“Early flight. And catching up from this week.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

At the end of my first exhausting week at Central High, I decided to claim Saturday for my very own. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been playing bridge twice a week for eleven years,” Eleanor said, “with my mother and her lawyer and his wife—I’m sure you must play as well as that.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

A few weeks go by like that: I sit down and watch the rest of you talk. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The stupid goat had broken his leg two weeks earlier, and Anya’s grandfather wanted him to stay in the barn and rest for at least a month. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Suddenly it didn’t make any sense at all to stay on here till next week, when all we had to do was leave. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The week before, the scratchy voice of the assistant on the speakerphone had told them that she was still sending out inquiries, but the situation in Afghanistan was getting worse. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Nearly three feet had fallen in the last storm, so that for a week people had to walk single file, in narrow trenches. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The rains did not clear until that second week of September near the time when we had to pay our rent. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sit in the sagging seat of the Ford Leroy’s still paying his boss twelve dollars every week for. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I haven’t had nothing much to eat for three weeks...or is it five weeks? The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

She’d asked Jack, a week into school, why he hadn’t told her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

A week later, I wait at the front desk. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Only two weeks since he had left, and it was already happening. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

For the first week they are never alone. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In 1965 no one knew how bad these effects might be, after two weeks in space, and it was Frank and Jim’s job to find out. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few weeks later, the government introduced the notorious Suppression of Communism Act and the ANC called an emergency conference in Johannesburg. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I first appeared in this doorway two weeks after Gramps died. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

And thanks to this message, as well as others sent from Berlin that week, Elizebeth had advance notice that RED was about to start using an Enigma machine. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Kids apply a whole year in advance to go here, so people are always touring, even on the first week of school. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It was the day after my brother had been gone for six weeks that my father brought Vilonia Kline into our house and sat her down in the living room. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Two weeks into February, they entered him in the one-mile Los Angeles Handicap. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But my saving human connection—my oxytocin receptor, as it were—is George, the nineteen-year-old Czech dishwasher who has been in this country exactly one week. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Making approximately six hundred and thirty dollars a week. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

What nobody knew: Lefty had had another stroke the week before. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It’ll take another two weeks to cross the state line into Idaho. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The thought of another week of school does that. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I barely hear the doctor give my parents my at-home care instructions—a sling, a prescription, and physical therapy starting next week. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

She helped in the milk house for a week and did a stint with Aunty, watching the babies while their parents worked. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I went into the bathroom, took my first shower in a week, got dressed, and when I got out, I was so tired I had to lie down and get my breath. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

As it developed, after about a week he called the embassy himself and discovered that all was well: His passport was waiting for him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They went out steady for a while and after a few weeks Kitty naturally wanted to know how Mack felt about her. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the week between the first tapings and the final, Colin wore his new trendy kid button-downs and his designer jeans to school, and people asked him, Are you really going to be on TV? An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

She enrolled us in forty-five-minute sessions twice a week, and she bought us colorful leos from Bannon’s gift shop on our first day. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Cade and I would be taking our exploratory trip to Oklahoma in just a few weeks. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

It only takes a few weeks of work over a year to raise five hundred acres of industrial corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The rule each week was that I could check out as many books as I could carry in one hand. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

She and her three sisters had attended church three times a week, rarely watched television, and had each enrolled at Christian colleges after high school. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Nothing has conspired to kill me in weeks. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That is affirmative, Captain. That is affirmative. We’ll go up at the beginning of next week to see if you’re as good with a jet as you are with your mouth.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Air Force was launching ballistic missiles every week. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was more than a week since they had seen one another. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

This happened maybe four or five times a day for the first few weeks: on the stairs, in front of the lockers, in the library. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

For the last week, we have seen murderous detachments parading on the shores. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The house in Mazoe was quiet, terribly quiet, without its children, but for the first time in several weeks Mother was able to listen to the silence without crying. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The night before September i, when my brothers began school, Mother bathed us all in a wide tin tub the way she did once every week. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Vernal Conclave, which was to take place during the first week of May, was less than a week away. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

As he described it, it had been two parts frustration to one part reward: He’d spend weeks planning a community meeting, only to have a dozen people show up. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We have a subdued lunch, and I wonder if Tats and I will end up muted like Sandra by the time school lets out next week. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“Your meeting is scheduled for Midsummer, and that is scarcely one week from now. We’ve no time to waste.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

That is why Miss Charlotte Mortimer had sent the herbal poultice; at Swanburne her headmistress used to apply it to Penelope’s head every six weeks or so to maintain scalp health and repel lice. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Appointments started around 8 AM, sometimes earlier, each morning for a week. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

It would make the next few weeks so much easier. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Three more weeks seems like an eternity; Mom feels a thousand miles away. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then during the next weeks, stories about Sherman’s march began filtering back, first to the eastern cities and then to the Midwest. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had retained a nurse to be there during the week. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

For two weeks now, he had had that feeling of someone behind him. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

We worked from sunrise till dusk, five or maybe six days a week. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between the Cheerios and the rice, they’d all be able to make it for a week or more. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Over the past week, that noise had become my most favorite sound in the world. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The same week my mother told me about the rice bowl and my future husband, I saw a shocking film at Sunday school. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He lost his job last week, Martin,” she finally said, shaking her head as if she still could not believe this was so. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I frowned because I’d seen Kat with a cigarette in her mouth with her school friends only the week before. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

She called me, giddy, screaming, “I start a week from today!” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

After several days, weeks, or months of sleeping in your aunt’s basement or on a friend’s couch, a time comes when you are expected to fend for yourself. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

When a week had gone by and still no results from my traps, I gave up. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it wasn’t until the end of the week that I realized Ocean had not, in fact, switched any of his classes. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“You know,” Esperanza said after trying to hide another yawn, “I had this cute outfit planned last week, and now I don’t even care. I’m too tired.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

At least once a week there was an argument between the two either over money or me living in the house. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Chess couldn’t keep the rooms straight—maybe Ms. Morales and Natalie had so many bedrooms that they could each use a different room every night of the week if they wanted. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe I don't want to think about that afternoon last week and how everything could have been different. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In a Connecticut summer two weeks without rain is a dry spell and four a drought. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Because of her tender age, her captors did not immediately force their urges upon her, but eventually some of the more seasoned mates dragged her from the hold six weeks into the passage. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“He'll be here next week. Do you want to meet him?” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

All I know for sure—for absolutely certain—is that Scott’s wife has been missing for a week. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was two weeks after Jockey’s birthday and Cora was still on the mend. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

This is the place, a kind of imaginary line in the ocean, where all ships going east add an extra day to that week and all ships going west drop a day. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within weeks, it is thought, the flung material had reassembled itself into a single clump, and within a year it had formed into the spherical rock that companions us yet. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

"I used to smoke a pack a day. Now I eat a sack of these every week." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Twice they took me and I stayed the whole three weeks. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Iloba called back two weeks later to say he had found somebody. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The next three weeks of school were absolutely nutty. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

A week or two later he’d start in on the soybeans. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

A week out in the wilderness, seeing new things, getting some fresher air ... it all sounded great to Mark, lifting his spirits out of the hole into which they’d fallen earlier. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

But after a week the stream of refugees from that direction ceased and news dried up. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

A week after Valentine’s Day the sun came out suddenly. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was time now to think of the homework they had neglected during the first week of the holidays. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Gaps showed between the planks, and as the weeks passed and the green wood dried out, the gaps widened. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The third week of term, he had been ill. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“We’ll take a break, a week or two. Wait for things to settle.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They took him to the hospital and he wasn’t back to work for about three weeks. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ranee asks for his schedule every week so she knows which nights he needs a home-cooked meal. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He spent weeks in his uncle’s quiet apartment before he was ready to go back home. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

And with all the new hair styles that the kids are coming up with, there’s no telling what he’s planning to do with his hair next week. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the weeks that followed, no fewer than four million letters, telegrams, phone calls, postcards, and other expressions of support poured into the Republican Party’s headquarters. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

I was surprised when he showed up again the next week because he usually came only every few months. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“We just decided last week,” my father said. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess I’d want comfort, too, if I did nothing but lay eggs all day long, week in and week out.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Last week she was burning a lavender-lime—a purple-green swirled combination that actually smelled really good. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Just last week she drank so much E&j that she almost died—they had to take her to the hospital! Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know how Dad’s going away for the week? We—” He nods at his room, where music and laughter and uniformity resounds. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I think every teacher at Knightsbridge signs a pledge to schedule an important test the week before the Christmas recess so that families that plan a winter vacation won’t take off early. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Man, I know you’re not talking about any six to eight weeks. ” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he shouted, “Too many, too many. It’s not safe. My place was searched last week. It’s not safe!” and slammed the door in her face. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

About once a week, Uncle Vernon looked over the top of his newspaper and shouted that Harry needed a haircut. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“Speaking of shoes, I need them back for church this week,” Tanisha says. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

By the end of the week he had purchased her freedom. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Without knowing it he had walked back to the door of the restaurant where he had spent his time during the past two weeks. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Within two weeks of our first date, I met his family and his puppy, Oliver. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“I have some free time this week. If you want someone to go book scavenging with.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

This woman’s back, for weeks, was kept literally raw, made so by the lash of this merciless, religious wretch. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

Lately, every time I talked to Sophie, she looked like she had just eaten some turnips that had been harvested a week too late. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

They tell me all the same stuff she already told me last week. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

It was mid-August, and Mabel had left just a few days before, and I was supposed to leave in a little over two weeks. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Delphine’s funeral—just two weeks before—had been as sad and bewildering a day as she could remember, but now she hoped she could put it behind her. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Amah was not sure if days or weeks had passed. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He sold three thousand frindl.es the first week, and they sold so fast that stores all over Westfield couldn’t keep them in stock. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Christy’s with the other guys and girls. They’re all on the same job this week. Down Earl’s Court at the Motorcycle and Scooter Show.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s forgotten me all over again, after only a week. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing but the events of the past two weeks, which he already knows, and the green flash. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Within a couple weeks, the class quiz average had risen to 97 percent. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

“And your mom, of course. And we were thinking that I could help you after school a couple times a week. Until we can get you into formal services here at school.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Facing serious criminal charges, and with her court hearing only two weeks away, Claudette feared she might be sent to a reform school as a juvenile delinquent. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Noah’s application to CSA had been sitting on the kitchen counter radiating genius since the week before Mom died. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It seems that “the pipes had become foul from the deposits of the muddy stream from the river. The consequence was much sickness for about two weeks, especially among children.” The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s so soon...The baby’s only a few weeks old.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Christina will fight Al, which means that Al will lose quickly, like he’s been doing all week. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

And a friend of my mother’s from Sacramento—Do we remember her after all these years?—died of cancer just last week. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as though the elements were conspiring to ruin their short week of freedom. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

In the days, weeks, months, and even years that followed, millions of words would be written about the causes of Prohibition, the reasons for its failure, and its effects on the nation. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

She reckons on doing away with one child a week. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

A couple weeks ago we got an assignment: Write an essay about someone you know. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

The three of us worked during lunch for the rest of that week. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“I probably won’t be able to get these back from you until after opening night because rehearsals are taking over my life this week and next.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

The next week, at the Parque Bolivar, I’m sitting on a bench in the shade, watching some children play by the fountain. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had to sit on the bench during recess for the rest of the week. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The week’s rest had recuperated the dogs and put them in thorough trim. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

But two weeks before the wedding, Baliwe, who was a spirited girl, ran away. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom and dad first met while they were standing in line to pay speeding tickets at the Dade County Courthouse, and they got married six weeks later. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

We had already tried them on the week before, but I was so excited to come home and try mine on again, now that it had been fitted. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The goal for my third week at The Maids is to achieve a state of transcendent detachment. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm swimming in these clothes, still skeletal, though I know I've put on some weight in the past few weeks. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Yes, a few weeks ago, at the station.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of offering up her usual smile, Beatrix Halliday cleared her throat and said, “Ask me again in two weeks. I’m putting in my notice. I’m retiring.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He had a bad temper, he admitted, telling how last week he had drawn his baton on an inmate in the tunnel leading up from Tappan. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tomorrow I’m taking you to visit your cousins,” Mami said some weeks later. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

If Kyle needed a computer for homework during this last week of school, he could use his mom’s, the one in the kitchen. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

What had been the American Legion baseball field last week was this week a wonderland. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“I had a scribbled note a couple of weeks ago.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I open my mouth to protest but she says, smiling, “It’s okay, Sparrow. You’re a quick learner and we have two weeks before the performance.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

All week long, she’s been giggling and saying Michael’s name too loud to get his attention. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“In a week or two the fans will think he already graduated,” said Trapper. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today he simply made his way around Village, delivering notice of the meeting that would be held the following week. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

After that first day, I did not manage to catch a glimpse of Julia Bishop for the rest of the week. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

But as the weeks dragged on and the winter locked up the ocean around Elephant Island, they knew they were stuck until spring. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

His formal proposal arrived a week later, envisioning a tower that was essentially a taller version of what he had built in Paris. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I know that he has lots of homework this week. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

For a few weeks the packs stay at this den; then they leave and take up the nomadic winter life of the wolf. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The check for the final week’s salary was not due until the end of the week. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

All week the Halloween party was the hot topic of discussion: who was going, and who wasn’t? Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Within a few weeks, the boy had learned to read voraciously. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t been to French in nearly three weeks and the thought of it gave me a twinge of anxiety. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Even if he thought things were over between us, he couldn’t even wait a week before moving on? What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He’d read all the books at the school, but every week a new stack of unread magazines, books, and newspapers appeared in the library as though they were waiting for him. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Within two weeks they know they want to marry. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In the weeks after the attacks on the Twin Towers, Kathy saw very few Muslim women in public. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“What do you think’s the matter with you anyway? I mean you sounded so—you know—so perfect when I talked to you on the phone last week. Didn’t you eat any breakfast, or what?” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

I have watched while hiding how my mother plans weeks in advance for it to happen. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The days turned into weeks and the weeks into months, and still the pot was bare. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

They didn’t see a sign of him all week. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Then, I went walking—fresh from weeks in the Holy Land: immediately my attention was struck by the mannerisms and attire of the Lebanese women. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

What had been cow manure and woodchips just a few weeks before now smelled as sweet and warm as the forest floor in summertime. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He had taken the week off to take his family sailing on his yacht, the Sea Note. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Five weeks later, Thursday, December 16, Nicole, her father, and I were in a joint therapy session in Dr. Schmidt’s office. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

But Clara was so upset that she spent a week walking in her sleep and sucking her thumb. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have to get together this week. I really need a good grade in history.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Over the weeks, we had started to share with each other what we were doing. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

You never knew what was true until days or weeks or even months afterwards. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you change your mind, you can still join. The real meetings don’t start until next week anyway. Ms. Bethune has a lot of cool stuff planned for this year,” said Anh. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

My tininess, how Aunt Joan and Grandma and Grandpa came and stayed with us off and on for weeks. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

And then just a few weeks later I get this call from the headhunter. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

The National Weather Service switchboard took more phone calls in that week than ever in its history, with nearly every caller asking if the skies would clear for Seabiscuit’s run at the Handicap that Saturday. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

"This will pay your debts and buy you clothing. Call me in the morning and I'll have selected your living quarters. For a start your salary will be sixty dollars a week." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the last day before spring break and he had been absent from school and after-school all week. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Then, true to his name, Holler yelled out, “What’s your hurry, ladies? The senior promenade was last week.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He smiled archly, as if he had just thought up this quip he had been making for weeks. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“It’s been a hard week, don’t you think, Moose?” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of weeks before Christmas, I was back in court for the fourth time trying to win the release of the two men. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In the side pocket of one of the bags, she found the list she’d made for herself a few weeks ago and put it in her pocket. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Every other week I mowed the lawn and trimmed, which took all day. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Less than a week after the buses were integrated, five white men jumped out of a car at a Montgomery bus stop and surrounded a fifteen-year-old black girl. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Over the weeks, the doctors began asking my mom if they should pull the plug. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Scoob has to admit he enjoyed all the smiles and head nods and fist bumps he got from his classmates during those two weeks. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

That way I don’t have no mowing to tend to and she let me pick whatever I need, save me two or three dollars ever week. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

And then, a few weeks later, Mia learned her scholarship would not be renewed. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The machinists waved me into their shop a week later to show off a rocket that they had built on their own. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The “punishment” Mama had mentioned wasn’t too severe—I had to help her out on the farm early in the mornings for the next week. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I’ve thought about death often in recent weeks, but not really about God. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen him a couple times this past week, and he seems okay, although he’s still sticking close to the basement. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The thing yowled as it ran under the car, a sound Toby couldn’t get out of his head for weeks. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

We been here a week when Ms. D. come by. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And then she looked to me to bring up what the young soldier had reported in the car, that two “politicals” would be going back to La Victoria in a few weeks. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"We can try again in a few weeks," Michah shouts, in an absurd attempt to reassure us. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Kluck is on her cell phone about some piece of kitchen equipment that was supposed to arrive this week. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

My mother gave him the books, and a week later, I had two primers. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

After so many weeks on the road, the last hour was the hardest to bear. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

AT THE END of our first two weeks on the island, we were informed that our lawyers, Bram Fischer and Joel Joffe, were going to be visiting the following day. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have one week to bring me the real Kuwei,” Van Eck shouted. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“He will be back in a week,” said Loki. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

It was, at least, a mighty long school week. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

If she managed to get through an entire week without crying, overcoming all the tests Nicolas imposed, she won a prize, which almost always consisted of a motorcycle ride at breakneck speed—an unforgettable experience. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent nearly a week in Mqhekezweni after the funeral and it was a time of retrospection and rediscovery. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The large door in front was the one she had entered on the day of her trial so many weeks before. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. It’s crazy that next week is our last week. Next time I talk to you it’ll be in person.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Over a single week, the hundred or so remaining citizens of Bithynios packed their belongings and set out for main-land Greece, most en route to America. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

At least twice a week she’d ask me to cook breakfast long after everyone had eaten and the dishes had been cleared. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Six days a week, I take the bus across the Woodrow Wilson Bridge to where Miss Leefolt and all her white friends live, in a neighborhood call Belhaven. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Every other week Mr. Kleiman brings me a couple of books written for girls my age. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Two family meetings in one week—and this one was upgraded to a Zamora Emergency Meeting? The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The week before he went to get his children, Henry mopped the floors of the house with vinegar and water and laid out the sheets and blankets he’d bought. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The event had been planned for weeks and was sold out long before the match was over. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

God bless Rooster Jim; he kept my garden weeded and chickens happy that whole week. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

A week or so after the ceremony, Didu interrupts my cousin's study session. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But my older brother was on television, and so far, it has been the highlight of my two weeks in high school. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was almost a full week since anybody had laid eyes on the eighth grade president. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“Did you stop to think about what school was like for me last week?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

A few weeks later, Lil comes into the store to see me, her eyes red- rimmed, tears staining her cheeks. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Miss Katherine sat alone in the classroom and wondered if she had lost track of the day of the week. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Funny how just a couple of weeks ago I would have been thrilled to be talking with Gregor. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

I’m trying to put Jackson’s words into the context of what I’ve learned over the past few weeks and I'm failing miserably. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I mean next week when we run again.” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Within two weeks Cyrus had wooed, wedded, bedded, and impregnated her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

For a week I sought Young in vain. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was one time they grabbed Stevie by the tie and yanked it so hard that his neck was sore for a week. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t spring—that was still weeks away, and the trees surrounding the house were still deeply asleep. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

More than three weeks now, already into November. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“She goes to my high school. She was fine last week.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I could wait another week to pay the dues.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I always figured during those weeks she was purposely taking the foil off the ends of her braids and shaking them out for fun. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Indeed, what I observed as the weeks went by forced me to substantially revise my presuppositions about some of my teammates. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The one assigned to our room, Miss Finch, gave her presentation two weeks before Christmas, wearing a bright pink turtleneck and glasses that covered half of her face. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Bearing her children did not hold her back very much—two weeks at the most she had to be careful. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A week after three of the four kids in my neighborhood were buried, the president made a formal address to the nation. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I miss my quota almost every day that week. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

‘And if I don’t get ’em to market by noon today I won’t be able to sell ’em till next week. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then again, we’d talked over so much in the previous weeks, it wasn’t as though we had anything in particular we had to get through. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Last week the Malvern Gazetteer had Tom Yew on its front page. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

About three weeks later, he just walked out the door and quit.’’ Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of that infamous week, half the men in all this world were pledged to a single war, Nathan included. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came and went, staying at the camp for several weeks or, at most, a few months. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole Cotentin Peninsula has been captured just three weeks after the invasion! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, the Muramotos liked The Twilight Zone, so we got to watch that every week with them. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, look, we made the cover this week.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“She’s been seeing Dr. Baker every week for counseling, plus anti-anxiety medicine. She let me ride my bike to 7-Eleven and I didn’t even have to call when I got there.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

A week into my suspension, I was sitting on our front porch, thinking about stuff, contemplating, when old Mr. P walked up our driveway. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Had he become a moody teenager, and would I become one in three more weeks? Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all still lived together, and we were all miserable, and by this time I was home a few weeks, a lot longer than I had planned, and I wanted to leave. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the next week and a half, the boys continued to dig in and around the area where X-Ray had supposedly found the gold tube. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

All the same, we have to feed the office staff, which means dipping into our stock every week, so it’s not as much as it seems. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

There are always inside jokes during the week after a Mommy and Me episode. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

But he made it without incident to Harvey’s, and he was pleased to see Harvey hadn’t lost any more teeth during the week. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

For a few weeks, everyone was busy teaching newcomers the ropes. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Even so, over the next nine weeks his weight fell from 168 to 115 pounds, and the warden was warned that forced-feeding alone could not keep the patient alive indefinitely. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he knew that through these last weeks she had been hurting after all, and that it had been himself, not Beans, who had hurt her the most. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

It sounded like all they did was review her homework assignments for the week to make sure she understood everything. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“The world would be lucky to have more like her. She and your mother wrote to each other every week. A letter a week for years and years and years. Did you know that?” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

He had lost his entire wage for the past week in dice and had had to borrow bus fare. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'd have drafts of everything finished by the end of the week, and it was only mid-September. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Ill Dr. Talc had been having a miserable week. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I had lunch with your dad a couple of weeks ago," he said all of a sudden. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I thought it was just another piece of her medical equipment she got from the hospital because each week, she got something new. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It’s the last time they see each other for weeks, and after a lot of teasing and maybe some begging, he convinces Henry to download Snapchat. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

One day I interviewed him, and he said to me that he has almost no memory of the weeks he was infected with Marburg. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Charles’s suggestion, she encouraged Thomas Henry Huxley’s wife, Henrietta, and their three small children to come to Down for two weeks to rest. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within two weeks Smith had Grog and Pollard back in the winner’s circle. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A week later, on October 15, Richard Nixon sat in the White House watching football on television while thousands of protestors circled the building. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The new liturgy is suited especially to those who live in the secular city, alone in their faith for most of the week. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spent that week eating fried fish for breakfast and cake for dinner, leaving underwear on the counter, and blasting Ghostface Killah. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“It would take Jour of us weeks to clear tunnels for them,” Father said. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, it’s a long week because the track team officially invites me to the meet on Thursday, and I’m terrified of going. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Two weeks after we left for the cottage we were back in the city. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was a promise Dad had made when he moved out: that no matter how much he had to travel the rest of the week, he would be there on Saturday at 6 p.m. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“I was sort of hoping they’d make him drop too. Instead, they’re combining their ideas or something. Whatever. Like they can do that in three weeks.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

A few weeks later, after the Nazis surrendered, Elizebeth wrote to Barbara about “a thrilling sight:—Lights on again in Washington. The Capitol. The Monument.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I used to practice during the week in the simulator and in the zero G airplane, but I saved Saturday morning for the “slippery table.” Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was Saturday and Mrs. Baylor had been with us for a few weeks. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I planned to play “Something in the Way” for Kim the following week when she came over for dinner. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She just walked in last week and made herself at home.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here are the winning numbers for this week’s twenty-three-million-dollar jackpot,” the announcer says swiftly. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“He laughed more in a morning with you than in two weeks with us. He should frolic with the young folks more, but they’re on their best behavior with a prince.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Each week we study the ways in which the students in the group interact with one another, how they respond to anger, jealousy, attention. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I resolve that everything I learn in the next four weeks will go above my Windemere bed. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Each of us received sixpence a week for pocket-money, and whenever there was any money in our pockets, we would all troop in together to buy a pennyworth of this or that. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

For weeks, her empty garden testified to her miracle. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Just in the last few weeks he has improved sufficiently to be able to hobble about doubled up. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

After it had been there for about a week, I went to saw myself a slab at dinnertime and found it crawling with little white worms. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In one of the largest such actions in South African history, the miners went on strike for a week and maintained their solidarity. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Annemarie was busy with her pebbles and her extra-strength glue, working on a stone wall for the park that Jay Stringer had approved the week before. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

They would put a live tree in their front room, and all of us kids would decorate it with paper chains and stars that we’d made at school the week before. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Prospero the Enchanter has not graced the London stage in some time, and the booking is for a single week of performances, with no matinees. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Every few weeks another instructor vanishes, sucked up into the engine of the war. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“For the next week or so, we are going to dig into some Black poetry!” he announces as soon as we are seated. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The next day, September 19, almost two weeks after coming to Elberon, Garfield had an intense chill and a coughing spell, followed by profuse perspiration. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Da up and gone—at work, he said, though the money he brought home was less each week, and he’d stumble in after midnight reeking of hops. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Her father sent news every few weeks, punctuating the warm stillness with reports from the south: There had been a storm on the road, and it had delayed them. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two weeks earlier, Leslie had told me that I was to be “repatriated” and reinstated into normal society. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Week after week, I returned to Iowa, watching through the plane window as the seasons changed, as the earth slowly greened and the soybean and corn crops grew in ruler-straight lines. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He would wait one week, he explained to Hatsue, and then he would decide what to do. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Screamer shuttled between Bovina and Perry’s hack board for almost a week. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“About six weeks, I guess. I didn’t tell you because I kept hoping she’d go away. Things were fine without her.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I remember standing here weeks ago with Musab and Ali, with the man and his family. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Every week that passed was nearly the same. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

A week after she left his bed, he dreamt again of Rosa and awakened on wet sheets. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a week, his body had been in the morgue, waiting to be taken someplace. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Now, sitting with his friends in the mess hall, Jason felt so awake, he doubted he would sleep for a week. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

We ate all our chickens weeks ago, and shared the last eggs all around. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if I should, but it’s been living inside me all week. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Not to mention she’d need to stock up on provisions for her escape, and that could take weeks. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The speech final was also a week from Friday, but he wasn’t too worried about that. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Soon Caroline got a job cleaning hotel rooms—twenty-eight to thirty rooms a day for $2-$3 a room, for a total of about $300 a week. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can’t wait to see these toads race. It would take Edgar a week to complete a lap here,” Seven said with a chuckle. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

There had been a week—a week of curious tensity. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

But because I missed the first few weeks of school, I also missed the first few weeks of work, and the bank filled my spot with another student. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Then, on December 5, a little more than two weeks before Midsummer’s Day, Endurance set sail from Grytviken. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

In two weeks, she had memorized the two thousand or so names or headings on the file box. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

At El Camino Junior High I continued the eighth grade, which I had started in Corcoran the first week of November after the grape season was over. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“She didn’t talk to him for weeks after he started going out with me! But I suppose she wants to make up with him now he’s all interesting...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

My mother usually stayed in her room or, when a roommate wanted the privacy of it also, went to a secret hiding place she had hunted out during the first week of school. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Six weeks later, on September i, L939, Germany launched a massive invasion of Poland. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When, they had left Boston, packing had taken weeks, with trunks and crates and loads of straw to cushion whatever might break. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Takes a week to set, but it’ll look like a mirror.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Despite my shock, I remember thinking, “Well, you didn’t miss much this week, Dad-wise.” Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bobby,” he says again, “what day of the week is it?” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered experiencing the same disquieting sensation almost two weeks later when Yossarian appeared at his tent to ask to be taken off combat duty. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Though Papa still got the payments, I understand that I had gotten a raise that put me over $1.50 a week. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

No single construction crew stayed on the job longer than six weeks. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Taken by ambulance to a San Francisco burn unit, Sasha will spend the next three and a half weeks undergoing multiple surgeries to treat second- and third-degree burns running from calf to thigh. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“He’s got a better shot than we do any night of the week. This place is crawling with eligible widows.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Joel refused to accept payment for the food, calling it my pay for the week’s work. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

And then Axel sees another clue, a feather, like the one Frank brought him two weeks ago. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Last week, my teacher gave me a book with chapters in it. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There Ernie Lawrence and Merle Tuve grew up together in tidy houses facing each other across the street, Merle the elder by a scant six weeks. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Within a few weeks, however, the new system gained acceptance, as word spread about the low prices and good hamburgers. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

Ob got out of bed on time the rest of the week. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’d get a few minutes of information a few minutes at a time, then I’d have to wait a week for the next installment. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He began counting down the weeks until I left, just as I had counted them down for Lori. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Every week, Nok's mother's society friends gathered around her family's dining table for cards, dealing out gossip as they dealt out their hands. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

It was last year, my first week, so I didn’t know her very well. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She started laying out her clothes weeks in advance even though my dad kept telling her she only needed two outfits—one to go and one to come home. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Mom spent the week dragging me around the city to explore. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Just one week before Germany invaded Poland, Hitler and Stalin had signed a nonaggression pact, in which they agreed not to attack each other. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re locked up here all week except for visiting the men. And it’s not like we don’t have permission from Pefta himself.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A week later he was back with six barefoot and ragged soldiers, armed with shotguns, and an oxcart in which his wife and seven daughters were traveling. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

You got detention and Mom and Dad grounded you for two whole weeks. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

My head feels clear for the first time in weeks. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But whether the intervals were of days or weeks or only seconds, there was no way of knowing. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Vanessa Martin, school’s been in session for three weeks now. You think you want to join us sometime soon?” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Last week they shot a woman, right about here. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He has been like this for weeks now,” my grandfather said, “beyond hope.” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Last week, Clive Pike found half a millipede in his hamburger, still wriggling. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I planned to tell her that Dad was loaning it out for a few weeks. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“This is only my third week,” he said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Especially since last year, I’d spent a week building up my courage to ask the librarian for a book on magic squares, and when I did, she said they didn’t carry books about witchcraft. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in a way it really did, when I considered that a week ago he was nearly dead, and I had almost given up hope. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

They’d been in their new place for only a week, but already they were unpacked. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve been feeling this way since waking up in Jupiter's bed a week ago on the day after Thanksgiving, and it’s very confusing. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

My mom asked the guy if he could fix the leak now and she would pay him at the end of the week when she got her paycheck. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

They agreed to meet again two weeks later. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“This,” said Dr. B. J. Cigrand, Emeline’s second cousin, the North Side dentist, “in spite of the fact that she was in the habit of writing to her parents two or three times a week.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

When I had to move away during the spring of second grade, Fuchsia didn’t talk to me for the whole week before I left. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“So am I. Forget it. No one’s ever become a Runner in their first month, much less their first week. Got a lot of provin’ to do before we’ll recommend you to the Keeper.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Hello and I have gotten to know each other very well this past week, and he’s told me a lot about his life. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Poor creatures. Still, I suppose they will all be singing in a few weeks.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the past six weeks, she had been locked up in this place, detoxing, doing both group and individual therapy, taking pensive walks, exercising, eating right. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

It seems true: nothing changes but the day of the week. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I pick up the comic book I bought a few weeks back. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

After two weeks he was released on bail, and he was instructed by the movement to go underground, from where he was to continue to lead the struggle, which he ably did. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The week after we arrived in Santa Maria, we enrolled in school. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mom doesn’t act like it’s been weeks since she’s seen me. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It has only been a week, but he feels that he is becoming heavier, rounder, softening in this country of New York. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

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

The teacher comes in and announces we have two minutes to review the basic algebra formulas from last week. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

More than a quarter of a million people come to that museum every week. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the weeks of bitter wrangling I sat in hopeless wonder. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go through the same routine all over again with Hank—casting, wait a week. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“The Feast of Pure Brightness is only a few weeks away,” he said with a sigh. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

At one point she was given a temporary employee ID at a hospital so she could trail along behind a cardiologist from bed to bed as he made his rounds three times a week. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Mam tells her, In another week school will be over and if you give Frank sixpence a week he’ll surely be glad to take Bill Galvin his dinner. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Anthony told me that we were going to be joined by someone they’d met at the burn the week before, a young guy known to them only by his mushrooming nickname: Paulie Porcini. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Scarcely a week passed without the neighbourhood being invaded by waves of black and white policemen. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time they were four weeks old, they were almost full-grown and testing their wings. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

My coverage wasn’t daily anymore, as it had been for the first few weeks. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A man was killed in his plane over Avignon last week and bled all over him,” Colonel Korn reported directly to General Dreedle. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Both of my parents were arrested, and I didn’t see them again for three or four weeks. We never discussed it again,” said Elisabeth. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

George Pocock, surprised, said, “The sophomores looked like something today for the first time in weeks. It surely looked like a crew that is coming.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But after a week down there, Harley left the sheep grazing, with only the sheep dog to watch them, and he rode the horse over to the highway. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

This area has been secured for over a week. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It was the DiAngelos’ property, yes, but only the week before it had belonged to Digger’s grandfather, and many times we had come to swim in the little cove to cool off. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I put them on my Christmas list, but my father said no way was he going to spend more on a pair of sneakers than on a week’s worth of groceries. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Every week his picture was in the papers next to Monsignor Pittini, overseeing some good deed. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A week ago, if someone had suggested that Frank was a child of Mars, Hazel would have laughed. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

For about a week, we stayed in a borrowed apartment belonging to family friends and made trips every day to the ocean, to swim and laze about in the sun. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I can’t stay. Mother’s sick—” “I told you five months ago to print my initiative and now another week has passed and you still haven’t followed my instructions.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“And I know you want to help. Are any of you in the Associated Student Body this year? Maybe bring it up at the first meeting next week.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

We were given a week to move, but we didn’t have anywhere to go. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I had a friend named Clevinger two and a half weeks ago who used to see plenty of justice in it.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Now she would have been grateful for even another week of school. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

For several months, Andy met Shin once a week for an hour to discuss how his life was shaping up in the United States. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

His ill humor, I figured, was perhaps due to the abscessed tooth that had been causing him pain for the previous two weeks. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

When the salmon run finished several weeks later, Cole danced their dance and carved their figure into his totem. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Or had been when the letter was written—she checked the date—three weeks earlier. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Like whether a particular tree—the one whose roots grew up its trunk—was in bud two days ago or a week and exactly where it was. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But with the schedule of twelve-hour workdays six days a week, she was assured she wouldn’t do anything more than eat and sleep during her time off. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Week after week my threatening letters grow sharper and sharper. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He had already been kept two and a half weeks; he could wait a few more days. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The name of our objective had not been mentioned until two weeks before the actual invasion date. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was dressed in his usual jeans and T-shirt and sneakers, but in the last few weeks he’d started to look older, almost high-school age. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

"How many hours a week would you be looking for?" she asks. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The Under Thirteens had a week to prepare. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“You haven’t been beaten up since you were a kid. This is the second time in a few weeks. You can’t let them get to you.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I thought I must have gone out with a different boy for every week in the year. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

It is like it is the first time in weeks that my brain truly has been able to rest from trying to remember. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

For the next two weeks, it’s as if someone is getting married in the compound. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

There had been a terrible storm in Europe that entire week, he told me, and it had hurt the invasion, but it was over now, thank God. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“So I suggest that you take the next week to consider your fears and develop strategies to face them.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

And here is my pledge to you, faithful reader you can count on me to be truthful and certifiable in giving the honest-to-goodness scoop each and every week. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“We don’t know the sex yet. The sonogram is next week,” she says. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Three thousand Americans would die of the heat that week, forty of them in New York City. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I heard. Don’t much go on ’round here that get past me, but for the past two weeks, I been engaged in bringing a couple of coffles back from the markets in Charleston. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

For starters, Mrs. Richardson had had terrible morning sickness, bouts of dizziness and vomiting that didn’t end with the first trimester but continued on unabated—if anything, more vigorously—as the weeks went on. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Every week the factory assembled a different machine, determined by the volume of orders. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

They made out, both drunk, and then ran into each other one week later at the grocery store. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

When I got into the apartment, I took a few seconds to relish the fact that I wouldn’t have to deal with my father for a whole week. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I steal a chance to go on deck and have my first sight of land in many weeks. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He spent his first week out of prison in Montgomery. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As it was, I waited a week or so, then pulled myself together enough to copy the poem out on clean notebook paper and mail it to Lyrics Unlimited. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I escape the courtyard, and for the rest of the week I avoid him. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Researchers came to his lab several times each week wanting to learn his techniques, and he often traveled to labs around the world to help set up cell-culture facilities. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

This had been his first job as the top man on a rig, and he’d hit oil in the first week of drilling. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

After my brothers were expelled, I found something in the school to tear up every day for a week. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

I had planned on spending between three weeks and a month on the Stikine Ice Cap. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frank and Jim had a very nice flight, and stayed up the entire two weeks, just as planned. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Missouri, back east, Georgia—it would be weeks before they delivered the man to his owner. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He flashed him a screenshot of the banking app from last week and played it off like today's balance. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t find a decent job, and as of three weeks ago, he makes pizzas for minimum wage. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“And there’s no hurry—you’re going to be here another week anyway.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

After a week, the train stopped late at night. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I wait too long and she’ll see her at the Benefit next week. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Baba found a job off Washington Boulevard as an assistant at a gas station owned by an Afghan acquaintance—he’d started looking for work the same week we arrived. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Percy only passed two weeks ago,” said George. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Mama, it’s Saturday. All week you said we could have dessert on Saturday.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a serious injury that left Walter in very poor condition for several weeks. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

We’ve followed trolls making their way across Europe, giants starting to cross the seas, and the werewolves— well, I’m distressed to say we lost sight of them some weeks ago. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

They swiped Rachel’s apple and Edna’s dessert earlier in the week. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. If we mail it next week, maybe we’ll hear from her by mid-February. But I can’t say for sure.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Six weeks after it happened, the attack on Nicole Castro was still fresh news, at least locally. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The animals formed themselves into two factions under the slogans, “Vote for Snowball and the three-day week” and “Vote for Napoleon and the full manger.” Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The religious services were certainly no great strain, either, since they were conducted only once a week at the Group Headquarters building and were attended by very few of the men. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Four weeks since Alex had last heard from his parents and one day short of that since he’d last spoken to his brother. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“He’s much better. My mother says he’ll be back in the mines in a couple of weeks.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The wires in your jaws will come out in about six weeks,” Armand said. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Usually he had simply locked up and left, leaving the key with Mrs. Oakes so that she could come in once or twice a week mid keep the house warm, and aired. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the last week before summer and I was making the transition from weeks away from home to a month. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

We destroyed Hoover Middle last week, thirty-two to four, and we won’t stop, can’t stop, till we claim the championship trophy. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

I wished they could stay numb like that for the rest of the week. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Asher will expect me to hang around for team-bonding time, especially in the weeks leading up to the first official game. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Usually he rode only about four times a week, nearly all classy horses, rarely more than one a day. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d needed two points in the last few weeks to pass English. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I got real good at this and, within the week, had a pile of stones ready to be stacked into a millhouse. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The worst thing about it is that I’m already in out-patient rehab two days a week, but I just have to make things worse by doing drugs more and more, harder and harder. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

For the next week Chup fed Lady and Duchess and hunted for the whole family. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Ballard grows them. Most of these will be gone in a week or two.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They had enough money to last a few weeks, at best. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Dad said the wing would take weeks to mend, and that the owl would wake up long before then. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

By the time Captain Smith returns a week later and finds out what is going on, we are angry as a nest of hornets. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

It lasts only a few weeks each spring. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I feel strangely calm as I say it, calmer than I’ve felt in weeks. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I will leave tomorrow because I must attend an umuada meeting. I will return at the end of the week to fetch her.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We have our last futsal tournament this week, then travel soccer club revs up. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It’s been a rainy week, but today is dry. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I think the best thing will be to send him over with some friends of mine who are coming to visit me next week. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

She told Mister Lochana that she wouldn’t be using his services anymore, but we ended up on his speedboat again the next week because the ferry to Saint Thomas was too expensive. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Oh, it will be great around here for the first few weeks. I’ll be very polite and sweet. After that, everything will go downhill and you will send me away.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The absence of dirt and three weeks’ worth of hard travel had a noticeable effect on his smooth face. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A few days later, when I had been at the hospital for about six weeks, Dad appeared alone in the doorway of my room. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I had been in Paris for several weeks when, one afternoon, returning from a French lesson, I stopped at a café to check my email. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In 1914, the last surviving members of each species died within weeks of each other in captivity. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The social worker wondered if Mama and Papa would be willing to care for the newborn baby for a week. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Getting together once a week with all my brothers and sisters? X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was one of four old ladies with white visors and whistles who rotated lunch and playground duty during the week. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

For weeks after that I could not believe in my feelings. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Days and weeks and months pass, and I’m now in a new era of my life. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I have talked to the principal at our school and he has accepted me to learn for the first week of school only and then I can carry on when I have my fees paid. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I did not know what to say, but Jaja nodded and said, “We will see you in a week.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

And I made a point of never living in the same house with my mother for more than a week. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Once they hauled the cargo upstairs to their lab, they let it cool for a week before beginning the tedious process of reduction, oxidation, precipitation, and extraction. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

You have for many years trust me; you have believe me weeks past, when there be things so strange that you might have well doubt. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Grandma showed up for dinner the second week. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A week later, Mr. Turner called Quentin and me back to his office. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Within a few weeks I had strength enough in both arms to pull myself up on the furniture, and from there I could release myself to a stand. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been a Negro more than three weeks and it no longer shocked me to see the stranger in the mirror. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I had quite an accident last week, lucky to be alive, really. But the thing’s almost fixed. Which utensil did you say you were interested in?” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

This was a giant bowl, meant to last for a week for the whole family. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We’ve been out every night this week until two or three in the morning. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“In fact I haven’t spoken to her in weeks. She’s gone silent. With these armies passing through—” “You want me to check on her,” Percy guessed. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Last week. He asked me to give back his jacket and everything.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt like someone had taken scissors and snipped open the knot that had been in my chest all week. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

All week, I’ve been doing my best to forget about the soccer team. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Who ever heard of a robin moving her eggs every week to a new tree? Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“It’s Riot Gear. It’s retro. It’s beat up to look like one of the big twentieth- century riots. It’s been big since earlier this week.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bill had a job in a bottling plant and made ten dollars a week. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

When Ron gave me the week of the pageant off work, I don’t think this is what he had in mind. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Then, after four weeks of near silence, Park surprised Shin with a personal question. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

A week later Carla and I watch as Mr. Waterman makes his way across the lawn and to his car to leave. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The roads were so bad that school was canceled for a week, and Dad couldn’t come get me from Lanternwood. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Your grandmother said you and your sisters were coming down. It was all she talked about for weeks.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The first week of that summer, my mother and I had been inseparable. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, you have three weeks. It’s not long, but you can begin training. If the Assignment Board deems you fit, possibly your case will be reviewed.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Her Majesty, the Austrians call their cannon, and for the past week these men have tended to it the way worker bees might tend to a queen. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I am going home for a holiday. But first I go to Lausanne to stay with a sister for a week or so.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two weeks later, Stanton’s father died at age eighty-six. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

And three or four nights a week, they were in their storefront rehearsing for the next Sunday, I guess, shaking and rattling and rolling the gospels with their guitars and tambourines. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Generally this meant being restricted to the grounds, as we were now, like any new class in its first week. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever had been between them for those few weeks was over. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The parrot-in-the-chimney affair quite definitely cooled both parents down a lot and for over a week they were comparatively civil to their small daughter. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Two and a half weeks before she left for San Francisco, Jule sat next to Imogen in the back of a jeep taxi, bumping over the road from the Culebra airport. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“The clans have been lobbing nukes at that sphere for the past two weeks, and they haven’t even scratched it. How are you going to get it to ‘drop on its own’?” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

After weeks of hearing testimony concerning the raids, the committee issued what it titled “A Report on the Illegal Practices of the United States Department of Justice.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Two weeks later he returned with even more disturbing news. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Kitty can’t have any visitors for at least the next three weeks,” she announced. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

They drooped a bit now, as I hadn't washed them in my three weeks at home. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Daddy found some of these at a newsstand last week.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I did the ironing for her one week to say thank you for the cake, and she baked me a strawberry rhubarb pie to thank me for the ironing. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But after staring at it for weeks and rereading the Neither of you young men deserved what happened letter from Mr. Murray, Jus decided to accept the gift. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was more than she’d said to him in weeks, maybe ever. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“He got himself another hunting dog a few weeks back.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three weeks before the baby was due, I was out in the woods beyond the farthest field. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t sleep for a week after what happened to you, Jus,” she said. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“But it’s the truth. Each week, each month there’s a crisis.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doctors, lawyers, Mr. Cross who own the Southern Times, the colored newspaper that come out ever week. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Two weeks passed from the time that Monkeyman had stopped the girl from cutting Peaches and it looked as if things might blow over without anyone getting hurt. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Stessman was giving them extra credit all week for wearing red. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“More than that. A week, most like. And they'd never let me forget it.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Dora usually closed the Bear Flag for a week when it happened. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mark for each day, a line through a week. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A week later, almost to the same day, an old woman stopped by my house in Ville Rose on her way to Port-au-Prince. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what I did to deserve two close encounters of the Neil kind in less than a week, but I wasn’t about to question my good fortune. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“That would be the middle of next week,” says Lucy. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He spent a week painting dirty coins on the sidewalk, sweating to get them just right. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Once more it was in the week before Christmas. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joe was right that he could make more money with mushrooms in a few days than he could in a week or so on his paper route in Pittsburgh. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

But it did matter, of course, which is why I kept pounding at our cinder-block walls and why the questions had floated beneath the surface for a week. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

In a test on an island in the Florida Keys in 1961, a population of flies was nearly wiped out within a period of only five weeks. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

A week ago I saw a red spot on his handkerchief when he lowered it from his mouth. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Only after the second week. I asked the librarian. You applied for membership once, but did not take out a card.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She tried it a couple of summers ago, but after a week of easy jogs with me, she asked, “When do you stop counting your steps?” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“You come back after weeks—weeks—and you think it’s all going to be all right if you just say sorry?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Everyone’s hungry; except for the ersatz coffee, a week’s food ration doesn’t last two days. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She struggled to stay focused and push forward, but the culminating weight of everything that had happened that week wouldn’t leave her alone. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

He had put locks on all the bedroom doors the week before. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It took Sam a week to fix the roof, because he could only work in the afternoons, after school let out and before night classes began. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“You don’t know? After bugging me for weeks and weeks?” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Six weeks at a new school has changed everything. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

On Tuesday of Nat’s last week at the chandlery Ben Meeker drifted in and leaned against a barrel. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’ve been living in this motel for weeks, which is unusual: we never stay in motels for more than a night at a time. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

No television, telephone, or hanging out with friends for three weeks, all because of that light. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

This wasn’t tryouts, which were still two weeks away. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of that week I’d be exhausted, and would be grateful to the first person to talk to me about something meaningful. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“School’s almost over. It’s not as if anything’s keeping him here. I think we ought to pack him off to my mother and Chris in New York for a couple of weeks.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A week later, in the afternoon, a number of dog-carts drove up to the farm. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Helene and I befriended them in our first week, all of us defending each other as best as we could against our predatory classmates. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I was only away for two weeks, but so much has happened since I left. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Tony called Shawn and asked if he could run the rig for a week or two. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Three weeks into her sentence, more than forty women, ranging in age from nineteen to seventy-three, protested Paul’s treatment by marching through the streets of Washington, DC. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

One girl who had been making two dollars per week in Meridian wrote home to say she was now working in the Chicago stockyards and making two dollars per day. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Perhaps a week of solid fiddling with the molecular models would be necessary to make us absolutely sure we had the right answer. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The championship game was only a week away, so it was necessary to press the court to act fast. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

There would be house moving to do, changes at work, enough important matters to consume me for the coming weeks. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inviting her over as moral support was probably the best decision I’ve made in weeks. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

We walk through the bookstore as we catch up on the last several weeks. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The week before she met me, she had befriended a girl she’d met at the Stardust Ballroom. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

We keep prices low, and lower them even more with sales every week and coupons in the paper. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

As days turned into weeks and the likelihood of finding Father deteriorated, our situation became increasingly desperate. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

For a few weeks, I preoccupied myself with gravity and momentum, atoms and cells, the Anglo-Afghan wars, instead of thinking about Hassan and what had happened to him. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Less than four weeks later, on April 12, the president was dead of a massive stroke at the age of sixty-three. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

And Granddaddy’s gift did arrive at the end of the week, although we all came to wish soon enough that it had not. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

All we have to do now is wait for two weeks till the telegram boy knocks at the door. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Just the other week, he bent all his refrigerator magnets and tried to sell them online as miracle medical bracelets to gullible senior citizens. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Torrance hosted yet another discussion in her English class, instead of working on an essay she had assigned for the following week. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

For the first few weeks of the new school year, Nadia hardly spoke. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Really? I thought my appointment wasn’t until next week.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

For the last week or so it's like getting jabbed with a little needle every time I hear that word. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

“When did this happen? Last week when I was in Philly?” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She’s a very good student—way ahead, even though she missed the first nine weeks.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

For the first week, everything went according to plan. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

After two weeks and ten jumps, Uncle Al is so desperate he approaches a woman of generous proportions in the audience. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

And he was just up here two weeks ago. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

They had the rest of the week to implement their experiments, and by Friday their final reports were due. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Addie: The student council elections are going to be in three weeks, so we have to get going on this right away. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Stop by for some tea soon, will you? I’ve barely seen you since, well, the funeral. What is it, six weeks now? Hard to believe it. It feels like yesterday.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He had Theresa by the arm, and he was bellowing some nonsense about new laws about rooting out heresy and pagan sorcery and some other fancy phrases he had just learned that week, I reckoned. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I was a Hollows Facebook phenomenon for a week until Mrs. Marks, our assistant principal, said anybody caught circulating the video would be suspended. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

And then you leave your body again and spend the next week looking down at yourself and wondering what the hell you’re doing. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

We’re not supposed to use cell phones in school, but I’d broken so many rules this week, what was one more? Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The family has gathered at Fifi's house for Christmas, which falls a week after the baby's birth. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Will you make those for us this week?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

After weeks of worrying, she had turned it in. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

On the morning of January 27, 1965, a week after inauguration day, Johnson and his top foreign policy advisors met to discuss the crisis. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Raven said the game wasn’t supposed to start for a few weeks.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, people who might have been infectious for a week before getting treated were now going around infecting others for two or three or four weeks before they got cured. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Six weeks...seven...I forget,” said the tired man. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

"I’ll need you to come straight home after school this week. This is a big one, and I ’m going to need your help, all right?" The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

That same week—almost six weeks after the arrest of Charles and Marjorie Moss—Wayne Washington’s most extensive article about their home appeared in the St. Petersburg Times. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Revealed by daylight, we saw the strangers we had shared a black closet with for six weeks. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Neither of us was allowed on the blacktop the whole rest of the week. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I had dreamed of this moment for several weeks. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I started calling department chairmen to ask for another week, another ten days—‘more time to reach a decision’— to avoid the decision I would have to make. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the second week, she was on page three. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Seven weeks she had in this world and died in the middle of the night, alone, Mrs. Leibowitz, all alone in that pram. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She would read it in a week; she needed a week to gather her strength. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Josephs wife died last week,” Eliza whispered as we paused in the doorway. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A week earlier she had learned from Freddie that Hagar had tried to kill Milkman six times in as many months. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, James reported being sick and had to miss the entire week. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The week after Lieutenant Scheisskopf followed Clevinger’s recommendation and let the men elect their own cadet officers, the squadron won the yellow pennant. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He remembered those weeks of timid indecision, during which he had looked and longed and despaired of ever having the courage to ask her. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Leon Ferro’s been after me about that for weeks. It’s not going to happen. Get it out of your head.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I still had several days of camp ahead of me, then another two weeks of practices in Brazil before podium training and the qualifying round. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

During the course of that week, at different places along the coast, his seventeen sons were hunted down like rabbits by invisible criminals who aimed at the center of their crosses of ash. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

After a week of living under the tree, the nights become cold and our stomachs too empty, so Kim asks a family camping nearby to let us live with them. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She should still be sleeping, but my father’s wife drives her to school early four mornings a week for violin lessons and conversational French. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

“If we’re happy working together, in six months’ time you raise it to a thousand a week.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

But the thing that tested Harry’s resolution most appeared in his favorite shop, Quality Quidditch Supplies, a week after he’d arrived at the Leaky Cauldron. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

It lasted two more weeks, right up to the start of a new school year, and I have to admit they were the best two weeks of my life. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“And it’s my turn to pick. So this week’s Friday-night movie is Cave of Forgotten Dreams.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

As early as the week that followed, the glazed surface of conviction was not without its blemishes and hairline cracks. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

For the last four weeks, we’ve only made out in covert places. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

This is the second time in a week. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Johnny got the job and was promised another for the following week. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They traveled for a week in the company of the Fairy Hunt. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I don’t understand. You’ve been nice to me since day 1 on the bus. Which makes no sense at all. Especially when I kept a secret from you for weeks.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

But that didn't keep him from sending me an aerogramme every week, which always ended the same way: Come and visit. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“First week I was at the College,” he said, “they lit some kind of gas on fire. You recall that? Out in the orchard. You were little. A minikin.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“And then Audrey went to visit her sister for a week. This was, oh, a year, thirteen months after you’d gone away.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Mitch: No. I asked my math teacher first period if we could wheel in a TV to watch it, but he said we had to review for the chapter test this week. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each week in the town square, the Nazis posted a new edict against Polish Jews, each more extreme than the last. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was starting seventh grade tomorrow in a new school, in a new town, and, to make matters worse, a week later than everyone else because of the bat mitzvah. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

My grandfather came to two practices this week. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

It would be for just a week or two, Mom and Dad assured her, a month at the most, while they got a kitty together and looked for a new place. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

We hit on an idea: Since the most studious girls always sat up front, we would switch seats every week. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I barely slept for two weeks: every moment my eyes were open, I was either reading or thinking about those texts. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Within a few weeks Snowball’s plans for the windmill were fully worked out. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“So, it’s up to you. Let me know what you decide. I’ll see you next week.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Three weeks later, Harriet heard news from one of the other cabinet wives: Dr. Edson was admitting that she had lost hope. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The rest of us have another week in Lahore, which seems long and not long enough at the same time. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“They are there. They visited last week and asked after you.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Over the next few weeks, Shanti and I watch our grandmother try to "be American." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Eudora Green, when she broke her hip, went on your list, up walking in a week. Isaiah fell off the cotton truck, on your prayer list that night, back to work the next day.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The law firm paid me a salary of two pounds per week, having generously waived the premium the articled clerks normally paid the firm. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ew, no. The fourth dimension is time. This thing has been here for two weeks!” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

It had become our ritual, and for several weeks, before we grew more comfortable with one another, it was the only time he spoke to me directly. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

And after that, in less than two weeks, would come the glorious start of the season on the first Friday night in September. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Foragers moved house every month, every week, and sometimes even every day, toting whatever they had on their backs. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was where Ibni got the gold, from the leather sacks, heavy with trash and gravel, brought in each week from the mines in the southern desert. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Afterwards she could not walk for a week, her feet would not fit into her shoes, they were too swollen. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'd had this sore on the inside of my lip for about two weeks. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Your three-year-old eats all her vegetables for a week? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Their days off rotate during the week, and when they don’t go to work, they sleep late. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I’m reading the same article I’ve read over and over and over these last few weeks, the one about Glenn Burke from way back in 1982 that ran in a magazine called Inside Sports. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

This occurred at a time when Mandela and Tambo was flourishing and I was in court dozens of times a week. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few weeks ago, just days before Hannah took the pills, someone slipped an envelope through the vent of my locker. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The other players were starting to notice Fornatee and Mandela’s disrespect, and that was a bad omen heading into the team’s season opener, just a week away. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

After more weeks of trial and error and testing and retesting, they succeeded in locating a bullet lost in a different man's body for years. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Luckily for me, I got to go to school the following week. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

And after it did, weeks after, when she could finally get up out of bed again, she put on her shoes. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

But even while I was getting so much from her, I couldn’t stop thinking about next week, when Renee would be coming over. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

For almost the whole week, every time I moved, I hurt. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Grandma stayed at our apartment the week after Dad died, while Mom was going around Manhattan putting up posters. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

About a week after Badenhorst arrived, we were working at the quarry one morning when, without introduction or fanfare, Badenhorst and his driver pulled up in the commander’s car. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he does the dishes, there’s dry food stuck on them in the morning that someone has to chip off with a table knife, but he’s still on the schedule, week after week. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He kept careful track of the registration tallies: They were averaging an impressive seven thousand a week in midsummer but were still falling short of the goal. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And then about a week ago, it all became clear. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within weeks, Louisiana and Texas had joined them. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I'd dealt enough in speculation and fog this week; I wanted proof I could see. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The last note—other than the one still stuffed in her pocket—was from only a few weeks before. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The ones in communes got four ounces of fat and one cup of oil a week, they said, and had to work from 4 A.M. to 9 P.M. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The steamy green jungles of the Amazon morphed into the barren cornfields of Bone Gap in the last weeks of winter. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He then spent three weeks in bed, made miserable by constant aching in limbs, insomnia, nervous tension, and feelings of acute anxiety. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

If they found her at all, it might take days or even weeks. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was fine to wait with a warm feeling while Lancelot kept faith with his divinity for a week or for a month. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I could just stay alive for a week, I’d know the unwritten secrets of Anna’s mom and the Dutch Tulip Guy. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“But she’ll be bedridden for weeks with horrible hives. There is no way she can go. It’s up to me . . . and thee.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

But about two weeks after her second radium treatment, Henrietta got her period—the flow was heavy and it didn’t stop. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“From 10 to 12 and 2 to 4 six days in the week, I shall confine myself to my old medical works and other college studies including stenography, French and German.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“A man torn apart. An adolescent boy with serious issues. Let me show you, again, the last known photo of this troubled young fugitive, taken a week ago in Denver.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I need to see your slides. The ones from last week. Please don't ask me what's wrong again,” I beg, anticipating what she's going to say by the round, puckered O of her mouth. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Thank the Lord Miss Hilly hasn’t showed up here to play bridge, even though Mister Johnny tried to set it up again just two weeks ago. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I’d put in two dollars next week to make up for it. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

At our confession dinner the week before, I had asked my mother what she remembered most about my father. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of each week, we went to the commissary and brought home bags and bags of food. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They began as mutual friends and admirers, even naming fossil species after each other, and spent a pleasant week together in 1868. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The sight of them when they visit Calcutta every few years feels stranger still, six or eight weeks passing like a dream. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A charge of“idling” in the fields could result in the loss of a whole week's wages. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

All they really wanted now was a way of getting back at Malfoy, and to their great delight, just such a thing arrived in the mail about a week later. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

It was only a week into school, and I was still blinded by the fog of equations from class. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

All I wanted to do was see the guy I hadn’t seen one week earlier. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Indeed he did have a face like a child, and such frail bones that after four weeks’ pack-carrying he already had flat feet. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea behind Gemini 7 was that it would take over a week for an Apollo spacecraft to fly to the moon and back. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s been two weeks since we met at the wedding, and weirdly, it feels like a million years ago, but also yesterday. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“That didn’t take long. We’ve been fund-raising for two weeks, and already you give up?” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Dimple found a comfort in her old seat, her arm pressed up against Rishi’s, everything like it had been for the last six weeks. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

If she hadn’t been so cocky two weeks ago, no one would have noticed them. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Cora had been with them for a few weeks. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

A week later I saw in my magic book that Char had received my message. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’d write a few entries in a single week and then lay the journal down for a month or sometimes more. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In May 1902, Anthony spent a week with Stanton in her home. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“And we have to shout out our anniversary every week. Every Sunday.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Each week, he seemed to grow taller and thinner, and his hands were turning more and more into the rough brown bark of a waterman’s. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within a week I more than doubled the number of my TMV photographs. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

For the next week, I barely leave my bed. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

But I knew that die wood floating up on the beach consisted mostly of branches or stumps that had been in the water for weeks or months. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stretched into weeks, then months, then years. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have never been as scared as I was that week,” she went on. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

No Vincent de Paul meant no lunch five days a week. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I knew because once, last year, I had gotten really bored, and I’d kept track of who she’d called on for a whole week. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

As part of the tradition, each Pepette brought some type of sweet for her player every week before the game. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But a few weeks ago I heard Nazario tell you he didn’t take your money when you offered it to him.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“We’re starting the first unit of the Socrates Project in humanities next week, and I’m kinda excited,” I say. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

For the first six weeks in Naples I was constantly cold. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

It’s been doing that for weeks and weeks. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“But she’s had them insured since birth—a nickel a week policy.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few weeks before, our neighbor had had to travel for business, and he’d asked our parents if Adria and I would feed, walk, and play with Bo while he was gone. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Three weeks—then two weeks until time for school. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

His small and poorly armed force was scattered in less than a week. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Before the week was over, the baby’s fever was worse. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s nothing to tell! Promise. I just talked to him for the first time last week. And he’s into making music and said he would show me how.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“But this last week you have proved me wrong. You haven’t spared yourself, Katherine. Our own daughter couldn’t have done more.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The man in the middle says he’s giving Mam a docket to get a week’s groceries at McGrath’s shop on Parnell Street. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

LOG ENTRY: SOL 207 I spent the last week recovering from back problems. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I come here once or twice a week. I get to say stuff like ‘I’ll have the usual.’” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Then your mom and I have agreed that you’ll be grounded for two weeks starting tomorrow.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

In a few weeks four more children joined the fray, for a total of eleven foster children between the ages of two and six. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Like everybody else in Cold Sassy, she would call it worth mentioning that her husband got married just three weeks after she went to her grave. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Not one of his friends brought home more than a couple of centavos a week to his family, but each and every boy came home to eat. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Our students have been coming in early every morning for the past three weeks to work on our paper chain to add to yours. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The two weeks of work I put in for him was just long enough for rain to wash away the blood, for the field grass to spring back up again where the deer was shot. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

From full moon to full moon took about four weeks. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

We started a puberty unit in health class this week and Mr. Quimby showed us diagrams of male and female bodies. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

And it was during those same weeks that those entirely untypical incidents took place at Darlington Hall which must, one supposes, have provided what flimsy basis exists for these absurd allegations. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

But events of the past few weeks had changed Johnson’s mind, and he assured King that a voting rights bill would soon be introduced in Congress. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says he’s tired from working long days all week. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

By the end of the week, I had it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One week before the Bolshevist Revolution, in the autumn of 1917, his young wife bore him a second child, a son. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Lily had been reading The House of Mirth all week. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

A few weeks after his return a construction project near Clovis unearthed more huge bones. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A capable mechanic, he earned sixty dollars a week. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I dislike next week. I wish she was back today.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Oh the bliss and the wonder of being with the family once again after all those weeks of fierce discipline! Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been only a week, in a cell that wasn’t terribly uncomfortable with food that wasn’t half bad, but a week in jail is a long, long time. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I had three dresses to my name, all hand-me-downs or from a thrift store, which meant each week I had to wear two of them twice. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A week later, a postcard came from Ruby Holler. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

But there was also a growing list of additional jobs that had to be done before the family and their guests arrived at the end of the week. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He had lost thirty-four pounds and was exercising five times a week and taking subway stairs two at a time. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“But it might take weeks to work it out!” said Hermione. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

For two weeks, we loaded my mower on a small trailer he pulled behind the pickup and headed to our latest jobs. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

No word of his whereabouts came for yet another week. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not receive any visits except that of the barber every three weeks. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The General died the next week, in a military plane crash. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Nothing today, but I’ll try to bring you something next week,” I said. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

From books, Jinny knew that the world out there counted time—in minutes and hours, days, weeks, and months. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Kasigi’s such a jerk. He spends the week partying at some fancy convention, and then comes home to pull the plug on anybody else having fun.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, a week later, there was a knock on the door, and a tall woman walked in. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Every day after school this week, Anastasia and I have gone out to investigate “possibilities,” as she calls them. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Perhaps Johnny’s tyranny during the week had irritated the old gentleman—who never believed it made the least difference to anyone when anything was finished. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papá allowed us to go out only once a week, and we had to be home by midnight. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

A few weeks before I was set to leave South Africa and return to the States, I was walking with Zinzi and Simo from the kumbi, or bus station, back to the house. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Then I did the same with my spouse, and hung up, promising a return by the end of one week. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I spent all week plotting every minute of it in my head. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“I stepped on a mess of them a couple of weeks ago. They stunk like a skunk!” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The following week, the Texas Education Agency ruled that Carter should remain in the playoffs. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s where Dad sits to wait for me when it’s his turn for custody for the week. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Anyway, long story short: I got suspended for two weeks for writing the notes! Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

A few weeks later, Nixon asked Henry Kissinger to be his national security advisor. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Because we had two weeks, we had my wife drop us at Caratunk, a remote community on the Kennebec River, thirty-eight miles short of Monson and the official start of the wilderness. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

A few weeks later the attorneys decided that anyone who had been adopted or had returned to their biological parents should be excluded from the class. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“That’s the third parent calling to complain this week. Too much homework. Too much reading,” Miss Carol says. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

About a week after Mom and Dad left, we kids were all sitting in Erma’s living room watching TV. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Assuming we didn’t crash en route, the flight would trim some three weeks from the span of Hombein’s trek. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The previous week she took the children to see their father on his birthday and got to hear the clopping of her footsteps in the beautiful lobby. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

A few weeks ago, Pauline, it seemed, had started having headaches. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A week later my mom knocks on my door. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I think, in light of what we’ve been talking about all these weeks, family becomes even more important,” he said. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t help noticing how in only three weeks as a widower he already looked like one. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

To top things off, in recent weeks his freshmen had begun to beat his varsity in time trials and head-to-head races. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

For weeks we bought and collected wooden pencils, until we had enough to fill the coffin. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Henry had given Naomi a doll just three weeks after he started coming to Abuelito’s house to take her mother dancing. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The first week of August was reasserting itself after a good night’s sleep. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so we come to the weeks leading up to the graduation pageant. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The FBI opened multiple investigations—sometimes in the same week. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“And the answer is no, she’s not. Nor has been for weeks, stuck in dry dock in Portland after a run-in with a shoal. But home soon, I expect.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Just a family friend here to help out for a week or two.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

It had been a week of stepping and not finding the ground beneath my foot. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Chances are his train was late, because in 1984 there was a fire somewhere on the New York system every day and a derailment every other week. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I only knew there was no peace in our cubicle for weeks. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five mornings a week I work at the Newark Shopping Center movie theater, cleaning the bathrooms and the theaters. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Several weeks earlier, Henry had become angry when the twins were voicing moral objections at the idea of killing Bunny. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Do well all week and you snag candy, chips, or soda from the “incentive locker.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

With his customary bravado, he reported that the first calutron in the big magnet would start separating uranium isotopes within three weeks. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Because Rindlisbacher had only been back on the job for a week, his car hadn’t been fully equipped. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He had just convinced himself he had another week on Ogygia. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The last class of my old professor’s life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he could watch a small hibiscus plant shed its pink leaves. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within a few weeks, Your High-High, we will take the city of Tenebrion while it's in total disorder with a smoking hole of Nothing at its center. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Connor tells me his parents are out of town on a business trip this week and his brother won’t be visiting from Purdue this weekend, so he wants me to come over on Saturday afternoon. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He hasn’t taken a cheerful evening walk in a week and a half, ever since phone service disappeared. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

A day after the fire he committed himself to the Anchorage Psychiatric Institute but left after two weeks, convinced there was a conspiracy afoot to put him away permanently. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

To earn $600, he has to work at least ten hours a day, six days a week, and that does not happen every week. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I exhale a breath I feel like I’ve been holding since I got here two weeks ago. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The next morning he asked for a glass of milk, the first sustenance he had volunteered to accept in fourteen weeks. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next week, all of us are going to Eagle’s Ridge to plant new trees. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Within a week, my grandmother was thumping around the house with her gold-topped cane and interfering with Mrs Spring's cooking. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Then as the weeks passed the days grew warm and languorous. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Either that, or he died of influenza one week later. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Families engaged in at least one fun event a week, like going to a movie or bowling. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t left the house in a week now, and he could almost hear the outdoors calling to him. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Paul had spent five weeks in jail; she had been on a hunger strike for twenty-two days. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

When after a week had gone by and nobody answered the ad in the paper, their Mama told Bill he could move up to the vacant room. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I was working as a camp counselor that summer, and my dad gave me twenty dollars a week for chores I did around the house. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The piano, waxed and polished every week, gleams in the sunlight from the curved bay window. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Only two weeks into school and I’ve already failed two math quizzes. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“I can’t believe you guys are doing this. Taking a week out of your lives. I mean, this isn’t exactly Hawaii.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“You know the study I told you about a couple of weeks ago?” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Events in the days and weeks following Walter's release were completely unexpected. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, she’s being a real baby. They only went out for like a week.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Different from even a couple of weeks ago. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

During those weeks I had plenty of time to ponder my fate. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two weeks ago, the president’s speeches became required viewing. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

For weeks after, I turned to books by educational experts. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we packed up her things to leave, I was going on about how insane the whole week had been. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In the entire week he had seen no one. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within a week, Felicia had her old job back at the beauty shop. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

For punishment, she dictated that the next week I had to go to church in my stocking feet. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But now that the operation was only a week away, time seemed to be moving too fast. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I have to call my doctor this week to find out how I'm really doing. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But it’s due next Friday! Everyone else had an extra week and a partner.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Michael was a computer whiz, the kid who did the “Best of the Web” list-ing for the paper each week. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were lively in the candlelight and her cheeks had color in them for the first time in weeks. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have an appointment this week, and then you can see her when you come back,” Apá says. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I mean, he is from the suburbs, but in the Ring a few weeks back, he sounded extremely hood. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

After a week or two, a lot of the time, he didn’t even try to listen to the rest of the family’s conversation. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

He felt like he’d lived an entire lifetime since awakening from his memory wipe, but he’d only been there a week. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Two weeks later I was as good as new. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Better, thank you. I’ve had a bad cold, and been shut up a week.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all agreed to meet again a few weeks later. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

When school ended for the year, Link and Marty and I went to one of the moons of Jupiter to stay with Marty’s aunt for a few weeks. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned around and saw Pasqual, Louis and Benny—who’d started working for us a week before and was fast becoming indispensable—and their wives. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I suppose if you asked me in two weeks I’d say onyx.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Within weeks of getting Einstein’s letter, President Roosevelt formed the Uranium Committee, a group of military leaders and scientists. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We go back to Massachusetts sometimes in the summers, to a lodge in the western part of the state that for one week is taken over by Gran’s extended family. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was late January and we had just returned, a week before, from Corcoran where my family picked cotton. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Only, it might take a few weeks to collect them all, and some of the eggs might have a little bit of sand in them.” Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

When Thomas had called yesterday for our weekly chat, I’d lied and told my dad that I wasn’t feeling well and to tell Thomas that we’d catch up next week. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

H ere the work of the coming week was planned out and resolutions were put forward and debated. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Even though they’d only just moved to California and she and James weren’t talking, she wouldn’t trade these last few weeks away. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

But she was the only person I knew, so I kept sitting there for the rest of the week.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Two days a week after work, Dorothy and the other new girls filed into a makeshift classroom at the laboratory for a full immersion in the fundamental theory of aerodynamics. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they try to get me to go to the bingo game down the hall on their way out, like the batch from two weeks ago. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

At the end of two weeks, he suffered another stroke and died. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Take a closer look, Dana. It’s too straight. It’s not a bone; it’s modern lumber. We’ve been finding pieces like it for a couple of weeks now.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

James came over, and they spent Friday evening catching up on the week. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I did not want to make any of what had happened in the last week about me. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I know that I don’t want to die, and for me, that’s something—more than I could have said a few weeks ago. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

And why today, a week before my thirteenth birthday, her deathday. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I got a job down at the community center now, three days a week. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

We question him once a week and he refuses to answer a single question—says the Bureau is the enemy of all magicians.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The rest of the week is surprisingly okay. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

By January 21, fish were being killed 100 miles downstream near La Grange, and a week later the chemicals were doing their lethal work 200 miles below Austin. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know, Dana. A few days, a week, two weeks, three...” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I had helped Yin Lan-lan with her math three times a week for years, explaining each problem to her over and over until she got it right. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the process his scalp had bled in numerous places, and for weeks he had worn a cap to work to hide the scabs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It only took about two weeks to feel like I’d been fencing saber all along. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“We spent a Christmas week out there in Utah. It was beautiful. Beyond beautiful.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the song I was playing over and over again in my headphones after I left last week. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Mary Willis, your daddy wants Will to go to Cornelia next week,” he began. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

After the show that Sunday, Schieffer mentioned that the oddest thing had happened to him the week before. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Rarely did a week go by now without a new act of terror against the British. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

A week later, however, the examining magistrate looked me over with curiosity. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

These men, he thinks, probably handle more gemstones in a week than he has seen in his lifetime. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In those days, an extra eighty cents a week was a princely sum. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was my first time smiling in weeks. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

It was a few weeks after graduation when we ran into each other at a party. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

HARRY: We wrote to your brother three times a week last year. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

“The Feds surrounded the family’s cabin, kept them locked in there for weeks, and when a hungry child, a little boy, snuck out to go hunting, the Feds shot him dead.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The week that followed was a solitary and surreal one. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The climax of the week actually came that afternoon. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

They weren't so bad because, as you might remember, they'd gotten cleaned off earlier that week. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

During the first week of the fourth grade Mrs. Parker, our teacher, made the two tallest boys, Eric and me, the cookie monitors. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“The Jackson Five concert is in December. That’s four months from now. So when Papa gives us our allowance, you write how much money you’re putting in by your name next to ‘week number one.’ P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been using the same blade for six weeks,” he added untruthfully. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Every six months his work was interrupted when he traveled back to South Korea for several weeks at a time. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I don’t explain why, but I say I need to leave the area for two weeks. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

One week the weather gave a little to the sun, and snow melted and limbs dumped their loads and popped up into the air. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Lowe made me clean the erasers for a week and apologize in front of the whole class for taking up their time with my nonsense. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Eleven weeks of weird weird weird with me and Mom. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The three of us took turns the following week, looking in on it, seeing whether it had eaten anything. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

These last few weeks, he had become tense and reclusive, but that night, he had been at ease. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

There were days, weeks, and months when I hated politics. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The two women were so startled that the delivery boy sneaked up on the unsuspecting for the rest of the week, shouting "Boom!" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

And since she cleaned many houses each week, we had a great assortment. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s been a few weeks now, and I’m still bored stiff. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Words that I had been thinking for weeks rolled off my tongue now. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

But three weeks after that she was already ninth and moving. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

For almost a week after I disappeared, my parents had remained at the Lochmoor Hotel, hoping I might return. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Then everybody said “Amen” and dove into that food like they hadn’t eaten in a week. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Even though I’d raised some more money over the past week with my babysitting gig and doing more door-to-door donation requests, I was still a long way off from my goal. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

You never knew how long they’d be gone, a couple of days, sometimes a week, sometimes a month, depending on the fish. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Papa was working on getting them back to America, but they hadn’t heard more for a couple of weeks. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“And I live here. In the apartments. We moved in a few weeks ago.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“If you spend one night in some town, did you live there? What about two nights? Or a whole week?” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Three weeks after the beginning of school, Bull arrived home from the squadron at the precise instant that Lillian was setting dinner on the table. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a week left, and I hadn’t bought any supplies yet. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Well—Daddy. He’s been in an awful mood the last three weeks. Awful. At least, around me. And when I got home last night he started that again.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

All those weeks of backbreaking work had been for nothing. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Does the Lord remember that dollar I gave you last week?’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

On Wednesday, August 6, 1890, three weeks after Ellsworth’s Brookline visit, the exposition company telegraphed Olmsted: “When can you be here?” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Why you annoy with old woman? Hai, I remember butter now. I fry vegetable in butter for one week. That very good week. Not best week ever, but very good.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Ophie had been hoping the opportunity to check the attic for clues would present itself, but the next week turned out to be the busiest she’d spent in the manor so far. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Within a few weeks the deep-freeze facilities of the institute were taxed to capacity, so that other specimens had to be refused. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The rounds of the tournament stretched into October, and toward the final weeks it was often cold and rainy. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Partridge had been timing their setups and breakdowns all week. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

In a matter of days, though, they’d shed that pale yellow fuzz for tough new white feathers, and in just a few weeks, the chicken people, Perdue or whoever, would be back to collect them. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

What seemed like a lot of food now would dwindle to nothing in a matter of weeks. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Jenna has been asking me to come over for weeks now, so I put on warm clothes and scribble a Post-it note for my parents. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He was old, and the whites of his eyes seemed to grow more yellow every week, and he coughed like something was ready to rattle loose inside of him. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Within the week your grandfather learned that Clytie had been right, or was right now anyway, though it was Judith who died first.” Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another time, to blind Felicia for a week with a blow to her eyes. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each week we could forget past wrongs done to us. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Mrs. Baker looked at me, and her eyes opened a little bit, and without looking away from me, she said to Meryl Lee, “A week from today, Miss Kowalski.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Papa would join the family in a few weeks. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Because I’d been dreading this event all week and wanted to get it over with. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

My period is a week early, but that’s what I get for lying. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The roundup started by the end of the following week. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The engine of Polina’s Po-2 overheated on the longer flight, and she and her pilot were now going to have to make a crash landing, only a week before the end of the war. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Yes, is she not lovely, though so sad! Her dress is well chosen, too, for in a week she weds Count Antonio, whom she passionately hates.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first week Mother had a bad cold and couldn’t make the long drive. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Their lives, which had almost gone their separate ways a week ago, were now drawing together again. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the fans, eager to let Riddle know how they felt about the scratching of a week before, attempted to drown out any cheering with lusty howls. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t want to write these reminders of my excellence every two weeks. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

By the end of the week, Pita got up and hobbled about the courtyard of Hacienda Dorada, clapping and laughing at the girls as they chased mariposas around the wide, robust bougainvilleas. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Miss Heather would come to Bannon’s three days a week for four hours each day; on the other two days, I was on my own. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In the weeks afterward, his daydreaming about college and his conversations about it with his sister Leanna turned into serious research. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Only a couple of weeks later she was much more used to all the different kinds of faces that age created. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“She put her life at risk and she’s been lying to me for weeks.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lloyd: You had a headache for two weeks. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

On April 19, barely a week before the election, Chief Buthelezi accepted the offer of a consti-tutional role for the Zulu monarchy and agreed to participate. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her playing is as wooden as that of any average girl who takes her lessons once a week. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Human populations reproduce at the rate of roughly three generations per century, but new insect generations arise in a matter of days or weeks. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He had been here only six days, not even a full week. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Two weeks later, coming home late one night, he lost control of his car, and that was that. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I can remember so little, and I’ve lost track of all the weeks.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He smokes, and a week or two here would probably be good for him. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put down the debit card Mom had given me—Daisy never had any money and my mom let me charge twenty-five dollars a week as long as I kept straight As. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The following weekend, however, it snowed again, then two days later much harder, and by the end of that week the ground had been clamped under snow for the winter. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next week is as far ahead as his future stretches and the year between Christmas and Christmas again is an eternity. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Two hundred repetitions, twice a week from fourteen to sixteen and a half,” was all his comment. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been paralyzed for almost two weeks now, waiting for word about her husband, but this was folly. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Instead, he returned to Washington for two more weeks of briefings. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

In addition, we’d have two hours of physical training—PT—every afternoon, and we’d have to pass a physical performance test in our last week. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In just about a week the team would be officially unveiled to the public. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a few weeks of sniffing around and assessing the northern half, Blake decided that Cora’s spread would be a nice place to tie up his dog. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It’s the second week of school and I’m already getting busted up because of the people I hang with. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

After all, she says, he’s missed only a few weeks. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Porter walked out of class and didn’t come back for a week. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

After we were arrested in December and kept in prison for two weeks, I had one visit from Evelyn. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, I did something I’d been dying to do for the past week—I disabled the locking mechanisms on both devices. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She may have officially been a governess for only a few weeks, but it wounded her professional pride to have her students talked about in such a cavalier manner. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The wind died quickly and left us to wreckage—power lines down, and no telephone for a week. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean, it’s been such a hectic week, and the only person I’ve really seen is my dad, and he’s just—uh—useless,” I say. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

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

One gray Monday morning a few weeks after school started, Mom hurried me to get dressed for a hospital appointment. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“We can go to Portland in a few weeks,” Adam promised. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each week the autumn grew colder and wetter, and the inn, although dirty and drafty, was much cozier than any barn or dung heap to be found outside, so she remained, empty of heart. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ll see when Mommy takes you back to your real mother next week. Why do you think she’s been so nice to you all week?” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are one week gone from finding the handsaw. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The office was situated one block off Main Street, where Rosaleen and I had paraded into town that Sunday more than three weeks ago. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, unless I can get my hands on $3,450, I’ll be homeless and in the streets by the end of the week. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I mean, it’s true I was a little mad at Scooter all week. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to promise him beer and a double date with me, you and Justin at the diner next week in exchange for telling Claire that he’s taking you to the midnight movies tonight.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

But first he had to prepare, and he had only three weeks to do so. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Essentially, by the time two weeks had passed, I was the only person who was thinking about it anymore. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Even with our own ration of food, our survival depends on our older brothers bringing more food to us each week. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know you almost let Brothers talk you out of it last week,” he said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

And every fan couldn’t help but believe that the following week’s game would be little more than a continuation of the Cooper obliteration, only a thousand times more sweet. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would spend the next few weeks tracking down the new form, filling it out with all the required documentation, and having it officiated and notarized. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Most of us Navajos gained weight during the weeks we were in Boot. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, I didn’t. I played better last week when we were on the same team.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

And a few weeks after that: “Theo’s brother is here for good, he's staying for at least three years to work in the studio of the painter Cormon.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

After just a couple weeks in Rochester, I began another weird new adventure: middle school in America. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Within weeks, she was taking pictures of DNA of a quality and clarity that had never before been seen. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

In three weeks that question would find an answer. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“These are all the books I need for the essay and test I have this week.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“Five hundred repetitions once a week from thirteen to seventeen,” said Bernard wearily, as though to himself. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Herbert had made a peculiar request the week before the execution. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Some weeks previous, Mr. Sharpe had told my friend Private G—g that I was in demand to play with the orchestra gathered for the diversion of the officers and the consolation of the besieged. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Just a bit more than two weeks, around twenty-four million miles, after my seventeenth birthday, the Perseids scattered brilliant torrents of blazing dust all across the nighttime sky. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“My mother was alive when the Americans liberated our camp. But when she learned that all my brothers and sisters were gone, within a week, she was dead of grief...” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

All these weeks of practicing, and I still don’t look half as good as that. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And here you thought that just deciding to keep living was the bravest thing you'd do this week. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“Who needs two whole weeks of sunshine and blue skies and beaches when you can have a month of luxury right in your own backyard?” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Two weeks before he came home for Christmas, Sounder crawled under the cabin and died. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Is this what they were talking about in our kitchen last week? Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

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

All week we heard of attacks on churches throughout the island. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom fainted in the kitchen of our house two weeks ago while she was packing our cookbooks for the move. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“No. I have three weeks left,” I said. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

And since my parents left on vacation last week, I’ve been looking after our home all alone, even through these difficult times. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

This might be worth it for how much he teased us about our sloppy Sky-Sprints technique last week. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Once a week they do,” said Inej, her little imp horns bobbing along with her head. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

As Dad had planned, we all knew the Morse code fairly well within a few weeks. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I nod, even though from what I remember, weddings in Yana Urku seemed to go on for days, maybe even weeks. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My brothers still tease me about the Stilton scrambled eggs I made, and that was weeks ago. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Each week and month and year we spent in the White House was packed. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They say the Youns marched into Cambodia only three weeks ago, on January 25, and through their artillery power and army defeated the Khmer Rouge, sending Pol Pot and his men running into the jungles. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took Bitter three more weeks to finish the painting. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t Space Boy back then, I was Hillbilly Henry because of a cowboy hat I’d worn every day for weeks. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Another review of map skills, one week of Native Americans, Christopher Columbus in time for Columbus Day, the Pilgrims in time for Thanksgiving. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The next three weeks were a honeycomb of determination with apertures for the days to go in and out. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m so tired of traveling, I could sleep for a week.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

As weeks passed it grew more and more rare to see any footage from Dacca on the news. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Well, we could just have a drawing once a week. Yes, we’ll have one every Saturday! Whoever gets drawn, we’ll teach him to drive. Man or boy.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“A week? You've got to be joking. For a Rule 32 hearing? The trial in this case only lasted a day and a half.” Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A family in Baltimore claimed that their sixty-year-old father suffered a heart attack after becoming excited during the broadcast and died two weeks later. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“It was like, I’m gonna go in there with a bunch of females and talk about something that’s a week old?” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Macon and Pilate stayed there two weeks, not a day longer. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The remainder of the day was for resting from a week of work. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Once a week, he was obligated to put in a few hours at one of the free clinics. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Dallas Cup is next week, you tell her. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The weekend and the next week passed in a blur of fighting Layla for the bed covers, locker notes, and treehouses. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Even after a few weeks I didn’t know what kind of marker Mr. Mwila was. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

We decide to use some of our first two weeks of earnings from Mae to pay for these supplies. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

In that week, Laila came to believe that of all the hardships a person had to face none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

In a week, the hospital would be closed. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The last week of the month, when everything was warm and green, when there were hawks gliding on the high breezes, Lil came home. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Harry could hardly believe that he’d left Privet Drive only a few hours ago, that he wasn’t expelled, and that he was now facing two completely Dursley-free weeks. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I could have stared at your face for a week and I never would have guessed that you were Marcus. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

So I’ve been turning the matter over in my mind the last week, for it was impossible to help seeing that Fred liked me. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had just over two weeks for a mini-On the Road adventure. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

If Marigold had learned anything that week, it was that trying hard and being a good person didn’t always mean that good things would happen to you. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

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

A week after mailing in the last payments, several migrants go back to her office to see how things are going. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

At the end of the three weeks, we had the first batch of attackers; the lieutenant knew they were coming. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

In just a few weeks, they’d learned the location of every Salvation Army store, St. Vincent de Paul’s, and Goodwill in the greater Cleveland area. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You didn’t give her war, did you? Not after just five weeks?” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Your blood work showed a sudden drop in your medication levels about a week ago. Any idea why that might be?” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

When the answer comes, I almost laugh at myself at how simple it is—and yet a week ago, I would never have considered such a thing. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Twenty dollars every few weeks. You could pay it back slowly, no interest.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Napoleon had commanded that once a week there should be held something called a Spontaneous Demonstration, the object of which was to celebrate the struggles and triumphs of Animal Farm. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“It’s hard to start from nothing. A few weeks ago, some of you were where Howard is now. It takes time. And patience.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It was a few weeks into school, and it was raining. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

That had been weeks before, and now the pillbox was under way, no longer an idea in the backyard but a reality in the dining room. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

At times he wouldn’t leave the horses, not even to go over to the grandstand to watch the races, for weeks on end. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night, during the course of a week darkened by somber rumors, he miraculously escaped four revolver shots taken at him by an unknown party as he was leaving a secret meeting. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I met your parents when you all moved in last week. My husband, Carlos, is the building’s super. If you need anything at all, you can go to him. We’re in 1A.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Two would be better, but after last week he wasn’t going to risk Julie’s life. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

There’s the schedule of driver’s-ed courses, for anyone interested, and a reminder of next week’s blood drive, and the announcements are over. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She also wants to see me every week for therapy, and says I need to take medication to balance out my brain. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I search the markets for more than three weeks without seeing any kind of wood that looks as if it could belong in our attic. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

There had been no such issue for weeks or months past. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“The uprising last week was the result of frustration,” Shana says. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Rick Kerns was suspended for another week, but this other heavyweight was happy to fill in for him as pack leader. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

A few weeks later George and Florah came down with a mysterious illness, which left them emaciated and lethargic, their stomachs so distended that I thought they would burst. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

His precious bicycle that Aunt Queen had given him had been stolen two weeks after he’d moved in. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There would be times I wouldn’t see my mom for days, even weeks. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The poor guy looked like he’d been wandering through a wasteland for six weeks. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Yes, you did, Callie. You said so last week. You said exactly those words.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Miss Janna, you have two more weeks until summer vacation,” Mr. Ram says. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

We’d been back in Flint for a couple of weeks and they were still talking about what had happened, but never around us. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once a week, I actually feel like I’m a part of things. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

On Saturdays, I try to get ahead on my studying so the week isn’t too crazy. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Like tonight or . . .” “Not tonight. Not this week.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

They went to Mexico, Sook’s and clubs whose names changed every week—and he was not alone. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

A look I can only describe as Dauntless mania enters his eyes, but rather than recoil from it, as I might have a few weeks ago, I catch it, like it’s contagious. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

A few weeks later, in jail, Bobby hung himself with a bed- sheet. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s been almost two weeks since I wrote about Ivy seeing the woman in white leaving Poppy Cottage. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“This is the second time I’ve seen you at the mailbox this week.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

One day, after many weeks of loud talking, Helen packed a bag and slammed the front door and never came back. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

So every day that week right after lunch he took the subway to Manhattan, and I went alone to the library to be with Danny. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The choir had been rehearsing for weeks, but on the day of the feast the soprano fell ill with bronchitis. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I went to see Teach last week and like, the nurses said they were doing something and that I had to come back. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

It was the first place in their weeks of walking that had an abundance of food. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the week went on, we felt really good about the upcoming vote. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ward had to switch Open Mike from once a month to once a week ’cause so many people be wanting to read their work. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had favored one leg for some weeks, until the bruise and swelling disappeared. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He proudly displayed his new diploma at home, excitedly mounting it one weekend in a frame he’d bought the week he received his test scores. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I cannot convince you to not feel guilty if you forget the anniversary of my death, or if you realize days or weeks or months have gone by without thinking about me. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Only five weeks later, during the July 4 weekend, he captured the United States Junior Championship at a tournament held at the Franklin Mercantile Chess Club in Philadelphia. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

During the following weeks, Cole mentally prepared himself for the inevitable. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I am allowed to check out thirty-five books and can visit the library every two weeks. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

In the weeks that followed, Jule acquired a new laptop and put the two old ones in the incinerator. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Over the last several weeks, I've been getting more and more emails from other kids like me—kids without arms. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Two weeks later, minks stole into the henhouse and slaughtered dozens of chickens, leaving their bloody corpses piled up in the corners. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Missing finals week wasn’t a big deal, since I already had more than enough credits to receive my diploma. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Someone else says, “Before the end of the week.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Three weeks later, she was leaving an obstetrician with a letter certifying her good health, her freedom from contagious diseases, and her properly configured anatomy. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Have you drawn any watches this past week, Will?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A week after he returned from Canada in August, Bobby bought a ticket to a night baseball game at Ebbets Field to see his beloved Brooklyn Dodgers play the Milwaukee Braves. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Cooke says that it will take several weeks to feel the full effect. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Last week, a lady in the elevator at the hotel guessed I was fourteen! Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Green went from bust to boom in weeks, buying up whatever tobacco was available from his neighbors and shipping it off to New York, Kansas, Ohio, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Maine, California. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The two weeks in Pretoria opened my eyes fully to the stark realities of black tennis. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Drops of anger trickle out, little by little, as if every single setback over these past few weeks has exploded. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Dad had some big conference at the school that week and couldn’t get away, and Mom had just started a new job at the travel agency, so Gran volunteered to accompany me. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two or three times a week means a hundred and four times minimum, up to a hundred and fifty-six. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Every week, Charlie had a word that she used whenever she could fit it in. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“I’ll let you know. But I can come down here again next week, maybe.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You admit yourself that your memory seems to spring full-grown from an absolute blankness of a week ago. I’m giving you the explanation. Donovan and I put you together from the parts shipped us.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

This week the factory manufactured locomotive engines—Caesar wondered whether they would one day be used by the underground railroad. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

A woman named Bess cleans the house and does the washing once a week. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I switched from gray sneakers to black sneakers a week ago, but the gray shoes are buried in one of my drawers. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The decision to leave home felt momentous, and the drive to California took a week. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

And then, a few weeks later, a package arrived in the mail. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, about a week ago. They at my cousin’s house. She live in like the middle of nowhere. Mom’s been a mess ’cause she didn’t know if I was okay. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I imagined that human remains didn’t look much different than animal parts after a week in the waste pit or the Stockyards’ communal sewer. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

At a White House meeting two weeks before Stassen’s departure, Strauss had reminded Eisenhower that his term as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission was to expire on June 30. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Every junior in the school had known for two weeks, and so far not even the faintest rumor had leaked out. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

She would keep off plaiting it until next week. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The library was even cooler than it had been a week ago, and darker, since the only light came through windows that were stained yellow and didn’t let in all that much. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

What was remarkable was that this increased capacity to sustain attention came not within the game, but after they’d finished, weeks after. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I for one could go weeks hardly thinking about them, and there were even days when a defiant surge of courage would make me think: “How could we believe rubbish like that?” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Willis helped Turner move the heaviest things, and it took them most of a week. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The fledgling Hippogriff should be ready to fly within a week, though it will be a matter of months before it is able to accompany its parent on longer journeys. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He already comes round for dinner about four times a week,” said Harry. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Everyone mainly talked about the upcoming week, how they were going to position themselves going into Insomnia Con proper, and how difficult it was going to be. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Ten weeks in the hospital, and no one here knowing. But she promised we would meet you. At the wedding. And here you are.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first week, Moody Blue wouldn’t let anyone come anywhere near those puppies. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

When, just three weeks earlier, his KGB bosses had recalled him to Moscow from London, Gordievsky feared that he might disappear immediately into the bowels of Lefortovo Prison, the KGB dungeon. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Three weeks later, he set a state record of 4:50.6. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

On Monday morning, I sat down to plan my week, scheduling massage appointments, booking sessions with my trainer, arranging lesson times with my coach. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

A week after we heard that he had been caught by the field gendarmes, those despicable military police. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been a tough couple of weeks since the Halloween dance that wasn’t a dance at all. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Hadn't he discovered a list in her address book written just weeks before she died? Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Mum's at the gallery seven days a week and Dad keeps going off for interviews that only lead to more interviews. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

This inmate had transferred a couple of weeks before to R-gallery from the Box, but they had not yet returned his personal property. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered every detail of the past few weeks. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Three weeks later he put the farm up for sale. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

From now until race day, Bolles told his boys, they would row six days a week, rain or shine. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“If I go up to Bloomington for a week this summer, I should be able to finish by December.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

A few weeks later, the school director opened an official-looking letter and saw that it was signed by Secretary of War Henry Stimson. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I might have to go away again. And it won’t just be for a few hours or days or weeks.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Who cares about her, I never even met her. Let’s talk about you coming to church with me. In two weeks we’ll be having a special guest speaker, an anointed.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The only other outing I made that week that’s worth mentioning was my trip to the hospital. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

In the weeks that followed, she became more convinced of their being right for the job. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Over the next days, weeks, and months, I would return to that one visit again and again. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When a whole week had passed thus, the tannery officials called a meeting to announce that those who did not return to work would be replaced. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I wanted to, he would have traded his Cowboys for my Raiders and given me free use of the Uzi for a week besides. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

“Maybe not, but you’ve got the fastest, strongest brain in that school, and you are going to try out for the quiz team next week.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Heleen took her into the salon and beat her badly enough that she hadn’t been able to work for a week. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Drake opens his mouth to protest: according to the meticulously kept calendar on the fridge, it’s my week to clear the table and load the dishwasher. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

The next week he came back and bought another, then another and another. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went to his mailbox only about every three weeks so there was quite a stack waiting for him; he stood by the trash can, going through it indifferently, throwing half the envelopes away unopened. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The week before he left, Gabriel claimed to have read it for the eleventh time. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

So when me and Mom arrived at Beecher Prep a few weeks before the start of school, and I saw Mr. Tushman standing there, waiting for us at the entrance, I started giggling right away. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Francie said good-bye to the boss, to his wife, and to her final week’s pay. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the seniors like my sister and Sam and Patrick only have a couple of weeks. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I have here your final exam. Last semester, I gave you nearly two months to complete your final paper. This time, you get two weeks.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Only twice a week, the nights the review class meets, does he look forward to her company. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

For weeks after, I arrived early, left late and tried very hard to make up for her barrenness. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

After three weeks of the doldrums I made Ruth May get out of bed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The swelling in my brain went away a couple of weeks later, and then they came on fast. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

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

Kiyo and my sister May and I enrolled in the local school, and what sticks in my memory from those few weeks is the teacher—not her looks, her remoteness. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of instinct, she shot a quick look at Moody in the next seat—the closest they’d come to a conversation in weeks. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A week later the workmen finished the crib that would support the bridge while they replaced the pilings. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

It is a special kind of person who will draw together a congregation, stand up before them with a proud, clear voice, and say words wrong, week after week. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But none of the girls are allowed calls from their families for another week. You’ll receive a schedule in the mail telling you when you may call.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

With an inner length of forty-five inches, that meant sixty hours of loading across a week. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

One moved to another state the week after they met him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

"Three weeks later, he...um...he sold my medal for a twenty-dollar high. And that was his last high. He overdosed, right over there on those steps." Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

What was their beauty to me in a few weeks? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“A few weeks, maybe a month,” he said as he ran the wet cloth under his arms and the hard planes of his chest, water trickling down his torso. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Every few weeks, he drove by the family’s residence and took pictures, to prove they lived in Utah, not Idaho. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“It’s only for a couple more weeks,” he said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“For the past two weeks, we've been completely honest with each other. Right?” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’d bet a week of bread that some of his ribs are broken. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

With the twenty-five cents apiece that Dad gave Mary Alice and me, we could each buy five Nehis during our week, if we could slip off from Grandma long enough to get our allowances spent. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

She watched the sun set in the ocean, and she knew she had less than a week to live. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Well, it’s only two more weeks,” said Francis, when we were outside. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A week after that meeting, Ann and a small group of other Durham blacks traveled to Washington, D.C., to air their grievances before officials at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course. He came by here two weeks ago and asked Carlton and me for your hand.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I don’t know where he’s taking me, but he’s been hyping it all week. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“And, Mr. Hobert,” the principal says to Stephen, “it sounds like you’ve been harassing younger students at this school. You will serve detention and community service for one week. We do not tolerate hateful language.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

In the evenings Gogol and his father eat together, alone, a week’s worth of chicken curry and rice, which his father cooks in two battered Dutch ovens every Sunday. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It has been three weeks since my last confession,” I said. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Every week we interviewed old women who brewed African beer as a way to supplement their tiny incomes, who now faced jail terms and fines they could not afford to pay. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Christmas morning, instead of racing off to River Valley Farm, he remained at home, and later in the day he shared with his family the splendid dinner his mother had been a week preparing. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

A week later Amaranta brought the dozen handkerchiefs to him in jail along with the money and they spent several hours talking about the past. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Apparently not, I thought, but, remembering the Erie-inspired bawling scene I’d witnessed a few weeks previous, I stayed cool, didn’t say a word. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

In his first week on the trail, he managed just five miles a day, but he persevered, and by August, when he reached his home state, he was up to a dozen miles a day. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Last week,” she said, growing angrier at each step, “the waigoren accuse me.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And you needn’t talk—anyway. I heard you for several hours on end last Saturday week. Goodness, I thought you’d never stop—you kept me awake all night.” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Last week I even loaned her my hairbrush,” whispered Sally. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He loved to toss surprise exams at a class—and he also could suddenly be the nice guy, not giving a test for weeks or giving a test and then throwing away the results. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

For years in Chicago, our date nights had been a sacred part of every week, an indulgence we built into our lives and protected no matter what. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Exhausted by the long crossing, they hung up their hammocks and slept deeply for the first time in two weeks. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Baseball’s just one day a week, Mom. Couldn’t we work out something for one day?” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

They put them in the desert down in Arizona or someplace and they had to live for a week. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Adore” had been on his second-grade spelling list two weeks ago, and it had been a great discovery for him. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Nathan factored into his data collection the fact that the modern corn in the square shape had two more weeks to grow than the traditional corn in the circular shape. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He snapped out a left jab, straight at the moving head, just as he had for weeks. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four weeks in the body cast and counting. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“For a fine dinner to celebrate. Come back to the coffeehouse a week from today, and we’ll watch the prices rise together.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I remember how my mother dressed her four children in outfits it had taken her weeks to sew. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

What else had I, who’d known and loved you so long, missed, that he’d discovered after knowing you less than a week? The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

My father looked grim as he studied the war maps that showed the Allied advance between D day and the third week of July. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“For the newsletter next week. You’ll be sure and get it in for me?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Clearly allocating a specific day for rest during the week wasn’t such a bad idea. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Well, she was stone, wouldn’t say hello for a week. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think about all I’ve learned over the last few weeks. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

If Mrs. Smith hadn’t already purchased the tickets two weeks ago when I’d accepted the invitation, I’d have made up an excuse now to not go. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Only a week before, the waterfront’s elegant open-air cafes had been filled with naval officers and diplomats; now the quay was a holding pen. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Salaam,” I say, glad to see she’s doing okay after this rough week. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“He came by a few weeks ago, too.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“There was a boy...He was thrown in a cell in the sheriff’s headquarters after we arrived together last week. I don’t suppose you know where he got to?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Once a week. I’m fine. I don’t need to step on your scales.” Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

And the fact that he’d asked me, not Jim, had grown even more important through the week whenever I thought about it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

All Helene’s actions of the past few weeks suddenly make sense. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Are they lying when they tell me I’ve been here for six weeks? Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

On the right was a row of tall, narrow windows that were wedged open all year, save for a few cold weeks in winter and the occasional summer storm. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Just this past week, I’d been stuffed into a locker by a seventh-grade nose picker who is shorter than I am. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

She went to Sunday school three days a week. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could see him waiting for the worst to happen when he stood up in the synagogue a week later—a synagogue that was full, mostly with Hupfers. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

A shilling a week makes a big difference and she gives me tuppence to see the Dead End Kids at the Lyric after I’m finished the reading. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Those are closets for telling the priests your sins. You go in there and kneel down and tell all the sins you committed during the past week.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

A few weeks ago, I would have agreed with him. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Yesterday, she shared a turkey sandwich in the inn’s office with Robin and Jessa, who was visiting for the next couple of weeks, and told them the whole story. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Just three weeks after Henrietta’s name was first published, Richard Nixon signed the National Cancer Act into law and launched the War on Cancer, designating $1.5 billion for cancer research over the next three years. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

On August 20, two weeks after the president signed the act, Gager Lee, whose father had been sold in a slave market, registered to vote. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

We used the rooms every night to brush our teeth and wash our faces, and, once or twice a week, to shower. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The most pressing political question—for a few more weeks, at least—was what President Clinton would name his new dog. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Seems a little too much like the “True Tales of the West” stories printed every week in the paper. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Gradually she assembled data from her friends at school, carefully spacing her questions weeks apart so as not to arouse suspicion. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He thought about his last climb, two weeks ago, when Hazel and he had faced the bandit Sciron on the cliffs of Croatia. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“A few weeks ago,” she said, “after his condition worsened. We’re lucky some friends were able to let us use this house.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Everything looked the same as it had when he’d brought the sled there weeks before. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

For a week, neither one of us mentioned what I had asked him, as if the question hadn’t been posed at all. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A few weeks after Kathy arrived, we were also joined by a man we did not know who had not even come from Robben Island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only there were still several weeks to go. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He hired me on the spot for forty dollars a week, in cash. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I rolled my eyes and wondered how many ridiculous phone calls the Rockport Police Department must receive in an average week. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Each wife would swap every two weeks, commuting back and forth from the rural areas with her children. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

A few weeks later, he established eight task forces to take on the job. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

About twenty or thirty of them a week were falling on London at present. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Three thousand nine hundred weeks. So. You tell me your greatest fear is that Ma and Pa'll be mad at you for one of these almost four thousand weeks. Or two. Or three.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

A few weeks later, as Deborah walked home from work with a neighborhood boy named Alfred “Cheetah” Carter, Galen pulled up alongside them, yelling at her to get in the car. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Lettie still got excited even though she and Ruthanne had made me tell them the story umpteen times in the past week. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

What just a few weeks earlier had inspired him is now filling him with pessimism. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

After a few weeks’ rest, the pasture will regrow and feed the cows again. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

With four weeks to go, Dieter was really starting to get on my nerves. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For weeks I’d tripped over that length of rope Uncle Chester had curled up inside the door. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

That whole week Baby Kochamma eavesdropped relentlessly on the twins’ private conversations, and whenever she caught them speaking in Malayalam, she levied a small fine which was deducted at source. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have to, because I’m going to be a little . . . overbearingly protective over the next few days — or weeks — and I wouldn’t want you to think I’m naturally a tyrant.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I had my first period this week. That means I’m a woman now. That’s what Mom said anyhow.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a golden age, those few weeks in December and January. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

It was December, and the brutal heat that was the only real constant for months had finally broken the week before. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

In March, Watt issued a construction permit, and a few weeks later, bulldozers, cranes, and cement mixers swarmed the site. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was several weeks before Lyddie caught on that the novel was from the lending library and thus cost Betsy five cents a week to borrow. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“He was my friend first. We go to Hebrew school together. Maddy’s only known him a few weeks. Besides, she’s not that bad.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Within a week, I’ve watched those boys fight at least a dozen times, until one night, the Tuesday, they have the worst one yet. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

All day we sat there in the rain breaking stones, and for the whole of that week, and Nathan grew neither better nor worse. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

After three weeks, he had quite a stack of notes. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Never mind that if Joey so much as flicked her with his forefinger and thumb, he’d propel her into next week. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I've got this room reserved four times a week. I live pretty close. A couple hours here is better than being stranded at home all the time." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And by this time next week, I’d be on the other side of the world. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And ever since the prospect of seeing Miss Kenton again first arose some weeks ago, I suppose I have tended to spend much time pondering just why it was our relationship underwent such a change. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

It is a Saturday morning a few weeks after our move to Middlesex. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

For weeks before my return the police believed that I was already back in the country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the last few weeks, Piper’s charmspeak had become truly powerful. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Since leaving New York two and a half weeks ago, Theodore Roosevelt’s steamship, Vandyck, had been plagued by bad weather. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“They found out last week, after the tests.” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was from not seeing him for several weeks, but he seemed a lot older and very handsome. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

It was exactly the kind of thing I’d been saying to Cap ever since he’d arrived at our house three weeks before. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The judge told me that I would be on probation for three years and have to do community service for a month and two weeks. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“People were living in it last week, sir.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though I had skipped out after going to the bathroom the week before, no teacher was about to deny me anything on this particular day. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the next week Ralph went to bed thinking of his idea. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly shy, Alyce ran back into the inn and the visit was over, though she remembered it again and again during the weeks that followed. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tobacco picker thumped around the attic for a week before a railroad agent took him on the next leg, boxing him up in a crate and shoving the thing through the front door. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Along with this solar calendar, there was a ritual calendar that had 20 weeks, each of 13 days. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Fair enough, even if it had taken them weeks to bother to fill her in. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

In the weeks that followed, the master had me serve him whenever his companions visited. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I figured she was just somebody who probably had a long week at work, and wanted to crack a cold brew to get her weekend started. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I remember the conversation we had in the meadows a few weeks ago—how he talked about missing Gram. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

A week later, on Sunday afternoon, before the dinner shift, I put on Susana’s anacos and blouse and jewelry—which she insisted I keep as a gift. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was the foretelling the Commandant spoke of in her office weeks ago, and now it suddenly makes sense. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

About three weeks after the fire, Mother announced that the skin around the edges of the burn had begun to grow back, and that she had hope for even the worst patches. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Hell, back in the day, we would be whaling on each other a dozen times a week. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two weeks later, he returned to Arlington Hall, where he found Gardner "in the most excited mood I'd ever seen him display." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

For nearly one week, the two top experts in the field had aggravated the situation with useless tests. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The English night class was held several times a week in coordination with one of Maxwell Street’s many Jewish aid organizations. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Last week’s Thanksgiving was artificially sweetened, enriched with tense preservatives, and wrapped in plastic. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Early in the second week of January, each member of Team Kyle received a thick envelope in the mail. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

A week later Betsy was crushed to death beneath the wheels of a coal wagon. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were tipping over into the second week of December, and I’d managed to keep some level of distance in place between myself and Ocean for as long as either of us could bear it. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

In the first week of November of 1968, Mike Company was engaged in heavy fighting with a much larger North Vietnamese regiment. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

It only took me a cou- pie of weeks to read my sixth-grade textbooks cover to cover, and now I’m hungry for more. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some weeks later a boy ran out to the farm with a telegram. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There is mechanical drawing and calligraphy, and each student spends four hours a week on freehand drawing. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“No. My mother and younger brother. My girl. They were all dead two weeks after I was crowned victor. Because of that stunt I pulled with the force field,” he answers. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

‘They think I might make two more weeks,” Owen said, shrugging, his bony shoulders like two hooks. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shall drop by again next week, if this tedious new job allows. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Don’t come in here in two weeks asking for a transfer” to an engineering group, the human resources director said to Katherine Goble on her first day of work, a comment she didn’t appreciate. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, she had some money, but not enough to pay for a guesthouse room for a week. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

We had a mouse that lived for several weeks with the vipers. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I would try to keep up by going to school once a week to pick up work. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

But at just one week shy of turning fifty-five years old, he still had “the energy of a boy.” Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

After sleeping on the floor of a Baton Rouge mosque for that first week, he and his wife had rented an apartment for the month, and were living there. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“We do go one game at a time,” Coach Noles says, “but heading into the bye week on a hot streak isn’t a bad thing.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

So they didn’t call, and if any of my mom’s friends told their kids, it didn’t get back to me for those first few weeks. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

After an eternity she says, “Thank you so much, sir. I will see you next week.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

After being pushed aside for weeks, he knew he was done pretending everything was just fine. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

We didn't mind a couple of weeks, but a whole summer? How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

They were stinging day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“I marched from Connecticut to Boston with about twenty other men from my town. It took a week—a hundred miles. My feet nearly fell off.” I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

“The funding committee decides at the end of the week....Why?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He died soon after making this bequest of his life’s work to the stunned younger man, who only weeks before had been a penniless refugee. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“It would take us weeks and weeks to make any sort of a dent in this enormous peach. Surely you can see that?” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Especially after that brawl your friends got in last week.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Best of all, once a week, Tanvi Ma'am calls to chat with me about my mother's case. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Dad, I’m sorry. But I’m not a child anymore; I’m going to be eighteen in a few weeks. I’ll be legally emancipated, and I have a right to live my life how I want.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“I think he spends all his week ends here; I swear I saw bats in the woodwork downstairs. Follow, follow.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Except the stove hasn’t worked in weeks. Bri’s done all the cooking in the microwave when there’s been electricity. Which there isn’t anymore, in case you hadn’t noticed.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

A week and she’d have the whole cussed place in an uproar. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

His office revoked officers’ firearms permission several times a week, he said, for infractions such as being caught drinking while wearing a gun, menacing somebody with it, or having it stolen. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the second week, after the children left, Mrs. Muokelu asked Olanna to sit down with her in the living room. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

During November, I managed to go over to his house one evening in the middle of the week. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I’m not supposed to be here at all. We threw away our GPS beacons weeks ago, trying to get away.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

When he was gone I felt bad, but then I turned to the car, saw my family, and didn’t think about him again for weeks. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“So listen, prom is next week. And I want to ask you, but there’s that stupid promise I made Lisa.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

They remained healthy and bored, having sat in their cages in the cave for weeks. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is no surprise that towards the end of 1599 Tycho spent several weeks at a secluded Imperial residence in the countryside to avoid an outbreak of plague. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“He can barely walk. What do you think I’ve been doing all week? I’ve been giving him ballroom dancing lessons. And the big clodhopper tramped all over my feet. I’m crippled for life.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was very racy, provocative, a lot of nudity, but the story was powerful, and even though for the first few weeks only a few people showed up to see it, word started to spread. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

But a couple of weeks ago, I saw him sauntering by. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Crow and Otis Amber had died two years ago, within a week of each other. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several times during our long weeks of interviews, he mentioned a “dead space” inside him, which he said made it difficult for him to feel much of anything. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The women spent weeks organizing the menu, hopping on and off the phone with one another before the big day as they prepared the culinary delights for the outing. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Jesse was still talking about the man he’d seen a few weeks back, dressed as Jesus—robe, wooden cross and all. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been too busy the last two weeks to make a proper goodbye. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

When McCandless tried to walk out of the bush one year ago the previous week, the basket was in the same place it is now, on his side of the canyon. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, if it is mutating and if any of us have caught it, let’s hope it gives us a week or two before we lose our wits. Come on. Let’s get moving.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

A year seems to pass in a matter of weeks. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

For three weeks after we ran out of things to trade to the Anyuak, there was no food. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Two weeks? I can keep this book for two weeks?” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Whatever the rumors are, it’ll all be forgotten in a week—just you wait. Let him find a new woman he likes and you’ll vanish from the whisperings of the court.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The trip lasted about a week, then we told Tony to find us a load to Idaho. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

His liver-function test results actually looked better than they had in weeks. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the first week she moved me from the back of the room to the front seat by her desk, and after that, it felt as if she were teaching me alone. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He had been given a week in his cupboard for this, even though he had tried to explain that he couldn’t explain how it had grown back so quickly. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“Dad told me nobody found her body for a week. Isn’t that gross?” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Next week the newspaper reported the man’s capture and described the nature of his punishment. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It was surprising how well we got along in these weeks. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I unfold the note to see a heart and, in Hope’s neat cursive, “See you soon! Two weeks till your Big 18! Hope and Jason.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

For more than two weeks, the director’s telegram has echoed in his head. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

All week Francie walked home slowly from school with her eyes in the gutter looking for tin foil from cigarette packages or chewing gum wrappers. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was barely a day ago, yet it felt like a week. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The training course was meant to be six months, but after eight weeks I received a telegram from the ANC urgently requesting that I return home. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll just Google this charity and donate my first week of E.T. salary directly to the homeless,” I say out loud. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It is only the third week of school and Ms. Wyman needs a vacation. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

The drought that had lasted weeks and made Chicago as dry as kindling had finally broken. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

She would get up at four o’clock every morning, seven days a week, to make the tortillas for both meals. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

How many gallons—what a wonderful crop!—how perfect the sugaring weather had been for days and weeks. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Personally, I find that if I run two miles at a time, four times a week, then the doctors who give me physical exams say that I am keeping my heart muscle in good condition. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve got two weeks here—I need to make absolutely sure I don’t outstay my welcome. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She washed him and then fed him his first meal in weeks. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For three weeks, I be looking for work. Ever day after I get off from Miss Walters’, I went looking. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We were all suffering from extreme fatigue as we marked our calendars and counted down the moments before the blissful two weeks of Christmas vacation. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It caused severe black and scarlet bruising that took three weeks to disappear, and all the time during those three weeks, you could feel your heart beating along the wounds. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Robin and Marian went on an expedition which took them six weeks, and sent a whole gown made out of the skins of pine martens. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Last time we talked about this, you told me you saw me get into the car with Anna. Now it’s Megan, is it? Who’s it going to be next week? Princess Diana?” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three weeks before his training ended, war was declared. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“You’re telling me you didn’t have the dream even one night this week?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He had only two weeks to train for Compton and, with the Olympic trials in July, two months to become America’s youngest elite 5,000-meter man. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I ain’t afraid a no windows. I clean Miss Walters’ top to bottom ever four weeks.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Every day this week, I’ve checked the journal for a new chapter, and every day, there’s been nothing. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

In the weeks that followed, more than 1,200 men and women were incarcerated at Camp Greyhound. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Ten weeks to the day was all it took for my mom to officially move into Gabriel’s bedroom. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The following week when Flipper came on, I’d gotten up and turned the television set off. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the next two weeks, the three of us arrange ourselves in the same seats in Aibileen’s small, warm living room. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They’d tried two antibiotics over the course of the week, but the infection—whatever it was—didn’t respond. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

My friends are really good about keeping me busy after school for the next few weeks. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

As if this weren’t miraculous enough, she also found two other washing jobs the same week. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you know what her work schedule is like for next week?” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The next day and all throughout the week Rik worked the telephone and kept records of sales and contacts. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Patients underwent a minimum of one hour a week of analysis at $55 a session, and some participated in group sessions in the evening. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

For weeks afterward, we ate green grapes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Two weeks, if I’d gone along. More than enough, she said.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

As a matter of fact, this normalness carries on into dinner, which Rae and Dr. Chin attend, and then spills over into the week. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Her letter arrived a week after I got back to camp. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to wait a whole week. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reb Saunders had stopped inserting deliberate errors into his Shabbat evening talks the week we had entered college, but the memory of it still rankled. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Khalid’s birthday is going to be in a few weeks, but no point in celebrating something like that with no Khalid. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“How about those kids you met last week? Were they nice?” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

His bored tone implied that he was in the habit of talking to his fordship every day of the week. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t get ready in two weeks,” Mama was saying. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Heavy thunderstorms rolled into Atlanta early in the week, soaking the field. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“In just six weeks, you can get your bachelor’s degree in the exciting and vibrant career of the future—farming!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Some places reserved extra captives in the jail for a fallow week when the night riders returned empty-handed. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

And to my astonishment, during the weeks that followed, the young girl did indeed make progress at a remarkable rate. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

She was frail and wrinkly, probably no more than a few weeks old. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“How about a ten-week contract at five thousand dollars a week?” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Every night for a week I watched Shawn and Bud gallop through the corral in the gray haze of dusk. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He had been to tennis practice at Perkins twice that week—mostly to give pointers to his dad about the players. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But it took a few weeks before the interim civilian government announced that it would release all prisoners of conscience, and weeks more for our lawyers to get Jaja on the list. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

From now on it’s gonna be a haircut every week by a qualified Marine barber. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jaden and Jenny looked at each other and nodded and then let me leave the office, saying we’d try again next week. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

A few weeks earlier she had refused to accept a segregated seating pattern at a meeting of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare in Birmingham, Alabama. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

The teacher seemed to me as though she was uncomfortable with me, and by the end of the week, the other children didn't like me either. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

One evening a week or so later, I went into the kitchen to get a handful of Oreos to eat in front of Gidget. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

But only for two weeks, so what was the point? Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Has to wear the cast for six weeks.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“It took me weeks to find that wood,” he said at last. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We paid for Daniel’s and Sarah’s, but the situation you caused with the car this week...” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the following weeks we went down to Hillbrow a few more times to hang out with Babiki and her sisters and her friends. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

This week had been bad enough for her, he guessed. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

An electrical shock from some jumper cables had put her into a coma from which she emerged, three weeks later, able to “know” things by handling an object or touching a stranger’s hand. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I had moved in with the Hagens only six weeks before my seventh birthday, but I do not recall any special celebration or recognition. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Summer came on quick and merciless in the next two weeks. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Nowadays I’m in here two, three times a week. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d already been alive for a whole twelve and a half weeks, and she wanted to tell Brightbill about every exciting thing, and every boring thing, that had ever happened to her. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

For Skiff, she had written, It was an old one that no one missed for weeks. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

For two weeks he lay in bed delirious with fever, his teeth chattering, the tips of his fingers and toes black. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I gave Rufus the right hand glove and everything was fine, for about a week. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kenny hasn't let it out of his sight since he got it for his birthday three weeks ago. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A week after they meet, they are married. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only times all week when I truly felt all right were the times when I was playing the drums. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Is normal living week to week at different houses? Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Those who had always won, accustomed to being in power since time immemorial even though their strength had greatly waned in recent years, spent the weeks before the elections preparing for their triumph. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We both had stayed home from school all week to help, but tomorrow was Monday, and I looked forward to going back. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I’ll never complain about a cold day again,” I vowed after another week of unceasing heat. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He missed his kids a lot during our weeks at the Academy, as I missed mine, and we talked about that. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It happened the Wednesday morning of my second week, when I was in the library making some Xeroxes for Dr. Roland before my eleven o’clock class. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

On that night, eight weeks ago, Bo had trailed alongside him with sleepy eyes. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some weeks, if the wallet was light, she took only a five-afghani bill, or nothing at all, for fear that he would notice. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

A highlight of the week was the official opening of one of our most exciting projects, TACARE, a Tanzanian reforestation, conservation, and education program. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I figured it would take three weeks for anything to reach home from Nam. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

One sari might take many weeks, for a sari stretched all the way across the room. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, I work myself to the bone, keeping this business open seven days a week and the weekends. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, over the past five weeks, a lot has changed in my life, and—well...” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“I’m bringing my grandma’s mandoo to next week’s club meeting,” I explain. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

But I would not be going home, I would be going to Nsukka for a week, and Jaja would go with me. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The work did not seem too taxing to us that day, but in the coming weeks and months, we found it could be quite strenuous. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Since we have Thanksgiving break this week, how about we go shopping on the weekend? Do you have any holiday plans?” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It was his second bath in less than a week. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The thought of running again has kept me awake nights for weeks. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“But really, you wouldn’t worry? I mean, we’ve been dating for five weeks, and he’s never even taken me to his house.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was an unexpectedly cool day for the beginning of the second week of September, and Fadi shivered a little, wishing he’d thought to bring a sweatshirt. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

But two months out from under the steering wheel was six weeks too much. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, he said that you deserve a week’s worth of McDonald’s because you were so quiet a blind man couldn’t even hear you,” Dad finished. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Howard has scheduled me to have Friday off one week, Tuesday and Wednesday the next, and I would have to do some serious sucking up to arrive at a more stable and congenial schedule. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the spicy flavor of anise spread over his taste buds, his mind floated back to his conversation with his father earlier in the week. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He wrote brief, untroubled letters to her once a week, sometimes twice. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

In the weeks following, friends cautioned that I had no idea how hard physical labor really is. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first four days of every week Johnny was his own master. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was even something to look forward to when school started— renewals of old feuds and friendships, weeks of learning again what one half forgot in the long summer. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The four of us had been lumped together last Friday to start on this assignment about an important woman from the past, and in two weeks we would have to do a presentation on her. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Aberdeen Lake State Penitentiary was shut down in 1981 after a riot that lasted for three weeks.Three weeks is about thirty-six million miles. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Last week? How come you didn’t tell me?” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I could do without five dollars a week, but I couldn’t live without helping Fig get well. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“You can get good money for it on the black market. Feed your kids for a couple of weeks.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Last year, when Edna got the flu and was absent for a week, I thought there was some hope to break the spell. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

For the first two weeks of July, Danny spent part of our reading time in the library patiently explaining to me some of Freud’s basic concepts. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

My mom made a special exception this week. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Because of this layered approach, it took Elizebeth and her team many weeks to break the messages and work out the wiring on the new machine. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Still, I liked having it there, despite its bulk, but for a few weeks that’s all it was: there, hulking and waiting. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

The first had occurred the previous week, when Cora knocked over the chamber pot. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t get a oven or a floor that clean if I work two weeks. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

At least three times a week, Gigi ate dinner at the Aberdeen house. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

With everything going on with Sir Fig, I’d completely forgotten that camp was starting next week. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Over the next several weeks Ulbrickson raced the two boats against each other again and again. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Perhaps a week later, while thinking of the incident again, I remembered something that had slipped my mind. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Several weeks earlier Bragg had come into the lab greatly excited about an idea that came to him the previous evening, one that he and Perutz subsequently incorporated in their paper. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Lets try to hang out after school next week. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The first week of the new term set the tone for the whole year. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I studied night and day and within two weeks I was promoted to the sixth grade. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the location of the camp, thirty miles southeast of Farmville, meant that she lived in worker housing during the week and got back home only on weekends. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Papa never spoke about the barber shop, yet he had come here three times a week to be shaved. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I got poison ivy while camping last week.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I buy two end-of-day discounted rolls from the bakery for our supper, and two weeks after that, I have to decide between bread for our stomachs and coal for the stove. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Several afternoons a week, after public elementary school let out, I fed them healthy snacks and ran around with them on the lawn. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

At this point, if Lee remains and continues to defend Petersburg, his forces will be destroyed by Grant’s Army of the Potomac, which grows stronger in men and guns with each passing week. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Three times a week for two years, I went to Dr. Neu's house to be tutored in mathematics and drafting. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

In the weeks that followed, watching Judith, Kit began to understand how the gray shadow that was her Aunt Rachel could once have been the toast of an army. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

One bowl of Cream of Wheat each week and nothing more in the way of support. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

During the first week of September, it was my family's habit to rent a beach house on Ocean Isle, a thin strip of land off the coast of North Carolina. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Me and my friend Lloyd Newman just did a description of our life for a week, and we want to give you kids in America a message: Don’t look at ghetto kids as different. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the rest of January and into February, rowing six days a week now, rowing from quarter slides and half slides, taking shorter strokes to focus on technique. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And when the brakes in the Toyota have to be replaced, and Annabelle is without transportation for a week, he drives her home. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

By the end of the week, the girls had managed to erect eight huts, and Taylor announced that there would be a Miss Teen Dream cutest hut contest. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He looks as if he would have often written to her;—she will still be getting mail from him—To-morrow, in a week’s time—perhaps even a stray letter a month hence. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

May says, “My husband wants to speak with you, actually. Not today. Tomorrow, maybe. He wanted to ask you about how Eduardo’s family is doing. He said he hasn’t seen you in a few weeks.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not even a week goes by before Darius asks to see me again. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

A week into my initiation, Amar—worried that I was becoming increasingly isolated and obsessive—invited me to join some of the older Dauntless for a game of Dare. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

To forestall her, he said, “We’ll give you fifteen a week, starting...” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Dad’s job goes into the third week he does not bring home the wages. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Are you liking my chances of passing next week’s final? I really don’t want to get left back.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

A couple of weeks later the bus dropped me off and Mommy was not there. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I lost my son a week ago,” she said, and she didn’t bother wiping her tears away. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

But Guiteau “kept coming repeatedly” for weeks, until he was a regular fixture at the White House. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Nhamo, who had recently been granted an allowance of fifty cents a week, could only stare at him. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has been stuck here for weeks, and he trumps everyone. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I woke early this morning, but I did sleep for a few hours, which is an improvement on last week. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Saturday turned off so warm you had to look at the reds and yellows and browns of the trees to remember how we’d shivered all week. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

At the end of that week, when Ophelia accompanied Farmer back to Port-au-Prince, the Rover came to an abrupt stop on the highway. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Two weeks! It’s fourteen endless days after your explosion before you pass on. And it’s no pleasant death either, you finally die from starvation.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

When he said, ‘We bumped you, we’ll have it next week,’ I said, ‘What do you mean, next week? We have a deadline, you can’t do business like that.’ Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Bessie opened the trunk at the foot of her bed and removed the blue dress she bought her second week in South Carolina. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

My middle school didn’t have much of a music program, so Mom found me a private teacher, a college student who came over once a week. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I finished the Third Reader last week. Now I’m on the Fourth.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

It tarried, however: days and weeks passed: I had regained my normal state of health, but no new allusion was made to the subject over which I brooded. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

All that mattered was food enough for him and Julie to survive another week. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

After of couple of weeks it disappeared and I did not know how to ask where it had gone. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The capitulation of France is only weeks past, and already he has seen things he did not dream he would see in six lifetimes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

And for weeks afterwards, she avoided her sisters. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But once a week Tam Lin took Matt on educational field trips. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Anyway,” said Bill, “we’ve had ten whole weeks of vacation right in the middle of the year, and not many children in Stillwater can say that.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Things will go back to normal next week. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

We had eaten almost nothing but instant mashed potatoes for a week. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

One hundred and two players competed in the twelve-round tournament, spread over two weeks. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the days and weeks and years that followed, everyone agreed: they had never seen anything like it. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Put a mean burn in your calves that’s been there since last week. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

They were relentless, bringing new poems every day for an entire week. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Last week, we went out to dinner for my birthday. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Yer don't need to be Brain of Britain to work out what Badger's Dobermans was eating for those three weeks, right?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Every week since Dorcas’ death, during the whole of January and February, a paper laid bare the bones of some broken woman. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I told my client I’d deliver the book to her this week.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

One week later, however, Ron was telling a thrilling tale of kidnap in which he struggled single-handedly against fifty heavily armed merpeople who had to beat him into submission before tying him up. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Two weeks until I get a new apartment. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They can go weeks, even months, without seeing each other. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Less than two weeks before, Soviet forces had won a fierce battle to free the city from German occupation. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Scythes were charged with five gleanings per week, and to the best of his knowledge, these four hadn’t taken a life in the three months that Rowan had been there. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Let’s you and I not push poor Mike any further this week. We don’t want him to snap.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, Toomer. I’m gonna have to bake you some sweet potato pie and bring it down to you sometime this week.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A week later Judge Matthew Byrne sat in a green leather chair behind a raised bench in a large, windowless Los Angeles courtroom. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When I had been home from the hospital for six weeks, I developed what at first seemed like a slight infection. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I can’t believe it was just a week ago that I ran out of here. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

His face was the same creased, pleasant face she had known now for many weeks. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

C.P. waited for weeks to hear back from them about his application. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I asked the boat captains about that. They said we could try, but it’s a tiny airfield. You have to charter a plane two, three weeks in advance.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Before seventh period, I drop in and tell Ms. Steck I’m skipping lit mag this week. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

They both laughed like this was the funniest thing they’d heard all week. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s your birthday next week. You have as much chance as anybody else.” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was the first week in September, back-to- school week, and after thirty-five consecutive autumns, my old professor did not have a class waiting for him on a college campus. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she was too shaken by the night’s events and the long week of indecision to contradict him. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In that relationship, the alcoholic places urgent value on, say, getting one beer today, even if he can get a twelve-pack if he waits a week. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I’m actually relieved that this week with Zlata and all the attention is over. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“And I’m sorry I ignored you last week.” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Howard’s attempts at “I am” consumed precious lesson time, already too short after the work week. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Jim had fallen ill a week after arriving at Williams and was fighting high fevers and chills. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

In the same week, as well, Apollo 11 landed on the moon, and some children — understandably — seemed to prefer that historic moment to Sesame Street. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I may not have been around much these past few weeks, but I am still your mother. Watch your tone.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

In the past several weeks, Adina had learned to take that fall, and these girls had proved to her that you could still trust in the world, that there was good among the bad. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I waited to get used to her, to her presence at my side, at my table and in my bed, but a week later we were still strangers. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

They knew how it would feel to let the horses run through the cool air; they had been traveling slowly in the dust and sun beside the burros for over a week. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

My second punch left him with a black eye that lingered for two weeks. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

We had several weeks before giving our presentations. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the days turned into weeks, Walter began to sink into deep despair. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A week before Mom died, I spent every penny I’d ever saved on it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I had promised to hold the bass line for some of the brothers reading at this week’s Open Mike. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few weeks later, this prediction was tested. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We’ve been folding extra boxes all week, but still, all the part-timers are back on the steps folding more. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The opportunity came a week after her birthday. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d told X-Ray not to ask for too much, since they only had a week. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I’ve hardly spoken word one to her since I found those bottles last week. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We couldn’t afford to pay for riding lessons every week, but that didn’t matter. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ada usually showed up at the kebab kitchen on Saturdays, but the rest of the week? City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“You’re going to be running more than the other teams, kicking the ball a lot more. And I’m not going to be nice. So if you thought I was mean these past two weeks...” Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The case would have to be continued until the following week. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

By the end of January I had an entirely different social status than I’d had just weeks prior. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He looked forward to the end of the week, January 15, when the architects would conclude their conference and go home. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I’ve already been at the hospital a week, and while my fever is down and my sore throat is gone, this has only gotten worse. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

It would take them nearly three weeks to arrive on the eastern shores of America. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

In the next week little Willy and Searchlight went over the ten-mile track every day, until they knew every inch of it by heart. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The week wore on, each day as hot as the one before, for it was July. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were in the week between semesters at the time. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

But by lunchtime, everyone was whispering about Edna and Jamie’s troubles: a week’s worth of detentions and sacked from Sunshine Buddies. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The bruises from my run-in with Aspirant Marcus a week ago are fading, and the ten lashes I received afterward have scabbed over. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Last week, he had a bunch of Boston College students talking about Run for a Cause on Catholic TV.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Um. The best part of my week was that my cousin gave me an iTunes gift card. The worst is that I hate creamed corn.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z