I mean, it's basically like the world's greatest chicken or something. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“It’s all the same. Don’t you see? The Beast, the Bog, the Poem, the Poet, the world. They all love you. They’ve loved you this whole time. Will you come with me?” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Oh, my brother and I divvied up the world when we were younger,” I tell him. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Our dining room, like many dining rooms, is set up to represent a world where people dine together. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The world in which she now found herself was not unlike the world from which she had, so long ago, been rescued. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The constant coverage of the space program had taken its toll on Big Ma, and she missed hearing about other news in the world. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I knew what it was to have a misconception corrected—a misconception of such magnitude that shifting it shifted the world. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Having rejected medicine, law, and business, Morrie had decided the research world would be a place where he could contribute without exploiting others. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think she’s the most wonderful baby in the whole world.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adolescence is a surreal world: Kids who don helmets and practice banging into one another for hours each week are deemed healthy and wholesome, even heroic. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He kept them open until the lights in the windows of the other houses went off one by one, and the world went dark except for a single streetlight at the end of the block. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

But this isn’t the same world it was yesterday. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Nothing in the world could convince me at that moment that she didn't know I was the sick and guilty sonofabitch who woke her up five hours earlier. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Were the pyramids as tall as this building, did the pharaohs sit on top and take the measure of their kingdoms, to see how diminished the world became when you gained the proper distance? The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She belonged to a world so well acquainted with fatal gunshots that she had certain expectations about how they ought to be endured. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

But he was the most patient man in the world. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

"If only the whole world were filled with people as honest as you, we'd be better off." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

It is not what he expected, being liberated from the world and reinstated in a confined location. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Indeed, a famed Chinese scholar had once named twelve small wonders of the world; eleven of them were Chinese, and the twelfth was the color of Korean celadon pottery! A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Hideo leads us to a corner of the world, where he finally stops. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was the first appearance of Lawrence’s method for building the world’s first great Big Science laboratory: the remorseless exploitation of cheap graduate-student labor, a resource he would soon have in surfeit. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She was becalmed in a magnificent adolescence, more and more impenetrable to formality, more and more indifferent to malice and suspicion, happy in her own world of simple realities. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Mine was the one with the S drawn through it, so there would be no confusion about where to start my final double-twisting double tuck, the hardest dismount in the world. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I was ready to take on the world. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t particularly care, because I was already speechless thinking about being somewhere close to the greatest bands in the world. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every book is a different hood, a different country, a different world. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Like there are no Muslim vegetarians in the world.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Caesar’s scheme, in turn, remained the standard in the Western world for some 1,600 years, forming the basis of the Gregorian calendar we use today. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

But when he ventured up on the first-class decks he found another world entirely. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

On the front wall were silhouettes of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, a map of the world, and a map of North Carolina. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The Lazarus was the world’s largest woodpecker, beating out the imperial woodpecker by just one inch in length. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Users could also alter the content of the virtual worlds inside the OASIS, or create entirely new ones. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Her head was growing fuzzy now, and the world tilted as she fell forward. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

And the weekend after that: “All hail Aven Laura Green, future world dictator of the Desert Ridge Middle School soccer team!” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They had joined Raskova’s regiments so they could fight for their Motherland, and they must have felt very cut off from the rest of the world during the time they spent in Engels. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Nothing except to think about what options you might give him when the time comes. He will leave his mark on the world as one of the best.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She had wanted to throw away all the rules and eat up the world. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Once a spirit enters this realm, it is for good. I’m no longer of the living world, Sierra. I held on this long only so you could reach me.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I got to see some interesting parts of the world from the cockpit of an F-86, all the way from the Mexican border to the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The world wasn’t ready for my parents’ relationship, 1 guess, so they ran off to parts unknown. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Neither did he see a colossal earth goddess laying waste to the world. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

When the song finishes, I look at Spike and say the world’s least descriptive word: “Wow.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I just don’t like my world disturbed without some warning. Let’s go down to the landing.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

And at some point the quality of the air changed, not for the worse or the better, but changed nonetheless, and Ruta Skadi knew that they’d passed out of that world and into another. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wished Mr. Black had written about him, and risked his life to tell the world about him, and had reminders of him around his apartment. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It is only math, the dullest bore in the entire world, and he only lets her teach the very littlest kids anyway. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind them, too far back for the children to see, other inhabitants of the world of the dead had heard what was happening and were coming to join the great march. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, grown-up stuff. You know, things like cool clothes and”—June lowered her voice and looked around like she was about to spill the world’s greatest secret—“love.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Mr. Dyer went into another long lecture about the different way of viewing the world from the perspective of a culture that thought more communally than the highly individualistic United States. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

"Can you not hear the gunfire? The bombs falling across the world? How many last breaths? Your name should be on the lips of the dying." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He could barely rely on his mom long enough to get to practices and meets, let alone a trip to a state that seemed halfway around the world. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She remembered Nana saying once that each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“How shall we deal with strangers, except as brothers? How shall Gethen treat with a union of eighty worlds, except as a world?” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

By then, what was to become the longest continuously enduring scientific society in the world had already begun to meet in London. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Outside Dauntless headquarters, I remember why he hid that name from the world. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“The world longs to be like us,” Goddard told Rowan. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I thought back to my darker days after college when I battled depression and uncertainty, unable to find a job in the corporate world like my friends. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Horatio Alger was the greatest writer in the world. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The languages and genes of those homeland inhabitants, as well as their livestock, crops, technologies, and writing systems, became dominant in the ancient and modern world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was funny to direct them and watch them struggle to understand what in the world I was doing. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The time of the Elves is over, but our time is at hand: the world of Men, which We must rule. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Most demigods had vivid nightmares about what was going on in the world. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She and her generation were the first in the history of the world to come of age with the possibility of human extinction as a by-product of human ingenuity. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

In Jenny’s world, “I can give you head” meant “I like you a lot.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“The world went in ignorance of one of the gravest dangers that ever threatened the human race.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He saw a complicated world in the flask. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began to feel like I was getting the whole story for the first time, that I was being handed the missing pieces to the puzzle, and the world was making a little more sense. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She imagined her moths drowning in silence, and it felt like the end of the world. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It seems like such a long time ago when I thought the world of him. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s one of the most embarrassing things in the world. He won’t stop and pretty soon you have to hit him and that’s worse. Then you’re really in trouble all around.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s about how we deal with the repercussions of magic when placed in a public venue, in a world that does not believe in such things. It’s a test of stamina and control, not skill.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I don't know how to make you feel the emotion and importance of those photos, but to be real, I want to show the world I'm alive! Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was to tell the world that texting and driving is deadly. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“And we saw the world where the little people come from, the Gallivespians. There are big people there, too, who try and kill them.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He looked positively offended at the Olmec failure to see the world in the same way as a contemporary European engineer. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Fear, stereotypes about black boys don’t make the world better. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

“You have to keep drawing. My mother says the world has no idea what the Soviets are doing to us. No one knows what our fathers have sacrificed. If other countries knew, they might help.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Of all the world’s errors, he seemed to feel, the most fundamental was the “erasing” of people, the “hiding away” of suffering. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Out to the four corners of the world, answering the sea’s call. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Could she travel halfway around the world, braving the very real dangers of pirates, shipwreck, and disease, to face a wild and unknown land? The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I never heard Loga tell a story this good before, and she even used her hands and stuff, and her eyes were vacant like she was seeing some other world, which I guess she was. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was just about the most famous movie star in all the world. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Neutrality is a luxury Kerch has too long enjoyed. The members of the Council think that their wealth protects them, that they can sit back and count their money while the world squabbles.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I believe there is a theory that men and women emerge finer and stronger after suffering, and that to advance in this or any world we must endure ordeal by fire. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Bod had been coming down here every few days for several months: Alonso Jones had been all over the world, and he took great pleasure in telling Bod stories of his travels. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The only items the commander was interested in were the wings on his back and the multiphase, water-cooled, tri-barreled blaster strapped to his hip—the most powerful production handgun under the world. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

It was she, no doubt, who had delivered me into this world. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

To me, he seemed my only protector in the world. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But if he was going to dare the world beyond the graveyard walls, he would need to blend in there. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“Mira, why in the world would you give the laughing man a sandwich?” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“We have an old understanding, your people and mine. We aren’t so different. Outcasts and wanderers all—souls clinging to the margins of the world.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He spoke mostly of the world of tools and objects when he had to speak at all. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I feel someone standing over us, I open my eyelids just enough that I'm seeing the world through my eyelashes. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Because here he was, in this nice bright place, and his one friend in all the world was cracking from the strain. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“These old mountains can weigh anybody down. When you get away from them...well, there’s a whole other world out there. You’ll see.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Where in the world are your keys, Mama? I’m late for Hilly’s. I’m staying there tonight.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know there was that much in the whole world. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I like to think that maybe he—as Aristotle did—would bring up a man who would conquer the world. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They were the codes and touchstones of the world, capable of translation and possession. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We know how big they once were by the bones they left behind. But that’s all they are in this world now. Just bones.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I may have been completely helpless in the outside world, but she wasn’t. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Then he placed the ashtray on the glass top, with a world of care, as if he believed an ashtray should be dead-centered on the surface of a night table or not placed at all. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The world’s most monstrous crime, the sin and the blood on the white man’s hands, are almost impossible to believe. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Part of Owen’s reaction was due to professional jealousy and jockeying for position in the scientific world. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had stepped into a vanished world from the distant past. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

You are a very special person and I've loved being with you, but I fear we come from two different worlds, and that's going to get in the way. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

And as he cut himself adrift, both from them and simultaneously from that other world he had known before them, he marveled: What an awful thing the truth is, and how comforting is a lie. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

There is a sense of power connected with such calculations which is hard to explain but which somehow involves a mental encompassing of the world. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That poor shell of a woman must forever hold her torch aloft while the world does its business around her,” Calliope says sadly. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I came into the games ranked eighth in the world, and no matter what everyone else expected of me, I wanted to win. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Like most people, I knew of the three worlds and the spiral connecting them. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“No, it wasn’t that. It was the largest cheii in the world, I swear! And it was standing on its back legs like this.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The family was from Burundi, one of the poorest countries in the world. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

When the world assembled here, on this elevated ground overlooking Berlin, in 1936, it would behold the future not just of Germany but of Western civilization. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Why don’t they want me to see what I already know now—that the world is broken. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I felt it was the best way of letting them know that their condition was known, that the world knew more about them than they suspected; the best way to give them hope. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They just kept coming on and on as if nothing in the world could stop them. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nicolas made fun of his social concerns, arguing that only a fool with the calling of an apostle would go out into the world seeking misery and ugliness with the stump of a candle. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We are brewing mead for him. There will be despair in the world above, but in the world of the dead there will be only rejoicing.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“I suppose we can’t last forever if the world itself is going to be destroyed someday. But I do know that we’re going to survive and triumph for a long, longtime.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

And like a giant exclamation point on her words, the world lets loose a violent thunderclap. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The absurdity of this reversal of fortune may not have struck millions in the industrialised world after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 as all that implausible. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She no longer saw any beauty in a world muffled in white. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

They'd all shake their heads and put him in the ground, and the world would keep on spinning. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She loved me hard as she could till she left this world. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

There were sounds in the world now, too: insects were stirring, and a very slight breeze was rustling the dry grass stems growing higher up the dune. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“First thing,” Will said, “we’ve got to get some water and some more food, something easy to carry. So I’m going to find a world where we can do that, and then we’ll set off.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Serafina’s journey to the north was made harder by the confusion in the world around her. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day, 365 days a year, people come from all over the world to visit Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

As we travel this expansive concrete channel, it feels to me like the world has torn in two, and we’re traveling the seam of that tear. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

And you know that not everyone believes in those things, that there are people—a great many people—who believe the world cannot be any more than what they can see with their eyes. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He also knew that the world was clamoring for the match and that if he held out a little longer, more money might be forthcoming. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“What world do you come from?” said Lyra. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She will return to a world where she will not single-handedly throw parties for dozens of people. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A person whom one loves is a world, just as one knows oneself to be a world. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

There are currently about 245,000 Indians answering phones from all over the world or dialing out to solicit people for credit cards or cell phone bargains or overdue bills. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

She was explaining to Alice that as far as she was concerned there was nothing more valuable to the human body than sunbathing, and that nudist colonies were the answer to the world’s moral problems. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Colonel Cathcart lived by his wits in an unstable, arithmetical world of black eyes and feathers in his cap, of overwhelming imaginary triumphs and catastrophic imaginary defeats. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I wish I could shout to the world, “Tell me, please, won’t you tell me? Do you know how to become whole after you’ve been broken?” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Not just for us. For everybody we love. The Doors have to be closed on both sides, or the monsters will just keep coming through. Gaea’s forces will overrun the world.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“None of us did, until the Hainish and the Cetians arrived. And some worlds still weren’t allowed to, for centuries, until the Ekumen established the canons for what I think you here call Open Trade.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

And clearly in this world evolution had favored enormous trees and large creatures with a diamond-framed skeleton. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It goes on for some time about dreams and family and striving for uniqueness in a world of sameness. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

By 1836 it was possible to describe steam as marking ‘a new era in the history of the world’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“My dear sir, upon no account in the world; my father can direct me.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

"Hiroshima has shaken the whole world," Stalin remarked. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Even before she was born, Ni'vea had known she was not of this world, because she had already seen her in dreams. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had gotten stuck once, with all the money the Bellinis had in the world inside it, so Papa decided it would be safer never to shut it again. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was not the one who destroyed what was precious to you. There is real evil in the world, and I am not it.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Chubs sat in one of the middle seats, dividing his time between the book in his lap and the world of trees just outside the tinted car window. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The truth is, in the real world there’s no such thing as a Persian flaw, because that assumes you could have a thing that has only one thing wrong with it. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

And why in the world would she write me a letter? Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He knew how shocking the destruction of that world had been, for he had experienced it at first hand. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Most importantly, almost everyone all over the world had these lesions. If they were a health hazard, ninety-nine percent of the population would show some kind of symptoms.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Around the world, eugenic programs came to a shamefaced halt. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I'm usually the one who looks like the world is about to split in half. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“But don’t be too trusting. The world’s not always a kind place for two poor girls like you.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

For the first time, Dragonwings emerged out into the open world. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the rails, we was all one, but outside the yards, it was a world of white and colored. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now that there is evidence to indicate that the Terran Colony was an experiment, the planting of one Hainish Normal group on a world with its own proto-hominid autochthones, the possibility cannot be ignored. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

A moment of identical traffic patterns in completely different parts of the world were linked. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

And as a shaman, I can discover things in the spirit where I cannot go in the body, and I spent much time in trance, exploring that world. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looks like one of those white kids in Christmas movies who wake up to a tree packed with presents underneath—like the whole world was just handed to her on a gold-rimmed plate. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

They blow across the world without a birthplace, and with no place to die. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I had someone to talk to who could understand my world. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“That’s the way things are. Do you want the world to be different than it is? Because this is the world we get, Vivi.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I wondered if I was seeing the same things through my eyes that the rest of the world was seeing through theirs. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The dock swayed, and Cole grabbed blindly at the air to stop the world from moving. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Where in the world was his uncle going? The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Now we are wondering whether nuclear weapons will proliferate around the world by the same often-violent process, from the eight countries that presently possess them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She might not be anything like Arjuna, but maybe having the king of the heavens as your dad wasn’t a bad thing when you’ve accidentally triggered the end of the world…. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He told me to come by his office after Mr. Barber’s class—Mr. McElroy already knew I’d be late for world history. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The streetlights were coming on as they ran back towards the world, turning the twilight into night, making the shadows into dark places in which anything could be happening. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The world has changed in a million ways. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The only reason a baby talks baby talk,” he said, "is because that’s all he’s heard from grownups. Some children are almost full grown before they learn that the whole world doesn’t speak baby talk.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The world had already gone to shades of gray as dawn approached, but now colors are starting to bloom. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

It was on this day that I first spoke right and true with the world. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“They thought they had one chance in this world and it was Willie, and when he lost they felt terrible about that. And they accepted it. They just accepted that they’d lost somebody else.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

As mathematicians were uncovering the connection between zero and infinity, physicists began to encounter zeros in the natural world; zero crossed over from mathematics to physics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“It’s the best place in the world,” reported Laney, who somersaulted again and knocked down Isa’s music stand. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“You do know there are black people who have money out there in the world, Z, right?” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Lee said softly, “Couldn’t a world be built around accepted truth? Couldn’t some pains and insanities be rooted out if the causes were known?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Erin and I didn’t ask to be a part of that world.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a dry and bloated bag of skin that all the ants in the world were dragging toward their holes along the stone path in the garden. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was the pure excitement of seeing the world. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She chose flight so she could travel the world. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I’m feeling very pleased with myself and the world, when Beth walks right in and plops down next to me. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Even I never dreamed of Magic like this. We’re in a world where everything, even a lamppost, comes to life and grows. Now I wonder what sort of seed a lamp-post grows from?” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

It was completely dark and everything outside was calm, like the snow had formed a cocoon over the world. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Given the high visibility factor, every designer in the world wants to dress me for my grand-jury appearance. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“We have the best architects and builders in the world,” Reyna said, as if reading her thoughts. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Finally he decided that he would run away from home without telling anybody, and go out into the world and look for Margalo. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

He believed that if the Koreans were honest about where they came from and were willing to confront those aspects of their heritage that did not suit the aviation world, they could change. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

And his well-chiselled face, which from time to time broke into a smile, seemed that of a man at peace with himself and the world. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moushumi feels sick at the thought of it, of a death so sudden, of a woman so marginal and yet so central to her world. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes—that—to a scientific understanding of the world.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The wood had already changed him, enlarged his experience to a point where he felt that he was on the brink of discovering some secret, of whose existence, even, that other world did not know. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

For no reason at all in the world they would have killed me. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now that I no longer live as a Catholic in a Catholic world, I cannot expect the liturgy—which reflects and cultivates my faith—to remain what it was. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a stick of gum! It’s a stick of the most amazing and fabulous and sensational gum in the world!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Okay. But when you’re done I need you to set the plates out for me. And where in the world have your father and brother gone?” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The rest of the room was crowded with the attachments that were the intermediaries between The Brain and the outside world—its voice, its arms, its sense organs. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Education for every boy and every girl in the world. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Their first-impression apparatus is fundamentally disabled, and the way that people with autism see the world gives us a very good sense of what happens when our mind-reading faculties fail. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Newspaper headlines around the country shone a light on Chicago’s shame for all the world to see. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was like standing at the end of the world, almost like being alive and awake in his nightmare, the screaming, the emptiness— A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

I hope before the world ends, they drop me off somewhere I’ve never been—Paris or Thailand or Brazil. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

And what the hell does world peace have to do with peanuts? The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Now what kind of world did I live in where my twelve-year-old brother was the cooler flirt than me? All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It made her dizzy to think that her father didn’t actually belong here in Japan, and as a matter of fact, maybe her parents belonged nowhere in the world, not here and not there. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Optics governed more or less everything in the political world, and I factored this into every outfit. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Logical deduction works fine for the world of ideas. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

And so were their children and grandchildren, because the lessons those garment workers brought home with them in the evenings turned out to be critical for getting ahead in the world. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It was another small push out into the world. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what I’d expected, but the world certainly hadn’t been kicked out of its orbit overnight. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Hiroshima has shaken the whole world!” he shouted to his advisors. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe concealing the threats gives them a bit of solace, the belief that they are still able to shield me from a few of the horrors of the world. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The boys on the Under Fifteens felt the conflict between the two worlds more strongly than their younger siblings, if only because they had spent more time in their home countries. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to set the world on edge!” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was no way some waif of a girl could survive months on her own in this brutal world. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

His cheek had a soft layer of fuzz on it, a world away from her dad’s sharp scruffiness. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Haydn's aim was the manufacturing of beauty and elegance in the material world; he was conscious that what he was doing was artifice, not a divine intervention. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“But he can also be incredibly sweet. And I know that, deep down, I mean the world to him.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

It’ll be a good reminder that I still have decent friends in the world. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

If monotheism was what counted, there would have been a scientific revolution in the Islamic and Orthodox worlds. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In a time when kings and emperors ruled much of the world, the Dutch Republic was governed, more than any other nation, by the people. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except that Sasha had once been the most important person in the world to Andrew and he felt bad and weird about the fact that they weren’t close anymore. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

How can worlds like these simply cease altogether? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It was like being inside the most beautiful car accident in the world with all your best friends and a bunch of total strangers and knowing you couldn’t get hurt. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

They were from people all over the world wishing me a speedy recovery. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It’s like being pulled into a whole other world, one with ghosts and angels and monsters, and I lose myself in it. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she felt she had been imprisoned since the beginning of the world. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Counting songs are also found around the world as well. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“What did James Brown used to sing, Kevin? I know you’re old enough to remember. ‘This is a man’s world, but it wouldn’t be nothing without a woman or a girl’?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The world rushes away again, and suddenly we are sitting back in his office. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The world maybe, but not my island, thought Neel. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Lily thinks I’m brave because I’m not afraid to show the world who I am, but I don’t even know who that is anymore. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Ha-ha! I’m the queen of the world!” she shouted to the sky. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“But if Marcus is innocent, he doesn’t have all the time in the world,” I said. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

But the world of sons has changed; it’s more likely to be the boys now with that baffled look, like a night dweller gone blind in sunlight. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Because every second I stayed with them was another chance for them to discover that skip tracers and PSFs weren’t the real monsters of the world. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Silvertongue was staring at the photograph and suddenly it was as if nothing else in the world existed. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Why should it matter that we have become a race of corn eaters such as the world has never seen? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The world was awake now, and Kino arose and went into his brush house. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

This in-box full of unopened messages is the truest reminder that we are temporary fixtures in a permanent world. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It wanted eyes with which to see the world. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

They were not about to see their world destroyed at the hands of some old fool like Wick. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I live with forty others, but I am so alone in this world. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room was a world, a pocket of the past where extinct animals could walk. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

This was part of his punishment—no phone, no computer, no contact with anyone in the outside world. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the world of TB control, experts were still fighting about MDR treatment. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

She said, “Once you start looking at all this stuff, all of these sites, you realize this obscure stuff isn’t obscure at all. Each thing is like a whole world. I can’t tell you.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crusade to create a chemically sterile, insect-free world seems to have engendered a fanatic zeal on the part of many specialists and most of the so-called control agencies. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

There are the tone cults, of course, dressing in sackcloth and worshiping sonic vibrations—but like so many things in our world, they seek to imitate what once was. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

To a fourteen-year-old girl—a child bride—it must have felt like she was a world away. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Through it he saw nothing but blue air, but below, far below, was a landscape of trees and fields: his own world, without a doubt. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He had confirmed Plutarch’s theory and, whether he liked it or not, he had reopened the question of the existence of other habitable worlds. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They will make the upper world as dark as my realm! The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she looked at encyclopedia pages showing “native dress” styles from around the world. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

They’re like, “In your face, world! Look at me! This Is who I am and if you don’t like it, stuff it! I’m as good as anybody else!” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

If “umpteen” is the best word in the world, maybe “uninvited” is the worst. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The world might be broken, like David said, but maybe they could create their own sense of wholeness if they could pull their shattered family together again. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Like the Bible said,” Gary whispered, “man brought nothing into this world and he’ll carry nothing out. Sometime we care about stuff too much. We worry when there’s nothing to worry about.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was worse than the Duct Tape Incident, because I always knew that the Kevin Richmans of the world didn’t like me. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The park was like a wooded city inside a much larger world of concrete. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Their own departure from this world was going to be rather more spectacular. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

And while Lee Lee is reliving her heartache, Sam seems like she is in her own world too. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Prosper,” Victor got up and went over to him, “come on, it's not the end of the world.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I thought for a moment we were in a fantasy world—a magical land, a dream come true. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I mean, the thing is, Medea was so distraught by the world, and felt so betrayed, that she murdered her own kids. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Magdalys snapped back to the world of walking on the earth. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

And then he put on that retro Lone Ranger tune, something he liked to play every morning because he thought it was a hip way to wake up the world. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

There had been a time when he thought that his sheep could teach him everything he needed to know about the world. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And after that in whispers comes the news that the two people I love most in the world are gone forever. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

We used to sing that kind of song in Auschwitz to remind ourselves of the world outside, where people fell in love, held each other, made plans for the future. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

All I have to do is remember Momma letting me dry the dishes after she’d wash them, how she used to say no one in the world could dry a plate the way I could. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

But despite all the hell-raising and destruction and chaos he had created in our lives, I could not imagine what my life would be like—what the world would be like—without him in it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Beside the road I saw a very large establishment, the greatest distributor of sea shells in the world—and this in Wisconsin, which hasn’t known a sea since pre-Cambrian times. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gazed down through the gulf, and all of what she had believed about the world began to slowly break apart. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

As if there was no goodness at all in the world. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother referred to it as a deep valley accent since you only found them in towns that didn’t have much contact with the outside world. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Truman Drama kids are about the same age as the children I just sent off into the world. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“That right there is the story of the world,” said Vic. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

And who gets handed the worst of it in a Flannery world? Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

To understand why, evolutionary psychologists argue, we need to delve into the hunter-gatherer world that shaped us, the world that we subconsciously still inhabit. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am crying at this point and have no idea why the world has to be like this. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

But there’s lots of kinds of terrible in the world. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It didn’t feel like she was half a world away, it felt like she was half a universe away—like she was coming to me from some alternate reality. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

When I saw the brilliant orange flame in the night, I saw better than ever before how gray was the world I lived in. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

And that cut me because, for all our differing worlds, at your age my feeling was exactly the same. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“New or old, that’s a strange world down there,” said Lee. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She even called in the old man that they said could conjure, though she doubted that any conjurer in the world could save this child. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only person in the world he wanted with him safe and sound ... The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I knew the real world—and it was mine to live in. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He knew that what had happened—Emma reported that the chairs had been lifted up high over their heads—was a result of trickery, not spirits from the other world. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was my father's dream that one day the people of the world would be connected to one another through a network of blocky, refrigerator-size computers, much like those he was helping develop at IBM. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t get an A. I got a B. Getting a B didn’t feel like the best feeling in the world. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Compared with later eras, what is impressive about Jomon Japan is not that some contact with the outside world did occur but that it had so little influence on Jomon society. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not all of these apply equally commonly in all parts of the modern world, obviously. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Hardly little, Minos. Especially when you advertise across the world that you are willing to pay a thousand gold talents to the one who can solve it. Is the offer genuine?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Intellectual tools, by contrast, manipulate ideas, not the world. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The God of the Sky fell in love with the Goddess of Beauty after the world began. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Chicago was on the move, becoming biggest at just about everything: world’s biggest lumberyard, world’s busiest grain center, and, when the Union Stock Yard opened in 1865, the world’s biggest stockyard. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

His voice seemed to come from another world. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I didn’t understand why the world kept throwing him in my path, but I also didn’t know how to be mad at him for being a decent person, so I took the phone. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He give me every consolation in de world. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I knew it was working when the world wasn’t as colorful and interesting as it normally was. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She had half expected that the other mother would be standing there waiting for Coraline to come out, but the world was silent and empty. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The school created the very first teaching hospital in the world, a place where the sick were treated and young doctors learned their craft, as well as a fine ob- servatory to track the heavens. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

There weren’t enough stairs in the world for that. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Creatures could only use wheels on a world that provided them with natural highways. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He had not done anything great in the world but had instead reported on road-paving projects, garden club meetings, school athletes. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Chargaff, as one of the world’s experts on DNA, was at first not amused by dark horses trying to win the race. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

They put one in every motel in the world; they should have gotten to this place. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

His system, as expounded in his thirteen-volume opus The Almagest, had much influence both in Europe and in the Islamic world, and was later adopted as dogma by the Catholic Church. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

In those moments Mr. Kapasi used to believe that all was right with the world, that all struggles were rewarded, that all of life’s mistakes made sense in the end. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

We’re still cheering inside, but we’re also thinking about six million lives snuffed out by the worst kind of evil the world has ever known. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The last thread that joined them to the world was broken on the sixth month of pregnancy when they received a letter that obviously was not from the wise Catalonian. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

We sit at the longest table in the world. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

At the end of time, when all the world’s buildings have crumbled away, there it will be. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In an ideal world, communism is supposed to create a society without class. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

And it seemed to me that Dante’s face was a map of the world. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

In truth, I suppose I knew him better than I knew anyone in the world. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

And they distinguish both of these from semantic categories and roles like action, physical object, possessor, doer, and done-to, which refer to what the referents of the words are doing in the world. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

As I entered the chaos of Płaszów, I saw before me a world far worse than I ever could have imagined, far worse than I ever thought possible. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Why wouldn’t she have taken them with her on her trip around the world? Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It felt to me as though my world was getting bigger, and I was getting familiar with this big world, meeting more people and doing more things. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“And that one killed half the men and all the women, including my ma, and it made the thoughts of the men who survived no longer secret to the rest of the world.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He acknowledged that he feared Hooper more than he feared anything in the world. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I was sitting in one of those baby carriers on the floor—strapped in and safe as I checked out my world of green shag carpet and matching sofa. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

So this is the last chance I will have to speak to you, in this world at least. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But it’s not just academics who loose these zombies on the world. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The end of the world never sounded so good. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

And if the icy-eyed man was powerful enough to build castles overnight and flip the world upside down, couldn’t he come for her anytime he wanted? Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

A couple glanced up at us as we came in, and I was well aware of the impression we were making—two handsome college boys, rich fathers and not a worry in the world. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Much elated with her success, Jo did ‘tell on’, all about their plays and plans, their hopes and fears for Father, and the most interesting events of the little world in which the sisters lived. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new science knew no boundaries of language or nationality, at least not within western Europe, within the world of the printing press, gunpowder weaponry, the telescope and the pendulum clock. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I was still stuck in my own world of sunshine, ponies, and my race car collection. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Which is why we have to save the history we have. You never know what small bit of it might change your life—or change the whole world!” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Like you could do a better job if you ran the world?” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you sort of feel like we’re the only people in the world who are seeing this?” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

So much has happened it’s as if the whole world had suddenly turned upside down. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

In the advertising world, direct marketers are the real students of stickiness, and some of the most intriguing conclusions about how to reach consumers have come from their work. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was nine in the morning, when all the world is sleeping. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The years passed, and Maeve became as connected to the neighborhood as I was, even as newcomers from other lands added their music and food and language to our little part of the world. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I’ll go lay these clothes on my radiator and try to sleep, anyway. We only have a day or so to save the world. We’ll need all the rest we can get!” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

What else do you think would happen when they grow up in a concrete world? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The truth was, back home I always felt like I was the only brown punk in the whole world. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

She had the world’s first iPod, and now she has wireless speakers synced to her iPhone. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Science calls her HeLa and she’s all over the world in medical facilities, in all the computers and the Internet everywhere. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Though terrible conditions for sugar workers still exist in places such as the Dominican In many parts of the world, sugar is now harvested by machines, its long history fading into the mists. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“He may even have deceived himself into this belief. But if a prospect opens, the world will see and he will feel that he is as ambitious as Oliver Cromwell, though no soldier.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

She was our Tribe’s Kehanni, our tale-spinner, and she wove whole worlds with her voice, with the flick of a hand or the tilt of her head. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then they set out along the blacktop in the gun-metal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other’s world entire. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He laughed as if I’d played a joke on the world, and danced a quick jig step. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

One moment there had been nothing but darkness; next moment a thousand, thousand points of light leaped out—single stars, constellations, and planets, brighter and bigger than any in our world. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Hanako herself had problems just making a diorama for class, a tiny world with a few clay figures. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Even the modern world has found it hard to shake off this legacy. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The world is divided into morning people and afternoon people and night people?” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Darwin had called these variants “sports,” implying a streak of capricious whimsy in the natural world. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“What in the world is this doin’ down here?” she asked, bending down. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

"Right, doc? Concussions and broken bones heal. I'm just glad the strongest girl in the world's not hurt." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

He said the newspapers wrote deliberate lies and people didn’t know what was going on in the world. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I was with Evelyn at the hospital when he came into the world, but it was only a brief respite from my activities. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined I would come up from the water and the entire world would change. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Because you have no idea what’s going on in the mortal world.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Together, they will gain control of the fighting machines, defeat the Martians, and take over the world. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

His behavior was consistent with a pattern that researchers have found among concentration camp survivors the world over. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The Visit Room constituted a sort of breach in the wall between the hermetic world of the prison and the universe outside. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I refused to silence my voice when I knew I had the potential to change the world. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I don't understand this need to re-sculpt the world in my mind. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Doris sounded as if she and Ifemelu somehow shared the same plot, the same view of the world. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Also fortunately for him, he had friends who were able and eager to do battle for him out in the world. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Give up her evenings and weekends and friends—all the elements of her old world—and replace them with KIPP. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Finally he realized all that urgent loud noise was coming from outside his dreams in the real world, heralding another calamity, no doubt, and with a fatalistic whimper the volunteer awoke. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a purely local election, but it had a world audience just the same. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

It was so early that I felt as if I were the only one awake in the world. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“What in the world are those girls about now?” thought Laurie, opening his sleepy eyes to take a good look, for there was something rather peculiar in the appearance of his neighbors. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because the darkness squeezes you inside yourself, you get cut off from the outside world, the imagination takes over. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In October they set a women’s long-distance world record together. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It was becoming clear that when the war ended the United States and the Soviet Union would be the only world powers left standing—and that they’d be rivals. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys in their ducktails were mostly wearing plaid shirts underneath their open jackets, still looking like they weren’t scared of anything in the world. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Before I discovered the miracles of science, magic ruled the world. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Queried at long distance by Sproul, the loyal Swann declared that his protege was destined to become one of the world’s ten leading physicists before the end of the decade. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

In our world, writers are tortured and killed if they are men. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to leave the world in a state of fright. I want to know what’s happening, accept it, get to a peaceful place, and let go. Do you understand?” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew that Roosevelt’s expedition through the Brazilian wilderness would garner international attention and raise Brazil’s profile in the world. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

No thick northern clouds; just a clear stretch out to the ends of the world. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

This is what it felt like, this is what it looked like, the edges of the world crumbling away and Conor holding on to her hands, feeling them slip from his grasp, feeling her fall— A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Even as I think this the world’s sun dims between clouds regathering, and soon a flaw of rain runs sparse and hard upriver, spattering the crowds on the Embankment, darkening the sky. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

But that’s no reason to keep a child locked away from the world. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

After all, the old man had the finest doctors in the world. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She loved soup more than anything in the world except for the Princess Pea and the king. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“As for water, there doesn’t seem to be any around here on this world,” Will said. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They all said that I must be silent, chaste, and obedient, or else the world would be turned topsy-turvy from my wickedness. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“We believe in peace and understanding and freedom. We believe in sharing and helping each other. We’re going to change the world.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He thought if he lived long enough the world at last would all be lost. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He said, “Do you know, I loved you better than anything in the world? I did. It was so strong that it took quite a killing.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The world around them had disappeared from view, swallowed up by the night, but not far away a few pale rectangles glowed in the dark. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

All they had in the world was the nerve to stand in a back yard with cap in hand and sing loudly. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lights from the outside world then filled the train car as it rose out of the ground and climbed the elevated track. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And we stood at the center, so it seemed; black men, blackened cart; white, smudged prisoner and officer; viewing the world turned to fire. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

But Hesiod, who was a peasant living in a poor man’s world, knew that the poor must have a just god. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moment they touched them, the whole of that dreary world vanished from their eyes. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Angry, that I came so close to finally escaping him, but instead he’ll still be in this world, still hanging over my head? Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

People all around the world build and live in them. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The Cobalt Blue Orchid became my favorite flower in the world. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There is, even within the English-speaking world, quite a variety of music teaching traditions, which sometimes use different terms for the same concepts. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Harry Hawk still stands center stage, his head turned toward Booth, wondering why in the world he would intrude on the performance. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“And Oz after her? All of us? Together forever? Until Loo and Ess are alone here? And our world is over?” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

People looked at me as if already I’d made my mark on the world. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And that ever-so-slight tug holds me to the finite and mortal world below. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was the twentieth century before people thought seriously about this, and there were three men who seemed to be ahead of everyone else in the world. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I used to think she was the second-best mom in the entire world, until she fired my mom and I decided to hate her. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Ah,” he said, and he pushed his chest out, displaying the little white flower to the world, and walked off, proud as Punch. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Teletype machines clattered against the wall as spools of paper carrying news from around the world piled up on the floor. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In our world, if you write, you are a politician, and we know what happens to politicians. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t there enough happening in the world that you shouldn’t have to go into the city for a baseball game?” he said. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

And one of the critics wrote, “Her command of our language and our world of feeling was amazing,” adding that her “appearance in the Bachsaal caused a sensation.” The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

I don't want to open it—the world is too good right now without Lev's prolonged goodbyes. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The sky is still clear, the stars still up, the world still quiet, just the rush of the river, getting steadily louder. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s probably not the best thing in the world to do, punching a hydro in the skull.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

He set about dissecting the merits and problems of “spermism” using experimental data from the biological world. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Joseph took them both and splashed water into his mouth and the whole world exploded and he staggered into one of the stalls and shattered there until one of the teachers found him. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Few landscapes in the world have changed so much in so short a time. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I could not imagine God pausing in His guidance of unimaginably vast worlds to bother with me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

That he had climbed out, many admired, for the cliff was steep and jagged and the world beyond unknown; few had the courage that Einar had had. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It works out contingencies and relationships and sorts through the mountain of information we get from the outside world, prioritizing it and putting flags on things that demand our immediate attention. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“How can you make an informed decision about whether to save the world if you never leave your tiny part of it?” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Among modern world powers, the most distinctive in their culture and environment are the Japanese people. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He’s the organizer of Wisdom 2.0, a growing movement in the Bay Area aimed at helping people find balance in the modern world. 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 all right, Josh. It’s all over. You don’t know how funny the world can be, do you? Maybe even a little crazy. There are times when people just have to laugh.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he realized that he lived in a Santiniless world now and he trembled when he thought that he was, in many ways, relieved that his father was dead. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the world called to the heart, which stammered to reply; life, and love, and revelry, and, most falsely, hope, called the forgetful, the human heart. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Mark never thought he’d hear those words—a boat coming down one of the most famous streets in the world, where cars are supposed to drive. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“And you ought to read more about the world,” answered the Englishman. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wouldn't it be strange if they'd come through my anomaly, from some other world? The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually these groups guard treasures hidden from the waves of conquest, the golden artifacts of an archaic Montezuma, or a mine so rich that its discovery would change the world. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

From where we were now, running, looking at reality from this one point in time, it seemed as though the world had suddenly gone mad. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The notion of a personal astrology developed in Alexandrian Egypt and spread through the Greek and Roman worlds about 2,000 years ago. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Johns Hopkins University was only five miles from where Mary grew up, but it might as well have been a world away. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Knows that crying would be the worst thing in the world to admit to. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

He’s been on pins and needles lately, hoping the results of the experiment could land in Nature, one of the leading scientific journals in the world. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

That shouldn’t surprise us, since Polynesia provides only a small slice of the world’s geographic diversity. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And the only reason I ever knew of my mother's transgressions was because of Rachel, who hated my momma more than anyone else in the world. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The Arctic and Antarctic ice caps will melt, flooding the coasts of the world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the two, three seconds it lasted, the world seemed different. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

No one in the world could have a smile as great as Connor’s. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Like he never truly showed the world who he was except when he was making art. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was the “newest city” of the world, Twain had written—a place where scientists, writers, philosophers, and intellectuals were gathering in cafés and salons to forge a free and futuristic society. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Our powers grow. The rules of nature are turned upside down. Once the Earth Mother wakes, we shall remake the world as we choose!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Last thing in the world I want is Tyler to notice me, but he does. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

Funny—it seemed the most heroic thing in the world when he told me about his friend, dead amazing that anyone could be that brave and selfless. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Here, I can sit on the leather couches for as long as I want and watch all the movies in the world as if I’m at the cinema. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Though the Arabs took the notation from India, the rest of the world would dub the new system Arabic numerals. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Or indeed, having been so luckily preserved, what good had her pickling accomplished for either herself or the world? The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t imagine the world without Deborah in it, my beautiful little sister, my soulful young friend who thought I could do no wrong. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

His body is his escape from the world, whereas I’m trapped in mine. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Because you, mouse, can tell Gregory a story Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“The greatest single factor in preventing insects from overwhelming the rest of the world is the internecine warfare which they carry out among themselves,” said the entomologist Robert Metcalf. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I never told him of my life before, never sketched for him the world that had invaded and obliterated the one he and I had shared. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Kira always stood at her mothers side, never touching the fragile ancient cloth, marveling each time at the rich hues that told the history of the world. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Below its surface, Archaide housed thousands of classic video arcades, each one a loving re-creation of an actual arcade that had once existed somewhere in the real world. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

My brother, ever innocent, had a way of giving everyone in the world a chance to prove him wrong. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

All Jinny wanted was for the world to feel the way it had before the boat arrived with Loo. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

A few days later, I ran into the last person in the world I wanted to see: Johnny Cakes. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it shapes how you look at, and think about, people in the world too. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Was there only one world after all, which spent its time dreaming of others? The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

So thorough was the erasure that within a few generations neither conqueror nor conquered knew that this world had existed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She was the biggest mystery he’d encountered yet in Scythe Goddard’s world. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The fate of the very world depends on you being anywhere but here. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

A member of the Central Committee of the Communist party rose and gave a description of the world situation. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Court Street was like a whole other world than what we were used to. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

People no longer need to travel to see the world. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“You poor boy, all the time in the world and no way to spend it. Hasn’t Lorren let you back in yet?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They both felt there was a certain strength in numbers, and again, if the man wanted to use the phone occasionally, who were they to prevent him from communicating with the outside world? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I would have to wait for the sun to come up and the world to lighten the normal way. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

How do we help make the world a better place for all the hurting, desperate people and animals? My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Robert Oppenheimer could no more divest himself of political concerns than he could give up music and wine; they were all essential to his method of engaging with the outside world. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

There are very few such swords as this one left in the world, but remember, it is only a sword, Matthias! Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

People who can make gold from lead, or anything else for that matter, who can alter the very material of the world—financial markets would be thrown into chaos. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Joaquin tried to mimic Maya’s indignance, the way she had spit out the word like a swear, like it was the worst thing in the world to not know your family. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I want to know the real world better. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Maybe for a millisecond, the world stopped spinning. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

But the Negro’s experience of the white world cannot possibly create in him any respect for the standards by which the white world claims to live. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Where they hit the windshield, they left blurry marks, until it seemed like I was looking at the world through a curtain of tears. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The world is coming at me in high-contrast snapshots, deprived of narrative continuity. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when I looked into it a little more, I realized that most of the girls in the elite gymnastics world were already being home-schooled. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t anything or anyone in the world I knew better. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

It made her glad to get back to the world of ghosts, unicorns, and gods. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I liked taking each crazy dive into the world of Styx Malone. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He sounds like every other teenager in the world. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Merton, if he lived today, would be obliged to deduce “infinite, habitable worlds.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

These days I live in three worlds: my dreams, and the experiences of my new life, which trigger memories from the past. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But mostly he wanted to duel with the best in the world. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She would never let either of them know that a world had collapsed for her, a dream had been destroyed. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

A vast seething, hot world of fluidity, and Rine the rascal was at home. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

One that actually wanted to cross imaginary lines because I now knew nothing in this world really mattered. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Not in the way that the world opened up to Chantal when a fancy private high school offered her a full scholarship. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He no longer missed his brother or the beautiful, savage world he had been bred in. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

They said that TV was haram\\ it showed the Westernized world, where women have love affairs and do not cover their hair. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He was going to tell the world about the lessons of Tralfamadore. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A twenty-year veteran of the Soviet spy service, Yurchenko had traveled the world on behalf of the USSR, including a stint at the Soviet embassy in Washington, DC. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I wrap my arms around my stomach, wanting to scream to the world. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s not a name more famous in the supernatural world than Van Helsing.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

In other words, the world is full of cases where both proposition A and proposition B are correct; or where both are wrong. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Somehow, they had to let the world know what was really going on here. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I hated him that much and thought he was the meanest person in the world. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The organization had given the world a new shape, and me a vital role. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole world lived inside the gourd, the earth a green and blue pearl like the one the dragon plays with. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meryl Lee said that she was up to half a box of Kleenex per class, which has got to be some kind of world record. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

With each step deeper into Goddard’s world, it became harder and harder to retreat. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Mr. Justice Wargrave inquired: "Do you know this part of the world well?" And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“You sure this isn’t another part of your world?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it's like the whole world has shifted about ten feet to the right. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lover of men, not women, and an atheist, he used the device of space travel to criticize everything he disliked about the real world. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Who would make sure he was fed in the other world? The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

It was like I was living in a different world where everything was backward. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Vincent thinks he’s talking about Theo, but he's thinking about himself: for him, painting is the answer to his misery, to his lack of confidence, to his feelings of being at sea in the world. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But we all have secrets, hopes that stay locked deep inside, trapped by our fears of the world’s judgment. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“People from all over the world have passed through this village, son,” said his father. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nat remained aloof, absorbed in a totally male world of rigging and canvas. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

If I die before deciding whether to press the button, will the sluggers abduct someone else and force them to choose, or will they let the world end? We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It was a world and life, a way of being, utterly unknown to me. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I’m ready to show the world what I have inside me, to reach out and make that connection. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Nothing in this world loves a black man more than another black man. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

And no sooner had he got there than he heard footsteps in that other world, lightly running over the grass, and looked through to see Lyra racing toward him. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the fifth century the sack of Rome marked the end of one world and the beginning of another; so did the railway in the nineteenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They were creating the most powerful robots and conduits the world had ever seen, things that each year were making the tools of the previous year seem slow by comparison. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“There probably isn’t three of these here left in the world.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I collapsed gratefully onto the pallet Sarah had made me there, and it felt like the world’s softest bed. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Dad would never admit to having heroes, but the brass-balled, liquor- loving, coolly calculating Chuck Yeager was the one man in the world he admired above all others. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Adams had a lifelong tendency to view the world “out there” as a projection of the emotions he felt swirling inside himself. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

And that’s how she left me, standing in the kitchen, hot and breathless, the world tilted under me. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The overall size of these environments was relatively small, usually just a single world, or a dozen or so small planets. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

No laboratory in the world was as well equipped as theirs to discover artificial radioactivity, for none was as capable of such sustained bombardment. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

That voice, the loudest voice that Despereaux had ever heard, could only, he assumed, belong to the world’s largest rat. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

It’s like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I’m stitching the scraps back together. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

And He said, ‘I am The One the world has been looking for to come for the past two thousand years. ’ The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is weird to say, but seeing Dad out in the real world was unsettling. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He had found bread, or what passed as bread in that area of the world. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

As his mother said, “The Pilgrims are coming up in the world.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was alone in the world, and he wasn’t even very strong. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The old primordial gods like Gaea and Tartarus...How could you leave home and ever be independent of your parents, when they literally encompassed the entire world? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The Space Age began when the Soviet Union launched the world’s first artificial satellite, Sputnik I, in 1957. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

The finish line comes into view and you will yourself toward it, but the wind pushes you back, your body begs you to give up, and the whole world seems to grind into slow motion. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

This is my letter to the world that never wrote to me. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“They’ll never go for it. The world is dying, Percy. Every day it gets worse. The wild ... I can just feel it fading. I have to find Pan.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The modern population of the world now hears all music through the filter - some would say imperfection - of Equal Temperament. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

A wordless scream spilled out of my mouth and the world went black. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

After a long moment he opened his eyes and said, “Thank you. I sometimes forget there is any goodness in the world.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He has been given an awareness of the world that is out there, but he has not been given the means to reach it. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

There’s not a lot of love for the girl who steals your brother away in a world where family is so fragile, where people lose each other daily. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Accessorized with the right mix of confidence and haughtiness, it reduces my audience to a world of leering carpetbaggers and gasping Aunt Pittypats. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world?” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“They think he intends to use Dust in some way in order to make a bridge between this world and the world beyond the Aurora.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

They watched the waves come in, so bulbous and full, as though they had all the time in the world—and more. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t above being a big, fat imposter if it diverted attention away from a potential drenching with the world’s foulest substance. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The wind was listening closely, and wanted to tell every corner of the world that the sun’s wisdom had its limitations. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

What was Elizabeth doing now, he wondered, halfway around the world? Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are many stories about Persephone in the lower world; only one about Dionysus—he rescued his mother from it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like I need to remember that there is a world outside this one, where I am not hated. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The way you can never stray too far from the thing you’re famous for without the world getting up in your business. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The Mollys of the world have to realize one thing, that a Boxer can only do so much. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Hadn’t Lyra said that the scientists in her world had discovered something like that about Dust, which was their name for Shadows? The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Anise would never let anyone forget how Caroline Murphy is as crazy as she is evil, and there’s not much else worse in the world than a crazy, evil girl. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

What a strange world it was when a girl who wanted to go to school had to defy militants with machine guns—as well as her own family. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In 1951, long before James Watson would become a household name around the world, the novelist Doris Lessing took a three-hour walk with the young Watson, whom she knew through a friend of a friend. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Besides, she said to her conscience, it’s a hard and bitter world. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instruments all over the world can be grouped into five categories based on the Sachs-Hornbostel instrument classification system. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Except my heron, he was strutting out into the world like that hunter would never, never come. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

We read of protests around the world over our incarceration. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the world were fair, I suppose I would have married him, but there was no way that could happen in Virginia. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dressed as I am, in cheap traveling clothes, I seem to have fallen far in the world. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“It’ll be the only picture in the world with the three of us almost together.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He was modest and lived modestly, yet knew the richness of his own mind and the world of privilege that would open up to him as a result. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He took the world more seriously than any other ugly she’d ever met—more seriously, in fact, than middle pretties like her parents. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He came into the world at Kingston upon Thames on March 23,1891, within sight of some of the finest rowing water in the world. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I straightened my back and walked briskly to the desk, smiling as if the German sitting behind it were the only person in the world I’d ever wanted to sell something to. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

We're here today basically because this is not a perfect world. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

He woke up blinking with a slight pain in his head and opened his eyes upon a world boiling in chaos in which everything was in proper order. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

For every bad judgment, the fine was no silver-wrapped Kisses, the sweet chocolate drops that I loved more than anything in the world, except Bailey. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

After their wedding, Farmer had brought Didi to Paris because he thought that, like him, she would find the city the most enchanting in the world, and a comfortable and exciting place to live. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Daylight was creeping around the cracks of the world when Janie heard a feeble rap on the door. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

"For an instant in time I was free and alone in the dark night," he recalled, "poised between two worlds, belonging to neither." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how to change the world. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Nor have they stopped the average South Korean from getting richer, better educated, and better housed in what has become the fourth largest economy in Asia, the eleventh largest in the world. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She had nestled her head under Mo's arm, as she always did when she simply didn’t want to see the world. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I gave up practically the whole world for you,” I tell him, walking through the front door of my own love story. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Early one mor-r-ning,” I sing, loud and clear, making the whirly shapes of the world go spangly and weird, but I keep on singing. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Because, when you know that language, it’s easy to understand that someone in the world awaits you, whether it’s in the middle of the desert or in some great city. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to imagine her out in the world, fighting criminals. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

This collar, some say, was called Brisingamen and was the most perfect thing in the world. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the whole supernatural world thinks I’m destined to be a villain anyway, maybe Moreau will too, and say something that could help us find Quinton and Maria. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

If crops throughout the U.S., throughout the world for that matter, died from lack of sunlight, how long would New York City continue to get food? The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“We want to stay and see what happens. I thought you wanted to know about other worlds. Don’t you like it now you’re here?” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

I chuckled; I had encountered so many such contradictions in the white world that I no longer spent sleepless nights trying to make sense of them. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the art world I'd been dreaming of, where God-given talent was considered an unfair advantage and a coldblooded stare merited more praise than the ability to render human flesh. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

For many years I have traveled in many parts of the world. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know, I know. End of the world.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He is demonstrating, to me, his mastery of the world. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not long ago, it would have seemed like all the money in the world to me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Black music adds soul and rhythm to my world. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Money is the most important thing in the world, you know. Money can buy you happiness, and I don’t care what anyone else thinks. It’ll buy you relief, status, friends, safety ... all sorts of things.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“Not a ‘Go save the world on your own’ look!” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“The ones holding up those Greek temples with their heads. I was looking at a picture of some the other day, thinking, Those women have the second toughest job in the world.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“They are the most ferocious fish in the world,” Roosevelt wrote. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The sealed world in which he lives would be broken, and the fear, hatred, and self-righteousness on which his morale depends might evaporate. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Instead he pulled out a paperback world almanac from his knapsack and asked her to quiz him. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He knows what the world doesn’t seem to know: that dark black women totally rock. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

For a scant few minutes, that twinkling bathroom became a world unto itself; a cocoon far away from trouble and war. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Here, you try it” I put the viewer to my eyes and almost gasped, for it seemed as if I were suddenly in another world and no longer in the kitchen. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You are to act as if you're an artist floating through this world. Your sole purpose is to beautify, and transform the Gris. You are a Belle." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Me, I’d rather be out in that world than stuck in those closed-up ivy halls that weren’t meant to fit me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So what will this world famous blog be called then?” she asked. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

In short, the themes of GGS seem to me to be not only a driving force in the ancient world but also a ripe area for study in the modern world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I brought both of you into the world,” he said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Except he was getting her away from the swan lady, and that’s all she cared about in the entire world. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Now I have to deal with the Roses, and like I’ve said, I don’t think they’ve been tested in the world. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“He’s got to learn to take care of himself in the world, Trotter.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

America is propping up most of the remaining white world. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

After so many months and years of dirty streets and peeling paint, of gray uniforms and spartan barracks, it was astounding that there could still be beauty in the world. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I think the world isn’t always a fair place. The sooner you get that through your thick skull, the sooner you can get on with your life.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

According to tradition—and it does not much matter whether it really happened—he descended beneath the Red Sea in the world’s first diving bell. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a great contrast between his world pessimism and personal cheeriness. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

His face was warm and handsome, open to the world. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

To her, the world was one happy joke. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the day went on, she stopped thinking alone in the world and began thinking about her new life at Mrs. Murdo’s. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know why,” Jiichan said, “but in the world not so much plant you can eat. Most plant for to look beautiful. Make you happy. That important too.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Now there he went, out into a world of solid ice! Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The word about the Colored Computers made the round in the community, naturally, and there were those who saw in their employment evidence that the world was coming to an end. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Just to get away from it all—the World Championship imbroglio and the constant stalking of him by reporters and photographers—Bobby took a two-month cruise by himself around the world. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Why do girls always feel like they have to apologize for giving an opinion or taking up space in the world? Have you ever noticed that?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

At first glance classic style sounds naive and philistine, suited only to a world of concrete goings-on. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Dad’s theories ranged from Esperanto, which he made us study because he thought it was the answer to half the world’s problems, to immaculate conception, which he said wasn’t supported by available biological evidence. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of the bright pointy-nosed mustard bottles we used in abundance at church wiener suppers—a world apart from anything Mama Tataba had ever seen. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think I’ve done that bad. You and your brother have never had a care in the world!” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

For years, we’ve been the only country in the world that condemns children to life imprisonment without parole; nearly three thousand juveniles have been sentenced to die in prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Away from the book I imagined myself to be Goriot, toiling away just beyond the edges of a world he could not enter. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

How little his mother had known of the working world to make smocks for a boy who she knew was to become a silversmith! Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Magdalys commanded, but the whole world filled with Missy’s roar, her hunger for destruction, her gnashing teeth. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Eugene Williams's mother buried her son a few days later, some seventeen years after she had brought him into the world one spring day in Georgia. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“There is still good in the world,” Mother exclaimed. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

In high school, she struggled in the adolescent competition for boyfriends in a world of football games and proms, a world where her looks were plainly uncommon. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And behind the ever-changing gauze of light, that other world, that sunlit city, was clear and solid. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

In an airplane there was absolutely no place in the world to go except to another part of the airplane. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I am learning the Language of the World, and everything in the world is beginning to make sense to me . . . even the flight of the hawks,” he said to himself. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet della Porta could not bring himself to rethink his world in the light of this simple discovery. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

And she couldn’t shake the thought that Sol knew nothing about the outside world Shay had fled to. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Prams drifted along the paths, hoods down in full sunlight, and white, soft-skulled babies gaped at the outdoor world for the first time. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

So she simply determined to pluck them out, willing into existence a work environment that conformed to her sense of herself and her place in the world. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Ranked number one in his class at Permian, he moved ef-fortlessly between the world of the football and the academic elite. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Running and playing and laughing, certain that the bad things in the world would never touch us. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He was becoming what she had always wanted: someone who could not only make sense of the outside world but become part of it. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The lands ahead were empty of all save birds and beasts, unfriendly places deserted by all the races of the world. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

This isn’t the first time Deirdre has found herself higher than the world. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

If I can’t sing here in front of this small number of people, what in the world will I do when there’s three hundred people in the audience? Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to live in a world where Sohrab and I couldn’t talk about things anymore. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

A cold wind blows through me like I’m an empty room and I suddenly know everything’s going to be terrible and I’m doomed; not only me, but the whole gloomy grubby gray world too. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

His name swelled and grew and filled the world like the pounding of blood in Shadow’s ears. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Photography used to be a cumbersome process involving film coated with silver dug up from mines halfway across the world. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

What additional cost did people have to pay in order to lift much of the world out of its poverty? Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

"There are lots of blind people in the world. You'll marry a nice blind man someday." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Trees and flowers bloomed on the terraced walls above the stalls, while below it seemed as if everything the gods had put into the world was for sale. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then he erupted into a column of flame, and the fire moved over the water, heading back to the world outside. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He’d been talking about “changing the world” long before his speech to the TB tribe in Boston. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

That momentary connection made him feel, if even for a second, like he was less alone in the world. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

As far as the outside world was concerned, I had just been an ordinary Marine with no specialty at all. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And he’s also the most obnoxious dog in the world.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

It is often difficult for military officers to grasp the fact that the civilian world does not hold them in shivering awe. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a long time Siddhartha had lived the life of the world without belonging to it. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chess—that criminal who was captured in the alternate world—what if that’s actually Mom? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

When I was a boy growing up in Boston, Route 128, the industrial belt around Boston, led the world in scientific creativity and imagination. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In a world without ears there would be no sounds, only vibrations; in a world without noses there would be no smells, only particles floating in the atmosphere. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Lovelace was preparing to release the results of Jerrie's testing at the Space and Naval Congress, which was attended by world experts and aviation doctors. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

When she dropped me off the first day, I was in full ice grille mode, lip curled, eyes squinting, with my “screw the world” face on, ready for battle—but inside I was bewildered. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The fog had closed and thickened all over the village, greying the light, blurring the world till a man could hardly see his own hands before him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Before turning to those regions, however, we must consider two related questions arising in regard to any area of the world where food production never developed independently or else resulted in a less potent package. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He used to say that I should dress like the world’s a better place than it actually is. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The door to the inn was opened, flooding the grey world with warm yellow light. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as this happens, you are practically isolated from the rest of the world. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Too big for their faces, and for the world. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“Below knee. Above knee. In the world of prosthetic legs, it’s a critical difference.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

I couldn't have talked to her across a tea-table that day if I never talked to her again in this world. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He said the witches had this prophecy about me, I was going to do something great and important, and it was going to be in another world... The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Word. But I wouldn’t go on no television and let the world know about it, man,” Fish said. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Okay, I was not expecting our emergency backup plan for saving the world to include a gardener, even one the size of a house. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

How can we know that the world is real? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

To help her persevere, and understand her place in the world. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Tell me about you. How is my favorite person in the whole world?!” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The world was laid out before the two watchers like a toy, for they were on a high keep which dominated the town. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I devoured the books because they were the rays of light peeking out from the doorframe, and perhaps past that door there was another world, one beyond the gripping fear that undergirded the Dream. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The perennial “sick man” of the Hellenistic world, the kingdom of the Seleucids had been coming apart almost since its inception. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

In the real world, some doctors peddled drugs on the black markets, desperate patients sold their antibiotics to buy food, and stupid pharmacists mixed up prescriptions. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

It’s like someone pressed mute on the whole world because this man is about to speak. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It was a “world criss-crossed by numerous patron-client relationships and family ties, in which major centers vied with one another in enmities that could endure for centuries.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

How can one assay the total impact of the unprecedented calamity that gave rise to the world we live in? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The spirit world was thus a blurred zone between the material and the immaterial. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

You don’t remember growing too big for your shirt, but sure enough, there’s your belly button, sticking out for the whole wide world to see. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But when you read books you almost feel like you’re out there in the world. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He said he was a Korean War veteran, and backed up his claim with lively stories from places in distant parts of the world. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“What in the world are you doing to me now?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until 1966, Romania had had one of the most liberal abortion policies in the world. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I walk farther down, and on the wall across from the girls’ bathroom, there’s a world map with colored pins. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I know I shouldn’t love it as I do, stolen as I am from the mortal world, my parents murdered. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And now here he was with his oldest friend in the world. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m very intuitive about people, you know,” she said, “and you have so much potential. You’re hungry and adventurous. I hope you know you could be anything in the world you want.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I wonder what it would be like to live in a world integrated with magical creatures! Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Meaningless words that didn’t nourish us, that didn’t comfort us, that kept us prisoners in her alphabet world. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is a makeshift altar for Ezili with all the things she loves in the world. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Please. About the last thing in the world I’d do is hurt this bull.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

In a weird way, the world seemed to make more sense that way. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Most days she felt like the luckiest person in the world, in love with her husband and blessed with three daughters she adored. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The proponents of hunger strikes argued that it was a traditionally accepted form of protest that had been waged all over the world by such prominent leaders as Mahatma Gandhi. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His forge was a window into the primitive energies of the world. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Five minutes without checking a text message is like the end of the world.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Sheriff Snyder is here, overseeing the removal of the bodies, him and his boys sitting easy in their saddles, joking like they ain’t got a care in the world. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Still, he walked from Charlie Valentine’s house to the main road, racking his brains for some way into another world. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I tried to build relationships with the people I met, especially those who didn’t normally have access to the world I now inhabited. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Besides,” Bob said, “it is your destiny to return to the world. Put an end to this madness of Gaea.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“You say the rest of the world knew; why didn’t they stop it?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are there big people on your world, or are they all small like you?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He keeps waking up in DC, and Henry keeps waking up in London, and the whole world keeps waking up to talk about the two of them in love with other people. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Before the recent overseas expansion of Europeans speaking Indo-European languages, Austronesian was the most widespread language family in the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I shouldn’t have put up with him so long. It’s my kind heart, you see. People have always told me, ‘Beryl, you’re too good for this world. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It would be day and the park would be filled with kids, their screaming and laughter would slide along the light beams into the helter skelter world of monkey bars and swings. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

One morning my mom got up and went halfway across the world, as my dad likes to say. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Thomas thought, the world tilting around him as he stared at the lifeless body. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Finally, at the end of all our wanderings, we return to our tiny, fragile, blue-white world, lost in a cosmic ocean vast beyond our most courageous imaginings. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aeons passed...worlds spun and whirled...Time was motionless...It stood still—it passed through a thousand ages…. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

We didn’t have to do a thing in the world to be fascinating but move around in our house, speak, wear pants, boil our water. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

To a small apartment on the outskirts of a town Stuck on the outskirts of the world. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because in the world I lived in with Lucy, no one cared about crowns or sashes. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

In Grigori’s perfect world, there would be no shtetl, only the depiction of one. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

We’ve already got the whole world hating us because of our skin. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The mulefa had told her that the sraf, which had nurtured their lives and their world for thirty-three thousand years, had begun to fail just over three hundred years ago. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She had adapted to the environment and learned all the codes of behavior for Immie’s world. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Funny place to meet him...here—out of the world. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Being an American, it was expected of him, and who was he to deny the world an occasional tantrum? Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

On the far side, in the space between us and the rest of the world, are some dead. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The ballet powerfully evoked these two colliding worlds. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The sun shone in their eyes, half blinding them and turning their world to liquid gold. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

She just sat and stared out of the window, thinking what a blissful world it was and how lucky she was to have entire charge of a pig. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Older one,” she corrects, and shoots me a quick stank-eye, “and I saw it. How in the world did you miss it?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“The fishermen,” said the seal hunter, “they say you can sail right up into that new world.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surrounded by water on three sides and forest everywhere else, Lost Cove is the end, the farthest point west you can go before falling off the world. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Looking out from the covert he could see only a dun, shadowless world, fading slowly into a featureless, colourless gloom. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Night was striding across nothingness with the whole round world in his hands. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“See you boys at the game tonight. I’ve got to go and keep the world safe for democracy.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I exhale, relieved to leave the real world behind for a while. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her second wish was that she’d have a nice speaking voice like Mama and Evy and Sissy, and her third wish, for when she was grown up, was that she’d travel all over the world. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In those four words he showed how deeply he felt about Bobby, although the world already knew. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Born into this world of sorrow; born for suffering and hardship. Ai, there’ll be a little happiness, but more of hard work. Ai, ai.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

God helps those who help themselves, Mom told Maureen, and so for her own good, she would have to leave the nest and make her way in the world. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a Saturday during spring break, so I have all the time in the world. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Users could now teleport back and forth between their favorite fictional worlds. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It’s not the end of the world, people! Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I thought the world would fall in on me after I said that. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“That was the most complicated eighth-grade science exhibit on soil in the history of the world.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Without devious reasoning or complicated emotional processes, the boy became Katie’s whole world. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went on scolding, “Delphine. What do you mean running through the airport, knocking down a white man, causing a grand Negro spectacle for all the world to see?” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Thoughts of hot Jonah passed through my head, and I wondered how he managed to pay any attention in class with the world reverberating around him. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

They might have been at the very center of the world, or near the end. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You see, friends,” he said, “that before the new, clean world I gave you is seven hours old, a force of evil has already entered it; waked and brought hither by this son of Adam.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

"What shall he be called, the stallion who mounts the world?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The world shifts in and out of focus. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I stole a human girl—a human servant—from Prince Balekin, and I need you to help me get her back to the mortal world before anyone finds out.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It is a relief to discover that although there might be axe murderers and kidnappers in the world, most people seem a lot like us: sometimes afraid and sometimes brave, sometimes cruel and sometimes land. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“I wonder if you’ve met a man called Lord Asriel. He’s a friend of my people, a notable explorer in that part of the world.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Two traffic lanes separate the courthouse from the media frenzy, but I swear they’re a world away. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Uncle Henry said, “The world is changing. Things will be different. Life is going to get better for us. You’ll see.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hand in mine as we walk feels like the most natural thing in the world. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

We learned the same things in school that children learn all over the world—reading, writing, arithmetic. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

In that time the world inside him could turn over. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Are they letting her speak in public now? What in the world does the title of this ludicrous lecture mean?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did he remember existing in a world where no one thought him strange, thought him a beast? Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

In the mid-nineteenth century, many people were interested in communicating with the “spirit world.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

And he can talk about the world without saying God or Allah every other word. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s all a scam, remember? There's more than enough food in the world, especially now that there aren’t enough babies being born.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I wasn’t trying to get up close and personal with anything in that world, but...there were Pteranodon flying in the sky!” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

It was like all the holidays in the world, all the birthdays there were. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would love to believe that the principles were Faith, Hope, and Charity, but this is clearly not so for most Christians, or for what we call the Christian world. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

The world sighed and creaked, and Louisiana clung to Ida Nee as if she would never, ever let her go. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

He was thirsty again, and hungry too, because he’d last eaten in another world, after all. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For Greeks, the pillars marked the end of the known world. The Romans said the pillars were inscribed with a Latin warning—” “Nonplus ultra,” Percy said. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Even when we weren't wandering, even from the floor of your closet, you showed the world to me. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

What is a friend, in a world where any friend may be a lover at a new phase of the moon? The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“We just want to help you, we want to be there for you, support you. We want you to have the world, Joaq! We want so much for you!” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Luther Martin, on the other hand, came out against the Constitution on the grounds that the protections afforded slavery render us contemptible to every true friend of liberty in the world.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

By the end of 1951 the world was in the midst of the biggest polio epidemic in history. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Cheetah, who believed I was the smartest girl in the world. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The square sees a point appearing in a closed room in his two- dimensional world and slowly growing into a near circle. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Love, after all I done told you tonight, don’t you know they ain’t nobody in the world I want to live with cept you? Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

But you and I know the world looks different. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The candlelight illuminated the world: every tree and bush and blade of grass. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I might not be the world’s best artist, but I can draw better than the stick figures and line drawings on Jason’s other cards, all perfect circles and ruler- straight lines. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to make a difference, just a little difference, before I left this lovely world. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The moon is asleep and I’m sitting on my porch roof like a frozen gargoyle, wondering if the sun is going to blow off the world today and sleep in. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

There wouldn’t have been a joke in the world funny anymore, period. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But some of these straight-haired people with blue eyes have been “black,” and this points to the great difference between their world and ours. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Weirdly intriguing videos of these staged events flashed around the world as part of a soft-focus, Entertainment Tonight makeover for the Kim family dynasty. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

When you become an animal, a vulture, in the ghetto, as I had become, you enter a world of animals and vultures. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or her age or location in the real world. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Today we shall discuss,” Bartholomew began, his voice sharp and nasal, “the two kinds of people in the world.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

"That's what's wrong with the world today, don't nobody trust nobody. I can smell that hospital smell on you, son. You got enough ether in those clothes to put to sleep a dog!" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who knew that there were so many bunny barrettes in the world? Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. McElroy in world history, who announced that we were going to start by studying the barbarian hordes of western Russia, and then looked at me. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

His headset had been on since just after the morning oatmeal, his world of school rumors replaced by bombs in his ear. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

One night without cleaning her teeth wouldn’t be the end of the world. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Watching the TV convinced me more than ever there was an incredible world beyond Little Rock where I should struggle to go. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The way Styx challenged the world to a fight—it pulled me forward, leaving Bobby Gene behind. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

A billion people could participate in the exploration of another world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ve travelled about. Mr. Ratchett wanted to see the world. He was hampered by knowing no languages. I acted more as a courier than as a secretary. It was a pleasant life.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

At my son’s high school graduation a week earlier, I had listened as a self-important cable news commentator droned on for thirty minutes about the future of the media in a digital world. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

"I thought if I escaped and ran away I could find someplace better. I thought the world outside would be different." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

For so long now, I’d felt torn between their worlds—so different, and yet so much the same. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I’d rather eat all the leftovers in the world, and I hate leftovers. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

What a child did was considered by his or her parents as something separate from the adult world and not particularly consequential. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

That is the order I came into the world. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Lawrence had asked his childhood friend to double-check the Rad Lab’s results using the Carnegie’s accelerator, the only machine in the world that could approach the cyclotron’s energies. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He went to the Great War, he was gassed, he’s big, he has a job, he makes the world laugh. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The Level 4 air lock is a gray area, a place where two worlds meet, where the hot zone touches the normal world. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For it was darkness itself that had awaited him, the unnamed thing, the being that did not belong in the world, the shadow he had loosed or made. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Out of all the possibilities in the world—the millions of them—only events occurred that lead to the Salinas jail. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This will be your world, so let’s take our time and make it exactly what you need.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

When I was first hired out as shepherd t’other side the world, it’s my belief I should ha’ turned into a molloncolly-mad sheep myself, if I hadn’t a had my smoke.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

I grab a pen from inside the chest drawer and write around the world. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But that advantage alone doesn’t fully explain how initially so few European immigrants came to supplant so much of the native population of the Americas and some other parts of the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Arthur, you know I would try if I thought we could beat the world, right?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

They threw themselves into its lush green arms and it drew them in, hiding and sheltering them, delivering them from one world to the next. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Or, as John Quincy Adams described the seamless character of the partnership, “it was a phenomenon, like the invisible and mysterious movements of the magnet in the physical world.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He kept telling me how amazing she was, what a clear, expansive way she had of seeing the world. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“There’s no reason this girl needs to tell the world far and wide that she’s a Catholic.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The agony blinded her; the world went in and out of focus. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, just like that—for only a moment, maybe, but for a good moment, at least—he was in love, on top of the world, and just about as tough as they come. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the evening, Salim sits in his hotel room, reading his Qur’an, telling himself that this will pass, that his stay in this strange world is limited and finite. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

In the game that night, he was a human mage, a wizard; in the real world, he worked at a motorcycle repair shop in Indiana. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The lamps that light the zoo pathways blink on, blanketing the world with yellow light. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

They crawled on their stalk legs around the curved perimeters of the glass as if the world had shrunk to that jar. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s my hope. I want to change the world. Do something good.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Mother,” Judy said, bringing me back to the world of scrubbing tubs and toilets, “is it okay if I move into David’s room?” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

One might be forgiven for thinking that it is Temple and Swift, the critics of modern science, who live in a disenchanted world, not Wotton, its advocate. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It had begun the process of determining the world’s opinion about the new Germany. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I learned by heart poems written halfway around the world. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

By this time, however, thousands of measurements had been taken throughout the world. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“What about its Marines? Could the world get by without its Marines?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are,” he declares, “attempting to enter the most elite schools in the world. The exams will last eight days. We will take only the purest, only the strongest.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

For, excepting drinking and a certain solitary secret pleasure, Antonapoulos loved to eat more than anything else in the world. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Geeks are branded strange and antisocial for building and participating in one of the world’s truly revolutionary new cultures—the Internet and the World Wide Web. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deed said, “It’s the way of the world, Sleepy. It’s against the law for a Negro to own any property out where the Log Cabin is so Mr. C. put it in my name.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

And it was from there they watched the distant flames eat up everything they knew in the world. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“I just can’t get it through my head. He loved you more than anything in the world.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s painfully clear that I don’t fit into the world of my family. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I don’t know what questions to ask him about his world of farming and pasturing animals. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could keep their own civilizations, like Esquimaux and Hottentots, if they would give each other freedom of trade and free passage and access to the world. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That all that stuff about happy endings is lies. The only ending in this world is death. Now that might or might not be happy, but either way, you ain’t ready to die, are you?” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

When you’re living through it, though,especially when you are twelve and you think the whole world is changing until you realize it isn’t the world, it’s you, no piece seems little. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

The United States and the rest of the world must turn to renewable energy, also called green energy. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“The sooner you get started, the sooner you’ll make the segregationists real happy. They’ll love broadcasting the headlines across the world.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d been aware of all that was wrong in her world when she was a subject in my Save Dad from His Funk project. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Grace chose to believe Rafe anyway, as they sat together, lying in wait at the edge of the world. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He just seemed excited, as if he had identified the lost gravestone of someone famous and desperately wanted to tell the world. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Bobby gave Michael lessons, and the young man went on to become an international grandmaster some eight years later, perhaps inspired by his meeting with the world’s greatest player. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She decided that the statue was not only the most beautiful in the world but also the most mysterious. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We lost two sons. Raja died by an accident. The child was too tender for this world; he could not live as we did. After the crops failed he—”I stopped again. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

In another context, in another world, it might have been entertaining for Moss to witness this. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“O brave new world, O brave new world ...” In his mind the singing words seemed to change their tone. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Bertillonage was already being displaced by a more efficient method of identification that was revolutionizing the world of scientific detection: fingerprinting. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t reconcile his world with mine so I separated them. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

A glimmer of the world as it could be. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“There’s more power and magic in those things in there than in all the rest of the world put together,” the old man said softly. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

‘Look at it! The wind’s changed. Something’s happening. He’s not having it all his own way. His darkness is breaking up out in the world there. I wish I could see what is going on!’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Do you think there’s anyplace left in the world with pumpkin pie?” she asked. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The soldiers were moving them up the mountain where they would be under total Khmer Rouge control, isolated from the world and cut off from all the escape routes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the real world, Morrow almost never made public appearances, and in the OASIS, he came out of hiding only once a year, to host this event. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Pearl Ann, I apologize for compromising your femininity by exposing you to the rugged world of fishing. Would you please reconsider and do me the honor of accompanying me to the homecoming dance?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“The way the world drives you from your home, sometimes. I just like a predictable world, but it hasn’t worked out that way for us or for them. Maybe for anyone...” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s you in a world of magic. Of course.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

If her mom and the rest of the world had recovered, then surely by now…. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

With all its imperfections, modern science is a technique that is sufficiently well tuned to nature so that it works—it is a practice that allows us to learn reliable things about the world. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There is not a worse feeling in this world than the feeling that someone knows something about you that he has known for almost a whole summer and has kept to himself. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined the hallways outside this room as a desert filled with enemies in khaki, Mrs. Turton dashing through the harsh landscape in an effort to save the world. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And no complaints, I thought, looking at the map; you started looking for red men and you found them—even though of a different tribe and in a bright new world. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You and your mom are uptown girls living in your uptown worlds. You won't find Nergal at Tiffany's, or Chanel's, or wherever it is that beautiful people hang out." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Then Samuel died and the world shattered like a dish. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We stare like it’s the most riveting thing in the world, which, in the absence of our phones, it basically is. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The victim, a notorious cardsharp, was taken to the morgue. doggy-dog world. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The logic that belonged to the real world had remained behind, like luggage on a dock. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Rosaleen said it was T. Ray’s way of mooning the entire world. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had not even a wisp of Talent, that’s what they said, and yet somehow she had managed to stumble upon the world’s most perfect peanut butter recipe. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The world’s most famous fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, said that once you have eliminated all the possibilities, whatever remains, however improbable, must be true. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, I realized, since the Scoreboard was viewable to the entire world, my avatar had just become famous. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Never fussed, and watched the world through enigmatic, questioning, dark eyes. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I read that Korean nationals are the most rescued people from the world’s mountaintops.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would need to brew some moon tea or risk bringing another kraken into the world. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He wanted to be the best knight in the world, so that Arthur would love him in return, and he wanted one other thing which was still possible in those days. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Going to see—to live—in the world? Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Where he’s talking about making ‘a better world for your grandchild.’ The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They also knew that he was now recognized as the strongest knight in the world. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Conor could only look back until it felt like there was nothing in the world except him and Harry. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Oh!” cried Emma, “I know there is not a better creature in the world: but you must allow, that what is good and what is ridiculous are most unfortunately blended in her.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

The whole world was this music and she could not listen hard enough. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

As a noticeably pretty child, and later on, a striking girl, I had my own small way in the world. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can do a news interview saying we’re not such bad people and that everything is getting better at school. That way everybody in the world won’t think we’re all villains.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not exactly,” I said finally, thinking about how, if things didn’t change, I’d never be able to share my stories with the world. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Probably one of the most famous songs in the world! The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Ones that might get out in the world and taint the original species? Is that what you mean?” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

When I come out from under the trees, the world looks the same, which surprises me. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Not free to break loaves or feed the world on a fish. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Japanese, he continued, are “the sole superior race of the world.” Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Of course her load is heavy; these bags contain everything she possesses in the world. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He was twenty-four years old—in their world, that made him practically an old man. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

How many kids this week, he wondered, had woken up to find their worlds changed that way, their parents gone off to war, maybe never coming home? Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

After the lord of the dark world below carried her away she was never again the gay young creature who had played in the flowery meadow without a thought of care or trouble. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The world has transformed to flame and smoke. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it seemed as if they would never stop, train after endless train bound for the world that lay beyond us. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was made from a certain plant that grew only on the islands of the Jade Sea, half a world away. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Without God, or a man, I could still conquer a small corner of the world—if I wanted to. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She touched a lampshade and said, “I’m the 467th-richest person in the world.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

They helped me to make sense of the things I saw, and from that, I began to make sense of the world and my place within it. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Was she alone mad, or had the world gone mad with her? The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“It is for the good of the world!” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

As cyclotrons around the world contributed to the list of known isotopes, rumors and expectations began to surface that the accelerator’s inventor might be in line for the Nobel Prize. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He was sort of the hero of the teen-age music world ever since he got drunk one night at a party last summer and played the drums in the middle of Victory Boulevard. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then I too broke into glad tidings and joy to the world with the crowds of believers around me. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Suck in a deep breath and continue on: In the studio, I don’t have to worry about anything else that’s happening in my life, or in the world around me. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Contained in that 170-year- old architectural hodgepodge are many aspects of the modern history of prisons in the Western world. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Either I am to live in this world on my terms or I will die out of it. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That is the only way the energies she has taken can be returned to the world.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“You and Papa shouldn’t have had me. I’m not happy in this world.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shiny as a new crab pot, all set to capture the world. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aziz was polite, but she was also a thousand worlds away. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

"That's the guy. I don't think he’s very happy that I got a kiss from you and he hasn't. So he interrogated me about the Patriots. Apparently Kaede's a Patriot. Small world, huh?" Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I could travel to a faraway world and help Ma deliver those baby dragons. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

The book listed hundreds of attractions you could visit, from the world’s largest ball of twine in Darwin, Minnesota, to the world’s largest ball of stamps in Omaha, Nebraska. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The Mutual was the largest black-owned business in the world at the time. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Who would control Europe, they asked, and whose system—democracy or communism—should dominate the world? Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Luckiest people in the world, as far as I’m concerned. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to be the first person in the world to be sent by television!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

It’s out of this world, but preparing it is very labor-intensive. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“That’s the man who knows all the secrets of the world,” she said. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, his deceptions always succeeded to his heart’s desire, since he knew this aspect of the world very well. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Ours is the closest thing to a sacred mission the modern world knows. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He knew about Alexander’s dream to build the most remarkable city in the world and saw to it that this dream was fulfilled. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

We followed this with a speedy trip around the world, covering twenty-five countries in thirty-eight days. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sent him out into the big bad world alone. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He talked about the power of love to change the world. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

For she—yes, even she—would go out of the world willy-nilly someday. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s true. My parents traveled all over the world,” said Louisiana. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

I’ve got to get out into the world, though, trick myself into thinking it is any other day. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe we’re strangers no matter where we go, whether it’s to the world outside the Bureau, or here in the Bureau, or back in the experiment. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The world is engulfed in scarlet and gold as an enormous phoenix bursts into flames across the entire sky. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Those boys who made me wear the fish—they were angry like that, too. Angry at the world, and it made them mean. You have to promise me, Zach, you won’t be like them.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would have made mistakes caused you pain eaten the world in one bite. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Investigators were taught to see the world through the eyes of others. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I barely know anything about the world outside of gymnastics!” Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He said there was plenty of fighting going on in the world without them doing any of it. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

He didn't know what there was about the afternoon, but it was not seeing her somewhere in the world. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to imagine the world as it should be, the way Father could surely see it in his mind. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Thomas didn’t remember anything like that, but if it was all true, the world they were trying to get back to didn’t sound so good. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I lean into Mom as we watch Finway swim in his clean new world. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Child, I’ve heard stories, but I’ve never seen the ocean before. I have heard that the water spills over the edge of the world and that only death is found there.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was wandering, and the world I touched turned into sand. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know that I still had a lot to do in this world. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In particular he spoke of the backbreaking work he had to do on various white farms, and on chain gangs digging trenches and roads in the white people’s world. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says that in each of us is a hidden world. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Things that had been so familiar just days before my last visit to Stuyvesant became strange, and I felt I was losing the mental faculty for making sense of the world around me. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

But where Europe had the profoundly different civilizations of China and Islam to steal from, Mesoamerica was alone in the world. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And now I’m sitting on the other side of the world, failing him as I eat food that comes from the country I’m suddenly confused about. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The world would take him to the grave with a slimy goober on its face. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

To be honest, I myself haven’t even put any thought into a world past this dinner. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

‘Best boy-zz in world,’ and he suddenly struck out at the British. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The prince is riding, and he shall be the stallion who mounts the world." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There could be few relationships between any two men that left so profound a legacy for the world we live in today. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

And the world between us cracked because of the difference in how we understand that fundamental bond. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He sat there for a long time, running his fingers over the symbols, wishing his skin were porous enough to let all the knowledge and history of the world in. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Millions of people around the world have heard the name Khalil Harris,” she says, “and they’ve developed their own ideas of who he was. Who was he to you?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I want a man with good hands, Anu told Ranee once when her grandmother asked what in the world she was looking for in a husband. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I had been kept out of their world too long ever to be able to become a real part of it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That the wind is in your employ, and blows all the world’s knowledge to your door.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Our modern global civilization, our view of the world and our present exploration of the Universe are profoundly indebted to their insights. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Branwell had become dependent on me for his contact with the outside world. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I did know was that I wanted to get away from home, away from Harlem, away from anyone in the world who might care to ask what I would be doing with my life. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I look down at the pavement below, and the world tilts. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I tromped back up the stairs, feeling as if I were carrying the weight of the world on my shoulders. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He's the smartest person with a store in the whole city, and maybe even the world. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I say hello, but he’s in a world of his own, and when I run my fingertips over his shoulder he jumps. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can make myself not care what the Graces and the Seans of the world think of me. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The family you can always rely on to make the world a murkier place. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

You knew, from then on, that the world was a smaller place than you’d expected. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Harry Potter not knowin’ his own story when every kid in our world knows his name!” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The world of Packingtown was tough and poor, a collection of shanties and shops in the shadow of the Yard. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“You knew he wanted to race again,” he said, “more than anything else in the world.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Montaigne, too, was right—right to think that the men and women of his day were hopelessly fallible when it came to understanding the world. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I have to go home now and worry because you can’t go through the world short a tooth without your mother knowing. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I mean that he was not owned by anyone or anything in this world, had never been, would never be, not even by Ellen, not even by Jones’ granddaughter. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

The front of the building sagged, crumbled, and I staggered as the world fell out from underneath me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Throughout the world; refers to expanding one’s market beyond the immediate area of production. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

The lack of sleep coupled with Lynnie’s death made the world surreal. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s just that I’m not the only one that’s been caught. There’s irony in three of the greatest experts in robotics in the world falling into the same elementary trap, isn’t there?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

It was a light, dreamless sleep, a kind of half-sleep, that refreshes but does not shut off the world completely. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The world stops, and looks at you lying there with your wounds bandaged, or your stomach pumped, and says, “Okay, you have my attention.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Another boom shook the world and an explosion of water not far away hurled up into the air, soaking Magdalys and the others. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Mercury had long been the jinx world of the System, but this was drawing it rather strong—even for a jinx. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

After two weeks at Half-Blood Hill, the real world seemed like a fantasy. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I look down, the world disappearing beyond the circle of my lap. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

If he had them, he thought, he would fly high above the world, to where the air was clear and sweet, and he would take Sarah Ruth with him. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

“The way of the world,” my dad said. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

When you are little and in the arms of your family, you don’t really understand, or even care, what’s going on in the rest of the world. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh! the best nature in the world—a wedding.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Millions of young men and women all over the country had locked themselves away from the world. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She said she’d confronted him about it, and he’d gone off on some nonsense about the world needing to learn to respect him. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Now he said, “Let us celebrate the gift that Florentine Snowberger was to her family, her community, and the world.” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Was I accomplished enough as an athlete to be sent out into the world as an ambassador? Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Dying. Just like me. But the difference is they dying like a stump. Me, I’m going down like one of those redwoods. I sure did live in this world.” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

And since there were cameras and reporters from every major newsfeed outlet present, I knew his words were being broadcast to the entire world. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Then began the massive waves of poor and half-starved and ragged immigrants from Europe, arriving with everything they owned in the world in bags and sacks on their backs. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, he stepped into the light of the kitchen and said the one thing he knew she wanted to hear most in the world. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It felt like someone was knocking on the bottom of the world, demanding to be let in. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They could not believe or accept the fact that they were unloved; they believed that the world itself was off balance when it appeared as though they were not loved. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you feel it, too? The rhythm, the wind—it’s all wrong. That hole in the sky is turning this world inside out.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It’s not the safest place in the world, but we are under the protection of Erin’s brother, Rod. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you’re good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can’t be wrong.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

He says that's how it is in the whole world, people always looking for someone else to blame, so he might as well get used to it. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

I’ve tied it super tight to make sure it stays up; the worst thing in the world would be if it came unwound and fell down in front of hundreds of people. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she could not think of anything else in the whole world. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He would take the compass and spin it and go round the world. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

He leaves the comfort of the quiet basement for the chaos of the world above. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I blush scarlet and thank every god in the world for the darkness surrounding us. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Examples of successful biological control of serious pests by importing their natural enemies are to be found in some 40 countries distributed over much of the world. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

For several hours Frightful bobbed her head and looked from one strange animal to another in this world of ancient survivors. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

An even more serious problem concerns the vector of yellow fever, for centuries one of the great plagues of the world. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Right. You know. After the great battle with the Titans, they took over the world from their dad and drew lots to decide who got what.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

What had he entered into, by coming across the world? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Tally had always thought of the city as huge, a whole world in itself, but the scale of everything out here was so much grander. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

At lunch, Citra—who still found she couldn’t eat—watched from a distance as Rowan stuffed himself just as he had at breakfast, as if he had no care in the world. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Grandma Sands, said, “What are all them sirens doing? Lord, has the whole world gone mad today? Where’s your momma and daddy?” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a horrible thing to tell your kids that money’s the only thing in the world, but it’s a disgrace to work for it. Then toss ’em out without a penny. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I know it’s a big deal, but hearing it again is making me feel like I am going to be speaking in front of the whole world. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She was the best saber fencer in France at the time and ranked ninth in the world, right behind me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I would abandon the real world altogether until I found the egg. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

‘Most fortunate, most blessed Rowsby Woof! Your reward is at hand! I bring you the best news in the world!’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The choir was summoned and sang a modern arrangement of “Onward, Christian Soldiers,” with new words pertaining to graduates seeking their place in the world. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they fight, they will remember a time they battled long ago, when the world was simpler. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Kaede felt the lack of sun with a brutal sense of futility: The whole world was gray, colorless. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I scarcely know, sir, but I’ve heard the same lament on other worlds.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Yet she rose to become one of the most formidable code breakers in the world, the scourge of gangsters and spies. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

As before, Sam found that his hearing was sharpened, but that to his sight the things of this world seemed thin and vague. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

They got the parades and fame and love of the world. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They want to believe that their language and culture are so unique as to have required uniquely complex developmental processes, unlike those operating elsewhere in the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

"The great all-embracing, absolute Armistice, the end of the world!" he said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, but I think you do. That surge of power and delight, of confidence, of control. That sudden sense of the richness of the world. Its infinite possibility.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

When he went back to the fire he knelt and smoothed her hair as she slept and he said if he were God he would have made the world just so and no different. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Throughout the civilized world, from Battery Park to Fulton Street, he was known as a dependable man for a fast tax write-off. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Browne lived in a world in which what we would call facts seemed impotent when faced with authority. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

To experience her body’s balance within the world, the sensation of her skin from the inside, touching her face and receiving the touch from both sides—it’s unavoidable and incredibly intense. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

When this story goes out into the world, I may become the most famous hermaphrodite in history. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We were dedicated to building a world of Brotherhood. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that time the Soviet Red Army was the only military in the world that officially allowed women to go into combat. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

To get from the white world into the Negro world is a complex matter. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the world still seemed to be collapsing in on itself, and he knew it would all be gone from him in just a few seconds. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Alone, cocooned, I pretend there’s no hurt in the outside world. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The third crack was as loud and sharp as the breaking of the world. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was he who poetically “fixed” the Bible—-which in itself and its present King James version has enslaved the world. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

To keep the giants at bay, Odin and Vili and Ve made a wall from Ymir's eyelashes and set it around the middle of the world. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Then let’s put this on a practical basis right now. Do you want Negroes by the carload in our schools and churches and theaters? Do you want them in our world?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It means that a very small number of people are linked to everyone else in a few steps, and the rest of us are linked to the world through those special few. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As I look back on those days, most people in Chicago felt that way. Chicago was host to the world at that time and we were part of it all.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The world known to the ancient Greeks was a tiny place. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

“With his eyes and those hands there won’t be a woman safe in all the world when he starts hunting after the ladies.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Owner had always believed that there was really only one Talent you needed in this world: The Talent for appropriating other peoples Talents. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe that’s why she was the smartest little sister in the world. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean the world is really awful, Ocean. People are super racist.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I always liked that camera stuff, because to me it was saying that all your problems—the swimming-in-the-goldfish-bowl stuff-were really small and unimportant compared to the entire world. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Would it come into the world gossiping and nattering on about inconsequential nothings? When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He took a deep breath of cold mountain air: there were no boundaries; the world below and the sand paintings inside became the same that night. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I handed him a paper saying Emilika was my cousin with all the feigned confidence in the world. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Then he narrowed his eyes and said, “What’s the one thing I value most in this world?” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

People around the world heard about the jailed children and sent monetary donations to help pay their bail. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“What makes you think that Garvey has the time to come out here to this island to baby-sit you? The world doesn’t revolve around Cole Matthews.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I would be angry too if she told me she was leaving this world for another that may or may not exist, so flippantly and easily, like I didn’t really matter to her at all. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“What happened?” said Harry eagerly, regretting more than ever his isolation from the Wizarding world when he was stuck on Privet Drive. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

In 1938, she and two other Soviet women had splintered a world record in a long-distance flight they made across Siberia. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

But that changed when he and his brothers read Rogers’s article and learned this: Cell lines are swapped, traded, forwarded, begged and borrowed among research institutions around the world. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

They agreed they wouldn’t change places with him for the world. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

So as I pledged, I pictured the American flag on the Bund, waving as if it were telling the world that America was the land of the free and the home of the brave. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Galileo’s telescope made two ideas that had previously seemed abstract and theoretical suddenly seem plausible and perfectly realistic: there might indeed be other inhabited worlds, and space might indeed be infinite. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Me and Viola are all we got, everything we have in the world. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Baba’s motto about throwing parties was this: Invite the whole world or it’s not a party. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The world was still here, and Ivy was still here. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Levi and I live in the same world, but we see things very differently. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

In a typical year many ships set sail halfway around the world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grew angry at the world, furious at God. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

At 8:04 Pacific Standard Time on this morning, the first pictures of a new world, called Europa after an old one, were received on Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pearl dangling from the gold clasp—one of the two largest pearls in the world—was worth an astronomical sum. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Did you that Jamaica has the sixth highest murder rate in the world?” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Since there weren’t many flag-pole skaters and since this one was by far the best, he had for the last year gone about breaking his own world’s record. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Only a human wouldn’t be. Your species is clogging up the world so fast. . . ah, never mind. It’s useless to lecture a human. At the rate things are going, I’ll never find Pan.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He turned away and slipped into the water without a splash, and began to swim in his steady, tireless paddle toward the new world. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

There were wildfires out west, landslides on the other side of the world. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. I’m positive there are horrible people in the world. But there are a lot of other people who are looking at you because they think you’re interesting.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I say, “I am the most popular girl in the world.” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He believed in an infinite number of worlds, all inhabited, and all subject to cycles of dissolution and regeneration. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’d been a while since the bad smell of the alternate world had bothered Emma, but that didn’t mean it wasn’t there. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

They had both sought comfort in each other, and in their shared world, perhaps for the sake of novelty, or out of the fear that that world was slowly dying. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was close to the spirit world, and everyone respected her for it. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The graveyard, though, was his world and his domain, and he was proud of it and loved it as only a fourteen-year-old boy can love anything. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t walk up the school steps holding her hand for the world to see. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The more they gave him, the bigger the world felt, and Joaquin needed a fence, an edge, something to keep him from falling off the face of the thing. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

If she was going to learn how to survive in this world, she reasoned, she’d have to start finding a way on her own. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I wanted adults to make sense of the world. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I only wanted to lie low until the end of the world. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

There are times when the world is gelatinous around you, and it takes such a gathering of willpower just to move the slightest bit, it hardly seems worth the effort. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

During the 1980s Fischer made a number of impressive ascents that earned him a modicum of local renown, but celebrity in the world climbing community eluded him. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

From the austerity and tranquility of her medieval world, the penetrating gaze of this legendary Sybil of a holy nun would exorcise the horrors which materialize before our eves in the name of television. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As an African American woman, with three young children who will never know a world in which a black man could not be president of the United States, I was beyond thrilled on election night. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“You know what’s weird? The world got more pictures of my mother cells than it do of her. I guess that’s why nobody knows who she is. Only thing left of her is them cells.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I wanted you and the whole wide world. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

And all the other animals began making various queer noises which are their ways of laughing and which, of course, no one has ever heard in our world. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Popper distinguished between the world of physical objects, the world of mental processes and the third world, the world of ‘problems, conjectures, theories, arguments, journals and books’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“How can this be evil? It wouldn’t make any sense for this to be evil. It’s the world that’s evil, Hatsue,” he added. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was another one of those long pauses because the world still hadn’t let out its breath. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“But first let's give him a chance to come back. Do you think he'll be pleased to get back here only to find you’ve disappeared, gone looking for him in the big, wide world?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

At a time when most scholars were trying to separate the natural world into categories, Maria insisted on finding connections—between life stages, between insect and plant, between art and science. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He scanned the slides with his eyes, back and forth, back and forth, moving across the microscopic world, looking for a telltale greenish glow. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

One child, one teacher, one pen, and one book can change the world. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The world around me and my past seem far away and distorted, as if time and space were taffy being stretched and looped and twisted out of shape. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Hmm...The archipelago makes me think of travel. Perhaps you’ll be seeing the world soon. And the heart with little cracks in it...Perhaps you feel you’re giving away pieces of your heart?” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was well along in August by now, and just the time of the year that crickets all over the world like most. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m tellin’ the whole wide world!” he shouts back over his shoulder. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

A vegan world could not be fed with local food chains. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

In the Odyssey, the way to it leads over the edge of the world across Ocean. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood by the grave at the end of the world, and in that place he invoked the darkest of runes and called on old powers, long forgotten. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Wilkerson not only rectifies the world’s ignorance about the Great Migration, but with twelve hundred interviews and crystalline prose she makes us understand it in its full human reality. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Without him, I would never have mastered the world of music piracy and lived a life of endless McDonald’s. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I mourned less for my father than for the world I was leaving behind. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They mete out justice to the world, and Tehlu is the greatest of them all—” “I have heard enough.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Christine had fallen asleep in one world and awakened in another. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I listened to Gina and Susie talk and I thought it was nice that they knew how to talk and how to laugh and how to be in the world. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

They give you a feeling that the world would be destroyed, would actually be destroyed before your eyes, if you said certain things. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I see that the keenest brains of the world invent weapons and words to make it yet more refined and enduring. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered if I had gone to Beyond when I flew with the Handsome One in the sky world. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“He believed we were living thru the end of the world,” I say. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Like you can watch the darkness of the world go by but nothing can see you. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The outside world obliged Hazel by being as gray and unpleasant as possible. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The whole world had just opened out in front of me, and I could go wherever I wished, and be whatever I wanted. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

"It's like that everywhere in the world. In India, people assume that if you have dark skin, you're from a lower caste. Here, it's the same—black people are the lowest caste in this country." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Golden explained think tanks were groups of smart people who worked on solving the world’s problems. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Until the audition I felt like the luckiest girl in the world. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The order in which John liked things in the world was supposed to be magic, sex, money, fun, and love. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The cosmic images of dread were now gone and the external world became a reality, quivering daily before me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were practicing for the competitive world they would soon face. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He wrote to Charles, “It is a marriage which will give almost as much pleasure to the rest of the world as it does to yourselves—the best auspices I should think for any marriage.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Swedish Cremes have got to be the best cookies in the world. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You will be able to teach him all your tricks, so that he grows up to be the greatest knight in the world.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Following Homo sapiens, domesticated cattle, pigs and sheep are the second, third and fourth most widespread large mammals in the world. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But how on earth could I get my hands on it when controversy still raged about such matters in our corner of the world? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“If you knew the world was going to end, but you had the power to stop it, would you?” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Don’t you know that right here, right now, you are the most important person to me in the world? 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

By the time I crossed the parking lot and stepped into the air-conditioned, Muzak-happy world of Kmart I was as grubby as if I had been on the trail, and trembling all over. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

This was the beginning of what Weber called ‘the disenchantment of the world’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Oliver, who was nine years old and wise to the ways of the world, put down his book and squinted. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The upshot of all this is that physics ended up with two bodies of laws–one for the world of the very small, one for the universe at large–leading quite separate lives. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

"And then it says something like, 'Whoever destroys a single life destroys the whole world. And whoever saves a single life saves the whole world.'" The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Coach Mustilli had grown his program and his footprint in the fencing world. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I look around me, coughing away, the world spotty and wavy. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“We already know the difference between this world and, um, the other one,” she said, as if that was supposed to make everything better. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

My body, the entire world, seemed to turn suddenly cold at these words. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Nailer scrabbled for handholds as his world gave way. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

To further escape from painful reality, I created an imaginary world for myself. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I recognize it as one of the beginner worlds in Warcross: Paintbrush Level. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Did they still have uncharted islands in the world? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The winds changed direction, and the currents altered their flow, and a new world floated out to meet him. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

In certain other parts of the world, slow north-south diffusion was important on a smaller scale. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It gave the older ones the sense that they were in charge, when in actuality it was Mommy who ruled the world. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he did the wrong thing, the world could fall. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

From so high up above it, the world seems ordered and deliberate. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The chestnut-eyed actress with long auburn hair knows that this moment will put her name in papers around the world, so there is more than a touch of self-indulgence in her actions. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Because Charles knew the top library expert in all of America, maybe the world. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Some are permanent residents of the dark subsurface layers; some hibernate or spend definite parts of their life cycles in underground chambers; some freely come and go between their burrows and the upper world. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“The more you observe, New Voice, the more you understand. Once you can interpret the voice of the world, you become its revealer. Birds are strong messengers of the world.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

London's fervent condemnation of capitalist society, his glorification of the primordial world, his championing of the great unwashed—all of it mirrored McCandless s passions. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hope the day will come when the wealthy developed countries stop buying timber from countries containing the tropical rain forests of the world. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Back in the United States, Liyana’s classes had oral history assignments where they were supposed to go home and ask their oldest relatives or neighbors what the world was like long ago. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

So the white world sliced and diced them. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She takes a deep breath, the weight of the world on her shoulders. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I have no one left in the world. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

"That we do, Sailor. That we do. But wherever in the world we live, something's gonna get us in the end. Something gets us every time." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Why hadn’t the explorers known by looking at the sky that the world was round? The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Before they went back through, Will looked all around, sniffing the air, taking the measure of the world where Lyra was captive. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I’m sure I can talk about the way things changed for women during both world wars. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

For he had made the world to be a good place for men to live. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They chatter like chimps, crowding the world with their noise even when they have nothing to say. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Plus there was one less whaler in the world. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I don't want to think about what it would do to my world if Momma is dead. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

We talked about music—about bands I’d never heard of and about how he wanted to be a musician and travel the world. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Kaede remembered how the Xi had seemed to glow the first time she had entered Taninli, but this time the whole world was muted. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She looks worlds away from the girl who curled up on a mat with me or waited in line for hours for her favorite author. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

But beneath the forest floor is a world honeycombed with the tunnels and runways of small mammals — whitefooted mice, voles, and shrews of various species. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was as if Malthus and the struggle for survival had come alive in the real world. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He put the complaining Barbarossa back on his own feet and said, “Everything has shrunk, Prop. The whole world is suddenly so small. I feel like I don't fit into it anymore.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

My world is quiet except for the deep breathing of a dog. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even as you kept telling me that I’m becoming a woman, you never let me go out into the world to be free. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They look at the man from another world and see what? The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He woke, not knowing where he had been or where he was or what was the faint grey light in the air about him, which was the light of dawn coming to the world. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He felt light on his feet, happy that he would be with Rocky, traveling the world in the Army, together, as brothers. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She wishes I didn’t have scabby knees from running around kicking canisters and falling down pretending I was the greatest footballer in the world. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Midgard, which is the world of women and men, the world in which we make our home. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps you will come to it. We are all very fond of hunting in this part of the world.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

First she reaches out to somebody, to someone outside her world. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rose of the world was breathing out smell. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Yet some of the world’s failures to domesticate wild plants remain hard to explain. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The surface of the ocean separates the two worlds of hot air and cool water. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Where I was alone with the world I loved, the world as I remembered it. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Outside the window the rain pours down on all the drenched, dark goats and bicycles and children, and I stand here appraising the end of the world. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someday, when the spirit of Zimbabwe stumbled and the mhondoro grew faint, the gate would open again and remind the rest of the world of what it once had been. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“To nourish the falcon. And the falcon then nourishes man. And, eventually, man will nourish your sands, where the game will once again flourish. That’s how the world goes.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I imagine our births were rather similar, except that on the same night I came into this world, the Angel of Death took my mother from it. Ever since then, I’ve had a gift.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I had hoped you might know better than to waste your devotion on the things of this world, but apparently I was mistaken. I am ashamed of you.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘She intends to destroy the upper world, not give it to anyone.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

When a Wal-Mart shows up within a television within a Wal-Mart, you have to question the existence of an outer world. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every night, when the stores close and the moon washes the world with milky light, Stella and I talk. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

That the author’s name, and therefore his, is known throughout the world and will live on forever. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s so far away—on the other side of the world—that I have a hard time imagining it. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

So, too, but for the dispute over the Augustinus, the French might have remained in the old world of proof and persuasion, deduction and experience, truth and opinion. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He told her that he knew Alice from the Through the Looking Glass book and that, like Alice, he could enter the magic world of reflections . Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

If an earthquake levels a city, people all over the world will send emergency supplies. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was up, and the world was normal-size again, but the wheels had not yet touched the earth. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I didn’t even know I was crushing it, but I guess I had to hold on to something while my world veered out of control. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Afraid of the world,” Ruth croaks, before coughing loudly into her mittened hand. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Over the next ten years, all over the world, aircraft designers competed to make early planes safer, more powerful, and more efficient. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

A world whose existence he had not even suspected. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I left the Bund and the concessions and walked into the Chinese world. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you knew the world was going to end, and you could press a button to prevent it, would you?” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The world momentarily vanishes, putting me back into what I had recorded. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Its isolation made it not simply another prison, but a world of its own, far removed from the one we had come from. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We now see before us a world previously hidden entirely by clouds—its features first explored by radar and by space vehicles. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It condemned the corruption of the modern industrial world. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Even in a world of gods and monsters, Annabeth couldn’t believe a new warship would be haunted. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

‘A greater battle than the last one, even. Fine feasting for all of us. These will be days of pleasure and plenty for every ghast in every world.’ The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I look at the face of the ugliest man in the world and feel sorry for the man,” Mary Anne said, “because I know what it’s like to feel ugly.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the world was afraid of something. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

It’s quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

This history of persecution and wandering had left them, on the whole, poor, deeply traumatized, and out of touch with the modern world. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Adam looked out of his covered brain—out the long tunnels of his eyes—at the people of his world. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Who has made of the world a lie every word. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

And though I could never, myself, be a native of any of these worlds, I knew that nothing so essentialist as race stood between us. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Zarah Leander’s voice lived in my head, whispering the words, It’s not the end of the world. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“The benefits of alternate reality deserve to be given to all. The bulk of our profit comes from the worlds themselves, not the hardware.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Man, the absolute master of what the world produces. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Sometimes you want to fall on your knees and thank God in heaven for all the poor news reporting that goes on in the world. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lived in his own world, but it was a world full of windows that everyone could see into. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

“You understand, don’t you? It is important to all of us. Not only for your sake, but for this fragile world.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“How awesome! I don’t even have to return to the mortal world to destroy you!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“We heard them piling boulders up on the other side. They’ve decided to ignore the outside world for a while.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“This is like a real moment in history, Quinn,” she said, not yelling, not shouting out over the crowd, but almost shyly, like she was sharing something that meant the whole world to her. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

For all Leo knew, a century had passed in the real world, and the war with Gaea was over for better or worse. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I felt the warm tug of the past and the melancholy of absence—all of it a little jarring, accustomed as I was to the hermetic and youthful world of college. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In this time, in this place, the world had gone mad with lush and green, throwing vines over old electrical poles and belching up rotten pipelines from the ground. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I smile as the girls continue to rant and rave about our day here at the shore, a long way from Grafton Hill—our ’hood, our world. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The favorite shows the world what is beautiful. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She noticed that Sasha loved math and costumes and imaginary worlds. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Her notebook was inside, and those were the only two things she had in the world. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Papa always said that breathing skunk scent was the best way in the world to cure a head cold. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had always known that Stromford Village had little enough to eat, but assumed it was no different from the rest of the world. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then, in the 1920s, when elsewhere in the world the menfolk took a break between wars to perfect the airplane and the automobile, a white man finally did set eyes on the okapi. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And just as important, the new colo-nists gave corn a way to get to the rest of the world. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Dylan is dragging Samantha into his shameless world and taking Milton’s room. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I check?—will be on display for the world. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I even move out onto the front porch and see my own limited view of the world. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

In the district of Sydenham in south London, at a place called Crystal Palace Park, there stands a strange and forgotten sight: the world’s first life-sized models of dinosaurs. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“We are the victims of the world’s most comprehensive robbery. Life demands a balance. It’s all right if we do a little robbing now.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My small wish is to look out the window and just see the world. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Bran felt the world slide sideways as the big stableboy spun violently around. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When Bod was nine he had been exploring in just this part of the world when the soil had given way beneath him, tumbling him into a hole almost twenty feet down. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Rishi looked at him, forcing himself to feign a bit of surprise, as if he hadn’t noticed Evan perched on his chair like he was king of the table, the restaurant, and the world. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

In the modern world, it is often considered a violation of international law. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

With justification, Hall advertised that Adventure Consultants was “the world leader in Everest Climbing, with more ascents than any other organisation.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

‘Tou have Vera, you have money. Just go away. Buy some beach property in San Juan and you and Vera can lie on the sand and watch the world go to hell.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, there are strange winds blowing through the world now, sir.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

That shook Toby from whatever dream world he was in. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Or did the world just exist from moment to moment for them? Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

It had some of the heaviest concentration of Mormons in the state and, by extension, in the world. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

They were in full sight of the whole world, it seemed, and they didn’t care. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Seriously, though. I’m really glad I have you.You mean the world to me.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“You know how, when you come to Beechwood, it’s a different world? You don’t have to be who you are back home. You can be somebody better, maybe.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

When McCandless came into his world, however, the boy undermined the old man’s meticulously constructed defenses. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We also saw seven different restaurants that claimed to have the world’s best BBQ. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Wits opened a new world to me, a world of ideas and political beliefs and debates, a world where people were passionate about politics. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A city in another world, no doubt?” said the Dean, with contempt in his voice. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was a thrill to be in such a different world and I’d feel a prickly awareness of how good my shoes were, how clean my white pinafore dress that Constantine had ironed for me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He pressed him for news of himself and of the wide world, and soon they were deep in talk, and they stayed up far into the night. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Galen had claimed that the hand of a healthy doctor was the perfect instrument for judging hot and cold, wet and dry—the four qualities that made up the world. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But what bothered her most was the fact that so many scientists and journalists around the world continued to call her mother Helen Lane. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Isn’t it awful what we’ll do in this world to feel wanted? The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then, almost at the end of their journey, they came upon a Giantess—and all the sorrow of the world was turned to futility, for she refused to weep. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Los Angeles soon became unlike any other city the world had ever seen, sprawling and horizontal, a thoroughly suburban metropolis of detached homes — a glimpse of the future, molded by the automobile. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

The birds embroidered into the coverlet on my bed were safe in their world of cross-stitched leaves. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was becoming a super-celebrity in the world of chess, but the more fame he achieved, the more unpleasant his behavior became. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then how could one live in a world in which one’s mind and perceptions meant nothing and authority and tradition meant everything? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imagine the difficulty of listening to, and then accepting, a truth that overturns everything you believe about the world. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

This was the most powerful man in the world, and, some said, the most ruthless and intolerant. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Expose their younger siblings to the harsh realities of the world. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

But sometimes, individual Cherokee took on temporary taboos - maybe to cleanse their spirit, or because they knew, from listening to the spirit world or whatever, that the taboo was important. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I was fourteen years old, and I was alone in the world again. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The world holds only about 148 species of large wild mammalian terrestrial herbivores or omnivores, the large mammals that could he considered candidates for domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The woman sitting next to her shakes her head, says, “How in the world is Truman going to say he upholds the Constitution when he won’t pass legislation to end lynching?” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I could go anywhere I want. Zoom around the world. Go to all those places Ximena’s lived in.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Even Satan was described in his most intimate perversions in the Galician accents of this priest whose mission in this world was to rouse the conscience of his indolent Creole flock. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad shook his head and said, “There are evil people in the world, Caitlin.” I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“My father has just died, that’s why. He would have told me all he knew, if he hadn’t been killed. You say it’s a world—do you mean a world like this one, another universe?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

For a few minutes, the field was the entire world. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It’s getting a treasured place in my room when we’re done with the film, a reminder that there are people who believe in me and the message I want to send the world. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The first level that Hideo’s committee has created for our game looks like a world of glittering ice and towering glaciers. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He walked hurriedly with his head down, as if the world depended on him getting to his office not a moment late. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

"The Nazi government is not the first unjust government in the world," he says. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

It curved around until the outside world had completely vanished. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, like that, the world stopped moving, at least for me, because the whole world glittered in the corner of her eyes as she looked down at me and smiled. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

For thirty-six years I worked for different groups, promoting world government, setting up conferences on pacifism, raising money, stuffing envelopes. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the most terrible noises in the world, a horse's scream, broke from Hwin's lips. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

“I am glad to share the world with you,” she says. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Where would he find a place in the world? Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m whacking the chisel with such force now my whole body’s vibrating, the whole world is. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Whatever complications arose in his lordship's course over subsequent years, I for one will never doubt that a desire to see 'justice in this world' lay at the heart of all his actions. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Now I would get my boarding pass, walk through security, then fly to the edge of the world. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She’s the most positive person in the world, and amazing and fun to be around, but in a strange and happy way sometimes she seems to be about nine bricks shy of a full load. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

In some parts of the world a woman with a monthly is unclean but we British cherish our women with the monthlies, oh we do indeed. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Lightning shook the world. We threw many rocks. The Titans and the monsters almost won. Now they are getting strong again. Kampe said so.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Here was a world that was the purest of meritocracies. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I went away to college—Berkeley in the sixties—and I studied, and I marched to change the world, but I did not turn into a boy. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “Have you felt these pillows? They're the deepest pillows in the world!” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I sat in the truck like I had frozen and the world had frozen around me. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two world wars ago, battlefield nurses gave cups of tea to the wounded and it leaked through their bullet holes and killed them. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most good-looking girls made me nervous, but being with Naomi seemed like the most natural thing in the world. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

David knew about plankton from biology—they were also called krill: millions of tiny, some almost microscopic, shrimp-like animals that filled the oceans of the world. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my opinion, if the world were perfect, everyone would wear lab coats in educational settings, but that obviously was not happening. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

At the end of the ad, a caption declared: “This time...vote like your whole world depended on it...NIXON.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“To the world above,” Alec replies, the last thing Mark expected to hear. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It was to Lexington of all places in the world Johnny wanted to go. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They published the images in magazines for the whole world to see. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I know the world of pirated things—stolen videogames have no value because it’s cheaper and less risky to copy them. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But things could always happen over there—it wasn’t the most stable place in the world, after all—and then a little devilish smile came to their lips. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lowered his leg—most likely a world record—and took the flashlight from the dresser to set it on the floor between the two beds. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Sefia felt like every breath coming in and out of her lungs could rattle the entire world. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

And someday the world would refer to me as the greatest scientist who’d ever lived. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

But even if it wasn’t exactly like Cuba, at least it was an island, and no matter where you went in the world, an island was still an island. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

In the real world, Mommy was “Mrs. McBride” or “Mrs. Jordan,” depending on whether she used my father’s or stepfather’s name, but in Rev. Owens’s church, she was Sister Jordan. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except for this sorry reproduction of an Irish pub before us, nothing in this new land bore the slightest resemblance to the world we knew. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The lamps were also lit in the study or library, and I found the Count lying on the sofa, reading, of all things in the world, an English Bradshaw’s Guide. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Sam owed it to me to come home and help Mother run the tavern for a couple of years while I started to make my way in the world. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the high battlements of the gatehouse, the whole world spread out below them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The world was black soil and white wood. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

All sorts of revolutionary changes in technology are postulated for the future, ranging from final control of human disease to solutions of the world food and population problems. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I don’t press the button, the world will end in 140 days. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Can anybody else tell me what their face says to the world?” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

As Mami pulled her feet onto the rungs of her rocking chair and rubbed the goose bumps from her arms, I imagined a world of fascinating creatures slithering underfoot, drawing squiggly patterns on the dirt. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Now what I wanted most in the world was to manage to fall asleep on a rock with an ape snoring in my face. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

When the guests at Tamar’s wedding ate the cream puffs, they could taste the truest thing in all the world at that moment—the baker’s pain. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Nothin’ so good in the world as mull shrimp with lots of onion and brown gravy.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole world is dying to find out who you really are. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

There was nothing in the world you could have done to save him.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

As if the world and its future depended on each doorknob. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Before the world came apart, this would have been a concern. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

And this pressure by the Black Tennis Association and the rest of the world is counterproductive. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hammer kept the gods of Asgard safe from all the dangers that menaced them and the world. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Ready to take on the world, we say.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

This morning I got to wake up next to Arthur, and I can’t believe there was almost a world where that never happened. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t he the handsomest creature in the whole world?” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

What the books said was, as in the case of East o’ the Sun, interesting, but the idea that I could enter this world at any time I chose was even more attractive. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

After each one of the Gran’s proclamations, while everyone else cheered loudly, they barely clapped, as if this was the most boring event in the world. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was living in the most economically vibrant city in the world. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I’ve been listening to burial rites from all over the world. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Until one day, the world forgets to look at you. And then it doesn’t matter anymore.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The world seemed darker when he said it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It’s been estimated that, because of the exponential growth of the world’s population, between 10 and 20 percent of all the human beings who have ever lived are alive now. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He is the only man in the world,” she has said, “whose excuse for never going to a McDonald’s is because they don’t take reservations.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The political, economic, and social institutions most familiar to us today are those of states, which now rule all of the world’s land area except for Antarctica. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

At first glance, the natural world seems incredibly complex, Herschel acknowledged. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“The Jackson Five is the best singing group in the world.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Leah, our world is filled with mystery” was his confident reply. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom is the nicest lady in the world. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The world as a whole might not be black-and-white, Jim, Ophelia, and Paul thought, but there were some situations where it was perfectly clear what needed to be done. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Still, I’m glad to see you’re continuing to follow leads. I can tell you’re putting in hard work. That will take you far in the world.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“You know, if we were in a canoe and had a lunch and a cooler full of pop, we’d think this was the most beautiful place in the world.” The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

"No man can stand before the sun of my life," Dany said,‘"the father of the stallion who mounts the world." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

HARRY: Poor kid thought he had to save the world. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

There are probably other things in the world that the sheep can’t teach me, thought the boy as he regarded the old merchant. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There was everything left. You are still the finest fighter in the world.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, aloud, “He is my home in this world.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's somewhat surprising that I'm a serious contender for the title of world heavyweight champion, not because I'm slow or weak but because I'm a relative newcomer to the sport. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Most times I only hear the word strong when Arthur is talking to Sonny or Henry about the heavyweight champion of the world, Joe Louis, or some other boxer he loves. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

For him, the world—and by that I must mean this very land, his chosen nation—operated on a determined set of procedures, certain rules of engagement. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Curtain became one of the richest men in the world,” Jillson went on with a proud smile. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

But leaving the poverty of Nicaragua to go to the richest country in the world didn’t take much convincing. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I think my mother and father had decided that there were too many secrets in the world. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

As a result of their contact with Muslims, the Europeans began to break out of their sealed-off world. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

She was throwing her soul into the world, uncertain she’d ever get it back. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It looked and smelled like a badger’s hole, and badgers were getting rare in our part of the world. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

A world away from Lamphere and Gardner's quiet deliberations in Arlington Hall, American and Soviet forces in Europe inched toward open hostility. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

One of the consequences of his decampment into the world of fantasy was leaving his meager group of friends—mostly from church—behind. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“When you feel afraid,” his mother had told him, all those years ago, “sing your fears away. Dragons make the most beautiful music in the world. Everyone says so.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

On the blue water, boats sailed or motored as if they were in an entirely different world, and it wasn’t clear, in the bright August light, where water ended and sky began. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told her about the hospital, the secret world we’d discovered by breaking in. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

She said, “I want to go out and see the world. There’s so much. There’s ... just so much.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father’s death had been meaningless, and the violence in this world was meaningless, too. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I thought of the highlighted Whitman: “If no other in the world be aware I sit content, / And if each and all be aware I sit content.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

She was my everything, the person I loved and respected most in my world. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The columns were entered into the Congressional Record, linked to and reprinted on websites and mailing lists all over the world. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The High King could make both worlds far worse than they are, could favor the Unseelie Courts, could sow discord and terror for a thousand years. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They were rounded up by the millions, packed away in prisons, and when released, they were stigmatized for life, denied the right to vote, and ushered into a world of discrimination. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

This extraordinary circumstance—unheard of in the rest of the world—is treated here in America as a basic fact of life, as normal as separate water fountains were just a half century ago. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

When I joined the Marines I pretty much did not know anything about the world outside of our reservation. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most every girl is a star student, loves her friends and family, hopes for world peace. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His Lola had once said the world looks different through newly opened eyes. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Enforcement of the laws that govern supernatural entities living in the known world. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

But her fight against child marriage and her advocacy to end human trafficking are changing the world. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I would think I was procrastinating, when in reality, I was memorizing the geography of the world. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The storm of screams that came through the door made me think that the world was somehow coming to an end. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mind had been shaped by the prairies and ranges, and until the day he died, he would make order of the world with lessons learned from cow ponies, jagged land, and wide-open sky. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Avoid thinking about Farooq and the Nazis and the world is all good. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The tea break was one of the ways the brutal sugar-slave world of the plantations and the new work rhythm of the industrial factory were linked. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

"You're already very pretty. I'm going to make you the most beautiful little girl in the whole wide world." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

We passed the famous Shah Faisal Mosque on the way there, reputedly the biggest mosque in the world, with its giant concrete girders and soaring minarets. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

That should have warned me, but I was not yet wise in the ways of the world or the road. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marcus would rise and release his madness on the world, and she would become his slave. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I wanted you to know that the world in its entirety could never be found in the schools, alone, nor on the streets, alone, nor in the trophy case. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

For one thing, we’d had to persuade the National Park Service and the White House grounds team to tear up a patch of one of the most iconic lawns in the world. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Maeve adored early mornings, when the world was bathed in mist and the sun was still a promise. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The world was a big place in which to go looking for a lost bird. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was in striking contrast to the messy reality of the workaday world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hey—the whole freaking world was built from delusional optimism and folly. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

There are mysteries in this world like Braviary and his family. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I hugged Mama while we watched his final wave through the window, his mustache lifting above that impish smile, as if we had all just pulled a fast one on the world. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I left my motel room and went out to stand in the air of the world. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe when Mom looks at me, she sees someone from a different world too. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But she knew from my application essay that I wanted to take Spanish and that I wanted to travel, so she said, “Jade, St. Francis provides opportunities for our students to travel the world.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He felt as though he were hidden behind a camera lens, watching another world whirl past in shattered fragments. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

"What in the world are you guys arguing about?" The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

No matter what happened, I could always let the world end and the universe forget. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“I mean, there’s no on,* there, and nothing happening. The world only b gan today.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Monks Mound and its fellows were, in part, a shout-out to the world—Look at us! 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Neeley, let’s go up on the roof,” said Francie impulsively, “and see how the whole world looks at the beginning of a year.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And once his show was on TV, everyone in the world practically would know who he was and love him and think he was cool. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Maris led them through the white, hand-sanitized, beeping world of the emergency room. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Caroline and I had never drunk coffee in our lives, and the fact that our mother served us coffee that night made us both realize that our secure, ordinary world was forever in the past. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the world reappears again, we are both standing in a sterile, white space with white walls that stretch to infinity. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Smokies hunted, but they were like the rangers, killing only species that didn’t belong in this part of the world or that had gotten out of control thanks to the Rusties’ meddling. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Before me—like some rolled-out tapestry— was my entire world, beneath a sky as blue as Our Lady’s blessed robes, a contrast to the greening spring that lay abundant everywhere. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

As if all the troubles in the world were not already upon us. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this world you have to have a policy. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since Thomas had seen the words on the wall of the Maze— world in catastrophe, killzotie experiment department—he’d been thinking about them. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I was covering Wimbledon, the world’s premier tennis competition and one of the few events I go to where the crowd never boos and no one is drunk in the parking lot. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We can scare the world, and if we do this project right, we can have a global impact.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

And, as I did, my heart melted around the sweetness and sadness of the world and I responded to my cousin...to life. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, tell me, Joey,” Mrs. Jarzab said, with her face all nice and soft like there was nothing in the world she wanted to hear about but me and the scissors. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a pair of beautiful black eyes that looked out at the world with an old man’s gaze. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad was drunk all the time except when he was in jail; Mom had completely withdrawn into her own world; and Maureen was more or less living with neighbors. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. The world seemed washed of color. It felt pointless.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

At the end of the last Ice Age, much of the world’s population lived in societies similar to that of the Fayu today, and no people then lived in a much more complex society. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

As the months at Manzanar turned to years, it became a world unto itself, with its own logic and familiar ways. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He once told me that he hoped I’d go into the business world with him when I finished college. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who knows if she even believed in her bible at all or if she just preferred a world where hope and creativity and faith trump reason? I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I started appreciating Mother Nature, what she’d done with the world. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As far as he knew, which seemed pretty far, he was the only person still alive who had fought in both of the world wars. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to get her out of my own world back into her own. I thought I was taking her back to her own place.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

“But where are the adults? You don’t tell me the whole world is full of children alone?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in Soweto, my mom enrolled in the secretarial course that allowed her to grab hold of the bottom rung of the white-collar world. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I would earn a world record for getting dressed at the fastest speed known to mankind. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By 10,000 years ago there was not a single mammoth to be found in the world, except on a few remote Arctic islands, most conspicuously Wrangel. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

If teachers did this kind of thing, what kind of world could it be? The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eyes that came to life in the moonblaze of sacristies and witnessed the birth of the world struggled to open against the priest’s grip. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They talked about what it might be like to sail around the world for a year. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Who else would make a world like this, so fill of bondage, blood, and pain? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Money makes the world go round,” he sang. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He barks: "Nothing in the world will grow there." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The entire world was a blur of light and warmth. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

We knew very little about the world, you see, and we were curious. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

As deaths from simple infections rise dramatically, a new sense of teamwork spreads throughout the world. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“I wish your uncle all the luck in the world,” Mr. Galanter said quietly to Billy. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

China had had writing for at least 900 years, and metal tools for at least 1,500 years, and had just invented the world’s first cast-iron production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But I think it was also because we were Indians in what was still, even in the Marines, a white man’s world. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her world had a population of four: herself and her three gaolers, pious and unyielding. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“My experiment has succeeded. The little girl’s gone—vanished—right out of the world.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

It made the world seem so alive to me. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They have made Afghanistan the laughingstock of the world. Now they are working with Osama.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

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

They weren’t even on par with animals, but something low and demonic, a blight on the world, an abomination. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The world could be so much richer than the world we have settled for. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

She was one of the world’s foremost experts on Greek sculpture, and she was in Los Angeles visiting the Getty just before the museum finalized the deal with Becchina. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

There is no firm in the world that has made more money, lawyer for lawyer, over the past two decades. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The building had been created for life, for constant motion, for students rushing back and forth, some confident, most scared, all trying to figure out their place in the world. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Frey walked alone into Odin’s hall and clambered up onto the Hlidskjalf, the throne from which Odin could see everything that happened across the nine worlds. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Mami is still at the window, where she often sits, watching the world go by. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Jeffrey thinks the world of you, and I can see why. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like all the young people who entered that year, she discovered the appeal of nightlong gatherings in cafes, talking about the necessary changes in the world and infecting each other with the passion of ideas. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there were other doorways into other worlds, and a little searching found the way into this. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The motives behind building the new church were twofold: to resurrect the ancient splendor of Byzantium and to show the world the financial wherewithal of die prospering Greek American community. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There was nothing to do but wait—wait for the next meal, for news of the world outside the camp. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wished that everyone in the world wore them. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

And because the Koran, the sacred book of Islam, is written in Arabic, scholars throughout the Muslim world learned to read Arabic and to share their knowledge. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The story had circulated all over the world, and mail, telegrams and telephone calls poured in. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys’ coach and guide through the unfamiliar world where their families had settled was getting hauled off by the police. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“The greatest hunter in the world and you say I am a coward?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

"I think it's one of the best in the world," I said, hearing my voice surge with deep feeling. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

That boom box was a lifeline to a world beyond Chisamba Singles. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The world was washed clean by the winter rain, and it felt new under and above us. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, when the light starts to fade, I get a terrible feeling of loneliness, like maybe I am the only person in the world. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Back and forth you could go, confirming the exact correspondence between reality and image, making and unmaking your own world. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Was I simply too out of it before to fully register the loss of my world? Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The different analysts around the world were conducting an online chat about how to interpret what was going on and what to do about it. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

I don’t think there can be anything worse in the world than not knowing what’s happened to your child—not ever knowing. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The three-toed sloth is not well informed about the outside world. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

If they are correct, and Aspero turns out to be substantially older than now thought, it might win the title of the world’s oldest city—the place where human civilization began. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

When the day came the mood of the world about them had become soft and sad. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

In the chaos of the world I grew up in, those were as appealing to me as Malcolm’s cry for revolution was to his generation. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

This way the French and perhaps the whole world will learn that many Germans don't support Hitler and the war. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The electric lights, the various mechanical pieces spread across the worktable, the shelf of neatly labeled solvents—the tinkerers laboratory is a completely different world than the one I was used to. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

There was a great deal in the world to know. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve had a tough day at the office making the world safe for democracy. I’m hungry.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The world, Reek told himself, this is what the world smells like. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Please pass along this request to the appropriate people in the world of publishing. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

As he knocked he got the weirdest notion: that he was being buffeted by black wings, as if an enormous crow was flying through him, out into the hall and the world beyond. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Extreme marginalization, as we have seen throughout world history, poses the risk of extermination. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It is the best feeling in the world to know that your best friends still love you, no matter what. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I knew it would be you to take it the hardest. It's a lot, Zuri. First Madrina. And now this. But you gotta grow up. It's a big world out there.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Or as she liked to see herself, she was born strong-willed, while a lot of the world was wishy-washy. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

There were telegrams from all around the world, from presidents and prime ministers, but I remember one in particular from a white Cape Town housewife that amused me greatly. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ancestor balanced his weapon, feeling how it became part of his arm, and he touched the ndoro to send a prayer to the spirit world— “You fool!” roared the She Elephant down the tunnel. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I looked out at the world around me and no longer saw nuance. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Anyway, I know May herself believed in spirits from the next world. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

It’s sort of beautiful how a park can surprise me, and it gives me hope that I can surprise the world too. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“There’s a lot of data in this world.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He knew all kinds of secrets, understood the depths of this mysterious new world. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The problem, of course, was that Baba saw the world in black and white. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Your acquaintances, on the other hand, by definition occupy a very different world than you. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel like the biggest jerk in the world. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

We plunged into the Labyrinth and kept running, the howl of the Titan lord shaking the entire world behind us. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I would say they moved up in both economic and social class, though on that later count, they sort of had a foot in both worlds. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The world looked stepped on and drenched, but my sisters ran out squealing like the first free pigs off the ark, eager to see what the flood had left us. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instant pain attacked his chest, and the world swam in circles. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Marie-Laure says, “I heard that the diamond is like a piece of light from the original world. Before it fell. A piece of light rained to earth from God.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

And the world being after all full of strange creatures beyond count, these little people seemed of very little importance. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

And, finally, worked his precise mechanical mind over the highest function of the robot world—the solutions of problems in judgment and ethics. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Now imagine that they start shaking you so fast the world starts bulging and buckling under you. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

From what mountain, what cave, what small last race of people remaining on this world when the rockets came from Earth? The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Pole Star is on the far side of the world,” she said. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

It’s easy to be judgmental about crime when you live in a world wealthy enough to be removed from it. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It’s about a half-mile walk from the square in the center of town, but it seems like another world entirely. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even if Roli becomes the best scientist in the world one day, he won’t have time to fix Lolo the way he wants to. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Very early I figured out there were millions of words in the world. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“A little grease is what makes this world go round. One hand washes the other. Know what I mean? You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

But in effect it was unanswerable even now, since the few scattered survivors from the ancient world were incapable of comparing one age with another. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

To the fiercely inquisitive Greeks, the study of living beings had been intimately linked to the question of the origin of the natural world. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Another, a widow, on the verge of a different sort of departure, in order to dwell, as his father does, in a separate world. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were two worlds as far as we were concerned, separated absolutely in every sense. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it. Look around you,” he says, waving a hand at the surrounding tables. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

There was speculation that during the world’s fair he might have killed dozens of people, most of them young women. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The next night, when all the serious news about wars and oil prices and world food supplies had been talked about on the CBS evening news, the anchorman looked into the camera and smiled. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d read about other young people like me trying their luck in the competitive bounty hunter world. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Would you rather a world without hate or a world without lies? Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

‘So you destroy our ship. You destroy the entire coastline of the world. Once Gaia wipes out human civilization, who’s left to fear you? You’ll still be unknown.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And a performer, just like my mother used to be, touring the country, the world, to tell everyone about the New China that Chairman Mao had built and how it was becoming stronger and stronger. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malcolm X, who’d been dead for twenty-five years, exploded out of the small gatherings of his surviving apostles and returned to the world. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Most of us can't rush around, talking to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

An old history teacher of mine used to accompany that piece of our past with a popular saying: “God made the world, but the Dutch made the Netherlands.” Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“You are such a jerk? Whoever told you that the whole world performs according to your instructions? That’s what started this whole mess—you trying to make poor Cap dance to your tune!” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I wanted to have already crawled through my escape hatch into whatever world lay beyond. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I have no way of knowing if Khalid is even really here, or if he left our town altogether—if he flew right out of Louisiana to travel the world like he’d always wanted to. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“What in the world are you babbling about?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have learned to see the world in gasps. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

People living in these isolated places need to know the outside world cares. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Humming along like he doesn’t have a care in the world. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

“I have the whole world here,” he says, and taps the cover of Darwin. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He lifted his eyes across the river and all the light went out, and he was back again in the world he knew. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

There was a world she used to live in, but she could hardly remember it. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Here’s the thing about Hazel: Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

That when your shoulders cover mine, nothing else in the entire stupid world matters. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Dries already worries about Theo being so much in the art world, with its loose ideas about sex. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The world was spinning so fast, she didn't know where she stood anymore. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z