don’t know the pagoda story?” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

These were the three Uncles who had gone missing from all three towns...but they weren’t the Uncles at all. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

We crossed over the Long Island Expressway to the north side of town, and meandered down side roads until we stopped beside the Quaker meetinghouse. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the town a drawbridge crossed the river, connecting Ravenel with the three sea islands that separated the town from the Atlantic Ocean. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the poem, a traveler is hurrying toward a town, and it is getting darker and darker, and the sea calls to the traveler. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Secondly, that you are guilty of actions and works which infer a court with the devil, which have caused illness and death to fall upon many innocent children in this town.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The police in that nearby town had surely circulated our general descriptions. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Middleton High seemed frozen somewhere in the fifties, a sprawling, one-story tile, glass, and brick complex, many of whose students were headed inexorably toward lifetimes of low-paying jobs in small, conservative Idaho towns. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His home occupied the two top floors and overlooked the town square. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

We arrived in town midaftemoon and stopped in front of this little shack. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sighed and plopped down on the first step, worried we’d made our way into another dead-end, boring, waste of time, dusty mudhole of a town, with another move not too far off. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

But it’ll turn to gray like the other loving memory benches in our town. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Despite this, there was little love lost between the two towns. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The place where the Boggy Crone River ran alongside the train tracks that led to Stormville and the other magical towns was called Pavoroso Passage. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

We got permission to ride into town, along with some spending money from Nan. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Then she begins: The waitress with the big fat hips who pays the rent with taxi tips . . . says nobody in town will kiss her on the lips because . . . because she looks like Christopher Columbus! The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom was being relentlessly optimistic, and Connor had come along in the car with us because Jack was working and Mrs. Baransky was out of town. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

At the corner of Main and Park, several blocks from the town center, Mr. Yates pulls to a stop in front of a light-blue Victorian house with a wraparound porch. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Beginning on Tuesday, she said, practicing would take place across town at Milam Park. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

It reminded me of a town where I had lived in Mexico, where boys used to stun birds with slingshots, tie strings to their legs, and, when they revived, fly them tethered like kites. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He missed school and sent word that he was ill when it was known that he was walking all alone in the hills beyond the town. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I turned around and began a clumsy run across the field in a line which avoided his house and aimed toward the road leading back into the town. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of Mr. Chris’s hired men, before Fritz, used to gather quarts and quarts and sell ’em to an Italian in town and make a mint of money every fall.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“You have to think big picture, Link. The future of the town is the future of this family. And the future of this family is your future!” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

That night the two of them drifted like smoke through the twin towns of Beaumont and Banning, and the rising of the sun found them in the Mojave Desert. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“And we’ve got a town to protect,” Doctor Snow says firmly. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

In some upstate towns, the prison is the main event, visually speaking: Clinton’s imposing wall runs along Dannemora’s main street. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walking the reverse path to Port Authority, everything that seemed exciting on the way into town now seems frenetic, dangerous, wound up too tight. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Fuchsia might have been the only girl willing to be friends with me when I moved back to town in fifth grade, but she doesn’t always make it easy. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

With the six pennies, the book, the rocks, and the thread, she walked back to town. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bri had enough until they made it to the safe town, a place with doctors and hospitals and real medicine. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Would he become the public second son, free to go to town and to school and everywhere else that Matthew and Mark went? Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Near East became the cradle of civilization: to be civilized, after all, means to live as a citizen, a town dweller. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s for letting it be some darn town squirt I slapped you you will will you now I guess you say calf rope. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

In an hour they passed a sign marking the limits of a town called Sound View. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had planned to bring back from the town that morning pork, a small pond fish, and a handful of chestnuts. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Earlier that morning, they had watched Hatchet’s men slink into the outskirts of town, but now the impressors were nowhere to be found. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

So we headed for Orosi, a small town a few miles southeast of Fresno. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Zach was spending the day delivering honey to her selling places all over town and picking up money from the previous month’s sales. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like in most cities, the black section of town was along the railroad tracks, so we didn’t have too far to go. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I find Boy21 outside and he follows me to the town library. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The meeting began like the town meetings we used to have in social studies class—treasurer’s report, old business, new business; “1 move”; “I second the motion.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stopped at the edge of town and saw no one. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t know where or what America is, but he does know, already, that he’s got round ears that stick out like the sideview mirrors of the only car in town — his father’s. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

A girl was not in town long enough to cause remark either by citizen or town marshal. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was the same way I felt sometimes, being friendless in a new town and not having a mama to comfort me. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I do not doubt that middle-class blacks need to remain watchful when they look for jobs or try to rent or when they travel to unfamiliar towns. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I didn't know better, I'd think the whole town was decorated for a summer luncheon. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I suppose. For now. You may climb down your ladder to New Rome, daughter of Athena. Please try not to destroy my town.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

How was he supposed to act normal in a town that murdered pigeons? Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

While Sherman kept looking through the telescope, I wandered to the edge of the roof and looked out over my little town. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tahlequah was a small country town with a population of about eight hundred. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night he bombarded Riohacha from a schooner and the garrison dragged out of bed and shot the fourteen best-known Liberals in the town as a reprisal. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Then we went for a walk through the main streets to the other end of town. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

The next day Grandma called all her friends and tried to get them to agree to form a group to shop across town. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just before the Smith house blew up, Hale had told friends that he was heading out of town to attend the Fat Stock Show in Fort Worth, Texas. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A short obituary runs in the town paper, citing the names of Ashima and Gogol and Sonia, mentioning that the children had been educated at the local schools. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

There wouldn’t have been time for him to go to the creek, shoot Anna, and return to town before the show started. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When she was almost seventeen, a man in a carriage came to town and watched as she rode for provisions. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

And I had a dinner meeting across town. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

“We’ll just head into town, then, as I need to pick up a letter.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

As we walk closer and closer to town, we pass the hospital. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Tilburg is a manufacturing town in North Brabant in the Netherlands, known today as the place Van Gogh did his childhood schooling. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He was driving to the other end of town to return their granddaughter’s toothbrush. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

While many small towns around Atlanta have been absorbed into the city or big county governments, Clarkston has retained its independence. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“She was here this past weekend since her folks was out of town.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

There’s my ma, fifty-odd years old, hightailing around town with some guy while I sit here, in the prime of my youth, completely and utterly alone. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

So it was to Scaithe's Ebb that Lord Primus of Stormhold came one night, all dressed in black with a beard as thick and serious as one of the storks' nests in the town's chimneys. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

That’s why great former cities in states like Georgia are pretty much ghost towns these days. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Annabelle looks out the window, gazes across the parking lot into the town of Cherry Valley beyond. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The pilots already in the air had all been sent together to turn back a huge raid the Germans were launching on a nearby town just south of Voronezh. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

We left Glass Manor and went to the other side of town. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

After a few days of fruitless searching, he trotted across the field, headed for the town dump he had passed on his way up the mountain. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The walls creak; the window between the curtains is black; the town prepares to sleep. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Water, sewer systems, and other public services that supported the white areas of town frequently did not extend to the black areas. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Belén gossips about everyone in town, even when I have no idea who they are. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

We couldn’t remember the names of some of the towns or what the houses we had lived in looked like. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was polite enough not to ask if I always paused to take a dump during a night on the town, which I thought was pretty good of her. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I know all the routes by heart, like the one that travels across the Golden Gate Bridge into Terra Vista Valley, the small town where my land lives. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Again Salem was the proudest town in the country. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had reached the edge of town, by the little gas station/grocery store where the lumberjacks had dropped us. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Though I hadn’t seen the entire town, my numb feet announced that my tour was completed. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

"A cowboy rode into town on Friday. Two days later he rides out on Friday." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Mr. Kleiman relates the latest news from town, and he’s an excellent source. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He came to town acting like our mouthpiece, here to tell our story to the world. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

But Pilate did not want a steady job in a town where a lot of colored people lived. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

And a town not too far from where you live has a law that bars me from coming within five miles of its borders. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

But then she moved to the northeast part of town and had to run for reelection at-large. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

During her high school years, Marian continued to sing at church and social events and, increasingly, at concerts out of town. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Once I was in the Tang peoples town, I would deposit our money with the district association and pick up letters. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He limps on, heading for the outskirts of town. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She recalled the winds that had preceded the storm on the Schoharie Reservoir and flew inland to the little town of Plymouth, North Carolina. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

At least there was something familiar in this town. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Fairfax town marshal also shared with agents a disturbing detail: around the time of Anna’s murder, he had found a dark stain on the backseat of Rose’s car. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He was frightened, for as he stepped forward he was conscious that these might be the first steps toward those gallows—waiting in the dark beyond the town gates. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

All authority to pass laws and raise money was held by a variety of committees made up of members of the town council. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Quiet, empty, a mix of grand old buildings and new, more of an industrial site than a town really, with development sprawling into its surrounding areas rather than inside the town itself. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malia had a provisional license by then and was able to drive herself around town, though always with agents following in their own vehicle. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It’s about getting fired nineteen times in the same small town. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

With her husband out of town, he had asked Sophia and her sister out to dinner, and they went. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandpa Izzy's high-rise retirement condominium was three towns north of Dad's swinging singles apartment complex. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

They fell on the town all through the night in a silent storm, and they covered the roofs and blocked the doors and smothered the animals who slept outdoors. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Through the town, over a bridge, on for a couple of miles, and he stopped at a low, rectangular building with an illuminated Pabst sign, and a Coca-Cola machine by the door. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“I came to tell you. I was out in the town and I heard them talking in a cafe.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was Vigil, the state policeman who patrolled our town. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the day she moved to town, during April of fourth grade, everyone had completely ignored her. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

“The management of this town has been turned over to the federal government.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came from the mountains where my parents grew up or they came from the next town over. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But he could not help but think of the gallows, just beyond the town gates, how they had loomed up at him through the dark of the night like a warning. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a small Texas town, they often did n’t have colored bathrooms or fountains either. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had never gone out in the town very much, but now she developed a reluctance to go out at all. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The modern town of Tiwanaku is a poor place and few of its buildings have any heating. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There never used to be yellow-spotted lizards in the town of Green Lake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The outlaw assessed the lawmen and said, “I’m just a friend of Bill Hale’s. Just happened in town, is all.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

We dragged our stuff through town looking for something called the Priest Home, where my dad had booked a room. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Because when she came outside that day you could hear her all over town: “Where are my PANSIES?” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Jess drove straight to the one big department store in town, which was a few streets in from the bay area’s visitor-friendly face. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

By rough estimates, it had cost the town approximately two and a half to three dollars a week for over two years just to ticket Onofre Martinez. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if the whole town were celebrating the arrival of a long-lost friend. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

"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

In a town where football mattered most, where it defined the mood and the psyche, who wanted to suffer through a drought that seemed destined to continue into the twenty-first century? Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jimmy sat quietly until they reached the town of Sheridan. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Ordinarily such a display would have made me nervous, but since Trebon was a mining town I guessed it showed civic pride more than fanatic piety. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Big three-by-nine-foot painted canvas banners hung on the buses’ sides, to be read by the highway traffic and thousands of people at home and on the sidewalks of the towns the buses passed through. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knows how badly—how desperately—I need to get into Prism, because she knows what it feels like to be afraid that staying in this town will feel the same as dying. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then they were moving out of the yard, on their way to town. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

His church is the old one at the edge of town, and I now realize why he’s chosen to live here. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Today there was a toad racing match, and the Stormville racers had arrived to pit their toads against the team from Boggs Ferry—Thorn’s old town. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

That man, that false prophet, might just be the most dangerous man in town. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Despite the recent rationing of sugar, tires, gas, tea, and coffee, a big turnout of visitors was expected in the coastal towns that summer. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

We live on the other side, to the northeast, and we’re going to have to go thru the town to get there so here it comes, as fast as I can get thru it. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The last town before Mont-Saint-Michel is barely a town at all. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

There was enough light, it was established, from stars, and from the cloud base reflecting streetlights from the nearest town. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Fina tells me to come to her house, and Dad drives me into town, which is crowded since it’s Saturday. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

As I drove out of town, I saw an ancient woman standing in a blighted field. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

On the roads outside town, we'd drive past the gateways to what were once slave plantations, though they were enough of a fact of life that nobody ever bothered to remark on them. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The town shriveled and dried up along with the lake, and the people who lived there. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Mark and Alec followed without hesitation, sprinting through the main alley of the town. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She says it was a fluke that Asimov was in town. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat in her aunt’s crowded living room and listened to Lucky and Salvador boast about their fine jobs and their trips to other desert towns in Lucky’s car. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Then the cousin laughed coarsely and he said to Lotus, who sat there smoking her water pipe, “These town women are too finicking, are they not, Old Mistress?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

After the town got word of Miss Hilly’s lies, three ladies in a row hung up on me the minute I said my name. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Then I slid down a drainpipe and legged it away through the dark streets, across the town square to the front of the Tehlin church. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Too civilized, they said, and downright unnatural, too, since no town the size of Blythe had any business existing out in the Mojave Desert. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

If it were clear enough and you had powerful enough binocs you could probably see all the way back to town. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

But today, Rufus and Tom Weylin had gone into town leaving Edwards in charge, leaving him several hours to show us how “important” he was. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was ten o’clock when he left the town. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the reasoning that the recognition of any of them by an outsider would breach security, he ordered them dispersed to other hotels around town. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It’s a town of beaches and bluffs on the tip of the south fork. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Easton and Salisbury were yellow on the map so they were big towns. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if I’d had a telephone, like some of the folks closer to town did, I wouldn’t have needed to listen in on the party line. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The troll was directly below her, pounding against the town’s outer wall, which was coming away in chunks beneath his powerful fingers. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“You said a hundred dollars American when I got you to town.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I knelt down and began collecting them, filling my pockets with what remained of the town of Henrietta’s youth. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The morning after our arrival at Thessicher’s farm, I took the stove and skied into town. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

But to do the camp, she had to miss this young artists’ workshop her art teacher had told her about at Thoman-Brown College in town, which was definitely, absolutely something Ivy would call fun. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In the evenings they returned to Kopenick, where the town fathers seemed bent on providing nightly entertainment whether the athletes wanted it or not. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

When no one came, I went out, determined to explore and acclimate myself to the town. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

We were more outwardly directed than the town we came from. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

In the nearby town he found a former German engineer who was now unemployed and had five children to feed. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

My dad, who had gone to town, defiantly 1 imagine, returned almost jubi-lant. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within seconds, two suited men breeze past me, lift him by the arms and haul him, still coughing, toward town. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

But surrounding it was the stillness of nearmidnight in a country town, so that the hurrying feet and the repressed voices had a hollow reverberance. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Your lord husband awaits you within the town." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Despite the wild ride, he managed to leave town with a great degree of dignity, holding his head high and his back stiff as he pushed the bike along the path. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Time moves so slowly in this town it doesn’t much matter,” she replied. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In the market town, she parked the car and bought some crayons and drawing paper, and a box of home-made sweets. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

"You're on the floor, and I'm only getting to drive because my dad's out of town." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

On the seat next to me was a small map of Virginia with the town of Suffolk circled on it, and a hand-drawn map Mommy had given me. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is where me, y’all’s daddy and uncle, and just about every other kid in town learned how to shoot, thanks to your old granddaddy here.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The store was located on the other side of town, and the trip involved taking one train and then switching to another. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

In the town, supper fires sent up blue smoke, and here and there was the red glare of torchlight and campfire. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

My mom would probably follow Jordan’s mom all the way back, on I-78, until his family pulled off into the nice part of town. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Off we’d go, heading out into the desert in search of another house for rent in another little mining town. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In every town and village the Germans invaded, they took over and set up their own soldiers and government to occupy and replace the Soviet system. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She was gone, and no matter where I went—another town, another country, Fairyland, or Gnome Caverns—I wouldn’t find her. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks largely to the groundwork laid by Douglas Moore, Floyd McKissick, and Louis Austin, the town’s black elite was willing to promote confrontation over quiet persuasion. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In order to vote, you had to be there in person, so those citizens who lived outside town were also, effectively, disenfranchised. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

There was no part of the town that Singer did not know. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

If all the people that has consumption in Limerick were to die this would be a ghost town, though I don’t have consumption meself. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

So Lao Lao went to the rich magistrate of the town and persuaded him to give her a bottle of his best wine. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Though they have the exact address, written on a slip of folded paper in Moushumi’s evening bag, it leads them only to a suite of offices in a town house. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“My father works for the second largest real estate company in eastern North Carolina,” or “My father is the most important lawyer in this town.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their roads took them around the town rather than through its center. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few, like Joe, were farm boys or lumberjacks or fishermen, the products of foggy coastal villages, damp dairy farms, and smoky lumber towns all over the state. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The town of Thwil is not large, its high houses huddling close over a few steep narrow streets. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

We didn’t see much else of the town, because suddenly, right in front of us, were the rides and tents of the carnival. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pa said he must go to town to trade the furs of the wild animals he had been trapping all winter. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our town looked like a tired black-and-white movie. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

The returning soldiers carried the only booty available in the squalid town: the pale golden leaves of “bright” tobacco. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mostly what he will write about is his own life, including what it was like growing up gay in the little town of Paintbrush Falls, New York. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“He runs this town. Men like him suffer no consequences,” my mother said. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Before coming down here, she was a realtor up in Modesto, the same town where Uncle Basil had his almond farm. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The west branch of the Delaware, the town of Delhi, and the one mountain among thousands were where she belonged. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

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

“This town has always been crazy,” Bruno said. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, I catch Davi’s eyes watching the villagers at the town square, when she lingers there long after the crowd has departed. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Make it some other town, and it’s a deal,” I said. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Kathy, call your friends at the newspapers and TV and radio stations and tip them off about the crooked betting ring in this town.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way that Raymie imagined her plan unfolding was that her father would be sitting in some restaurant, in whatever town he had run away to. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

“Just around town. I want to ask you something.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He went the next day into the town and to the house of the merchant and he said, “My daughter is thirteen years old and no longer a child and she is fit for marriage.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

In this version of town, Pipo Place took over the entire corner of Main Street. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He muttered the name of a town on the mainland. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“I have already written my wife and mother telling them about the trouble last night. I have told them we have to leave the Tang people’s town.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the most feverish Friday night of the season: Odessa against Midland, the grudge game to settle bragging rights between the two towns for the next twelve months. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, just when I needed my parents the most, in my hour of deepest need and intestinal crampage, they shipped me off across town to my grampa and grandma’s. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they searched the town for their friends, Mark worried about people trying to join them. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

When he got to Albuquerque, Gold was told every hotel room in town was booked. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taylor squinted upward at a lightening sky, “I expect he’s already under way. He advises me that there is a shoe factory in the town and his men intend to, ah, requisition some footgear. ” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about going back to town for a sledgehammer or a hacksaw—but that would only raise questions I didn’t feel like answering. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Or maybe she is referring to being here in this office, this school, this town. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A few miles out of town, the bus began to list to one side as the slashed tires went flat. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine being carried through town on a golden throne, smiling and waving to my fans. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The town had a basketful of feelings good and bad about Joe’s positions and possessions, but none had the temerity to challenge him. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“God, this town is beautiful at this time of the year,” Ben said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stella told me that some circuses move from town to town. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

For many people, it had all the comfortable fixtures and feelings of a small town. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

For her shopping trips to town she wore a camel’s-hair coat and a boater festooned with ribbon and striped lace. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He always used the same mental scenery—a night club in Las Vegas, which happened to be his home town. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fairfax had a town marshal, the equivalent of a police chief, who joined the deputy at the ravine while the Shoun brothers were still conducting the autopsy. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It was about four in the afternoon when we got to the Tang people s town. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

A long time ago the house had belonged to a very respectable family, but they had moved into town after the waters of the river began to cut into the cliff below them. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am different. I mean, literally; we’re the only Indian Muslim family in town.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“All we have to do is threaten to go. They let us rebuild the Tang people’s town in the old place or we go to some city where they’ll appreciate us.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She waited at a railroad signal outside town where the train would slow and maybe stop. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

As the drifters came along, being hounded out of town, Grandma g ave them a good feed and a beer to wet their whistles. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

After a year Celeste moved to another part of town and went to another school. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

In the tenth year we sacked the inner city, Priam’s town, and sailed for home; but heaven dispersed the Akhaians. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the way through town, a group of North Korean soldiers stopped them and ordered them out of the truck. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I stepped on the gas pedal, made a quick left, then a right, working my way through the town streets until I was sure that we weren’t being followed. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I figured he had a much better change if he left town at night. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

From far away the store on the edge of town looked about a hundred years old, but when we got up to it, I saw it was actually older. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the town was greatly outraged over what the citizens considered a slight to an author. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The town square was filled with Ravenskillians, and Seven did the only thing she could think to do. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

"I've been waiting for you in that town there," he says, pointing back at the few poor buildings. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I stood alone on the side of the road and listened to my town play its industrial song. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The owner settled back into town to await the hundred- grander impost announcement. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once more they filled their canteens at a service station on the eastern edge of the town. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The town roads have been plowed, so we have no trouble crossing Chokecherry. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

In no time, the place was a ghost town with only a few scrawny dogs riffling through garbage and crows watching from the rooftops. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I left home with Junior, my older brother, and our friend Talloi, both a year older than I, to go to the town of Mattru Jong, to participate in our friends’ talent show. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They come into town and call us all a bunch of hicks and think it’s too small to hold them. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw pikemen strike down sentries of the enemy at the town gate and take prisoner the Welsh guards. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I can just imagine the headline in the town newspaper: “Girl Loses Eyesight After Reading Recipe Competition Rules.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

North of here the kingsroad ran along the Green Fork of the Trident, through fertile valleys and green woodlands, past thriving towns and stout holdfasts and the castles of the river lords. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Maybe that was why so many apartment complexes around town were named for ferns and wet, wooded sanctuaries. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He met up with his brother Walter in Chicago, where he was fleeced and pickpocketed from the time he hit town till the time he left. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A woman said there’s a town five kilometers away. There’s a store, a post office, and a school,” said Mrs. Rimas. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

By the time we’ve cleared the rickety buildings of the town and get into the outskirts of the settlement I know that this trip is going to be brutal. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Still, in town they said we were lucky. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was an opportune time, Will’s mother had decided, for the family to get out of town, far from Somerset County, away from the crowds that had taken over Shanksville. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

The road angles down the steep hill and into a tiny town, the last outpost of civilization before the mount. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“But Dylan and Samantha are back in town this weekend and are coming over later.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“The Spencers got a pony? There’s a town a couple days’ ride north of here called Nicodemus. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Could I get off in one of those towns, stay off the roads, and just walk through the woods?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They seemed unnatural—oddities in the desert towns where we’d lived. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t much to do in our small town, but we were content going to the mall, getting our nails done, going to football games, and gossiping about guys. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

By July of 1955 he had reached, on the trek to Worcester, a small Kansas town, Phillipsburg, and there “fate,” in the form of “bad company,” asserted itself. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Sunday evening, Kate and Decca and I drive to my dad’s new house in the more expensive part of town for Weekly Obligatory Family Dinner. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A pastoral suburb of around 7,200 amid a city of some five million people, Clarkston is still its own town. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He built the town courthouse and the jail. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

And as we moved through town, the numbers continued to climb as the neighborhoods changed. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

So we will have to move to another town where there is a university because I don’t want to live on my own or in a house with other students. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Gran had been called away to another town, the Uncle indisposed, just like they had been during the impossible task in 1965. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Lost in his thoughts, little Willy got to town before he knew it. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was the archetypal theoretical physicist: it was said of him that even his presence in the same town would make experiments go wrong! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that time, we lived in a part of town far from the city center. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Pa said that as soon as he had the crops in, they would all go to town. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You might feel that way now, but it isn't like that forever. Wait until you see what the world has to offer besides this small town and your high school. People are different out there.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I’m not. My dad’s in town, so he’s picking me up.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Instead, what had my entire town full of hope and big ideas was what one scientist described on the news as an extremely rare group of albino woodpeckers by the name of pileated. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

My wife’s mother said people in town thought the effigy- hanging was the work of “outsiders.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were supported by all the newspapers in town, and the AP and the UP and all that. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He once asked Ms. Langford why Hester in The Scarlet Letter didn’t run away from her town in basically a big F U to society. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

These complaints made their way to Clarkson, though he was misled to believe that the black nurses were going about town demanding exorbitant rates for their work. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

On March 28, thousands of Inkatha members, brandishing spears and knobkerries, marched through Johannesburg to a rally in the center of town. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The biggest event Suffolk had seen in years was a traveling sideshow that came through town on the railroad tracks, with a stiffed whale in a boxcar. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were headed for Little Rock to add to the incendiary feelings in our town. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the estuary from the town one section of mangroves stood clear and telescopically defined, while another mangrove clump was a hazy black-green blob. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was especially noticeable after Joe had forced through a town ditch to drain the street in front of the store. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

But, being Lyra, she didn’t fret about it for long, for there was the fen town to explore and many gyptian children to amaze. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Stitched in the center was the well from the town’s square; above it, Holly had embroidered the words Hope Springs Eternal and below, A treasure worth more than gold. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Located where the cold, clear Spokane River tumbled in a white froth over a series of low falls, the town was surrounded by ponderosa pine forest and open range country. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Alone in their town house, Tara wanders absently. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Her parents, who ran the shoe shop in town, weren’t as lucky. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Can I take you to town, Mr. Finch? It’s powerfully early, but I think I’ll run down and tend to some things in the cool of the morning.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Paul, the second of six children—three boys and three girls—was born in 1959 in a struggling mill town. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

They signaled the dividing line between the turbulence of the town and its sins and the quiet peace of the hills of the llano. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys figured they could knock on doors in town and offer their services. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

We raced out of town in the spitting dark, vague blue outlines of cottages giving way to sloping fields, then charged up the ridge, sheets of water streaming over our feet, making the path treacherous. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

And that meant that Wellpinit, that smaller, Indian town, was also a place of mystery. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Across town, in a little house that looked a lot like Alex’s, an old man sat in his den, watching the disaster unfold on TV. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

At the junk shop in town she spotted an old Brownie Starflex sitting in the corner of the front window. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Not in the town, that would take too long. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of us have left town, but my brother remains in Raleigh. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Was this time in Denver he snapped a man’s back with two fingers,” said Dusty, the town drunk. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

For once—once more—Yankee Doodle was going to town. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The town rose into view, the biggest Cora had seen since North Carolina, if not as long established. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The only similarity between the rest of the town and the church is the small windows covered with iron bars, but the shambler proofing is barely noticeable on such an impressive building. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She went from store to store in town, looking for a job, a new apartment away from the college and ways to disappear. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

"No kidding. I was born and brought up in this town myself." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

No, for now, he just had to hope that the town had some luck that was better than his. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

We went about our business in the countryside, in a town of slow undulating fields and great clouds. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The town of Kingston is straight ahead, and thickets of evergreen trees stand guard in every direction. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was quite expensive to live in grand hotels and travel about town in taxicabs. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We live over in the town, six miles away.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The shop was located right downtown on Washington Street, the main thoroughfare through town, squarely on the route of anyone traveling from Seattle to Port Angeles or farther out onto the peninsula. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Then I remembered Mr. Jeffries, my art teacher, telling us about an art festival in a town called Fountain Hills that was happening next weekend. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Because of what I did, there’s been a lot of negative attention on our town. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Anyhow a free mule in town was something new to talk about. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

She had evoked the town idealized by nostalgia with such strong tenacity that Gaston understood that she would not get married unless he took her to live in Macondo. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

That’s why Mama and Papa looked for a house, and that’s why we moved into the house on Mango Street, far away, on the other side of town. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day Mrs. Byrne comes into the sewing room and says she needs me to go on an errand into the center of town, a mile’s walk. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

One day, Mom got a call from Mr. Jackson, who lived up in the New Camp part of town and fancied himself a hunter. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Three or four scrael would go through this town like ... like ...” “Like a hot knife through butter?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When the new Hilton Hotel opened, it was on the east side of town. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They destroyed the Miamis’ two largest towns and took forty-one women and children captive, then sent warnings to the other towns that the same would happen to them unless they surrendered unconditionally. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

But despite the fact that Reardan is a tiny town, people can still be strangers to each other. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t think it at all strange that a thirteen-year-old boy in the unreconstructed Southern town of Stamps spoke with an En- glishy accent. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we had thought as to what we were doing, it would have been on the other side of the station past town. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is hauled slowly through town, followed on foot by every member of the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth deemed fit to be seen. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Each time he is deported, Enrique knows he must quickly get back over the river, into Mexico, away from Guatemala’s lawless border towns. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

That was right after she got to town, and the girls took her out one weekend. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

But it was far away at the edge of town. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked along Gilman Street, the best street in town. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Go back to town and go to bed.’ Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

He drew the first aerial perspectives of landscapes, towns and fortifications. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was why none of them slept at the house when they visited the town and the four who had stayed lived in rented rooms at Úrsula’s insistence. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Apparently a lot of other people in town have mental problems, because I can’t get an appointment until Monday. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I put the gear in the back of Grampa’s truck and headed north out of town. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Lina stopped at home the next day only long enough to change out of her messenger jacket, and then she dashed across town to the Pipeworks. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The lights of a sleeping town were drifting by. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Benches and chairs along the two walls were crowded with men from the town, with here and there a sharp-faced woman, cronies of Good- wife Cruff. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He wore the same generic blue work shirt that everyone in this building, this town, owned. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The audience was mostly town people because the farmers had all gone home to do their chores. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It had been so busy in the clinic that Doha had no idea what was happening in town. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The road stopped winding through forested hills as it passed through a town. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

At the last streetlight on the road out of town, I take out the map with the Helderberg Escarpment on it. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s Amá wearing a long dress, standing in front of the fountain in the town square. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He returned to town for the satchel and put himself up in one of the cabins. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dared her to saw down the yield sign on Strevell Avenue, one of the last street signs in town with a wooden base. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Amati’s family workshop was subsequently imitated by two other now legendary violin-making families of Cremona, the Stradivari and the Guarneri, in whose hands the town swiftly eclipsed the earlier reputation of Brescia. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

They had gone to a town called North Platte, to look at a pickup truck. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

All royal authority seems to have ceased on the land, and the governors preside only over their floating town and this sickly island. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Chase followed, and some of the other children from around town did, too. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

They passed through Beaver Dam, a small town. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then, from all corners of Hrothgar’s sphere of influence and from towns beyond—the vassals’ vassals—an army began to form. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the school bell rings at the end of the day, Jasmine says the sheriff has organized a search party that’s meeting in the center of town. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

What does she want, to run the town into the ground?” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Little Willy went to see Mayor Smiley at the city hall building in town to sign up for the race. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But stored food is essential for feeding non-food-producing specialists, and certainly for supporting whole towns of them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

My mother, who works for a travel agent in town, clicks off the radio and pours herself a second cup of coffee. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Jackson Junior League Annual Ball and Benefit is known simply as “the Benefit” to anyone who lives within a ten-mile radius of town. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We sat with him behind his desk, looking out the huge windows at the town spread beneath us. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

That was the day Rufus and Nigel took the wagon into town to mail my letter and take care of some business of their own. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

We were about the only amusement left in town, it seemed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I drove to the only grocery store in town, called Stokes, and applied for a job bagging groceries. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Then we’ll I lit town and deliver to the grocery store, the bakery, and then last stop, Aunt Naomi.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Mom’s unpopularity in a town her ancestors helped found. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Lunch was a sandwich and a can of Coke in a town called Red Bud. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Mind you, I don’t really say y’all, but it’s usually best to try to sound a bit like the folks whose town you’re moving into. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then, during a holy trance, Felicia spoke of her days in a far-off town. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tomsk was to be the major pilot project to stop the Russian TB epidemic, the project that would show the way to controlling—in prisons, towns, and cities throughout Russia—both drug-susceptible TB and MDR. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

At the stroke of eleven the parade stepped off with the high-school bands of the three nearest towns with high schools. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, he chose to put Arnold down at the one spot in town as bad as Finsterwald’s backyard — namely, Finsterwald’s front steps. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you know, white mens like nothing better than ‘protecting’ the white womens a their town?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A geyser of sparks erupts deep within a house—an electrical transformer or hoarded fuel or maybe a delayed-action bomb—and it looks to him as if lightning lashes the town from within. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The fourth night in ugly exile she took her board up into the greenbelt, staying at the edge of town. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She ditched the first publicar at a small town right on time. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Splendid. 1 don’t like those Negroes in town. Dog people come and the man that delivers the dog food once a week. They come. They’ll find me. I just hope it’s soon.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

That hope lasted until suppertime, when my father announced that the town had decided to build a new junior high school, and that Hoodhood and Associates had been invited to bid to become the architect. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

R.C’s little sister Naomi, was my age but I never saw her in town except during the school year and even then she only came once in a while. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

If Horace knew everyone was in town for a meeting, so did whoever had joined him on the night of the first fence cutting. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

My mother had begun working in neighbors' gardens and doing pickup work as a maid in town in exchange for mealie meal. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

In the town house, Frederick pulls on pajamas made of jelly-green silk and folds his glasses on the nightstand and climbs barefoot into his brass childhood bed. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Because of the congestion on the roads to Jena, some protestors left their vehicles and walked into town on foot. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Why are you being so ridiculous, Sophie? Of course he’s not out of town!” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

She felt we had grown as much as we could hiding in our tiny flat in town. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Hours passed, and by the time he stumbled outside, the beautiful sounds of Fumulani’s voice could be heard all over town. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The Crown Forces, determined to crush the rebels, raided towns in County Galway and blew up railway lines. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

They knew there was a store in town, but they had never seen a store. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had just come to town a couple of days before, bringing almost nothing. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Once, when I was fifteen, after I’d started wearing mascara and lip gloss, Shawn had told Dad that he’d heard rumors about me in town, that I had a reputation. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It is the same river which I crossed on my way to the town. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

They walked through the center of town, stepping over piles of clothes. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s just that Airs. Brolin said she’d be displaying all our projects in the main library downtown. I want it to be really good. Plus, it’s a big deal to everyone in town.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

In Virginia, I knew they’d always lived in their sections of town, and us in ours. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The same day, the Hungarian police burst into every Jewish home in town: a Jew was henceforth forbidden to own gold, jewelry, or any valuables. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was originally discovered in the town of Lyme, Connecticut, not too far from here. You catch it from tick bites. The woods are full of ticks this year.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

What really grabbed me was footage of Clover, an old plantation town in southern Virginia, where some of Henrietta’s relatives still seemed to live. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Crime was rising, and newer suburbs farther from town were roomier and less diverse. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

It was a pretty big town—hundreds of people lived there. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no street lights in this part of town; only the moon directed the way of a pedestrian. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only seven or so blocks from our homes, drug dealers hang out by the town courts and old men sit around drinking from brown paper bags. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was all that the town was to know about him for almost a month. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought we had the strictest father in town. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

That tree was close to a hundred feet tall and the only sassafras still left of the big grove our town was named for. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

‘And always polite to everyone and very well dressed? Not like someone from this town—more like a Northerner or maybe a Jew?’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I moved to a new apartment on the other side of town where no one knew me. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A large one in the center of town occupied four streets, and another smaller one extended over several alleyways on the outskirts of town. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mainly, I think the best times I have are playing cards or when I’ve dropped someone off and I’m heading back to town, maybe from the city or even further north. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

As they got farther into town, the houses got bigger and sat on yards carpeted with green and full of thick bushes and enormous shade trees. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Most souls in town except Turner and his mother, that is. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The town talked it for three days and said that’s just what they would have done if they had been rich men like Joe Starks. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t there any place in town that might have them?” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered Seattle as a town sitting on hills beside a matchless harborage—a little city of space and trees and gardens, its houses matched to such a background. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometime during the illness I saw the face of the doctor from town, and later I saw Andrew. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I saw was an upside-down town, small, quiet and peaceable, whose citizens went about with the sweet civility of angels. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I raced like the wind through the nighttime town. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The tricky part was getting Nan to pick Hope Springs out of all those other towns. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Agent Wren learned that he had ordered a new suit of clothes and had said that he was planning to leave town at a moment’s notice. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

On my way out, I pass the five-foot Stormtrooper cardboard cutout that he won shooting free throws at the town’s Fourth of July festival last summer. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Whereas in New Orleans he paid little attention to his brother, in Mississippi everyone who boarded the bus at the various little towns had a smile and a greeting for everyone else. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“His girlfriend thinks he skipped town,” I admitted, “but she promised to help us nail Dusty Muleman.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The Wabash Blue Bird didn’t exactly stop at Grandma’s town. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

For one thing, Mrs. Chung had been working at a cleaners over on the other side of town, and April hadn’t heard anything about a change. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

To corroborate it, Agent Burger and a colleague had earlier traveled to Campbell, a town in northern Texas, where Ernest and Bryan’s aunt and uncle lived. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

As I drove north through the little towns and the increasing forest rolling away to the horizon, the season changed quickly and out of all proportion. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The drive took them out of the bustle of Atlanta and through small towns in the Georgia countryside. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

As we drove by Nipomo, the last town before Santa Maria, my heart started pounding. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’m thinking maybe I better let him just go to bed, when he suggests a walk to town. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It is one of the town’s two “apartment houses,” the second being a ramshackle mansion known, because a good part of the local school’s faculty lives there, as the Teacherage. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why are they coming after you so fiercely? Why is a whole army chasing you across towns and rivers and plains and the whole stupid planet?” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“These were just towns outside the city. Support suburbs. They’re everywhere. Stuff like this goes for miles. From when everyone had cars.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

She lived in an area just outside of town where many people did not have running water, so whenever she came over, she filled big jugs to take home. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Before we get onto the highway, we roll through this one town called Robin Township, where everyone lives in a mansion. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stop by the Braddock Hotel to see which musicians happen to be in town. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Andersons lived in a lovely clapboard house at the corner of Washington and Main, a few blocks past the hubbub of stores and businesses, where the town settled into private residences for the well-to-do. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

At night he jungled up with wandering men in the camping places on the fringes of towns. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then she will wait a bit longer in case her uncle comes home, in case she hears anyone pass by, the town crier, a fireman, an American serviceman with gallantry on his mind. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

That was the nature of sports in a town like this. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had to climb up a set of steps, through the roads of this small town. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Father says that the town steals our freedom; he says that we must build a castle across the river, on the lonely hill of the mockingbirds. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nan and I never called any place we lived our home; it was always “this town” or “this place”—sometimes something worse. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“You speak of a town of immigrants. People who already left everything behind.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Louie won so many wristwatches, the traditional laurel of track, that he began handing them out all over town. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Seven puts the big lock on the gate, the one we use when we go out of town. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, in this story was all these people trapped inside their own town because the plague attacks them and they are put into quarantine.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“Oh, well, that’s nice. I’ve been there lots of times. Used to work for a chiropractor there before he retired and moved to Germany. It’s a lovely little town. Now here’s what you gotta do.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

In the town there were two mutes, and they were always together. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I heard it was a silver saddle. It’s all over town about that saddle.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Pizarro agreed and the Spaniards publicly burned Challcochima to death in the main plaza of the next town they came to. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Twice a week? Stuart, I had no idea you came to town that often.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“You say it’s a quiet town. Just a couple of days of peace and quiet, that’s what I need.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

We ate hamburgers at a diner—they hadn’t seen Joseph either—and then we drove into town. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Charles Howard, owner of three erstwhile unsaleable automobiles, was suddenly the richest man in town. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

We came around the corner of the back lane and into the Place des Hirondelles, the town hall square, full of armored vehicles and bored-looking sentries. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“What about the town of Nogent-sur-Oise? It burned this week. A fire started by Christians in the Jewish quarter. People died.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

In the town below me there are no lights left. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was living off his “old settler” woman—when he was in town. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around town, folks went about their business, unconcerned. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The time was well spent,” he wrote to Margaret, who was then out of town, “and we have come to a better feeling so that the path will be much smoother from this time forward.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

When I was seven, I used to go to the town square to recite monologues from the works of Shakespeare for the adults of my community. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

And now, in a town where he’d sought to get away from it all, he had somehow backed into a showdown. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were several small black neighborhoods on the fringes of town, non-Levitt-built homes. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“She won’t ever call a number that didn’t answer. She’s probably dialing other houses in town right now! And here I sit Wait a minute!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bunch of kids from the wrong side of town couldn't afford uniforms or equipment with parents working two or three jobs. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

As Nick’s dad walked slowly back to the hardware store, he wondered if things were ever going to be the same again in his quiet little town. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was the archivist, and all the archives of the town were in his office. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

All night they had raced the Iowa Chevrolet through thick rain, stopping twice to siphon gas, both times from vehicles parked on the empty streets of small sleeping towns. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He meant to whip her and put her in one of the rooms at the inn, whip her and move her to another town, and so on until she was of no use any more. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

No child had vanished from this town in years. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

If she were here, he knows where he might well be: scavenging in the trash dump across town. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Even tourists seldom patronized the meter because the rest of the “plaza,” not to mention all the dusty side streets in town, were open to their monstrous automotive freakshows. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Interlocking dial systems connected every town on Mars. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the other side of the tower Robin could look down upon the town and the church roof, and see clearly how the church was shaped like a cross. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Next: the tiny town of Logan on Logan Street, and then Highway 20, with its flat yellow fields of alfalfa and corn and barley and wheat. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

This is where I need Ms. Rochambeau to drive me across town. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

As he drove toward town he thought of nothing except a large order of drills he was hoping to get that day. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

When they heard that Kvasir was visiting a town nearby, they set out to meet him. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

First, we drop Mom off at the office in town. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The few teachers the town did have were not exactly the pick of the litter, as Dad liked to say, and despite the shortage, one would get fired from time to time. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway: To have the most enchanting human being I’ve ever encountered tell me my move to her town is the best thing to happen to her in ten years? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Upon receiving the word, people again left town and headed for their various hiding places in the forests. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The couple had made few friends during their time in the state, making it easier to abstain from the life of town. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

They snapped like icicles and spewed bile over forests, into lakes, drowning whole reserves and towns. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

His parents were quiet, watching him, never looking away, like they just wanted to enjoy The Gus Waters Show while it was still in town. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The ferry docked and we humped our bags into the little town. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

It was a big school, near the top of a hill looking down on the town, with a steep road leading up. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

To win the Cherokees to their side, British authorities provided weaponry and money, while separatist representatives threatened the towns with complete destruction if they did not remain neutral. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

A white woman from a poor rural Alabama town, Marsha had never been to New York, but she was about to be honored at a dinner with two hundred guests. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They didn’t want people to abandon the town, because they needed to use civilians as a shield against the military. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Not long ago in a large university town in California, on a street called Orchard Avenue, a strange old man ran a dusty shabby store. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you give me your pack, I’ll carry it back to town . . .” “Oh no you won’t,” she growled, sliding her arms through the straps and hunching the weight up into place. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

About a mile and a half out of town, a deputy blocked the entrance to a bridge after the runners had passed over, and refused to let reporters and cameramen go any farther. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now Nel belonged to the town and all of its ways. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

There was even a train system to facilitate transporting the miners from the Nut to the very center of the main town in District 2. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

His mind floats; he only half listens as Kim talks about her classes, about the town in Connecticut where she’s from. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The giant grabbed her thin wrist and began dragging Old Theresa out of town. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

When, a few years later, the postal authorities changed the spelling of the town to Downe, the Darwins did not go along. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was six-thirty in the morning and the town was bustling as though it were high noon. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re known all around town. Every hotel concierge and—’’ “Shut up!” said Moses. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

To that end, I dashed into an alley behind two rows of cottages, where it seemed there would be lots of hiding places, and made for the edge of town. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Even though the whole town whipped out their Saint Springfield cards whenever it was most convenient, Ma never did. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

II found this in a book when Mother took me into the library in town in 1996. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

‘In 79 C.E., Vesuvius erupted and covered the town in ash.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But Mrs. Bloodgood did not want any Negro families in the town. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Carmel was mildly startling after Centralia—a busy little town, nicely old-fashioned, with traffic on Main Street and sidewalks full of shoppers and other townsfolk going about their business. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Is it me? Is it the house? Are we too far away from town?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I bet all the Russians wish they could move to Norvelt,” she replied, defending her town. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I wished I had hit for die daily dollar that I played with my town man, paying him by the week. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Weightlessness can be a lot of fun, but in many ways it would be a dreadful nuisance if everything in our town had to be tied down to prevent its floating off somewhere. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her gym was on the East Side, in what used to be a good part of town, near the bridge that connected the east and west banks. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Many days I walked the six miles to town in the morning and the six back in the evening in order to save bus fare. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The news stirred up something infinitely black and evil in the town; the black distillate was like the scorpion, or like hunger in the smell of food, or like loneliness when love is withheld. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Innocent of the tragedy that threatened it, the town poured into the main square in a noisy explosion of merriment. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Marc’s grandfather grew up in this town, and has been a member of this congregation for his whole life. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Across the highway in the ghost town Amarante Cordova’s light glowed softly from the open door of his crumbling adobe. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Washing cars, like I was doing every day when I was nine, ten, eleven, you get to know the people who have cars in the town. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since I was not from across the tracks or from town, I was caught in the middle. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it seemed like there were even more of them now that they were in a new town, which was unfair. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Like everybody else in town, they squeezed in together. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Toward the tail end of the following afternoon phone calls came in from both Massachusetts towns, and the scoop on Charley Bloom was everything the agent could have hoped for. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It stood northwest of Rapid City, near the town of Sturgis. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“We better find a town pretty soon,” Dallas said. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“A little. Found out who shot him. It was some woman in that town there, Gettysburg.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all, the apartments the refugees lived in were a world away from the houses across town. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

At the southern end of town, he crossed a bridge over a moat and came to a castle built by a Prussian prince in 1690. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The racetrack is south of town and just shy of insanity if you ask me,” Holly said. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

They’d called the police in all three towns, and in all three towns every cop on duty was driving and looking, trying to find a small boy traveling with a little spotted dog. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“I guess,” said Lizzie’s grandfather slowly, “I guess I thought that every town in the state of Maine took care to find a teacher for its own.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

On the day of Zeus’s festival he drove it furiously through the town, scattering at the same time firebrands and shouting to the people to worship him because he was Zeus the Thunderer. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That was different. This is a time-honored tradition. Every boy in town goes to John Eye’s, sooner or later.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The network of older women helped her settle quickly in her new town. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

At the town of Knysna, more than a hundred miles west of Port Elizabeth, I stopped to survey the surroundings. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Red’s was the only colored saloon in the town proper; the proprietor got a break on the rent for a watchful eye. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It was a ghost town on the weekend, with only a few cars and the occasional passersby. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

When the orchestra and the press left town, the lights went out again. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

It would take too long to dock his boat at this distance and walk through town. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Said he didn’t mind going to Egypt, which was what everybody in town called privies. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It was in this town that I’d been compelled to spend a month every summer until I was fourteen. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I thought how ironic it was that Jake’s telescope could see stars a million light-years away, but not the town it was in. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She never did know where it was located, near what town, how far away from the Brodas plantation. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe as the neighborhood Chess knew was falling apart, this part of the town had turned fancy, more like a big city. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

They walk half a mile to the nearby town of Ang Snur and return an hour later. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a puny boy, and in his first years in Torrance, his lungs were still compromised enough from the pneumonia that in picnic footraces, every girl in town could dust him. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

But the younger children couldn’t go past the pine clump toward the big house and the town, or the bramble patch where they picked blackberries in summer in the other direction. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I told Miss Love she better be careful. Boil his plate and fork and all. I don’t want no epidemic gittin’ started in this town.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The Man in the White Shirt was surprised by how quiet it was, so close to the center of town. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

We race across the boulevard that cuts in front of the school, and alongside the trees that separate the main parking lot from the river that splits the town in half. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It’s good to think he may have made his way south down the long leg of Italy and found human companionship in a village or small hill town, safely remote from the capital. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Early the next morning we left for Mbeya, a Tanganyikan town near the Northern Rhodesian border. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Starting fights and jacking beers from the bodega across town and messing with mad girls. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He went around telling everyone in town that Dad sure knew how to use his noodle. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Seemed to hit worse in town than out on the farms. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

New wooden fortifications topped the old stone walls on the outskirts of town, and watchtowers had been built along the shore, but the war had not touched Oxscini’s forested lands yet. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

We crossed the Catherine Street Bridge to the more populous part of town, which now appeared without inhabitant. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I pulled up a map of the town and traced a route from my current location to Halliday’s childhood home. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Lee pointed to the hills beyond the town. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They bowed down to him rather, because he was all of these things, and then again he was all of these things because the town bowed down. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I finally convinced Mom and Dad I could ride my bike into town on my own, to go to the library. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Eventually, sighting on the small cluster of garish mercury vapor lamps in town, Herbie made it to Rael’s store, and from there he knew the way home. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could see forms and shapes that resembled rivers and streams and oxbow lakes, and he could see specks that might be towns, and he could see belts of forest. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The town looked on in silence as little Willy, carrying Searchlight, walked the last ten feet and across the finish line. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men on foot march their way into town. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

"Suppose I don't go to Southampton, and come into town this afternoon?" The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Pap& hadn’t broken with this woman but merely moved her off the grounds and into town. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s picked up roast chicken and side dishes at a gourmet shop in town. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Johannesburg in those days was a combination frontier town and modern city. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cora and Caesar were almost to town when he said, “Meg works for one of those Washington Street families. One of those big houses you see?” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Wes’s athletic physique and laid-back style, combined with the obvious trappings of a kid with disposable income—a new pair of sneakers every day, brand-name clothes—made him very popular with the girls around town. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

One possible way you may come to learn this: You’re in a town where every family includes a mother, father, and two children, and, picking a house at random, you are greeted by a girl. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed past the woods, away from town, toward the country road and its endless cornfields. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“He has made me so happy,” said she, one evening, “by telling me that he was totally ignorant of my being in town last spring! I had not believed it possible.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

All the other subdivisions from the brochures turned out to exist— most of them on the north side of town, which had been totally developed a long time ago. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

It would have been much better if he had tried to leave town at once. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was, in all of the denizens of the town, an expectation of riot, famine, and sickness. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But my memory is uncertain; I recall a summer storm in the town where we lived and imagine a summer my mother knew in 1929. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

They charged into the fleeing crowd on foot while possemen on horseback chased the marchers all the way back to the black section of town and Brown Chapel. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

From Durban I drove south along the coast past Port Shepstone and Port St. Johns, small and lovely colonial towns that dotted the shimmering beaches fronting the Indian Ocean. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For centuries in Europe, they had been forbidden to own land, so they had clustered in cities and towns, taking up urban trades and professions. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Once a cloud of dust on the road moving toward the town kept him excited for an hour, but it proved to be only a flock of sheep being driven to market. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

In the morning I get up earlier than normal and walk around town with the Doorman and a street directory, finding each house. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Parking difficulties in the towns have caused these markets to move to the open country where they are immune from town taxes. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was convinced that this was not about one person or one family or even about one town. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The next day he wired Swope to tell him he was coming to town the following morning. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had been found that morning, just outside of town, the dead body of a soldier, his uniform shredded where he had been flogged, and, turned upward through the black skin, raw, red meat. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I knew he would be really upset if Mr. Spizz turned the town against his plans. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But at this moment the heart of town, such as it was, was deserted. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

You know how a story gets told in a small town, and how every time someone tells it, it gets bigger and bigger, until it’s a flat-out lie? The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Let me tell you a little secret, Jubilee. If you have any sense, you’ll get out of this town. I left as fast as I could, and look at me now.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Afterward, he stopped to play backgammon at a coffee house in Greek- town. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Though the denizens of Coal hadn’t given us a second glance when we’d come through town earlier, now their heads swiveled like owls as we trudged by in single file, at gunpoint. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He was glad not to have to ask for directions, making it that much less likely anyone would remember he was ever in town. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since her parents divorced and her dad moved out of town, Sierra Russell had been incredibly quiet and spent all her free time reading. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

She had never left the plantation before she and Caesar ran away, so South Carolina gave Cora her first glimpse of the mingling of races in towns and cities. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

New towns sprang up, new sections were opened and populated, for the company had to create customers to get custom. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I could see the leaping flames of the town’s fires reflected in its huge eyes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I took confidence from its song, and wiping the tears from my eyes I raced towards the bridge, the link to town. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the stage for her capture, a second bandstand for the town’s amusement as she lay on the planks at the feet of four regulators in their white and black uniforms. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“It was like dropping an atomic bomb on a town,” said former mayor Hank Avery, and the explosion was felt in Odessa. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re up here to win for all those people back in your little town. What are you going to do when you come back empty-handed?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

There are boys whose mothers stagger through town roads when the juke joint slams its door. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the number was accurate, one out of every forty-five people in the town in the late seventies had reached millionaire status. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trees and houses appear, scattered on the slopes, clustered into villages and towns. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

For he saw his eldest for what he was: a man big in body but afraid of his own town wife and more afraid of not appearing nobly born than of anything. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The Pendor dragon tore free and flew low and lamely to the island, where it hid, crawling into some well or cavern in the ruined town. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The men spurred their horses and descended into town. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl’s obviously what the town wants, what with all the ruckus over the quiet in my Noise. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“For the daughter of the town drunk, you sure got big plans,” he said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Few in Clarkston knew anything about the history of the Somali Bantu when they learned, through media reports, that another wave of refugees was coming to their town. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He happened to be from the first black family ever to live across the tracks in the northeast part of town. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Robert Baratheon had been hiding somewhere in the town, wounded and alone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In some small prairie towns people looked at me like they never seen a colored man before. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later that afternoon, the cabinet, led by Blaine, called on Arthur at the town house. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

To reinforce this, I begin to move away from my old house and in toward the town. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It was a real town, a city in its own right. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Doubtless he had found some other way of getting out of town. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Won't there be Italians there? There are always both sides at a customs town.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

They’d had no food and little sleep in five days and in this condition on the outskirts of a small town they came upon a once grand house sited on a rise above the road. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Outside the walls of her secret garden, it is our town, with rain falling on houses in rows and on the distant, metal towers of the vuvv. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“There’s wax and a candle on the desk there. I’ll send the letter as soon as I can get to town.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

We parked in the center of town, which had big jacaranda trees and was very quaint. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Feeling hurt and empty, I headed back into town, hoping R.C. was right, that Naomi could and would take care of herself. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Holding hands, we strolled openly through the streets of the town. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Well, when she finds out about my new top secret job,” he said in a muffled voice full of intrigue, “she might change her mind. ’Cause there’ll be no town to nurse.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I know there are people in this town who think I’m a bad man,” he said, “but I could be worse.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“If there’s a doctor in this town worth more than ha’penny, then I’m the King of Vint.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They came out of the woods onto the road north of town. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

But the blacks would not be denied and swung themselves onto the train at the very last second as it pulled out of town. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We bought books and magazines in the town and a copy of “Hoyle” and learned many two-handed card games. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

In 1962, a fire in a dump on the edge of town ignited a coal seam. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I collected it myself, getting quite confident about cycling into town, as Mitraillette always uses the same checkpoint—they know me now, and wave me through without bothering to check my papers. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Gawdalmighty, don’t you understand the kind of place this is? The men in this town go in that pit and hold hands with death every day.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Teenagers drove their pickup trucks slowly along the streets of the town, looking for something to happen, wishing that the summer had not ended. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shook her head, brushed the gravel and leaves from her skirts, and continued down the slope toward the town. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

This is in a small town in Jiangsu province, outside Shanghai, a place of dusty shops and rutted roads, of timber and clay — a place where every noise has a known source. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her people was Spinneys that settled here and got the town named after them, or maybe they named it for themselves, same difference. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the towns they talked of sewers and inside toilets, and some already had them; and arc lights on the street corners—Salinas had those—and telephones. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was late summer, when tornadoes ride up and down the state every night like wraiths, and sometimes attack the towns looking for hobbits, who are really just kids. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She was instructed to stay instead in a rooming house in town—a place “for coloreds,” she was told. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

From that angle, it almost looked like a big town. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

On Sundays, a group of us would sometimes walk into Alice, to have a meal at one of the restaurants in town. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyone in town who missed reading about it in the newspapers will have seen it on the morning news, which showed close-up footage of us queens in our sashes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the rest of Manhattan was out on the town, he'd stayed home to peel apples and listen to country music. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Most of the black men in Monroe earned their living working for the railroad line that ran through the town. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The town square, and beyond that, their school, were a little more than a mile away. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Then, just as Royal was about to move, Gabriel remembered the white men all over town. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

A year ago, before, he would have visited the town even if it meant climbing over the walls by himself. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Yup,” Cico said, “the whole town. The golden carp has warned us that the land cannot take the weight of the sins—the land will finally sink!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

This town where he had spent time as a boy. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Born in 1964 in the tiny farm town of Benjamin, Utah, the son of a plumber, Singleton was a nice kid but a poor student, shy, a follower, a practical joker. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The next day he dresses in his mended tweed suit, takes a bill from his stash of American money, and buys a bottle of rum from a black-market dealer on the outskirts of town. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Fifteen. In my town, they found you a trade, they found you a wife, you studied. It's just what you did. Her name was Shayna." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We’re walking across the wild fields southeast of town, those ones that slope down to the river and head on toward the swamp. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Everyone acted like nothing had happened as they set off for another night on the town. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He drifted here and there—Aspen, Colorado, was the town where he holed up the longest. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I always feel weird when I see him, because of the terrible things he’s said about our town. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Thus, in La Paz, it was known in the early morning through the whole town that Kino was going to sell his pearl that day. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three months earlier, two young white girls who lived nearby in Alcolu, a small mill town where the races were separated by railroad tracks, had gone out to pick flowers and never returned home. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He pointed east, where the road led into the highroad and to the town gate. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

We pass through small towns and quiet neighborhoods. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

No one from town is going to see the two of us and assume something R-rated. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The paper chain is complete, and this once-unknown town has become a household word around the world. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“It’s not every day your town throws a parade for your only daughter and her two best friends.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

At dismissal, Samira asked me to get a slice of pizza with her in town. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

For several hundred years, and until quite recently, Milagro had been a sheep town. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And as this scruffy vehicle coasted noisily to a colorful exhaust-belching halt, it happened to obliterate from Bernabe’s view the lone parking meter in town. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Speaking of Pamela, the word around town is her dad accepted a job in Colorado Springs and the family will be moving soon. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“She’s the whole reason we moved to this town. The truth is, I thought it might make this place...I don’t know. Different,” I said. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, in the evenings, we went into town in our Carcachita to look for food in the trash behind grocery stores. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Except in the towns there was evidence of a population which had once lived here and farmed and had its being and had then been driven out. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a town behind a high wall. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It’s something I have to be aware of when I’m out on the town. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I can literally walk up to any nopal in town and cut off a paddle. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He moved into town, into the room that awaited him at the top of the house in which he worked, and he began to preach. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

But I also benefited from the special prestige of having the seal of approval from that Very Important Woman about the town of Mason, Mrs. Swerlin. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They passed through towns that warned people away with messages scrawled on the billboards. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“We don’t know. The regiment arrived yesterday and commandeered every billet, every scrap of food, and every ship in the town. They’d have had this boat, too, if you hadn’t taken it.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Karl put some money down on it last time he was to town.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Today, on the Festival of the Holly King, I present to the three witches here before us a token of the town’s gratitude.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Just this morning, I had to lie to Mother and tell her the Whitworths would be out of town on the twenty-fifth, Mother’s so-called date to have them over. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Ged saw a low coast lashed by rainy wind, a grey town crouching behind the long stone breakwaters that made its harbor, and behind the town treeless hills under a snow-darkened sky. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Hubble was born in 1889, ten years after Einstein, in a small Missouri town on the edge of the Ozarks and grew up there and in Wheaton, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It’s crazy what a few lines of paint can do: I knew it would threaten the future for Dad, but I had no idea it would dredge up a long-forgotten past for the town. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

So it was decided we had to get out of town. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The lights in her house had flickered at 730 that evening...and wasn’t the announcer talking about towns she knew well? Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The Peo-ple’s Forums were similar to the town meetings that candidate Bill Clinton held in America on his way to the presidency. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tonight, after curfew,” she went on, “you must escape from town. In the meanwhile don’t even come into this room. Stay upstairs. Did Bear show you where to hide?” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was Friday, and Dr. Roland was going to be out of town until the following Wednesday. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They’d follow him up and down our small town, with their makeup and their long hair. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Great rents had opened in the earth, swallowing palaces, temples, entire towns. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Seven, nine, twelve lines of knights, stampeding through the town and out into the bay. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Laura’s cream-colored coffin was interred in the small non-denominational cemetery on the edge of town: unfenced, a hilly woodland meadow filled with black granite and white marble headstones. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“Wonderful. You never saw a town like that.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Its developer was Ernest Lawrence, who had shared his boyhood fascination with electric gadgetry with Merle Tuve, his schoolmate and friend from across the street in a compact South Dakota town named Canton. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I had already been here a month and never left the Tang people s town. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

They turned to watch the alleys and the sleeping town. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Worth, Dallas, and the little towns like Kaufman, Canton, and New Hope. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small brown bear waddled through the heart of town stirring up parking ticket flakes, but nothing else: the Doberman Brutus in the Pilar Cafe was much too tired to bark. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d left town suddenly and didn’t say where he was going. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were taken to a makeshift village where the huts were made out of thin plastic, making it look like a sprawling garbage-bag town. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The town had emptied out because this was prize day at the fair. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

As we drive out of town, the sky is the saccharine blue of a baby blanket, filled with puffy cottonball clouds. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Finally, Father drove us all to a clinic in a tiny town named Al-Qubeibeh near Jerusalem. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

His name was D’Ath, because he had been brought from a town in Flanders of that name. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

“W. F.” was confident that anyone who followed this procedure could wander about town in complete safety. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“I’m going back into town,” I said after a while, and nobody complained. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Behind were the trees and the shadow of the cathedral, and the town silhouetted against the moon. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Carlion was a walled town, so that this surrounded by a battlement which seemed to go on for ever and ever. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In other words, Dusty Muleman wasn’t the only captain in town who wanted to strangle my dad on Father’s Day. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Not that. The town’s rid of that one for good.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Far below, swathed in mist, was the shadow of a small town. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Then Sadie would drive to town to buy it—vanilla ice cream, fries, a burrito—only to have him demand something else the moment she got back. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

For obvious reasons, I don’t say another word as we near town. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Cieza de Leon once came upon three different highways running between the same two towns, each built by a different Inka. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Liyana and Poppy went into town for the interview with the headmaster. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Down on the river at the outskirts of town there was the mill, where Jethro drove first and bargained with the grain according to his father’s instructions. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I’m not sure why Spares are even allowed in businesses. My Drascal will be bringing it up in the next town meeting,” she sniffed. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Every year on the first day of May, people come from all over town to adorn me with scraps of paper, tags, bits of fabric, snippets of yarn, and the occasional gym sock. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She was carrying her suitcase to the car when she saw the town’s one white taxi drive up and deposit Dr. Finch on the sidewalk. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The church building crumbled, and the school collapsed into dust, then the whole town disappeared into the chasm. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Halfway across the world, in the smallest, most out-of-the-way town imaginable, there was her dad. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Before we knew it, it was opening night for our town. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as she spoke, a deep rumble of thunder shook the forest beyond us, and then crashed westward toward town. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I don’t think there was a miner in town who could get past the front gate when she was out in the yard in her shorts and halter tending her flowers. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

At the other side of the town square some base children scurry back home. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or from a small town outside of it. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hilly chats, throwing things our way like, “Stuart, Skeeter here lives on a plantation just north of town. Didn’t the Senator grow up on a peanut farm?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He saw, not the silver in the alien hand of a merchant in the town; he saw the silver transmuted into something worth even more than itself—clothes upon the body of his son. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The sheriff never violated the quarantine by venturing into town, but he apparently did venture from his house once in a while. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was the middle of Christmas shopping when everyone was in town. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll pay you back tomorrow when we go to town,” he added. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father was in town on errands; my mother was scrubbing the floors. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Students at that black school had been protesting since February 5 a segregated bowling alley in town, with demonstrations growing in size and intensity over the next few days. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

My father did not like the town or its way. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later that day, passing along a street in a strange and lonely town, he saw a man dump a box of trash into a barrel. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

After that she didn't play around with the soldiers any more but only with a few flat-footed, short-sighted young men in town who couldn't get into the army at all. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

We passed the country club golf course, the biggest spread of green grass until the next golf course in the next town. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

But not from any lack of courage regarding the son-in-law’s still anomalous position in the town. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Don Little dropped out of school and left town shortly after, and no one in Bellmont has ever laid a finger on Erin or me since. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And white girls from small towns weren’t supposed to dream big, either. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

She sat and stared, having to remind herself every few minutes that it had all really happened: the cruel pretties, the strange buildings on the edge of town, the terrible ultimatum from Dr. Cable. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It was a peasant, with a team of mules, who had brought a telegram from town, sent by my sister Ferula, telling me of Rosa’s death. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The town could not talk, and would not listen. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she said, “Listen, Kyril honey, I don’t mean to pry, but what’s the point of trying to put the fear of God into this town—we don’t have enough trouble already?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d know I wouldn’t kiss any girl from a nice town family the way I kissed her. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He was near the road leading to the town now, and it was getting dark. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the doctor hands the most difficult cases to a hospital in Arriaga, a town one and a half hours away. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Every Friday the town held its festival and Cora retreated to the opposite side of the nook. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The traders brought these things up the river from New York and sold them to merchants at towns along the way, like Verplancks Point. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s the town you were born in,” she said irritably. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It didn’t take long to find it; the little town was clustered around the harbor, with the oratory and the governor’s house the only buildings of any size. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Back home, she never would have gone into a store in the white part of town. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Like I say, let her lay out all day and all night with everthing in town that wears pants, what do I care. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything that makes up this tiny town that’s forty-five minutes from a big city and four hours away from an incredible island. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

We drove them home through the towns slowly. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No good at all. Thought this town would be small enough for us to escape notice, but that doesn’t seem likely now.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Each week in the town square, the Nazis posted a new edict against Polish Jews, each more extreme than the last. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

I used to think the cobblestone town center was quaint. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

A few times, I’d gone down through the shades of colored town with my father. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My excitement increased exponentially as we actually drove out of the town limits. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“And introducing ye around, of course. Getting the town used to the idea of a-welcoming ye.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“See that you stick closer to town. We don’t need the influenza spreading to the outskirts.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Dorothy’s house was across the railroad tracks on the mountain that overlooked the town. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

We take it back to my place since it’s closest to town. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Like Joyce, Swift had learned the butchering process from start to finish, entering the trade as his brother’s apprentice in 1855 at the age of fourteen in a little town on Cape Cod. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“They were on their way to lure the Nightbeast to town as well. Just check their satchels—they are filled with jelly bean fish!” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The partners at the top firms graduated from the same Ivy League schools, attended the same churches, and summered in the same oceanside towns on Long Island. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The new arrivals to the nearby towns, the rowdies and low whites, started fights when residents came for supplies. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Like most businesses in that part of town the sweet shop was run and owned entirely by colored people, and Ophie realized she had never ever seen such a thing before. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I look away, wondering if everyone in town will be thinking the same thing. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Around town, they confused and horrified residents by doing things like dismantling a toaster with a screwdriver at the local department store to make sure the heating coil would toast the bread just so. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

"I don't see the idea of going to town," broke out Tom savagely. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

After several hours the man who ran the mom-and-pop shop in town sauntered up to me. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He was going into town in about a week and I could ride in with him to pick up my dogs. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later that day, we got into the Oldsmobile, and Mom and Dad took us for a tour of the town. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The conservative Christian political movement seldom developed in poor, rural Bible Belt towns. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“What if I moved to a different town and got a full-time job?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“It will be enough space, and it keeps everyone right here in town.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I wrote about how hard it was to study or to sleep at night with the constant sounds of fighting in the hills outside town. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But a couple of weeks later, while the King, Frederick II, and a party that included the admiral were crossing the bridge from Copenhagen castle into the town, the King fell into the water. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

She needed it, because she worked way up out of town in a place the car pool didn’t go to. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

In the town, in little offices, sat the men who bought pearls from the fishers. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever Dr. van Heerden went to town, everyone made out a list of requests. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walk in silence back toward Main Street and cross to the side of town with the biggest houses in the neighborhood. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

You’re told that in this town a daughter, if there is one, always answers the door. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you ask me, showing that we take this seriously makes the town look good” she retorts. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

After a couple of years, the Captain raised Dad to section foreman, taught him how to lead men and operate and ventilate a mine, and instilled in him a vision of the town. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I have no way of knowing if Khalid is even really here, or if he left our town altogether—if he flew right out of Louisiana to travel the world like he’d always wanted to. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

He acted as if it was his sworn mission to drive the Walls family out of town. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Jack could not stand it, and at the last moment he dashed onto the balcony, which overlooked the town square, to watch them come. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Every one of them was chalky pale, the palest of all the students living in this sunless town. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It’s a pretty small town and news gets around fast, so by now it was no secret that our father was in the slammer for sinking Dusty Muleman’s casino boat. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

But I thought it was in Brian’s long-term interest to get out of the town. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought we had the only rooms in town.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I also had ajar of honey made by a friend in town. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The front half of the church had completely collapsed and nearly a third of the town had been scarred by fire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I find a Clown Street in the upper part of town. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Because even though almost everyone had been laid off, the town still somehow managed to employ the teachers. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he watched signs—the names of towns that lay twenty-two miles ahead, seventeen miles to the east, five miles to the northeast. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

We drove past the city to this tiny town north of the Springs. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

There was a tall bonfire in the middle of town, and smaller ones outside the houses where people would be giving cider to the weary workers. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The towns were a little larger and more brightly lighted than I remembered them, the motels bigger and more luxurious. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drive into town as the sun edges up the sky. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Dear Lord,” she begged, “make us poor again the way we were when we founded this town so that you will not collect for this squandering in the other life.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I guess I can’t blame Chokecherry for that—this isn’t the only town to give some juvenile delinquent a free pass because he happens to be popular and good at sports. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Something like that. Anyway, they stage this dance outside the town limits to get around the law.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

So Papi had gone to Puerto Rico on his own, meeting up there with his two brothers and their families in that little town on the coastline. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

February in their small town of Darling, Georgia, was chilly, but the sun still rose every morning to remind everyone that spring was on its way. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

With him was a man who was known only as Z. Mr. Trepid thought of Z as a shiftless man, slipping in and out of town like a slithery possum. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

"Paris is a fine town all right," said the count. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

As he got ready to leave town, though, a headline in the Daily caught his attention: “Senior Men Face Life with Debts, Few Jobs.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Mingo had taken advantage of the delay to press for improved relations with the white towns. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“He’s not a senior yet. Come on, let’s go to town.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could not have youngsters scaling walls to go into town and go wild, the way they did at the federal government colleges. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The bus had stopped in three towns between leaving Wenatchee and arriving in Spokane. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Never? I know I’m not the only Muslim kid in this town.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“You know. She’s just such a great representation of what this town is all about.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

They also introduced her to white men who were willing to rent out flats in town. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Violet lives one street away from Suze Haines in a large white house with a red chimney in a neighborhood on the opposite side of town. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He could read some of the town signs and the store signs. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked toward the part of town where the rich girl lived. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Her severity made the house a redoubt of old customs in a town convulsed by the vulgarity with which the outsiders squandered their easy fortunes. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

One day as she walked home across the snowy town she caught up with her schoolmates, Judith and Rose. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bad blood of spring filled us with strange yearnings and tumult, and the boys from Los Jaros split off from the boys from town and there were gang fights. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

An hour out of the basement, Fang and I trudged along the dark corridor of road cutting through the wetlands park on the outskirts of town. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She flew over the town of Berne and the steeples of North Blenheim. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

A moment later we saw plumes of black smoke rise from the Tang people’s town. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But this is my town and I make the rules here. I’ll be watching you.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The small town's cozy, winding streets and stooped buildings enfolded my fear like a grandmother's arms. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But this was the day I hit her with the details: he was killed in a car crash and he’d been out of town and I hadn’t gotten to say goodbye. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

A town is a thing separate from all other towns, so that there are no two towns alike. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went into town and arranged for a week’s leave from his work on the highway. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was one gap east of Chambersburg and beyond that all the roads came together, weblike, at a small town. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were only two small hospitals in Seosan, his father’s and one on the other side of town, near the ocean. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“We come to town as often as we can, but they don’t like to let us out much. What’s your guess about what cooks up there?” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But you been writing about things up here, about Jose and his stupid field over there on the west side, so you must know a lot about this town.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every town of any real size held their Friday Festival, closing with the same grim finale. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I named the small town at the base of the Bighorns, near where the Penrose Trail comes out, or down and out. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But those were in the early days of the undead plague, when a trip into town could mean death by shambler, and we had to make do with what was at hand. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“You get old Buzzard to purify your town first and then, maybe, I will send you people food and rain again.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Remember when I was seven and you were eleven and Mom and Dad rented out the sports center across town? P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The whole town seemed to be holding its breath, waiting for something to happen. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, it’s okay. I can’t think of anything good anyway. This town is just too boring.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I walk up and down, but it’s like a ghost town. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“We’ve been away because our mother’s out of town on business, and we came back to check on our cat, and these kids were trapped down there,” Chess said. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Adam was dirty and soaking when he reached it and turned east into the town of Salinas. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone in town, including the rest of my family, wants to know the answer to that question. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

During the festivities I thought about the biggest celebration we used to have in my town at the end of the year. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Before Gran got sick, she used to be the one everyone in town went to for her opinion. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The wind dropped and the sun narrowed to a single beam, bright enough to light just one small front porch in one small town. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

When I said one day to my daughter, Katherine, “Drive around, out of town,” and I brought along a trowel and a bucket, she did not ask why. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Now it came about that various rumors started in the town concerning the mute. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I wobbled into town, as though I had lost muscle memory. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Palmer, they kill pigeons in this town, not people.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I fully believe that I will end up on the train again, to be unloaded at the next town, paraded with the remaining children, and shuttled back on the train. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Drag him out to the edge of the hammock which was far enough off to satisfy sanitary conditions in the town. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I went to a hotel in the town where I had stopped before, and they gave me a room with a balcony that opened out above the roofs of the town. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Silently they floated in on the town, but when their icy eyes sighted the first dead fish, first bits of garbage about the ships and wharves, they began to scream and quarrel. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tall, elegant town houses and a few fashion boutiques lined the street, and there was a fancy florist shop on the corner. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

This gushing adoration cannot be dismissed merely as local boosterism; black newspapers across the South described the town in much the same terms. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Within hours everyone in town has heard about it. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Coming back into town, we passed Grandpa’s house just as he and Miss Love came out on the front veranda with the Flournoys. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

So apart from the very occasional town or ski resort, New Hampshire is primarily, sometimes rather dauntingly, wilderness. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He knew I’d rather be bagging groceries at Stokes than driving the loader in Blackfoot, the dusty town an hour north where Dad was building a milking barn. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Every time she saw the hills rising behind the town her heart beat faster, and she kept thinking she saw Basta's face, or Flatnose’s, among the crowds in the streets. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“And you up there? I come from a mining town. Since when do miners condemn other miners to that kind of death, and then stand by to kill whoever manages to crawl from the rubble?” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“I am much obliged to your ladyship for your kind invitation,” replied Elizabeth, “but it is not in my power to accept it. I must be in town next Saturday.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

She misses him suddenly, remembering afternoons years ago when they’d first moved to this town, when he would surprise her and come home from the university in the middle of the day. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the town someone had stuck up a poster challenging people to solve a mathematical problem. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The old man—he was like Baba Haji’s age—leaned down and said, “Listen. If you ever see those gypsies walking toward the town, you run back and shout, ‘The gypsies are coming! Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Hosie would of hit any town boy at school who even mentioned such. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“The innkeeper told me that she lives in a house on the edge of town,” Taisin said, but beneath her briskness was a note of trepidation. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

And in March the town council voted to put up a little sign on the post below the town’s name along Route 302. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been said that his plan to buy a boat was nothing but a trick to make off with his brother's money, when the news spread that a strange craft was approaching the town. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

By eight o’clock that night the whole town knew everything. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

First problem: how to preserve fresh meat dressed in Chicago so that it could be shipped without spoilage to customers in faraway cities and towns. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Under the stars, a small town prepares for night. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Beyond the town and castle lives my own mother.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

So the people of Hotel Barba waited till no one was watching and snuck into town one at a time. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“When you didn’t get off the train, I thought you might be making your own way into town.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I drove along the highway to the edge of town, then pulled over at the drop-off overlooking the Bear River. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In the center of town, only yards away from the modern buildings made of steel and glass, streets of painters, ceramists, and sculptors had sprung up on the side of a steep hill. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

States’-rights advocates from surrounding Southern towns were up in arms. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The town was ringed by the river, the creek, the lakes, and numerous other springs. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

People still lived there, but the towns dispersed into the countryside; pottery making, stela carving, and monument building ceased. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Savannah’s the best accountant in town,” Arnold said. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother was in town visiting, and the two of them had planned numerous shopping excursions for Saturday and Sunday. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They framed another on a trumped-up charge of carrying whisky in his car. He’s one of the finest boys in town. Never drinks.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he offered a counter-rumor: two hard-boiled characters from the oil camps had purportedly been seen with Anna shortly before her death, and had afterward skipped town. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I can see the town of the Tang people even now in the late afternoon sun—not as it is now, full of souvenir shops and neon signs, but as it was then. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as the years passed, his walks became longer and longer as the factories and roads sprawled out of town like one of the rashes he was so effective in treating. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Few people can say the names of their home towns with such sly affection. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m standing before my friends, my classmates, and a pretty fair chunk of my town—a town I plunged into a lot of hassle with my stupid, thoughtless actions. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

This time I join him, and our voices drift together across the sleeping town. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

By sunrise everyone in town was tight-packed about the smoking black pile. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We were soon out of the town limits, despite his negativity. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

We live about a mile northeast of town and we do sheep on one half of the farm and wheat on the other. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Amu, “uncle” in Arabic, is Mom’s brother and the imam, or prayer leader, of the mosque here in town. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

These patrols would become part of a network of liberty associations that would protect blacks in cities and towns across the North. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I’m supposed to be finding a way to get out of this town for good. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The small, well-traveled, red dirt footpath cuts through the town and is usually quite safe. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They fought through that town, took it, burned it; leaving their ships under guard at the mouth of the River Ar they went up the Vale wrecking and looting, slaughtering cattle and men. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Now she remembered that when the fog rolled over Barrow, airplanes were grounded, ships and boats had to be anchored, and even the two jeeps in town sat where they had stopped in the fog. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ran his finger along town names in tiny print. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several days later, when Jack and everyone else in town first heard the rumble of tanks a few miles away, they dared hope it might be English tanks coming to defend them. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

"Iggy," she says out of the side of her mouth, "come here and tell me is the circus in town or what?" Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Maria Isabel must be across town, at Tegucigalpa’s main bus station, at 3:30 P.M. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Once she dodged behind a brushpile as the town herder came by with some cows to pasture. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

But most of the men began to ease away, as if they’d suddenly found other business in town. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to hate this town. I wish I were dead.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is... has my cousin come back to town?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Once in a while it was interrupted by a pretty little town, and then it began again. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I had been to big food markets in Rwanda, but Walmart was a new ball game—more like a town than a market, with its aisles and aisles of mysterious foods, like boxes of cereal. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But ever since the assassination of that ambassador at the town hall, the Merchant Council had been grumbling about security, so where was he? Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

At the top of the hill he turned and studied the town. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The room erupted with men arguing whether the town was safe to travel through. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I jump up off the couch like I plan on running again, running right through town and straight to Sandy’s house. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

A dark-green pickup truck pulled up to the roadblock on the town side of the bridge, and a lean man in a green uniform got out. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

They set off in their school bus, two classes, two teachers, two chaperones along for the ride, driving straight through the town and onto the highway. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

All the towns east-west roads dead-ended into Erie, and that day I glanced down every one to watch the lake spit chunks of dirty foam onto the beach like some angry, stalking beast. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Tornadoes are tunnels of wind half a mile wide that pick up cars and fling them three towns over. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“If we find a town, the people in the town will at least know where they are, and then we’ll know where we are. Does that buddy of Tiller’s, that Z guy, have a phone?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I jumped to a nearby roof, then made my way across several others until I came to a house near the town square where a scattered piece of bonfire had set the roof burning. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He danced them uncontrollably through the town and into a bat-filled cave where they disappeared forever. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And half the houses on the Christian side of town had burned, too. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

An officer who had been in town all day moved up to him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As promised, US Cavalry troops also rode into town to restore order. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Their first item of business involved Arthur Devlin, hat in hand, negotiating new working codes and payment arrangements for the mine workers in exchange for access to the vein running under the town’s land. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Nan and I left our bags where they landed and headed back to town. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“Maya. Jesus. Are you okay? Half the town is looking for you.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“I live on the mountain side of the bridge, not the town side.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Manchee and me get past the school building and up on the little ridge and look north and there it is, the town itself. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“That must be Mike Newton. Nice kid — nice family. His dad owns the sporting goods store just outside of town. He makes a good living off all the backpackers who come through here.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The town was as lonely as the cabin, he thought. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she was old enough she stopped working on the farm and got a job at a factory in a nearby town, She worked on a sewing machine making school uniforms. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“It’s very revered to be a Pepette or a cheerleader,” said Julie Gardner, who had come to Odessa from a small college town in Montana as a sophomore. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vonetta said, “Don’t worry, Ma Charles. I didn’t believe the part about you chasing her husband out of town.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“By the end of the interview he was sending me links for the best places to get food in town, and how to get student prices for the movies.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

She had no idea of the size of the town but felt that every citizen was in the park now, waiting. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Nothing about the town was grand except the big empty sky and, off in the distance, the stony purple Tuscarora Mountains running down to the table-flat desert. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I knew all about it: plaid skirts and rolling green lawns and trips to some seaside town on the weekends. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Before the next day was out everybody in town knew that James Grew had been in trouble in Boston, and no one could possibly imagine that Cathy had planted the story. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We walked along together through the town and I chewed the coffee. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

In the fall of 1979, her senior year of high school, Mia applied to the New York School of Fine Arts with a series of photographs she’d taken of abandoned buildings around town. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Let's go out and eat in the town." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Nick became sort of a hero for kids all over town, and he quickly learned that being a hero—even if you’re only a local hero—isn’t a free ride. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Small town,” she said as if “small town” was the answer to every question in Norvelt. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The commander also reported that his forces had thus far destroyed about ten of the principal Cherokee towns, along with several smaller villages. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

As we stepped out from the palace, the town’s church bells were still ringing. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Several shots were heard in town, and that distracted the rebels and made them turn the other way. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

At a table at the end of the room sat Captain Samuel Talcott, Magistrate from Wethersfield to the General Court of Connecticut, and a group of men whom Kit knew as the town selectmen. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Army and National Guard troops patrolled Selma that day and lined the highway leading out of town. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he returned I heard him whisper to my mother about the talk in town. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of our number still speak with joy of our victory in the swamps securing the avenues to this town. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

It was still early on Christmas Eve day when C.P. arrived at the hospital just north and east of town, on the other side of Falls Lake. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Ameses lived on the edge of town, and behind their house were barn and carriage house, vegetable garden and fenced paddock for two horses. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t in the play, but there wasn’t much to do in town, and I saw him several more times that week when he turned up to visit his friends. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I know a town named Cabot,” she said back. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

A million towns to choose from all over the country, and this birdbrain picks the one that shoots five thousand of them every year. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Others said they were whites terrified by the wave of southern Negroes flooding the towns, searching for work and places to live. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was on liaison duties in the French sector and initiated a last-minute evacuation of a small town west of Verdun before it was shelled. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The rebel blockade deprived the town of victuals. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“Abby Standridge. My mom’s the mayor. I’m not bragging. Just telling you before you hear it from someone else. Small town—everybody talks.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Now the whole town seemed to be up to something. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Durham’s police chief telephoned Mayor Evans for instructions, only to find that Evans had left town earlier that day, leaving a power vacuum at a critical time. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In a town like this, where everyone lived on top of everyone else, diplomacy was essential. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

A silent flash traveled around the mountain, followed by another flash— chain lightning, but no thunder reached the town. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Portia wet her lips nervously and said: ‘He coming back whenever he get good and ready. Buddy will be glad to ride him to town in the car. Buddy just love to drive.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Every time we went to town or any place where there were white people, it initiated her urgent voice with instructions to me. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Since our evacuation of the town onto the ships and transports of this fleet, there has been little employment for us; and having nought to engage us, we spend much time sleeping. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Instead of owning a manor house and servants, Daddy lived in a trailer park on the outskirts of a town that was itself the outskirts of town. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just like Nan never met a town she couldn’t bear to part with, Momma never made a promise she wasn’t willing to break. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I had secretly decided not to go to college, but I thought that maybe I would move to the same town as her. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“What is fit is what is good for the town.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Fang just rested his head against the back of the seat and closed his eyes, no doubt wishing he’d walked home even if it was all the way across town. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“I thought I’d live my whole life and die in this town. I don’t know how I existed like that.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The vuvv reaches up with a limb and flips through images of my paintings of castles, mountains, and walled towns. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“No. It’s the brainstorm of a woman named Ruby Archuleta who runs a garage and a plumbing business south of town. Apparently the meeting they had in their church was her idea too.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tayo looked down at the valley, at the lights of the town and the headlights and taillights strung along Highway 66. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was a flurry of excitement in the Klavern that fall when Alabama governor George Wallace came to town. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

That abolition made another group happy, too: businessmen in the town of Sing Sing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt like I could float all the way to town. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“I’m pretty sure the rumors about the Nightbeast being here started before you moved to town,” said Valley. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Perhaps then it might be understood why this small Martian town is abandoned. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you dare, Will Tweedy! You leave me alone here with him and nobody in this town will ever speak to me again!” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

These thoughts tumbled through my mind until I saw the lights of the town across the river. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was after the picnic that the town began to notice things and got mad. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The humiliations, so commonplace in the United States that they barely raised eyebrows, much less the interest of the press, were the talk of the town in the envoys’ home countries. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Church bells were beginning to ring all over town. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

They simply ran out of money and couldn’t make the jump to the next town, never mind back to winter quarters. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Even though it’s only five minutes outside of town, most people consider this the country out here. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“They’ve been sneaking up on the town in cars,” she said. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The town was in the middle of the deep South. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I thought she would want to know how I liked our new home, which is in Epiphany, the very town she had lived in before she moved to Florida. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

We passed through rich farmland on the final day of our journey to Jenn, the town where our finishing school was located. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

James’s dad was in town that weekend, so Emily would be a solo scavenger. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The vacuum cleaner business was so brisk, in fact, that the company that made them opened a branch factory in the town. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to look for Kainene in the towns outside Ninth Mile,” he said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She could leave the RV and pace the few streets in town. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Even the little towns like Franklin and Hiawassee and even Gatlinburg are just way stations scattered helpfully through the great cosmos of woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The mines weren’t an option, what with a baby to look after, but she managed to get laundry from some of the merchants in town. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

My brothers had spent the winter sleeping during the day and in town at night. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sounds like the reactionary moved to the right town.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She said, “You sure do talk peculiar. Where you born? You from this here town?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The better-off folk of Welch had not exactly flocked to our part of town. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But on the edge of town, drills were driven out of his mind by something else. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

In Milford, Delaware, a Philadelphia woman and her black servant were stopped on the road outside of town. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

But if the town was there like on Saturday night, Lige would come up with a very grave air. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The town receded and a farm sprang up on either side of the tree- lined road, its fields fallow and bare. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“No, it’s not a Commie town,” my mother countered, sounding frustrated. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The sheriff’s deputies were out, carrying shotguns, moving the drifters along, so they didn’t hang around town to beg for food. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

For days afterward, the skeleton of the McCulloms’ burned-out town house continued to hiss and cave in on itself, dying far more slowly than its young occupants had. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Then we started on again, and outside the town the road commenced to mount. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

In the southeastern corner of Kentucky, in the stretch of the Appalachian Mountains known as the Cumberland Plateau, lies a small town called Harlan. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I opened my eyes and she said, "Let's go somewhere for breakfast. I want to see more of this town." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The town of Wall stands today as it has stood for six hundred years, on a high jut of granite amidst a small forest woodland. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“If you wanna run, just say the word,” Seven said, guessing Thorn might be worried about seeing witches from her old town, but Thorn just shook her head no. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

While Nicholas went to a strapped public grade school in a perilous neighborhood, Christopher is in the gifted program of a school she handpicked on the middle- class side of town. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Lloyd spent a lot of time at Richard’s house, since his own mother was often out of town. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have to apologize on behalf of the town. Not everything’s about racism, you know. They don’t sell kosher food here because there’d be no one to buy it. Not even us.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Besides, if I can’t handle the idea of walking down a hallway with him, how will I cope with him escorting me in front of the entire town? Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The morning after he came barreling into town, Fred bought Day a bus ticket to Baltimore. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He looked at the sky, thinking about rain, about the slick clay roads, himself stalled somewhere miles from town. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they got into town, Hazel followed the same route she’d used seventy years ago—the last night of her life, when she’d come home from the hills and found her mother missing. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

After a sharp turn at the end of Little Daytona, we entered the town of Caretta. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But the rebels didn’t come on the day they said they would, and as a result, people started moving back into the town. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Our arrival in most towns was more of an event than the Midwinter Pageantry and Solinade Games rolled together. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He improvised an altar in the square and on Sunday he went through the town with a small bell, as in the days of insomnia, calling people to an open-air mass. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The whole town was a nest of traitors. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Nigel, too, was irritating him, suddenly talking about the town houses Obinze was planning to build, how exciting the new architect’s design was. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In their Noise, I can hear just these thoughts about the army, about running from it instead of defending the town. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

This spectacle arrested us with its strangeness; for the landing parties had been ordered to fire merely the docks and buildings by the water, not the town itself. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The only person in town who would do business with a gang of kids was Ernesto Barbarossa. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“In town, once, I heard a man brag how he and his friends had caught a free black, tore up his papers, and sold him to a trader.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

A few kids came up when the bus stopped, and a customs officer for the town made all the people getting down from the bus open their bundles on the sidewalk. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Because extensive fields of maize, beans, and squash surrounded every home, these settlements sprawled along the Connecticut, Charles, and other river valleys for miles, one town bumping up against the other. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Several times, driving in that part of town, I had resisted the impulse to drop in at the F.I.A. building, a brown- stone at 1 Riverside Drive. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only in a town this small would a father know when the high school dances were. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Along Paul Revere’s northern route, the town leaders and company captains instantly triggered the alarm,” Fischer writes. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had no contact with anyone in town and no one had contact with me. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You quite mistook Mr. Darcy. He only meant that there was not such a variety of people to be met with in the country as in town, which you must acknowledge to be true.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

On July 15, 1775, he paid $333.33 to an unidentified person “to go into the town of Boston; to establish a secret correspondence for the purpose of conveying intelligence of the Enemy’s movements and designs.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had borrowed a car, an old pea-green Plymouth with a broken passenger-side window, and we drove through the mountains to a nearby town, stopping at a roadside bar. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The road took a sharp, banked turn to the right and, past a stand of trees, a town emerged. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

A car came down the road from the Welch direction and turned right, toward town central. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Not about God, but about the people of this town getting together. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Beyond that, residential streets branched out, circling around the town itself. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he thought they’d whip his runners, he’d fork over the forfeit fees and skip town, often “forgetting” to pay his hotel bill on the way out. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not far from where the railroad crossed the river lay the town of Tahlequah. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, you say, I was in the center of town. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Benches were springing up all over town for the mysterious tourists. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when I looked back along the dirty, rocky road with the heat rising up off it, I decided I must be closer to town and should just keep going. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Her parents are out of town at one of their French country homes, and she said she thought her living room would be the perfect setting for the scene we were doing. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

With a querying look on his face, he said, “I’m afraid I don’t understand. I thought you always wanted to go to town.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the small towns, there are open-air markets: chickens and geese in elaborate bamboo baskets, vegetables laid out in rows on the ground, slabs of pork on tables, tobacco being sold in big clumps. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It couldn’t feel good knowing that a whole town didn’t want you, that they would throw you in jail for being there, or put you on a chain gang because you were without a job. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“These are not just disorganized people living in towns here and there,” says Captain Newport. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

We drove out to the east side of town and circled Hicks Park. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Since Pearl had been born they’d lived, by Mia’s count, in forty-six different towns, keeping their possessions to what would fit in a Volkswagen—in other words, to a bare minimum. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

So do I leave us upon this ship anchored by a smoldering, desolate town, where we have been drifting for more than a month, sickly with the smallpox, which only spreads its infamous depredations. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Mr. Merriweather could not drive, and if their dissension reached the acrimonious, Mrs. Merriweather would stop the car and hitchhike to town. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

And he knew that shepherds, like seamen and like traveling salesmen, always found a town where there was someone who could make them forget the joys of carefree wandering. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They knew that Pa would trade his furs to the storekeeper for beautiful things from town, and all day they were expecting the presents he would bring them. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had been a succession of professional ball teams in town since May 24,1890, when the Seattle Reds took on the Spokane Falls Spokanes. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“So if you two don’t mind tidying up these breakfast things, Tiller and I will go to our private banks and get some money and then we’ll all go into town, okay?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The fox squirrel had been a relatively common animal in the town; after the spraying it was gone. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I finally tracked Saleem down. It took a while because he’d taken a passenger all the way to the hospital in town.” Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

A pair of women on bicycles pull off the road and gape at the truck as its passes: some infernal lorry sent to blight their town. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Folks on Stella’s side of town worked as maids and cooks, janitors and sharecropping farmers. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Outside and around, the little town masquerading as a village stirred and came to life. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sickler’s, it might be said, was the only restaurant in town where the steaks weren’t “that thick”—thumb and index finger held an inch apart. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Small towns, rural inns, those places didn’t know good entertainment from bad. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He followed the roads with his finger, all converging on that one small town. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not Peru the tiny town where our car wouldn’t start. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I looked around at the bay, the old town, the casino, the line of trees along the promenade, and the big hotels with their white porches and gold-lettered names. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Jenny piloted her specially outfitted dog transport van into a neighborhood filled with cozy brownstone town houses. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

On freezing days I have to take bus 209, which is the bus that goes to the apartments, the trailer park outside of town, and all the way out in the boondocks. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The war had lasted so long that folk could hardly remember a time when the sky wasn’t dark with the smoke of burning towns. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It’s an old town, full of Roman artifacts, history, and ruins. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A majority of the nongraduates are young men, and some come from towns where the factory work ethic, to get working as soon as possible, remains strong, even if the factories themselves are vanishing. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I also sold at the back doors of the wealthier clients in town, trying to remember what my father had told me and learning a few new tricks as well. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

There were all sorts of new positions opening up in town, opportunities for people who had proven their worth. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The town nearest us was a place called Turuf, several miles to the southwest; I never saw it. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled into an empty alley behind a row of red brick town- houses and looked at me for the first time since we’d gotten in the car. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“And all the people over there in the town? The fancy ones? They’re Survivalists, too?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

There was no other road marked DETOUR, so obviously the only thing to do was to turn around and go back about five miles to the last town and take the regular highway. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That wishing well is the first thing I noticed when we came to town. Might be nice to remind people of it.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“And does this path go to the town?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

To soften the scary pictures everybody in our town now had of me. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The old public library, the one Mr. Lemoncello had loved when he was a boy growing up in the small Ohio town, had been bulldozed to make way for a multilevel concrete parking structure. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

I saw a girl coming up the road from the centre of the town. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Unlike many towns in the South, Allen’s neighborhood in Selma, Alabama, was racially mixed. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

‘You know good and well my Father is a colored doctor right here in town.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Before the crystals appeared, Reston was surrounded by farmland, and the town still contains meadows. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It bordered the south side of Ravenskill, and was just a few minutes from town. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Doesn’t the snow get sick of coming here? Try some new towns for once!” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Two days after publication, Victoria Woodhull and her sister Tennessee Claflin were distributing three thousand copies of the paper around town when US marshals stopped them. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

At last I made out the town walls. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Moments later Walter Taylor was in with General Anderson, who had just come into town to look for Hill. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t call it my town because I don’t think of it as my town. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

After the general superintendent was through with me, I tried to bike out of town central, but Mr. Dubonnet caught me outside the union hall. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Above the towns, scattered like pebbles, were single villas where ancient families had found a brook, a green spot, and laid out a tile pool, a library, and a court with a pulsing fountain. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our town is destined for greatness, and the real estate in it is destined for greatness too. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Noting the irony, he said, “The shoes were picked up in minutes by some of the nicest people in town.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Well, when the town was finally built nobody really cared for the name of Westmoreland Homesteads and so there was a contest to name the town—and who do you think won the contest? Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Many of the white men in this part of town worked as foremen or laborers in the larger factories. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The ancient inhabitation beneath and around the modern town has barely been investigated. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I’ve had it cut in the fashionable style—fashionable for our town, at least—right above my shoulders. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

For her entire life she had done nothing else but keep her promise to Mrs. Roosevelt to watch over the health of our town. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The town was built around a square in the manner of midwestem county seats, with the jail dominating the center. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pattie assumed that relatives would fly into town or that family friends would, once alerted, take over. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“I bet they make us wait all day. They’ll keep telling us Laura Friendly is busy. And then at like five o’clock, they’ll say she left town for some important business in Tokyo or something.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The public schools in town are pretty diverse, but there have been plenty of times in my life when I’ve been the only Black girl in a situation. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

It always seemed exciting to me when I met somebody from exotic places like Keystone or Iaeger, mining towns on the other side of the county. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the buildings in town look like they’re from old-timey days, maybe when you were young, with those tall fronts that are just for show, like in Wild West movies. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“A cardboard jungle, somewhere you can get off the train and clean up and get something to eat without the cops chasing you out of town.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“What’s that sailor’s cap doing on your head? Don’t you have stockings? What are you trying to make me look like in this town?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not walking across town in the wind right now, so it doesn’t matter.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I think about this family I’m stuck with, about my place with them, about their places with each other, their places in our town. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were not many who paid attention to his apocalyptic talk, for the town was convinced that the priest was rambling because of his age. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

We saw the town with a mist over it that cut off the mountains. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

There was only one man that big and with that voice in town. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Cal went on excitedly, “If he went away to college and never lived in this town again—” Adam nodded. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Walt grew up in Greeley, Colorado, an agricultural town on the high, windswept plains up near the Wyoming line. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we approached the outskirts of town, there was traffic, and buildings, and lights, and people on the streets. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow was their last day in town before Mop went to camp and Bren left on his family vacation to the Dominican Republic. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The county medical examiner was called in, and within thirty minutes he declared that until the influenza ran its course, the entire town of Manifest would be under official quarantine. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

There is not a university in our town, which is Swindon, because it is a small place. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They wave hello and shout to signal if hostile police are lying in wait for them in an upcoming town. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The recent relegalization of racing had done little to bring back the town’s glory days. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later that afternoon, after wandering around the town, I turned back toward the Institute to talk with the dean. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other priests in town wear nice watches and rings and act important. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I had one morsel of bread yet: the remnant of a roll I had bought in a town we passed through at noon with a stray penny—my last coin. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

There was only one other Muslim family in town, but the women in that family didn’t wear hijab like we did. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

They remember towns where everyone was a Catholic. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

New Orleans was a night town, but in late after noon, the restaurant patios had people out drinking. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

From his wheelchair Pop says, “The neighborhood people don’t know you, son. It’s not safe to walk across town at night alone.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I see. I don’t suppose any of us should have that responsibility for the blighted towns in the north of England?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then the density became more like the town of Saint-Denis—tall wooden houses packed side by side. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Settling in the small town of Mirebalais, Farmer found work with a charity called Eye Care Haiti, headquartered in Port-au-Prince, which conducted mobile “outreach clinics” in the countryside. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

And from weatherworkers and wandering jugglers who went from town to town of the Northward Vale and the East Forest he had learned various tricks and pleasantries, spells of Illusion. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

"Max, I have rivers without water, forests without trees, mountains without rocks, and towns without houses. What am I?" The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Roosevelt said our homes should stay right here in town and never, ever be destroyed.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Not just the Ku Klux Klan but the regular white folks in town would’ve killed him. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Roan’s murder, Hale had approached Bunch and said, “If I were you, I’d get out of town.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Nothing has happened in Macondo, nothing has ever happened, and nothing ever will happen. This is a happy town.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Our new home was one of the oldest buildings in town, Mom proudly told us, with a real frontier quality to it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not a man in town thought it mattered a hoot about women voting, and only two ladies went to the first women’s suffrage meeting Miss Love set up. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Papa was one of the men who had come together to form a life-saving team that would help get them out of town. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Baloney! They can’t close down a town,” Pork Chop said with a scowl. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, as we were turning onto the main road into town, I saw a black horse out in a field, eating grass and swishing its tail at flies. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Weeks later, back in the town in New Hampshire where I live, I put these questions to John Thorstensen, an astronomer at Dartmouth College. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“We should go to that town meeting tomorrow,” he said with a mouth full of chips. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I still wasn't sure how much Joan knew, after our trip to the Emergency Ward, but a few days later she had come back to live in Belsize, retaining, however, the freest of town privileges. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I walk home after school, looking everywhere for a bird—any kind—but it’s like they’ve all left town. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

We were not coming back to this town, any of us, once we left. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The commission sentenced Alfons to restriction to his town limits for a period of two years, six months’ expulsion from college, and one month of hard labor. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But the enmity between the colleges was forgotten in a moment when the town children attacked a colleger: then all the collegers banded together and went into battle against the townies. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, no, Todd,” he says, “they heard it in yer Noise. I just made sure they did. I made sure they knew who was responsible for bringing danger to our town.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I understand my place better, in this family, in this town, in this country. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fishers from town ride their bicycles into little boats, parking the bikes while working by hanging them in the off shore trees. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The following day they crossed the river by a narrow iron bridge and entered an old mill town. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

They decided to leave Roberta's car in the parking lot down the street and take Jimmy's pickup truck so that they could be together as they drove across town to the next appointment. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Some of the town’s doctors, including the Shoun brothers, had been giving her injections of what was supposed to be insulin, but instead of improving, Mollie seemed to be getting worse. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Half the town is liquor stores to keep the Marines happy. The other half is covered with mobile home salesmen to cheat the young enlisted men with families out of their pitiful salaries.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far away, coming from the edge of town, I heard whistles blow. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z