“I’m going to have fun like I’m five years old.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

During the next 6,500 years there were remarkable technological advances—the invention of the water-wheel and the windmill, for example—but until 400 years ago technological change was slow, and it was frequently reversed. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Ten years he had worked in the same fields she had, and yet he hadn’t aged a day. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

For ten years he came along, but when he left her he was the same man she had married. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He say he still ain’t drunk a cup a coffee and he twenty-one years old. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

For years he’d lived in my mind as a last resort, a lever I could pull when my back was against the wall. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Weeks must have passed, months, maybe even years—I felt the exhaustion creep through me, wrapping itself like a heavy chain around my center. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Indian parents, by contrast, regarded the years before puberty as a time of playful development, and kept their offspring close by until marriage. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Two to three hundred a year, they say, so at least one every couple of days. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today is the hottest day thus far in the year, and that means most everyone will act annoyed as soon as I step into school. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Two days before the lunar new year, Yan Chang woke me when it was still black outside. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

During her years at that well- regarded school, Miss Lumley had been taught a great deal, of both an academic and a philosophical nature. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

In the pristine houses of the High District, bottles that had waited for three years were opened and the new order was toasted. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

So during the summer before her senior year of high school, my parents sent my sister off to Los Angeles—otherwise known as the plastic surgery mecca of the world. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Ms. Blair has been my counselor since last year. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“There is no need to say any more, Miss Granger. Tell me, which of you will be dying this year?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

A little girl about six years old peeked out from behind the base of the statue. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Last year, I always tried to have my gear ready in case I had to make a speedy retreat in the night. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Official stepfather. That house is his house. Don't you know anything, Taylor? Mum and I live there now. Got married last year.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

If Canada had a second hockey league for those children born in the last half of the year, it would today have twice as many adult hockey stars. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

At its head sauntered proud, battle-hardened veterans in turbans, long tunics, and sandals, who had started the struggle many years before. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though I should feel a total failure, my time on the prairie has branded this hope on my heart: next year it will be better. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Interesting" was Walter's euphemism for odd people, and having worked for hundreds of people throughout the county over the years, he'd encountered no shortage of “interesting" people. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Being a Lriday late in June, this was one of the longest evenings of the year, so no one felt in a rush to finish. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

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

Next year’s goal, Antarctica, is in the opposite direction. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you remember the movie Uncle Arthur took us to last year? The one where the werewolf creeps out of the cave to attack the unicorn?” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It’s been a great year and you’ve been a wonderful group of students. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Hiking up the mountain became a father-son tradition; they climbed Old Rag almost every year thereafter. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

What were a few hours of his life next to all the adventures the Lady must have been through in her three hundred-some years? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“God, please let me be dead until the end of the year.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d reached the desktop, with the background picture of all three kids at Halloween last year: Finn as a clown, Emma as a ninja, and Chess as a skeleton. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t been missed, he said, because the Tralfamadorians had taken him through a time warp, so that he could be on Tralfamadore for years, and still be away from Earth for only a microsecond. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

No. Earlier, they were saying it could take years. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Uh-huh. And how long will they stay 'mental'? The term of your natural life? Twenty years? No possibility of parole?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He’s a Limerickman but he has an American accent from his years in Los Angeles. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He had supposed for years that he had no secrets from himself. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Proof of this possibly evil, or at least cantankerous connection, would come just a year later. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“I’ll tell you,” Presto said, “the older I get, the younger college kids look. If you asked me, I’d say you were still in high school. What year you in?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

That same year, CIA operatives made contact with a senior official in the Soviet Foreign Ministry who was stationed at the Russian embassy in Bogotá, Colombia. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mediocre would explain all the years of rejection. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

One morning when Ishmael was eight years old a pair of surveyors had showed up with their transits and alidades and knotted red flagging everywhere. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Neither is a native insect but both have been in this country for many years without creating a situation calling for desperate measures. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

If Harry, Ron, and Hermione were wet, it was nothing to how these first years looked. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I’d survived my first four years of school, hadn’t scared the girls too much, and was about to make my way in the big school down the road. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

‘He has been doing that for many years,’ said Strider. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

This year for the first time he sold his grain as soon as it was harvested, and when he felt the silver upon his palm he gripped it hard in defiance. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I thought about the years I still had left to live and decided that without her it wasn’t worth it, for I would never find another woman with her green hair and underwater beauty. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

During those early years, I was the last to fall asleep. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The draft to determine this year’s players in the official Warcross championships?” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I was ten years old, and it was the first time I was really old enough to pack for myself. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In fact, Hevelius lived for another nine years, so he cannot have been that frail when Halley saw him. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I think you have slipped in any number of ways since last year. I understand for example that there was gaming in my dormitory this summer while you were living there.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, through the same flush war years, John Hughes had hustled profitably enough to be able to open a pretty good gambling house. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty years later, the General Assembly passed a law prefiguring the Nazi requirement that Jews wear yellow Stars of David. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

A couple times a year, the soldiers set sections of the forest ablaze to create more farmland. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, to ensure I don't crash again, I'll— Seriously ... no women in like, years. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been in that group for the last eight years, since first grade—my mother made sure of it. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It would be many years before mathematicians began to free calculus from its mystical underpinnings, for the mathematical world was busy fighting over who invented calculus. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Inside is a dead butterfly—one that fluttered over the barbed wire and into our classroom a year ago. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

But the Supreme Court’s ruling on the health care law last year, while upholding it, allowed states to choose whether to expand Medicaid. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Next to it, his pride and joy hung framed on the wall: a signed Missy Elliott poster that he’d gotten for Christmas the previous year. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They would speak four or five times a year and, sometimes, Baba would pass me the receiver. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll go away for a couple of years, come back, and say I was kidnapped, and mom will never know and she’ll just be happy to see me.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

One of every three babies born to a black mother in Durham died within the first year, and surviving to adulthood was no guarantee of a long life. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was a year ahead of me, and this past year, my senior year, he’d started at the university in town. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the popular kids kissed up to him all year. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

A Lakota winter count memorialized the year 1784 with a stark image: a pox-scarred man, alone in a tipi, shooting himself. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Yelling at Rosa had felt amazing, like releasing a thousand years of pent-up steam, but her body was still shaking from it. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

His father claimed that the storms were worse every year, but Nailer had never seen anything like the monster bearing down on them. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

As I shook my head, Julian said: “Are you talking about the baby chicks in science? Those get donated to a farm at the end of every school year.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

At the end of the year she reminded us of how bright we all were and how it was our responsibility to do something with that brightness. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The sum is approximately a year, so they have no time for school. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother was, at this time, some thirteen years of age, big with child, and in little state to refuse. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A couple of times a year, I would come to find, a Sing Sing officer was hauled off in handcuffs by the state police. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would be out in four years, maybe less. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Milo took the shiny pencil from his pocket and quickly calculated that, at the rate they were working, it would take each of them eight hundred and thirty-seven years to finish. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

She reported it, although years later Abramov said that the interpreter confused the word “pork” for “pigs” and that Bobby was referring to the food he was eating at a restaurant. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

We’re barely halfway through the second semester of junior year, and all I can think about is getting the hell out of here and going to college. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Debussy’s 'Gardens in the rain’, though, was composed in 1903, a good thirty years after the Impressionist painters had first begun exhibiting their works to a disconcerted Parisian public. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Three years ago for her birthday, my dad surprised her by hiring part-time help for the store so she wouldn’t have to go in every day. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

It’s 2020, and Texas is a battleground state for the first time in years. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

They were young—Robin especially, who was four years behind most of the players on Luma’s youngest team. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Gerald Black had taken his degree in etheric physics the year before and, in common with his entire generation of physicists, found himself engaged in the problem of the Drive. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

He fell into an exhausted sleep, and woke up to a house that was full of aunts and uncles, cousins and old friends, all eager to hear about his year. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

One year, when my parents learned from my uncles in the military that my tribe was under threat, we packed up and moved to Burundi. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

If anyone had tried to tell me a year ago that blue-green-eyed Jack would break my heart, I wouldn’t have believed them. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

After a hard fall from the rigging twenty years before, he’d claimed he could predict the duration of a storm by the ache in his bones. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He was at least fifteen years older than me, not particularly well educated, and he hailed from a small rural community. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Father agreed to finance me for a year and after various delays I came east, permanently, I thought, in the spring of twenty-two. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Marly could find on each tree, especially on the biggest ones, where holes had been made for years and years. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

G’ma gave it to him when he was five years old and obsessed with an old cartoon he used to watch at her house about a dog who liked to solve mysteries. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

“I had many years before these hands could learn to be Cealdar hands. You are lucky. You will work here.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Most of the stories under those headlines paid scant heed to Shady’s years of grueling labor. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“And finally, I must tell you that this year, the third-floor corridor on the right-hand side is out of bounds to everyone who does not wish to die a very painful death.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

It took three years to build the orphanage. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He'd led the American League in stolen bases over the last three years. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I lived at number twenty-three Blenheim Road for five years, blissfully happy and utterly wretched. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said nothing of these things to Hasina, though, whose own father was an ill-tempered taxi driver who in two or three years would almost certainly give her away. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

For years after the war I searched for my brother Tsalig in crowds. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Mr. and Mrs. K had lived by the dead sea for twenty years, and their ancestors had lived in the same house, which turned and followed the sun, flower-like, for ten centuries. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Transportation it was called: for five years, for ten years, for life. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He’d even illuminated the spine with flakes of leftover gold leaf it took him three years to save. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Nasya Boulos. Everyone loved her. She tortured me for four years. No matter what I did, she made certain I knew I would never be as beautiful or as popular as she was.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She pulled a strand of hair into her mouth, a nervous habit I thought she’d broken years ago. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

To her this meant the temperature was zero, the point every year when she began to feel chilly. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had won and been proud to win the Galbraith Football Trophy and the Contact Sport Award, and there were two or three other athletic prizes he was sure to get this year or next. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could practically see the scars left by years of rejection and apartness. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two years ago her father disappeared into the preparation of mysterious consultation documents for the Home Office. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But the image of that donkey remained in his head all year. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Steamer crossings to Europe were resumed, after being suspended during four years of war, and new routes, this time to North America, became the rage. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In part, the bonding occurred because the correspondence of their twilight years permitted both sages to confront and argue out their different notions of the history they had lived and made together. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

For the next 35 years, Japanese occupation forces tried to eradicate Korean culture and to replace Korean with the Japanese language in schools. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He closed his eyes and imagined Luke’s hand being raised in victory for the hundredth time in the last four years. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

‘It has been five years since I last saw Karl Marx.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

There was a harvest festival there every year at the end of the summer, and Mama sold a lot of onions. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The story had its start four years earlier, in May of 1792, when Washington approached Madison to help him compose a valedictory address. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Even after the conquistadors seized Qosqo, the empire regrouped in the hinterlands, where it fought off Spanish forces for another forty years. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I’m forty-three years old, and a writer now, still dreaming Linda alive in exactly the same way. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he made a good recovery, he might expect to live another three years, and he looked forward to the peaceful days that he would spend in the corner of the big pasture. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“Bells, I fed myself for seventeen years before you got here,” he reminded me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

You didn’t get all Excellents on your report card every year, and win the chess championships too, without being really smart. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

She could take dance classes and go to the community pool, sure, but she never stuck around long enough to make real friends, much less relive memories with them years later. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I remembered years of being overlooked, of party invitations being “lost in the mail.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

That year, two-thirds of O High’s students made it. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“We count on makin’ up a certain number of losses each year. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boy, I hadn't had a skate key in my hand for years. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The law enforcement methods described in chapter 2 have been employed almost exclusively in poor communities of color, resulting in jaw-dropping numbers of African Americans and Latinos filling our nation’s prisons and jails every year. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Never again, as in the last centuries, would Ottoman officials arrive in the village every year, carting off the strongest boys to serve in the Janissaries. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I remembered how years ago, when Father Russell in our church taught me that God had made me, I’d asked him, ‘If God made me, who made God?’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abel blew his warm breath against the lock before opening Sommensen’s warehouse—a mildewed barn built of creosoted timbers, put up more than fifty years earlier. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

So many years around the Commandant would make me jumpy too. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

"You could have come over ten years ago, if you'd wanted to," the wife said. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He never forgot that, and finally, years later, he understood what it was about white men and Indian women: the disgrace of Indian women who went with them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Fourteen years later, the question seemed much more important. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

In memory of the Golden Age, when he reigned in Italy, the great feast of the Saturnalia was held every year during the winter. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are born and die in periods of tens of millions of years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took a thousand years for the idea to catch on in remote and backward Europe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were both sentenced to five years in adult prison. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Forty years of radio and twenty years of television must have this impact. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surely, if the chief had just had an heir after years of waiting, people would be rejoicing. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Not a year later, Bobby’s sister, Joan, then age sixty, died suddenly of a stroke, and Bobby once again felt the pangs of not being able to show his respects at a family member’s graveside. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They were obsolete, last year’s weather, but Cora adored the old almanacs for containing the entire world. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

About 30 percent of his research over the years had focused on driving issues, but in the more recent years, it had been the bulk of his research. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Ma told me, “Poor Mr. Leroy gunn be carving for years to get all that down. But look, baby, some of them words is mine!” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

She warned us because it was the same war still going on years after she crossed the ocean and had us. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But a quest to ...” Grover swallowed- “I mean, couldn’t the master bolt be in some place like Maine? Maine’s very nice this time of year.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Which of us, I wonder, knew more about that Harlem ghetto “sub-culture”? I, who had hustled for years in those streets, or that black snob status-symbol-educated social worker? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mam opens all the windows to air the house and let out the smell of the hair oil and the years of no air. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Birthdays were the only day of the year I was allowed to eat as much as I wanted. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Okay, Simone, just like practice, I thought, remembering the mantra Kyla Ross had given me at my first major assignment three years before. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Without even asking, my mother knew that meant including the Jongs’ children: their son Vincent, who was thirty-eight years old and still living at home, and their daughter, Waverly, who was around my age. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

For someone who insisted for the past five years that she was never having children, she seems ridiculously eager to be having children. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Even a year after treatment, a spring die-off of songbirds occurred and much good nesting territory lay silent and unoccupied. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I thought about that once, a couple of years ago,” he said. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Within the scholarly community in recent years, the main tendency has been to take the latter side, or to sidestep the controversy by ignoring mainstream politics altogether. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He tested a piece of pitchblende, the principal ore of uranium, and found it to be 700 million years old–very much older than the age most people were prepared to grant the Earth. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Hey! How come your daughter is seventeen years old and if you put a sack over her face you couldn’t tell she was Japanese from anybody else on the street?” Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, form a line,” Professor McGonagall told the first years, “and follow me.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He had learned these three arts and nothing else during the diligent, assiduous years of his youth. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But Emperor Zu did not live an extra nine hundred and ninety-nine years,” the stonecutter said. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Hannah had spoken as though her husband, so many years dead, were still here in the little house. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, now that that’s out of the way—I think we can all safely say that this was the craziest year of school any of us has ever experienced.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

If our rice production is increased this year it is because Pol Pot made it happen. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two more years to college, and I already get letters in the mail from all the historically black colleges, not to mention the state schools and even an Ivy. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A number of years ago I had some experience with being alone. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, so I was wondering if you could tell me more about what Olga said when you saw her? Do you remember what year it was?” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Boxer’s twelfth birthday was due in the late summer ot the following year. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

A year later British forces struck even harder, overwhelming the Cherokee and destroying their capital, Etchoe. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

After the boys completed their Reich Labor Service, they reported for two years of military service, either with the Wehrmacht, as the regular German army was called, or with the SS. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

For about twenty years Mr. Fenchel had done hand tailoring in Salinas. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The pay was good, the requirements easy: she was expected to live in Princeton and use the library and give a public talk at the end of the year. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

John Joly of Dublin strenuously insisted well into the 1930s that the Earth was no more than eighty-nine million years old, and was stopped only then by his own death. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Seven years of loving Miss Patty Cake and now not one mention of her. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every year, each boy received a ration card. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the years while she had waited she had planned when she killed her husband to die with him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Phantoms not heard from in a thousand years rousing slowly from their sleep. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Finally, after more than seven years, I tasted the icy tang of snow again! Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Right now the Appalachians are shrinking on average by 0.03 millimeters per year. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“This looks like the very same spot where I caught that nice mutton with your daddy, gotta be twenty-five, thirty years ago.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The last time he was here was two years ago, when Georgie graduated from high school. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I felt as if I had come out of a dark age, and wished I had not wasted two years in Karhide. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had attempted several careers, as soldier, ranch hand, mechanic, thief, the last of which had earned him a sentence of three to five years in Kansas State Penitentiary. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shook his head once from side to side, just as Jenny had back in Rhode Island, one hundred years ago. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was amazing how Waverly still sounded the way she did twenty- five years ago, when we were ten and she had announced to me in that same voice, “You aren’t a genius like me.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But he could perfectly well live for years, as far as that goes. Born and bred in a briar patch, Brer Fox.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

First wife died of cancer five years ago. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all these years, I still woke up dreaming of fires, of screams, of helplessness. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I tell her Tet is coming and luck starts over every new year. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Between 1927 and 1928, illegal liquor imports fell by an estimated sixty percent—from 11 million gallons a year to 5 million. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

We stayed there a full year before Will passed. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

She is about 28 years of age, of rather a light complexion, has high cheek bones, is slender in her person, and very neat in her appearance. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He's only younger than Needles by a year, so it's more like they're twins, but the kind that look different. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“It’s been five years for me,” he said. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the dress I wore when we left Cuba a year ago. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

In the last few years we were wrenched away from this way of looking at it, and arrived at something like general agreement that we had it wrong. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At fifty years old and many years into her second career, she reinvented herself as a computer programmer. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It was amazing to April to think that so little time had passed—it seemed like years and years. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

It must have been all those years of lugging pots of stew around the kitchen. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Professor McGonagall was leading a long line of first years up to the top of the Hall. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Dunno how Mum and Dad are going to afford all our school stuff this year,” said George after a while. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“They did the same with us, and my boy is only ten years old.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It can vary depending on temperature, rainfall, sunlight, and the time of year. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The Dream lives twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, twelve months a year. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My original plan was to play a sport each season for all four years of high school, but the softball team was tough. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“You know what? Every year since you were eight, you’ve gotten twice as pretty as you were the year before.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

After just three dates, the two of us, sixteen years old at the time, decided to get more acquainted one sunny afternoon at the previously mentioned spot on the bank of the White River. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

When I was born, my mother hadn’t seen her family in three years, but she wanted me to know them and wanted them to know me, so the prodigal daughter returned. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Just five and a half years of hard living. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Even in those early postwar years, Harvey distinguished himself with "an excellent knowledge of Russian espionage and Communist activities," according to a former colleague. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then the summer came, and the one year point from when we’d first arrived. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

We ate standing up for near to a year before we had all three chairs. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“My mom bought a Popsicle mold last year, at the end of the summer,” I explain. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“My uncle was looking for cattle that could survive drought and hard years.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

No way could that little country bank carry us another year. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

She was no longer the opulent woman he had left years ago. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sidewalk in front of our building has been crumbling for years, and no one has ever bothered to fix it. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

How had I spent a whole year at Lynbrook without ever crossing paths with him? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

It would be years before any of them could assume their responsibilities. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Hopping from refuge to refuge, paleo-Indians could have made their way down the coast at any time in the last forty thousand years. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The school year finally ended, and Basel and Muhammad raced home carrying their certificates. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The title of the draft book was On Motion, but the draft bears little resemblance to the book Galileo published under the same title some years later. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Bede started his history with the year 60 BC—60 years before Dionysius’s reference year. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Of course it may be tens of thousands of years before that day comes. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Train came through with the initial funding, and in January 1868 Stanton and Anthony turned their backs on twenty years of work in the abolition movement to begin publishing the Revolution. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I’ve spent a year training my forces! When the Princess Andromeda arrives at the mountain, they’ll be the best—” “Ha!” the General said. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Because Marina Raskova was at least five years older than most of them, and in some cases ten years older, they thought of her as a teacher and an authority. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Early in my senior year at Whitney Young, I went for an obligatory first appointment with the school college counselor to whom I’d been assigned. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She’s probably ten or fifteen years younger than me, twenty- two, twenty-three, and she’s real pretty, but why’s she wearing all that goo on her face? The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

For the longest time, for years after he should have known better, Will really believed he had won. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“No. I told him we'd been married four years. You see, darling, if I marry you I'll be an American and any time we’re married under American law the child is legitimate.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

That memory, of Obinze’s mother saying “translate it” all those years ago, seemed even more precious now that she had passed away. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

True, he belonged to that category of people whose ancestors had inhabited the Western Hemisphere for thousands of years. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Many years later, after she was dead and he was living in the United States, he would tell me that he loved his mother. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Robbie, I’d learn many years later, had sued Northwestern University for discrimination, having registered for a choral music workshop there in 1943 and been denied a room in the women’s dorm. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I was twelve years old, old enough to separate from my family and live with the Huangs. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had gone along without her for years, but she was back now. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“No, but I didn’t go to college for four years.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, first time in seventeen years,” Mom said, with not a whole lot of enthusiasm. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Milkman had stretched his carefree boyhood out for thirty-one years. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had learned some good lessons in those four years at the Littles’. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Paul Marshall had seen her too, but had not recognized her, and nor had Aunt Hermione or Uncle Cecil who had not met her in years. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Over the course of the last five years, the lake’s remarkably unchanged and I’m almost unrecognizable. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Like that day in July, almost nine years back, when the beautiful men were cold. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten years my senior, Gaur was a clerk, interpreter, and messenger. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out the Cowboys had won the Super Bowl last year, so they were the best team in the league. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

When Tom was nine years old he worried because his pretty little sister Mollie had an impediment in her speech. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sealed away on the pig farm, Shin heard nothing about the street trading, corruption, and extralegal intercity travel that would—in less than two years' time—help him escape. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I intend to have another small place of my own next year. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

By our third year, services were held in the courtyard, which we preferred. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you all right? Where have you been all these years? Why didn’t you come back? Why did you leave us?” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the ground, two boys of about nine or ten years of age were gathering discarded beer bottles and mashed fruit. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

And the indignant hum erupted as soon as they’d entered the grounds of last year’s fair. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

But it had been almost half a year since we’d cleared the First Gate, and the Jade Key’s location still remained a mystery. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She was sixty-four years old, with hair in a knot no larger than a walnut, and she looked almost as narrow from the front as she did from the side. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The kind of contact she hadn’t had in years, wrapping around and around her like a bandage, until all the broken things inside her were held fast, secure in the loop of Archer’s arms. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I made friends easily, in part because Princesse had gone to the school, but also because people recognized me from choir performances we had held there over the years. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

By the second half of sophomore year, that name clearly no longer fit. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Moreover, less than three months after my arrival in Copenhagen I was asked to propose plans for the following year. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The toilet leaked for five years until a clever and handsome guest fixed it with a piece of chewing gum. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the two years that Samuel was alone in America, he lived with an old family friend of his mother’s. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I’m afraid that for the rest of my two or two hundred years I will still have all these questions and I will never fit in. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Netscape’s first commercial browser—which could work on an IBM PC, an Apple Macintosh, or a Unix computer—was released in December 1994, and within a year it completely dominated the market. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

But in that case, I would have the consolation of winning my bet, which would bring me four years of the magazine Private Eye. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the drawing, she was standing on a green lawn that looked exactly like the yard she’d spent the past twelve years playing in and running through. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The ones who cared enough, Lena and Corinthians, the living proof of those years of undressing his wife, did not dare. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said that before coffee shops were popular, there was nowhere for kids like her to go, except the Big Boy, and that was old until this year. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered that word from a vocabulary list last year. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I had never forgotten the children I’d seen sorting trash at the dump all those years earlier. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The smell of last year’s oak leaves filled the air. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The family prayer remembered, echoing through the years. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

With this enactment Millet hoped to carry visitors “back 400 years”—despite the steam tugboats that would nudge the Spanish ships toward shore. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Tuesday morning marked Emily’s second first day of school this year. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Yet Bloom and his wife had existed on tenterhooks with each other for years now. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow is the first day of junior year, and you’d think it was my first day as a freshman, the way my stomach is turning. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

His quickness and address struck everyone favorably, and so an old clockmaker eagerly agreed to take him on—especially when he told him that he had already served Mr. Lapham two years. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

What would it be like to lose a husband of so many years, I wondered. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

We wait for approximately a year before the nurse calls us back to the consultation room, and for about a lifetime before a short woman in a big sweater dress appears through the door. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Every year, for nine years, he started school sometime in January, after the cotton season was over. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

It lasted between six months and a year, he said a bit vaguely. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Remembering from last year how Haymitch’s gifts are often timed to send a message, I make a note to myself. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Started at third base my junior and senior year. No one cared that he was gay—not the players, not the coaches, not the fans.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Not surprisingly, it took years to solve the riddle of the orbit of Mars, with Kepler moving in stages away from the idea of a perfectly circular orbit centred on the Sun. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

"For infinity," says Gerhard, who is nearly four years older than Helmuth and knows about heavenly things like planets and stars and suns and moons. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

I almost woke him, but then I decided that I was sixteen years old and could make up my own mind. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

By eighteen years old, other teenagers have separated from their parents. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s cold and dank, with piles of pelts that I’m guessing haven’t seen the light of day in years. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

As proof he showed them the scar on his foot which in other years they had both seen many a time. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also supporting the belief that Bobby had experienced the ritual was the fact that, many years later, he gave an old chess clock and chess set to his Hungarian friend Pal Benko, a grandmaster. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, we lost study privileges for four years. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had fifteen days left, and if we got caught, we’d just have to start senior year with some work hours. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He explained that he had been a vegetarian for sixteen years. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Though she has lived in Toronto for over thirty years, her French-speaking mind still slips on occasion on the understanding of English sounds. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It was like we had this perfect year and a half,” I said. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I do not hope that this will be the one, for hoping is a foolish game. But if it burns six more days it will be my best lamp in these ten years.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Light Hair was only a few years older than you when this happened,” Grandpa Nyles said to Jimmy. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Foragers relied on dozens of species to survive, and could therefore weather difficult years even without stocks of preserved food. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tessie who for almost two years now had taken care of an old lady who wouldn’t get out of bed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

That spiders do not have to dine regularly and that some can thrive as long as two years without a bite. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

And over the years we never spoke of this insult. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first it was a couple of pounds a year, undetectable even to him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it still was, after all these years. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I’ve made a promise to myself that this year will be different. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It had only been a few days, a blink in my collective sixteen years of life, but I didn’t need to see his face to know soft concern would be there. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They had years and years of experience between them, but they still had a lot to learn before they would be ready. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

She tried to get him last year, but old Gibbler had bigger and better plans for his one and only daughter. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Thus in the immediate postwar years he was especially keen about the possibility of solving the structures of proteins, the most complicated of all molecules. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“That was a tough year. I wasn’t liked at all,” he later said. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Then, once Donald died, she decided to become a painter, and had a pretty good career the last thirty years of her life, as an artist. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He seemed to have been stunted, mentally, at no more than five or six years of age. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It was written a thousand years ago and is twice the length of Homer’s Odyssey and Iliad combined. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“How much are artichokes selling for this year ?” “It looks like a very good year for artichokes. The crops were very bad.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It must be seven—no, eight years ago. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of the summer before my senior year, Roberto and Darlene got married with her mother’s approval but against her stepfather’s wishes. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I used to get all A’s in Tai’s class last year. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Two pennies was the same as a loaf of bread, and I couldn’t count all the times that I had been hungry in the last year. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A girl about eight years old was sitting cross-legged next to Mrs. O’Leary, scratching the hellhound's ears. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“There. That’s better. So tell me, what grade are you going into next year?” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But the Indian Health Service funded major dental work only once a year, so I had to have all ten extra teeth pulled in one day. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

That year Zeitoun became increasingly determined to find the right woman. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She had passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He had seen many strange cars in familiar driveways over the years, all of them with backseats big enough for a boy and a trash bag filled with whatever stuff he could manage to grab. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I worked odd jobs at the market, at pubs, ran errands, whatever people needed me to do, and a few more years went by. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He had once dribbled a basketball lefthanded to and from school for an entire year because he had heard Bob Cousy say that a great guard must be able to dribble well with either hand. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My sister had her last year and said she’s totally nice.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

It, too, had been trapped in the ice since the previous year, and although not crushed it was badly damaged. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Mesopotamia had a legacy of astronomical observation going back at least a thousand years before the classical era. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

They tell themselves that this is the year things will happen, never realizing that things are always happening; they’re just happening without them. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

And the farmer called back, “I would sooner sell my wife than this ox which is but three years old and in its prime,” and he ploughed on and would not stop for Wang Lung. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“That is the funniest thing I have heard this whole year.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He says that forty years ago the French had a colony at Fort Caroline in Florida. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

During all of her four years of going to school, she was enchanted by numbers and depressed by words. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In less than twelve years they baptized with the name Aureliano and the last name of the mother all the sons that the colonel had implanted up and down his theater of war: seventeen. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It’s more than two months into freshman year, so I can officially say that. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

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

I round up her crystal collection, which has done nothing but gather dust for six years, and I box it up and take it to the attic. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

‘It is my shoulder. The wound aches, and the memory of darkness is heavy on me. It was a year ago today.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“He’s been asking my mama to marry him for the last year,” Peaches said. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty years later, in 1612, Galileo found himself in a dispute with Aristotelian philosophers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Imagine a time hundreds of thousands of years ago. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Could his parents find some way to explain a “new” child already twelve years old? Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was surprised at such affection after all these years, but then, in the stone walls I had built between my present and my past, I had forgotten how close we once were. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But...you can’t expect me to do in a year what no one has ever done before ” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

At the end of every school year each teacher was required to have a meeting with the principal. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

It had been years since they’d fought openly—since Lio, wasn’t it?—but recently their hot little exchanges had started up again. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Pm to wait five years, then give it to his parents,” said Archie. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Not only I have suffered during these long, lonely, wasted years. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, how the plan had taken a slow shape in his numbed mind, until that day three years ago when he had met Pikes. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

For years, Nicole had submitted to the relaxers and her mother’s big tub of Icon Pass Hair Grease. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Jack lost his aunt Hinda to cancer fifteen years after she came to Kansas City. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

No reason to mention my peculiarities, my wandering in the maze these many years, shut away from sight. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

By 1906, the year Anthony died, women in England were using civil disobedience in the battle for their voting rights. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

None of them had been to Coney Island in years, and it looked more like an alien planet than their childhood stomping ground. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

He did not think it omened well that he should dream that dream again after so many years. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The day elections were announced, our first free ones in thirty-one years. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But gradually, as the months and years went by, if they’d not been placed elsewhere, they were shunted farther and farther back, to the dark, low-ceilinged, airless rooms at the tail of the house. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I told her, “Also, did you know that if you yell for nine years, you’ll produce enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

According to Grandma, a hundred years ago a tribe of Apaches had fought the U.S. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

During the Vietnam War, John and Marti Peterson spent three perilous years together in neighboring Laos, where John trained and advised a guerrilla army to fight the communist insurgency there. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

At the head of Miller Bay, beyond the mud flats, lived Captain Jonathan Soderland, who’d plied his decrepit windjammer, the C. S. Murphy, to the Arctic each year on trading expeditions. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

All through my growing-up years, she kept singing it, one way or the other. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Ten years or a couple days, depending on how you count it.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

De Roos was supposed to have seen her at a news conference last year on subway crime, held down inside the station where she sold tokens. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But do you know how long it took men to build it? Eight whole years. My goodness, I would have starved to death waiting that long. I can make a web in a single evening.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“The rains are hitting everyone hard this year,” Mister Hertzoon said. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The record had been set three years ago when an artifact called the Cataclyst was auctioned off. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

‘I grew three and a fourth inches just in the last year,’ she said. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“In your very first year of being a victor, you get to be a mentor in a Quarter Quell!” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the days that followed—and then the months and years, as he grew into a man—he was rarely to be seen without one open in front of his face. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

This March, however, I had written Delbriick that I wanted another Cambridge year. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Kira remembered that spot, where just last year some threads had pulled and torn and her mother had carefully coaxed the broken threads free. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard Dante's voice as I listened to his parents talk about their year in Chicago. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The result was that the wives stayed in the villages, seeing their husbands every five years or so if they were lucky—though sometimes there were longer separations, as with Mother and Father. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It happened that there was in the yard a pile of timber which had been stacked there ten years earlier when a beech spinney was cleared. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Even the shortest sentence, three years, was more than I could imagine. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

There are whole years of Time magazine to toss out. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And in a year...I smiled, seeing a pristine, imaginary manuscript floating in mid-air, with Esther Greenwood typed in the upper-right-hand corner. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I know enough guys who’ve gone up for burglary—the usual sentence is five, six years tops. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s time you knew the whole story. When I brought you home with me six years ago, after the fire, your mama was tried on child abandonment charges and was sent to jail.” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know what that is! It’s a boogeyman! Had one under my bed for years!” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

If you count all the chickens, pigs, and fish, there are hundreds of millions of food animals raised on factory farms every year. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I hated it so much the first year they called me the Bathroom Bomber. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

He liked George Orwell’s work, and for years held on to his copies of Animal Farm and 1984; he also read and admired Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Second, among Mediterranean zones, western Eurasia’s experiences the greatest climatic variation from season to season and year to year. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

This was to get “cash money,” a thing that all Texans were short of in those years right after the Civil War. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had insisted Grandma learn to use a gun to protect herself because they had lived in an isolated area in the early years of their marriage. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has read Around the World in Eighty Days until the Braille is soft and fraying; for this year’s birthday, her father has bought her an even fatter book: Dumas’s The Three Musketeers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I believe Reynie is wondering,” said Mr. Benedict, “why the Sender would wait all this time to boost the power if he could have done so years ago. Am I right?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Nancy from chemistry class told me she had never been outside of Chicago until two years ago, when she went to Wisconsin. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I like to see my students applying themselves, but don’t mistake a few weeks of practice for years of it.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“I want no assistance from you,” he told Rowan, the emphasis on the word “you” filled with more vitriol than anyone had expressed to Rowan in all his seventeen years. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“There is nothing we can say to make you believe that we’ll be here for you. You’ll only learn it by living with us year after year after year.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It was an honest gesture, but it wasn’t much of a Christmas that year. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last few years have been truly tough on me and my family. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Silence had enshrined the subject of Olanna with each month, each year, that passed without their bringing it up. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Saint Sarah’s family moved here two years ago, when Fizz and I had learned to actually pray during prayers. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

For years, we were not permitted to receive funds except from our families, so that poor prisoners rarely had money for books or tuition. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This didn’t get any answer, either, so he said, “The fields and orchards around Dwelholm are beautiful at this time of year.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“Give them to your son. You’ve got birthdays and Christmases taken care of for a couple of years with all this. It’s good stuff any motorcycle enthusiast would love.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She was released after a year and immediately bought a one-way bus ticket to California. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Do you think, for the past twenty-two years since marrying your father, I’ve had a minute to myself to be lazy?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The friends his parents have collected for almost thirty years are in attendance, to pay their respects, cars from six different states lining the whole of Pemberton Road. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Adams had spent most of his retirement years denouncing such contrivances as gross distortions of history. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Most of the other kids broke their lunch boxes, or lost them, so they got new ones every year. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

In many modern dairy farms a milk cow usually lives for about five years before being slaughtered. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would pay off the loan and have enough for the next year’s planting. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

But in 1892, when Wells was thirty years old, her world was shattered. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The king now returned to the Hornburg, and slept, such a sleep of quiet as he had not known for many years, and the remainder of his chosen company rested also. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The little boy, who ’peared to be ’bout five years old, was blubbering and churning his legs up and down like he was still on the run but he waren’t moving nowhere. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He frowned, looked at his own messenger bag, which he’d had for a year, and shrugged. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

But she hid that feeling by sending Hezekiah who was the best imitation of Joe that his seventeen years could make. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I was more excited about Hermione, even though the person in the costume looked about thirty years old. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

We’ve laid up a two-year food supply, so that even if we don’t succeed in growing a good crop the first year, we won’t go hungry. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

But I have kept the book, through many years and many moves, always on a prominent shelf, and have never once held it in my hands without thinking of Volpe and rereading his words. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then young Wilkie took over for a while, but only for a couple of years. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Scientists over the years used both the parallax and the radar methods and got the same answer: 238,000 miles from the earth to the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when Lincoln himself piped up at Gettysburg, he began with the words: “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth...” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

He thought about Daemon, a ninth-grade classmate who didn’t make it to the end of the year. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Two years ago they were first in the state. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know her too from a few years ago. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

This move would bring us to a total of five moves in ten years. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

My mother found a tailor who sewed a pair of pants for me from my bolt of cloth—my first new trousers in nearly six years. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

And yet Grandmother had said the whole business had been settled years ago. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not everybody gets a catalog, of course, but anyone who places an order with Sears during the year gets one, so there’s lots to load up. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not only that, but when I spoke, just now, of Odysseus’ years of toil on my behalf and all he had to endure—the boy broke down and wept into his cloak.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

All those twinkling lights, every star in the sky, could have burned out years ago—the entire night sky could be empty this very minute, and we wouldn’t even know it. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Once a year, Luke, Richard and I would help Grandpa round up a dozen or so to take to the auction in town, where they’d be sold for slaughter. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He reached out for years, but I didn’t appreciate it at first, and James might not, either. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I have devoted four years of hard work to my coach and my team. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

For some reason, I feel like I’ll do better than I have the past two years. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Most of these items were over forty years old, and so free digital copies of them could be downloaded from the OASIS. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

In almost twelve years, this is the first photo Scoob’s ever seen of the guy. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

“It’ll be strange having just three of them in the house next year,” Mrs. Richardson was saying. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Nice way to meet your dad for the first time in ten years. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Gussie was three years old at this time and big for his age. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within a few thousand years, virtually all of these giants vanished. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was the year all our parents’ warnings about thin ice and frigid water became true. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

You think you can hold on to this thing for twenty years? Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

There was one of a little girl around five years old, with short, curly hair and these solemn eyes staring straight into the camera without smiling. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was one of my better finds for the year. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Thirty-eight as you count the years; a shriveled sixty as far as my emotional outlook on life is concerned. Am I a psychologist for nothing?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Freak gets this faraway look and he says, "I'm not sure. Dr. Spivak, she's my doctor, she says maybe a year or two." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Three years later he married a Puerto Rican from the Bronx. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Three or four more years and she’ll be a pretty little thing, useful to have around the place. We’ll have to fatten her up a bit, though.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Every year the river floods—not a disaster, but a season. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Mr. Reese, who lived on the first floor in my building and managed a Negro team, thought I might be able to play baseball, in a few years if the Negro Leagues were still around. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Each year, the university holds a program for freshmen known as Odyssey, in which students explore social justice issues. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Would the war still be raging in five years, when Robert hit draft age? Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

"Several years," he answered in a gratified way. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

We don’t go back to school until after the first of the year, and to celebrate, there’s a dance in the gym. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The whole time, I’m trying to guess where and exactly how he died and, more to the point, realizing that poor old Milla’s been without him for sixty years. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Professor McGonagall now placed a four-legged stool on the ground before the first years and, on top of it, an extremely old, dirty, patched wizard’s hat. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Second, during those years, I would have continued to be away from my family a lot, and I was getting very tired of that. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The distance from the Earth to the most remote quasars is eight or ten billion light- years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the same each year with Auntie Mae—excuses and hugs, but no gift. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And then one afternoon in January Thomas Sutpen came home; someone looked up from where we were preparing the garden for another year’s food and saw him riding up the drive. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

The river god was talking about something that had happened thousands of years ago, when this area was nothing but marshes and maybe some shacks. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As for Tyler, the lying weasel, he swore up and down he didn’t cut my traps, but his father didn’t believe him, so he lost the use of the Boston Whaler for a year. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She said, “Boy been standing in that corner so much these pass few years he done wore a spot out in the floorboards.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He found that the men couldn’t forget their in-country years, and that the experience had isolated them from their friends, their family, and even from whom they’d been before going to Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was only two years earlier, in January of 1962, that Birmingham’s Bull Connor had refused to desegregate the city’s public facilities. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I have not seen the chateau in the country, but I was in the La Rochelle house a couple of years ago and it really is something. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once in the building, we head straight to the Family and Consumer Science classroom that hasn’t been used—outside of our Iridis meetings—since the school was built eight years ago. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

For years scenes from that movie have haunted me, and the images still bubble to the surface whenever I remember my time at the Pottses’ house. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Men and women in those days probably worked from dawn to noon two hundred days a year, which works out to about twelve hundred hours of work annually. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

And anyway, five hundred years was an awful lot to remember. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Yes, in Vilnius. Next year, when you’re sixteen, you’d be allowed to enter. If accepted, you’d study with some of the most talented artists in northern Europe. Would that interest you?” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Painfully, Enrique, seventeen years old, has learned a lot about “the beast.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He heard the words the way Mom had said them eight years ago, and the way Emma said them now, and the tone was exactly the same. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was one of my favorite movies, and watching it together once a year had become our thing. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

What had been the point of this year? Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The torture had let up in the past year, but Alvarez could see the damage on his face. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

By this time I'm hunkering along in front of the place, trying to maintain a casual attitude, except like I said my feet are going wild that year and I keep tripping over everything. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Dreiser followed the ladies through the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building where, he said, a man “could trail round from place to place for a year and not get tired.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They had all been enthralled by the folk dancers from Madrid at the Dominican World's Fair last year. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He listened unconsciously to all the sounds that had begun his day for twenty years and lit the first of the ten cigarettes that he smoked every day. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d seen my father and brothers put down dozens of dogs over the years—strays mostly, that wouldn’t stay out of the chicken coop. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Humiliated before the general body, they received sentences of from one to five years of “isolation.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My daughter Lexie was Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream last year.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

One Marine a few men down to my left was singing softly to himself the first lines of a song that had just come out the year before. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What school? John Glenn Middle? They had a kid bring a knife to school like 2 years ago, and now my mom thinks it’s a gang school.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve seen weather for one hundred years. I know what I see.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been really active in church only a year or less, and that was because the children were grown now and took up less time and less space in her mind. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

They do not look in the historic district, where the chairman of Ashoke’s department lives, in an eighteenth-century mansion to which he and Ashima and Gogol are invited once a year for Boxing Day tea. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Today the water looked perfect, the way it was a million years ago, before people started using the ocean as a latrine. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Wasn’t he the prodigy predicted to become World Champion in two years? Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He said he had been trying to contact us for many years. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Colonel, why does the Lord send two or three Marines a year to torment me on this subject? Why does he punish me?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All through high school. I come after school when it’s not football season, every Saturday and all summer. I bought a car with the money I made last year.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

That year around the holidays we were all miserable. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Huang Taitai pried open my mouth and gasped upon seeing the open spot in the back of my mouth where a rotted tooth fell out four years ago. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papá showed them his green card, which Ito, the Japanese sharecropper for whom we picked strawberries, had helped him get years before. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

He was proud, he said, to have killed the Muggles, had been awaiting his chance all these years. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Slightly more than a year after astronaut testing, Nichols was found dead in her apartment. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

But slowly, with hours of hard work over the months and years, his English improved. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not return for two years, not long before Old Randall’s death, to apologize in person for his failure. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I wanted to be ten years old again, so I could believe in princesses and queens. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has a little book, in which he intends to keep a maritime diary, which I trust shall be a record of great moment, when viewed with the hindsight of years. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“She was ... Elza, it might have been. Or Ella. It was six years ago she died. I have owned so many slaves, Your Grace.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“She didn’t even finish out the school year.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

This year, for the first time since Haymitch won, the final stop on the tour will be 12, and the Capitol will spring for the festivities. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Those years were gone, and they weren’t coming back. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

For more than a year at the Adult Center the only thing that mattered was pleasing her. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“The country’s two hundred years old in nineteen seventy-six,” said Kevin. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

And instead of the eighth graders, who’ve moved on to high school, we have a crop of sixth graders who seem as uncertain as I must have been last year. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

His mom was eighteen, only two years older than Park. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I'm walking out of the library about a year ago behind two college girls. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d been forty-four years old when he was put in shackles and sent to prison for his activism, and seventy-one when he was finally released in 1990. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Earlier that year Joseph Glanvill published his The Vanity of Dogmatizing, in which he criticized Hobbes but praised Digby, in the process taking over his use of the phrase ‘matter of fact’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Alex is at his throat, and he’s somewhere between angry and giddy, caught up in the space between years of sworn hate and something else he’s begun to suspect has always been there. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

My aunt haunts me—her ghost drawn to me because now, after fifty years of neglect, I alone devote pages of paper to her, though not origamied into houses and clothes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were applauded and given more soft drinks and more shrimp, but it was to be years later before I found the joy and freedom of dancing well. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

An overhead projector beamed a movie onto the dummy to her left, turning it into a perky woman who looked like Haley would probably look a couple of years after she graduated from college. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I know the rumor that got started once I’d been living at home a few years. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had continued talking by phone since her visit earlier in the year. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I imagined that in a few years, he'd be sharing the same stories about me. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Governor Faubus is just trying to find a way to get around the integration order. It’s going back on all the progress those nine students made last year.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought the scoreboard was older than that. This was twenty years ago.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Arts, and practiced as an attorney in Johannesburg for a number of years in partnership with Mr. Oliver Tambo. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a year ahead of you, and you’re pretty sure he’s still a friend of Bridge’s brother. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

California would be the ninth state for Emily in her twelve and three-quarters years, all part of her parents’ quest to live once in each of the fifty states. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

We stay that way, not speaking, for what seems like years, but the clock ticks only minutes. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The Fate held up the snippet of blue yam—and I knew it was the same one I’d seen four years ago, the lifeline I’d watched them snip. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She had announced on the first day of school that she had no idea what they were going to work on that year, or how. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He had played his junior year with a kind of seething emotion that sometimes dissolved into quick frustration and dis-couragement. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In truth, I was more tomboy than lady, despite being past my tenth year. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

For five years he had been working a certain river, and had examined hundreds of thousands of stones looking for an emerald. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“These two have been telling me that for years, and I still can’t believe them. But I feel responsible.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Put it down to years of hunting, or maybe my reconstructed ear does work a little better than anyone intended. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Joe remembered years later that a sense of calm had come over him that evening. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She had lived through Nana for two years, had imagined her life with other dolls, a life of giggles and talking and holding hands. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was surprised that her hands had not forgotten, that somewhere in her mind, after a year of darkness and slavery, music was still alive and breathing. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t ready to see Dad, I said, but it had been years since I’d seen her face. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The man had gone to the Wallace place, which had been deserted for twenty years since the death of old Captain Wallace six months after his wife. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wished so bad I could of known Uncle Camp for the past three years like I knew him now that he was dead. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

With nothing better to do, he organized a silent coup and took over the Homeowners Association a couple of years back. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I realized he didn't know if he’d be invited back next year for the community service project. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

And he said the same thing he said last year. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I grew up among nineteen first cousins, and they each played a pivotal role in my childhood and teen years. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

After wandering and drinking in America and England he yearned for peace in his declining years. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The son was about four years older than me and head and shoulders taller. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Ginny, who had always been very taken with Harry, seemed even more heartily embarrassed than usual when she saw him, perhaps because he had saved her life during their previous year at Hogwarts. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

It occurs to me that this is the longest time we’ve ever spent alone together in all the years we’ve known each other. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

We had lived in Warner Robins, Georgia, for only two years when Jerome received a notice that his com-pany planned to relocate him. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

By the second year, Steiner said, “the charcoal was really making a difference.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“The word is underestimate. And when you’ve got a few more years under your belt, then we’ll talk big stuff, Harris.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

And every minute of every year I was trying to come home. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the past four years, the two countries had committed unspeakable atrocities, not only against each other, but against innocent civilians in their path. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Charles’s absence would hit Emma again and again over the years, painfully, but for now she had a family to take care of and a funeral to consider. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spent the next two years as a courier, go-between, and manager of World Tourists, Inc., a travel business run by Golos that was actually a front operation for the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Most people imagine that the explosion in the U.S. prison population during the past twenty-five years reflects changes in crime rates. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Rest assured you have all received marks that are fair and representative of your work throughout the past year.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Based on the number of patients listed in the pneumoencephalography study and the years it was conducted, Lurz told me later, it most likely involved every epileptic child in the hospital, including Elsie. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He seemed to grow in years and stature. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He raised his head and acknowledged the many faces he had not seen for over a year. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

People I meet now assume that my childhood years in Africa were dark and deprived. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But this year was different because of the work that Kira had done on the ancient embroidery. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The oldest were men grown, seventeen and eighteen years from the day of their naming. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“But it needs to be done—our end-of-the-year inventory is now our new year’s unfinished business.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are tables, chairs, couches, land-sliding with months, maybe years of mail, all unopened, falling to the floor in piles. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Because he's “walked the earth for 30 years,” he wants to “leave a certain souvenir in the form of drawings or paintings in gratitude.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Seventeen years after Liberation, the newspapers told us, our schools were not bringing us up to be good red socialists and communists, as we had thought, but revisionists. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was twelve years old, his father had taken him aside. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He set himself and the gods helped him and for seven years there were harvests, and every year Wang Lung and his men threshed far more than could be eaten. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Twenty years had passed since Odysseus sailed for Troy. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

For two years, I tried to get Baba to enroll in ESL classes to improve his broken English. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I wash my hands and say to her, “Why did you give birth to me in November? It’s such a gloomy time of year.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Fortunately the animosity lasted only a few days out of the year, and generally in Narewka, Jews and gentiles existed peacefully alongside each other. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Two hundred years ago, a typical distance across which finbacks could communicate was perhaps 10,000 kilometers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to tell you a secret none of those men knows. In a few years I’ll be going away. And when I do—those envelopes will be dropped in the mail anyway.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When my father was fourteen, which is still more than one hundred years ago, he was up on the roof of the family house replacing some loose tiles when he slipped and fell. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within a few years, their incomes rose 20 percent and their English improved greatly. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, honey,” she said to Lindsey, “I hope you have just a super school year. You call Cammie collect if you need to.” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

It came as no surprise to her, in the first year of her marriage, to learn that Ned had fathered a child on some girl chance met on campaign. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They didn’t know the new year’s password, not having met a Gryffindor prefect yet, but help came almost immediately; they heard hurrying feet behind them and turned to see Hermione dashing toward them. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

She remembers a hot and humid afternoon early in the year she got married. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I went to the last market, nine years ago. I was only a boy," admitted Dunstan. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Almost seven years passed, and in that time, Edward became an excellent tramp: happy to be on the road, restless when he was still. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

And then, just a few years after writing Also sprach Zarathustra and ‘Morgen!’ The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“If you’re willing to fight for me, to be my Champion during the months the competition will go on, I’ll see to it that my father frees you after five years.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He’s only been the pastor for about a year. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I think about what Lily told me about wanting to take a year off, and I don’t understand how she can be so fake with Mom. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t account for that hundred years, so I assumed it was a typo. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Please tell Richard Rodriguez that we must have a decision from him immediately because budget estimates for next year are due at the end of the week. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Actually, it was half the school board, and you weren’t really fired, but your contract wasn’t renewed for next year.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All these years I’ve been somebody I didn’t even know I was! You’re supposed to tell me big things like this!” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

And these kids were five or six years old at the time, you know? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Canadian man I met in Barcelona, on last year’s prize trip, told me about how they turn red and gold. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We smile at each other, and it is crazy to me that this is the same person who was sitting in English with me all year. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

In the same year, a Californian named George Adams Wyman rode into New York City aboard a motorcycle that had carried him all the way from San Francisco. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A year ago, before, he would have visited the town even if it meant climbing over the walls by himself. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I wanted him to leave, but he went on, “They say a gator came outta there last year and ate a kid.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

During her senior year at Swarthmore College, she took a course in political science, which sparked her interest in political activism. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

They were definitely seniors, less than a year behind her, but she was amazed at how young they seemed. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

For a hundred years, people have been coming together in this dark, I thought, breathing quietly and evenly. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Every year my mom has a party for her and she turns ten again. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was about five hundred thousand years in the life of this one old couple. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

In his more than a score of years as custodian of the sanctuary there, Maurice Broun has observed and actually tabulated more hawks and eagles than any other American. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

See if you don't look the same in a year, I thought. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

As is customary in this sort of affair, we went at night and bribed the guard, just as I had done years earlier when I wanted to stay with Rosa her first night there. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom has Abby staying in Alice’s room, which is hilarious, considering Nick has been spending the night on my bedroom floor for about ten years. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I “dated” Tyler Paul my freshman year of high school, but that lasted all of a month, until I came down with an infection and needed to go to the hospital for a few weeks. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Melquíades’ books and the strange things that he wrote in his last years.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The more he thought about it, the more he realized that even after he had been living here for five years, most people couldn’t get past what they saw on the outside. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Some haven’t stayed their full term of posting, their full two years. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to the tale told by Washington Irving, when Rip Van Winkle awoke and returned to his village, twenty years had passed, and many things had changed. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Within a year she had her first job as an elementary school teacher in East Oakland. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

By the end of the year, the Thirteenth Amendment had been ratified and added to the Constitution. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

In the years prior to his death, when Halliday had been living in seclusion, the only thing he’d posted on his website was a brief looping animation. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

On Wednesday, May 23, a few days before the end of the school year, Miss Scalapino took me by surprise. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Unopened for years, it bore an iron clasp that was rusty and worn. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Then I would expect next year’s Hunger Games to be quite unforgettable. That reminds me.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Even if I had to cover my sister’s recent purchase of two fashionable Paris suits, I would have $1000 left, enough for a year’s stay in Cambridge. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Whether the story was true or not, suspicion and dislike settled upon the family, and thirty years had failed to dissipate it. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the rest of the year I stood directly behind her in class and mimicked every movement that she made. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Exactly a year before, the Soviets had begun moving troops over the borders into the country. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Ms. Holly takes attendance, goes over class procedures, and talks about how we’ll soon be preparing for this year’s winter choral concert. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

From books, the Spaniards knew of many contemporary civilizations remote from Europe, and about several thousand years of European history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I knew it was his handsome son, Ramfis, a full colonel in the army since he was four years old. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man who had disappeared from Gregor’s life two years, seven months, and who knew how many days ago had been the picture of health. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

What was there to look forward to but years and years of slaving away? Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Like in that book we had to read in school last year, The Little Prince. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“This year, the Theme is Experience! We will each pick one club, and the rest of us will join. We’ll be in three activities together, and more importantly, experience them together! We’ll have new adventures!” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Travis opened his eyes and saw Cooter smiling away, and if I live to be fifty years old, I hope I don’t never witness another growned man go berserk like Mr. Travis did! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

They had been evading the Oxscinian Navy for years, always slipping in and out of the city before anyone noticed, stirring up trouble in their wake. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She took me north to El Paso, and years later she laughed about how long she had waited for me in that village full of dirty stupid people. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

On signal, they performed military-style parade maneuvers, which they had practiced in their home districts as often as four times a week for more than a year. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Although she was part of the program for 10 years and viewed as very capable, she was never offered a spaceflight. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

She’d be thirteen next year, then fourteen, fifteen, and so on. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

They moved in after I left two years ago, I don’t know when exactly. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a few years he would forget what it felt like to be warm. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But I was the one who could have done five years in a federal prison, not the raven. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Gods be good, she looks ten years older than when I saw her last. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of years later, America is still not an egalitarian democracy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Another famous Frenchman was Jules Verne, who was born about a hundred and fifty years ago. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ve known him for five years and he’s hardly looked at you. He threatened to shave your eyebrows off! He’s an obstacle, Celia! One you need to remove.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Moreover, there was an even more elemental understanding implicitly codified in Philadelphia but actually predating the Constitutional Convention by many years. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

"Yeah," she said, "sure. We can go next year. That will give my mouse and bird friends plenty of time to make me a dress. Totally. Yes. Let's go to prom." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“Do you think you can bear to stay with us for fifteen years? We can train you to become a warrior.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a stocky youth of twenty years, earnest and homely, with a wide nose and a shock of thick brown hair. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

"The years have not improved it, I fear," Brynden Hilly said, but when he lifted off the helm, Catelyn saw that he lied. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Unless I found a way to start putting some money back in the account, I would be broke in a year. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He checked the other papers from that year but found no other mention of the colony. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

His storefront office was never called anything but Sonny’s Shop, although nobody now could remember thirty years back, when, presumably, Sonny did something or other there. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many years later, when she began to feel she was the equal of her great-grandmother, Fernanda doubted her childhood vision, but her mother scolded her disbelief. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

And she marveled at how, after all these years of rattling loose, she had found in this little creature the first true connection in her life of false, failed connections. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

About a year after Maureen took off for California, I got a call at work from Dad. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

About a year later, after Diego got his permit, we drove up there again, just us two, and threw the football in the water and almost drowned trying to swim out to the pier. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

As superintendent of the Union Stock Yards, Sherman ruled an empire of blood that employed 25,000 men, women, and children and each year slaughtered fourteen million animals. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I didn’t think he was ever going to forgive me, but an hour or so later, after he talked to Noah, he asked me to go for a swim with him, our first in years. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Wait a second. I know you. You were picked up last year, weren’t you? Twice.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I know you don’t like seeing your girlfriend or whatever disparaged like that, but these guys have been doing this for years. That graffiti was probably from last year or before.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

It took years to sort out some of the classification messes they made. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Carla has grown up a lot since last year when we were best friends back home. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

But when one doesn’t see one’s family for many years at a time, the transformation can be striking. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” he said slowly with a touch of regret in his voice, “that is very sweet of you to offer, but I have two cases of peaches left over from last year.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

My freshman year, I thought I was going to kicked out of school because of Proposition 187. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He’ll say, I will never leave you, not in a million years. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t seen a chair in six years, nor a table. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was Mother’s sister, and Tyler had lived with her during his first year at BYU, but that was all I knew of her. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The sentence imposed was four years in prison. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

So, I asked Tepper," he continued, "what the indictment looked like and he said they have you listed for fifteen five- year charges. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I was a year older than him, but Hassan ran faster than I did, and I was falling behind. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Englishmen had also been lifting weights and chinning themselves for years. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Someone mailed it to me years ago. Your...mother. That is, if I’m right about who you are.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He looked out toward the horizon and said, through gritted teeth, that he wouldn’t be around to see his kids into the next school year. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gazed across the valley and tried to remember how Camp Half-Blood looked the first time I ever saw it That seemed like a bajillion years ago. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

This year, watching some of the Christmas shows on television as we decorated our tree made it seem like an even bigger party. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The appointment slip, dated November of last year, is still stuck to the refrigerator door with a bumblebee mag net. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

So, it looks like I got one hell of a Christmas surprise this year. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Well, Joaquin still had his, but Maya’s parents had put her through two years of braces in order to correct it. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

First, if I had stayed, it would have taken a couple of years to get another flight. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something about isosceles triangles that I learned the year before at Iqra. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Grace closed her eyes, praying that it was a dream, that she could go back in time and wake up in her bed a year ago and have everything go back to normal. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Anyway, choiceless, she went, leaving husband, sister, Rose Dear and May behind, and if she worried, the blond baby helped soothe her, and kept her entertained for eighteen years, until he left home. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But he was alive thousands of years ago!” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The idea of God in the form of a man appearing on Earth and then doing a “disappearing act,” as Bobby put it, for two thousand years was both “incredible and illogical.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

After every Olympics, a lot of gymnasts take time off, and others retire completely, which means that some countries can’t field a full team the following year. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“They threw him in jail for a year. I guess they thought he had a choice.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

In fact, of the fifty-three crack cases their office had handled over the prior three years, forty-eight defendants were black, five were Hispanic, and not a single one was white. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I had trouble reconciling the definition of the word with the fact that we'd been living in the Bay Area for ten years. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Aiyi is only five years older than my father, which makes her around seventy-seven. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She's probably made an active effort to pretend I'm not a vegetarian hundreds of times over the last two years, but now that there's company, remembering a personal fact about me makes her look thoughtful. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

In previous years Pepettes had made scrapbooks for their players, including one with the cover made of lacquered wood and modeled on Disney’s Jungle Book. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since Francie had five years in which to make up her mind, the responsibility of deciding whether or not to marry Ben did not weigh too heavily upon her. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

One year old and already zooming along on a toy broomstick, he looked so pleased with himself I’m enclosing a picture so you can see. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I was number one again the following year, but then in grade three, I took second place. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Miss Love having worked for Grandpa at his store for two years or more, she must already know he was stingy and set in his ways. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Another elderly black man pointed out that his people had tried working within the' system for years, with little result. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was fourteen years old and its strips were battered. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

"What can you have? Five entries? I had six when I was just twelve years old." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“He lived about a thousand years ago; for all we know, you could be.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Late in the summer of 1952,just two weeks before Claudette was to begin her freshman year at Booker T. Washington High School, her sister Delphine came down with a fever Sunday just before church. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

‘It comes from years of loving children and husbands,’ she’d say.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

McClellan has yet to find work, living off his dwindling savings and investments from his years at Kaiser, though he continues with plans to open his own car wash. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I expect her to outlive me by some years, and I dont want her to live drab. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Throughout the collie and shepherd years we kept a succession of drowsy, secretive cats that seemed to enjoy a unique bond with our mother. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

This year’s card is a drawing she has done herself, of an elephant decked with red and green jewels, glued onto silver paper. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And what happened to make him disappear all those years ago? The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Your dad’s been gone for seven years before?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Before Hanako could bow and greet her grandfather, Jiichan cried out passionately, “I speak English! Yes, I do! It does a talent I learn in America many years before you.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I wondered if someone would be holding Cinnamon’s head 60 million years from now. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

They could be a thousand years old or three. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

According to my grail diary, I’d played the game through to the end just once, all in one day, over four years ago. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Well, I was; and I loved my wife dearly, as I loved my son, my only child, a little boy not yet one year old when I wandered out of my world. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once a year, Robbie held a fancy recital so that her students could perform for a live audience. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But three years of keeping up with the ambitious kids at Whitney Young had taught me that I was something more. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The Myerses moved from Levittown four years later, but the episode was far from the community’s last chapter of racial tension. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He had been trying to find the secret reservoirs of the thread viruses for years. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For four years his horizon had been absolutely limited to his wife. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t spoken to any of these kids since the last school year. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Blacks had been alternately asking for and demanding such a body for more than a year. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, as far as I knew, it hadn’t been done for two thousand years.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, at least they’d had the sense to lock it away for two thousand years so that Leo could retrieve it. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

That took another two years, outwitting Wall Ghosts en route. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rich was not only not Chinese, he was a few years younger than 1 was. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had been saying the “Our Father, which art in heaven” for years. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s probably been reliving those five years of imprisonment all night. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

They are as doleful as are our sable number, or perhaps more so, for they have lost their homes just a few days previously, whereas we became accustomed to losing ours years before. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Year after year, the National Woman Suffrage Association held its annual convention in Washington, DC, so that its members could lobby legislators. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

At PacificVista Middle, the sixth graders had a separate building and a different lunch period, so we never had to run into Conner and the Morons last year. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Even though I spent last year as a student teacher at Wilson High School, I’m still learning my way around the city. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She was reelected to the House more than twenty years later, in 1940. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

During the heyday of downsizing in the Reagan years, it very often was, and it still is for many inner-city residents who have no way of getting to the proliferating entry-level jobs on urban peripheries. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He still had not forgotten the stunning manner in which the sophomores had won the freshman title in Poughkeepsie the year before. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Beside her was a facsimile of his father, constructed from the morning suit he’d worn on that glorious day in Christchurch Cathedral fourteen years ago. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Number forty-five. Forty-fifth newchild this year. Just five more to come. Don't you remember? We all had numbers. I was Twenty-seven.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The operation took more than a year to plan. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

A year earlier, I had been kicked by the mule. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A year later he became director of WHO’s HIV/AIDS department, focusing on initiatives to help poor countries scale up their treatment, prevention, and care programs. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I haven’t had a seizure in seven years, but the doctors tell me that I am “susceptible to seizure activity.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I think about my cousin Carla winning her eraser in the shape of the Dominican Republic at the children’s recitation contest last year. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Then some 600 million years ago, the monopolizing grip of the algae was broken and an enormous proliferation of new lifeforms emerged, an event called the Cambrian explosion. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Say thanks for the divorce paper. Then say I got my own divorce a year before he got it. Only I forgot,” she concluded lamely. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten years is a long while, but I am back now, and my father is far from dead. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

This “Alexandrian” year was officially accepted by the Egyptian priesthood in 239. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Enrolled in college again, she lived at home to save money for the years of medical school ahead. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Agnew and Hamilton knew from their years practicing military surgery that the human body often encases a bullet in a cyst, or sac, making it harmless. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

MI6 invited Blake to London for a gentle interrogation about his years as a prisoner. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Thirty years later a new generation of researchers put together a different theory of Native American origins that gained general agreement. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I hope it doesn’t take us another five years to decipher it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Every year, once we’re done with Gram’s apple pie, we come and see the lighting ceremony. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The image of them gently swaying to the music is how I picture love in my mind even after all these years. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The famous rock paintings in Chauvet, France, made by cave- dwelling people of the Upper Palaeolithic period, or European Ice Age, are 32,000 years old. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In math class he made a pie chart of the winningest World Cup jersey numbers of the past fifty years. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

But I did not feel the cold as I used to, my first two years on Winter; I had lived long in a cold land, now. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was a huge debate a couple years ago about whether or not Deckers eighteen and up should be allowed to purchase drinks. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

For seven years, he had scoured the library for clues of what had happened there. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

We left Alabama in the hottest month of the year. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“And you have not known a wife for thousands of years...” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

After Allen finished his two years of college, the army quickly reclassified him I-A, available for military service. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

But humans have deliberately selected which plants and animals shall live and which shall die for thousands of years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thrilling sign arrived that year that his fame had spread to Europe. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

In desperation, I turned and fled into the woods, stumbling over roots and stones, crying as I hadn’t cried for years. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Hahn had discovered fission less than seven years before. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seven slash marks indicated his years of service - more than any presiding officer, including Reyna. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“It’ll take her six or seven years to get her law degree,” he said. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said, Then sand began to gather on it and after more years, it was finally an island.” The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old gentlemen smiled and nodded and felt the years were well spent. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

This year’s opening ceremony happens tonight in Tokyo—so all the screens are Warcross-related today, showing a frenzied rotation of famous players, commercials, and footage of last year’s highlights. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When John finished high school that same year, he joined the Army Air Corps. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

And then the nose began to tip down toward the mysterious high country forest where they would not be discovered in years. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She worked part-time after school at a clothing boutique that catered primarily to women forty years older than her who called her dear. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Many years later, he recalled his delight at having “had it running in six months and producing one-million-volt X-rays, the first in history.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Out of all the years he could think of no work of lasting value. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

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

Remember that time two years ago when we drove to Disney World and stopped at the farm on the way to Florida? P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

And even then, how would a bunch of kids who had never played together compete with teams from Atlanta’s best soccer academies—teams that had been playing together for years? Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

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

By the time it had done so, the American effort had been laboring for nearly two years without reaching a conclusion. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She had chosen that seat back at the beginning of the year because it was easier to talk to him that way. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

And even now, seven years after her death, I cannot deny her. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Relief that Stella gets to wake up a few hours from now and have at least five more wonderful years, filled with whatever her to-do list has on it. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The man said, “We just keep praying that we will connect with our daughters, who were lost years ago.” Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had not known until this year that she was different from everyone else. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

There were straight rows of trees—colonnades—growing out of the seedbed of trees that had fallen two hundred years before and sunk and become the earth itself. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Each year I watched the field across from the Store turn caterpillar green, then gradually frosty white. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You will, in the future. You’ve never had a single year of steady schooling,” he said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first day of a new school year, and already everything seemed old. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all these years, I could interpret his various silences. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“So Nene called you last night to tell you I was coming to meet you,” he said smoothly, as if he and I had been friends for years. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Page after page of the minutes of the early years of the Royal contain variations on the themes of ‘Mr Hooke produced...’ The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Duly Pilgrim got onto a chartered airplane in Ilium twenty-five years after that. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some years, the monsoon was terrible, and it poured nonstop. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Six years after my mother’s death, and my father was nowhere near getting over her. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Now that she was breaking thousands of messages every year, and examining tens of thousands more, it was now second to none. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She's taller than I am but looks only a few years older, with sharp, wary eyes and her hair piled in a knot on top of her head. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Ten years, and I hadn’t seen him since. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Six years, mayhap? My front teeth had fallen out.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Yes, the very one. It was not easy to keep our glamours up for so many years, but it feels good to be free of them, at least for a little while.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Is that right? We had a Brazilian fellow, about a year ago. You’ll find Cambridge a very international city.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

My years with him and the rest of them, even good Jack, had somehow colored me funny, marked me. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And in a few years you can almost disappear; while I, who was born in Grass Valley, went to school and several years to the University of California, have no chance of mixing.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It is my junior year, 1978, when disco and Rocky movies are the cultural rage. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was clear to her from the words in it that her daughter had been deeply entangled with this boy for a long time, for many years. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It is not too much to say that geologists wouldn’t grasp the full implications of this thought for two hundred years, when finally they adopted plate tectonics. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Many years ago she had taken him to conceal the shame of her younger sister. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Driving too fast to the village, Poppy said Israeli soldiers had appeared at Sitti’s house and demanded to see her grandson Mahmud, who’d been living in Jordan for the past two years. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Because right now he could be the boy I ran into in the woods years ago, the one who accused me of stealing from his traps. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Fowls had held on to Fowl Manor over the years, surviving war, civil unrest, and several tax audits. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

When Marina was two years old, in 1914, Europe plunged into World War I. For the next four years, most of Europe’s young men fought, and millions died, on the battlefields of France and Belgium. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“If this was twenty years ago, I’d a already married her.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I lived in constant fear for ten long years, from the time I was four until I was fourteen years old. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

But for years she has gathered flowers for her stepfather’s studio, carried them in and arranged them for his still-life paintings. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In one single day, with a brutal slap, life threw on top of her the whole weight of a reality that her parents had kept hidden from her for many years. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

My first year’s grades at Stuyvesant were miserable, due partially to the fact that I never studied. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Over two hundred years later and still remembered. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“A year? But where has she...? Why hasn’t she...? I don’t understand!” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was common knowledge that Snape really wanted the Dark Arts job, and he had now failed to get it for the fourth year running. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s so fun when we have away games. Last year we did makeovers on the bus, and we prank-called Coach Fuller on her cell phone from the back. That’s her over there.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She only heard her full name once a year, when teachers called roll on the first day and stumbled over the pronunciation. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I do not trust human girls,” he said, and there was a cruel tone in his voice that she had not heard in years. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But engraved, four years from now, on a bachelor of arts degree? The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The older trees, which had been cut down a year or two before, were well dried out, and when Brian rolled and skidded them down to the lake he found that they floated well. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

A few years later, when Min Soo learned that she was pregnant, her first thought was of what to name her child. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

"I barely saw Mrs. Westing. Violet was a few years younger than I, doll-like and delicate. She was not allowed to play with other children. Especially the skinny, long-legged, black daughter of the servants." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or did they string us along all those years to get our money? The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the first year her mother had let her stay by herself, and she’d used to like being in the house on her own. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Farmer’s involvement in Russia had started two years earlier, when he made a futile effort to convince the Soros Foundation to provide funds for PIH’s TB work in Peru. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“That would mean at least ten years’ bad luck for you both,” said Dustfinger. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In February 1995, almost a year before the trial of Johnny and Tyrone, we went to the Juvenile Court building in downtown Chicago to find out more about the Eric Morse case. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not know about my father’s true feelings until I was fifteen years old. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He has pot and he’s so much more laid back than you; you spent the last year studying for this test; he didn’t lift a finger for it. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

She was back in time fifteen years, seeing this room on a different day. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“She only has to go there for a year or two.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

And in the postwar years, Elizebeth had a growing number of secrets to hide. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

And that was—well, I couldn’t give you the date, but it must ’a been fifty years ago. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Sure. But you know that stuff Emily said last year, about her parents and the nine thousand things? It doesn’t seem like that could happen to your parents.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I found it lying on a curb in my neighborhood a couple years ago,” he said of the couch as he worked on setting up my PlayStation 2 on top of his footlocker. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

For four years I had worked with the surgeon at the hospital in Insterburg. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I’m always surprised when people say I was a late bloomer, because gymnastics has been my life since I was six years old. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Then, of course, after this years fifty are assigned, we start fresh, after the Ceremony, with new ones coming in gradually. It’s like a little vacation!” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t seen the old ladies in years, since Id witnessed them snip a life thread at a roadside fruit stand when I was twelve. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Once, when both youths had lived with the Samanas about three years and shared their practices, they heard from many sources a rumor, a report Someone had appeared, called Gotama, the Illustrious, the Buddha. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

After high school graduation, Reggie went to a year of college in Virginia, and to play basketball. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Happy new year, Jarhead,” Smitty said before he poured part of his bottle of beer over my head. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they stood, he saw they couldn’t have been more than four feet tall or eight years old. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the rains stopped in April the chanterelles were done for the year. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Actually I think the nickname’s been around for years. And I didn’t mean that as an insult. I’m just sharing information,” he says. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Next to her bed was a Wonder Horse, one of those spring-mounted things kids used to play on, like, a hundred years ago. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Or was she just, after ten years in the city, finally becoming a Detroiter, meaning that she saw everything in terms of black and white? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The Home was a misfit operation, lost over the years in a larger system. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Such was the skill of the Chinchorro at preserving human flesh that scientists have been able to extract intact DNA from cadavers thousands of years older than the Egyptian pyramids. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She went into the bedroom, turned back her mattress and took from under it a notebook in which she had kept a desultory diary during her thirteenth year, and a square manila envelope. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you think the original picture is a clue? Finn drew it on Mom’s phone case three years ago! How could it be a clue?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

As her cousin Joe had years earlier, she found it intolerable to think of her flesh and blood in foster care. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Millions of visitors go to the Van Gogh Museum every year to see Vincent's paintings. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Velutha heard of the accident a whole year after it happened. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up until this year, I was at Barnaby Elementary, then Barnaby Middle, which are both public schools in my old neighborhood. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Well,” I said, “since Dad died, I guess, so about two years.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

One girl from last years chemistry class smiled and nodded. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Greasy Sae knows we’re not related, but even some of the people who have known us for years seem to have forgotten. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“They can live over twenty years—feed on large rodents or other mammals—average about twelve feet but can reach nineteen—” He groaned loudly and spoke even faster. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

A few years back, Farmer had talked him into training as an infectious disease specialist. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Then, following a moving cloud with my eyes, I asked, “Do you ever wonder what we’ll be doing ten or twenty years from now? Or where we’ll be living?” The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Copernicus had no chance to complain about the preface because he died in 1543, the year his great work was published. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“That is a pre-Columbian burial figure. It was made in Mexico about two thousand years ago.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a second, Luke was on his back—the first time in years. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

In the coming year, Dad would spend hundreds of thousands of dollars buying equipment and scouring the mountain for water. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was then that Constance did something that creatures would speak of in years to come. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

That the Penobscot people have lived in the territory that became Maine for eleven thousand years, moving around season to season, following food. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Since she was seven years old, she had thought: Why don’t I get to prove my skills? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I’m treasurer of the science club and this year is the year I will win the science fair. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Of course, last year we had the grasshoppers, too.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Four, five years pass since we come to live at Titid’s. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

For nine years this room had been his home. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What? A criminal with dark glasses? A Bourbon Street character? Please, Gus. Not this. Leon Levy is dead only a few years. Let him rest in peace.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A school district this size, with approximately twenty-six thousand students in all grades, should have eight to ten National Merit Scholars a year, not just one, said Hayes. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Hediger was for many years a zoo director, first of the Basel Zoo and then of the Zurich Zoo. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Thus the summer passed, and years later they would both recall those passionate nights as the happiest time of their lives. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

More over, even though hemoglobin was not the center of the universe, Francis’ previous two years at the Cavendish certainly had not been dull. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

They just wanted to survive their year in Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Tom Price tells me in math class senior year, leaning across my desk to look at them, first one and then the other. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Late in the year Adam made his great try, and it was a sensation in a year of sensations, both local and international. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Was it not what he had once wished to destroy during his ardent years of asceticism? Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within a year, Oliver and I discovered that under the Urban Areas Act we were not permitted to occupy business premises in the city without ministerial consent. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, in my teen years, I had developed my own voices, one that was still the child, her child, but another voice that was intellectually sophisticated in ways she did not understand. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I’ve been coming every day for three years, but I still remember my first day at school. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when he smiled I could see a little of the man who had run away with Renee when she was just two years older than I was now. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He’s got boxes of them upstairs, eleven years’ worth. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

After what had happened with Sam, I didn’t say a word for almost a full year; there was just no way to vocalize that kind of pain. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Every other coven held meetings four times a year to discuss secret coven things in their grand houses. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He is now eighteen and struggling to overcome all the setbacks he has had over the years. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

A beagle, maybe a year or two old. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered back almost three years ago when Hatun left to work for the Sapa Inca, guarding and repairing the many roads that wove their way to the four corners of the empire. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

All those years in the Academy must have taught her something. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“What are we going to do for your birthday this year?” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

But he done died a few years back. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It even happens that something that at first repelled or confounded us emerges only many years later as one of the most important artistic events of our lives. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Returning to Washington to begin our final year in the White House, we knew the clock was ticking now in earnest. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The most distressing news story of the preceding ten years had been the wounding of an island resident by a drunken Seattle yachtsman with a shotgun on the Fourth of July, 1951. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Thirty-six years old, an aerospace engineer by training, he was a quiet, thoughtful, extremely conscientious guide who was well liked by most members of his team and Hall’s. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The symptoms he was seeing reminded him of a sickness that had swept through Philadelphia back in 1762, when he was sixteen years old and studying under Dr. Redman. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“Ah, the Allens. Russell Allen passed away a few years after we moved here. He was an important man.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Max and Grace had dated for almost a year, which, if she thought about it, was about the same amount of time that it took Grace, later on, to grow Peach. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Two years later, they cursed the armed guards from Ford who had beat up their leader, Walter Reuther, in the “Bat- de of the Overpass.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He seemed to have forgiven Tessie for breaking off' their engagement years ago, but it was always there in the air between them, like the talcum powder that sometimes puffed out of his clerical collar. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Lee, whose identity was confirmed by South Korean intelligence officials, worked for three years along the China-North Korea border. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Inside, it disintegrates and gives rise to a wormlike creature, which then develops into the new Phoenix, ready for the next five hundred years. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hadn't been in school in fourteen years. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He said to his guests, “I just remembered that I have forgotten to write to my brother for over ten years.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

This military victory eventually led to a British capitulation three years later and to freedom for the United States—and lasting fame for Washington. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

‘We’re going to spend our senior year together,’ Annabeth explained, ‘here in New York. And after graduation ‘College in New Rome!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“The Manderlys are no northmen, not down deep. ’Twas no more than nine hundred years ago when they came north, laden down with all their gold and gods. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then Snape said, “I thought...all these years...that we were protecting him for her. For Lily.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Eleanor Holm was twenty-two years old, beautiful, married, and a minor celebrity, having performed bit parts in several Warner Brothers movies. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The role of music, however, has changed dramatically in recent years. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

It’s strange to think that in a couple years Maribel will be the same age my mom was when she had me. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

‘Four years with no monsters to fight, no battles, no stupid prophecies. Just me and Annabeth, getting our degrees, hanging out at cafes, enjoying California -’ ‘And after that. Annabeth kissed Percy on the cheek. ‘ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“They’re just taking some time off to think. It’s been a very unsettling >» year. “It’s going to get a lot more unsettling,” I promised. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

And thus it took over two hundred years after his death, in the fourth century bc, for his mantle to be assumed by Cicero. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

She recalled Aphrodite’s warning, two years ago in Charleston: You will notfind love where you wish or where you hope. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Neutron stars wouldn’t be confirmed for thirty-four years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The critical point is that thousands of people are swept into the criminal justice system every year pursuant to the drug war without much regard for their guilt or innocence. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe it would take them months or years to re-form, maybe even centuries. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

This had become abundantly clear ever since a competition in Seoul, Korea, earlier in the year when for the first time ever, I beat Mariel at a competition. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

During all the terrible long years of his childhood, only Jaime had ever shown him the smallest measure of affection or respect, and for that Tyrion was willing to forgive him most anything. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

During his twelve years in the community, he had never felt such simple moments of exquisite happiness. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

He visited Holland again in the autumn of 1628, spent the winter of 1628/9 in Paris, then returned to settle in Holland, where he stayed for the next twenty years. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

She was only six years older than me, for gosh sake, which to my mind didn’t give her any right to lord it over me like she was a hundred. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

After coming through the crucible of the last year, I knew that I would never allow myself to get that banged up again. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

"If your father had told us all those years ago he was marrying your mother, I'm sure we would have been angry. We probably would have acted badly toward him and your mother." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

We’d gone to see my grandmother in California, the last year before she died. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Three cars away, a boy, twelve or thirteen years old, has managed to grab the bottom rung of a ladder on a fuel tanker, but he cannot haul himself up. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

But the envelope’s postmark was fifteen years old. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The fight with Mark and Linda felt like it had been a million years ago, not just that morning, and he wasn’t sure what he was going to do. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The Baltimore University of Surgery, Medicine, and Thanatology is located in a fine building, meticulously restored in the years since Baltimore was reclaimed. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

But in his back pocket, folded in half in his worn-shiny leather wallet, was a slip of paper worth a year's salary driving his taxi. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I guess I should have signed up for it again this year. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Remember that trip to Jacmel last year when we stayed at a friend’s house and you insisted that we share a mattress made for a crib? American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Small slips these are, memories they wouldn’t expect from a two-year-old, but my memories don’t differentiate—two days, two years, or ten—they are all the same weight and intensity. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

After seventeen years on the job, fourteen of them in B-block, she was showing signs of stress. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our plot was to unfold at the banquet celebrating the twentieth year of King Hamlet’s rule. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I had been in concentration camps for more than two years. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The whole neighborhood will be there. One more word out of any of you and we’re not getting a Christmas tree this year.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

We were pretty sure that a year ago Miranda wouldn’t have gone anywhere with Chigger Watson. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

One child a week is fifty-two a year. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

For most of the thirty-three thousand years that there have been mulefa, we have taken care of the earth. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

In March of that year, the phrase “King Ptolemy and Queen Cleopatra, the gods who love their father” appeared on two separate contracts. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

It was bronze and heavy, with intricate carvings, and Seven was pretty sure it was at least two hundred years old. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

For years he was a high-voltage cable splicer, a job he loved because it meant working outdoors with plenty of freedom and overtime pay. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

My suspicions had been right all those years. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

These were the first words my sister had said to me in years, and I had no response to them. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“A lot of students didn’t return this year. Most had to move due to rent going up and stuff. But I’ll pass a note along.” Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“It took me six years to get down here,” Jessie said, ashamed. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

That year, in the fall, a woman drove up to the Big House in a wagon. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thembi was then twenty-five years old, and the father of two small children. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Junior was drafted for the Korean War and was over there for three years. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In order to attend Franklin High School, he had had to row a small boat two miles over to Seattle and back every day for four years. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

About twenty to twenty-five years ago, social activists started a campaign to get rid of unfair, negative racial stereotypes. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Me: unless there’s a new dog over 8 years, black fur, weighing more than 60 pounds, and is mostly pit bull or shepherd. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

As many years of unfathomable experience as he had, this was hard for him, too. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He was surprised to find the resentment he had stored up over all these years melt away in the presence of this bent and shrunken old man who was staring up at him in fright. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leave it up to Daddy and Pop Pop with their tight lips and hushed words, and it’s stayed that way for years. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Only last evening, Molly, who was ten years old with black bangs and a pigtail, had called him. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Didn’t she know the tennis team sucked this year without her? Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Three years before I lived with Mr. and Mrs. Potts, a relative reported that their son, who allegedly had been charged with attempted murder, was living in their home while a foster child was there. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Luba Luft and I had been close, very close friends for almost two years. What did you think of her? Did you like her?” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Not to worry, Minos. My daughters are wise beyond their years. Now, about my gold—” “Yes,” Minos said. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Throughout seven years of hectic living the number of baths I had taken could be counted on one hand with several fingers missing. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She only cared that Uncle Darnell had stolen our concert money last year and ruined our chance to see the Jackson Five at Madison Square Garden. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

It seemed that with the fickleness of a child’s earache, Barack’s three years of work in the state senate had been all but wiped away. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“A year and a day,” he calls out. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He had lived in a tent years ago when he started his boat and until galley and cabin were complete enough to move into. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hannah heard her and added hastily, “She died years ago, when he was born.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d put it back in the cupboard next to that big red bowling plate he’d won a couple of years ago. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“The catch of the year and the throw of the year.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

I owe you, Filthy, so I’m gonna cut the grass for the rest of the year and pick up the leaves . . . and I’ll wash the cars and I’ll even wash your hair. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Ma’s bedroom closet was spilling over with old suitcases, some of which she had brought with her when she left Haiti almost twenty-five years before. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“Time for our first pop quiz of the year!” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

She told us that ants sleep for just eight minutes a day but that snails can sleep for three years. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Conclusion reached by the Annex while breakfasting at nine: this is a trial landing, like the one two years ago in Dieppe. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

When my mother mentioned seeing my article seven years ago, she wrote to me. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She is a peregrine falcon, or a duck hawk, as these wonderful birds were once called. “She was late in migrating south this year and came over White Man Mountain on a chilly day. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Over the years he has developed a number of innocent-appearing ways to get me up. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been your best friend for years. Of course I know where your parents hide the spare key.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The stranger had learned a great deal of the Incan mother tongue in the year since I had seen him. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

It took them a year and a half. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He revealed later that he’d manipulated the Russian into a variation that Fischer had studied years before, and for which he had originated a favorable response. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Still, he has not seen her looking this lovely, this happy, this excited, in years. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But Lobelia can perhaps be forgiven: she had been obliged to wait about seventy-seven years longer for Bag End than she once hoped, and she was now a hundred years old. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

In my twelve years as a Muslim minister, I had always taught so strongly on the moral issues that many Muslims accused me of being “anti-woman.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Germans had stormed in like lightning in a single month in 1941: it took the Soviet Union three and a half years to push them out again. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

On his rare days off from school—about fourteen days a year— Shin was expected to go see him. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Six hundred more years passed before this race of people returned to the mainland, among the natural black people. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That must have been ten years ago,” said Ishmael. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

This was the same old violence Dedd had cowered under for years. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the tip of a lead pencil, broken off and wrapped up and presented along with a card that said, “A gross of commas, to be used liberally throughout the year as needed.” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I overhear my parents talk about things like “Can we do without an air conditioner one more year?” or “Maybe I can work two jobs this summer.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

My birthday is the one day of the year that we’re both most acutely aware of my illness. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Virchow had been dead for a hundred years, and only one full-length biography of him existed, of which Farmer read every page. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The new Aureliano was a year old when the tension of the people broke with no forewarning. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I was twelve years old when the wall began. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I took two years of Spanish in high school and can say only a handful of phrases, but I recognize that word. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

But only 17 percent of those who had entered in the mid-1990s made the switch within five years, according to a separate study. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The flowers that died would bloom again another year, the same birds build their nests, the same trees blossom. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Larson had not been a favorite among his fellow teachers in recent years. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

“We have to be finished just after the new year.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

You’ve been doing this job for one hundred and ninety years? Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

“The inspection sticker on your truck here expired a year and a half ago.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today three-quarters of the terraces are abandoned, and the alpine landscape has not regained the productivity it had a thousand years ago. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Fifty-six years old, conservatively dressed, and well over six feet tall, he appeared a giant next to Bobby. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The professionals, on the other hand, steadily increased their practice time every year, until by the age of twenty they, like the violinists, had reached ten thousand hours. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I had only been to Miami once before, two years earlier, on vacation with a now ex-boyfriend. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“How many of you kongo boys will be going home this year?” asks the colmado-man. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

For many years, it had an odor, a pleasant one—sweet and a little moldy. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Bud,” he said, “my name’s Mr. Lewis. Now if you were about fifteen, twenty years older you could call me Lefty. But you’re not, so you can’t. Mr. Lewis will do just fine.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

He was about eight years old, wide-eyed and inquisitive, and he was not stupid. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

She had left the “scary, screechy” phase of violin playing shortly after that first year, and had even won a couple of violin competitions recently. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

All of that had happened eight years ago, but still, just that one sniffle last night had made Chess move his foot back from the stair below. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

In all the years I’d known him, we’d never had a conversation that hadn’t been a sham to lure him through a door with a bucket of ice water balanced on top. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

My own daddy gave her that name years ago. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Then, four years later, Baird prosecuted another trial that provided an insight into Baird’s thinking as he considered the Shaw case. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I don’t want a year to turn into more. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But a man named Dalton, a District 10 refugee who’d made it to 13 on foot a few years ago, leaked the real motive to me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

My coach had explained that to compete in the Olympics, I’d have to turn sixteen within the Olympic year. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In one year alone he stole ninety-two bases, a record topped only by the immortal Ty Cobb, who had stolen ninety-six. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

It would take years for some of them to disappear—and others would never fade. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of the year Mr. Greene went through a whole day talking about how we could use math. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

She was probably eighty years old, but she could still carry one of the giant trays that held a dozen bowls of cowboy beans. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

We are maniacal about it now, since six years ago, when we tried to change the tradition and had venison stew instead. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She asked each student in my seventh-grade English class to pick one place for a pen pal program our school was starting that year. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Bobby continued to accept the proceeds of his mother’s Social Security checks for years. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They were catching up on all the lost years, I suppose. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the summer of 1858, Charles Waring was a year and a half old. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have been going to school now for six years. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

It would be the only glory of a really sucky year if I could beat someone at something. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what had been going on with my own boyfriend, and we’d spent nearly every waking second together for more than a year. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Over the next seven years, Milton traded up almost every year, so it’s possible for me to chart my life in relation to the styling features of his long line of Cadillacs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was a simple class, teaching programming that Jesse had mastered years earlier. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of the thousands of cables I received during my seven years in the Defense Department, this one disturbed me the most,” McNamara later said. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I know that feeling—and I realize that I can save him years of future therapy by one simple action. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, seven million children-—children who had existed only as phantom exemptions on the previous year’s 1040 forms—vanished, representing about one in ten of all dependent children in the United States. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

If only her father had been stronger, she might have chanced it, but Hoster Tully had been bedridden these past two years, and Catelyn was loath to tax him now. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When my daddy died three years ago, Momma took to her sewing machine to help her ease the pain. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

And we actually were strong, perhaps, relative to groups of clients Hall had ushered up the mountain in past years. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I recognized Anastasia’s photo from years before, and everything clicked together. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Not so long when you’re listening to a story, but half a year is a great long while to live through, especially if you are young. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The number of corporate chief executives who went to Ivy League colleges has dropped over the past fifteen years. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He said he hadn’t kept me out of the public school for all these years just to see me corrupted on a stage. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There was nothing in what Fuller said that day that he had not already repeated dozens of times in Durham during the past year—except for the phrase “Black Power.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The exhibition was rather a success, and masters who had hardly ever spoken to me over the past four years would come up and say things like, ‘It’s quite extraordinary’ . Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The immigrants I know have loud voices, unmodulated to American tones even after years away from the village where they called their friendships out across the fields. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Catherine was only twenty-seven years old but looked much older. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Two little blond-haired children, no more than three or four years old, suddenly appeared in the doorway, silently holding hands. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each ring signified one year’s service with the Golden Company. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As time went on, and the months and years came and went, he was never without friends. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

I understood their impulses, the long years’ privation and hurt out of which they had come to Communism. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

So much had happened to us in the last year, both good and bad. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

That recollection, as all of those of the past few years, led him to think about the war without his realizing it. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Handing over the key, Maddie explained that she had had a renter there for more than ten years, a single gentleman who had died without any relatives. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

My shovel had dented the top of it, but it was still whole and sound even after years in the earth. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

India’s business schools, it adds, produce around eighty-nine thousand MBAs per year. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

The roots of the meeting had been planted more than two years earlier by the discovery of nuclear fission. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“It could end thousands of years of hostility. It might be the key to defeating Gaea. But if we can’t help you...” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

My mother didn’t name us until we were a year old and she knew for sure we would survive. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

What telltale clues might remain of any war that took place tens of thousands of years ago? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

My uncle had died in Hong Kong a few years before. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His parents’ grandfather clock still ticked away after all these years with a maniacal endurance. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

And that was when Mary began to see the connection between the mulefa and the question that had occupied the past few years of her life. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And the varsity girls are contenders almost every year. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

It was housed in a building that had been standing there more than a hundred years before when Big Chief Tammany himself skulked around with his braves. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re going to have an interesting year,” said Bill, his eyes twinkling. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

That war is over nearly five years and they can’t get over it so they shoot animals every weekend and drink Rhein- gold till they can’t see. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“But how did you get to Diagon Alley to buy your school things last year?” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Because in six months and one day, he and Anne will head to a Florida fifty-five-plus retirement community for their “active adult years.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

And I thought: what would it be like, ten years from now, to be up here gathering greens some morning with children of my own? Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He waits for the Sledge Game all year. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Tyrion was surprised at how desolate it made him feel to say it, even after all these years. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Another two years on, the Fifteenth Amendment extended to black men the right to vote. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There was laughter, and she thanked them for the years of her upbringing. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Why instead did the West slumber through a thousand years of darkness until Columbus and Copernicus and their contemporaries rediscovered the work done in Alexandria? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a thick paperback, full of logic games and brain teasers that she’d solved years ago. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

By the following year Chico had muscles, and the camera was like nothing on his shoulder. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Ever since he was about five years old, Mike Horan had been in the foster care system, moved from one family to another. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“A lot of kids get the flu this time of year, because the weather warms up.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Two years younger than me—although sometimes she sounds old enough to be my caretaker. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Since this type of mammal had last existed thousands of years ago, the spear point and its owner must have been of equivalent antiquity. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Like, last year, some old witch died and her tea set was sold to an antiques shop. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Ma gave her five little cakes, one for each year that Laura had lived with her and Pa. And Mary gave her a new dress for Charlotte. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

This kept going on, over and over for two years. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

For nine years he would belong to the Ship Chandlery of Ropes and Hodges. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned out to be a very handsome fellow, nineteen years old, more than six feet tall, with blond hair that flopped over his forehead. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“The first year you wanted to look pretty for me, so you wore a nice dress to the fields. By the time we finished, it looked like the sackcloth the yuccas were in!” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she stayed, would this be her own face, Laila wondered, twenty years from now? A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I started making zines earlier this year when I discovered Dad’s collection of punk music zines from his high school days. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

You’ve only been gone since June, but a year ago today is when everything changed, even if I didn’t know it. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It had been years since their emotional life had been so in sync and this had the result of bringing back the times when they first fell in love. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Maten was seventy-three years old, a diabetic, and a deaconess at the Resurrection Mission Baptist Church. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Hours before he was killed, Sefia’s father walked her down the misty slope to the blacksmith’s shop, as he had done every morning for four years, since her mother died. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Although her fingers were bent with arthritis now, and I could see her veins, I pictured her young hands covering her young face so many years ago. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Nearly four years younger than his brother, Ernest, at the age of thirty-one he looked rather the elder: his hairline receding, his face already bearing the dour expression of a country doctor. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He was fourteen years old then, still brand-new to the spotlight. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Their loans carry very low interest rates, and if you go into teaching they’ll forgive ten percent of the loan for every year you teach, up to fifty percent.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

That night Bobby kept his copy—the carbon—which he wouldn’t part with for many years. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

‘But,’ said Sam, and tears started in his eyes, ‘I thought you were going to enjoy the Shire, too, for years and years, after all you have done.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Is there anyone who would have been here six or seven years ago who might know?” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It happened exactly a year after the Pearl Harbor attack. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

But within a year, California probation authorities ordered him to return to Los Angeles because he was on probation following his adjudication as a ward of the court for a prior offense. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Maybe he’s been trying to start all these businesses over the years to make some money doing something he’s good at. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“Quibbler still going strong, then?” asked Harry, who felt a certain fondness for the magazine, having given it an exclusive interview the previous year. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Offered in a year in which the average per capita income in the United States was $432, Strub’s purse caused a national sensation. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was, for many years, the one the women turned to. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Though they never once complained, I’d feel guilty about it for years to come. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He was with us for two years without being wounded, so that something had to happen in the end. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

No clue how Ms. Albright talked so many guys into auditioning this year. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

American fauna 14,000 years ago was far richer than it is today. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

How come she doesn’t know to leave me alone for the next fifty years after what just happened? I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

For the whole rest of sixth grade, Hunter wasn’t allowed within twenty feet of Max, and so far this year, he was keeping away. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He stayed in the South and worked for a few years to save some money, then packed up, headed to Illinois, and proposed to Mary Richardson, the love of his life. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He had to be careful; the paint was still wet, the impasto so thick a piece could take weeks or months or a year to dry. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I was learning the craft of poetry, which really was an intensive version of what my mother had taught me all those years ago—the craft of writing as the art of thinking. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

After so many years away, she is losing her Spanish. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

In a year, it crosses nearly ten trillion kilometers, about six trillion miles, of intervening space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four years of loyal, dangerous service to the Confederacy had proved that. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And a year ago Janell was seriously assaulted by another ex-boyfriend who had just gotten out of prison. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was five years old, and my dad left. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Over the course of a year that could come to over $30,000, enough to approach the lower middle class. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The millisecond that passed while I waited for Marcus to come on the line felt like a million years. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I’m making Violet a movie of senior year as a grad gift, so documenting our last senior outing together is absolutely necessary. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“I was thinking next year we might do a Gone With the Wind theme for the Benefit,” Hilly says, “maybe rent the old Fairview Mansion?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The whole year, I couldn’t shake the feeling that I was just passing time. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

South African law does not guarantee a defendant the right to legal representation, and thousands upon thousands of indigent men and women went to prison every year for lack of such representation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marina is twelve years old, and she figures that in six years she can find Chayanne and make him fall in love with her. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

So it had been from the days many years ago when the first settlers raised their houses, sank their wells, and built their barns. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The convention center in New York City was even more swarming than last year. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The mobster Al Capone was said to make upwards of $50 million a year from illegal booze. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Diary, after all these years, you ever not want to be written in? Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was the worst slaughter of the year. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

They’ll have the most boring stall for sure, same as last year. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Already three years old and still doesn't understand how something so tiny and new can't be returned. how to listen #1 Somewhere in my brain each laugh, tear and lullaby becomes memory. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

These words of Father Restrepo were etched in the family memory with all the gravity of a diagnosis, and in the years to come they had more than one occasion to recall them. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moss appreciated his teacher’s style, yet her enthusiasm and humor still couldn’t reach a group of kids who didn’t want to face the coming school year. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

If most almanacs were designed to last only for a year, even a perpetual almanac would soon become grubby and dog-eared. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He said, We ate chicken for the first time in many years. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“And Your Grace has no knights, save me. It will be years before the boys are ready.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Except for the regular fights with Dad, the last few years went smooth enough. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I ran to the nearest newspaper stand and read the year first. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

My father was a year or so older than his brother Oscar, but they were exceptionally close, and soon after they left school, they went for a long walk together to plan their future. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed she had two or three daughters, and that year they were all going to be debutantes, only she had loused up their debutante party by signing herself into the asylum. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

She told us that this sour woman's one daughter disappeared years ago, and never calls or writes. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I learned the entire second grade in advance just by listening to Annie— she was a year older than me—and by hearing Mama Sweetie read from her Bible and her Webster’s dictionary. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

In the early years, 30 percent of Levittown’s population was under five years old. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

They—they usually take the closest year to that graph. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Mess of brambles and thorns because Uncle Drum quit mowing it years ago. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Originally it was only supposed to be for one year, but one became two. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

There was a commotion in the corridor when the other men learned we were leaving, but we had no time to say a proper goodbye to our comrades of many years. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For six long years, that place was my universe. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He said he had been paying on his life insurance for twenty years. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You just want us to wait until next year so you won’t have to look at it. You just want us to wait until you’re gone.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Although his salary would be paid for the coming year from the medical school budget, he would be near enough to be summoned for work on the cyclotrons when needed. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Suyuan didn’t tell me she was trying all these years to find her daughters,” he is now saying in a quiet voice. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Celia glares at him, but at the same time she begins turning over his words in her mind, collecting the obscure non-answers about the rules he has given her over the years. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Two farmers, each leading this year’s cow, passed each other, shouting prices. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had started learning karate when he was six years old. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Year after year he voyaged, hurried from one perilous adventure to another. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came, strutting right out of a Kentucky sun on the hottest day of the year. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

And by going out of his way to talk to Simon, like last year didn’t happen. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Running makes me feel like I am eleven years old and fast. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The walls were covered with plaster on the outside and a village artist had been hired in a good year once to paint upon the white plaster a scene of hills and bamboo. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The United States and Britain could not hope to keep a monopoly on nuclear technology for more than a few years, they warned. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

My mother would be proud of me, and that meant that next year I would be in the same grade as the rest of the gang. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the “coloreds” in the years following emancipation, criminals today are deemed a characterless and purposeless people, deserving of our collective scorn and contempt. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But it was also gaining steam as a movement around the country, and for my last three years at Bryn Mawr I was a beneficiary. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I’m actually really glad that the school year is over. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

And in the morning, most of them would be leaving for the year. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Papa says they have ruled over India for almost two hundred years. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

With each passing year the character of the woods changed perceptibly. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She told me Aunt Penn’s death had finally been confirmed two years after she first left for Oslo. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the rest of the day, Harry was besieged with requests from the other sixth years to describe the sensation of Apparition. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Dill ran his fingers over what Travis had written—it seemed like years ago. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I was only a year into my apprenticeship when the ghetto was formed. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The woman gave Scarlett a small box with five years’ worth of newspapers on microfilm in it. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Every year, I competed in the draughts competition, and some years, I won the grand prize, which was usually a candy bar. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In years to come, Harry would never quite remember how he had managed to get through his exams when he half expected Voldemort to come bursting through the door at any moment. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

As I was growing up, I didn’t have any toys, but I did still own a baseball that Pete had given me a year earlier. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He detailed his role in helping to plan the early bombing campaigns, and told how two years in Vietnam had changed his views. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

His chief ambition at this point was to cross the cordillera in an unusual form of transportation, just as his Uncle Marcos had tried to do many years before. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I have a jewelry box that Grandma bought me a few years ago. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Watching her brother devour his food, Hanako thought about America, where he would be able to eat all he wanted someday—in a year or two or three, she wasn’t sure. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Maddy isn’t that bad. We’ve been friends a long time, but she’s only in one of my classes this year, so I hardly ever see her. I hope she comes back to cooking class.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

So she went on thinking back to her young years and explaining them to her friend in soft, easy phrases while all around the house, the night time put on flesh and blackness. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Two years after writing these words, Cortes utterly destroyed Tenochtitlan along with the rest of the Aztec civilization. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I already have enough for 1 year anyway. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

A year after his father died, Kim Jong Eun solidified his legitimacy and his hold on power with the successful launch of a three-stage rocket that put a satellite into orbit. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Her own mother died when Dorothy was just two years old, and less than a year later, her father, Leonard Johnson, a waiter, remarried. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The residents were delighted; for years they had all brushed their teeth with stored water poured from mugs. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Adiah has dwelled in my realm for ninety-nine of your mortal years,” she said sharply. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Life might be difficult for a year or two, but I would tough it out because living in a foreign country is one of those things that everyone should try at least once. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Ha! Being immortal helps. But, yes, I wasn’t so old when I died. Not by modern standards. I did a lot during my years as a hero...too much, really.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The news spread, making this the most talked-about event of the year. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that is, funnily enough, exactly where this story begins: two and a half thousand years ago. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

We visit the Indiana Moon Tree, which is a giant sycamore more than thirty years old that grew from a seed taken to the moon and brought back. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Coach Walski said to Joey, “Did you recognize any of them from our game last year?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a student teacher last year, I was pretty naive. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It turned out that my mother had once spent about a year working for him as a secretary, taking dictation and maintaining the legal department’s files. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Her magic had been dwindling for years, but there was no denying that it was happening more quickly now. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Desdemona kept wailing, and I’d already heard so much about Smyrna in my seven years that I watched the screen closely to see what it had been like. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They were hardly out of sight before she blew out a breath so long it sounded as if she had been holding it for a year. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

You were only two years old, and you had on that little coonskin hat with the fur around it and a little plaid jacket to match, and I said, “This is my son.” Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He still sometimes observes them even now, though he is over eighty years old. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

"The will not, I mean the will will will . . He paused and tried again. "The will will not be filed until the first of the year. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s what I should’ve done every single day for the last two years. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

This was the summer of her fifteenth year, and this day she wanted to die. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’re the ones who kept me in the dark all these years. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

They already knew a great deal about the prehistoric creatures that roamed the Serengeti in bygone years. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

But twenty-five years later, about forty miles up the road in Odessa at Permian, there was some consolation. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Drawn to words in any language, she took four years of German and five years of Latin. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Four years later, her dad would unexpectedly die of a heart attack at the age of fifty-six, leaving behind his wife, five children, and eight grandchildren. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

That same year, her mother was given permission to do her programming job remotely, which meant anywhere she had a computer. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“It took you fourteen years to grow that hair,” said Mama, “and I’ll not let you have it cut off.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And how nobody cared until they found her...one year later. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

We fell in love almost from the minute we met and were married within that year. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

During the school year, David went away to college out of state, which conveniently kept him from being any sort of distraction from my studies. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

One summer, a couple of years ago, three children stepped on a plane in Jacksonville, Florida. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

We know from the fossil record that the origin of life happened soon after, perhaps around 4.0 billion years ago, in the ponds and oceans of the primitive Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked to be about five years old—not old enough to be out on the road by himself. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barack was elected to the Illinois senate in November 1996 and sworn in two months later, at the start of the following year. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And Tiny leans down to my ear and whispers back, "Dunno. I think she had a boyfriend freshman year." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They hadn’t scrapped like this in years, since they were boys, and with a sudden sense of relief Moody laughed again even as Trip socked him in the stomach and they toppled onto the floor. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

True social contact across the races was well nigh impossible, yet within the confines of their offices, relationships cultivated over intense days and long years blossomed into respect, fondness, and even friendship. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I told myself that evening what I had been telling my clients for years. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Twenty-four years earlier, he had been the youngest mayor the city had ever elected. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

If she kept her eyes closed, she could almost fool herself into thinking she was nine years old again, curled up in her bed with her stuffed crocodile tucked in beside her. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

With the fighting dragging on, Henry IV was not crowned until 1594, a year after he had once again declared himself to be a Catholic, and even then the conflict with Spain continued. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

For the first time in many years, Barack and I had no role to play on election night. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Each year the Bagginses had given very lively combined birthday-parties at Bag End; but now it was understood that something quite exceptional was being planned for that autumn. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Reggie had been keeping track of who had solved each puzzle over the past year. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was to be the room in which this boy was to spend most of his waking hours for the next three years. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I study the time on Mom’s old watch—she was wearing it when her car sailed off the cliff two years ago, killing her on impact—as it ticks around my wrist. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It was the money left me, and the gains of the first few year wot I sent home to Mr. Jaggers—all for you—when he first come arter you, agreeable to my letter.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

She was thin and pale and weak and older than her years. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I asked them then about the ship that had taken my people away many years before, making the signs of the ship and pointing to the east, but they did not understand. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her fingers find his hand and hold tight, as if she were pulling him up from an edge she lost him to years back. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father died many years ago now—of natural causes. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a number of years, I taught a course in political economy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were almost tourists, the first anyone had seen in years. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It has been years since we left Iran—but I wonder about the candy bars. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

And after years of bumbling, potentially crooked investigations into the Osage murders, White needed to weed out half facts and build an indubitable narrative based on what he called an “unbroken chain of evidence.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“But they’re—” “We have plenty, you go ahead, child. I make them every year.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He would stay there until the following summer, more than a year after his arrest. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Three hundred years ago, the Royal Society was set up: the first true scientific society in her world. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

What had Alyce seen her do from cottage windows all this year when the babe would not come and the mother looked to scream and thrash herself to death? The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted him to go on talking like this, that his bitterness might loosen and come away, carrying with it all the pent-up hatred and disgust and muck of the lost years. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Four years since everything happened—since the war began, and Father lost his ship, and they moved away from Salem. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now they were in hurricane months and, when there are no hurricanes, the weather of hurricane months is the best of all the year. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like most, I could not swim, but for much of the year, one could wade across. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

They had only been seeing each other for a year, but it felt like so much longer. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He glances outside at my bike, which I parked right next to the one he’s been riding for years. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

They had four sons born a year apart. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In recent years, the committee had been virtually inactive, but Paul envisioned a more dynamic future. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Not in a year, or ten, or fifty. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A year and a half might as well be a lifetime for me. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Behind the scenes, though, she became our champion, and it would be years before I realized everything she had accomplished on Luke’s and my behalf. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It can wait a century for a reader, as God Himself has waited 6,000 years for a witness. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except this: ‘What with one thing and another, three years passed.’ The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“They’re called azaleas. In the spring that whole row will turn solid pink. Prettiest thing. I saw it last year when we visited Deedee and Ben before we moved over.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’s studying Astrophysics at a university in California, having finished his undergraduate degree in two years instead of four. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I finished high school early, actually. So I’ve been a year already.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

My father could only afford one that year, so we passed it around, taking small sips, holding the sunshine-sweet liquid in our mouths for as long as possible before giving in to a swallow. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She was young, maybe four years old, and she had white-blond hair, and even in the poor light of the lamp, Edward could see that her eyes were the same gold-flecked brown as Bryce’s. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

But the hard facts were that fifty years of nonviolence had brought the African people nothing but more repressive legislation, and fewer and fewer rights. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Our business has turned a profit for years,” my mom said. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

This word has had a complicated history over the years. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only once a year did the need to dispose of a mountain of wrapping paper and cardboard packaging overrule Desdemona’s objections to using our fireplace. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In spirit, at the boundary wall between death and life, it had waited for him these long years. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, they all started to change last year. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The past two years had delivered extremely harsh winters followed by particularly poor harvests, especially in the South. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“This year I’ll be paying special attention because I know the scenes so well. I’ll be listening especially for this scene, with the buildings falling.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eighteen years after the event, I now recognize that I suf-fered from hubris, perhaps, and an appalling innocence, certainly; but I wasn’t suicidal. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next year, the rally was canceled when Germany invaded Poland. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tutu was seventy-nine years old, a barrel-chested man with bright eyes and an irrepressible laugh. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He was in my year, but I didn't know his name. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

These are the best that four billion years of evolution could produce, containing the full complement of information on how to make a cell, a tree or a human work. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other people—unused to telephones all their lives until immediately after World War II when the present system was installed—still, some twenty-odd years later, automatically answered anything that gave off an urgent blast. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was a child still, despite the ripeness of her thirteen years, and no doubt fancied a grand wedding even as I had done. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I can see is Lenny, who grew up with Frank for a dad and just spent four years carrying around bags of smelly old-people diapers for a living. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The last one, the girl Elizabeth, died a couple years back. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the year that had passed, not much had changed, except that the building had fallen into even greater ruin. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“You have enough years ahead of you to know pain, Betty Dean.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

"You're the first person to ask me my name in about a year." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

But try and, which has been around for hundreds of years, is acceptable in casual writing and in conversation. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She petted and fussed over him, accepting him as though the years had rolled back and one of the children had brought home yet another half-starved stray. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m twelve years old now,” I said with pride. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For twelve years, he knew, he had waited. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

After waiting twenty-seven years, I could certainly wait another seven days. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One Hitler Youth, about fourteen years old, was carried into a hospital tent. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was a year older than she, but she was a head taller. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

That’s why the first World Championships after an Olympic year is always an individual meet with no team competition. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In one sense we have launched into the Cosmos a direct transcription of the thoughts and feelings of a single human being in the month of June in the year 1977 on the planet Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

All those years Charlie must have grown up watching Mama and Ty'ree at the table trying to figure out how to keep us eating and wearing clothes, and him not being able to help. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Because South Africa is below the equator, their seasons are the reverse of ours, so I boarded the plane knowing that I would bypass the winter cold this year. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

After all these years of carrying the burden alone, Jo is there. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But three hundred years ago the trees began to sicken. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was too much in a year filled with hard things. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Last year I was the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz” “But that’s a movie, not a book.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Ugwu’s aunty had told him that if he served well for a few years, Master would send him to commercial school where he would learn typing and shorthand. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It’s been that way for all these years now. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was born in Incheon, the year of 1940,” she says. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Indian music has roots that are thousands of years old. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Five years later, a handsome, apple-cheeked young man named Andrew would look back at that conversation as one of the most validating moments of his life. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Surrounding the R-complex is the limbic system or mammalian brain, which evolved tens of millions of years ago in ancestors who were mammals but not yet primates. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Given that the Ice Age made Europe north of the Loire Valley uninhabitable until some eighteen thousand years ago, the Western Hemisphere should perhaps no longer be described as the “New World.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

After a year without a sign, without any word or a single glimpse of the grey top hat, Marco decides to call on him. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

‘Thus have I walked, and thus now for many years have I slept,’ he said, ‘lest with age the body should grow soft and timid.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Three billion years, and life itself barely exists. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

All these years I had been hearing about how nasty hospital food was, and now that I finally got a chance to taste it, it wasn’t half-bad. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

We even stayed in the same campground in the Bighorn Wilderness that I remembered from more than thirty years earlier. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In the last two years of school shopping, have I ever made you look ridiculous?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

To the seaside they went, after much discussion, and though Beth didn’t come home as plump and rosy as could be desired, she was much better, while Mrs. March declared she felt ten years younger. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

This monument is in honor of the South African War, ninety years ago, more or less. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Barack Obama, looking as he does, would have had to sit in the back of the bus fifty years ago. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I have years and years to get good. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

That moment seemed like a million years ago. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The first cases of DDT resistance among agricultural insects appeared in the United States in 1951, about six years after its first use. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

But then, intelligence tests hadn’t trapped an andy in years, not since the primordial, crude varieties of the 1970s. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The fire inside the Atashkadeh had been burning for fifteen hundred years. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It’s actually been a very exciting time because we’ve all been busy finishing up the year. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Two years prior, I had scored the highest on a national placement test in my school. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

For the last four years, he had been performing at concerts, antiwar rallies, and marches, but this would be the group’s largest audience ever. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Homo sapiens reached the Middle East around 70,000 years ago. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many years of handling have worn down some details of the tiny animal. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every night for the next year he always said something like that to me: ‘Thank you for everything, Westley, good night now, I’ll probably kill you in the morning.’ The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“The Minors have declined their contract, on our advice. It may be years before this mission resumes.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

For one thing, the food at Pollsmoor was far superior; after years of eating pap three meals a day, Pollsmoor’s dinners of proper meat and vegetables were like a feast. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time of year they’re paying two bucks a pound for lobster at the co-op. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was a nice change after years of meeting kids who hadn’t been kind or warm to either of us—except for Subbu, whom Arul resembled a little. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She looked at least sixteen years old when they were finished. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Deepavali comes but once a year and this is the first time we have bought fireworks. Do not lose the opportunity.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh! single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

What then drove forward the evolution of the massive human brain during those 2 million years? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in the quiet of the Tower, far above the grimy fog of the town, the madwoman sensed things that she never could have sensed before her years there. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Meat eating has been a part of human culture for tens of thousands of years. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

For the first time in a year, they all lived under one roof. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She was the only child of Granny and Grandpa’s to live more than a few years, besides my mother, and she’d been spoiled all her life. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

But Matt had changed in his later years. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Last year I watched one of them fall and break her leg. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Maya hadn’t brought a friend over in years. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Also I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year, and then you take it off and wear it. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

More people are killed by lightning in Tangerine County per year than in any other county in America.’ Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We laughed because he used to say the same thing nearly twenty years earlier. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The teacher, Mr. Reed, said that in the seventeenth century nearly two-thirds of English settlers came over that way, selling years of their freedom for the promise of an eventual better life. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Only a year earlier, Fred and his brother Cliff had been tobacco farmers in Clover too. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Every year, all the kids and their families hang out together at Disneyland or some other fun place like that. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Even in the best of years, it cannot feed itself. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Maybe. Falcons and most other birds come back to their old territories year after year,” he said. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I hate how I still want him after two years. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Marina Raskova's school years were bent and shaped by the harsh winds of change that swept her nation. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The very same one that Chuck Parson had thrown me onto freshman year, sending me into the terrifying netherworld of Winter Park’s dishwashing corps. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“How about ten years? Will you remember them in ten?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“These mosquitoes carry encephalitis. Two children died in Tangerine last year after they were bitten by mosquitoes.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to move on now to our last years at Hailsham. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one was feeling very sunny this year. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Despite the fact that they were both three years older than Ji-yong and all three of them attended different schools, the three boys were close friends. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A hundred years of alcohol leaving a body by any means possible is not a pretty sight.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Ten years at the university, and here I am in a corral. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said ten years, but perhaps seven will be enough. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The stock market had rebounded earlier in the year, the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbing an all-time record of 15.34 percent in one day on March 15 to close at 62.10. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But if Charity has learned anything in all her years, it’s to keep a calm head—especially in the face of utter chaos. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Think you might find this useful for next year. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

If my avatar was killed, I would lose my sword, shield, and leather armor, and the three levels I’d managed to gain over the past few years. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

That year they had spareribs and chitlins and pan scrapple. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hanako had paid the neighbor her entire savings of twenty-seven dollars, earned through working at the restaurant when she was six and seven years old. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Their first achievement was the colonisation of Australia some 45,000 years ago. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But just a few years down the line, Royal Brougham would name him, along with Al Ulbrickson, as one of the two greatest oarsmen ever to sit in a shell for Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A year later, Phelps’s daughter was abducted by agents sent by her father, while she was walking to church on a Sunday morning. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Within a few years he developed a systematic method of solving the tangent problem; he could figure out the tangent to any smooth curve at any point. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It wouldn’t have happened again in a hundred years, but there they came. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the quick engagement, they waited two years to get married, by which time Joy was a junior and Bill a recent graduate looking for work. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“But I thought your papers are wrong, and you’re seventy-two, seventy-three in Chinese years.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t work the Benefit this year, first time in a decade. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“That there’s a memory I’ll take to my grave,” he told me years later. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I suppose having matriculated to my nineteenth year has provided me with a depth of insight which I am only beginning to excavate. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“If she doesn’t make carnival queen this year,” Leonard went on smugly, “she’ll never be queen of anything anywhere else for the rest of her life.” Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ned had known their faces as well as he knew his own once, but the years leech at a man's memories, even those he has vowed never to forget. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But her glance was nutritious; the spot became, if anything, more pronounced as the years passed. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year—the days when summer is changing into fall—the crickets spread the rumor of sadness and change. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

It was the year when computational power became infinite—or so close to infinite that it could no longer be measured. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

But that year the significance of the new law was brought home to her, in terms of people. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I put on my Sunday dress, which I hadn’t worn for almost two years, it strained across my breasts and shoulders. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a unique moment in the life of a charismatic prodigy in that, to arrive where he was, he’d somehow overcome his objections to how he’d been treated by the Soviets over the years. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

As the settlers were outnumbered across most of the continent until the first decade of the nineteenth century, this meant that their interactions with Indigenous peoples were defined by violence for two hundred years. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Over the last two years, practicing together, we had our own little group, and I didn’t want to lose that. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

In 3 BC he turns one year old. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He’s tall and gawky and sixteen years old. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

As late as 1910, one of the most respected estimates, by the American George Becker, put the Earth’s age at perhaps as little as 55 million years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Jam could already feel the familiar warmth of Redemption’s house wrapping around her like a soft, fuzzy blanket she’d known for years. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

A few million years ago, when human beings first evolved on Earth, it was already a middle-aged world, 4.6 billion years along from the catastrophes and impetuosities of its youth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was fifty-five years old, and we supposed his symptoms were those of approaching old age. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“These last couple of years must have been exhausting for you. Trying to decide whether to kill me or not. Back and forth. Back and forth.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

For his entire five years and ten months, the only time Fig hadn’t greeted me was when he’d been hiding under my bed because of lightning flashes and growling thunder. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He had a man's needs, after all, and they had spent that year apart, Ned off at war in the south while she remained safe in her father's castle at Riverrun. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The block party is something we've been putting together for the last couple of years, ever since Mama became the one-woman planning committee of the block association. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

But this one’s brother was gleaned just two years ago…. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

"I'm beginning to think you shouldn't have started reading comics with a book that completely deconstructs the last fifty years of the genre," he said. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Jack had lived in Harlem for ten years before moving to Kentucky. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The following year, he went insane and killed his wife with a knife. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

He had waited so long, surely the gods would grant him a few more years, enough time to see the boy he’d called a son seated on the Iron Throne. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

So, over the years I was able to learn where the idea of the kamikazes came from. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was the one who’d watched and listened all these years. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The first Carl’s Jr. restaurant opened in 1956 — the same year that America got its first shop ping mall and that Congress passed the Interstate Highway Act. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

That year, and every year, it seemed, we began by studying the Revolutionary War. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

It sat among the pine trees on a lot Henri rented for five dollars a year. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

John Tu gave me more attention in seven minutes than my dad has given in seven years. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

One of them had been charged a year before with two counts of first-degree murder for separate shootings in West Baltimore. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

One year the fungus got you, another you couldn’t keep the spit bugs down. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Lina remembered having creamed corn once, as a thrilling treat, when she was five years old. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The oldest was more than three thousand years old; the youngest a mere century and a half. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Of course, since we no longer count the years numerically, aside from children and adolescents, no one knows how old anyone is anymore—sometimes not even themselves. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The conference would mean his fourth visit to Geneva in four years. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“The answer is no this time, Merci. I’m sorry; I know you’re disappointed. But I promise, you can try out next year.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“I mean, I might not even be at Hogwarts next year, what’s it matter to me if some fat old has-been likes me or not?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Just tucking the papers into my backpack gives me a rush, because this moment is the first official basketball experience of the year. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as I stood in front of my own house in the cool, violet morning, I had the crazy idea that I could be standing here thirty years from now looking back. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“A year went by. Two,” the pale, gray-eyed abbot went on. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I did a good job and in almost twenty-five years I was never late or missed work. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And no less astounded would be millions whom I did not know—who had gained during my twelve years with Elijah Muhammad a “hate” image of Malcolm X. Even I was myself astounded. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the next two and a half years, the tape machines picked up nearly four thousand hours of meetings and phone conversations—including an excellent record of the president’s imminent showdown with Daniel Ellsberg. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The cellar smelled of dirt and musty air and this year’s apples. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have here Alaska’s final. You’ll recall that you were asked what the most important question facing people is, and how the three traditions we’re studying this year address that question. This was Alaska’s question.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The club’s camera didn’t work properly since so many students had fiddled with it over the years. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“I walked into the room and I heard a voice, which has never happened before in all my years of hiding — of using the room, I mean.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“You remember that night—our last year—when that crazy Louise Hermanson busted in the room wearing that black brassiere she bought in Chicago?” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe we didn’t go this year because you weren’t here to roll your eyes with me. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“This is a new year,” I told the people, “the year one.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa had driven us past the crowds at Ezi Icheke once, some years ago, and he muttered about ignorant people participating in the ritual of pagan masquerades. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Brother Vu wants to be a cook or teach martial arts, not waste a year as the oldest senior. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It was probably the coldest night of the year. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He knew now that for seven years the Thought Police had watched him like a beetle under a magnifying glass. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“No, no, thank you. I’ll get out to sleep. Morning seems to come earlier every year I live.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Last time I got sick at school, two years ago, it was some kind of flu bug going around. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“You know I convinced him to go out for the football team last year? He thinks he’s such a gift to women, but he was nothing without me.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“You’ll have to trust me, Percy. You will live. But first you must decide your path for the coming year. I cannot tell you the right choice. . . .” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Even the last year before Papa left, he had begun sending her in to help her mother. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Vincent has been living in The Hague for three years now. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I’m at North Central. A year behind, though: I’m a sophomore. You?” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He and other physicists had spent a few years studying fission. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the years we've learned to stockpile the extra money we steal and stash it away for emergencies. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“I woke up one morning and realized, if I didn’t, I’d be dead in a year.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s Grover. He seems so distraught. All year he’s been out looking for Pan. And every time he comes back, it’s worse. I thought maybe, at first, he was seeing another tree.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Every single day, without fail, for over two years.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

My first memory is of being four years old and getting a piggyback from Gregor Kennedy, my father. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“May Deanna, the Huntress and Protector of the Young, bless and keep you this year. I bestow upon you this golden arrow as a symbol of her power and good graces.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Who would’a thought that all this could come from that itty-bitty tub of Legos we bought you years ago.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

When the twin towers had fallen ten years before, I had never heard of Islam. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Angry, I added in a whisper, “But it took them ten years.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“I spent two years in a juvenile detention center for breaking my father’s arm. Both arms, actually. And his nose. He also had a fractured skull, but that probably wasn’t entirely my fault.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He said it smelled like the air was a hundred years old in there. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

“It was the first time in five years that I’ve been involved in a major incident,” he said. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In reality, I am an ageless geek, with years of personal experience, a fiercely aggressive intelligence coupled with geek wit, and the education of the best online material in the world. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew he wasn’t evil or anything; after all, he'd stopped Hunter from bothering Max last year. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

One article said that thousands of innocent people were convicted of crimes each year. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

It's easy for me to move in it; I’ve watched Ma model saris gracefully for years. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You need to go to college to be a teacher. It’s five years of study beyond high school. It can be expensive.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Lord, in six months my ears have heard what they hadn’t known about in twenty-four years. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it was, about twenty yards on each side of the bridge were cut each year, and one could dive in from the bridge itself. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Do the kids who’d drowned in the lake down the years mind me trespassing on their roof? Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Fernanda, however, realized that there was a sun of clairvoyance in the shadows of that wandering, for Úrsula could say without hesitation how much money had been spent in the house during the previous year. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Well, let him tell it: he took a leave of absence, but it’s been a year and I haven’t heard anything about his trying to go back. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

For various practical reasons, principally to do with the long, punishing winters of northern New England, there are only so many available months to hike the trail each year. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She had just copied them with great care, and had destroyed the old manuscript, so that Amy’s bonfire had consumed the loving work of several years. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was seventeen years old at the time, which meant I didn’t have to take the test because I was under the age of eighteen—I would become a citizen when my parents did. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Just because he said you were the best student of the year —” They dropped their voices as they entered the muffled stillness of the library. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Two years ago, even as Finn and Emma laughed and laughed and laughed, Mom had tried to explain that she wasn’t really worried about kidnappers. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

On June 10, 1943, exactly a year after they’d flown their first combat mission, there was a special ceremony to celebrate the honor of being named the 46th Guards earlier that year. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

But then, at last, after endless years of waiting, they will hear the call. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She was willing to risk the awkwardness of arriving to school her senior year with a brand-new facial feature. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

They had not gone out with that intention, and did not really, even in those distant days, believe that every leaf you caught would mean a happy month next year. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Saint courted me for four years in his strange way. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what about the letter from Miss Peregrine—postmarked Cairnholm—sent just fifteen years ago? Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

There’s a sign on it that looks like it’s a hundred years old. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“I came out this way two years ago and spent three days in Stamboul then.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two soldiers stroll past, looking like they’re still on duty when everyone knows the war ended a year ago. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Thankfully, that’d happened two years and one month before I was born. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I may not’ve had a date in umpteen years, but who does he think he is? The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“And people say that he is two hundred years old, and is able to transform any metal into gold.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The separate languages of the Indo-European family were at one time, perhaps five thousand years ago, maybe much longer, a single language. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She died when I was about seven years old, on one of my master’s farms, near Lee’s Mill. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

The timing had worked out similarly for my sister when, two years prior, they were able to get a loan to pay for her last year of college. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Bebe had been in the country only two years by the time her baby was born, and in Cleveland for barely one. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

LeAlan: When we were knocking on the doors of the apartment building where it happened—I mean, this touched me—a young man that answered the door said he was thirty-seven years old. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

So it was in Llandaff two years later, when I was six years old, that I went to my first school. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

She brings her mother something each year, and her mother gives her gifts from the grave. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“A hundred years I could give to you.” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Within one century of European colonization, 40,000 years of Aboriginal traditions had been mostly swept away. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Have you been through this at eleven years old? The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

No one she knew had seen a can of peaches in years. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Auditorium alone had taken nearly three years to build and driven Louis Sullivan to the brink of physical collapse. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Back then, we believed we’d be in these mountains as guerrillas before the year was over. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think in the first year we sold a grand total of one grapefruit. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“I read somewhere that a lot of the stars we see don’t exist anymore. They’ve already died and it’s taken millions of years for their light to reach Earth,” Dill said. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Despite three years of study in philosophy and medicine, I have not discovered a cause in Nature why Therese’s hands bled at her death. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to look back on those years,” he said slowly. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Had it really been years since I held a lute? The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The same thing that happened twenty years earlier at Cambridge: he got the rest of the world to see things his way. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

They were eating the biggest meal of the year, and I missed them very much. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, the contest of wills ended after officials agreed that if Bobby would play this time, they’d make the pairings in public the following year. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The first time I saw Dee was at one of Ellis’s hockey games last year. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

It'll never sit well that years later she had to end her happy, hard-earned marriage just to give her children a better life. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The last year I did not count those. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joaquin had heard some epic tirades about that cat in his two years in their home. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

His health declined slowly but inexorably for more than a year, much of that time spent in the hospital. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“I swear, Paul, you’ve grown half a foot this year. You probably don’t have anything that fits. Including what you have on now.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It found me, actually, about eight years ago. Been around the world a couple times before we met, I believe.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Grandma claims he’s been a dentist for like forty years, and whenever he pulls a tooth from someone famous, he saves it. Then he sells ’em to people. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It was the question she’d wanted to ask all along—fifteen years of marriage had turned us into mind readers. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He had brought this art to perfection after years of egg stealing. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fifth year—postgraduate, they call it, to be kind. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

There hadn’t been a bad hurricane in New Orleans in forty years. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

The postmark on Miss Peregrine’s letter was fifteen years old, but by all accounts she’d been blown into the stratosphere back in 1940. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Automatically, Leon’s attention was drawn by the motion, and in that instant she delivered the look he had not seen in more than ten years. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I thought how great it would be to go to my senior prom three years from now with Sam. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Usually the dry season brought the rice harvest, but this year, because of the debils, we were without food. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matt had spent years watching Felicia turn into a zombie. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

For years afterward, Jon Connington told himself that he was not to blame, that he had done all that any man could do. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He looks years older; he looks years younger. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The stone banisters on the outside stairways were chipped, their surfaces blotched with dirt, and the edges of the stone steps were round and smooth from years of use. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

This was her student life now, these four years, this enveloping regime, and she had no will, no freedom to leave. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then she realized that he really didn’t tell her anything, and hadn’t for years. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The policy has led to several jittery years of missile launches, frozen economic deals, border shootings, and periodic threats from the North of “total war.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Yet less than two years after Mrs. Leep left him, Leon surprised everyone by getting engaged to a woman he met at a celebrity pro-am golf tournament. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Enfranchise him and we are left outside with lunatics, idiots, and criminals for another twenty years.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

In fact, there hasn’t been a Potter at Hogwarts for years—and that boy didn’t turn out so well. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

“I’ve caught some beautiful pieces. Trolling this time of year you catch some beautiful pieces.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

After a year of being exposed to other kids, I knew most of them didn’t have squashed noses or dents in the sides of their heads where their eyes used to be. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Lolo has had a disease for years and you didn’t tell me?” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

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

“Really? I don’t know if I can. And now—knowing that Maisie was alive all these years ...” “Oh, Vivian,” Molly says. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was not for nothing he was fifteen years old. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course I should’ve known that, what with the plagues killing off hundreds of people every year. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Less than two years later, they would come together again, this time as the civilian leadership of the atomic bomb program. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I have Emery Webber, who rescued me from having to eat lunch by myself on the first day of freshman year. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Every year as the 25th rolls around, the television crews drive up. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been twelve years since his father had died, and his mother had come to spend two weeks with him and Shoba, so they could honor his father’s memory together. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

At the time, I was nine years old and not very strong. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

“We got to see him at first. For the first few years. Once a month.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

After a couple of years, it was clear that he and Mom really liked each other. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Many years later, a teenaged job applicant named Bill Nichols casually asked Howard if he was the boy in the picture. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

After three years of silence, banning, and internal exile, I looked forward to the chance to speak out before the people attempting to judge me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been accustomed to keep track of the days, months, and years, using as points of reference the dates set for the return of her children. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Again it occurred to Brave Orchid that her sister wasn’t very bright, and she had not gotten any smarter in the last thirty years. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My leaving had broken down the barrier which for eighteen years had barred me from reaching into my father and sharing with him the love and understanding of fathers and sons. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did something I never in a million years thought a Dewberry boy would do. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Last year, our clan all dressed up as witches. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Yeah, this feels far worse than the evil eye B-Cubed threw my way after ending my season three years ago. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

“I have been striving for over sixty years for a little bit of justice no bigger than that, and yet I must die without obtaining it....It seems so cruel.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

In Greece the tide was turning, although the Ionian tradition continued in Alexandrian Egypt two hundred years later. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If he’s who he says he is, then why don’t he know the first thing about loops—or even what year he’s in? Go on, ask him!” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The alleged “safety” of malathion rests on rather precarious ground, although — as often happens — this was not discovered until the chemical had been in use for several years. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The next year Descartes formulated his famous doctrine cogito ergo sum, ‘I think therefore I am’; consequently, there is something, one thing, I know for certain. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Ernest,” he said, “you say you are convinced of the importance of these fission bombs. Are you ready to devote the next several years of your life to getting them made?” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The one that helped Gram get through her darkest years. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The crooked, cobbled street was much altered now from the bustling place Harry had visited before his first term at Hogwarts so many years before. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But my avatar had now had the same name for over five years. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

By staying, I’ll have the majority of the students I had last year. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She whimpered, scratched at the nipple I had not sucked in years. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Humans had perhaps a million years to get used to fire as a thing and as an idea. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

You don’t know this, but two years ago when I was a freshman and you were a sophomore, I used to follow you around. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Virginia, no, little sister. It’s just that it’s—it’s been so many years.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the next year, in March 1936, Hitler stationed troops in the Rhineland, the buffer zone between Germany and France. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I suppose she must have locked it up in some unlikely place and then forgotten all about it, like almost all the other jewels I bought for her over the years we spent together. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The days started to fill, Nelson was bom, and two years later, Noris, and soon I had a third belly growing larger each day. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The packet seems too small to hold a year's worth of correspondence. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Throughout the morning, everyone chattered excitedly about the snow; apparently it was the first snowfall of the new year. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

In 2 BC he turns two years old. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Lupita stared at the unsmiling girl, who looked about eight years old. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

At the very peak of the last ice age 20,000 years ago, 30 percent of the earth was under ice. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He put in a good- sized piece of rope that he’d found at the trash heaps and had been saving for years and a bottle for water. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Also correct is that I head to college in one more year. You know the tortoise and the hare? I’m the tortoise, and the racetracks my bank account. I’ve been saving for years.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“I know your biggest dream is to see your daughter after not seeing her for seventeen years.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

But the aircraft a year ago had been different. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“What was her name? What years did she attend? And how long ago did she die?” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Grant Burch is one of the hardest kids in the third year. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Am I the only one who chose a quirky, cool, liberal shirt to kick off the year?” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

I was gonna find the Preacher if it took me ten years. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

A few years passed, and Kathy, through a series of missteps and heartbreaks, was divorced and living alone with Zachary, who was less than a year old. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Though Martin claims he's been secretly in love with me for years. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Each year, she was voted Prettiest Girl in their form, and she would wryly say, “Its just because I’m a half-caste. How can I be finer than Zainab?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But this year I figured would be different. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

The sun was hotter than usual for the time of year, but I even enjoyed this. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Will grumblingly accepted the southern half of the valley as his exclusive area, and within fifteen years the valley was two-deep in Fords and Will was a rich man driving a Marmon. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then it was a year later, and it was just a little bit worse. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Bridey says it doesn’t matter what class of an accent an Irishman has for he’ll never forget what the English did to us for eight hundred long years. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z