The dogs of the village smelled or heard or sensed them coming, and began to howl frightfully; and the reindeer in their enclosure moved about nervously, their antlers clashing like dry sticks. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“When I walked to the village up ahead, I saw a good place, an old hut. It’s not far, maybe a half a mile.” The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

By unspoken agreement, Tree-ear joined the other potters’ assistants one morning in the area between the beach and the village that served as a marketplace. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He walked rapidly away toward the pinched lights of the village. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Stuart returned from the village with a headache, but he hoped that it would be better before five o’clock. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

That’s what they yell in the village when I walk through. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

Where we have hedged fields and parklands, they had village communities, moorlands, fens and forests of enormous size. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had more windows on one wall than the entire village of Zmeyreka possessed. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

It touched his pride that this matter might indeed be called out before the village. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Pa had traded inside the village with the base people for rice and other grains. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Yes. She found out some way in the village.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plane climbed over belts of forest and clusters of round huts and villages with tin roofs. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Often all the kids in the village would come and sit outside our house when it got dark, hoping she would tell a story. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not a trace of village accent remained; she had been away from the village for that long. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No one from our village has ever been chosen. You have honored us all.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

We arrived in the village with nightfall and sat against the walls of the army house. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She had never much been close to girls, so the change was nothing sharp, but at least before there were head nods exchanged when she rode through the village or along the cart tracks. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

As we drew nearer, the castle appeared more vast than the entire village, and the sun itself was not able to brighten its gray stone walls. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

And when somebody gives you directions, it’s simple: “Climb the hill and the village is down below.” Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once he travelled to a village in order to buy a large rice harvest. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he had always admired Matty, who had tended and helped Seer with such devotion and undertaken village tasks with energy and good humor. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Her eyes full of these tears, the leopard mother followed the tracks back towards the village. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

They spent an hour looking at it and then asking me questions about my village and kinsmen. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

We knew that the rebels would eventually reach the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Caught in a lush, green trap, Indian villages could not possibly have grown as large as he reported—indeed, Meggers once proposed an upper limit of a thousand on their population. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

To me, he had always been there on the edge of village life, like a watchful jaguar to be tiptoed around carefully. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Mama says not a thing in the whole village that won’t melt in a good hard rain. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

All you can do, the guard at the village had said, is pretend she’s not there. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“My mother asked me to get some sugar for tea at the next village, also some tea leaves if they have them,” I said. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Working around him were civilians who were on forced-labor details, just as he had been back in his uncle’s village. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

I saw his reason when, after leaving one village, we didn’t pass another for a week. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

We hadn’t gotten separated from Nyanriak and her children, thank goodness, and now we were with a bigger group of people from our village. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

We finally approached a hut on the far side of the village. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s two village charters within walking distance—I checked the directory on the Net—and the Central Academy is just a short drive.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

It took very lit­tle searching—all I had to do was ask a few questions in Bamiyan and people pointed me to his village. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Swans swam past like elegant ships, and the village was all pastel with patches of blue shadow. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The most violent storm hung exactly north of the town, over the part of the lake which lies between the promontory of Belrive and the village of Copêt. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the years since the aids virus emerged, the village of Kasensero has been devastated. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were the words of the Anansesem, uttered when traveling from village to village to spread the news. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The village people might denounce his manner of life, but one thing he had which balanced his ugly life even in their eyes. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

As it pulled into the station, someone rang the village firebell, and soon a large force of men armed with clubs, pistols, and shotguns converged on the train. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Capricorn’s village had acquired some strange new inhabitants. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Except for one thing: as we entered the village, the nurse spoke to me. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

They played cricket, swam in the pond, and even organized a few games of hide-and-seek for the smaller children in the village. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Neither Robert Newton nor his son Isaac ever learned to read or write, but Hannah’s brother William was a Cambridge graduate, a clergyman who enjoyed the living at the nearby village of Burton Coggles. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

They called and squawked and swirled in great clouds before descending on the ruined village, chirping and fussing and circling near. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The camp storehouse, where the Nazis kept all the valuables the Jews from towns and villages brought with them when they first arrived, we called Canada. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

It is likely that the first British villages in North America, thousands of miles from the House of Lords, would have lost some of the brutally graded social hierarchy that characterized European life. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Through the pelting rain, I could see the small buildings of the village up ahead. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I went to Somerset and spent several glorious weeks selling kerosene to old ladies in remote villages. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

In August 1967 a missionary’s two-year-old daughter came down with measles in a village on the Toototobi River in Brazil, near the border with Venezuela. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And the rooms do not have rice paper doors but a big piece of wood like the stores in the village. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Her daughters did not play with the other children of the village. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The entire village was gathered in the field between the river and what remained of the barn and the house. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Another pillbox was being built where the main road entered the village. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

That the water came from the county and not the famous village was a subtlety upon which Burnham and McElroy did not dwell. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

A walk down to the village could be accomplished in a half-hour or so and there I could surely find accommodation and a can of petrol. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

What would a girl like me from a small village have to say to such clever city people? Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I asked why his hut was removed from the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Outside, in the dim first rays of light, soldiers were ordering people to begin walking to the village square. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Our village was small, and Anatole knew every child by name. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other works Ged also did in his days in that village under the steep forests of the Hand, as his power came back into him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

If people were fleeing war, shouldn’t his village help them? Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Our group approached the village registration point and the soldiers. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“The whole village is like a family to me, Kira,” he replied. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

South Vietnamese soldiers, stationed just down the road, had seen them enter and had opened fire on the village with rockets. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The others were still small, their names yet of one syllable: Dan and Mar. Perhaps I could care for them, Kira thought briefly, trying to find her own future within the village. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was told the village was in a valley completely surrounded by mountains, the nearest hospital a two-hour drive over terrible roads, I was delighted. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know,” Kira said, “I’ve walked the forest path between this cottage and the center of my village so many times.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

He would destroy her rock people village down by the beach. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you want to bomb the village?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

They had to catch their breath, so they got out of the water and ran to their village, bringing the bees with them. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The refugee village is so large that in these surprise raids, the Youns are not able to arrive in time to protect us until people have been killed. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We did not go to the Aleut camp and they did not come to our village. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the hours after Pong leaped from the cliff at Nok's feet, he had clung to the cargo barge as it puttered slowly upriver, making stop after stop at every tiny village dock. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He had hoped it would nod its head or stamp a hoof, like a trained horse he had once seen on the village green when he was younger. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Compared to our airy house that rose above the village streets, the castle rooms felt close, dark, and damp. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

We walked around the village and killed everyone who came out of the houses and huts. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Incredibly, a few years later Agnes returned to the village of those who had murdered her parents, to minister to them of the love of Christ. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In another article in Ahmad’s box, a young Mujahid was saying that the Soviets had dropped gas on his village that burned people’s skin and blinded them. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Some of the victims had been put into isolation huts on the edge of the village—an old African technique for dealing with smallpox. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grocery boy reported that the kitchen looked like a pigsty, and the general opinion in the village was that the new people weren't servants at all. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

During the winter the friends sheltered in a dugout on the edge of the village. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Mr. Gato was the fella who had started the whole cigar village. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Puzzled, I asked, “But what could I do in your village?” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I whispered to him that the village had been full of gunmen a few days ago, even though it now looked deserted. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Each of you will carry a ,chest of letters, and you will deliver one to every port and holdfast and fishing village. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Many of the men had left the villages to work on road crews and in mines far, far away, sending money home when they could. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When they appeared in the village, every woman and child dropped what they were doing and ran. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The only real sense of movement came from the crowds of fairgoers who bustled through the streets, endowing it with the vigor and lively mood I associated with village market days. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The smell grew stronger as she got closer to the village. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He was standing in a ruined village, among the remains of houses and a central tower and a wall that perhaps was a place of worship. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

There was nothing to keep him in the village with its new inhabitants, and it held too many painful memories for him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“So do I. She fled with her father to a village in Pennsylvania. Place called Hatboro. They make hats there. Clever, don’t you think?” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

They crossed the rolling hills of Norvos, past terraced farms and small villages where the townsfolk watched anxiously from atop white stucco walls. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Robin and Idwar were too young to remember the violence that came raining down on the family’s village in the form of fire and metal. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” Dragon said, “we should go so the twins can return to their village as soon as possible.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of the year, one section of Jack’s village was turned into a restricted living area for Jews. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

There is no sleeping, no resting to be had with all the noise in the village. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Usually illness struck the village and many were taken. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tall Andras stalked away, but she could see that he was headed to the freshwater pond beyond the thick trees at the edge of the village. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Anya waited for someone to do something, but, looking around, she realized no one in the village could do anything. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The survivors from her village told her that when her father couldn’t keep the pace of the long march, the slavers stove in his head and left his body by the trail. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Now I discovered how poor my village was. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

They drove through a little village and then down by some big houses around some curves—and then Dicey could see the water. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside some mountains it is like a whole village. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

They live in permanent villages and tribal societies, often led by a big-man. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The village, in which we Bradshaws lived for more than two hundred years, covers barely a third of our island’s length. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could not bear to return to the sordid village, where, besides, no prospect of aid was visible. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to the village at the bottom of our mountain to let them know about the funeral and to bring up the elderly who can't make the trek. Everyone loved Father Cham.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Fishtail lived at the very edge of the village, hidden in deep bush. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

They entered the village where the stone bridge crossed a stream. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

It was necessary, to protect the village from evil. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hence when unschooled New Guineans from remote villages visit towns, they look stupid to Westerners. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He’d sent a young village girl to inform my grandmother he wanted to speak with her, only to have my grandmother confront him personally. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

An owl screeched outside, but otherwise all was still in Capricorn’s village. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In that tiny Peloponnesian village the old superstitions survived. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was a truly happy village where no one was over thirty years of age and where no one had died. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He was also the village storyteller, and she loved to watch the expressions on his face as he acted out the stories she had heard since childhood. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The schoolhouse where Biddy was mistress I had never seen; but, the little roundabout lane by which I entered the village, for quietness’ sake, took me past it. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Now and then the lights of a village emerged from the darkness. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But, by 8500 BC, the Middle East was peppered with permanent villages such as Jericho, whose inhabitants spent most of their time cultivating a few domesticated species. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But we can’t sit out here. We need to get to the village and get picked up from there. We can’t hold these positions much longer.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one in their village could afford horses. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

They consulted their village priest, and the result was that Elizabeth Lavenza became the inmate of my parents’ house—my more than sister—the beautiful and adored companion of all my occupations and my pleasures. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abjuring his past, he floated from his home village in a canoe made from white stone and wandered the Adirondack and Allegheny forests, then a place of constant violence and, apparently, intermittent cannibalism. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

On other paths of the village were the half-burnt remains of those who had fought fiercely to free themselves, only to die outside. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She saw it as her only chance too, after all the village gossip about their family. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Small and mean as it was, the longhall was the largest building in the village, so the lords and captains had taken it for themselves, whilst Stannis settled into the stone watchtower by the lakeshore. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Trying to hold him still, she was aware of Iorek Byrnison getting to his feet, and turned to see a figure hastening down the track from the village, carrying a lantern. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

You never wanted to be on his bad side, because then he would watch for you, and he would tell the pinching men in the other villages to watch for you, too. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ll have to listen to this, George. There’s bad feeling in the village.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

But my mother was blessed that her village was one of the places where a mission school had contrived to stay open in spite of the government’s Bantu education policies. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Saidu said after he was done telling us the story one night in an abandoned village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

As Minli watched them turn into figures of shadows, seeming to dance toward their home and village, she thought of her own Ma and Ba waiting for her in her home far away. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Boys from the village made a habit of throwing stones through the windows of the Riddle House. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Many people in the village are risking their lives to steal corn from the nearby fields. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They traveled dawn to dusk, past woods and orchards and neatly tended fields, through small villages, crowded market towns, and stout holdfasts. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Tobacco was only one of the crops grown at Adena villages. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I hiked a mile into the dusty center of our little village. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They set out again, and made good speed, reaching the village of Heathcot by dusk. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Here lay a dead Karg with yellow hair long, loose, and bloody; there lay the village tanner, killed in battle like a king. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Half the village was in the same boat with us, even though I guess for different reasons. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grocer showed up, and the postmaster, and the principal of the village school, and the neighbor, Abu Mahmoud, who grew famous green beans, and all of their wives and babies and teenagers and cats. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

What also did not lead to calm thoughts were rumors coming out of the jungle to the effect that the agent was wiping out whole villages upriver on the Congo. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We fired into the village, trying to chop down anything we could see. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The colonel described a recent incident in which a group of Viet Cong fighters had disemboweled a village chief in front of the entire village. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I have heard many stories about other villages where people have eaten human flesh. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because Minli and her parents, like the village and the land around them, were very poor. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

We immediately got off the path and walked in the bushes toward the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was about five o’clock in the afternoon and the village was caught in the silvery light that comes at the end of a perfect spring day. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

A part of her was still in Capricorn’s village, or trudging through thorns, or cowering in the ruined hovel and trembling as Basta came closer. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

"But to find him," the old man said, placing the stone back in Ku-Ang's hand, "you must bring the stone safely to the top of the mountain north of the village." When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Liyana’s in love? I thought she just wanted to go to the village!” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I had never before been beyond the outskirts of my village, much less on a train. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Somehow my legs take over and carry me away from the village. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were all quiet and angry in the ruins of the village, where it seemed our journey had ended. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Fill then, he and his family lived in the next village over and worked their own farm, tending crops and livestock. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Göbekli Tepe suggests that the temple may have been built first, and that a village later grew up around it. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to the crumbling book, it was an old, old art form that had begun back when Chattana was little more than a sleepy fishing village. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Pieces of a Lego village are scattered all around them. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

And indeed the ghosts were moving more purposefully now that they were out of sight of their own village. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

But she just said: “We are not in China anymore. You don’t have to marry the village boy. Here everybody is now from the same village even if they come from different parts of China.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The girl grew up in a traditional village. She belongs to us, not the Catholics.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Communist guerrillas had a terrible habit of raiding the village for food during the night and kidnapping young men to join their ranks. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I do not know the name of the village that we were in and didn’t bother to ask, since I was busy trying to survive the everyday obstacles. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was surrounded by trees that blocked it from view of the village below, meaning that they could practice Quidditch there, as long as they didn’t fly too high. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The kiln was located at the far end of the village from Min’s house. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

She told him about the village and her mother’s death. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around stood the dark huts of the village. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The peach was still going at a tremendous speed with no sign of slowing down, and about a mile farther on it came to a village. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Since I was born on his day, and as he was the village’s patron saint, I held him for the kin I never had. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Their villages and towns were spacious, formal, and guarded by moats and palisades. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He had wanted to be buried at Down, too, in the village where he had spent most of his life. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was not a breath of wind in the darkness, and the glowworms were dancing above the dry grass as Dustfinger crept back to Capricorn's village. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In the spring the lower bank is underwater, but right now it’s August, when dehydration and sun sickness stalk the village. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

How familiar the village looked, even from this strange new angle! A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Several other images from that day have stuck in my mind: for instance, Perez’s face when he caught up with us for the last time, just outside the village. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

The village crazy lady was somebody else, an inappropriate woman whom the people stoned. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her book, Malala describes the freedom, beauty, and respect for different beliefs in her village that were there before the Taliban, and hopefully will be there again. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

At a nearby Indian village, Washington met with Half King, a powerful Seneca chief who hated the French. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The village chief takes all five families to his house and gives us rice and fish for dinner before the adults leave to hear further instructions. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first night after their arrival here Dustfinger had stolen into the village, his scarred face blackened with soot because it was too easily recognizable. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

All lay in uneasy silence, putting me in mind of the abandoned village where I had first met Bear. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

He searched the faces of his listeners, the people of the village, to make sure no one interrupted the quiet. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Men in the village sometimes traded work with each other. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

The village was surrounded by a forest where almost anything might hide. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, let us go to your village, where you shall present me to your true love, as a token of your devotion to her.... Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The village would surely smell the rum on her breath when she returned home and would conjecture quickly as to where she had gotten it. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The people of the village lined the street. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Young Tristran Thorn, eight years old, did not attend, finding himself packed off to stay with extremely distant relations in a village a day's ride away. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Squatting down, the Met Bongs look us in our eyes and tell us the Youns have already infiltrated our towns and villages to try to capture us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

These included beheading, scalping, enslavement, and destroying entire villages and food supplies. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

People who signed the twenty-five-year sentence were able to go to the village. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The ride to his village was mostly silent. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

By and by I found myself on a paved path going down into the village, and it was while descending this path that I met Mr Taylor, my kind host of this evening. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

She saw signs of another village in the distance—she smelled smoke and saw the faint glow of something like civilization. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

And then, with his money tied up in his fine Sunday cambric handkerchief, he walked up to the village of Wall and bade good morning to the guards on the gate. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Will gathered his cloak and the rucksack, and tried to walk straight as he left the priest’s house and took the road out of the village. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“There was a girl in my village who was deaf,” Lola says after I give the paper back to her with my information. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

In 1833, when the village of Chicago voted to incorporate, it was a muddy little trading post with fewer than 100 inhabitants. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

However humble, though, Malala’s village sounds like it was filled with happiness for many years, before the Taliban invaded. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

"I also have a present for you, Tara. It might help with the...the promise you made, and the visit to the village. Mrs. Masjid will bring it to you in the morning." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the morning I found Kaloko, and together we returned to the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The plan, as Nelson explained it, is they start a fire in a huge circle around the big hill behind the village. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the silvery moonlight, the village street she knew so well seemed completely different. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The road was crowded and there were screens of corn-stalk and straw matting on both sides and matting over the top so that it was like the entrance at a circus or a native village. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Even as a boy growing up in the village of My Khe, he had often worried about this. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they moved through the village, Ellsberg watched a young marine hold the flame of his cigarette lighter to the thatch roof of a hut. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When she saw a monstrous turtle destroy a hundred villages with each step of his foot, she flew down in a fury and slew it with her sword. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

If by “effort” she means writing a check that could send a small village to college, then she definitely put in quite a bit of effort just so I could be a human petri dish. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I told him the name of my village, and he was very surprised. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard for them in the village, Winnie knew it was, and the knowledge gave her pain. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until then, the most powerful people I’d met were the headmaster of the school and the elders in my village, and there I was sitting with the most powerful man in Kenya. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

The village was on the bank of a great river where lush fruits and vegetables grew, but no one was allowed to eat anything because it all belonged to the crocodile. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She inhales the scents of the village, the river, the forest, the blue willows. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

In gratitude, the king presented the entire village with gifts of seeds and farming equipment that brought more prosperity than any reward of gold and jade. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Some fellow traders had told him about the herd boys passing out gum in the villages, and this made him very angry. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

“I especially enjoyed burning this village. We caught everyone here. No one escaped. That is how good it was. We carried out the command and executed everyone. Commander will be pleased when he gets here.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I was breathing hard as if I’d run all the way to the village and back. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says the name Pol Pot is passing through many lips in the rice fields and village. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Our neighbors are the Kecoughtans, our friends, and the Warraskoyacks—I know everyone in the village by name. I can trade if we run short of food....” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The village of Kinvara isn’t named, but I rub the place where it belongs, right under Galway on the jagged line of the west coast. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

We high-fived each other as we approached the village market, and our stomachs growled as the smell of palm oil wafted from cooking huts. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I am in fact not sure if it was a village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Entire villages will be wiped out They will slaughter whole tribes. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And there were songs beyond count of villages and kingdoms that lived in dread of dragons till some brave dragonslayer rescued them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I told Gasemu that I wanted to go to the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I was well past and around the last house on the village street when I realized that I had lost my bearings. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, in the library tower of the wibbly-wobbly village dug into the rocks, there might have been a librarian. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She could imagine it because of the faces of the Japanese soldiers, of the truck drivers, of the people watching the train roll by their villages. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

They had been won in battle or traded in negotiations between villages and tribes. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within a few years, my father was able to buy a fine house in the village of Llandaff, just outside Cardiff, and there his wife Marie bore him two children, a girl and a boy. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It is only that this painting is most amazing, even for such a skilled artist as you. This dragon painting will bring great honor to the village when we present it to the magistrate." Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Come to think of it, I’ve even seen them digging through trash bins in the village.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

There were aunts, uncles, cousins — the home behind the red gate doors was really a village of relatives. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

There was a window, looking onto the fields that led towards the village. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“He is dead. He and—my Sitti, too. When our village was taken away. I saw it.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

As government soldiers shelled and burned the countryside and airplanes strafed and bombed the villages, refugees moved south. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night, he stumbled out of the village in a drunken daze, lifting his wine bottle to the moon. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

One of the problems the nomads have with school is that we move our villages and the cattle, but the school stays in one place. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1922 there were barely a hundred people living in the village. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He handed the two passports to the soldier and carrying the bags we started into the village to order a carriage. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

We do see vestigial signs of automobiles in our village, but they resemble the signs of life you would dig up in a graveyard if you were inclined to that pastime. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The women carried her back to the village. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ged asked after they had gone some miles, seeing no sight of village or farm in any direction, and thinking that they had no food with them. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Why did the sergeant bomb the village where the good people lived?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Use your head. There’s always water in a village.” The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But the way I see it we owe it to the lads we lost from this village. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even if it was 30 miles from the village, I’d go on my own, through thick and thin, through the forest and deserts. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

It says, “Of all the houses in the village, why you?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

A radio show in Congo had discussed my appearance at the Women in the World Summit, and he had heard it in his village. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

A dusty road winding into and out of a white and dusty village. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

New trees would lean toward me at mountain angles, but when I looked for the village, it would have vanished under the clouds. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

"And I guess..." said Pong, thinking as he talked, "they knew that someone from our village would find the baby and take it in." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

From the top, one could see as far as a mile down the path toward the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The sun of spring shone, and she talked with him as merrily as any goatherd lass of his own village. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

They told us that all the women in the village were either under six or over six hundred. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Where on earth do we find a village in this godforsaken wilderness? We’ve probably taken at least two wrong turns already.’ Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Some of us looked around the village while others followed the tracks of the creature down the path to the river. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Claire pictured the vertical rock cliff that hung over the village and hid the sun for half the day. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“But the eldermen of the village would like to talk to you before you leave us.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

All the uncles were away at another village that day for a big meeting about land problems. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

They were supposed to go in first and secure the village and then we were to protect it overnight or until it was decided that the VC in the area weren’t a threat. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kilns in the neighbouring villages were kept busy firing the bricks, but their output was insufficient, and the carts had to go farther afield, returning dusty and brick-filled. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without a hunter as part of their family, she and her mother had not eaten meat except for the occasional small creature that they could catch within the boundaries of the village. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is there anywhere creepy in the village?” she asks in a low voice. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Their voices grow to a feverish pitch as they recount the bodies they saw in the fields nearby their villages. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If only we could get to that village, Elena,” said Mrs. Rimas one night in the ration line. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

They say the last time they went exploring, each time they approached a village, the natives invited them in and fed them like kings. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Mike — with Jessica shadowing him — headed up to the one shop in the village. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

They just walked over the mountains and showed up to sleep in the town squares of Italian villages, washing their clothes in the fountains and begging up and down the porticoes. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The chief and some of the men who had tied our hands and feet offered us a place to stay in the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Sasha was two years older than Anya—still too young to be conscripted—and one of those fellow village children she didn’t play with. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

There were to be hostels and inns and seasonal study centers, and eventually permanent woodland villages—“self-owning” communities whose inhabitants would support themselves with cooperative “non-industrial activity” based on forestry, farming, and crafts. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Something had come between Adah and me for the worse, since the day she was supposed to have been followed by that lion, which the whole village was still talking about. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had lowered the portcullis, to keep the village boys out, and they were disposed to treat the fugitive with kindness. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew his voice and figured he wanted me to go to the next village or hut to get some tobacco for him or something like that. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

The attack continued on the road and over the village. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Smiling at this, he shrugged and walked up the trail toward the village behind the trees. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had to watch as he stepped into the village, looking to the left and right, stopping every so often to listen, moving from house to house. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“No. Never. I'm going to live with my cousin Latif’s wife in my old village near Simranwala. She needs all the help she can get.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

My mother saw them in the village a lot, because Jane used to drive to market with her mother in this LaSalle convertible they had. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The pinching man in each village is a scary person. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no clocks in the village, but the bell tower rang at intervals, and the midafternoon bell had sounded some time ago. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They rode down the muddy streets of the village, past rows of small neat houses of log and undressed stone. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The entire kingdom was hundreds of cities and thousands of villages! When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The house was on the edge of the village. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“What connection did they have to the village? Or to the people, and the children, in the burning houses?” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I wanted to show her the Vietnam that kept me awake at night—a shady trail outside the village of My Khe, a filthy old pigsty on the Batangan Peninsula. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all abandoned work and went into the village. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond anything else, he was afraid of disgracing himself, and therefore his family and village. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

From then on if she caught me reading, she would call me lazy and set me to a task or send me off to the village on an errand. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Chipo switched her across the legs with a stick before dragging her back to the village. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

This led many Delawares to join the Moravian church and settle in what came to be known as Moravian Indian villages. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

They hoped that the solitude of the small village and the strength of my uncles would lend me the rest I needed. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little river in Amari’s village had smelled of mud and of the animals that used it as a gathering place to drink the water. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I thought better of bringing them to the plantation house; they had a much better chance of staying alive in the abandoned village, away from people. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Shin and his mother lived in the best prisoner quarters Camp 14 had to offer: a “model village” next to an orchard and just across from the field where his mother was later hanged. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

We fell silent, gazing at the village as the sun shot crimson arrows through the trees. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Nothing was what he had expected; Whitetree was the fourth village they had passed, and it had been the same in all of them. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“They are sick of us. They are kicking us out. They are sending us to the East. To resettlement. We will have our own villages. No one but Jews!” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Peck, for she was the rider, had brought a letter from the general store in the village. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He found the village on the map, but not the track, though it surely led there. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Pong spent most of his time inside the temple grounds, but when he turned thirteen, Father Cham began taking him along more often on his visits to the village and surrounding countryside. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

When it ended, we formed into a loose line and swept east through the village. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nor Jakob, a boy from another village who all the girls wanted to marry because he was so handsome. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

When I enter the village, I run to Ma’s hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had seen forges, ironworks, manufactories in her own world; the biggest seemed like a village smithy beside this. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Past the fields, through the winding streets of the village we went, the bobbing palanquin ahead of us. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t use real Quidditch balls, which would have been hard to explain if they had escaped and flown away over the village; instead they threw apples for one another to catch. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

And as he came closer to the village, she realized what that stick was. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He knew this wasn’t how a traditional brother treated his sister, but he was thoroughly sick of village ways. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

When the gypsies came back, Úrsula had turned the whole population of the village against them. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The boy had been uneasy when he saw how close Dustfinger's chosen hiding place was to the village, but Dustfinger had explained why there couldn't be anywhere safer to lie low among the surrounding hills. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Seven hours and two buses later I finished my final leg of the journey just outside a village that looked as if it had been deserted for a century. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We believe that the village of Loun-Ariik was attacked and probably burned. Your family . .Uncle paused and looked away. When he looked back again, his face was solemn. “ A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had now reached the edge of the village, where almost half the town had gathered in the street around a horse-drawn coach. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

My brothers went to the boys’ school in our village. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, the doctors set out deeper into the forest in their Land Rovers, and they made contact with infected villages, where they found people dying in huts. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, this will be an easy village for the rebels to capture,” Jumah said, laughing. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The soldiers jumped down from the wagons and formed a line, pointing their rifles toward the village. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Sobbing, she begged us to come with her to her village w here she had prepared a safe shelter. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

We lay there together, sweating in the sun, listening to the birds make their rapid calls over the drone of the insects, to the singing coming from the farmers from the nearby village. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

These images of the massacre play themselves over and over in my head as I take tentative steps back toward the village that evening. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father's original goal was to save enough to build a house in his village, but apparently he started to misbehave. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Leaning on her stick, Kira made her way to the place where she ordinarily turned from the village and entered the woods on the path. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The AO lay along the South China Sea, where things had the feel of a resort, with white beaches and palm trees and friendly little villages. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Where will you go? Can you return to your village?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Agloe, New York, is a fictitious village created by the Esso company in the early 1930s and inserted into tourist maps as a copyright trap, or paper town. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

My knees ache as I force my feet to move to the village’s garden. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spirit mediums in the villages did that, although the ones in the city had dropped the custom. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

And when we arrived at the village we saw the homed day-moon fixed exactly between the two dark mesas at the southern end of the valley! Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The marketplace was just across the way, and the village a mile farther on, half a hundred white cottages surrounding a small stone sept. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In the village everyone seemed to be staring at her now as if she were an exotic animal in a zoo. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

For many days after that the village was quiet. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

And with a small bow to the villagers, he wheeled out of the village. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Tutsis then used their control of the military to wipe out whole villages of Hutus. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

It was the village priest, brought there by Horatio to forgive, as he was told, a poor soul near death. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

An intelligence report said that our village was going to be hit by the VC at 1800 hours the next day. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a bit about the village in A History of Magic, wait...” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

As the initiation was going on, I could hear songs coming from every part of the village. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whole villages had been depopulated—indeed, the foreigners ahead now occupied one of the empty sites. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I had daily to pass the office of one village doctor, the door of which was seldom if ever barred,” he wrote in a later memoir. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Despite having lived all our lives in a seaside village, none of us had ever been on a boat, much less a ship in the middle of the ocean. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was unusual for it to be gone so long because Basta didn’t like to be away from the village for any length of time. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

We exchanged fire all night, until morning arrived, at which point we had no choice but to retreat into the village where they wanted us. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Go and ask the elders in your village about your history.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In our village there are very few boys of an age to climb trees for birds’ nests, or girls stomping self-importantly down the road with a sibling clutched sideways like an oversized rag doll. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond the crest of the field, some way off in the distance - perhaps a good mile or so as the crow would fly - was a small village. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I knew them from my brief visits to school, and of course, I’d seen them around the village. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

In contrast, villages were closely associated in time with the rise of food production in much of Eurasia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You can avenge your village,” said the old woman. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Plant die. People live. Hunter ask animal before kill it. Then give thanks. Animal die so village live.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the fifth and fourth millennia BC, cities with tens of thousands of inhabitants sprouted in the Fertile Crescent, and each of these held sway over many nearby villages. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they went together through the villages in order to beg food for themselves and their teachers. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was much unhappiness in a village of small huts. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

That year Burnham bought an old farmhouse on the lake in the quiet village of Evanston, called by some “the Athens of suburbs.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“We would go around to these villages and set up perimeters of defense,” Horan explained. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Before them rose Bree-hill barring the way, a dark mass against misty stars; and under its western flank nestled a large village. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I read to him from the Jiminez, a small story about what a village looked like on a Sunday morning when everyone had gone to a bullfight. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our villages are usually miles apart from each other—two, three, four—so kids are not encouraged to go to other villages to play. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned around and started walking fast back toward the village. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We hadn't reached West Egg village before Gatsby began leaving his elegant sentences unfinished and slapping himself indecisively on the knee of his caramel-colored suit. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, Minli remembered the two children fighting over their piles of mud as she had left her village. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

We moved slowly as a linked foursome, pushing into the village by midday. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We hung about in the village and fetched water for the women who were preparing the food. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He was five, wearing his first boy’s suit, when his parents sent him off to begin his education at the village schoolhouse. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He let silence settle in our bones, then waved his hands to some soldiers who brought before us two bodies—a man and a young boy who had lived in the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

When we got to the village, we sat around the fire until dawn. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The three or four stone toilets in the village were literally overflowing with excrement. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Only Basta had lived in the same place ever since they came to the village. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Horan’s team was sent to one of the new fortified villages north of Saigon, reached by a narrow, pothole-filled dirt road, barely passable in their open jeep. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

And sure enough she cursed the year, the family, the village, and herself. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Word of its coming had already reached the village of Ghalas-at. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I had hoped we might stay the night in the village," he said wistfully. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“No! I do not want to go to your village.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just finished a draft essay about my career dream: a fair-trade company that invests in and designs eco-friendly clothes sewn and embroidered by Indian village women. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They’d come here four years ago, from a little village in Italy. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Already the village chanters had fitted it to an old tune, and were singing the Song of the Sparrowhawk. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The attackers wanted to push us toward the village so they could have us in the open. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

From where they stood Robin could see it all as plainly as if it had been a toy village set in a toy landscape, and the soldiers, toy soldiers. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Indians were unwilling, too, to match the English tactic of massacring whole villages. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And then in April he was shot in the head outside the village of Than Khe. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I came into the village proper, I saw that all lay in ruin. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

A man with a big herd will be listened to by the others in the village. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father Drozdov’s coughing was the only sound in the village square. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He was the wicked bully of the village. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

In the beginning, the chief was all-powerful and ruled the village with his enforcer soldiers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We want to go outside, to find another village where people are easier to frighten. We don’t want this man’s spirit to chase us anymore.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The rumor in the village was that before he joined the Force and grew his mustache, he was a trade unionist. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

After another couple of hours, they stumbled across a tiny village between the railroad tracks and a two-lane road. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The meager harvests may be enough for subsistence but can rarely be brought to market because farm villages are often hours away on dirt roads from the nearest large town. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

To the sound of our singing, we made our way from the fields to prepare and enjoy a village feast. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

They soon grew as fierce as the wild ones and only came back to the village to steal food. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their leader talked to Nya's uncle and father and some of the other village men. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not disagree with his aunty, though, because he was too choked with expectation, too busy imagining his new life away from the village. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Some of the band stopped when they felt the land grow rough underfoot, but others pressed right on, seeking the phantom village, following dim wavering shapes that fled just out of reach before them. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s supposed to be a village nearby, with a post office,” I said. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Just give it to a Lithuanian you see in the village,” I said. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

A needlepoint of Frau Elena’s snowy Alsatian village above the sink. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The village was half a mile away, and the people were coming toward them, close together in the middle of the road. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Why did Lina have to leave die village to get married?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Anatole translated the rage of a village into one quiet sentence that could pin a strong-willed man to the ground. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My dear young man! Welcome to our village, our little no-longer-perpendicular Kholodnoye! What is your name, and where are you going?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Not having a nose like a human, and being, moreover, subjected to stone- throwing by the other village children, he had become more comfortable with animals. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the man could continue, the village leader, Mr. Choi, stood up to speak. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He soon discovered that he was mistaken in thinking that they were going to the village, however. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Perhaps she imagined that he was someone else too, someone back in her village. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Like any village witch she could brew up a love-potion, but there were other, uglier brews she made to serve men's jealousy and hate. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

When a log came ashore, as happened once in a long time, it was always carried to the village and worked on where a chance wave could not wash it away. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The third and last evil plaguing the village," the Old Man of the Moon said, "is you." When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He was shaved by a manservant with a blade sharpened daily, and his tailor’s bill could have fed a village. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The new people are those who lived in cities and have been forced out to the villages. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I will go back to my village and find my family. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meggie thought there were almost as many names as the village had houses. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

A fresh breeze lifted Winnie’s hair, and from somewhere in the village behind them a dog barked. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

More poets were executed, more villages set ablaze. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

A village of Oompa-Loompas, with tiny houses and streets and hundreds of Oompa-Loompa children no more than four inches high playing in the streets.... Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

“The most beautiful girls in the world are right here in this village.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Mama spoke again: “Other families in the village had the same offer. If we sent a man to the front, we wouldn’t have to pay taxes. And we sent…” Her voice cracked. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The women told which villages they came from and the names they would go by. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t my place to ask, but Yawar, the leader of our village, spoke out. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

From what I remember, none of the women in my village looked like that—they waddled like round hens and thought they were pretty. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He explained how upon entering a town he played and danced, heading straight for the village church. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

There were so many in the village, and the separation of male and female was so great, after childhood had ended. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Isaac hid for some time in the village.” How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like most peasants, Will’s father owned strips of land in all three of the village fields. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

About an hour later, five gunmen entered the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He knew only that she was from another village and had a few years of schooling—a fact that worried his own father, who thought that was too much education for a woman. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She kept walking until she reached the hard dirt road that stretched back to the village. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Then, on a misty morning, the Devil walked the village again. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I assumed Baeh was honoring the traditional Confucian structure of community, where in each village a prominent elder man heard the townspeople’s grievances and arbitrated and ruled. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Women came from the nearby villages, and we danced to their singing and clapping. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

While we stood there under gunpoint, an old man who had escaped from Mattru Jong was heard crossing a creaky wooden bridge leading to the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

A load of wood had come for the kitchen, and walking behind the wagon was the redheaded boy from the village, Will Russet. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d sworn I wouldn’t go past the end of the village, but it’s a woman’s provocative to change her mind. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And then I came here, as the apprentice to the King’s Huntress, Taryn. She came to my village and chose me.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could tell that he missed the village, that he missed seeing those palm trees the men climbed, with a raffia belt encircling them and the tree trunk. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the village, the almond trees around Sitti’s house had burst wide open with fragrant white blossoms. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of it covered the entire village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Instead, the truck continued on to Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, passing through a hellish landscape of burned-out villages and rotting corpses along the way. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Here was a bent glade I knew from when us village kids used to fight war games in the woods. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

His teacher had gone home to the gated Bowi- won village. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

At sunset of that same long day, a stranger came strolling up the road from the village and paused at the Fosters’ gate. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within a few blocks of our house were half a dozen crazy women and girls, all belonging to village families. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thick smoke started rising from the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It meant passing through villages and people asking questions. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

A typical Southern mill village, like the one in which C.P. grew up. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Exhausted, frustrated at again having no real chance to confront the enemy, the Americans marched into a nearby village. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I thought about when Junior and I had visited Kabati and would take walks with our grandfather on paths around the coffee farms by the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They drank and rested, and the next morning they left for their own village. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fleeing battles or chaos of all kinds, often wounded or driven out by their own clans or villages, each of the original settlers had made his way to this place. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Everyday we walk with the crowd, occasionally stopping in deserted villages to rummage for food. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yesterday Churchill, Smuts, Eisenhower and Arnold visited the French villages that the British have captured and liberated. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Four empty villages, no wildlings anywhere, even the game seemingly fled. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I ran the rest of the way to the village so that I should have a few extra minutes there. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He got up and walked around the village and returned to sit on the brick again. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Into the bush. Do you hear me? Not home. Don’t run home. They will be going into the villages. Stay away from the villages—run into the bush.” A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why is your mother’s behavior acceptable because she’s a village woman? I know village women who do not behave this way.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Carrying the pouch with his powders in it, he left the village and returned to the bush where he had been living before he became chief. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The hot wind that had blown through the village overnight had left fine sand on all the windowsills. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

These were people from the villages who couldn’t afford anything better. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was one of those confusing village rules. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was full dark before they found the village. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Of course everyone in the village knew what had happened to Tenorio, and all were waiting for him to return to bury his daughter. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Soon he will start nagging about wanting to go back to the village.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

So they finally decided to spend one last night in the village, along with all the creatures that Fenoglio had brought back to life. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

If she had been home, she might have spent the dark afternoons spinning or sewing, but the mistress bought her woolens and calicoes at the village stores. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

If she returned to the deserted village, the creature would only follow her. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She does not seem to like the thought of all those peoples in this little village on the mountain. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

She had difficulty in finding a bed in Hogsmeade, Seamus told Harry and Ron, for wizards and witches were pouring into the village, preparing to pay their last respects to Dumbledore. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

They comfort me; it looks as though there were little windows in dark village cottages saying that behind them are rooms full of peace. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one in her village would have made such an accusation lightly. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It reminds me of the village where we grew up.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The people formed in a procession round him, and the mayor of the village took him by the hand. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The villagers remembered Matty as a fun-loving young man who had been destroyed when he fought the evil, unknowable forces that had menaced the village in those harsher times, seven years earlier. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

During the civil war, Portuguese soldiers came through the village and destroyed all the boats to keep them from being used by Frelimo. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every year, someone from the village gets chosen to plug in the lights on the village hall, and then, one by one, everyone else in the village switches their Christmas lights on. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“What am I saying? Rook Hill was such a small village; nothing in the City — even a superstitious Yule bonfire — is comparable.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father was disappointed about the timing, until he made the shocking jet-age discovery that days and months do not matter one way or another to people in this village. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Now there is only one evil left that plagues the village." When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I know village ... no ... the town they live in, and . . . and province ... no, state.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

So we moved again, this time to a village called Wernyol, where my father had been born. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a big village with more than ten houses. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

When a strong enemy threatened an agricultural village, retreat meant giving up fields, houses and granaries. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the play, the invaders pose as hook-nosed department-store owners, crooked jewelers, dishonorable bankers; they sell glittering trash; they drive established village businessmen out of work. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The team stayed in the village for four days, eating meals prepared by the villagers. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Quietly we filed out of the village along the trail that led toward the place where our canoes were hidden. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

They told me they were heading for a village called Yele in Bonthe district that they had heard was safe because it was occupied by the Sierra Leone Armed Forces. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

In my old village there was one stall for all the snack foods. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She saw the giant striding toward the village, his black robes billowing behind him. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The village had broken somewhere deep inside, and she had no idea how to mend it. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its chief village was Bucklebury, clustering in the banks and slopes behind Brandy Hall. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Among the group were a few people whose home villages had been near rivers or lakes. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was in a field that sloped down steeply not far in front of me, and I could see the lights of some village way below in the valley. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one would ever know it was a girl who helped save our villages. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

All the buildings here are ancient, but there are no barns left in the village. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

At that time, my village was on the side of a small hill called Kamboe. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama liked to set up shop near the docks and the village center. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

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

“It is worse than anyone could have imagined,” the father says to the mother after returning from his village. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Much the same. We have gardens. Houses. Families. But it is much quieter than this village. There is no arguing. People share what they have, and help each other. Babies rarely cry. Children are cherished.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny walked back to the village, his head bent and his hands in his pockets. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alyce, in her comings and goings through the village, had come upon the path, although she had never before had need to follow it all the way up to the manor. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the village we traveled, stopping at the edge of the woods. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Don’t eat the vegetables. The village’s chief will beat you if you get caught.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of this book when Hugh and I attended the Festival of Saint Anne, a local fair held in a neighboring village, not far from our house in Normandy. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

But as they drove through the next village, he saw an old blind woman holding a baby girl in front of a house. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

When an Indian village became too deep in its own filth, the inhabitants moved. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

A herd of elk had walked down the mountain road onto the main street in the village, meandering past stores as if they were souvenir shopping. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

So Capricorn's men avoided that part of the village, where dirty dishes left by its long-gone inhabitants still stood on many tables behind dilapidated front doors. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In the same village there was a young man called Dimo. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The boy shrugged his shoulders and looked over to the village. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

This confederacy incorporated six widely dispersed nations comprising thousands of agricultural villages and hunting grounds in what are currently known as New York, Pennsylvania, and Quebec. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Best garden pond in the village it'll be, Mr. Broadwas said, once my shrubbery's got a grip. Have a pleasant tootle round Tewkesbury, did we?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The last painting is a dark sky filled with stars over a quiet village. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They were talking about Sitti’s invitation to come out to the village so she could “teach her things” on weekends. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Minli, used to the spare harvests of her village, couldn’t help gaping at the tall mounds of food for sale at the Market of Green Abundance. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Over the next months, tens of thousands of frightened Jews departed for the outlying towns and villages from which many of them had so recently fled. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

They drove around the edge of the village and back inland, down a lane that twisted between strangely bumpy fields. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“This village is called Anlungthmor and we will live here for the time being,” Pa informs us that night. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa bragged to everyone in the village of his skillful daughter. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

And when, wearily, they set off to find a vehicle of some kind to get them away from Capricorn’s village, they found all the cars had gone, too. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Beyond the village, beyond the river and the streams, Laila saw foothills, bare and dusty brown, and, beyond those, as beyond everything else in Afghanistan, the snowcapped Hindu Kush. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I came back from my spying foray one afternoon to find her playing “Mother May I?” with half the village’s children. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel a nervous twist in my stomach, like there’s an invisible string connecting me and the village, and the farther away we go, the tighter it pulls. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

As he left the village, he heard people crying, and he knew that these were his friends who thought that he would never return. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

More than 150 Yanomami were in the village at the time. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Most villages had craft schools, where boys and girls learned how to weave cloth, carve wood, and master other skills that would land them steady work when they grew up. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

They were still driving very slowly, but they were out of the tunnel of trees now, and on the road towards the village. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I imagined dropping bombs on those lights, those villages and cities and towns. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half a century ago, something strange and horrible had happened there, something that the older inhabitants of the village still liked to discuss when topics for gossip were scarce. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The village hall smells of cigarettes, wax, dust, cauliflower, and paint. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The bombings destroyed many villages and killed many people, allowing the Khmer Rouge to gain support from the peasants and farmers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Would it be possible for me to visit my uncle who lives in the village across the river?” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Somewhere nearby, her father slept, gathering strength to return with his newfound daughter to the village where healing people lived in harmony. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ad hoc village that would serve as our home for the next six weeks sat at the head of a natural amphitheater delineated by forbidding mountain walls. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Their Captain remained in secret away south of Bree, while two rode ahead through the village, and four more invaded the Shire. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I walked around the village by myself and found a hammock on one of the verandahs. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

My father grew up in a nearby village, and while his family wasn't wealthy, they at least had goats and chickens. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Jinjoo wondered if they were the ones that had destroyed the village. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Many packed up instantly and began to move west, terrified that their village would be next to fall into the hands of Stalin's armies. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He sat with his back against a rock and his hands around his knees and his throat hurting until the village boys found him. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The Pilgrims had literally built their village on top of it. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She said she wouldn’t live in her father’s empty house either, in the village of Gul Daman, which sat on a steep hill two kilometers north of Herat. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Adults carried babies and goats; children carried pots of food and dogs and younger brothers and sisters, the whole village of Kilanga. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel the coins in my hand and wonder if they’re enough to get to my village. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But we heard loud voices of people approaching the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It took only a few minutes to get to the tank, which rose up over them like the mountains in Carmen’s village back in Italy. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Besides, no one in the village had ever needed such a thing. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as I was big enough to hold the string, Mother took me out to the hill near our village where we could fly one of Fathers kites. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half the men from our village stood at the waters edge. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few months ago the Russians stormed the village and reportedly committed vicious acts of brutality. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

After many days, we left all the villages behind and walked through an area covered in low forests for a while. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The echoes resonated in the village, causing birds to fly off and return curiously chattering. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Still, my unhappiness and worry soon melted into wonder as miles of green fields rushed by, and small villages, and once a large city. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

What I found was three bodies lying in the dirt—dead or unconscious, I wasn’t sure—and a village near rioting. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

At Lexington, about halfway to Concord, the Redcoats saw about 70 militiamen lined up on the village green. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had seen a movie at school once, where the village women washed out the clothes and dried them in the sun. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

So for a time I had a partner—my husband and I, soldiers together just as when we were little soldiers playing in the village. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re acting so—oh, I don’t know! You seem angry. Has anyone upset you? I know it’s difficult trying to fit in to a strange village without any children. If I can do anything...” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was there, between the two trees, that the village sometimes gathered to sing and talk around a big f ire. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They searched slave villages at will and took liberties as they ransacked the homes of freemen, stealing hard-earned linens or making licentious advances. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Whenever I looked at rebels during raids, I got angrier, because they looked like the rebels who played cards in the ruins of the village where I had lost my family. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Finding their way back to the village seemed to take hours. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My mother got me out of the house before I lost my nerve completely and together we walked through the village to Bexley station. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the men—hungry, greedy, tired of planting in dry soil—had been forced to leave the village in order to send food-money home. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just an hour after we started out I came across the first village houses. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

When I reached the village, I made my way to the office where we had been given the papers that brought my pension. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

We sit on the mats and various people from the village come to sit near us—a few old men and women, many children and young warriors. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He bought chocolate in the village, and some peppermints in a tube. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Perhaps she had sailed all the way back past the guinea-fowl camp and the stream that went by the village. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, the old man called everybody in the village to the door of his hut. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Already on every village green throughout New England, men and boys were drilling in defiance of the King’s orders. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she knew as well as I that I could not go back to my village. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her dress was barely damp, but even that small amount of wetness chilled Anya as she jogged along the dimming river path back toward the village. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I will begin at the beginning, on my last day in my village, Yana Urku. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered that, after Ali dismissed himself from the house, your father told me he and Hassan had moved to a small village just outside Bamiyan. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She saw the village houses rushing by on both sides. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you okay, sweetie? Where are your parents? Where are the others from your village? Are they ...” She didn’t need to finish—the stack of bodies spoke for itself. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The hit of the village was the Japanese contingent, whose tradition of prodigious gift giving made them the collective Santa Claus of the Games. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

There was another gate in the southern corner where the Road ran out of the village. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

At the end of the day, I sometimes would sit on a log at the village square and watch the younger boys play their wrestling games. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“They have to swarm over a village and eat other people alive?” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the very outskirts of the village, there was a large, simple wooden structure originally meant to provide cover in a rainstorm, then, when more solid buildings were built, to store things temporarily. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

If they were stationed near a village, they could exchange soldier’s luxuries such as tobacco, cigarettes, and sugar for milk and eggs. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

But the village hall alarm went on, and on, and on. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

At the Academy, prison had been likened to a village—a self- contained world with its own school, workshops, hospital, and so forth. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The regent was loath to have me visit Qunu, thinking I would regress and fall into bad company back in my old village. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Ma and Ba told them, it seemed as if the whole village poured out from their homes. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I also give them a stack of clothing from America, and they’re most excited by the price tags and labels, which get posted as artwork throughout the village. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Dad asked her while we were driving in the car to her village. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“It wasn’t his people,” Kin muttered, and then said, “It was, but not his specifically. Different village. Doesn’t matter.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

There were so many of them that they couldn’t all be from the school village; they must have come from the whole area. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lena thinks Saint saved me from the poor country village that I said I was from. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning we entered the village and killed the remaining fighters, who didn’t want to leave. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

We were too weak to walk much after we left the village, so we found a shady place under some trees and lay there close together. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The houses were adobe and clustered together and like Jorge said, the village was small. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All gods. What god would not be furious at a mother who kept such babies? I think the whole village would be flooded or mostly everyone would die, if a mother kept her báza!’ The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would have a child, and that child would grow up to rule my village. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“I will tell your words to the whole village!” screamed his uncle in a high cracked voice of fury. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Most of the Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho people who were here had villages in that valley.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Usually, there would be plenty of people along the way, in villages and cattle camps. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Obviously Smith had been a little afraid of leaving the safety of the village. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All my friends left the village. They were Hindu and Sikh,” she said, glancing down again. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Of her village there was not a trace. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt so much restored by this that he called on the parish priest, half-way up the village street, and invited him to dinner. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the rest of her life, pilot Yevgeniya Zhigulenko never forgot finding a small boy with a haunted, thin face and huge green eyes alone in a deserted village. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

"And there are no rules about not letting people through from this direction. Only from the village." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Many, many were sick The chief was given all his storebought utensils and forced to walk away from the village forever. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this band of the invading horde there were about a hundred men, which is not many; but in the village were only eighteen men and boys. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

And when the sun shone in the morning, the village looked as if it were in ruins. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

This square was better lit than the rest of the village, with four lanterns casting menacing shadows on the paving stones. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In the conventional picture, pioneers first built a village, and when it prospered, they set up a temple in the middle. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cities differ from villages in their monumental public works, palaces of rulers, accumulation of capital from tribute or taxes, and concentration of people other than food producers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

London approached, villages giving way to towns giving way to unbroken tracts of suburbia. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Park Forest, it turns out, was one of America’s first fully planned communities—not just a housing subdivision, but a full village designed for about thirty thousand people, with shopping malls, churches, schools, and parks. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The first villages we passed through were full of people who say they haven't heard from Istanbul in years. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The boy said nothing at first; then, with all the eyes of the village upon him, he turned round and pointed to the gate. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

"In a peaceful village like this, it is hard to conceive of true evil." Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Bullets tore through the village, making angry zipping sounds like bees. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was by the finger-post at the end of the village, and I laid my hand upon it, and said, “Good-bye, O my dear, dear friend!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The curtain parts again in about 1500 B.C., when an archipelago of villages, the largest known as Poverty Point, grew up in the northeast corner of Louisiana. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The girls in the village followed the farm boy around a lot, whenever he was making deliveries, but they were idiots, they followed anything. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

When I was seven, we’d had to call it off after a mudslide north of the village center. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

And curving along the windowsills is a little river, like a stone gutter, winding around the entire village. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I asked Jan to go out with me as soon as I got down from Everest,” Hall reminisced during our first night in the village. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

She thanked him and climbed on and watched as the village of West Riding receded behind them. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There's a few houses in the village that's never had electricity at all. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You have many death in your village, hey?” said the trader suddenly. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Life was not lived in fear during the day in this village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

After Jamison had gone she sat silently, remembering how solitary Annabella’s chosen life had been, how unconnected to the village. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its body was then displayed in the village square for all to see. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

In just the few hours since the storm broke, the parched road through our village had become a gushing stream of mud, blood-red, throbbing like an artery. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bananas were so abundant around the village people stole them off each other’s trees in broad daylight. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How about fair wages to clean up the village? It’d help out a few of us, at any rate.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“There it is!” she said as Capricorn’s village appeared in the distance, gray and insignificant looking amidst all the dark green. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“We need to get to our family’s village.” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The wooden clock with its loud tick-tick-tick and the oil painting of the village Gramps was from. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

As for Mr and Mrs Taylor themselves, I have ascertained that they ran the village green grocery here from the twenties until their retirement three years ago. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

This was a story told to young people in my village once a year. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Then one day I thought I would set myself up as a reader of letters such as there are in most villages, and surely also in cities? Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He refused to move until my brother took his cows in a different direction from the rest of the village herd. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

They might find themselves trapped in this village forever. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

When the sun rose the next morning, Amari looked with horror at what was once her tribe’s village. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no way Anya could go home and do her normal chores when clearly something was happening in the village. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The whole village feasted all day, ate, ate till we felt bug-eyed and belly-up ourselves. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You want I should go with you as far as the village?” she asked him. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Most importantly, alongside seas and rivers rich in seafood and waterfowl, humans set up permanent fishing villages—the first permanent settlements in history, long predating the Agricultural Revolution. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around 8500 BC, when wild plants gave way to wheat fields, the oasis supported a large but cramped village of 1,000 people, who suffered far more from disease and malnourishment. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandmother was still in the village, and Masvita was still alive. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

So by the time Tata Ndu gets around to saying something, you can be pretty sure the whole village is talking to you. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a village in the distance which has 31 visible houses and a church with a square tower and not a spire. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

No mean feat in a village teeming with treacherous natures and informers who would sell out their dearest to escape the bite of the cat-o’-nine-tails. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“All I need be here,” she had told Kira, speaking disdainfully of the village and its noisy life. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the group suddenly came upon an Indian village, their minds were somewhat eased when they saw that it had just been abandoned. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

There were enough for everyone in our tribe for supper that night and the next, but in the morning two Aleuts came to the village and asked to speak to my father. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They walked backward on the dirt path so their footprints looked like the prints of someone arriving into the village, not departing!” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, in the Fertile Crescent food production and village life originated in hills and mountains, not in lowland river valleys. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Because of our straitened circumstances, my mother moved to Qunu, a slightly larger village north of Mvezo, where she would have the support of friends and relations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wrote that her father had found her a teaching post in the next village. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Sending her with her Seven League Boots to rescue the people in the forest villages. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She called the village of Las Pastures beautiful; she had gotten used to the loneliness, but she had never accepted its people. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“After the visit from the emperor’s soldiers, no one else in this village has any hospitality left.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Just like a peasant, to burn his own village from sheer stupidity!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Down in the village the house that had been set afire still blazed. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Peewee sent a burst of fire into the village. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, the base men walk through our side of the village, spying on the new people and inspecting their work. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll walk to the edge of the village with you,” said Sirius, “see if I can scrounge another paper.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Dozens of village people came by to see it that night. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Both were mad ideas; she wouldn’t get beyond the third house in the village. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Nobody likes change, not even my parents, with their treasured memory of how things were done in the villages of Pakistan long ago. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Now it was high summer, with the hay drying in the fields and all the village praying for the rain to hold off until the grain was safely cut and stored away for winter. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They demanded angrily that my father turn the car immediately so that the villages could be visited 'in the correct order'. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I was wearing a pair of trousers I had recently found hanging on a pole in an abandoned village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t far over the blacked-out villages of southern England before they reached the coast. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“For is not my father head of the village?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even in the village she hadn’t done as well. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had thought that the village was more than three days away, but after only a day and a half of walking, we began to smell the scent of cooking palm oil in the air. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Bands of crackers and rednecks had chased her from villages, slashed her tires, whipped her a bit about the arms. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, there could be nowhere better to keep watch on Capricorn's village. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Beetle settled the pack on her back and started for the village. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was trapped on this side of the road, away from my uncles, and the river was too flooded to swim across to the village and the safety of my grandfather’s home. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout the village, the pungent smells of goat stew and peanut soup, along with waves of papaya and honeysuckle that wafted through the air, made Amari feel hungry as well as excited. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

At dusk, as she was walking back to our village alone, she entered a stand of tall trees and heard a big crack from a branch. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the change that now came into my life, into all our lives, blasting its way into our village, seemed wrought in the twinkling of an eye. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a village near the city, they found a displaced persons’ camp set up at a former military base to provide temporary shelter and help for war victims and refugees. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The next afternoon, while the Diamants rested, I slipped out of the house to the village square. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The tribe fought from horseback, charging in a mass into villages and encampments. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only schools were in the biggest of villages, far away, or in the northern part of Sudan, where people spoke Arabic. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

By this time they had reached the village, and there was the evening meal to prepare. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Two years later a man from the government came to the village bringing a fine cow for the man, but the man said the government had insulted him, and he refused to take the cow. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks to increased communications, the ‘global village’ was starting to become a reality. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Countless hundreds of birds, orbiting the village green once, elasticking longer, twice, winging shorter, three times, then, as if following an order, vanishing inside the tree again. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

They sat in the shade of the house with some of the other village men and drank tea together and talked for a while. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The parade of villagers laughed and gossiped out of the village and along the Old North Road. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told her how I had talked with the man in the village about my pension. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Every village, every field, every tree was aflame. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Bree was the chief village of the Bree-land, a small inhabited region, like an island in the empty lands round about. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The elders in my village debated his meaning. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They’ll check for our mail when they take their trips to the village.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He had just lately begun to inhabit this territory on the edge of the village. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like most of the potters’ villages, Ch’ulp’o had a communal kiln. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The other men clapped and began walking on the path back to the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It’s in a little shopping village and follows the small-restaurant ritual of being dimly lit. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of her second week she began pestering Mark Fossie to take her down to the village at the foot of the hill. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We will have to carry him to the next village, however far that might be,” Kanei said slowly. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Says she can read! These village folk are certainly getting above themselves!” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

They asked in accusing whispers, Didn’t the rains slow the very year he arrived in the village? The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

But the last person to see Ross Wilcox was Arthur Evesham's widow, on her way home from bingo at the village hall. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

They had stopped by the last house in the village. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The other girls in the village never felt restless. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

These shoes I have seen, they are in the tiendita, little store, of what we call the pueblito, our village of San Juan. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Babulya mixed potions and salves for people all over the village, but she never wanted anyone to know she was the one making them. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Your poet must have spent time in a village like mine,” he said. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

She’d gone out to get firewood with other women in some woods a few miles away from the village. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crevasses—some wide enough to sink villages in, not house by house but all at once—run inland, northward, right out of sight. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The old sayings had a purpose in village life, but they were completely meaningless in modern Harare. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He told us that he was the only survivor of his village. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Diary of a Red Army Woman, the fictional pilot Tania is furious about the German army’s destruction of her village and the murder of her family. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Hah! So can I!” she said, and he knew then for certain how changed this village was, for in the earlier days, girls had not been allowed to learn. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Nor did anyone in my village, or the other villages through which we had passed. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Lola asked, snapping him out of the starving village and back into the Super Saver. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He dances with every member of a village of lepers, and heals them with nothing more than a kind touch. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The village was a beautiful place, where Mama’s and Papa’s families had lived for hundreds of years. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Then, at half past one, they made their way up the High Street, past Dervish and Banges, and out toward the edge of the village. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He paid no attention to their sorrow, though, as he knew that he would be able to capture the snake and bring it back to the village. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

When it became completely dark, I set out for the village and the church. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Yule week in Rook Hill was celebrated with nightly gatherings at different houses throughout the village, where friends and family shared stories about the years past. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she swung along the village road, Alyce, with good feelings tumbling about inside her, hummed and then tra-la-ed and then sang, as loud and clear as a swan. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new people are considered the lowest in the village structure. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blind man had entered only once, to return to his original village when it needed his wisdom. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The girls traveled from village to village to help new German settlers get established. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

They came to the village, where several fires now bloomed. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

"The villages may come and go, but the hills and rivers will be in the same places," Jon pointed out. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Right smack in the middle of the village is a huge kapok tree, which is where they get together and have their market every fifth day. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But will not the Count take his rebuff wisely? Since he has been driven from England, will he not avoid it, as a tiger does the village from which he has been hunted?” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Circulars were sent out to townships and villages all across the country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among his many exploits, he paddled his canoe up a river to the Fijian village of Kasavu, halted less than a pistol shot’s length from the village fence, and fired away at the undefended inhabitants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Although there was a service led by the village philosopher, Ash did not hear a word of it. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

On summer nights, Shin and some of the other small boys in his village would sneak into the orchard just north of the cluster of concrete dwellings where they lived. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

But tonight loads of kids were walking to the village hall with their parents too, so that rule didn't apply. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

She had traveled deep into the forest, far from her village and her home. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

People had heard of it, especially the three village teenagers who studied English in school and often dropped by to discuss life in what they called, "Ny." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“That’s a strange name. Why isn’t your village named after the flowering trees?” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“England. America,” he said, as if the nameless villages they passed had been replaced by those countries. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The village girl looked at Ivy then, and her face drained of color. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

And one of the village women passing through, the one who gives me a good price on milk. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They were approaching the last houses in the village. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Though many new people who resettled in their village were taken away and never heard from again, my family’s status as base people protected them from the killings. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A breathless man told my father that there was no one left in his village. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

His mother was running a hotel with his sister in the village where he’d been born. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Within a few years Macondo was a village that was more orderly and hard-working than any known until then by its three hundred inhabitants. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I shouldn’t have walked through the village to find her. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

In the seventeenth century they acquired steel tools, and used them to make the return journey from seminomadic hunter-gatherers to agriculturalists who lived in more or less permanent villages. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The only furniture was a bench carried in from the village cricket pitch—again, the youthful Leon and his terrible friends from school. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

‘And peachy fruits as well. Now tell me what you were doing in our village.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girls in the village would laugh and say, “Look at them. They’re doing the work of a woman.” Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone in the village kicked over a bundle of sticks and cursed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Before they returned to the village, the old man went to a number of secret places which he knew and collected roots and other substances that he would need for his work. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

She could see the village, nestled in the valley. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

So it was my earrings that Sass carried to the village to sell, and with them my last hope. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Tears pour from me as I drag my body away from the village. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had all brought their mothers-in-law and children, and even their village friends who were not lucky enough to have overseas Chinese relatives to show off. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they began to move through the streets, every Jewish man, woman, and child from the village, nine hundred people in all. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The wind blew in fierce gusts as we left the village, stinging our faces with sand. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Researchers have often described the Yanomamo as "fierce," aggressive sorts whose small villages are constantly at violent odds with one another. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Tanaburi was a small, ordinary village, and it was the ordinary things that he liked to watch the most: people hanging their wash out to dry, sweeping porches, chatting with their neighbors, cooking breakfast. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

And then the village, where the natives receive her as an emissary of the Lord, an instrument of civilization. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

One of the soldiers tells me that before he was injured, Captain Smith was able to make peace with Parahunt, the werowance of a village that has been ransacked by our colonists. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He decided to return to Huamuxtitlan, the dusty village beneath a flat-topped mountain where he was born. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

She told him that his aunt was in a village about thirty miles from where we were. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

My mother, a witch who lived here in this village, fell in love with him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The troops marched by, then broke formation, and began to spread out through the village looking for shelter from the rain. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be sorry. My husband’s elder brother wants him to help back in our village, and I’m happy to go.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I look forward to getting to this village. Ah, I will give my mother a very tight hug.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Whatever’s happened to her father, you must help the girl—get her out of this thrice-accursed village. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

With Geak toddling after us, Chou and I and the other children work in the gardens and do menial labor in the village. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d come back to the city after curfew before, once or twice, when there was a better price to be had for Mrs. Diamant’s goods in the villages than the city shops. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The woman took Amari in her arms and let her cry, the only comfort she had known since that horrible night in the village. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to drive her as far as Ramallah, where the fabric store is, and—I’ll think of something. She can take the bus to her village from there.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

"This was Fimi's. She was the only thing left living in her village—the militia had even killed the livestock. She'd spent two days hiding under her mother's body." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

And both of those days raiders—men with guns—attacked the rest of the village herd. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

They kept to themselves as much as possible, gardening, raising chickens and pigs and goats and even some sheep, only going down the slope to the village out of necessity. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Someone laughed, but most of those who had stayed behind were looking uneasily in the direction of the village. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He opened his eyes and saw a fishing village, the blue sea beyond, a swath of rolling green hills, and a cloudless sky. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He led Meggie away with him down from the rostrum, past all the people and the strange creatures crowding into the arena outside Capricorn's village as if they had always been there. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“There is certainly not much danger of burglars from the village,” Luke said. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Not when we were afraid, but when we were wide awake and lucid, my mother funneled China into our ears: Kwang- tung Province, New Society Village, the river Kwoo, which runs past the village. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Babulya had been delivering salves and potions all around the village for years in secret. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The village would be quiet without the eldest twins, but she was confident that Ivan and his brothers would fill that void in no time. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He began screaming from another side of the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Stopping at a couple of villages to collect men on the way,” Yishan said, agreeing. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

But in all my life I’d never gone past the boundary crosses, which marked the limits of our village. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s not true. Things are changing in villages all over the country, even here.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The first path they traveled was the long road that led from their village to the big river several miles away. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

That evening they stopped in a village at an ivy- covered inn. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We passed farms and villages, lone dogs crying out at our vast column. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Only the families of the boys being initiated were allowed to set up their huts in that village. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Warriors emerging from the south end of the village saw two lines of mounted Long Knives. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

As soon as the master drummers started playing, everyone in her village felt the call. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was but a child of eight and Laertes was twelve when we moved from the village to Elsinore Castle. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I liked going to the village and meeting its people, for they were a friendly lot and most of them anxious to help if they could. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time they arrived at the village at the foot of the mountain, all the horses were spent and the servants exhausted. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Slowly, using her stick, she limped toward the path that led back to the village, holding on to a small hope that she might still be welcome there. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dug my heels into Jingle Boy again and headed him hard north, back toward the little logging village, back to the stable. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

But in the village of Bywater all the houses and holes were shut, and no one greeted them. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

After the ceremony, my mother's relatives hiked back to their village and left her with her new husband and his family in their village. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Cantonese, village people,” she whispered as we passed women in knitted caps, bent over in layers of padded tops and men’s vests. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now she shouted, “Shame on you, Eleudierios! What’s the matter with you? Why don’t you get a girl from the village?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Kunthi’s two eldest sons were among the first in the village to start work at the tannery, and between them they brought home more than a man’s wages. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometime during the late afternoon or early evening he would come upon a village and stop for the night. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Others would be coupling tonight, creating new people, new hunters for the future of the village as the old ones died of wounds and illness and age. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is only one break in the wall; an opening about six feet in width, a little to the north of the village. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Who could ever describe this confusion, and come up with the village names and the dates for the history books? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The grouchy woman displayed some biscuits she must have bought in the village. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Protestors have come, hundreds more, setting up a site that looks like a Burning Man village. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

If dark found him near a village, he slept outside a house and accepted whatever was offered in the way of food. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The next night Ma returned to the village with her earrings. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus, one by one, I destroyed them all so that there were only ashes left to mark the village of Ghalas-at. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

People in the village knew they could slowly take their kids out, and no one would follow up. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

I haven’t been out in the village much since I stopped wearing makeup, so I’m sure he’s wondering about my patches. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Then we traveled by train to Lahore, where my dadi lived on a sprawling village farm outside the city, complete with chickens, cows, and fields of turnip greens. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The church building, scene of our recent feast, resides at one end of the village. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet a third theory is that the Zapotec of Monte Alban—not the Olmec of La Venta—consolidated to form North America’s first imperialist power, an aggressive state that subjugated dozens of other villages. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

While the interrogation went on, one of the rebels painted RUF on all the walls of the houses in the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The crofter’s village stood between two lakes, the larger dotted with small wooded islands that punched up through the ice like the frozen fists of some drowned giant. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Peewee and Monaco kept pumping rounds high into the village while Johnson sprayed the trail behind us. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A short way on either side of our village the road falls into a frenzy of hard dirt ruts that look like ocean waves frozen solid in the middle of a tempest. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

After our lessons, we joined the children playing barley-break in the dusty streets and on the village green. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Now tidal waves twenty feet tall slammed into the village. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Thereafter, Chinese-derived crops, Neolithic technology, village living, and pottery similar to that of South China spread into tropical Southeast Asia, probably accompanied by South China’s language families. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

If she made a circle with her hands, the whole village fit inside. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they crossed the bridge out of the village, Anya tensed up. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

When he had been there last, the most striking characteristic of the landscape had been the black mountain, its shadow casting gloom upon the village. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

‘So much for eating feces! Wait until the rest of the village hears what you have done.’ Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

We lived in the village of Elsinore in a fine house, timber-framed with mullioned windows. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Sometimes in a village in Iran, or Edmond, Oklahoma, a dog and a cat will have such a vicious fight that both of them are changed forever. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He had run all the way from the village and we had to wait while he gulped in fresh air. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he approached the village, Light Hair saw bundles on the ground. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

He had kissed before, with the girls of the village, but he had gone no further. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

There were ten soldiers left behind to protect the village, and they stood at their posts all day. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They had cut down the bush around the village except for the entrance from the river through which we arrived. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the whole village saw witches and devils everywhere, and fear lived in every cottage. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The village itself has courtyards and public squares. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I had plenty of friends in the village, and like me, they spent their days grazing the cattle. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Independence seemed to have passed over our village, just as the plague did on that long ago night in Egypt, sparing those who had the right symbol marked over their doorsills. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father pedaled hard and they sped through the dark village. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

I took a seat at my desk and surveyed the landscape—a small village of nail polish bottles, colored pencils, a rubber finger-puppet beast, and a hill of assorted notepads. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Not until they were well through the village and out into the open country did they stop to rest and consider what they should do. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Foraging societies there grouped into permanent villages and learned to cultivate and breed the area’s wild wheat and barley. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The village men say the Khmer Rouge soldiers are all around us, some even hiding in the village or in nearby woods. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like my parents, the priests remembered what it was like to have been Catholic in villages and cities where everyone else was a Catholic. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the village structure, spirits shimmered among the live creatures, balanced and held in equilibrium by time and land. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day, everyone in the village was ordered to gather by a certain large tree. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Many a dead body in the village had smelled of oleander or henbane. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Tragic part is, Merv’s craftier by half than what he makes out he is. It suits Merv to act the village idiot, ’cause all the other kids expect it.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Having affairs he must see to before he left Iffish, Vetch went off to other villages of the island with the lad who served him as prentice-sorcerer. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“One day, a poor boy from another village heard about the girl. ‘Please make me a pot of rice and cowpeas,’ he asked his grandmother. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know much more than the name of our village and my father’s family name—though perhaps this information would be enough. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

A village in China of fifteen hundred people might support itself entirely with 450 acres of land, which in the American Midwest would be the size of a typical family farm. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

In the most direct way, Indian liberty made indigenous villages into competitors for colonists’ allegiance. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But for the past few days he had spoken to them about only one thing: the girl, the daughter of a merchant who lived in the village they would reach in about four days. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, the village women spread blankets under olive trees, beating the branches until the olives fell. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The whole village is in a state of panic for there is no food anywhere. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lane went through the village and out again, towards the Mildon road. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He told me that Cambodia is fighting a civil war, and that most Cambodians do not live in cities but in rural villages, farming their small plot of land. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the small, isolated villages, even local people suspected of sorcery were ostracized or killed — the punishment was even worse for a touri. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

They asked the way to the next village. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

When the cars climbed the steep hill into the village, children popped out of front doors to look at them, as if cars didn’t drive up there very often. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

They were headed for the village of Krymskaya, where German troops were camped along the fortified Blue Line, Hitler’s offensive front in Crimea. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

‘No one is going to be worrying too much about me. That place you took me from was the village orphanage. We are all orphans in there.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Late in the day we reached a village called Lobuje, and there sought refuge from the wind in a cramped, spectacularly filthy lodge. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

A rule I often broke was the one against going to other villages by myself. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except when demanding food, the expedition navigated as far as possible from every village. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The next morning, I start asking other adults in my village to be my representative, and by the afternoon, I’ve found a kind young woman who will do me the favor. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every red mud house squats in the middle of its red dirt yard, for the ground in the village is cleared hairless as a brick. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Homeless men have built a cardboard “village” on rooftops. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

After four days crawled by, talk started up ’bout sending someone to that village in Michigan to see if there was a problem. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

There would be no traffic until the sappers took their bulldozers into the village. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, he knew every nook and cranny of this accursed village. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

District 2 is a large district, as one might expect, composed of a series of villages spread across the mountains. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Dog teams barked from both ends of town, and although she knew there were snowmobiles, the village was essentially a sled-dog town—an old-fashioned Eskimo settlement. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Me and my madam and the children are leaving tomorrow morning for the village. I came to tell you to stay well. Ka o di.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The one time we had stopped here to stretch our legs the whole little village had gathered, offering to sell us anything we might want to buy. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still they did not come up into the village, but waited at the lower end till the mist should lift and lay bare their loot and prey. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, other than the headmistress, no one else in the village knew she was expected at the school. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

If I tried to leg it, there'd be a foxhunt through the village with Wilcox as the hunt master and me as the fox. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

They were on fire, and ran up and down the village, slamming themselves against everything in their way and going back in the other direction to do the same. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

On the road, I find myself crowded among thousands of people walking amid deserted towns and villages. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As his head flipped back, another boot cracked into his shin and a little sporting cheer went up, with some uneven applause, as though for a decent catch in the slips on the village green. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I only really ever see her going to church on Sundays and walking around the village in the morning. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I wandered along the highway leading to the village and paused at the edges of fields, filling my basket with herbs and flowers. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The nickname for all the villages was balad, place of origin, because here people lived a traditional life, unlike ours in the city. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Eventually, if they survived, they would reach a town or village. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It was hard to avoid going past, since it was off the only road going north of the village, but it was set back too far from the road for the fools to see. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The chaos inside the country intensified, and the village was raided four times by Cossacks. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He had got a model village kit and toy spear. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“In some villages, blood has run like rivers for lesser offenses.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She had come from a village not too far from our own. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

None of them had ever seen a village burning. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

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

The way Fozia said he loved to dole out punishments and had personally burned an entire village to the ground. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s not that unusual, yeh get a lot o’ funny folk in the Hog’s Head — that’s one o’ the pubs down in the village. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He gazed at his men, churning the village dung heap with their arms. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Squelch gave me this tragic look like I was the certified village idiot. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Minli nodded — and as she waved a grateful goodbye to the village, a sea of ruined sleeves fluttered back at her. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

We’d finish the field on the north side of the village, and cross to the west — but that was a long walk, and he’d let me ride the ox. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Koly, I have nearly enough now to rebuild the house and buy what I need for crops. Soon I’ll be back in my village.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The farther I am away from the village, the more my anger overtakes my sadness. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could see the village of Kangik long before she got to it. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was fully set when we passed our villages. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He never visits it more than once or twice a year, and even then, he never stoops to entering a Red village like mine. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

She had asked the entire village and friends and family from other cities as well. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

A village has no secrets, and no more did Castle Black. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The maid had run screaming down the hill into the village and roused as many people as she could. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Despite the tremendous cost of the British attacks on its villages and crops, the enormous Cherokee Nation remained strong, with a well-functioning government. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Then he was carried to a village near Tengboche and cremated. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Amari was marched back to where the burning village had once stood so happily, grabbed by her hair, and shoved into a pile of other survivors from the village. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She slept on the couch, and left early the next day, on the first bus back to the village. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a telling me something else. In the next valley there’s a village by a lake where the folk are troubled by a ghost.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Ajay had always been fast and agile in ponds and on the cricket field, but that didn’t seem to matter much in their village. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

When President Cleveland’s carriage came to Sol Bloom’s Algerian Village, at the Muslim core of the Midway, Bloom gave a nod, and the women of the village dropped their veils. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Soon we expect there will be clubs in all of the twelve villages. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Before leaving Nabi Samuel, we visited the fields Father owned on one side of the village. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

He began to crawl slowly under the midday sun that illuminated the village one last time before we brought darkness to it. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

After his years at the university, the man I killed returned with his new wife to the village of My Khe, where he enlisted as a common rifleman with the 48th Vietcong Battalion. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some other workers from his village came in the mornings, white or mestizo, it didn’t matter. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Captain Smith must have taught her some English words during her visits to our fort and his visits to her village. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

They lived in a farming and cattle-raising village in the countryside. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Is this not the happiest village, for I am in it?" When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

As she left the village and began climbing the hill to her house, the fog crept closer. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“I will never use your name and no one who lives in this village will ever see these paintings.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Cora made a canvass of the village: Not a soul. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“It was that village where the emperor collected his latest workers.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Like a holy procession they returned to the village, the boy and the girl and the newborn twins and the cow and the cat. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ladders belonged to an enterprising Sherpa from the village of Gorak Shep who turned a nice profit by renting them out each season. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

In some villages there were lots of them and then for a while you’d see none at all. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The calling out of her real descent line would have led her to the wrong place, the village. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I still don’t know our neighbors or relatives well enough to attempt to chat about the goings-on in our village. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the five of us left the school, crossed the village green and headed for the sweet-shop. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a gloomy day and we kept asking Saidu if he was okay all the way to the next village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“You children have become little devils, but you came to the wrong village.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Pol Pot is sending soldiers into villages and towns and taking all children eight years and older from their homes, including base children. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I once knew a girl in my village who was born with an extra thumb.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I also discovered what I had lost years ago in that village in Southern Sudan: a parent’s love. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they were young, my mom and dad lived in neighboring villages that were about a day apart by foot. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I wanted to drop the hand and run as fast as I could to the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

We had no food to eat, as everybody had run away from the village with just the clothes on their backs. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The maxi would be cotton, of course, sewn by village women in the Sundarbans who fiercely protect our Bengal tigers from poachers. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We sometimes do see the odd boat passing by, but only carrying people from nearby villages exactly like this one. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I grabbed a trowel, tucked it into my waistpouch with my notebook, and headed down to the village. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Ahn-ahn! One of my uncles goes to your village all the time!” he told her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Nhamo went over the weapons she had observed in the village. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The village wanted to kill a cow for you.” A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could hear what Auntie would have to say; he could see her rigid face, her jaws clenched against the things which were being said about him in the village. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

At last, just as the sun sank and the first of the stars began to glimmer above them, they saw the fires of the chief’s village. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“The king sent him into hiding in a village north of here,” Yanna said. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

We stopped our playing and followed him to the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Ransdorp is a village on the other side of the river, with farmhouses and a few little shops lining wide gravel streets. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

All the soldiers assembled at the village square, dressed in their uniforms, carrying their weapons and ammunition in backpacks and waist belts. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Hills. Fields. Trees. A deer, once. Stones. She is staying well away from villages. When she can she rides along the bed of little streams, to throw hunters off her trail.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I figured he was still hanging around our old village all this time.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you think you can take me into the village, think again,” he said close by my ear. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

So Minli walked right out of the village without causing a second glance. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

It spent the nights running through the village and during the day was never far off. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The institute had a certain cachet, but the village of Dwight was no Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“We may be able to buy palm leaves in the village—also rice.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of the five hundred or so new people in our village, there are only two or three babies among the families. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Every man is free,” the frontiersman Robert Rogers told a disbelieving British audience, referring to Indian villages. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Harry could see a village, undoubtedly Little Hangleton, nestled between two steep hills, its church and graveyard clearly visible. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Mother offered one piece to the grouchy woman in exchange for mailing letters and picking up sundries and news when she went to the village. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

We took a little walk through the village then went down to the quay to get our bags. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Trina asked as their little group jogged through the cramped alleys of the village, following the path of the Berg. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

What we hadn’t done to the village, it did. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They strode down the narrow road through the village, past people bustling about. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Well and all, he would burn that bridge when he came to it, he decided, and for now he would take Yvaine into the village and deal with events as they came. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

And there were villages dotting this way and that through the forest. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

When they were out of sight of the village, he no longer let hers go. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Like a rude commoner watching performers on some village green, Hamlet commented loudly throughout the play. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The Warraskoyack village is a busy place, and I want to do my share of the work. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

When Maa sent me into the village for some errand, I lingered under the windows of the school to listen to the students saying their lessons aloud. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

As we were passing through some of the villages, many Germans watched us, showing no surprise. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes beyond the village I rounded a bend and arrived at a breathtaking overlook. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I got off at Druggers End and went round the back of the village hall and over the glebe, alone. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

And even then, Mr. Abbas has to explain that every village in Iran has its own colors and patterns they’re famous for. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

They lived in settled villages and were organized politically into tribes rather than bands. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They argued passionately with the village greenwitches, claiming that all those fairy tales were nothing but the stuff of nonsense — there were no greenies or goblins. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The logging village was ’bout five or six times as big as the square in Buxton. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He stumbled upon a magnificent ranch sprawling over seventeen thousand acres of California’s remote redwood country, 150 miles north of San Francisco, near a tiny lumber village called Willits. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tangy and cold, the taste of my first- ever holiday with Tom, a fishing village on the Basque coast in 2005. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers who guarded the village ordered everyone inside. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“What does anyone want with our little nothing of a village? And shooting us with darts? I mean, what was that?” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“But reaching the top of the mountain has nothing to do with the villages!” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

No lights came from the village, but some gleamed in the manor house. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You are a village girl,” said Kunthi, and there were shadows of contempt moving behind her eyes. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hardly a chore, our quiet village life, but I was still relieved when a break came. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope they had sense enough to build the village high, then,” she said, hopping ashore. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jilin was clearly noted on the map, and trails splintered off from the village and led into the Wood. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They were facing the wrong way, after all, and it was dark and wet, and they were busy stamping the ground and staring gloomily and longingly at the lights of the village. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was obliged, reluctantly, to stop in the next village and seek shelter for the night. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I stare down onto Sagan, at the trees that look like they belong in the yard of my micro dollhouse village. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

"Yes," said the voice, "the village will he free from taxation for the next year. And I will take the painting." Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“He is the first in our village to go overseas, and our people have prepared a dance for him. The dance troupe will meet us in Ikeduru.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“It sounds like the Ramirezes are bringing enough to feed the whole village.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Your pa will bring us lots of food when he returns,” Ma tells Geak when she asks for Pa. The soldiers come to our village more and more often now. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twice more when I was in the village, I went to look into the office, and twice more I hurried away, too timid to speak to a man dressed so formally. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Someone called: “Of course there is resettlement. We go to villages in the East. They are waiting for us.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“Just my luck. Soon as I leave the village, things get interesting.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She had spent years nursing the poor in the village. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I arrived at a village where there was nothing to eat except for the coconuts that sloppily hung from the trees, as if teasing me, daring me to pluck them. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She spoke with people who had been forced to come to the city after their villages had been destroyed by American bombs, their crops wiped out by Agent Orange. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

For this, our third night in the village, I decided to escape the noxious smudge by moving into a tent, pitched just outside, that Rob and Mike had vacated when they went to Base Camp. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He described scenes of devastation—forests turned to deserts by American chemicals, villages burning, children wounded by American bombs. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“My daughters were married years ago. Both are busy with their own lives in faraway villages. I have no sons.” Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

People hurried off to carry the message to the other village. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw them rustling through the leaves, watching the affairs of the village from their dark lairs. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He admires the colorful houses, the thatched roofs, and finds both the village and the countryside “gravely beautiful.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

This week his job was escorting a violent juvenile offender first from Minneapolis to Seattle, then to Ketchikan, Alaska, where they boarded a big silver floatplane to the Tlingit village of Drake. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

They had grown up together in the old village that both of their ancestors, with their work and their good habits, had transformed into one of the finest towns in the province. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The other, she on whom our lives depended, vanished from the village. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She liked to run down the long dirt road of the village, stopping into the dark doorways, waving to the people who lived inside each house. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The settlers began raiding the Indian villages, killing and burning, with the goal of exterminating the native people. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He organized boat races in the basin of the Court of Honor that pitted inhabitants of the Midway villages against one another. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

If radioactive fallout started spreading through the sky, it would be Hall’s job to help evacuate people from local farms and villages. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anna's telling Darnell about tiger cubs, and poachers, and village women who work with her NGO to protect the shrinking habitat. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

‘If you is really wanting to know what I am doing in your village,’ the BFG said, ‘I is blowing a dream into the bedroom of those children.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ve got a bogatyr and an imperial fool in this village,” he hooted, “and it took them hours to find my granddaughter being chased by a maniac in the woods!” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

A bomb fell on the road, way over in the center of the village, where the lorries were. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It is conveniently situated on one comer of the village square, a rather charming ivy-covered manor house capable of housing, I would suppose, thirty or so guests. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossomed furze unprofitably gay, There, in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule The village master taught his little school. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

All of the fires in the village were cold. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Is it not true,” I say, “that the nuns are loath to allow the village doctor to examine them when they are ill?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The next day we heard that the shiftas had found our tracks and followed us right to the edge of the village. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the village were kinsmen, and the titles shouted in loud country voices never let kinship be forgotten. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

By 1963, the South Vietnamese government had relocated more than five million farmers to heavily fortified villages. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The Ebola River empties tracts of rain forest, winding past scattered villages. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They set up a base in one village and waited for a Miami assault. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

I was packing my knapsack for school when I noticed it sticking out of my library book—which was about a village of squirrels, or maybe it was mice. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

From my tower, I can see all the casas in the village and I can see all the peoples coming and going. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

He is not the most popular boy in our village. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries many Amazonian Indians, the Yanomamo among them, abandoned their farm villages, which had made them sitting ducks for European diseases and slave trading. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

When I turned away from the village, my traveling companions were dancing in the sand, mimicking some of the dances we had seen. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“We were looking for food,” Ruby says, “my family and I. But I wandered off and got lost and went too close to the village.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

But I always liked to play with friends in the different villages. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dense collections of villages thronged the bluffs that line the shore, with their people fishing in the river and farming the floodplains and sections of the uplands. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She was still the best alpana painter in the village, wasn’t she? Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

Before the arrival of Europeans, North America was indeed a “continent of villages,” as some historians have called it, but it was also a continent of nations and alliances among nations. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

"If it's a fishing village, they'd sell us fish, I bet," said Hot Pie. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Both of them, like almost everyone in the small village, had come from another place, had fled something, had escaped from hardship of some kind. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But when we got there after many hours, the crowds stood so thick, thousands of people from many villages, that I only got a small glimpse of him, far away in his white dhoti, waving. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They came looking for what their tiny villages didn’t offer them: jobs, housing, electricity, food, and schools for their children. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“He left the village to rid it of its last evil,” Amah continued, “and reformed, lived a life of peace, and then, at last, was a great hero.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

No more than half an hour later he laid his pack down beside the wooden house of the village headman and turned to salute the little crowd that had gathered. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the edge of the village, she turned toward Fruitless Mountain. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

A man in our village came upon a stray dog in the road one day. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning the news blew through the village like a sudden sea breeze: The emissary had visited Kang’s house. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I began to worry, because last time I had found someone in the village who had gone to school with us and saved us. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Me and Jingle Boy waren’t even a mile out of the little logging village when I pulled up the reins and stopped him. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

It is called the Tchimpounga Sanctuary, named for the nearby village. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

They’d been surviving out here in the forest and fields around the abandoned village, and Anastasia had given birth in the wild. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I circled the castle mews and followed the hedgerows past the fields and beyond the village. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“The Methodist Mission gets us milk powder and vitamins to distribute in the villages along the river. The tins of food and quinine pills come from the ABFMS.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was one of the hardest things: The village might be 5 miles away, or it might be 50. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are smoldering remains of bonfires giving off the stench of burnt human flesh all through the village. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The village of Bree had some hundred stone houses of the Big Folk, mostly above the Road, nestling on the hillside with windows looking west. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Papa had wanted to stay in the village. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

“Do you expect us to stay in their village?” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

In the village where Jack’s sister, Jadzia, had lived with their aunt and uncle while caring for their baby, Jack was able to learn his sister’s fate from neighbors. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

We were still ten kilometers from the village when my chronic backache spread to a deep, rock-hard contraction across my lower belly, and I understood with horror that I was in labor. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of us wanted to give up the village to the other, but in the end we killed most of the rebels and captured a few more. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

His soldiers come to the villages late at night, taking away all the men, the villagers had said. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The village had one crossroad, where the church and mission stood. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Naima’s village, on International Mother Language Day, when the whole country celebrated the beauty of their Bangla language, the leaders gave a prize to the girl who painted the best alpanas. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

I have a sudden vision of the Apple Lady, walking around the village like a ghost, never talking of looking anyone in the eye. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

She was the littlest baby in the village and still couldn’t quite figure out how to crawl. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Those heading toward the village met some of Capricorn's men running back from extinguishing the fire. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Few men were left in the war-torn Soviet villages—they were all at war, leaving the women to drive tractors, manage livestock, and raise crops. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

They said in the village that whenever Capricorn had a house set on fire Basta took away a brick or stone, even though he feared fire at other times, and clearly that story was true. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“It will be a good way for your village to know that Hassan’s is back in business.” Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

He burned whole villages in Friesland for revenge. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the athletes boarded buses heading west to the new Olympic village in Charlotten- burg, but the American oarsmen climbed onto two buses bound for the little village of Kopenick southeast of Berlin. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Some were from tiny villages in the middle of nowhere, while others were from the big cities of Leningrad and Moscow. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The inn and its stables were much as he remembered, though little more than tumbled stones and blackened foundations remained where the rest of the village had stood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

On Sunday morning while church bells rang in the villages along shore the world and its mistress returned to Gatsby's house and twinkled hilariously on his lawn. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Until recently, researchers would have said the highlands in 1000 a.d. were occupied by scattered small villages and one or two big towns with some nice stonework. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They live in their own houses on the other side of the village, separate from us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new settlers have attacked Indian villages and made enemies where we used to have friends. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

For the village boy in the bakery all those years ago had been right—one glance from a witch is enough to put even the most determined child under her spell. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

They would attend to their evening tasks, preparing for the return of the village men, who would need food and fire and the wrapping of wounds. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were aunts, uncles, cousins — the home behind the red gate doors was really a village of relatives. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

There were whaling villages along the shore, and no one was eager to be spotted. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I distanced myself from games in the village and sat behind houses, staring into the open space until my migraines temporarily subsided. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The walls were covered with plaster on the outside and a village artist had been hired in a good year once to paint upon the white plaster a scene of hills and bamboo. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

But no, she wasn’t in the deserted village. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever his race, each convict is a citizen of a stony village that exists within the prison’s steep, machine- gun-guarded walls—twelve gray acres of cement streets and cell blocks and workshops. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next village was two days’ walk away, over a spur of mountain. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

At the same time, in Narewka and many other villages throughout Poland, men were conscripted for forced labor. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

When the sun sinks down, casting long shadows over glittering snow, it is time to return to the village. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The sounds are miffled, as if a big scarf is wrapped around the village. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

She wondered when she’d get used to this, being asked to do fun things with the other village children. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Her life is saved, but she needs more medical and psychological help than she can get in a small village. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The village children were gathering around the car to peer inside and run awed fingers over the blue body. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

At the end of the war, life returned to normal, and Shackleton began a world tour, speaking to audiences in big cities and outback villages about Endurance’s doomed voyage. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Ear, Eye and Arm often looked down on these fires and imagined they were back in the distant village of their childhood. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Upon our arrival at the village, the women and children clapped to welcome us. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

We ran into the nearby coffee farm and lay in the dirt watching the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The reports they come back with are encouraging: They have met lots of natives and have been welcomed into their villages, invited to eat with them and watch their dances. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

‘Please tell me what you were doing in our village,’ Sophie said. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fishermen in the village would trade stories at the end of the day as they unloaded their catches and set their boats up for the night. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

For certain the pumpkin flowers do their work, but I believe it is the love of Serafina and the many good souls of this dusty village and God that makes me once more whole. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Of those who managed to live ordinary lives, some already had more education than others, or their parents were peasants, or they came from a small village or a big city. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

They’d march north for a time, then east, then north again, skirting the villages, no one talking except in whispers. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In site No. 50, a rockshelter near the village of Coxcatlan, the team found maize cobs the size of a cigarette butt. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

If the adoption of ploughing increased a village’s population from a hundred to 110, which ten people would have volunteered to starve so that the others could go back to the good old times? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They drove through a village that was empty but for a few hollow-eyed beggars lurking in the abandoned market street. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Darkness was settling by the time they reached the bottom of the mountain, so Yishan suggested that they find shelter for the night in the village. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Over the next few days, as Tree-ear trotted about the village to and from work or on errands for Min, he kept his eyes wide in search of Kang. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“They made it to a deep gully and were surrounded there by warriors coming up from the village. Those soldiers didn’t make it out. They say they are still there, buried in that deep gully.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Ma was carrying the fishbowl when the night fell and they came back home to the village. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Cherry dropped me off at the gate to Nicole’s community, or “the village,” as she liked to say. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Pennytree proved to be a much larger village than he had anticipated. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And along the way, Mom tells me about the park we’re going to, which is also the historic site of a winter village called Old Man House. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

During the afternoon of the following day, still going westerly and while coming off a rise, I saw ahead what looked to be a village situated in a dell. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“It takes a village to raze a camp.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

In one sense, it was the safest place she had been since she left the village. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the village came out of their houses to see the astonishing sight—pale, unhealthy-looking men who carried large bundles and unusual-looking sticks as they marched into the center of the village. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

So they left the lodge before any in the village was awake, except a baby that cried a little in the darkness of some hut, and fell still again. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The Cherokees were originally divided into 30 or 40 independent chiefdoms, each consisting of a village of about 400 people. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, we wait until the village is well behind us to even speak. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

But he recovered himself quickly with a short laugh and remarked: 'Nice view of the village on your side.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Four grown men from the village struggled to hold it down. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

People in the village had thought of helping us out by eating a few before we got here, but Mama Tataba, I guess, kept them warded off with a stick. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every once in a while, a group of Khmer Rouge soldiers attacks a random village, raids the houses, kills a few people, and then ducks back into the woods. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He seemed uneasy and went to tell the village elders.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We don’t know. They left when the men came with fire to get all the Hindus and Sikhs out of the village. My brothers went with them, to fight for Pakistan.” The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“When I went to India this winter, on that volunteer trip, we were building toilets. Building them because people there, in this one village, didn’t have them.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The men were leading the goats into the village. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Suddenly loud gunshots not far away from the village were heard. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

And there is a village burning beyond the fields.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Sometimes families turn off the main road toward villages and farms. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Though we are all supposed to be equal, there are nonetheless three levels of citizenship in the village. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the smell struck him—something putrid, something so rotten that you would not even throw it into the pigpens back in his uncle’s village. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The column was well under way, so he swung wide around the village to avoid the worst of the congestion. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Few if any of the people in the village knew how to read or write, and the concept of education was still a foreign one to many. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he did so, the great snake, fat and slow from all its eating, slid heavily into the village. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“There’s a little village down this road. The VC must have it, but their main force is on the hill. The squad the ARVNs chased went back to the mountain.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One day our villages will know each other,” Kira assured him. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people of Rook Hill, however, the small northern village where Aisling lived with her father, kept to the old ways. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Newgate, in need of replacement, was only thirty-three miles from the village of Sing Sing, but Lynds didn’t want the inmates from there to build his new prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every moment more and more Minute Men were arriving, surrounding the village. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are called “base people” because they have lived in the village since before the revolution. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slumbering village was silent, and as Minli crept into her home the pale goldfish greeted her. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

A whole crowd of merpeople was floating in front of the houses that lined what looked like a mer-version of a village square. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“One night Proud went to a beer-drink in the next village.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They won’t give up until they capture this village. They want our food and ammunition.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She was a ghost in her own village, already seen as the bride of the ngozi. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

All those things had happened last year, when Sigurd the Varangian had descended upon the village of Zmeyreka like a dark cloud. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

We raced after the other people leaving the village, running through tall grass high above our heads. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

There would be a funeral in the village at which Briony’s dignified reticence would hint at the vastness of her sorrow. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Night had hardly cooled the air at all; a strangely foreign wind blew through the village, hot and sandy, as if it were carrying the desert itself across the sea. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

After riding half the night on the deserted road south from Surrattsville, Booth and David Herold neared their destination—an isolated farmhouse a few miles north of a village called Bryantown. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night, as we made ready to sleep, Bear informed me that on the following day we would reach a village by the name of Burley. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

But in smaller cities and villages, arranged marriages are still the norm, particularly introductions initiated by parents. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“My village is just a bit past this. I can walk from here if you wish.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Birdsong strafed and morsed from the oak on the village green. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The chief’s messenger welcomed them at the entrance to the village. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The families of most of the seamstresses had immigrated from country villages in Italy, Poland, and Russia, just as the Irish had come fifty years before, hoping for a better life in America. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

The two dæmons moved through the silent village, in and out of the shadows, padding cat-formed across the moonlit gathering-floor, pausing outside the open door of Mary’s house. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The people returned to the village and got out all their bows and arrows. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

But something in his eyes told me that he didn’t care for my safety but only for his and his village’s. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

From an early age, I spent most of my free time in the veld playing and fighting with the other boys of the village. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gunfire had ceased and the village was quiet, so I assumed that the attackers had been successfully driven away. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They never acknowledged one another, not even in the village church, with its six splintering pews. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though there are no gates, an invisible line divides the village in two halves. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day he went ashore to the village. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and Father talked about man things.The doctor was surprised about the Jimmy Crow boys being in our village. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, they are often seen on our side of the village, patrolling the area and telling us what to do. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The silence in the village was too scary. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It seemed that the rebels were getting ready to move out of the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

In many places where the train slows in Veracruz—at a curve or to pass through a village—people give. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

By the time Cole finished eating, two boys from the village had arrived to help lift him. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Father spends his days making rounds through the village, trying to strike up chats with the idle old men, or venturing farther afield to inspect the state of grace in the neighboring villages. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The village crazy lady put on her headdress with the small mirrors, some of them waving quickly on red stalks. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It's as dark and quiet tonight as in a village." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

One morning we arrived at a village where the men were getting ready to go hunting. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

In this village, I'd have been married off at eighteen at the latest, and we probably would have two or three children by now. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She took me north to El Paso, and years later she laughed about how long she had waited for me in that village full of dirty stupid people. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then they set off down the mountain path, heading for the makeshift village they called home. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Instead of sitting among the dead bodies, the bundles of food, crates of ammunition, and bags of drugs, we took cover in the nearby bushes and guarded the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Nhamo quickly saw that she had landed in a very strange village. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the biggest village we had been to so far. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The sea was still some way off, but the hills were lower, and vines grew on the slopes rather than the undergrowth and trees that grew on the hills around Capricorn’s village. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I will find some obscure village or cottage in the woods.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

We're out of the way, all right, a small village, we're none of us getting younger, and the village is getting smaller. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

He lingered on the stoop, eyebrows pulled into a concerned W. “I asked some people in the village where you lived.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Mother sometimes allowed Naima to visit a cousin on the other side of the village, and Naima had forgotten to ask for permission once or twice before heading out. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

As we continued to watch, a dog strolled across the village, barking as it went down the path. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I asked for water. I offered him some of our food. But they only have a bit left, with four children. He said there’s running water in the next village an hour away.” The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m thankful we’re on the other end of the village, far away from him,” she said. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Just before the road from the inn turns and makes for the village, there is a hidden path to the manor. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

"He must be the village idiot," Bill said. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Well, the next thing we knew, Tata Ndu announced the whole village has to go on a big hunt, and that will save us. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He wants everything to be like his old village,” Matt said. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malala describes her childhood village in the mountains of Swat so clearly I can imagine the crisp clean air, waterfalls, and jagged cliffs with narrow suspension bridges. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The kids at school were just as bad as the village kids. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holmes acquired a ticket to a village called Englewood in the town of Lake, a municipality of 200,000 people that abutted Chicago’s southernmost boundary. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Unlike her own village, Efifi was a mixture of Shona, Tonga, and Matabele, with one Afrikaner thrown in. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

What did he know but mere village witchery, spells to call goats, cure warts, move loads or mend pots? A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was reverse quarantine, an ancient practice in Africa, where a village bars itself from strangers during a time of disease, and drives away outsiders who appear. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

An army private shoulders his recoilless rifle as American troops leave the village of My Tho after setting buildings on fire, 1968. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

When spring arrived with soft breezes and meadows grown green, the villagers began sowing early peas and barley, followed by the village boys who threw stones at the hungry birds trying to eat the seed. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

This caused a great deal of excitement in our village. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

When she was sixteen, she moved in with a boyfriend who had a house near the village of Holkham in north Norfolk. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been to the village only once, the year before. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ate in the church and slept in one or other of the many abandoned houses in the village; that was the rule and it could not be broken. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Without noticing the transition, the pair of them were standing, knee-deep in the river, watching the mahalath swallow the farthest houses of the village. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

All of us hated the rebels, and we were more than determined to stop them from capturing the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It only took a few incautious words and fearful whispers to convince them that the Devil had found their village and was looking for souls to lead into sin. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sent their children to school and went to church and attended meetings of the Masons and of forty-five other secret societies having lodges, kingdoms, and hives in the village. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go back to the village,” Nhamo pleaded, clinging to Grandmother’s legs. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Very well, she thought as she silently followed Mo through the sleeping village. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

We lived in a less grand style in Qunu, but it was in that village near Umtata that I spent the happiest years of my boyhood and whence I trace my earliest memories. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they approached the village they heard the sound of slow-moving lorries. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Outside, beyond the shadow of the church on the village square, the sun shone down from a cloudless blue sky, and the air was filled with scents of summer. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Over the treetops the spire of the village church could be seen, and thatched cottages began to appear at the road’s edge. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I figured if ill the stories were true, he would have to have lived to be older than me just to eat and sleep in so many villages. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The outer villages are in rebel hands, the town divided, and the Nut is as untouchable as ever. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Never stray past the village limits. Do not go beyond the path.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And as the moon came low on the horizon Dunstan Thorn walked quietly down the cobbled streets of the village of Wall. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

We have talked with the chiefs of all the villages in the area, and they will help us. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Just Zmeyreka, a tiny village with a grand total of four Jews in it—three, with Papa gone—who all prayed differently than this community she sat with. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

If I settle down on a stump somewhere at the edge of the village square, they’ll forget about me sooner or later, I’ve found. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes we came to a river and I was happy, because at the edge of most villages there was a river, so I thought we should be there any minute now. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The village looked like the one they had constructed for practice at Fort Devens. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The great old kapoks and baobabs that shaded our village ached and groaned in their branches. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the center of the little village there was an open space next to the jetty, where boats had been drawn up, mounds under the snow. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

At the distance of a long bowshot from the village, the scene was terrifying. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The Murle are another tribe in Southern Sudan, and we knew about them because they would raid villages and steal not only cattle but Dinka children, whom they would raise as their own. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The library was the size of a village. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t just that he was out of shape from the long idleness on the ship, and almost pudgy from gorging on board and in the village. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Besides, what would she ask of the village constable? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was said he had come to the village quite some time ago, a visitor. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I was just curious if any of the reigning ‘champions’ knew when the first perambulating library appeared in the rural villages of Cumbria County, England.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

The village of Ghalas-at lay east of the hills on a small mesa, near Coral Cove and a good spring. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could not figure out what was my village. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There we were sitting together in front of the village television set. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Once safely out of view of the village, he wasted no time in getting back to the thicket. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only two men in the village could read. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nearest village, Bucktown, was little more than a settlement composed of post office, church, crossroads store, and eight or ten dwelling houses. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Capricorn's village. Or the devil’s village, if you prefer.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The streets at the far end of the village had been so utterly destroyed by the earthquake which drove out the last villagers that Capricorn had not had them rebuilt. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was a lion, but it looked little enough like the lion Tristran had seen at a fair in the next village, which had been a mangy, toothless, rheumy thing. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“How often do you go to your village?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Instead, raids are initiated by ambush or by superior force, so as to minimize at all costs the risk that one might die for one’s village. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The village would gather in the morning to place it in the earth. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps our little village had become odd in its isolation. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” Connor said, “I suppose I should go. There’s a village council meeting, and Father likes me to attend. He’s one of the councillors. He says it’s good practice.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

In the Pyrenees and the Alps, entire villages would essentially hibernate from the time of the first snow in November until March or April. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

We drove through Saint Jean de Luz and passed through villages farther down the coast. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

As he entered the village, the goldfish man again began to doubt if he was in the right place. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

And, having assured himself that his friend would be safe in the empty inn, Tommy walked back through the village to the gap in the wall. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

A small village spreads out before her—ALTAMIRA, say the rippling letters on the corrugated tin roof of the first house. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The village centre of Moscombe, in the morning sunshine, could be seen to be a number of small shops surrounding a church, the steeple of which I had seen from the hill yesterday evening. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

During harvest season the crops from the fields are turned over to the village chief, who then rations the food to the fifty families. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the Men Pieces is about war but told by a boy your age who can’t seem to find peace after a bomb blows his village and his brother to pieces. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was a shamanic outsider who was born to a virgin girl in a village far to the north. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

One morning, immediately after we had passed a deserted village, we started hearing something like the roar of big engines, the rolling of metal drums on a tar road, a thunder exploding, roll after roll. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

"A fishing village, just a little place, north along the shore. Twenty-six thatch roofs and one slate, I counted. I saw part of a wagon. Someone's there." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear raced through the village all the way to the scrub behind Min’s house. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He owned many head of cattle and worked as their village’s judge—an honored, respected position. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spun and ran toward the village, but not quickly enough. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Even though the village was by a river, it had been many years since anyone had seen a glimpse of a goldfish. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The little hairy man had taken Tristran's ripped coat and trousers and waistcoat and, leaving him covered by a blanket, had walked into the village which nestled in the valley between three heather-covered hills. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Only when the houses of Capricorn’s village were almost out of sight behind the trees did he stop. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then the planes were gone, and in the huge silence that loomed over the fields and trees and the village, there was not even birdsong. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The other village children looked at her enviously while the watching adults shook their heads. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Anya quoted a sentiment she’d heard a lot in the village when people decided to break the law: ‘“God is far up high, and the tsar is far away’?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

For six hours we rode on and on along the dusty road, passing several villages on the way to ours, which was a good distance away. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs Phelps was concerned about the child's safety on the walk through the fairly busy village High Street and the crossing of the road, but she decided not to interfere. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

It would still be daylight, and if they showed up in the daylight, they would be demonstrating that they weren’t afraid of us, that we couldn’t protect the village. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a French village far to the south of Saint-Malo, a German truck crossing a bridge is blown up. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then he and his sons ran off towards the village. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Those who tended stock, like Einar, or who farmed, like Andras, or all of the village fishermen—they knew the sky. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Oil lamps and gas lamps and candles glowed in the windows of the houses of the village. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

But there was no political unity whatsoever among villages of the Foré language group. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And I became a public relations man for General Electric in Schenectady, New York, and a volunteer fireman in the village of Alplaus, where I bought my first home. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

One morning later on in the summer, Omakayas’s mother, sister, grandma, and Little Pinch all wanted to go into the village and see the big canoes that had arrived to unload furs at the trader’s. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

It is the misty driplets that come some mornings and wrap around the village so that all you can see around you is the white cloud. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Long Knives everywhere were known to shoot at any Lakota, alone or in a village. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Tufia! I don’t know why my master wants to see that devilish festival in your village,” Harrison said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

When one works out the likely numbers involved, one finds that this effect would make only a trivial contribution to the Americas’ 5,000-year lag in food-producing villages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Every year during the month of March a family of ragged gypsies would set up their tents near the village, and with a great uproar of pipes and kettledrums they would display new inventions. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I had to warn Patrice and the rest of the staff that whoever set fire to the village might be at the sanctuary next. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

There would be authentic villages from far-off lands inhabited by authentic villagers—even Pygmies, if Lieutenant Schufeldt succeeded. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

At last I had to admit to myself that he had probably returned to his village and was looking for a suitable bride. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Will paused in the center of the little village and looked around, wondering where to go, and as he stood there, two or three men appeared ahead and stood staring at him. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Yet someplace in the village, someone was very ill, and Jonas was there. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She remembered seeing a crocodile once in a mud hole near the village. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a certain village there lived people who were both happy and rich. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

None of the villages shamed any signs of having been attacked. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We decided to leave the village the next day and go somewhere safe, somewhere far away from where we were. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

When she had entered the village for the first time, like so many others, she had been welcomed, years before. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In a village, she could have hunted for footprints. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She fled her fishing village in a boat with her husband and son. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

It was deathly quiet among the houses of Capricorn's village, and everything that went on seemed to be done in secret. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Gasemu and my friends had followed me, and we all stood looking at the flaming village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

One of our neighbors in the village is a widowed mother of three. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others chimed in with more suggestions: a new roof for the village hall, food for families whose crops had failed, a fresh planting of blue willows to attract more hummingbears. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Not even Goodwife Peregrine—who was the oldest person in our village—knew for sure. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

As we walked through the village trying to find a place to sit away from the crowd, we saw some familiar faces. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The Bree-folk, Big and Little, did not themselves travel much; and the affairs of the four villages were their chief concern. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was a part of town I had never seen, and worlds away from the part I knew—maple trees and clapboard storefronts, village green and courthouse clock. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The aura in the village rapidly changed after the speech. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

My father’s family went back to the village and moved into a big old house there, but they lost all the things inside their Jerusalem house. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ch’ulp’o had become an important village for ceramics by virtue of both its location and its soil. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

A river flowed from the forest to the edge of the village, passing through palm kernels into a swamp. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The best route away from the village was by sea. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

So she thanked her and walked past her, into the village. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The men walked us to their village and made us sit outside in the sand in front of their chief. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“We have the easy part. All we have to do is fly. She has to live in the village.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I managed to find my way outdoors and looked up to see the red glare of fire dancing atop the trees of the forest and the roofs of our village. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We were discussing your evacuation from this village.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Soon winter rode on the back of the wind as it swept down the mountain slopes toward the village. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“It is only as far as the next village. A days walk, on your young legs.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

That is, they still used stone tools similar to those superseded in Europe by metal tools thousands of years ago, and they dwelt in villages not organized under any centralized political authority. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Marina stayed behind with the other squadron, entertaining them by playing the village school piano and reading them poetry. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“There is a midwife in the village some walk down that road. I will point your man the way,” said Jennet. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even his curly hair and splatter of freckles could have belonged to any boy in her village. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Minli nodded — and as she waved a grateful goodbye to the village, a sea of ruined sleeves fluttered back at her. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

At midday a group of over twenty soldiers arrived in the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The nganga lived in the next village and didn’t do anything without being paid. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trucks rumbled through the village and out into the countryside. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

One of the soldiers who had guarded his house during the first days of peace would go sell them in the villages of the swamp and return loaded down with coins and news. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

A few days before I was born, the village had held a meeting and agreed that, with grass and water everywhere, it would be a good time to move. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

I already hate this poxy little village, I don’t know why I even had the thought—Godric’s Hollow, Godless Hollow, more like, the place is clearly a hive of filth—go on, chop-chop. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

In the late afternoon, she went to the ruined village and fetched Mother. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

One girl in the village had a special treasure. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, when she was in the deserted village at dusk, the wind awoke as day shifted into night. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down the drive we went and out into the village of Llandaff itself. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I became a member of the Students Christian Association and taught Bible classes on Sundays in neighboring villages. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could not attend the entire year, because during the dry season his family moved away from their village. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In all that time we saw no one, nor came to another village. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

No one could tell she had never been in a school before, or had grown up in a primitive village. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Minli was so tired that she could barely remember what happened when they entered the village. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

They will drive him out of the village forever. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The nearest village, the last village through which she and Mortimer had driven, was scarcely a half hour's drive away. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon Beetle left the village for the woods, where she gathered honey, trapped birds, and collected herbs, leeches, and spiders’ webs. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The annual arrival of the hummingbears was our village’s claim to fame. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Some people escaped in the other two villages,” the other rebel who was standing up said. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Along the way, it passed a small village strung out atop a sun­baked slope. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

As we got closer to the village, I heard voices, and some yelling and crying. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I knew the place well; it was walking distance from my own village. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

As she popped in and out of the water, cutting, she told the dragon all about her village, the goldfish, and how she had just started her journey. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

In the Apothecary's village there also lived a parson— A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

We were prepared for it, yet there was much fear in the village of Ghalas-at. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we left the village, everyone lined up to watch us go. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The village’s single dirt road skirts our yard and runs past us into the village to the south; on the north it disappears into the woods. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Six mornings a week, little noisy dirt-kicking crowds of boys from our village and the next one over come straggling in for their education. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she was close enough to fly to her home village to check on it, she discovered that her parents and her child had been shot along with everyone else in the village. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“This is the village. You have the whole village for yourself.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Hunts always began early in the morning; the men left the village before sunrise. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This child carries the spirit of my mother, Amari realized suddenly, as well as the essence of her father, little Kwasi, the murdered people of her village, and the spirits of all of her ancestors. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gaping trunk looked like the mouth of a village idiot who was explaining that he didn’t know anything about anything. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the days grew increasingly tense, my mother clearly missed more and more her village and the support of her extended family. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“In the village they are eating human flesh,” he whispered. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The story went buzzing around the village quicker even than if we’d had telephones. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meggie scratched its ears and chin and stroked its back as she looked down the road that went around a sharp bend as it left the village and disappeared from sight beyond the houses. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Ophelia worked on gathering data, which meant walking from village to village, sometimes with Farmer, other times with local youths he’d recruited. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The elders in the village taught us that a man who has gone through hardships will be the most likely to enjoy success. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

What they say about African communities is true: It takes a village to raise a child. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Early in 1942, the Nazis had rounded up all the Jewish adults in the village and deported them to the death camps. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was an exhausting journey, along rocky dirt roads, up and down hills, past numerous villages, but we did not pause. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Yes, you’ll be happy to know that a farmer in the next village wants to adopt her. He and his wife haven’t been able to have children." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“The wind isn’t strong enough to move afire that fast through the entire village,” someone said. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

More than a few returned to villages such as Cange with HIV and AIDS. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

One village leader told McElroy that if he went ahead with his plan, he would not leave town alive. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I think of Flaubert, who spent most of his adult life in the same French village, or Emily Dickinson, whose poems echoed the cadence of the local church bells. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the older people there had heard that I was missing and sent word to the village. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they can terrorize the villages, then they can create a hostile atmosphere in them for us. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Mellower had—many times—described the exact way a stranger entered a village. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She became secretary of the St. Vincent de Paul Society, and after they donated food to the villages she wrote the minutes of their meetings in a notebook. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The village representatives have a few words with the truck driver before he drives away, leaving us in the middle of nowhere. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A handful of men had jobs building tracks for the steam railway that skirted the village. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

She could see well enough, but she moved cautiously after leaving the village. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

So it was that she saw much of what went on in the village and how people lived their lives and spent their time. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

By including the actual names of English towns and villages, he crafted fiction that seemed disturbingly real. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Had a son in every village, that one.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In any case these people—Roosevelt called them the Paituna culture, after a nearby village—had ceramic bowls, red- to gray- brown. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Her favorite story was about Kathleen, a pretty girl of sixteen who was betrothed to the village baker's son, a handsome young man with jet-black hair and smiling brown eyes. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our house had burned, with the blame going either to Mother’s spirit or the mischief of village children, though Tata Boanda allowed it was probably Father trying to toast meat over a kerosene flame. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The women and older people in the village stood on their verandahs and watched as we were led away by the adult soldiers into the clearing toward the forest. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

As we came into the village proper, dogs, pigs, and children approached us with a snuffling curiosity. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

From the Anfalas, the Langstrand far away, a long line of men of many sorts, hunters and herdsmen and men of little villages, scantily equipped save for the household of Golasgil their lord. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

"You laugh all you like. I'm going to see who's in the village." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Alone in the village, all is quiet except for the muffled grunts of pigs and cackles of chicken. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was little sign of activity in the village behind the rebel lines, for it was hardly in their interest to appear above their trenches and petty escarpments while the guns were trained upon them. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The population in the village is growing smaller by the day. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the field, tall elephant grass glistens with morning dew while gray smoke floats into the sky from distant villages. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Traders came to his village with clothing items, rice, and other cooking ingredients to exchange for salt and fish, so he didn’t need to go anywhere. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Such talk was soon going all around the village. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The village was filled with houses crowded together, and when villagers climbed up the mountain, their hearty laughs and stomping boots shattered the quiet. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Third years are permitted to visit the village of Hogsmeade on certain weekends. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The road dropped into the flat valley and revealed the adobe houses of the peaceful village. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the staff was probably dead or gone, and the village farmers were definitely dead or gone, so there would be no more food My hunger was getting sharp. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was not there, but in a corner sat Russell, the young man who had been campaigning around the village, begging the Eskimos to vote “No” on requests for liquor licenses by the local restaurants. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I surveyed the railway schedule and became aware that I was one wrong ticket from Vienna, Milan, or some Alpine village that no one I knew had ever heard of. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“I suppose he’ll send me out now to all the other villages and communities with the message. I’ll be doing a lot of traveling. I’m glad it isn’t winter yet. It’s hard in snow.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The well-fed of the village greeted each other politely by saying, “Have you eaten well today?” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I learned from Met Bong that he lives with his family in a nearby village. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Made the rounds of the slave villages in search of anything amiss, a smile or a book. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Then, just before Shavuot, the celebration of receiving the Torah, her sideways life flipped completely when Håkon, the last dragon in Kievan Rus’, appeared in her village and saved her life. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

But he ran freely through the village with his disorderly friends, his dog always at his heels. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hadn’t he, almost within sight of the village, tried to trample me with his horse! Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went to the village to buy firewood and food for the wedding feast. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“And today we all know that Jonas has become our village Leader, and the baby he rescued and brought here is a healthy boy,” the curator had said dramatically, “named Gabriel.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When Úrsula discovered his absence she searched for him all through the village. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

But once, a long time ago, one man in the village wanted more than his share of land to plant. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the two hours that they talked, she told him she was the merchant’s daughter, and spoke of life in the village, where each day was like all the others. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Capricorn’s village loomed over them like a fortress. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

When I reached my village, my father and mother had grown as old as the two whose shapes I could at last no longer see. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet it had turned out not to be the sleepy little village that the captain had envisioned. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We came into the village to pacify the people who lived there. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The baron who had drafted my brother would still be bearing sway over our village. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I planned to walk with him around the village, and not a speck farther. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

During this time, just northwest of our village, a ferocious black rhino began wreaking terror across the land. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

No one was there to ask, and in those parts of the country there weren’t any signs that said the name of this or that village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But the Murle don’t burn villages down, and now houses were on fire, and the world had become a big storm of smoke and gunfire and screaming. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the East Side of Detroit wasn’t a small mountain village. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Omar waited for me by the narrow stream that sliced through the length of our village. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Before I could answer him, the director turned me over to a woman he called Auntie Fatmata, a village woman who worked and lived at the orphanage. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, most of the lads in the village have joined the East Surreys, except for...” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Anatole has reorganized the secondary school, which had been in pure collapse for ten years—hardly a young adult in Kimvula village can read. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time, the village was not quiet and empty as it had been on the previous nights, but was buzzing like a wasp's nest. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Travelers to the village were rare, but occasionally a peddler would come through the village, selling "penny dreadful" accounts of grisly murders, fateful encounters, dire doings and remarkable escapes. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

They rarely ventured into the water near the village, preferring to stay in the area near the swamp, so only the foolhardy were at risk of being dragged into the Sogozha’s depths. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Mark kept wondering if they’d run into another camp or village— rumor had it that there were settlements throughout the Appalachians. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

"Why wouldn't I know him? Didn't he grow up in my village? Didn't he save my life, a week ago? I know him." The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was a four-mile walk up through the village and down the other side of the mountain to the school. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

But Mary, she said, the tualapi destroyed a village further up the coast, and then another and another. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And after his experience being tricked in the fortified village, he doubted any Vietnamese would help him. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

As the ox stopped in front of the village, the father-in-law stepped forward to help the strange animal get off the ox. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The whole village had come to dinner in ball. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The village water supply was two streets down the road. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before Anya could say anything else, Misha said, “Where did you come from? The same village as the fool? Or a shtetl close to it?” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Why would my teacher leave our village now? The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

He came, an old man, all those miles by cart from our village, to hold his grandson. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

We drove past the burned village, and the dog didn’t move. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed to the crumbled, charred remains of a tiny village. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In my village, Kinjari's family would know my family and maybe arrange for us to be married. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Rashida and Mother did their best, but the prize went to a girl on the other side of the village. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

Our treasured and nostalgic picture of the village general store, the cracker-barrel store where an informed yeomanry gather to express opinions and formulate the national character, is very rapidly disappearing. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Needless to say, I hadn’t noticed the view, but out before us lie mountains, villages, and rivers. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the people in my village finally decided that the man had chosen wisely, but everyone kept talking about what the tortoise had said. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dyedka had told her about a bukavac he had driven away from the village before, and how the monstrous little creature had made such a ruckus, it had caused Dyedka to go nearly deaf. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

That they had made a tidy profit was evidenced by the size of their house, which stood apart from the rest of the village. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the Germans wouldn’t care so much about Jews in a village. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“It’s all right for you. You’re Portuguese. Among us, the son-in-law has to get the family’s permission—and arrange the roora. One day I saw Runako walking along the trail to our village. ‘What happened?’ A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

You bring shame upon us all with your fighting,’ the wives were scolded by the oldest woman in the village. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were little and egg-shaped, not like the tomatoes they grew in the village, but she had seen ones like them in the Portuguese trader’s garden. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bloom had been able to open his village as early as August 1892, well before Dedication Day, and within a month had covered his costs and begun reaping a generous profit. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

After school was over, the same four boys and I would set out together across the village green and through the village itself, heading for home. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tendai and Rita were carried off by many hands—it was as if the whole village had risen against them with one thought and one purpose. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Malaya stepped forward, with the whole village behind her. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He shut off the engine and looked at the village. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Colonel Hai finally got what was left of his outfit together and attacked the village. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the village, sweet meadows climbed toward a ridge of hills that looked, from a distance, to be covered in dark fur. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Basta was probably the only man in Capricorn’s village who locked his front door, but the lock was no great obstacle to Dustfinger. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

With no Indian villages to rob for supplies, the expedition ran short of food. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He was secretly helped along by a net of supporters stretching wide across the Congo, from Léopoldville to our own village and far beyond. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s still so early that we have the village and the meadows to ourselves. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

We were about to give up looking when Saidu shouted from behind the storage house in the village: “I found the thief and he is angry.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

No one in the village had such a sum. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

She climbed a hill at the edge of the deserted village. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

After hundreds of years, when the great trees finally got too old and dry, the Ka’t’sina carvers from the villages came searching for them to cut pieces of their soft dry wood to carve. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The graveyard was located down the trail near Grandpa’s village. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

As if by a flash of grim light, Indian villages became societies of widows, widowers, and orphans; parents lost their children, and children were suddenly alone. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A growl tore through the sky and caused everyone in the vicinity—the Algerians of Bloom’s village, the Egyptians and Persians and every visitor within one hundred yards—to halt and stare at the wheel. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The village, like many in Vietnam, had high rates of polio, a disease that caused muscle weakness, even paralysis. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

As the girls of the village became women they took notice of Mr. Bromios, but he did not return their notice. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He could handle the hungry constables of the villages, but he had respect for the experienced and voracious big city police. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Been in this village as long as any of us,” Old Joe adds, adjusting his cap. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Soon the entire village was filled with weeping, because nearly every family lost a father, brother, son, or nephew. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Helena would return to the village and her family soon. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That morning didn’t come just with sunrise; it brought with it soldiers, the few who were able to make it back to the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“In my village all women be mothers to all the children. Maybe Tidbit belong to both of us,” Amari said. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jingle Boy picked his way through the trees heading toward my home and I asked Mr. Leroy, “How far off is this village in Michigan, sir?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

So the story goes that the uncles had whispered with a clerk in the village and given him gold. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Mo, promise you won't go back to the village!” she said. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She was neither beautiful nor ugly; she was like the many young women he used to watch going to the stream in his village every morning. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I used to go to school, when I lived in my village.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Behind us shells are sending up fountains from the now utterly abandoned village. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There's this kid, Ross Wilcox, in the village. He was one of those kids on the ice, last year, when you found me, just outside your house...” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

By contrast with Monte Alban, these were minuscule entities; most were clusters of rustic villages covering ten to twenty square miles. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t forgotten how the women at the village reacted to her. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any occasion for visitors was a cause for excitement, so after the initial amazement and curiosity at the strange men, the village bubbled with anticipation as preparations were made for a formal welcoming ceremony. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

These early villages had wattle-and- daub houses, fine pottery, and some public architecture. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But when Mother set out from the village on foot she’d asked some of our neighbors which way led to Léopoldville and they’d all agreed, upstream was the best. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He warned me that it would take at least three-quarters of an hour to walk to the church, which is in the village itself. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

But she had to pay attention now; here beyond the village, the ground had grown uneven, and it was harder to walk. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Finally, we were approaching the village where seeing our families was actually a possibility. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It’s a lot like when the hero in some blockbuster fantasy film is standing in the rubble of his war-ravaged village, bombed because the villains couldn’t find him. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

From a low hill he saw the village. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Cora had heard Michael recite the Declaration of Independence back on the Randall plantation many times, his voice drifting through the village like an angry phantom. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He’d rather return to the village than search for a bunker any day. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

There was a village under the castle of Corbin, which seemed a prosperous one. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Black Swan Green hasn't got any swans. That's the village joke.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, my parents went to church in a nearby village and left Tabitha and me behind with my father’s cousin, a woman named Nyanriak. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But on that morning in Ten Alders village and up on the High Fall, the dank grey fog had clung a while, and then suddenly it blew and drifted and melted away. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Distraught, Mama decided in December that they should go stay with her older brother in a nearby village. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The following morning, a large group of people passed through the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Someone must have left that village when he or she saw us coming, because the fire was new. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“We’re friendly, I promise. We came from a village just like yours, where they had lots of kids. Do you have friends here?” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Three miles from the village was a big hill. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Caught in the middle, many villagers sneaked back to their home villages, deserting the strategic hamlets. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I’m not sick,” she concluded as they readied to leave the stream and go back to the village. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

As soon as we left the coffee farm, we unexpectedly ran into another armed group at a soccer field adjoining the ruins of what had once been a village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

When we began to see the thatched roofs, we crawled until we were closer to the village, to be able to look at what was going on. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The captain said it was time to leave the pacified village. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And just beyond them were villages crowded cheek by jowl—“there was one day when we passed more than twenty.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Let me tell you a true story about a girl who saved her village.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

No face, she had learned in Capricorn's village, is as terrifying as a face without pity. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She grabbed his hand, and they ran wildly out of the village into what they hoped was the safety of the darkness. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I had never given thought to how the Russian civilians must have felt when they saw us rolling into their towns and villages.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

When I was in the village, though, I lived the life of a country girl. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In the old days a hunter would shoot or trap animals just to feed his own family, perhaps his village. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“This was a very good ceremony. It’s nice to have the village clean again.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

There are three men with long hair in braids, wearing wool ponchos and hats, the same as the men from my village. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be wonderful to visit Hogsmeade on weekends; he knew it was an entirely wizarding village, and he had never set foot there. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Those hands knew intimately every woman in our village. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

This estimate was very roughly corroborated two decades later by the Marquis de Denonville, governor of New France, who destroyed the annual harvest of four adjacent Haudenosaunee villages to deter future attacks. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

We watched the village all day and saw that there were more men than us and that they were well armed and had newer guns. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Almost every single night we could hear those drums from the next village over, which Nelson said was talking drums. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We need to get more food in the next village,” Dayah says. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

‘If you trouble this village again, you will regret it.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

We closed the doors, and then I drove through the serpentine streets of Jefferson Park’s endlessness, the houses all still new-looking and plastic, like a toy village housing tens of thousands of real people. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Amari knew, of course, what slaves were— some of the wealthier elders in her own village had a few slaves. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

One morning the atmosphere in the village suddenly became tense. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The village people honored Mattys memory with such tokens because he had made them into better people. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

So I loiter at the edge of the village, waiting for Father’s return. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, he is from my village. We were captured on the same day.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I led the way to the main road, where buses to and from the city roared through our village. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“La frontera” is a word I often heard when I was a child living in El Rancho Blanco, a small village nestled on barren, dry hills several miles north of Guadalajara, Mexico. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

There were villages and drawn curtains and little lights behind them. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Later, two village women came and were taken in to the commander’s quarters; much later, the soldiers threw stones at them as they left. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A thousand years later the village had grown to become the center of a large polity, also known as Tiwanaku. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And the men of the village were not working in the fields, they clung together in groups at the adobe corners of houses and whispered to each other as we drove by. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the other girls in the village, they stayed home and learned from their mother how to keep house. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sight of all these people reminded me of a few villages I had passed through while running away from the war. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The village folk would never look at him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“What an idiot I was! Those people don’t help you go anywhere. They lead you straight to the Farm Patrol. “I packed everything I owned, including the Virgin I had brought from my village. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Last night. I went to Mr. Govind’s and Tanu sent me here. But I must return to my village very soon. I have to get the lentils planted in time for the rains next month.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Rumor said that the Singer, whose only job in the village was the annual presentation of the Song, prepared his voice by resting for days and sipping certain oils. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had looked at the young monk's left wrist as he'd walked away from her in the village, but it was completely covered with string bracelets. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Maneuvering the steering wheel with his mangled hand, he pointed to mud-hut villages along the way where he’d known people years before. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There have been rumors in the village that Pa was not killed in a Khmer Rouge mass execution. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the village, the path went alongside a brook, and at the edge of the brook a young woman was kneeling and washing clothes. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think about the transports from camp to camp, how I screamed inside as we passed village after village: Do you know there are human beings on this train? What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I had to get him out of the village. I have to get all of them out. You understand, don’t you?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Pa says we will go and live with our uncles in their village. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

By village standards, his family was well-to-do and Pa was given everything he needed. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Peewee spent most of the time sitting down in a hut until Lieutenant Carroll made him walk around the village. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was a big hole full of water near a village,” Ruby says. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he would comment to them on the things he had seen in the villages they passed. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was scared, as this reminded me of when we had walked through the village with Saidu’s body. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

In order to pen their disobedient toddlers and chickens, the women would turn her out of the village to be devoured by the beasts that waited in the woods to forage the Field. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only recendy a sleepy village, Tijuana was fashioning itself into California’s guilty pleasure. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, the village had become visible some way below us. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was not so different from the sensation he’d felt once long ago, in that tiny village in Africa, when he’d been a very different man. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Once we found the path, we started walking back toward the village where we had spent most of our hunger days. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But the problems had fallen away, the village had thrived, and Jonas had relinquished leadership to others so that he could take up an unburdened life with his family. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

After seven empty villages, they had all come to dread finding Craster's as dead and desolate as the rest, but it seemed they would be spared that. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They were one of her few remaining links to the village. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The village gradually vanishes under the shells and we lead a charmed life. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around sunset, they landed at an airstrip near a Zande village. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which of the village folk had aided him? A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But he had stayed in the village; and his wine was good, so the locals agreed. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Bombs were dropped on the clusters of round straw huts that made up villages in the Nuba. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Rumors and gossip were a part of life in our village. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

If he had gone straight through, he would be approaching Kira’s village, his own home in the past, quite soon. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

In Indian villages people could only be summoned by shouting; once a canoe had gone a few hundred yards, it could not readily be called back. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They hid behind those walls when raiders came, that’s why there’s still a village here. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Indeed, more than fifty of the first colonial villages in New England were located on Indian communities emptied by disease. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

As we approached the village, two of the rebels ran ahead. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Since enrolling, he has been working with a pastor from his village in the Nuba Mountains to start a school for Moro children. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

We went to the edge of the village and somebody shot off another flare. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gave me the name of his village; if I sent the money to the chief there, he would get it. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Immediately he called in the most skilled stonecutter in the village. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z