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

She took me to a small building north of campus, which she called a “clinic.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And for a city that had been so poor before Hitler's rise to power, the sound of work, of hammers ringing along the docks, building ships and U-boats, is beautiful, too. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

I was on patrol and wandered the building, hoping to find some new thing that would make Miig agree to stay. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He also built houses, school buildings, churches, a company store, a bakery, and an icehouse. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sierra could feel that Wick was close, but it irritated her to no end that she could find everyone else in the building except him. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

One was to build keyboards with the necessary fidgety subdivisions. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

We slip into a tall building and are suddenly in a tropical forest with bamboo trees and wide-leafed plants. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The building was shaped like an L around a small courtyard: three stories on the long side, the top floor, with its gabled windows, crammed under a steeply raked roof. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The people began to dream of building Him a new cathedral. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

They asked neighbors inside and outside the building if any had seen Julia or Pearl, but none had. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

To sing a note in one of these cavernous spaces is to hear its sound echo and reverberate, returning to its source modified by the building itself. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Exactly. That’s what monoculture means: Everything the same. After enough orchids build up in an area, there aren’t enough hummingbirds to pollinate them. You know, to spread the seeds.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

These were mostly small stucco or clapboard buildings with short steeples. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought you lived in this building. Want to skate a little?” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I've left the door open and he has no interest in even investigating the hallway in our building. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

In a past day I might say anything to steer us in the other direction, but I walk us by the ruined building. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scanning the buildings lining the street, my eyes land on a butcher shop. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I’ll have to go ashore to build a fire, if this journey takes much longer,” she whispered to herself. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

With its gorgeous classical buildings packed with art, its clean water and electric lights, and its overstaffed police department, the exposition was Chicago’s conscience, the city it wanted to become. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Each group has to build a skyscraper strong enough to support a golf ball. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Before Lac could say anything, the back door of the one of the buildings swung open, and out stepped a man with an overgrown red beard. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The waves were big as buildings, rising from far out. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here, the walls, the air, the buildings, the people all seem to have already fallen. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She's quiet for a moment and looks out over the other houses and buildings. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

People trespassed in unfinished buildings all the time, after all. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

On the front of the old Oregon Historical Society building there’s a larger-than-life mural of Lewis and Clark, Sacagawea with her baby, and York with Seaman, the dog that accompanied them on the trip. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He hardly dared to hope, but he might even be able to build a new control disk for a certain dragon friend of his. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We took our usual route to the market, not along the streets but through the narrow walkways between the buildings, mostly commercial warehouses and garages, that bordered the square. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

As sheriff, Emmett was in charge of the county jail, in Austin, and he moved with his children into a house adjoining the building. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Here’s the architect Max brought up with her,” Gerald says at one point, leading him over to a couple interested in building an addition to their cottage. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

To strengthen the movement, Anthony considered building alliances with almost any other organization willing to embrace women’s right to vote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Darley and Batson met with a group of seminarians, individually, and asked each one to prepare a short, extemporaneous talk on a given biblical theme, then walk over to a nearby building to present it. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stannis would have kept them busy building rafts and fletching arrows, yet even so the waiting would have been a hard thing to bear. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Using sun-dried brick as a basic building block, the Mesopotamians devised complex cities centered around the temple. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

But every evening after work he had looked across the river to these barren, empty hills, and finally he had bought a couple of acres and began building our house. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They’re starting to bring it out today. The building is shut down tight. They’re checking everybody who wants to come in or out. They’re afraid the FBI will come after them before they can print.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“They had little farms along the river. When the railroaders came and the white people began to build their town, the Navajos had to move.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

By an amazingly smooth dude who wants to build a sick state-of-the-art building! The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The next night, at the same late hour, I position myself in the training building itself, across from the pillar where I saw the Masks disappear. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I turn left at the next intersection and start down the cracked sidewalk toward the building where Abnegation had its monthly faction-wide meetings. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was especially active in the weeks before the battles of Concord and Lexington, when he gave General Gage information about the Patriots’ preparations for revolution, including plans to build fortifications on Breed’s Hill. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The custodian was in the building when the first swastika was painted. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

My mother dragged me outside toward the rear of the building, out of sight of the white man. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

We saw the tall buildings in the distance before we got to them, long rows of huge white apartment towers against a brilliant blue sky. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“What’s eating you, Hank? Have I said something—” He took her hand and walked her around to the front of the school building. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He saw a few more students scrambling out of different parts of the building, and he was certain he saw someone climbing out of a window on the first floor. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

These are the days when going into any building you cross a mat of dirt and cinders led in by others before you, thinning and finally trailing off in the corridors. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stiff-leggedly I made my way around the corner and over to my building. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

She was in her twenties, of slender build, and her hair stuck up wildly. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“FYI, women build and invent lots of things. A woman invented the circular saw in the eighteen hundreds,” I say. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Chuck Day began to seek out Al Ulbrickson for confidence- building sessions. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Baba’s waving to me from the front of the building. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“If that person in a passing car hadn’t noticed the smoke and called the fire department, and if they hadn’t come so quickly, the entire building could have burned to the ground.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He makes a list of all the places he has to go, circling the buildings on his campus map. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then, when he was sixty-three years old, he quietly donated the entire amount to buy the land to build the migrant shelter. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

And it was building pressure like a boil. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has the build of a linebacker, thick through the chest, with enormous biceps. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Then she lets go of my hand and sinks onto the steps that lead up to Ma’s building. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Back then, more than five years earlier, the capital city was mired in corruption, with crumbling roads and buildings, slums in the middle of the city. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The camera pans through the destruction of the community building and then swings right to show the mosque. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Invariably this means the first settlement, building, or school created by white settlers, as if no one lived there before they came. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Today everyone—Zola and her family and the childrens and the villagers—gather at the old Pita building, which soon will be the School of Pomodoro. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Above them, the evening sky glowed a murky terracotta, the same colour as the building’s walls. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Thomas let out a big breath and shrugged before following the younger boy along the back of the building. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The neat thing about the slope of the street was the restaurant signs that jutted out from the graceful buildings on each side. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The burnt district was over four miles long and one mile wide; 17,500 buildings and 73 miles of street had been destroyed. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The young man standing before her was tall, lean in build. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I told Mr. Bykovski I was building a rocket and needed a washer or something welded to the bottom of a tube. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

You cannot have no town without some land to build it on. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Despite what Natasha said earlier, I can never work in a building like this. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was a perfect piece of designing and building. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

When they came to this country, they headed for the things that looked like high rocky cliffs to them, which happened to be tall buildings and skyscrapers. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

They work very hard, some days planting rice and vegetables and cutting lumber, and other days building dams and digging trenches. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charles knew that in order to avoid the criticisms being leveled at Vestiges, he would have to build up his argument even more, and gather more examples, more indisputable factual evidence. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The 184-inch, nestled within an enormous, circular red-domed building resembling an enclosed carousel on the hilltop above campus, was still the Rad Lab’s showpiece. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Bobby was guided into a strange round office, about the size of a small living room and positioned in the tower of the building, with windows on all sides. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The researchers realized that the machines people were building—those mechanized tools of productivity, war, and science—were so powerful that they were moving faster than people could keep up. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Hayden returned in December to direct the decoration of the building’s exterior, believing this to be her responsibility. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Outside the tall office building, daylight is fading and the staff buses are waiting. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

If an engineer capable of besting Eiffel did not step forward soon, Burnham knew, there simply would not be enough time left to build anything worthy of the fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

If I was tall, my narrow build would be described as “willowy” instead of “childish,” and he might not see me as a little sister he needs to protect. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Beyond Harken Square, the lighted windows of the buildings made checkered lines, yellow and black, row after row, in all directions. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, yes. The notorious Mr. Huxley. He’s the one who tore down a senior citizen housing complex to build a shiny mall full of ridiculously expensive shops.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you want to build them a pyre?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The building the Gestapo use in Ormaie has got its own generator. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He made a point of driving to the high school several times a day, particularly at those times when he knew she’d be moving between buildings. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She could just see him seated in his favorite chair, fiddling with a model ship he’d been building for the better part of a year, a pint of lager within arm’s reach, as always. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“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

The voyage supposedly took three years, with frequent stops in the foul-sailing season to build temporary settlements and sow crops for the next year’s push. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Unless, that is, “the economy” is construed in a broader sense— as a means to build and maintain hundreds of prisons. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

They went to the back of the building and shared the oily fish. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It started out bleak—a gutted building along a gray road on a rainy day. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I let the bag swing at my side as we walk out of the building. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

School, a cluster of buildings readily viewed on satellite photographs, was about a seven-minute walk from Shin’s house. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

One of these suggested that there was being erected at Cross Angel Street a new “cold storage” building; and as this suited the condition of a “new-fangled ware’us,” I at once drove to it. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The quiet time she spent alone there, a modest brick building filled with walnut furniture and fragrant with the must of old books, was the best part of her job. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

At the library I walked past a row of giant Christmas trees that were planted on the side of the building. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

That and so we could build the Glass Castle. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Nsukka is a little patch of dust in the middle of the bush, the cheapest land they could get to build the university on,” Kainene said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I peek out and try to match these buildings up with the one I remember seeing on my mom's cell phone. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She made a pile of the files that were unreadable, hoping that among the few that she could recognize was proof that they owned this building. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I saw her huddled under the awning of a building that was closed. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

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

It was a large, grubby building with big bay windows and no curtains. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a good hour they turned off the coast road and followed a narrow, winding lane through a valley gray with buildings. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

From here I can see the crowd of people gathered in the abandoned building next door. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“Then they can build their own rockets,” I said with an arrogant snarl. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You have to let the THC build up in your bloodstream,” said Jerome. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The words “Somerville Theatre” were engraved in stone on the front of the building. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Cole’s pulse quickened as he eyed the familiar stark brick building. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Over the past few days, I’d been growing this small bit of hope, letting it build up little by little like yarn wrapped from a skein. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“Even assuming you can build a flying machine and then make money flying it, what will you and your family eat while you’re building the machine?” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d just finished managing the construction of the Pentagon, the biggest office building in the world. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the addict’s new image of himself builds, inevitably he begins thinking that he can break the habit. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun rose higher as the morning went on, drawing heat from every crevice of the city’s roads and buildings. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Now two threats hung over me, like the buildings in that narrow, stinking alley. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was the kind of town where people got together on weekends to build a new church, to hold Sunday- afternoon ice cream socials, or to kick up their heels at Saturday-night square dances. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They went to the wilderness to worship, to the wildest mountains, the deepest forests, as if they kept to the customs of an ancient time before men had thought of building houses for their gods. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The buildings are just like they are in China. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

On walls and in buildings, the Nazis plastered posters that advertised the taxpayers’ cost of caring for the patients. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at the young woman standing in front of a building holding a little girl in her arms. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Now why don’t we ask the guards to take me back to my quarters so I can build another hundred card houses?” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

They rounded the corner of the building and stood still. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It had hidden switches that would be used during a police raid to lock all the building’s doors and to lock and hide all cupboards and closets in which liquor was stored. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Workers laid foundations of immense timbers in crisscrossed layers in accord with Root’s grillage principle, then used steam-powered derricks to raise the tall posts of iron and steel that formed each building’s frame. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

When the sun was halfway across the sky, the bombs and the artillery shells went quiet, and I heard the machine guns come, faint, then closer, jeeps driving fast past our building. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He decides he wants a large house in the woods—a house befitting a president—and that the lot of us hot, itchy, feverish men and boys will build it for him. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The standard government work week was Monday through Friday, plus a half day on Saturday, but she requested a special security pass to stay in the building after hours. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

By December 1891 the two buildings farthest along were the Mines Building and the Woman’s Building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The building was made of red brick and two stories tall. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Somebody here told me this used to be a government building, where the old Governor worked,” said Somkit. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The normal hum from the fluorescent lights that illuminate the pathways between buildings is absent. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

They drove together to Sinay’s office, which was on the second floor of a small building, above a flower shop. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“These buildings, this hall, this dream of poets of centuries is the wild aspiration of crazy architects alone.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The tradition at C Average was to nominate the biggest loser in the building. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

It was a square cement building with a shower at one end and a hole on the floor so the water could drain into the open sewer. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

A minute later, Ortiz walked out of the building and joined us. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

At first, there was little change in the government’s attitude to Tycho—indeed, more money was provided later that year to cover debts that he had incurred building up the observatory. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

They weren't focused on building a better democracy or getting to the White House. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Your grandpa Ted worked in construction, and they were going to build it together, right on this very spot.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

It was far from Ketterdam’s ports, well outside the patrol of the harbor watch, with no buildings or hidden coves from which to stage an ambush. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Security. It would set off an alarm if he were removed from the building.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They were not to build a fire—someone might see it. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Excitement was building inside my chest like a sunburst. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A clay building houses chickens in cool, connected holes. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Together, we run across the wet grass and up the steps to the community building. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He was crazy, too, and had gone every free day to work on the officers’ club that Yossarian had not helped build. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

They involved doing penance for a sin not yet committed, intense and fervent penance accompanied by scourging and flagellation, so as to build up, as it were, a store of credit. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The building isn’t locked, and the door swings out on silent hinges. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Constructing the building, he knew, would be no small challenge. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Through carved archways they could see spacious courtyards filled with greenery, and there were great buildings that looked like palaces, for all that the steps were cracked and the doorframes loose from the walls. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two men hauled the cumbersome canvas hose as close to the flames as possible and aimed a stream of water at the burning building. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was, by far, the most modern building in town. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

A woman wearing horn-rimmed glasses stood outside the smaller building’s porch entrance. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Cooksey’s new tank compiled everything the lab had learned about how to build a cyclotron into a rugged, gleaming, machined tank with glass insulators and arrangements for air and water cooling. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Drenched, outraged athletes and police cadets stormed into the building hollering. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He knew already that he was not going to go inside that building. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was in trouble enough, but she could build her own school and hire her own kind of teachers once she became a millionaire. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

We worked for another week, building from scratch. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“My parents were just carried out of the building in the service elevator,” he shouted at the cops. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

And the carvings...Gregor had seen cherubs and gargoyles on buildings before, but the walls of Regalia crawled with life. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Capricorn’s house was a large, bulky building, which might once have been the village hall, a disused monastery, or a school. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Instead of building silos and growing grain, he started growing grass. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

LiNK moved to Torrance from Washington, D.C., to find cheaper rent and to focus on building a grassroots movement. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The entire building sagged to the side, like a crooked tooth. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Her relief at finding shelter and a way to build a fire had washed away the anger of the day. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

They walked into the building and crossed the lobby to wait for the elevator. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Beginning to feel he was in actual danger, the secretary jumped off the car, pushed through the crowd, and sprinted toward a nearby building. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Wes looked back at the teacher, but in his mind he was looking at the house he wanted to build: “No, a house big enough for her to get in. A house to protect her.” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The building was still jammed with muttering people. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The street floor of the building consisted of administrative offices, an auditorium, and a large synagogue, a section of which contained chairs and long tables. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

And they maintained “the most relaxed building code in all of Florida for construction methods and materials.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Go on and build your rocket. But be careful, hear?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“As other businesses left this building,” her dad explained, “City Lights gradually took over the whole space.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She and her husband are too busy drawing places that someone else will build and someone else will live in. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Facing the rear of the building, I now discovered a back door had been left partially open. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

But that thought flew right out of my mind when he said, “Let’s build a fort.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

And then there is a building, its front laced with scaffolding made of bamboo poles held together with plastic strips. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waved at the librarian, Ms. Spooner, who sat behind the front desk of an otherwise pretty dead building. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He looked over the farm buildings and across at the round hills, rich and yellow with grain. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moment work ends, I launch out the door of the building, skidding to a stop next to Morrie, the doorman. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Oh, it’s upstairs. The entrance is at the side of the building.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I file out of the dorm with everyone else and head to the cafeteria, in a different building a few doors down from Nina. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then Mrs. said, “Your dad wanted to build a dollhouse.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I stopped, looking at the buildings down the bright street slanting with sun and shade. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been adding on more and more towers and buildings. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The surrounding buildings were dull and serious in comparison. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

As Pong watched the building burn, he thought of the Great Fire. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I sensed her movement, her presence in distant parts of the building. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I swung around, seeing him step to where a large carton sat beside the building and sling its canvas straps to his shoulder as once more he looked toward the policeman, ignoring me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

A gauntlet of guards lines the sidewalks to the entrance, some at the curb, others with their backs to the stone building. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

In building the character, Courtney decides that the most important thing is to make it about more than just a physical attraction. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Pascal, learning of this last result, carried out similar experiments in tall buildings in Paris and, as quickly as possible, published an account of them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The present building was designed in the late nineteenth century by the same Philadelphia architect whom Washington Duke had hired to build the Main Building at Trinity College. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mattie’s Ramble Inn looked like all the buildings on its block; it was low, unpainted, imperfectly vertical. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a matter of fact, they’d only just gotten the door itself, which he’d found in the basement of another abandoned building. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But the pagoda was narrow and more narrow toward the top, while the second floor of the tea shop was as square as that part of the building which stood upon the ground. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

A storm was moving in from the north, building over the sea and rolling inexorably toward shore. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He gave this whole presentation about how the building would be good for the town. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It was an enormous white building on the sea-front and it looked to me like a pretty boring place to spend a summer holiday in. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

But we had to find the right building. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Dimple felt a weird energy pulsing through her as she and Celia walked to the Andrew G. Spurlock building, where Insomnia Con was hosted every year. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

What about incredibly long ambulances that connected every building to a hospital? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Always before, in any building with more than one floor, she insisted on taking the stairs. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

On his first day there, Zannikos, scared and feeling lost, found the building he was looking for, but his mother’s cousin had moved. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

A wire fence had been erected along the north side of the building; on it a sign warned: NO TRESPASSING—Property of the Westing estate. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walking around to the far back corner of the garage, I noticed a narrow passageway between the bushes and the building. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the evening, after our meal, we gather brush and sticks to build a fence around our camp. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You sure the people who own this building won’t be mad about my mural?” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I decided to take a break from building. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Across its pages swarm boyhood drawings, inventions: an electric bed heater he wanted to build for Frau Elena; a bicycle with chains to drive both wheels. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A fire in a subbasement chemistry lab was contained before it reached the upper floors of the college building, read the breaking-news bulletin. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

From the depths of the building the Prophet’s voice rose. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Fires were started in buildings throughout the city. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were certainly colored bathrooms on the East Side, but with most black professionals concentrated on the West Side, and fewer new buildings on the East Side, Mary might need a map to find them. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Of course, I’d have at least twenty test subjects this time, but I was also thinking of building a mood-music app. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

It wasn't the tallest building in town, or the most centrally located. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She wanted to lean against the closest building, under the shade of a tree, and catch her breath, but when she looked down the hill, the tan car rounded the corner. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Inside the building Lyra found a wide desk at the foot of the stairs, with a porter behind it. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half a mile away lay the town, white board buildings, dirt roads. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

To celebrate their regained freedom, my brothers wanted to build a kite. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

He made it into the building without incident. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

General Motors eventually persuaded other companies that benefited from road building to help pay for the costly takeover of America’s trolleys. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

When I passed under the Huangs’ stone-and-wood gateway arch, I saw a large courtyard with three or four rows of small, low buildings. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was this “messenger molecule,” as he called it, that carried the instructions to build a protein based on a gene’s code. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

They smelled the Smoke long before they saw it From high up the mountain, the buildings had the look of a burned-out campfire, smoking, crumbling, blackened through and through. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

And of course, one thing the successful farmers did was plant more corn, helping maize to build its kingdom. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The buildings are unpainted but otherwise beautifully detailed. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But trouble arose once it became clear that the AEC’s accelerator budget of $15 million would not be sufficient to support two Bevatrons—in fact, it might not be enough to build even one. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“We need a building—a blockhouse, it’s called—where we can go for protection when our rockets are launched. Could you give us some lumber to build one?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She got the job of building repair assistant, which was a good job for Orly. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Across the wide expanse ringed by grand buildings sits the president’s mansion. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The filtration building is small, just one room with a few huge machines in it. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It feels real to me, suddenly, that I am unarmed and being herded into a building surrounded by Erudite and Dauntless, and if they discover me, there will be nowhere to run. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The bill has several more hurdles, but if it is approved, the proceeds would be used to build housing for families making $120,825 a year or less. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The glass building above the Pit reflects sunlight into my eyes. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Power stations and various government buildings were blown up. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some things we remember from our fathers, but no one taught us what it meant to run a home, to build a new life. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I busied myself by studying the shadows on the ground, the corners of buildings, and how, as people crossed the courtyard, their shadows imitated everything they did, just as younger children imitated older ones. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

When I called Mr. Keller, I asked, “Can you help me build my house?” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Tendai could rip through the cloth and yell for help—except that he didn’t see people or buildings through the hole. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

As we rode down Fort Street deeper into the city, there was houses and every once in the while a building or two. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

And if Emeline had come to the building bearing marriage announcements, she surely would have presented one in person. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The building had swing doors and they were open. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Just when Mrs. Granger was really building up a head of steam over something, Toby would make some little remark and Mrs. Granger would start choking and have to turn her back. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

After ten long hours of working in the sun, my father would come home and then start working on building our new house. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The bird had recently finished building herself a new nest. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

At last the entire building was still and the clamor from the village had subsided as well. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bit my cheek, trying to push down that hope that was building inside me. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

If I stick to the original plan of building my house, I think I can still convince her not to take that job. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

People who had come from their various parts of the world to build a better life. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I jumped off the bench and ran toward the front of the building, tears building up in my eyes. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

From here, with my new glasses on, I can see the virtual names of streets and buildings blinking in and out as I move around the room. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Because the houses we wanted to build would be on Indian reservations, we were refused help. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you think they will let us stay here if they build a hotel?” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She's much too bright to be building a fire like that. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Ellsberg was given a canvas cot next to the colonel’s in one of the plaster buildings. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It was the chill of knowing they had used something they loved—the study of physics—to build the deadliest weapon in human history. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d been to the building before, because friends of my parents lived on the third floor. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I thought about all the people who had sacrificed time, money, and energy to build the grand old church and to furnish it with everything they needed to worship God as a community. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It’s buzzing and crowded, full of old buildings and open-air cafés, markets and green spaces. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Also recruited from Miss Handler’s schoolhouse, Isis and Betty were similar in age and build to Cora. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It was almost like building the driveway was a way of willing the car to happen. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

There was talk of applying for a permit to move to decent matchbox houses the government was building for blacks in Tembisa. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I approached the building and rapped softly upon a stout door. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

So every day she taught them under the flame tree, away from the horrible smells toward the back of the buildings. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I think the pattern of spread that we saw, and the fact that it spread to new rooms, suggest that Ebola aerosols were being generated and were present in the building,” he said. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The decision struck me as well-intentioned but generally impractical, and it did little to build my confidence in the campaign team that now more or less ran our lives. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I also try all the apartment buildings listed, finding, at the two buildings where someone actually answers, that they want twelve-month leases. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He led us here because this world is empty. Empty of conscious life, that is. We are not colonialists, Mrs. Coulter. We haven’t come to conquer, but to build.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

So I build my own nest and feather it with thoughts of you. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

By midday, when he took his place in front of the Capitol building, the sun had come out and the streets were slushy. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

All the nerves and guilt and fear that’d been building and sitting heavy as a boulder fell away. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

They walked in silence until they got back to their building. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

A lot of the buildings in the Bronx were empty, which I could tell because they didn’t have windows, and you could see right through them, even at high speeds. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I walked across the grassy area behind the building until I reached the Army’s insertion point, a glass door. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you like music?” he asked me as we entered the building. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t mean to build a real model A-10 Thunderbolt. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the building, it’s a whole new world. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

They ended up in the noisy, chlorine-scented wing of the athletic building where, through a wide window on the fourth floor, they watched swimmers crossing from end to end in glaring turquoise pools. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I try to control the shudder building up under my skin. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She would sometimes quit what she was doing and stroll over to watch what I was building. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

A drawing by Frederic B. Schell depicting a crowd of people in the main building on opening day of the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

‘You’re really going to try building shrines for all the minor gods?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Toby was content watching them fly around, the anticipation building in his own mind. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was a unit in a brown brick building divided into four homes, with a chain-link fence, several feet of grass out front, and three steps leading up to a small cement stoop. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Towering behind one building was a gigantic three- story-high ribbed-metal pipe, like a caterpillar loosed from the mind of H. G. Wells. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

"Pod, build us a fire, the air is too chilly for my taste. Will you take a cup with me, Lancel? I find that mulled wine helps me sleep." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It seemed that every building was pockmarked with bullet holes. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Clarence and Clement, the security guards, appeared and escorted Peckleman out of the building. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Reporters leaped out of their vehicles, latched on to the small group, and followed Bucky into the building, shouting questions at him. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

In the basements of these buildings, rooms were refitted into airtight chambers where victims were gassed to death with carbon monoxide. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Once again, the pairing of bases is used to build the gene back. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Devine closed his eyes, trying to remember why it was so important to keep growing, building, expanding and absorbing and accumulating things and power and making money, and making more money on top of that. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He waited until the man went back into the building and then took the book from the barrel. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fight took place one Saturday afternoon in the basement of a Main Street building. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I met your parents when you all moved in last week. My husband, Carlos, is the building’s super. If you need anything at all, you can go to him. We’re in 1A.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Out the window were sleepy towns, assortments of dark wooden buildings that seemed untouched by war yet worn and cracked by age. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Mean Bob has officially left the building,” he announced. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

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

She drove around to the back of the building. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“I saw him on the road near my faculty building, and there was an expression on his face that really annoyed me, so I followed him back to Imoke Street and told him off.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Someone made a grab for her, tearing her dress, but she managed to get out of the building. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“So this was a publicity stunt, and you're here in case a journalist shows up and reports on an empty building?” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The city was dim, the windows dark, just a streetlight here and there, half-hidden by the buildings. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I smile all the way back to our apartment building. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

So there was a second agent in the building, and it sounded as if it was Marburg. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Normally I’d say the Hideout because it’s the one place in the building where we could be alone. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I spot Baba’s car pulling up outside the music school building and stuff my song sheets into my folder. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

High above the buildings’ black silhouette stars shone in a clear sky. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

By 1939, nearly a score of physicists who had been trained on Lawrence’s machines were building cyclotrons at a dozen American universities. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

As soon as I lift my eyes to scan the buildings, I know where we’re going: the empty Hancock building, a black pillar with crisscrossed girders, the tallest building north of the bridge. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He got out and headed to building four. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then I looked at the rubble pile on the side of the building. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

When and where to build roads; how to eliminate waste in food distribution and thus end hunger; how to protect the environment from the ever-growing human population. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Jostling one another with their elbows, they push through a set of doors at the building’s base. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The weeks and weeks of planning, of building, of hoping. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think anything in there will help us build a better rocket,” I said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“If we go all over the building looking, we can probably find you things that aren’t so tattered. A lamp from one apartment, a table from another.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Most nights, before I came into his life, Myron stayed in a famous apartment building in Manhattan. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The foster home is a jacked-up duplex with the face of a battered building—bricks missing, indecipherable and colorful graffiti. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

For every beautiful tent he creates, she builds one in return. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Frankie was probably in the building somewhere trying to get out, if he hadn’t done so already. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

There was a lodge director, a kindly man who had a room within the building, and who mediated the infrequent disputes among the boys. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And then, like Ma had said, he asked if me and Rose would like to come down to his store and build versions of our Lego cities for the front windows of Tuttle’s Toy Emporium. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Most of those are brownstones or small apartment buildings that are over a hundred years old. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Beneath the surface, tall brick and steel buildings lurked, their crumbling structures hidden by the water. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

This is where the townspeople shopped before they started building malls. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A later report by a Chicago building inspector noted, “There is an uneven settlement of foundations, in some places as much as four inches in a span of 20 feet.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

As the human beings approached the farm buildings, Snowball launched his first attack. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Mobs of sick and injured men began ranting incoherently and running and jumping in the aisle as though the building were on fire. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Tall vent pipes on the roof discharged filtered exhaust air that was being pumped out of sealed biological laboratories in side the building. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It depends as well on impressions that build up in a reader over the course of reading many paragraphs and that depend on the author’s grasp of the text as a whole. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The building’s broad design and its function had come to him all at once, like a blueprint pulled from a drawer. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It was so cold when they first came from the rocket into the night that Spender began to gather the dry Martian wood and build a small fire. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

All these businesses were on the ground level of buildings with floors of apartments above. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The only problem is, it's difficult to be a nobody when everyone in school knows you and your mother, when your artwork is going to be on the entrance of the building. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

God is one, Septon Osmynd had taught her when she was a girl, with seven aspects, as the sept is a single building, with seven walls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

If he climbed over the railing, he could almost slide down the side of the building to reach it. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“About ten thousand mice are hoping you build it loose,” Garvey said. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“Scattered them outside my old building. I still felt mad empty afterward, but they’re home now. I want the Plutos to scatter my ashes elsewhere.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Standing on the corner across the street is a big, white stone building with another building in the middle with a pointy top. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“But what tremendous tall buildings!” exclaimed the Ladybug. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

The firefighters now directed all their attention to adjacent buildings, hosing down nearby roofs with fire retardant. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

What evolved was a style of building, known as “Chicago School,” that was not just handsome, but truly fire-resistant. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Seriously? It’s my dream to own a tiny house. I’m building one right now.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Through my contacts, a virtual layer of bright colors adorns the buildings, painting each one in the colors of their respective team. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu’s room, was the cheapest, the smallest, facing the scuffed brick walls of the next building. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

We had spent most of the afternoon hunting all around Midtown for famous buildings that were in my architects book. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

It is almost dark now, so I see only shadows of buildings against a dark blue sky, and a few glowing lights near the lake that must belong to Erudite headquarters. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I hoped he’d run into Mrs. Singer, but, when I thought about it, it seemed like I was the only boy in the whole building who’d ever had any run-ins with her. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Dad is making a landing strip for his new plane and he wants me to help him build a bomb shelter.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

To go into a vast building full of beautiful clothes, where people let you try them on, where you looked at yourself in minors...And the clothes were so pretty…. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I took the other path instead, which led alongside the administration building. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

We only practice a couple days a week, so that leaves me plenty of building time. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“Look,” I say, pointing at a distant cluster of buildings. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The awnings over the closed stores were raised and the buildings had a bare look in the bright sun. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The Americans taught us how to build prisons. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

But lately, as tension increased, we were aware of them in the building. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After we unanimously chose Becky’s suggested team name, “Apptitude,” we brainstormed what kind of app we wanted to build, one that would help solve a problem. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Every day after work he came back to the apartment building. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The Petersen House is now a national historical site, and the building and rooms are preserved and restored to the setting of President Lincolns final hours. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

We drive past a park, nestled right among the tall buildings, and I can hear laughter as the youngsters run and jump and play. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I carry the wriggling blanket to the front door of our building. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I saw him struggle to keep quiet, and I knew he was letting the silence build, but I started talking before the silence could take over. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

That ball of spinning rage—the churning reactor of heat and fire and pain that had been building and building within his chest— finally exploded once and for all. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I realize I’m standing behind the desk, which makes it appear I’m a friend of Mr. Reilly’s, instead of a rich kid visiting his aunt in the building. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It looks like it’s been there since forever, but the surrounding buildings have been scrubbed clean and polished. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I had been here in 1998, but there had been so much new building since then that I did not recognize the place. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

A few blank windows stared down on them in silence from the husks of the giant buildings. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Two cloud boys—one slightly larger than the other—crept into a large nimbus of a building. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

And the door slams and the building thumps. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I reached to open the building’s front door, but where the lock and handle should have been, there was only a hole. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I take the long way through Batalla, through the sectors side roads and abandoned buildings, not stopping until I’m a good distance outside of military grounds. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“It is the new tannery they are building,” he said. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s two blocks away—a tall gray building with big tanks of frozen oxygen out front and construction vehicles constantly adding new wings. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

In the distance between the buildings she could sometimes see the white stone towers of the palace. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So maybe I’ll see you tomorrow,” she said, in front of her apartment building. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He suggests to a junior named Colin Lester that he build his monologue, which is from Red, a play about the painter Mark Rothko, a bit more slowly. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Truman brushed this worry aside, asking: “When will the Russians be able to build the bomb?” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind struck him when he was only a few inches from the top of the building. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

In August alone the building took three lives. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Breaking away, he scrambled to his feet and ran to another building. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“How are you liking the building so far, Joy?” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

From bacteria to elephants—from red-eyed flies to blue-blooded princes—biological information flowed through living systems in a systematic, archetypal manner: DNA provided instructions to build RNA. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

At the end of the street, dozens of men were building another big dirt wall. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Another fence post, another coffin lid, another skeleton to apologize to, another fire to build. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I get glimpses of it every so often—the Dauntless cheering when I jumped off the building, the net of arms that caught me after zip lining—but they are not enough. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

On his orders, and with the help of 375 pounds of explosives, the buildings of Murphy Homes were brought down in twenty seconds and soon replaced with mixed- income housing. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

But on contact with the organic phosphorus insecticides, the protective enzyme is destroyed, and as the quantity of the enzyme is reduced that of the transmitting chemical builds up. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I’ve never seen it open, but if Dad and Grandpa Ted wanted to build on this spot, here’s my guess: It’ll have all the things I need. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“Maybe it isn’t that long. Maybe they only recently infiltrated this building.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The rooms of the main castle—which he could see from the windows—were mostly small, because people can’t afford to build for luxury when they are making a fortification. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

To take in more air, they would all have to build their lungs. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“About 7 o’clock in the evening Holmes came out of his office and asked two men who were living in the building if they would not help him carry a trunk downstairs.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Instead of the Victorian six-bedroom with the wraparound porch and the farmhouse kitchen, instead of the house where Granddad spent every summer since forever, I see a sleek modern building perched on a rocky hill. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Before I can speak, Bushra says, “Six Turkish guards patrol the border. If one goes into the building, another comes out to cover him.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

What if Americans succeeded in building atomic bombs and they were the only ones to have them? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A low wall ran along the edge of the building. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They camped in the second floor of a low factory building that still had most of its roof. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The old king hadn’t told him that the Pyramids were just a pile of stones, or that anyone could build one in his backyard. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it was all over, several buildings had been wholly or partially burned—including another house belonging to Abe Greenberg—and the windows of dozens of businesses lay in shards on the sidewalks. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

As they got closer to Atlanta, they rose higher into the air so that they wouldn’t bump into buildings. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Seniors have been doing this since my father went here. We take one thing from the admin building to start the year.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

With the advent of winter the traditional building season had come to an end. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

If Matt were around, hed be down there underfoot, getting in the way, wanting to help with the building. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tile corridors with arches that looked onto a large courtyard with beautiful gardens connected the buildings in the oldest part of campus. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Some were calling the names of dogs and looking under the building. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what a Conversat is but I’m relieved to be going to the building, where there are mice and snakes and experiments and no girls. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“She came to me and asked if she could build a shack on my property. She promised to keep to herself. I saw no harm in it. You shouldn’t go bothering her.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

When I got to the building in the west, there were two guys standing guard out front. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

This is only the second week that I’m taking the bus with the other building kids. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

An examination would reveal that she died immediately in the collapse of the building. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Kenny was working in the small building they had put up near the tannery. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why, others asked, should all their tithes go to helping strangers, to the extent of building a room to feed them supper? Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I still didn’t have a finished A-10 Thunderbolt in a display case in the living room, or a dad who would help me build one. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

He went to the security door on the nearest apartment building and tried to ring the bell. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The lights in all residential buildings have gone off, just as Metias had said they would, and nothing but oil lamps light the apartment. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She had talked to Mr. Chong, who lived on the first floor of our apartment building. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house somehow felt more solid than any building in the Smoke. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

A new race to build nuclear weapons pushed America and the Soviet Union toward a standoff that threatened not just the two superpowers but the entire world. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

"You will make camp outside their walls and set to building catapults and siege engines." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“They have been so busy building tanks and bombers, they have run out of houses for everyone to live in.” Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went to a Southern prep school that specialized in building all-round gentlemen, and by the time you graduated it was an unwritten rule that you had to have known a woman. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Across the street, a building lies in ruins. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He will give us food if we bring him what he wants: a grindstone, a rooster and a hen, copper, beads, fifty swords, several muskets, and workmen to build him an English-style house. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

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

We now have to put up with their presence, but we got to keep our buildings. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Each screen in the grid above me shows a different part of the city: the Merciless Mart, the lobby of Erudite headquarters, Millennium Park, the pavilion outside the Hancock building. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

We both busted out laughing and he gave me dap before heading back down the block to his crazy building. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

On the front of the building, faded yellow paint curled in strips, like peeling skin. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Why would you try crazy stuff like that? Who cares if they build a stupid pancake house here?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a social worker, I kept current yearbooks from all the buildings in my district. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The post fell away to one side, and the Plymouth crunched against the building. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then footsteps pound down the hall as the black wave roars past the building. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

This’ll sound crazy, I know—a kid like me from the boonies on the Eastern Shore—but what I want to do someday is design buildings—maybe even parks and stuff. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“So you don’t mind it? Her building in the storage room with you?” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, I think everything he did, feeding the poor on the streets, building the orphanage, giving money to friends in need, it was all his way of redeeming himself. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I wish I could stay, but my uncle steers me down a path that curves behind the great house and leads to a small building. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The guard led Stanley to a small building. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Some of the buildings were in better shape than ours. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I hear Jax say as we get close to our apartment buildings. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Father nodded at the other building, a large one of plain, straight design. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, it’s construction TV, about building house decks.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The rescue team worked their way to the rear of the blocky building. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The Man in the White Shirt watched in horror as it disappeared behind the buildings. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

The admissions office was in a literally ivy-covered hall, a Gothic-looking building that practically screamed Major University! Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A braying donkey rounded the corner, its owner in tow, causing the family to shrink against the building, trying to disappear into the shadows. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He told Volt that he didn’t want any employees to go outside the building wearing their biohazard gear. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat and stared, having to remind herself every few minutes that it had all really happened: the cruel pretties, the strange buildings on the edge of town, the terrible ultimatum from Dr. Cable. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It was only then that Diana realized there was one person not huddled around the radio or looking for something to help them get out of the building: Rashid. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Together, the two men went to the bunkhouse—a building separate from the farmhouse proper, which is too small to shelter all the Rupp children. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

We came into the town, among the two-story wooden buildings lining the narrow muddy lanes. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The vanishing point turned a two-dimensional drawing into a perfect simulation of a three-dimensional building. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The tunnels snake around Sing Sing, joining the various buildings, and at the beginning and end of each—sometimes even in the middle—there is a locked gate. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man reached out to steady me and helped me to a bench some distance from the building. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He spent the next seven months building his daughter’s house from scratch. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Manchee’s sniffing away like mad, running from building to building, and I’m doing my best to calm my Noise but there don’t seem any chance of that. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Within the famous Mies van der Rohe building, I passed by the famous silk-screened faces of the famous pop artist. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When the Reichstag building burned down, which became the pretext for Hitler’s suppression of political dissent, Szilard was dismayed by the failure of his German friends to grasp the developing reality. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later they stopped in front of a huge white building; he was led up steps, down hallways and then halted in front of a cell door. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The rink is operational year-round anyway, just have to adjust a few things here and there to keep other parts of the building open. So here’s the plan.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then, suddenly, they were sinking again, and the building tops rushed up toward Magdalys as the two plaits Sabeen had braided her hair into that morning flapped behind her in the rushing wind. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She double-parked on busy cross streets as she dashed in and out of buildings, provoking an avalanche of honking ire from other drivers, while the rest of us sat helplessly in the car. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Like New York City, with tall buildings and cars and traffic, and men dressed in business suits on the street, and women walking on the streets as well. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“It wasn’t simple. They had to build up a rebel base in the Capitol, get some sort of underground organized in the districts,” he says. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

So that night, a rage builds up inside me. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Even her professors were a little wary of her—her bizarre, impractical building plans, presented on cheap brown paper, her indifference to their passionate critiques. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

How can she manage it, working across from the building she does? Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

We saw fewer robots and humans and buildings and ships. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Barker and DeDiego, wearing black delivery uniforms purchased the day before, and the wigs and glasses issued to Hunt and Liddy, got out and entered the building through the unlocked back door. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It would be a miracle building that everybody would admire and get jealous of. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“So what? It’s just a building! You can always start another one. But family is irreplaceable,” the grandmother said. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Jax tosses and catches the ball all the way to our apartment buildings. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Inside the building, folks must be coughing, choking from smoke. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Besides, I told her, it was going to be in a federal building with high security. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Stay and sleep to the doves cou-rou while we cross the mighty River of the Carp to build our father’s castle in the hills. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as she was in the cover of the shadows, she turned left around the corner of the building, away from their car. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The booklet was returned to the wrong building. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It’s past midnight, so all the street lights are dark, and the buildings look like mammoths as they rise from the darkness and then sink into it again. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

My wife’s and my experience at Menindee, and the fate of Burke and Wills, made vivid for me the difficulties of building a human society in Australia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was little daylight in any case, but Lyra did look, and found herself standing in front of a vast building of stone. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

But even when we weren’t together on the blacktop, or inside the building,I always knew Omi had an eye out for me—paying attention in her own quiet way. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Behind them, their fathers discussed the plans for the farmhouse they would build for the newlyweds in the western meadow. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

It remained alive outside the school, but I never again saw an anti-Zionist leaflet inside the school building. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

With military discipline, the students marched down the block to the Kress building, an Art Deco structure which was, coincidentally, one of the most beautiful commercial buildings in Durham. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up the paper and walked down the hallway to the steps and up to the third floor, using the flashlight and hearing his footsteps echo faintly in the empty building. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A large balcony off a building to the right has been reserved for the Gamemakers. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“We’ll have to take the helicopter,” I say, panic building in my chest. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Lucky for both of us we live in the same building, on the same floor even. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

When they got to Galilee and found the old pink restaurant surrounded by a colorful clutter of buildings, they chose a green metal table near the water. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I scanned the crowd of students pouring out of the middle school building and quickly spotted Jeremy. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The rope wound around a pulley attached to the outside of the building and ran up to another pulley fixed beside the window directly above hers. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s the swaying of the building,” cried the maitre d’. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

As far as I can see, there are low buildings separated by trimmed grass and fledgling trees. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Their branches scratched against the side of the building, insistent, as if to get our attention. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I had snaked fencing wire up and down the underside of the fire escape outside my window, hiding it in the wild ivy that covered the side of the building. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

We get out David’s old blocks—the kind you play with back in kindergarten—and we build this big maze with walls on both sides, and then we put Hermie in it. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The building was a good start: a rented two-story Greek Revival house built in 1882, near the historic district called “Old Alabama Town.” Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The color drains from the surrounding buildings in the evening light, so that they all appear to be gray. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Ignatius, honey, the man wants over a thousand dollars for what I did to his building.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have my back against the building now. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The only thing to distinguish each building is a number and a name; to either side of it are more units, absolutely identical, each three stories tall, arranged around a vast looping road. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the threading had been hard for her because she had no sense of what the buildings were. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moving van slowed to a stop in front of a building Emily recognized from the rental website. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

So the question is: what are the truly elementary particles, the basic building blocks from which everything is made? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond those sounds, I heard the hum of the building: the heating system, maybe. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to get caught just hanging out in front of the building, staring through the door glass, so I pulled out my skateboard and knife pliers and pretended to tighten my wheel truck. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

They continued to build their churches in village greens dotting the coast, but found it difficult to progress into the interior of the country. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Around Los Alamos after that,” explained Serber, “we called the bomb we were building ‘the gadget.’ Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put on a space suit and explored the building to get a sense of what needed to be done. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Milo was Major Sir Milo Minderbinder in Malta and had a gigantic office in the governor- general’s building. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

By the time the cops busted the place Bodega had made a killing and couldn’t be traced because he never owned the building, the City of New York did. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Pink and yellow stucco buildings lined the street, their windows boarded up. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Todd was a stout man in his late thirties, and had lived there as long as the Zeitouns had owned the building. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Even in the dark, the buildings that towered over us were impressive. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

However, boat building and survival in cold Siberia were both still far beyond the capabilities of early Homo sapiens. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She took just enough change for her fare from shopping money and rode the bus down to the old stone building, with bars on the windows of the second and third stories. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seems they left town after four-thirty, since the truck that preceded them up the mountain clocked out of the local Public Works building at four thirty-five. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vines—grape vines—had sprouted from the cracks between the stones of the building. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The fire had gone to coals on the hearth, and Pa did not build it up. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today I’m the first to arrive, so I wait for class to start, my back against the warm building, the sun smothering me through a hole in the trees. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He would come upon a heifer when he left Delphi, Apollo said; he was to follow her and build his city at the spot where she lay down to rest. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Danielle crosses the street, walking so elegantly in her black go-go boots to a building as drab and dreary as ours. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Bill leans against the side of the small building that shelters the staircase, hat forward to keep the sun off of his face. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

When the metal cooled the mold was destroyed and the bell was prepared for shipment to the building. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

The fair occupied over one square mile and filled more than two hundred buildings. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“I don’t belong here. I’m not actually about to build a future at Yale or with Kent or Arthur. I’m done.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I had reviewed the floor plan of the actual buildings, memorized everything from the ceiling heights to emergency exits to electrical outlet locations. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The church building, scene of our recent feast, resides at one end of the village. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moving van slowed to a stop in front of a building Emily recognized from the rental website. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

And we were racked on the hand truck and wheeled into the building. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“The first bomb was supposed to go off later. Everyone should have been out of the building by then. It was a mistake. It had to be a mistake.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Soon, more windows will be broken, and the sense of anarchy will spread from the building to the street on which it faces, sending a signal that anything goes. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The helicopter was only a few seconds away from slamming into the side of the building. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

As soon as the light in the bedroom went out there was a stirring and a fluttering all through the farm buildings. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The building that was once called the Sears Tower—we call it the Hub— emerges from the fog, a black pillar in the skyline. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I wanted my anger to consume the building. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, they say that them buildings sway and rock in the wind.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t get me off the side of the building by scaling it themselves, so they pulled me off with a net. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

At dawn, heavy snow was falling again, and there was Roz, setting out from the Nest to build a third lodge. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The building didn’t look so big when I’d come in to register and take my placement test, but now that it was filled with students, I felt as if I were just a speck. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

He had the same red hair and slight build, but he was taller, clearly three or four years older. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He drove down Leesburg Pike to work, turned through a gate, parked his car, and went into the main building of Hazleton Washington. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amari and the rest of the captives were guided to a huge white building made of bricks and stone, larger than any Amari had ever seen or even imagined. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The British are going to bring in some English papers to sell, so we're building a proper newsstand as well. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Seems cool. They build stuff and work at all the school shows and stuff.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Something whistled and boomed, and the building quaked, knocking me to my knees. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Two small buildings—a house and a barn made of rough wood and logs— stood nearby. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I explained my role of the previous twelve years, of helping to organize and to build the Nation of Islam. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Absolute control through a monopoly was the goal, not merely building a successful business. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The stadium “was something the community took a lot of pride in and he went on television and said you’re a bunch of idiots for building it.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

People began to pour from the Eolian and the other buildings around the courtyard. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Everyone thought he was mad and that even if he succeeded in building the railway, which was doubtful, there wouldn’t be any demand for it. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He pulls up to the drop-off area, and I’m staring at the glowing red letters that spell “EMERGENCY” across the side of the beige building. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Then she went to the window and looked out at the brick and limestone apartment buildings across the street. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I stare at the new building while the aunts talk. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Finally we pushed our way inside the main building, out of the rain. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The small building up ahead was Grandfather’s farmhouse. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hugo stood in the dark outside the old man’s apartment building. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“Only trouble with that is all you end up doing is building that same old life back again. You jus’ a actor moving on to another performance. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

She did not say: I sent them into that building. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

A mockingbird perched on the rusted gutter of the building spits out two syllables in response. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then the path curved to the right, and a group of buildings stood bright and yellow under red tiled roofs. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Vincent finds the studio, but he just stands outside looking at the building. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He stopped in front of a tall apartment building. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Your mom’s great,” I said to Joe as we walked back to my building. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

They went through the gate and walked around the back of the building. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

A few days later they dressed Luke and me in our best clothes and Mr. Hines took us to the Department of Children and Families building. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

They were assembled around a particular building, and stood gazing up at it in dumbfounded wonder—just as we were, now. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Behind the building which housed the dentist’s office ran a small path used by servants and those tradespeople who catered to the butcher and Stamps’ one restaurant. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Birds began building their nests in the mango trees. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He said he didn’t know, only that he was over in building A-3. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only a handful of people in this building know about the Hideout—Nora, plus the other kids I met at the bus stop. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Finally there came a night when the gale was so violent that the farm buildings rocked on their foundations and several tiles were blown off the roof of the barn. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

With that, she walked proudly away, entered the vestibule of her building, and trudged upstairs. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And, after that, the uncared-for building itself would settle into shapelessness, buried under the ubiquity of the dust. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s for weaving ideas. It holds a diagram of the artwork you would build.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The people of Chutreaux wished to build the longest, widest, highest, and most beautiful cathedral in all of France. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

They turned out to be a gang of junior-level crack dealers who operated out of the building, and they were not happy to see him. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

—Jack Henry Abbott, In the Belly of the Beast Officially, the dark, squat building was the Special Housing Unit, abbreviated SHU and pronounced shoe. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The building has been owned by a number of different people since I moved up here.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She likes helping second and third graders build castles. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

The one to his left was joined to the roof of the building upon which he lay, making it one long icy runway. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was a building unremittingly unrevealing of what it held inside, with thick, featureless walls pale blue in colour and high, narrow windows impossible to look in through. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Wrong side out under crafts. That’s perfect. We can take a photo of this puzzle and upload it for our clue when we get back to our building.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

We waited by the administration building until Sabrina’s therapist came for her. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He peeked through a window on the side of the building. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

We scoot quickly down the little passage between the buildings before he passes, circle around the back, wait, and come right back onto the street behind the German’s back like we never stopped walking. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Eager to put some distance between Frankie and me, I circled around the building and arrived at a path overlooking a long basin. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Finally, Eddie, our building super, delivered the worst line of all: And you shall fail to save what matters most, in the end. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The schoolhouse was next door, a long, single-room barn of a building raised on concrete stilts. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The administration building was on the very same campus, but the boy didn’t speak on the way over, not even to protest his innocence. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

That night, I go to bed early and dream that Dr. Randolph has turned Mango into a stack of dusty building blocks. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He begins to meet her after her classes, remembering her schedule, looking up at the buildings and hovering casually under the archways. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It was this observatory that saved the building from going into bankruptcy.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

They walked past the mathematics building, where Mr. Sen taught his classes. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Labor owns one of Washington’s largest non-govemment buildings—situated where they can literally watch the White House—and no political move is made that doesn’t involve how Labor feels about it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once again, the family was building the birchbark house, moving out into the woods, dragging pots and other provisions out to the fishing camp where they would live. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think they can build with them. I don’t think those trees have any use other than for fruit.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

During our struggle, I caught a glimpse of where the burning building had been. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Black, oily matter spouts like a geyser from the street, billowing between the buildings, creating an impenetrable wall of darkness. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

That meant that within a day of the storm’s eye passing over the region, officials were making plans for the building of a makeshift outdoor prison. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Of course, Mary also knew that her son was a ringer; the two of them had been building to win. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Metal was the building’s bones,” I say, imagining metal sheets and beams buckling, glowing red. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Boy, that piece is the entire side of a building.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“How to build an organic battery made of potatoes. Now, that’s cool. It says here you could power a lamp with it. We could call it the Spud Lamp or something. What do you think?” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The refuge manager believes that pesticide residues are now building up in the waters of these refuges, being conveyed there by return irrigation flow from heavily sprayed agricultural lands. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

My father was at work and nobody in the building was home because it was bowling night, so my mother called Uncle Katsuhisa to come take care of Sammy and me. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Turned out he was heading back to Montevideo, where he was from, and the guy who owned the building back then wanted him to find a replacement to manage the property. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Two tall and wide buildings stand as if guarding the place. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I don’t bother looking out the window because all I can see is the building next door. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“You know I tripped over your lil’ buildings last night?” she told the back of my head. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

On the return trip, the vehicle skidded through the friction of the increasingly dense atmosphere, building up heat that could reach 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She looked for the Red Keep, but it was hidden now, walled off from her gaze by the tall timbered buildings to either side. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In some of the front yards there were aluminum carports, and bright aluminum awnings had been installed on one or two of the buildings. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men climbed into the car and continued their search for the perfect place to build an atomic bomb lab. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was the last person who should have been in this building the week before the semester started, and certainly not the person she wanted to count on for help. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He takes a look around at all the people gathered on the sidewalk in front of our building and the people walking down from Bushwick Avenue and Jefferson. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Starting with that one truck he had built himself a company that specialized in oil field construction—building roads and drill sites. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other pages of the newspaper had photographs of burning buildings, boarded-up stores, and desolate streets. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The day had gone exactly as Link had said it would, but even so, I found myself wondering if he were only building my trust in order to lay a bigger trap for me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The buildings create a dark, jagged pattern on the sky. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

But the many young mothers who entered the imposing gray building each day to apply for aid grasped instantly what lay behind the convenience of geography: the judgment that here sinners came to justice. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

We were taken through the back of the building and entered the black van. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The buildings cut the wind from him and almost instantly he began to shake with a chill. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother would be getting ready for her big meeting at the whatever-it-was building. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

I don’t care how light he is on his feet— you just don’t jump out of buildings and then expect to be able to walk properly afterward. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until she was out on the sidewalk that she remembered what Caroline had said about reporting to Mrs. Ross before she left the building. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The astronauts’ offices were being moved into a brand-new building and I was assigned my own small office, with a big gray metal desk, several large bookcases, and a small blackboard on one wall. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

So when Granddad said he might leave his money to build Harvard a student center and asked our advice, he wasn’t involving the family in his financial plans. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He had gone on in this fashion for some time when I saw him duck into a building. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I was moving so fast that I knocked down the fence my uncle Charlie had begun to build around Grandma India’s flower garden. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a little while they talked and joked but gradually fell silent, working the rhythm of scavenge, building piles of copper for whoever was rich enough to afford it. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

At the same time there were renewed rumours that Frederick and his men were plotting to attack Animal Farm and to destroy the windmill, the building of which had aroused furious jealousy in him. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

He crossed the street and started down a block he hardly ever walked on, a block of low apartment buildings, a store-front church, a delicatessen, a pawn shop, and on the corner, a bar. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were busy looking at the buildings and all the people hurrying by when we suddenly saw lights all over the place and shows playing on huge screens. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“You don’t build no fires and you don’t throw out no trash.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought often of starting a blog, writing about what she cared about, building it up slowly, and finally publishing her own magazine. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He was flying over buildings, but I couldn’t make out much more through the wear. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

At that very moment, for example, Will was inside the walls of the Ashers’ apartment building, navigating with the help of an outmoded dumbwaiter that probably no one but him knew existed anymore. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

A gas jet embedded in one wall would be controlled from his closet, as would other gas jets installed in apartments throughout the building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The building might fall upon him as he slept, but the police might get him if he were anywhere else. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

My slight build, my thin waist, the smallness of my head, hands, and feet raised no questions in anybody’s mind. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The Lincoln Building, one of the tallest, newest, grandest buildings in New York. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Peasants were obliged to produce more than they consumed so that they could build up reserves. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

To almost everyone else, he was just the wild ex-soldier who owned the liquor store right in front of her apartment building. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The chapel building, opposite B-block, was used mainly to show movies, but it had churchlike worship spaces for Catholics and Protestants and areas in its basement for Muslims, Jews, and Quakers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My first delivery this morning is Miss Akkerman, who lives with her grandparents in one of the old buildings down by the museums. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Willem stops walking, pointing up to a building like he's merely interested in showing off the architecture. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Since Doc Kelly had finally cut me loose from that contraption, I could start moving around a bit, building up the strength in my leg. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

At the center of the city, Esther pointed out the post office, shops, the UN building, and the Cotton Tree. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The sister with the loud voice was leading them toward the main building. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

One state police car and one county car were parked outside the small headquarters building. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not many girls get to go to school in such a nice building. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He said he was going to help repair roads destroyed by the war and to build new ones. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Pong could just make out the tidy rows of buildings through his pinprick window in the basket. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

At the time the photo was taken, we were living across the hall from my father’s parents in Parkway Gardens, an affordable housing project on the South Side made up of modernist apartment buildings. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t a large town by any means, perhaps a hundred buildings sprawling around a dozen winding, packed-dirt streets. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“He would grow abstracted and silent, and a faraway look would come into his eyes, and the building was there before him—every stone.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I could tell he was figuring out how to build the generator, and maybe making other plans as well. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Maybe he was only happy for the time he devoted to building each new toy. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

I will build this house with care, stone by stone. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

All of these features distinguish Jomon people from observed modern hunter-gatherers who shift base every few weeks, build only shelters, and burden themselves with few and easily portable possessions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, I tape the flyers next to each elevator and stairwell on every floor in our building. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

As I neared the building, thought of the burning books, I felt angry. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most labs planning to build cyclotrons solicited the help of the Rad Lab to avoid having to learn things the hard way. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Mom was near the building’s entrance, talking to Mrs. Hidalgo, when I found her. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

A long line of peasants like Anya waited at the windowed building’s huge doors, nervously tugging at shirts or hats, holding long scrolls of paper, or talking in hushed voices to a person beside them. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

My father had clearly, in no uncertain terms, told me to stop building rockets. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Every time they launch something down at Cape Canaveral, it’s like...I just want to help out somehow. But I can’t. If I build my own rockets—” I stopped, not certain I was making sense. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Only the waters are ours; and how may one build on something so mutable? The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“He will build you this desk and chair in exchange for your help, sir. He humbly requests that you take on the job of tutoring me in math.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

After washing the squash in the pond, I build a fire in the stone oven I built not long after the millhouse was completed. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not for long. Like, five seconds. I thought you said you’d bungee jumped off a building.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

According to Cissy, the firefighters are letting buildings burn to the ground. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Next to the trees, the buildings seem like Lincoln Log toys. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Streets were made of cobblestones or were unpaved; most buildings were constructed of wood and were only one story high; people walked or traveled on horseback or by horse and wagon. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The only building in sight was a small block of yellow brick sitting on the edge of the waste land, a sort of compact Main Street ministering to it and contiguous to absolutely nothing. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The Cold Storage building was located by the railroad tracks, out of sight and overlooked. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“The reason I was taking pictures out here is for inspiration. I’m building my own house.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Lines of symmetry run through the body like the architecture of beautiful buildings. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Uncle decided to finish building a house we had been working on since I came to live with him. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

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

I expected her to be physically removed from the building and was horrified to realize that the Plaza Hotel was essentially Bonnie Central. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Even the brick buildings in the ramshackle little downtowns we drive past seem crisp in this light. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He tried to break out of the building a thousand and one ways. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The buildings here were all a lovely misty gray, which gave them a dreamlike quality. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dufay builds an identifiable melody, nestled among harmonious chords that lead along the arc of a phrase towards a satisfying cadence. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He helped build the North Carolina Mutual into a national business giant. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I look at the wall of buzzers—one for each apartment in the building—and ring the one for 5B. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The buildings had always seemed more impressive because they were the only buildings to receive regular paintings; usually, the nearby houses and cabins were left untouched to become the dull grained gray of weathered wood. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Small houses nestled in a line, and the larger buildings, none higher than three stories, stood behind, like mothers with their children. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

If a piece of jewelry or a building ornament was to proclaim its owner's status, as the Inka desired, it needed to shine. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

My dad was outside smoking a cigarette when Maribel and I pulled into the parking lot of the building. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Even though the buildings are called portables, I don’t think they ever get moved once they’re set down. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The carpenters, after the first and second crashes, had crossed themselves in stupefaction, and when the third crash resounded they fell backward from the building onto the chips of wood. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But government can make you feel so small and mean that it takes some doing to build back a sense of self-importance. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try my best to stick to the shade near the building, but it’s hopeless. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Birds search for grubs and build their nests, but their leisure time is theirs to spend as they see fit. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He could see a few run-down buildings and some tents. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

When the forest sprouted in between our houses, and the brambles grew new bright green leaves, we took to spring-cleaning the tree house and Charlie started to talk about building The Amazing Deck. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Their only option was to build another canoe, but it would take days. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

It was temporary housing because they were building a new dormitory. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then down the long avenue of trees I saw the familiar Cadillac approaching and started inside the building, suddenly filled with panic. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The University itself consisted of about fifteen buildings that bore little resemblance to each other. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Tides twenty feet tall, sweeping away people, trees, even buildings. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The Tehlin church was the nicest building in town, three stories tall and made of quarried stone. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Chalmers has been a steady donor to Christian causes, and he bought a plot of land in Oregon, where he plans to build a retreat center. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Whole blocks were abandoned, buildings blackened and hollowed out by fires set by arsonists—many of whom were in the employ of landlords looking to cash out of the deteriorating ghetto. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

We went trick-or-treating all over our building, starting on the first floor and going door to door, to every apartment with a pumpkin sticker outside. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a guy in a tank top letting himself into a nearby apartment building. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

A shocked murmur ran through the crowd as she looked up, straight at Malachite, who was bloodless with building rage. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The lamps that laced every building and walkway produced the most elaborate demonstration of electric illumination ever attempted and the first large-scale test of alternating current. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

An older white woman Stella didn’t recognize, walking heavily on a cane, was just leaving the building. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The boys said they would help build the house from the planks and two- by-fours Dad brought up here for that purpose. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Stoors were broader, heavier in build; their feet and hands were larger, and they preferred flat lands and riversides. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Were we really going to build a house from sticks and stones? Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It pulsed hotly inside as if the blood was building up to erupt furiously out of my scorched nasal passages like waves of molten lava, but so far not a drop had leaked out. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It cut a stark contrast to the impressive municipal offices and other tall, well-manicured downtown buildings of this historic city, where, in 1877, Brigham Young delivered his final sermon. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

At first I look at every building we pass, wondering what it once housed, and then they start to blend together for me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The door to the building was painted black, and there was a hole where the knob should have been. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Twelve electric elevators would carry visitors to the building’s upper reaches. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

We get out and join the river of people heading into the building. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

We get to the Hub, but he directs me to a trailer located beside the admin building, where the Director has an office. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

As they got closer, Frank worried that the store might burst into rainbow light and vaporize them, but the building stayed dark. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Soon he left Chicago and moved to Gilman, Illinois, where he met a young woman and began a formal courtship, which compelled him to visit Holmes’s building one more time, to seek a divorce decree. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Some of the principles of style that apply within a sentence, such as building an orderly tree and placing given before new information, apply to extended passages as well. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Back outside, I walked around the front of the building, trying to figure where Curzon’s cell lay. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in Chris’s building there were tons of families, and most he didn’t even know. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

There is nowhere to hide out here, no trees or buildings that can shield us, but it doesn’t matter. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I was a bit taken aback when, at eleven-thirty, simultaneous whoops broke out from all over the building. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine they’re all these ancient buildings with steeples, stained-glass windows, and those kneeling benches like you see in movies. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

They also show roads, buildings, railroads, transmission lines, mines and caves, vegetation, and towns, cities, rivers, lakes, canals, marshes, and waterfalls. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stop short outside of a building with a large, fancy hand-lettered glass window proclaiming “Sheriff” and a flag of red and white stripes. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“The blocks build into a column and then we shift over one space to repeat the same sequence.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

I stop often, leaning her weight on a cement wall, the edge of a building, the banister. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment she thought back to her secret hideout in the woods, the one her daddy had helped her build. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Toby walked around the side of the building and saw the truck for the first time. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

In other words, variations in opportunities and experiences can affect a child’s skill building and therefore impact their intelligences. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I think what I’m most looking forward to next year, my fellow fifth graders, is building that trust with all of you. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Even prisons—the actual buildings—are a rare sight for many Americans, as they are often located far from population centers. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Agony takes over and he’s crying out in pain and I want to stop, to find a better way, but the blackness is rising above the buildings, swelling, rolling at us like a wave. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

First they made a broad survey of the building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Waving to her mom, Cas turned and looked at the building sitting on the hill that was slowly being put back together. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Tents were pitched beside bustling shops and women hung out their washing next door to high-rise buildings. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aileen led me around the back of the arts building and down along the edge of the woods toward the pep rally field and then down the slope to the football field. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Funny to think rich people, who can be free, build fancy cages to live in. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“It’ll never be settled until this country wakes up and builds a navy!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The building was still standing, but its doors were padlocked, the windows shattered, and the letters K and R miss­ing from its name. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was the only professor who had stayed with the students when they seized the building. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the zoo raised lots of money to build a huge enclosure. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I knew the temple that I could build if I could really get to those Christians. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The world blurs around me, and an instant later, I’m standing at a part of the street where the buildings give way to a pier. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In their rush to build a model, they had even forgotten Franklin’s first discovery: the remarkable “wetness” of DNA. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He had resolved not to build another oil company, but he did, A. F. Giebel Petroleum Consultants. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The building, everything inside the imperial gates, was cold and imposing. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The walls and floors are buttressed like a basement, and the entire space is much larger than the small building we entered. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I hear Mom say quietly, “She has this wacky idea to build a house out there.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

By the time I reached the other building, my legs were quivering so violently, I had to grasp hold of the ledge to steady myself. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

His speed in designing and building the apparatus was more impressive than the results he obtained, which matched Swann’s expectations and therefore advanced science by a tiny increment, if at all. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It was just one of the regular old thirteen project buildings that made up St. Nick. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

They weren’t moving very quickly here, and it wasn’t hard for her to seize the bracket and hold the boat still against the building. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was on a TV there that I saw that the first building had fallen. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Manchee and me get past the school building and up on the little ridge and look north and there it is, the town itself. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

My grandfather leads me down a side street to a group of buildings. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

He calls the bank, and they don't notify the building rep. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

For the truth was, it was extremely refreshing to be out in the summerhouse after many continuous days in the main building and neither of us was inclined to hurry with our tasks. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

With Britain still under attack from German bombers, they agreed the actual work of building a bomb would 4 6 be done in America. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The airport manager shouted, “This way!” and they ran after him to the uncompleted building. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"We can build it just here between the bathing pool and the platform. Of course-" He broke off, frowning, thinking the thing out, unconsciously tugging at the stub of a nail with his teeth. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The shot had come from somewhere near the west side of the building. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The soldiers can't see me up here, with our wide chimney and the shadows cast by the taller buildings around us. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

But why bring her inside this building first? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

There was a seventh building, but it burned down a few years ago and instead of rebuilding it, the state tore it down. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

No one, not even Jack, would ask him to move and in the end they had to build the fire three yards away and in a place not really as convenient. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“An architect. I wanted to build homes and offices and stages and parks,” I say. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I head down the stairs of the apartment building until I get to the door I’m looking for. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Alfred passed an old man who lived in his building, and grabbed his arm. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told me that she could sense a person’s build, demeanor, sometimes even hair color. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

A freeze-out just meant that the staff closed and locked the doors to the building and nobody could come in or go out until the director said so. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

It was a large, wooden rectangular building with high ceilings and small, square windows on the sides. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“What would you think if I was building my own house?” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The wide schoolyard, enclosed by a trimmed whistling pine hedge, was cluttered with long buildings as if they had all sprung up at will, unplanned. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Lloyd and I spent a lot of time in 3833 trying to find out what we could about life in the building and the death of Eric Morse. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are lots of redbrick buildings, and a funny red tower, with red flapping oars at the top. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Red awnings with thick green borders hung across the wide windows of the large, squat building. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“That’s what it says. The top of the building is built like the top of a old cabinet.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

It was early afternoon and the grounds and buildings were deserted, since everyone was at sports. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was stuffy and just cool enough to remind you that the building had air conditioning, but some budget or moral constraint kept it from being used to make things very comfortable. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“He went down to the office in a gay humor,” Harriet Monroe said, “and that very day received a commission for a large commercial building.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I walk around the building, checking all around the parking lot and under each car. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I had forgotten all about her mill in the excitement of building the dam and sawmill. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of it all, sixty thousand people were dead and virtually every building for miles reduced to rubble. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The animal control building comes into view on the right. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

They have him in the bricked alley behind the building, the shots dark and grainy. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shoe stand was in skid row—a street of ancient buildings with cheap rooming houses and bars. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A graveyard was already starting to be used and a new church building was in the planning stages. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Under the direction of an older bear, the human prisoners were building a shelter out of driftwood and scraps of canvas. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The team inside the building maintained radio contact with Gene Johnson outside the building. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s on the way back to the airstrip when he sees it, emblazoned on the side of a brick building, a shock of color against a gray street. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

If you leave Mr. Kugler’s office and proceed through the long, narrow hallway past the coal bin and go up four steps, you find yourself in the private office, the showpiece of the entire building. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“They have killed twenty-two guards and nine of the staff, and they’ve set light to every part of the buildings that still stood. They are going to destroy it completely.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

If my mom is trying to convince us that this building that looks like it’s about to crumble is going to be “super fun,” she’s officially lost her mind. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

It was now after dark, but Gene Johnson feared Ebola so much that he did not want to let the building sit untouched overnight. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I’m certain they’ve left the building, I run at a full sprint—thankfully Guillermo’s still not back—down the hallway to the front window. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He began to hear that the sounds were voices, and he saw that the second building was not a building at all. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Papa still wore his superintendent “uniform,” an outfit of his own choosing that he insisted on wearing whenever he did building duties. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

However, the biggest advances building on GGS have involved extensions into areas that were not the book’s main focus. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the balding grass field behind the building, cars and SUVs parked in crowded makeshift rows. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Icicles hung from the collapsed roof of the fire-mined building that had housed Black Muslim Mosque Number 7. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Time to build a nest, Frightful,” he called. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

To build it Burnham had confronted a legion of obstacles, any one of which could have—should have—killed it long before Opening Day. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

You have your designs now, and we know all the tricks of actually building an aeroplane.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking up the path, I can see more buildings thru the trees and hear that music playing. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

They walked quickly around to the east side of the rambling building. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You are now the building committee, Miss New Mexico. What else do we need?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

In the city room Vega sat on a upside-down pickle bucket playing his violin while he watched me and Rose build. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

She considered going to the state teachers’ school to take the required courses, even went to the administration building to register. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she and Salvador stood back, studying the building and fence, Lupita noticed that other people were also staring at the fence. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

With his dogs in attendance he set out and made a careful tour of inspection of the farm buildings, the other animals following at a respectful distance. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Garbage drifted up the walls and filled the cracks between buildings and the alcove doorways. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The pain that had been building in their arms and legs and chests did not abate, but it fled to the backs of their minds, chased there by a sense, almost, of invulnerability. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I searched, and shook my head after I had found a pic of the building on my phone. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He gazes at the jagged outline of buildings, at the church spires and turrets. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

I can feel the sweat building between my shoulder blades. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The car swept past soot-blackened buildings, stopping at each block, jerking again into motion. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was fifty yards away by now and nearing an opening between two buildings. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The scavengers’ building impressed him; large and modern, it held a good number of high-class purely office employees. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Behind the building rose the hoop of a ferris wheel. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The banking district consisted of several wide streets with large marble buildings on each side of them, all banks. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Then he quickly disappeared backstage and left the building. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Claire hiked away from the education buildings and hesitated at the corner, where several paths intersected. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I gave out free samples to build excitement. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

You get to your building and decide that the elevator is hot lava, so you take the stairs. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was lean in build, with glowing skin that announced his mixed parentage. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Even after diversion, the water gushes through irrigation channels so quickly that it can’t evaporate and build up salts in the soil. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He eyed the fog, which still sat in a thick layer atop the Bank of America building, blocking out the sun. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The buildings gave way to natural meadowland, and stunted olive trees lined the road, which forked unexpectedly a couple of times. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

"We remain here until the building fills," Brother Jack said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been making that same noise since the first day I had started building my castle in here. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He cut carefully and cleanly, never misstepping, building arguments that were irrefutable, even if erroneous or morally repugnant. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If a stranger is hanging out in front of the building, don’t ever go in—just keep walking around the block until he’s gone. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Is Angel okay up there?” he asked, glancing up at the bleak and depressing apartment building. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the low buildings, chips of stars glitter in a velvet sky. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Wouldn’t the world be safer if a second major power also knew how to build atomic bombs? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pretend to be nudged awake by Aliya in front of this blank building. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

It was weird, because our new building had a doorman, but he hadn’t called up or anything. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She heard a noise outside the door, then suddenly a mob of men and women came storming into the school building. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Ricketts’ was clearly not the best place to care for seriously ill patients, so the Guardians decided to find a building in a more isolated area. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

There were many empty buildings with black windows, like blind eyes, buildings like skeletons standing with snow on their bones in the winter winds. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were firmly fixed on the building where their lives had changed, so he didn’t see her watching him—studying how gingerly he was walking. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I’m thinking about my land, and how it feels just right to build there. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“We were told that these people were unfit to live productive lives, that they could not help build Germany up, that they were worthless, and that they were using the government’s money.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks to the Bay Area’s high-tech boom, long-vacant historic buildings downtown are filling with startups, boutiques peddling handmade jeans, and nightspots serving seven-ingredient cocktails. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Two of them caught up with me in the hallway of my building, and I fought them. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He could feel the words coming out faster and faster, the momentum building inside him like the words were all going to explode and he wanted to finish before it happened. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

One day I was overflowing with all these worries, hoping our neighbor, Mrs. Williams, would build a bomb shelter because they had lots more money than we did. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In the winter, when it snowed, we'd build snowmen in one another's front yards. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

So were the offices of the clerks who kept track of which buildings had broken windows, what streetlamps needed repair, and the number of people in the city. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Hope Springs’s City Hall was a two-story brick building with tall white columns and pairs of paint-peeled shutters on every window. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Black leaders stationed sharpshooters on the roofs of buildings, and, in a reversal of what had been taking place for four days, blacks began pulling whites off streetcars and assaulting them. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

As I wait for the elevator in my building, I wonder: Would I have caught that ball if I had taken my earmuffs off? Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

As I round the building I find an old millstone. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stare at the old building with no doorknob, and I instantly feel warm inside. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

We moved into a wooden building on the edge of town that had once been a railroad depot. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Christmas music plays loudly in the building, and volunteers in Santa hats unload the truck. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

If I were Jeanine, I would send the majority of Dauntless soldiers to the Dauntless entrance above the Pit, outside the glass building. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

During the Great Discord, right after the dead began to walk and before the Army finally got the shambler plague under control, the building was empty. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

When they reached the long wooden building on Neptune Street, a lanky, unshaven man lounged against the door. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were trying to build a secret weapon. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Too far to the left and he would crash into the side of the building, but too far the other way and he would fall. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

It all looked as deserted as if the Flood had newly receded and left this one cold building in its wake. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Among her women friends, Ma is admired for her height, slender build, and porcelain white skin. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The village hall was a squat building, nothing much to look at. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Still hand in hand, the two of them ran until they came to a building with a projecting loading platform. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Funny idea to go and build a house on it! And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

His job was to teach them how to physically build the explosives. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

She wheeled around the house and neighborhood with very little difficulty, although buildings without ramps and inaccessible public transportation could really start her to fussing. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, what a fool he had been to build hope upon such shifting sand! Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The venison is much better when smoked in a building where the fire can be controlled. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had expected bombed-out buildings and instead find myself confronted with broken human bodies. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“I have to go check out the old building with the broken-down bull. One of the workers told me they peeked in the window and saw a bunch of mice running around.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Finally, Father stopped the wagon before two large, ramshackle buildings. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Welcome back,” one of the guys said before darting into the building. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

My phone buzzes in my pocket as we head for the building. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Malcolm could only just make out the windows because the gate light was on the other side of the building, and the half moon shone on that side too; but finally he made it out. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Even the Pennsylvania Hospital barred fever victims, because it feared that the crowded condition of its building would allow the disease to spread wildly. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

She was ready to spend all the time it took to help her son, Levi, build a humdinger of a car to race in the peninsula’s 1960 soap box derby. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Ruins of older buildings dot the lake, buildings abandoned by business owners and residents when the floodwaters rose. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Mom had said for me to build a rocket, show him what I could do. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The men are being forced to build a wall that surrounds the entire kingdom.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The main building of the middle school and all the buildings of the high school have been certified as “structurally safe” by a team of engineers hastily assembled by Old Charley Burns. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once Grandpop had the gun completely apart, he lined the screws and bits of metal all out on the table like Genie always did when he was about to start building a model car. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Under Dwelholm. The king was excavating to build a new wading pool.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

They lived in the same apartment building—but what did that mean? We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Not by myself. It took thousands of men to build her. But I did design her, that’s true.” I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s the old church, all right. Just a couple of miles down the street. It was a good building. We just got too big for it.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And right across the river are hundreds of tall buildings, some shooting straight, piercing the clouds. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“We heard their boots stomping toward us outside the building,” Jack said. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The flood was carrying them inexorably into the city, but not smoothly or easily, because the buildings broke up the flow and made the water seethe and surge with turbulence. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

We were strolling, me and Junior and Sammy and T—we were heading down Peach, in fact—when Sciss and some of his guys came bursting out of a building and running up toward us. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He’s working in another part of the building, but he’s come to check on us. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

And finally now, just when he’d mastered the parking patterns at City Hall — he even knew which meters were jammed, so he could park free — he had his building permit. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those of us waiting moved out of the lee of the building to watch the ferry chug in. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They got up and walked to the school, a large, nondescript, 1970s-era building. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Beneath your world of skies and faces and buildings exists a rawer and older world, a place where surface planes disintegrate and sounds ribbon in shoals through the air. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then I leave the building, and it isn’t until I’m halfway across the field that I realize I didn’t win. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Farrars might have disappeared into the secret entrance before I ever got to the building. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

In other words, he wanted Oppenheimer to get back to the lab and build more bombs. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s quiet again, like he’s trying to build up to something. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a small, old, white building with four tall columns and a row of stairs leading to a tall doorway. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The back part of the building is ferociously spewing smoke and a girl on the street is crying and pointing at something and covering her mouth. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the newscaster on TV said there were already ten thousand people at the football stadium, with thousands more lined up around the building. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

She said, “I know about this building because I love this building.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Marisol loved to build things, especially things for animals and birds and reptiles. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

There were windows, with glass, and through them she could see the tops of trees; the room faced the forest behind the building. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across it are buildings, most of them empty. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

At last she saw a modern building that nestled against the ground, down a low sloping hill. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘But-’ ‘I own the building now. I put the deed in my name.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She released him and ran to the front door, where she turned and called, “I’m sorry I run into that building, Ignatius. I love you.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The noise level in the Garden was building, like a drumroll. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

In a new school one had to build a set of friends on the abandoned carcasses of unhappy boys and girls who befriended you during the days when you had no choice. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moreover, Weaver counseled, there would be no point in building a smaller cyclotron now, if everything might be won simply by sitting out a prudent delay. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

We drove by redbrick buildings and white buildings, an army tank with a big white star painted on it, and long, iron cannons. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Or maybe it was the way she studied the building behind him that made her seem so different. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

They use words to build something that is as real as cloth. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The only spaces was when a street interrupted the wall of buildings. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want to feel this dread that was building up inside him. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

There were no planter boxes or benches tucked next to the building, and the entry alcove was tidy and clear of anything booklike. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Aside from the stairwell, that was the only part of the building still accessible; the other floors were all frozen shut, walls of ice clogging their rooms and hallways. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

They have one tower built, and Spencer checks the box to make sure they are building the second tower just like in the medieval castle in the picture. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

She stared at buildings and cars and signboards, all of them matte, disappointingly matte; in the landscape of her imagination, the mundane things in America were covered in a high-shine gloss. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

After a week or so, the nurse says Erin has been moved to a different building for rehab. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's a cloudy night with no moon, and I can't even make out the crumbling Bank Tower sign at the top of the building. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

A rush of excitement builds, and I’m no longer thinking about what it means to have brothers who never talk to you but somehow still know you—I want to know what’s inside the box. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

All the way across the paper, she drew buildings of different sizes. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The school is made up of several tall brick buildings that surround a playing field and a four-season swimming pool completely encased in glass. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the center on top I had started building a huge dome that would cover the king’s throne. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The debate over whether to build the bomb was over. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I’d made it to the front of the building, where the UN van had once been, when I heard rustling behind me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Grace Lutheran is different from any place of worship I’ve ever seen: a simple white building with a steeple, Gothic arched windows, oak pews, and a spare altar. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

His shock and grief would never compare with that of the first responders who’d rushed in to secure the building and evacuate survivors from the carnage. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

To me, it was a building from another planet. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He leans against the stoop of a building across the street and down the block from Tom Arlen's place. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Uncle Frank had an eco-friendly construction company in Spain and had built a ton of buildings in Madrid. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He handed her the picture, and she slid it into their envelope as they began to walk back toward the Spurlock building, now about three quarters of a mile away. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It is a rare house or building that is not rigged with spiky combers of the air. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Who are those guys and what were they doing? What’s in that building?” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He worked steadily all afternoon in his own lab, hot zone AA-4, at the center of the building, where he fiddled with the flasks of virus culture from the monkey house. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Present your case, build it, sell it so they believe it”—that was the Langley way. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Tell me more, Lou. Why are you building this? Why a tiny house?” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I jumped a gutter full of rainwater and took the last steps to Annemarie’s building. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I was surprised that people were not pouring out of the buildings, mobbing the sidewalks. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The people of the woods did not delve in the ground like Dwarves, nor build strong places of stone before the Shadow came.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Without waiting for orders from the pig, the animals broke off work and raced back to the farm buildings. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

He decorates his apartment, pinning some Japanese prints on the walls, and he sets up a tiny studio—a “cubby-hole”—in the same building as his flat. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I saw a woman sitting on the sidewalk, leaning against a building. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rolled my bike out of our building’s elevator and rode over to meet Daryl R. and Kofi on Eighth Av’. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I wince, half expecting the entire building to fall down if he pulls too hard. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

"It's tremendous," I said as we left the building. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hayloft spanning an entire side of the building served as a feedbox. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

A workman was building a new fireplace in the living room, and as Dad was escorted through that room he stopped to watch the man laying bricks. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the years immediately following the flood, Boston’s citizens, most of whom were determined that such a tragedy never take place again, voted overwhelmingly to increase the budget of the city’s building department substantially. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The narrow street opened out to a square, and against the gray wall of a building there was a high structure of timbers and a noosed rope hanging down. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I think there’s a vacant apartment in my building,” Rick said. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

If I had my way, I would empty the buildings out right now and hurry up and knock all four of ’em down and start a new beginning. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The A July 1863 photograph of the Capitol building under construction, southeast view. people of Washington, overcome by news of the war’s end, hope to glimpse their president on this historic night. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I have to blink tears from my eyes before I can see it, what looks at first to be a group of dark buildings. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Stick said okay, and we spent an entire day setting up an elaborate floor plan and building the base and everything. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was an ugly little building without a front door, set in a landscape of distant, gray-brown mountains and flat, white-gray basins. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

When David and I entered Alexandra, we saw several burning government buildings, beer halls, schools, stores belonging to Indians and Chinamen. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll tell you what. If I win, you have to build me a tower.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The Gabrielis also experimented with placing clusters of singers and instrumentalists in different pockets of the building, a technique known as antiphony, meaning ‘voices against each other’, or poly choral, ‘many choirs’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Each building was more lovely, more elaborate than the last, and all were immense—fantastic things on a scale never before attempted. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Just past the arch, one of the town houses was painted black—the only black building Frank had seen so far in Venice. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

There was a general shout of outrage, and then we recommended the building of Leper’s triumphal arch around Brinker’s keystone. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

SCORPIUS: Pity is a start, my friend, a foundation on which to build a palace—a palace of love. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

I watched as twelve-foot-high walls went up, encircling an area of residential buildings not far from our apartment. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

This 'dining hall' where I now sit, however, is a modem annexe built to adjoin the main building - a long, flat room characterized by rows of large windows on either side. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was impossible now to venture out of the shelter of the buildings. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The Captain expanded Mr. Carter’s building program, providing every Coalwood miner a house with indoor plumbing, a Warm Morning stove in the living room, and a coal box the company kept full. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Worked to build a new life for them in America. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

I leaned over the edge of my building’s roof and peeked down. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I blink before too many tears build up. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, like a jack-in-a-box, a lieutenant from the Dorsets popped up from the cellar of a municipal building that had been requisitioned for a headquarters. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Alex began shoveling from the building to the street, not knowing what else to do. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“If Doc Murphy don’t tell Judd about Shiloh, can we bring him back here and keep him? I could build him a better pen. Make the fence high enough so the shepherd can’t get in.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stare at the other kids from the building, wondering which one of them it could be. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The scent carries like it did before, avoiding the road, avoiding any buildings we might see at a distance, but always onward, always toward Haven, only Aaron knows why. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

It struck around the 94th floor, and smoke and flames were immediately seen pouring from the building. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Maybe it’s good the flashlight’s out, in case someone is watching the building,” Petra whispered. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Besides, you don’t use stones to build barrows. Even if you did, you wouldn’t use quarried, finished stone like this. This was brought from a long ways off.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The building where Dray’s having his party is like a giant Petwo drum that pulses with a heavy rhythm. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Bigger was gazing in the direction of the buildings; but he did not see them. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“They’re just a pile of stones. You could build one in your backyard.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He resolved that to preserve his credibility as supervising architect, a role in which he would be compelled to oversee the work of other exposition architects, he would not himself design any of the buildings. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Two stories high, the unfinished shul stood level with the brick buildings surrounding it. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The world beyond ours is full of roads and dark buildings and collapsing power lines. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Scrambling forward, I wove and dodged through the crowd, tables and stalls, just in time to see the soldiers—with Aycliffe—drag Bear through the open doors of a large building. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

For the new Writers, building on their ground, thinking them true, add to them, and invent, and draw other Experiments from them, that are falser then the Principles they insisted on. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Palmer’s agents burst into the building, shouting that everyone inside was under arrest. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“Yes, a log cabin perched atop the tallest building in Fulcrum City. At least I’m not a hypocrite, Xenocrates. I don’t feign humility.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I wanted to take in his every move among the people, to witness the telling presence that I’d seen glimpses of but on a much smaller scale, at the office, on building stoops, inside restaurants. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is in the old Pita building just down the road, and he is putting up walls for the school of Mr. Pomodoro. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

“We need to reset our focus on building character,” Mr. Chumley continues. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

They came around the corner of a building and startled two Norwegian boys, who took one look at them and bolted. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Ivy nodded, but the storm clouds just kept building and building. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Henri the painter noses like an Airedale through the junk in the grass-grown lot for some part or piece of wood or metal he needs for the boat he is building. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alice Black was incredibly nervous, because she lived in a building that was supposed to be for industrial purposes, so people weren’t supposed to live there. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

In a moment the green campus with its vine-covered buildings was behind us. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since Becky lived in a boardinghouse on Oliver Street, it fell to me to wake first and build up the fire. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stranger who had pursued me down Maxwell Street in the dead of night, after emerging from this very building, had certainly been real. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Faced with this ever-growing flood of squatters, two Shawnee brothers, Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa, began building a larger, more cohesive Indigenous resistance. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“By showing him my house. I’m going to try to buy us more time for Mom to come up with the rest of the money or for me to finish building—or both.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

There’s a crack in the wall I’ve never noticed until now, and a spider is building her web in the corner of the ceiling. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He worked, after graduating from college, for Westinghouse, building nuclear submarines. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wants to build a library in downtown Baltimore or open a women’s hospital in India or run a search-and-rescue team that would rush to victims of tsunamis. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

We walked around the buildings and the parking lot, still half looking for Cheddar, but really just talking. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

It was in the fourth block we came to, a tall, bland building with peeling blue paint and with television aerials sticking out from the verandahs. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The hospital spans the first twelve floors of the building, but I'm only interested in the one without windows. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Before the fronts of the buildings were sensible safeguards against demons of any kind. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Roberts shouted a warning to them all to be careful, but it was drowned out as the remaining students all joined the flow of people heading toward the main entrance of the building. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Joe Baker took me back inside of the precinct building, into a small room. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the most compelling buildings, given the nature of the age, was the Electricity Building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Kamen staggered down the stairway in a daze and made a beeline for Ruben’s lab, located in a derelict old annex to the chemistry building known as the Rat House. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The next time she called 911, she was going to request cops who wouldn't send her alone into an occupied building. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

My mom and dad agreed that with the money from the sale, they’d be able to build a world-class gymnastics-training center from scratch. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Really? I came to check on the building,” Zeitoun said, smiling, knowing how ludicrous it sounded. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

One whole side of the building had tom loose and fallen away. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The doors to the administration buildings stood open. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You and I are building a runway out back and we need that field so we can fly anywhere we want at any time.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I could build a smoke house like the one gran’pa had, an’ when we kill a pig we can smoke the bacon and the hams, and make sausage an’ all like that. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stopped in front of a brick building. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

See umm the town of Merrimack well they sent the building inspector over. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

But what if the structure of DNA was so simple—so elegant—that it could be deduced by “common sense,” by model building? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Kaitlin needs a doctor. We have to find a way to build a stretcher or something that can lower her to the ground.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Beyond that, the strange building loomed beneath what looked like a living tornado of dactyls. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Taking the opportunity to build up Ptolemy’s Museum must therefore have been something of a no-brainer. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

I ran blindly back into the building, coughing and choking, my lungs and eyes on fire. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I’ve woken up in this building thousands of times—in my old place or Sneaky’s. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t live at home with her parents, but in a bachelorette apartment in one of the new high-rise buildings on Avenue Road, north of St. Clair. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

With a pig under the building and the dogs barking and racing in and out, the school day ended. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Hazel and Pipkin reached the top of the slope, the first light showed clearly the farmyard and buildings. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dwarf had been busy building some sort of boom to close off the mouth of the river, though the fishermen differed as to whether the work had been completed or not. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But the boys simply took my hand and pulled me inside the building. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brooklyn doesn’t do oceans, just sidewalks, buildings, and boring rivers. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

She reached the brick building that housed an art gallery below and an apartment above, and Valley stuck her head out the window of her apartment. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He promised to help raise funds to build a migrant shelter. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

They had just left a tangle of apartment buildings in the year 2194. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Attached to this building, which Mr. Gonzalez referred to as “the brain center,” was that factory, a bamlike prototype of an airplane hangar. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

With their help, he hoped to find a stable job in southern China and build a low-profile life. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

But beyond the parking lot and the utility buildings, he saw something a whole lot more appealing. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I wanted to press all of the buttons and scream curse words at everybody who lived in the stupid building. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But a few guests could set back the feeding plans for the week if you did not build up what you destroyed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now I see the buildings in a different light. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

As the plates push against each other, pressures build up until one or the other gives way. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The plan was for our motorcade to avoid the crowd and drive around to the back of City Hall, where I would quietly enter the building. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She led Toby to the side of the building and stopped in front of two restroom doors—both padlocked. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Many of the original inhabitants still lived there, although now each building was shared by several families. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a few days she would have to drop everything and build the beautiful little sac that would hold her eggs. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

I’m torn between making a beeline for the next intersection and trying to get to the doors that line the street and break my way into a building. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Weaver warned that some might question whether it was necessary to build a new cyclotron at all, since cosmic rays carried energies equivalent to those to be expected from the new cyclotron. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

We both sprint off the edge of the building. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He is suddenly very interested in the moldering bricks of a nearby building. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

A new pigsty was building far from the house and downwind, with chicken and duck runs near and a kennel for the dogs to keep the coyotes away. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

This new voice belonged to an old beggar sitting barefoot on the steps of a bullet-scarred building. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

By the time we get into the building, I’ve heard this lady’s life story. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

"It's only nine blocks from here to Seventy-Fourth Street, and then we just have to find the right building." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“By God, who will build the houses? Who will grow the crops? Do they think they can eat the gold and silver they are hoping to find?” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The Americans were taken to the fifth building inside the gate. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the Delhi quadrangle map is Bando’s cabin, my mountain, Mrs. Strawberry’s house and farm, as well as all the buildings in Delhi. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom and I sat in the car, in the parking lot of the First Street Schoolhouse building. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Of ancient Korean houses and tall westernized buildings. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

An odd, watchful silence hangs over the foreboding brick building. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

While their father parked the car, Hannah and Aaron raced into the building. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I guess it’s the end of the multi-million- dollar building boom west of Tangerine. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The job itself was very boring—I worked in the filing department of the administrative building of the university. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

And this heat had been building for days. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The blaring alarms, the echoing of the chopper off the buildings. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Our apartment building in Chesterfield was one story, shaped like a U around a courtyard. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Hunt paced the dark sidewalk in front of Dr. Fielding’s apartment building. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The farther we rode, the less houses there was and the more buildings until the houses quit altogether, leaving one building or store or shop after the next. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

I lean forward to look at the buildings on the other side of the bridge. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Emily snapped back inside, fearing Ms. Lee would pop out and yell at her about touching the neighbor’s building. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I pray that the Negro will not miss his chance to rise to greatness, to build from the strength gained through his past suffering and, above all, to rise beyond vengeance. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I burst through the door to our apartment building and raced up the stairs and pounded on the big metal door to our rooftop hideaway. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Across the city, a building collapsed in a great gout of fire and smoke, and she heard distant screams and the wailing of frightened children. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Another time, I was walking through the bush, my right hand outstretched against the cool brick of a building buried deep in the trees. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Both were tormented by the same question: What had German scientists told Hitler about the possibility of building atomic bombs? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I turn and push open the doors to a classroom building. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

When I look at the quiet forest I wonder what it will belike to live there, to build houses and create a settlement. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Night blends into the gray of the stone until I can’t tell where the shadows end and the buildings of Blackcliff begin. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She was building quite a reputation in a short amount of time. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

But yesterday I found a faded quilt in a pile of giveaways in our apartment building's laundry room. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She showed me to a recovery ward at the far end of the building. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

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

But the light shifts, maybe a cloud moves, and that or something else makes me look up, toward the front of the building. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Particularly active among them was Hadamar, a castlelike hospital on a hill, and the Brandenburg State Welfare Institute, a brick building resembling a garrison, with rows of windows along its side. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The easiest thing to do would be to build a case out of her foot. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

After another roll call to see which of us were still alive, the Nazis marched us toward one of the big brick buildings with chimneys. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

At each stage of his imprisonment he had known, or seemed to know, whereabouts he was in the windowless building. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Through the window I could see the tops of other buildings, and I decided to get up and look around to see how high up from the ground we were. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Despite the size and solidity of the building, it feels impermanent, populated by a constant stream of guests and travelers on their way to and from other locations. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Oh, well, they’re in storage in another part of the building.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was located in the community center, on the far side of the projects, about as far away from my building as you could get and still be in my development. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

They swung me around the administration building and into the academic quad. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

It also explains why building is so expensive; the additional costs are passed along to customers. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

In Detroit, eight hundred suspects had been held in an unventilated corridor of a US Post Office building, where they had no beds or blankets and only one toilet for the entire group. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

In the last two centuries, people have literally carted away many of its buildings, using the stones for churches, homes, bridges, public buildings, and even landfill. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Welling up, building up, rising, filling her—something in her that should not have been there, and every night that passed it was harder to resist its compulsions. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Being in the building when other students are around. You know, a first step toward coming back to school. Do you have class seventh?” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He was crouching behind a corner of the building. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like chaos at first—buildings and homes and roadways and other unknown structures all jostling for this tiny parcel of forty-nine square miles. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The Bureau employees move the camera in closer, so that the Hancock building is just a black backdrop behind Marcus’s and Johanna’s torsos. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

When they built the expressways and had urban renewal, they destroyed a lot of that housing and built these high-rise buildings. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even from a distance you can see through the glass doors that the entire building is packed to the rafters with multicolored paper chain. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Everyone spreads throughout the building in search of janitor’s closets, per my instruction to find a ladder. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was as Loki had described—a huge building, one huge hall, with a long room off to one side. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The three demigods stared up at the buildings <5f drizzly downtown Portland. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Abraham Lincoln had ordered work on building the Capitol dome to continue during the war as a sign that the Union would go on. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emily tore off a strip, and they headed back to their building as fast as they could go. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“One thing’s for sure, give him tools, and this young man can fix up anything you can find and build anything you can think of. I can vouch for that.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nathan enjoyed that the steps to building a fire could be repeated over and over again and the result would always be the same. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

We’d barely made it out of the Tokyo Dome when the first enormous broadcasts appear on the sides of the buildings surrounding the arena, the headlines in giant, screaming letters. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Evening’s shadows blend with the dark stones of Blackcliff, making the blockish buildings appear unnaturally large. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Your body builds up mucus, which is teeming with bacteria, which can cause your body harm. So we spit.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

They were lower class, uneducated Japanese who been taken from their homes in Japan and forced by their army to work building the air field. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

We take turns sitting on plastic milk crates and aiming flashlight beams up at the building. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

A trail of scraps beckoned the passerby to climb the unpainted front steps toward some goal within the building. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll show you to your quarters. It isn’t far. It’s in a wing of this building.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since then Luma has been free to run her program the way she sees fit, and to fund-raise toward her real ambition: building a tutoring center and soccer facility within walking distance of Clarkston. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

During the day they trained, playing football on the beach in army boots to build up their legs, and then at night they had the drills. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

What was it like building these first great structures? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Oh no. It’s going down. The whole building. It’s going down!” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

He stared absentmindedly at a window washer on a platform dangling outside an apartment building. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She imagined flames everywhere, reaching into the sky amid the zillions of buildings in Tokyo. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Or we can assume Strabo simply means that the Museum was adjacent to outlying parks, buildings, and so on, that were affiliated with the palace. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

We were driven to the old jail, an isolated stone building, where we were ordered to strip while standing outside. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waited by the edge of the roof of the one-story building. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Teller, irrepressibly voluble on his favorite subject, joined them for the drive back to Albuquerque, prattling all the way about the essential requirements of a program to build the Super. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“I found it,” he said, pointing to a building on the map. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Wind shook the trees and blew a sheet of heavy rain against the building. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After checking with a lawyer, they agreed to build the code. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Neither Boy21 nor I say a word, and I have to admit that it feels good not being the only rabbit in the building. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fort Laramie National Historic Site was a group of old buildings. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Wherever you see one of those holes, there’s an owl den underneath. It’s where they build their nests and lay their eggs. It’s their home.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When Mr. Benedict said we must exit to enter, he meant we must exit the buildings to enter someplace else—a place we can’t get to from inside!” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was a huge wooden building with a great slanting roof divided up into parts. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

They were in front of the high, white, empty building with black windows. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Our school is a long three-story brick building with a cop car perpetually parked out front. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind was rising, and they could hear the old wooden buildings creaking around them, and in the distance a heavy shutter banging, over and over, forgotten. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Soon we were building our own monster wagons, called chigiri-giri, that resembled something like a go-cart in America. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

See if they build a provisional nest nearby. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The team laid an electric cable along the floor throughout the building, strung with outlets, like a cord for Christmas-tree lights. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Methodically, as Poppy scratched and scribbled beside her, Lina colored in the space above the buildings, her pencil moving back and forth in short lines, until the entire sky was blue. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The dominant color was brown: brown wooden buildings, brown sandy streets, as if it were a faded photograph. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tom can build a level of trust and rapport in five to ten minutes that most people will take half an hour to do,” Moine says of Gau. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And though it still feels strange to be so far away from soft dirt beneath bare feet the ground is firm here and the one tree blooms wide enough to shade four buildings. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“What kind of a building is that over there?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

C.P. was told to wait in a small room just inside the front door while the men disappeared through another door, which led into the building. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The paint was peeling on buildings, the streets pitted with potholes, and the whole estate resigned to its own shabbiness. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Judging from her pace and the fact she apparently knows every single person in the building, I wouldn’t be surprised if she were actually the mayor of this place. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The building provided some insulation from the cold. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

They’d stayed as close to the center of the building as possible, in the structure’s middle corridors, to protect themselves from the sun’s ruthless radiation. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

They were proper brick buildings with stoves or fireplaces in each room. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I find the office in a building that used to be a house. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

No one talks much, except to point out something new, a sign or a building or a hint of what this world was like, when there were people in it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

See, when the sweat and laughter comes, that basically means the spirit is in the building. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

She taught me how to count stitches, how to make chains that became rows, how to join rounds, when to fill in, and when to build space around stitches. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I spoke quietly into the mouthpiece of the asylum pay phone in the main hall of the administration building. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The tomb is a great big marble building that’s set in the side of a hill so only the fancy front sticks out. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Remember in fourth grade when we made California missions and yours was from scratch and everyone else used kits from the craft store? We don’t know how to build a house.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

But now, looking across at the huge dignified houses, the hundreds of rooftops, she can see no traces of bombings or craters or crushed buildings. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She points to the building across the street. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Even though winter was long over, there was still some snow in piles around the building. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The next time I saw Jerome, he was in my dorm building. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Not you guys, who live in a broken-down building on the edge of a dead city, slowly turning into freaks when you could be beautiful. Yeah, I’m crazy all right... for trying to help you!” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

In addition to starting the clinic, Farmer’s organization had also raised funds to build schools, houses, and communal sanitation and water systems. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

O’Dell said he thought Buck had “lit out for Detroit,” gone there, I supposed, to build cars. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A silver-haired Martial with a soldier’s build—the captain, I assume—is overseeing a group of Plebeians and Scholar slaves stacking boxes of cargo. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Wasn’t there just a gleaning on your floor earlier this year? I didn’t think it was allowed to hit the same building so soon.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Following its south-easterly course across the dark plain their eyes were drawn to the majestic buildings of the Slough Crematorium. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then moving to another neighborhood and building another? The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

As if to tear my heart into even more pieces, I was assigned to clean out the apartment building where I had lived with my parents. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

On the other side was a brick wall and buildings. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

It would look like a regular building, honestly, but there’s a barbed-wire fence around the back. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Would’e build a house wit barrow stones? Would yeh dig something out o’ a barrow an’ give it to your daughter as a wedding present?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The building, clean and white except for various edges painted green, was an open construction unfolding around an empty central room. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The quiet, broken only by my wheezing, reminds me of the brooding in the burning building before it crashed down. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I found him with her,” I said, and pointed to the side of the building. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

After studies, Hanako was surprised when the teacher told them to clean the wooden floors of the school building, both in the classroom and out. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A crowd had gathered near the entrance to the Cold Storage building. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

There are even a few gaps between dilapidated buildings where Scoob can tell there used to be...well, more building. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Roy Baty snarled, “There’s a bounty hunter in the building! Get all the lights off. Get him away from that empathy box; he has to be ready at the door. Go on—move him!” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

It is as if a building he’d been responsible for designing has collapsed for all to see. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were the two wings of the building; there was the garden; there were the skirts of Lowood; there was the hilly horizon. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Later that day, I took Barack to lunch at the fancy restaurant on the first floor of our office building, a place packed with well-groomed bankers and lawyers power lunching over meals priced like dinners. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It felt like a dun-geon down there, in part because entry to the building was via the floor above, but also because it was darker, with smaller windows and lower ceilings. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a big building with stalls where you can buy anything,” Mami said. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

On the corner was our place, a narrow single-story building with a wooden zebra’s head projecting over the sidewalk. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And when the demons were too scared to go into the mountains to build the paths for their trains, we went and dug up whole mountains. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had built themselves a crystal house on top of this ordinary building. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

First we ran around the building for a few minutes, and then we began to learn how to crawl in the bushes nearby. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Bigger heard the faint excited sound of mob voices coming through the concrete walls of the building. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

After I got my three talents, Master Lorren led me out of the building. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I lead her around the side of the building to the employees’ back entrance. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

From a spigot on the side of the building, he fills the bucket. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

We were building a pile of the pits on a file photo of one of his former subjects, a South American woman with a magnificently crooked nose. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is raining when we leave the capital, a drizzle that builds to a steady downpour by the time we hit Villa Altagracia. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes fell upon the stone ridge to his left and he thought at first he should build his shelter against the stone. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tuynhuys is a graceful, nineteenth- century Cape Dutch-style building, but I did not get a proper look at it that day. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small group of adults comes over and starts to ease us away from the building. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

"If I ever catch you up there again, I'll have you out of this building in a heartbeat!" The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Then she went inside the building, thanking me for holding the door. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

This building is a beautiful work of architecture. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Both of my destinations—the intersection and the buildings — are a few feet away when I feel the flap going. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

On the third day the rain ceased and I went out to look for things which I would need in building the house. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shells are launched into the row of apartments, setting off the chain of explosions we heard, and the building collapses into rubble and dust. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Later, the four boys had stopped playing War and had gone inside when Ugwu heard the thin, strangled wail from the classroom at the end of the building. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He had to get out of the building. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

His eyes were glued to the bottom level of the building’s east wing, which was where the third grade classroom had been, which was where Wash was looking for Cari. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

To get to Tunnel 97, they followed a complicated route through passageways lined with crusty, rusted pipes that carried water to all the buildings of Ember. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There are only four of us, but using this ancient means of transport, months of trash leaves the building. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The other is to provide her with hints about the major divisions of the sentence into phrases, thus eliminating some of the ambiguity in how to build the tree. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He tells me that there’s this guy in the building, who he calls Mr. X, who is almost definitely up to something evil. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Coach pointed to a building a few buildings down from mine. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

A giant green building slides past in the yellow light of the late hour. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Though it was after hours in Theresa’s building — a women’s residence — under the circumstances, Ralph was allowed in. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Warm air and city commotion burst into our apartment building. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

What he was building, in those nights in the storerooms, was a kind of database in his unconscious. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Our building was only two stories high, although it was almost as tall as the one across the courtyard. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I loved hearing the prayers resonate throughout the building. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He applied for that card to start building credit, as Money magazine had advised. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He’s taller than me, with the lean build of a runner. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I asked again, because my world was shattering, and I needed the truth to build it back up. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

As he builds the assassination scheme in his head, layer by layer, everything is designed to make him the star performer. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

They continued to regard themselves as people of the covenant, selected and commanded by their god to go into the wilderness to build the new promised land. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

When I had been creating my first version of the House of Moneekrom up in our apartment, that building had seemed big, but it wasn’t really. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

It was the oldest building they’d seen: a simple battlemented tower four stories high. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The top of her head throbbed, ready for these tall buildings to come down on her as she rode by. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“You must be calm as you walk in. Oh, this is most dramatic—in broad daylight and in the middle of the city. We’ll sit here for a while and look at his building.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would speak to the crowd from the balcony of that building, which overlooked the entire area. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had the strong stocky build of a waterman. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

An old building, with old people, singing old songs. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Her father marveled at the industrial carpeting in the hallway of her apartment building; her mother hoarded faux-leather handbags at Kmart, paper napkins from the mall food court, even plastic shopping bags. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

English were building factories, drinking tea, and organizing against the slave trade, the vast majority of Russians were serfs. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Then more boxes next to it—a cluster of buildings. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“We will build a bunker in case of another air raid.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A bunch of seventh and eighth graders in wine-colored uniforms are crowded outside the building, beneath the overhang, trying to stay dry. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malcolm was turning the canoe to port to go around and see how far the building extended. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

At the time, the prison was using the building as a shop to manufacture plastic garbage bags, but as late as 1943, it still housed inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. I’m catching the train down to Midtown this Saturday. To try and find some of those buildings in there. I’m gonna explore buildings. Since you like ’em too, you wanna come? The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“Are you sleeping in a nice bed in that Soviet building?” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“The building creaks. It’s so strange. It sounds like the sailboat my father used to take out on Lake Kariba. I wish I was there now.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He put up one of the first temporary buildings in the quake’s aftermath, moved the cars in, and set out to craft a new image for Buick. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is a list of practical, achievable goals that can help a newcomer build a stable, productive life; it usually includes English fluency, job training, counseling, and lessons in money management. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

At least that was what it would be able to do once Dad finished building it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

I look at the throng of revelers, trying to build up the daring of someone who would rob an ogre right under his nose. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Mother announced that now we girls could use our idle time to build up our hope chests. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now Laura’s getting stars in her eyes about this future, the two of us lugging books across a lawn from building to building. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just burned-out buildings and trash in the street and a few people roaming about. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

She grinned at him and turned back to see that the ground was approaching now, the speed of her fall building slowly. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I had the dubious honor of being its first inmate—got to see them build the Mess Hall brick by brick. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The fair buildings were complete and all exhibits were in place, but just as surely as silver tarnishes, the fair became subject to the inevitable forces of degradation and decline—and tragedy. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The blast flattened buildings a mile in all directions and killed at least 2,000 people. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Atop a building across the street, above the heads of the people, loomed a flaming cross. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

An official of the building found his demeanor troubling and told him he could not enter. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

East Bank was where the government had gone in, cleared out the squatters and their shacks, and started to build actual homes. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

This particular mood in John had been building up ever since the night that he kissed me in the bedroom. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Inside the building were dioramas—three-dimensional displays of the fort’s history. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The use of music to build characters through sound expression; create tension in the narrative; highlight important moments in the plot, and so forth, are examples of the high compatibility between words and music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The office buildings and shops were replaced with small, flat-roofed houses, and then those houses seemed to fade into flat, empty fields. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Behind their ditches, they were building catapults, scorpions, tall trebuchets. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Their labor and their taxes helped to build roads, temples, nobles’ houses, and other structures. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

I leaned my bike against the tall tree shading over the building and walked up the cracked cement sidewalk. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

We arrived first at the upper school campus, where Malia and I hustled past a gauntlet of news cameras and into the building, the two of us flanked by Secret Service agents. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A tangle of old homes and shacks clustered around small stores and buildings that had seen better days. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Between two low brick buildings was a tall wooden fence. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

A few people are sipping coffee and eating yellow and white pie—lemon meringue or banana cream—that matches the building. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Trent is the nosiest woman on the planet, and it doesn't help that the buildings in my neighborhood are only about fifteen feet apart. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“People work inside it and build businesses on top of it and are engulfed in the entertainment it offers. They want to use it.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The result was an opulent structure that, for the moment, was the biggest private building in America. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It was on our last visit home together that she bought the building and made the first arrangements.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike two nights ago, Teresa was allowed to stay in the building with the rest of the Gladers. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, they evacuated the whole building, called the bomb squad, the police, the lot. The bomb squad arrives and opens the box when it starts ringing.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Jasmine and Darrell and Camille walk with me down Eighth Street, past the buildings with their paint faded by the sun, brick chipping away, birds singing their tunes. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

All the anger in me has been building and building, and I want to swing around and dock Darrell in the face. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Made from a series of farmhouse windows, like his father got a whole house’s worth of mismatched windows for free and decided to use them all in one place when he was building this home. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

There is also much work to be done: We need to build houses for the new colonists. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“It means La Cocina de la Isla isn’t the only business that wants to build on the lot next to the restaurant.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Big Rose was constructing an actual building from real life, I realized. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“More like twenty . . . and we have buildings like that in Havana,’’ I said. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Sitting there on my rug in my bedroom, I started designing blueprints for a brand-new city, with brand-new buildings and totally new stories. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

But even this was not enough for Blanca, who found the apartment sordid, dark, and narrow and the building crowded. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many writing guides provide detailed instructions on how to build a paragraph. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Hall entered the building and found himself in a warehouse. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned back to the microphone and said he hoped the building was stur­dier than his hat, and everyone laughed again. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Whereon it, sophisticated piece of hardware that it was, chomped away in simulated contentment, bamboozling the other tenants of the building. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

And even Coach was blind to how that could build up. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Finally, with Clara’s help, the teacher managed to drag the child into the building and closed the door of the school behind her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He takes one look down the steps and across to the industry buildings. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not a building to sag pathetically. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suppose he found a small, empty kitchenette flat in a building where many people lived? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

When she got out onto the roof under the night sky, she could see flames licking at the edges of a great hole in the side of the building. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Like all the other buildings around it, it is made of glass and steel. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

There are no people inside the building: the machines run by themselves. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s when I turn and see a man sitting in the arched entrance to the old building next door. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He thought the iron armatures had softened in the heat and then reset again to leave the buildings standing out of true. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

At first, most of the buildings were low, four or five stories of soiled brick. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of his sleeves was torn and there was a cut over his eye, but otherwise he was as unchanged as the building. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good afternoon,” he says, glancing around with intense brown eyes, as though he’s surveying the room in case he needs materials to build a last-minute booby trap. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found my mother sitting in front of a fresh fire, slowly adding twigs to build it up. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Our training officer com- merited on the fame of the building, how corrections officials from around the world came to visit it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were there not so much because of me but because of Philbert, who had begun to build up a pretty good following, and they wanted to see how his brother would do. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fearful and delicate problem, which compromises, when it does not corrupt, all the American efforts to build a better world—here, there, or anywhere. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

She will miss the opportunity to drive, as she sometimes does on her way home from the library, to the university, past the engineering building where her husband once worked. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

To avoid the enormous crowd of our supporters, who had grouped in front of the building, we were driven into the rear of the building and taken in through great iron gates. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked five blocks before he saw a two-story flat building with a “For Rent” sign in a window. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mama treats our special family dinners as if they're a block party—she invites the whole building, and sometimes even all of Jefferson and Bushwick Avenues too. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I caught her attention and nodded around the side of the building, where the latrine was located. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I get ready for school and leave the house at seven forty-five for the ten-minute walk to the schoolhouse, a brick building that holds sixty children, separated into grades. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I’m moving so fast that I slam into the door on the opposite side of the round stone building. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Now he would build a way to get back to Calypso. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

At the same time, a problem had developed with the building’s heating and air-handling system. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When her activities were limited Jean Louise confined herself to gambling for small sums behind a coal pile in the rear of the school building. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The buildings were placed so closely together, it was easy to leap from rooftop to rooftop or race across rickety planks stretched over alleyways. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

A green, spacious campus with white buildings, great trees streaming Spanish moss. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lynn—who I first met when she stomped on my toes in a Hancock building elevator—stands over me with raised eyebrows. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

My father’s father—my grandfather—had been an architect in Iran, responsible for designing some of the country’s most beautiful buildings, and I could see that same kind of brain in my dad. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The heaters dumped heat at full blast into the building, and the air-conditioning system would not kick in. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was just a house, a building for unfortunate children. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The operator hit rock instead of coal. The teeth have been broken off. I will build new ones.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Your uncle Charley’s father and grandfather were custodians at Riverview. ‘Someone employed to clean and maintain a building’ is only the second definition of that word. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

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

In surveying, if you knew how far away a building was it was now easy to calculate its height. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“We could never build applications for customers as quickly and easily as they can for themselves,” Marc Benioff, the Salesforce.com CEO, told internetnews.com on April 12, 2005. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

We rounded the corner of the admin building, and I was surprised to see the leaves from the old elm littering the walkway. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I can see a handful of tall buildings in the distance, and just as I’m trying to make out which one of them is the fabled Allerton we reach the stockyards. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Why would he say yes to building it in a season?” asked Tyr, god of war. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The building’s indistinct pallor shimmered in the dark. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But there was something else now, as Betonie said: it was everything they had seen—the cities, the tall buildings, the noise and the lights, the power of their weapons and machines. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Along the walk the buildings rose, uniform and close together. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even so, the fire prompted insurance underwriters to take a closer look at the building, and what they saw frightened them. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He told church members, “These people will keep on coming, more and more. We must build.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Medium height, stocky build, ashy blond hair that falls in waves over his forehead. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“And a little bit after we found him, he died. And all the daemons they cut away, they kept them in cages in a square building back there.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

To the contrary, reform work is the work of movement building, provided that it is done consciously as movement-building work. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I was right— Khan Sahib’s family was building it, but it wasn't a factory. It’s a literacy center.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Noah did tell me once, no, twice actually, that he followed me and watched me build. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I stared at him, nerves back once again, internal panic building. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Lights popped and caught fire as all the special effects in the building were triggered at once. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Some of us are going to the Hancock building tonight,” says Uriah. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sure there’s enough to build the framework of my house, probably even enough for the floor. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I should explain that there are five fire extinguishers in the building. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The men pick Jackson up and haul him toward a wooden front building with bars on the windows. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Current Mom is too scared of my flinging myself off a building to be mad at me. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

And then there was a small building with double doors hanging wide open. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He and Harry were building a little fence of sharp poles clear around the house, weaving it together with willow boughs that crissed and crossed and wound together. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t help smiling and feeling that warm spirit building inside of me. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I slowly walk toward the building and push open the doors. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“This is the only private shower in the building,” he says. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Our school was a one-room white wooden building with red trim. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

I nearly swooned in the mill and flow of Stanleyville—people, cars, animals in the street, the austere gaze of windows in the tall concrete buildings. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a low gray building hewn from sea stone, with shells and coral fossils imprinted in the rock. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

He had one last bag to deliver, this time to someone in his own building. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Things can change so quickly, buildings can be torn down or turned into something else, it’s hard to keep them straight in your mind the way they used to be. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this point, it would hardly surprise him to discover he must enter the building through a basement window. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was also the only building in the square that had any lights on that time of night. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The building was already burning fiercely and he knew that in addition to five cows, the O’Learys had a calf and a horse in there. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

A Brazilian man, sallow and dark-haired, cleaned the building next to his. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Loli then recounts how Ester rushed at her with an ironing board and chased her into the stairwell of their building, knocking her against the wall and holding her there like a prisoner. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She even held it together as they entered the brightly lit building, with Brandon squeezing her hand so tightly she was sure she would have bruises. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And part of my history in this building. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Out of nowhere, Styx added, “It’s like building a bonfire to burn up all the things you hate. Except tiny, and all the time.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Scottish, Irish, Hungarians, and Polish all made their way to the city to build new lives. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The images in the fire were hard to make out: storms, buildings crumbling, mortals screaming in terror. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“You’re building a special case to display that diamond. Some kind of transparent safe.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Inhabitants of those islands developed intensive dryland agriculture requiring a heavy input of labor to build terraces, carry out mulching, rotate crops, reduce or eliminate fallow periods, and maintain tree plantations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

On a piece of paper, he drew up a roster of buddies, and he wrote down the order of entry, the sequence in which they would be inserted into the building. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ross Wilcox's building up a sort of gang at school and he's made it pretty clear he's got it in for me. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Then I step back, the rage building inside me. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She squeezes my knee with her hand when we pass the CSA studio buildings, now so familiar to me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The train slows as it reaches the heart of the city, and I sit up to watch the smaller buildings grow into larger buildings. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I was building up to it all day. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The buildings were made of dark, unpainted wood, topped off with slanted roofs. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Beside a huge, misshapen hill, the car descended into a complex of rectangular buildings, as squat as ugly dorms and painted the color of dried grass. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“A word to the wise, Harry,” said Lockhart paternally as they entered the building through a side door. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

On the bus Mami told me how tall the buildings were in New York, and how she had traveled around on trains that were much faster and nicer than our crowded, stuffy buses. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He was slight of build, about five feet ten inches tall, with dark hair and deep-set brown eyes. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ceiling of the building was high up and baring its rafters. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the last few weeks he’d taught her how to build a fire, scale a fish, pitch a tent and read a contour map. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The Conners lived in a flat on the second floor of the building, near Dr. Holmes’s own suite of rooms. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

His friend ran to a window and saw a building heave upward and crumble down. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Girls are emerging from one of the buildings, all wearing the same baggy shorts and T-shirts as Shanti. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ma had pots to mend, so she kept to the brick oven out behind the barn, heating up metal scraps to melting so she could build little dams out of that steaming hot liquid. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Roosevelt still worried about the time involved in making a detailed map—not to mention the time lost in building the portage. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

It required mapping strategy and listening to your neighbors and building trust in communities where trust was often lacking. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The boys break up and walk to different buildings, except for Lakshman, who joins me. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

We emerge from the ground a few hundred yards from the glass building above the Pit, close to the train tracks. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t time to consider height or build or even if they’d freed men or women. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

No longer content to recline, it now reaches for the sky, much like the high-rise buildings lining our city streets. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

They showed the same Gene Autry film all the time, and in this film, Gene jumped out of the second story of a building onto the back of a waiting horse. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I plan to build him a three-dimensional maze out of scrap plastic that I can pick up cheaply downtown. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

By noon, the sky was streaked with Japanese bombers, buildings were exploding, and a few startled men on less than three square miles of coral found themselves on the front in the Second World War. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Every building is faded, crumbling, and pockmarked—except, of course, the police headquarters. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He could hardly imagine the pleasure that would fill his days when the building was finished and flesh-and-blood women moved among its features. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Is our building on fire? What do we do?” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

They stood at the edge of the scaffolding where the Tower formed a corner with the back of the old brick building. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

She would not have believed that the world contained as much brick as there was in a single building here. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was leaning against the building with his feet levitating in the air, his leopard-skin warm-up suit and black hair whipping around in the wind. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Booker Middle School was a monstrous brick building that took up an entire block. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

When we get to the covered front entrance of the building, Tank, Rollie, and Lillie all shake themselves to dry off, getting me wetter in the process. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

And now I'm alone in the building, staring at my name written in Hannah's pretty cursive, trying to not let this tiny object undo me. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Everything he worked for over almost twenty years has been left behind: the school he started from nothing, the school that now has three buildings and eleven hundred students. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They were quickly realizing that building a state-of-the-art facility was going to take a lot longer than they’d imagined. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He led them over a rise in the snow to a spot where bears were beginning to build a wall of ice blocks. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The proclamation also stated that the union leaders, with great patriotic spirit, had reduced their demands to two points: a reform of medical services and the building of latrines in the living quarters. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

But we noted down what other foreign steamers would leave London with the same tide, and we satisfied ourselves that we knew the build and colour of each. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“What does building a paper airplane have to do with the study of library science?” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“If you can commit to doing these drills, you will be building your craft exponentially and getting ahead of the competition,” he said. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Rose’s was some building we had explored at 300 West 57th Street. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The sun was beginning to set, glittering red through the cracks between the ramshackle buildings. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The sun slipped behind the Royal Cinema building across the street. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“We tried hard to build a cooperative community and a local food system, but at the end of the day it wasn’t successful. This is just lunch for most people. Just lunch.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I suddenly remembered this time, in around October, that I and Robert Tichener and Paul Campbell were chucking a football around, in front of the academic building. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

But Marian, determined to build a career, wasn’t interested in discussing marriage. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

When he got back to his own apartment building, Iran met him on the roof. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Tanisha makes her way to the D building, at the bottom of the hill of the projects, where she has a mom and a dad waiting for her. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Nate wove through a crowd of soldiers building an enormous wall out of dirt and rocks. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, we took them up to the roof of my building. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Forty minutes later she was inside the physics building once more, arguing with the porter, but this time she had a trump card. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Naomi wasn’t in the building. Beto was, but somebody got him out before the collapse.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

We cut through an empty park and past some teetering apartment buildings that at least offered us shade from the blazing sun. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I had to get out of that building before everything caved in. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The building was like a house whose chimney ended not above the roof but inside the attic. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

And the ground and the dirty buildings on either side fell away, dropping out of sight as the car rose; in seconds, the whole of London lay, smoky and glittering, below them. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He couldn't imagine what it must have been like to see every building on the East Side engulfed in flames like these. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I learned that the walled complex of buildings near the docks was the Temple of Tehlu. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you know the building is on fire?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He walked a few yards away, turned, and appeared to be studying the building, tapping his chin with his hand. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I had to hurl myself from a building to escape from it.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The process of eating poison to build up immunity. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

‘A little. But I’ll be going back and forth between the camps a lot. I have some shrines to build.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It builds like a tidal wave and crashes over me, through me, ripping the inside of my throat raw. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Escort officers spend a while in the mess hall and then get to leave the block for chunks of the day, taking groups of inmates to other buildings in the prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The hole we’ve carved into this building gives a little light, but I can’t even make out the dimensions of the room, or whether there is a ceiling. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Excellent. That’s your thesis. Your main idea. Spaces, buildings are important but never as important as the people inside. “You should thank your little brother.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

The Voices shouted from the top of another building. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Four stories tall, the building stood on a quiet, tree-lined block enclosing a private garden. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She describes the building of the garage bathroom, admits she is glad it is there now. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Today, four blocks from the building, he eyes a slow-moving police car in his rearview mirror. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I took a turn too early or too late, then tried to compensate by cutting through an alley like a narrow chasm between two tall buildings. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Cluny stood in the doorway as his soldiers filed past him on their way to the Abbey building. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Granny never questioned Grandpa’s selling her land or using the money to build the brick store. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Before long, they parked in front of a nondescript one-story building about a quarter of a mile from his service station, and everyone got out. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the buildings were constructed from rough-cut lumber, some from little more than tar paper tacked over a wooden framework. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Acorns and caterpillars dotted the asphalt loop that framed the complex of about a dozen brick buildings, all identical, embedded in a communal expanse of log chips. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The village school for younger children was a bleak brick building called Crunchem Hall Primary School. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The bird turned suddenly, veering south over the small town of Boxton, toward the faded yellow building and the window from which Dallas leaned. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the building, the sun lights up segments of the rotting wooden floor through the many holes in the roof. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Seconds later, he heard a loud impact as the plane hit the other side of the South Tower, sending an explosion of wreckage and flames straight through the building and out the north side. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

What appointment could she possibly have in this building? The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Every step in the decade-long process of designing and building the city predestined to carry his name was supervised by Washington. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Which means all the guns in this building should be disabled for exactly two minutes. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“You and I will walk into the building. If you think about running, remember that this gun is pointing at your spine.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The sun shone over the hill and threw long, dark shadows of the trees and buildings. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would have Bessie stand in the window of an old building at some well-lighted street corner with a flashlight. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He could build things, fish, hunt for food, cook outside, and he had a shotgun. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We’ll be the messenger boys on bicycles who deliver their groceries or we’ll go to England to work on the building sites. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

They must build her a great temple near the town and so win back the favor of her heart. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

We passed through a small downtown area and then pulled up to a concrete building that looked like a block-long post office. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thank Mrs. Walton for everything and make my way toward my building with my hands full of shopping bags. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“This model of the bank building came in bandy,” added Miguel. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Here, with a Scandinavian conquest, had sprung up a wooden long-house—there, the original stones of the curtain wall had been pulled down to build a round tower for priests. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Lyft pulls in front of our building, and I slide into the back seat after Mom. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

It’s a castle out of a storybook: eight or nine stone buildings sheltered below hills, rust-colored roofs, narrow windows, spires and turrets, weeds sprouting from between roof tiles. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When the road is blocked with fallen masonry from a collapsed building, Hamza scrambles over the scorched bricks. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

And the black people had to build within themselves much greater awareness that along with equal rights there had to be the bearing of equal responsibilities. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man on Fox Five News has a microphone in his hand and is talking in front of a brick building. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance she could see the edge of the Wood, some kind of building outlined in dim light, and perhaps a hill. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the corner of the map, a building name caught my eye. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I looked all around TJ, at the ghetto buildings and the narrow bridges and the run-down shops and beat-up roads. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The hotel was an old and formal building, remodeled inside. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Some say that it’s the ghost of a student who got lost in the building and starved to death.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There is no lake nearby, no mountain, no view of anything much except houses and apartment buildings. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The building had wooden balconies with open shutters—from many of them, laundry was hanging to dry in the sun. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

We paused on East 53rd Street, where a new building was being built. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

A ball of fire rolled out of the building and up. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was shadowy under the maples in front of the building. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

A handful of men had jobs building tracks for the steam railway that skirted the village. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Coming from around the side of the building. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The sickness had been entrenched in the building since early October, and it was now the middle of November. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In pictures, old buildings are always white and smooth. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Did Aaron Giebel see the iceberg looming as he built his San Simeon and dreamed his dream of cows strong enough to pull buildings? Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You never give me what I want in rehearsals, just in performance. But you can’t wait. You have to start building this character.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He did not encourage the reporter to come around to the side of the building and have a look in through the window. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all crowded out of the auditorium and rushed, laughing and shouting, toward the new classroom building. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The entrance to our building was off a narrow alley. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Coveting the directorship as a way to build his own bureaucratic empire, Hoover concealed from Stone the extent of his role in domestic surveillance operations and promised to disband the intelligence division. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He and Captain Haines went back out into the corridor and went from room to room through the entire building. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They climbed the front steps of their building, which had once looked so starved and severe to Emily. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

We pass the second gray warehouse and run along a dirt brown building. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I walked right past the bus and around the corner of the building. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

My poor pet hit the side of the building with a yelp. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Constance came tottering after her, struggling to keep up as Kate rounded the classroom building and charged onto the empty plaza. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Bathing from the sink of an abandoned building, on the run from the Erudite.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Bomb teaches me how to find the weak spot in a building, the pressure point on a body. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He set out not merely to build houses on this primitive territory, but to plant the seeds of a new civilization. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He offered to help Elinor build up her library again, and she accepted. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In the middle, various stone buildings clustered around a central yard with a platform in the middle: the hanging gibbet. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Any news on the building? No? All right.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I’m planning to build my house come autumn. We have marked some good white oak for the clapboards.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Rekh was an unimpressive figure, similar in build and feature to a hundred other men, with a suggestion of paunch and a foot maimed long ago by spilled molten metal. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I feel like if I could work on an aria, I could shed some of this nervous energy building up alongside my gnawing hunger. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Taught her how to crawl along the walls of buildings, disappear into doorways, cut across comers in choked traffic—how to do anything, move anywhere to avoid a whiteboy over the age of eleven. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even from my position across the square, I can see clearly through the plate- glass front of the long, narrow building. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I point across the night to the furthermost building, barely lit up. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The doors were new and the air smelled clean and moist as if it had just rained inside the building. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

In 1957, when I was fourteen years old and first began to build my rockets, there were nearly two thousand people living in Coalwood. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

When I interviewed him for the job, he was apologetic about the darker episodes in his past, but I thought he was perfect for the kind of staff we were trying to build. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She wandered in and out of the low buildings, idly touching necklaces and postcards. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He told me about living and working in buildings constructed hundreds of years before the United States was even founded. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The horizon is a mile of blinking buildings. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

As we left our building, several hundred people who had worked on our spacecraft were there to say goodbye, waving and shouting. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered idly how they kept the air so fresh in a building with no windows. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They haunt the windows of derelict buildings, appearing like wraiths, disappearing as quickly. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was sitting on the sidewalk, his back against the ripped wall of a bombed-out building. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

One demon building in particular was very bad. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the murk ahead, he could just see four huge chimneys on the southern bank, rising from each corner of a great clifflike building. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

We got off at the observation deck on the forty-second floor to find that the garden, which loomed so large to its tenders, was hopelessly hidden from view by buildings. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slunk around the edge of the building until I could see what was written on the side of the old man’s wagon. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The decon team suited up immediately while the soldiers were coming out of the building. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did run fast, as fast as a child, although she was a wrinkled woman, an outburst that jumped at us from bushes, between cars, between buildings. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It stretched from wall to wall, floor to ceiling, and into the building in a blue and cloudy blur. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The screen door was propped open against the side of the building with a large round sandrock. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s your problem. The one I’m talking about was on Montgomery, not Broadway. By the Transamerica building—that old steel-and-concrete pyramid.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Was she facing the street or a building? The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, To a fifteen-year-old, the only heroes I ever read about ran around in tight, colorful underwear and threw buildings at each other for fun. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I watch Ma go inside her building, and then I take a seat next to my mother. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

I studied a complex of concrete buildings that were half covered with tropical greenery. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

So how should we go about building this movement to end mass incarceration? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She helped her build a small house in Honduras. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I was watching the streets, thrilled by the buildings pressing and pressed by stone; so glad to be looking out and in on things I dismissed what went on in heart-pockets closed to me. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hugh had been at the Addis Ababa teen club when the electricity was cut off and soldiers arrived to evacuate the building. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Capone has a thick build, round shoulders and dark old-fashioned lace-up clothing that looks hot and uncomfortable. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

From our balcony, most of Phnom Penh looms only two or three stories high, with few buildings standing as tall as eight. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The corners of Gore buildings tend to be conference rooms or free space, so that no one can be said to have a more prestigious office. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

No other building he’s seen has affected him so powerfully. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Our heroes thought they were alone in the building. It was a Saturday, nobody was at the school, and the lights were off. Little did they know...” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The task of building a worldwide network of tracking stations that would maintain two-way communication between the orbiting spacecraft and Mission Control fell to Langley. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Instead, they surged through the building’s front door and defied Clark’s order to leave. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s a genius. Look at the curves on this building!” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Every time I looked around at the buildings and the trees and the view of the river, I was reminded of the sacrifices my mother was making to keep me there. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

These little kids, Ryan and Vanessa, are building with big plastic blocks on the sidewalk. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Hospitals, schools, private homes, banks, office buildings, restaurants, and movie theaters butted one against the other in a jumble of color and pattern and noise. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Off to the side of the building is an open staircase. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

But as the day wore on, Luke could feel the tension building between them again. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I picked up a brick from the sidewalk and flung it through the store window, then I rushed at the building. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Beside them, a parade ground stretched for two miles until it stopped at a cluster of buildings that Ben could barely identify as the PX and commissary. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was tall and stout of build, and he had a hole so broad upon his chest that the bone of his skeleton was shown. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He helped me to build up a new research center, where almost all the observations were made by the Tanzanian field staff. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

One morning several Poles stormed our building to raid the apartment upstairs, where the Jewish family that fled to Warsaw had lived. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

His sister certainly was, and his friends...They all still enjoyed the comics and building robots, which held their friendships together. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She was taken about a mile away, to a forbidding stone building that stood four stories high: the St. Louis Catholic missionary school, where she was left in the care of women in black-and-white habits. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I picture the Islamic Center—the two-story community building holds the main hall, where lectures, weddings, and all the parties take place. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

One crew did the exterior renovations on what had once been the small Ohio city’s most magnificent building, the Gold Leaf Bank. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Ash climbed out of the carriage in a daze; she saw a large stone building before her, the front door yawning open. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a little girl, I’d played all over the building—even up in the balcony and in the choir loft. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Of course: Nearly all the soil of Jackson Park was competent to support floating foundations except the one portion destined to bear the fair’s biggest and heaviest building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She closed the door and I stood outside the building and looked at the light in her apartment window until it went out. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ve been building these stockpiles for a long time,” he said. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I hear Mustafa whistle in amazement as he sees the mosque buildings first. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

I stopped as we reached an isolated alcove at the far side of the building, well away from the crowd that had gathered to watch the smoke rising. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Ember’s colors were all so much the same—gray buildings, gray streets, black sky; even the colors of people’s clothes were faded from long use into mud green, and rust red, and gray-blue. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The colt was a descendant of the mighty Man o’ War through his sire, the brilliantly fast, exceptionally handsome Hard Tack, but his stunted build reflected none of the beauty and breadth of his forebears. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Presumably shamans recounted their stories to attentive crowds; almost certainly, they explained when and where the gods wanted to build mounds. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He strode across the street and walked along the block to the bank building, while Shadow walked into the supermarket hall and watched. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The nurse sends me back to class, but I find myself walking right out of the building. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I didn’t feel cold, as the number of people, the glittering buildings, and the sounds of cars overwhelmed and intrigued me. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Crowded into one-room church buildings, the faithful clutched live rattlers, copperheads, and cottonmouths to their bosoms or draped the snakes around their necks while they prayed in a spiraling frenzy of religious passion. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The school was a different world from Jefferson, with a leafy campus straight from a movie: The main building looked like a castle, surrounded by a sprawling lawn of freshly cut grass. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The howl of protest that went up all around the building surprised even me. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

The October dedication was to take place inside the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, yet as of January only the foundation of the building had been laid. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She walked me to a building near Papa Andrew’s office. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Snow. I once saw it, but there wasn’t enough to build a snowman.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

When he had landed on the roof of his building, he sat for a time, weaving together in his mind a story thick with verisimilitude. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The next day was a Sunday, and as he had every weekend for weeks, Joe took Joyce and drove over to the lot on Lake Washington where his father was building his new house. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The buildings on our street are made of old bricks and they all look exactly the same. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

The Audubon Ballroom, between Broadway and St. Nicholas Avenue, on the south side of West 166th Street, is a two-story building frequently rented for dances, organization functions, and other affairs. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The building is as grey as the pavement below and the sky above, appearing as impermanent as the clouds, as though it could vanish into the air without notice. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The redbrick buildings are covered in vines, which will bloom green ivy in the spring. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Ji-yong and Ji-yun huddled together at the bathroom door, while Mom and Dad went downstairs to bring his bicycle into the building before the neighbors could see it. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A long time ago, Dad took apart a fire escape—a real fire escape, from a building that his office was demolishing—and he rebuilt the bottom level of it inside my bedroom. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I bet it’s those building blocks you used to play with. You know, the ones with the colored letters on them?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Once inside she saw that the building was even more vast than its exterior had led her to believe. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The emergency room is at the far end of the building. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in an apartment building, it’s like twenty families. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A blare of whistling feedback grated on every eardrum in the building. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Parents were starting to show up, running through the building, grabbing their children. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

It split the darkness and he heard the dull plunk as a stone, not a star at all, hit the wall of the building near the window. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stepped over a thick hose draped across the sidewalk that ran from a truck parked at the curb to the inside of the building next to Hollister’s. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

During that time God gave me a renewed vision for the church—both the physical building and his people. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He might weed your garden or use the bricks from the building that was tom down up the block to make you a brick path between your rows. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The branches of the old elm outside the admin building waved at us as a gust pushed at our backs. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He put one leg over, as if he were going to try to climb down the front of the building, then pulled it back. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a Senate office and an apartment in a shabby building on Capitol Hill, a little one-bedroom that was already cluttered with books and papers, his Hole away from home. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Border guards send drivers into the building while they search the truck,” Bushra says. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

It had, obviously, shifted speed; an automatic switch somewhere in the building had turned it from low to high, and the air blowing past Justin came on so hard it made him gasp. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I walked out of the building and stood outside examining its structure. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

If she hadn’t written the note, she could have gotten back to the building, taken the elevator up to twelve, and been in their apartment before the electricity went out. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Before we even think of building something, we’ll need supplies,” said Mrs. Rimas. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It almost looks like she’s a child that decided to build herself a fort. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And yet there was the pressure of that great blue army behind him, building like water behind a cracking dam. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around it is a web of concrete roads with buildings sandwiched between them. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

A bulky creature with a simian build was marching toward the greenhouse pulling a rickshaw-type contraption the size of a wagon. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The cool air is dancing with the rush of the Passaic River behind my building. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I thought about those things a little more, but I was distracted by the sound of a bell ringing inside the buildings. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Now and then he passed an empty building, white and silent in the night. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She shut down her own looms and one of Brigid’s, and followed the clerk down the stairs and out across the yard to the low building that housed the counting room and the offices. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

They use twigs and leaves to build nests in the branches. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She smiled and told Ned that Holmes was out of the building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It began to drizzle and darkness came early in the lightless building. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls in this building aren’t as thick as the ones in our house. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He complained endlessly about a vacant newsstand near his building, which was used by vagrants as a trash bin and stank of urine. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pointed at a distant temple tower rising above the forest of buildings. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Bill Harvey spent the next three years in Berlin building BOB into a formidable base of operations for America's secret campaign against Russia. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

All that remained was to visit the target building under operating conditions. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Others build a whole superstition around it, looking for numbers all over the place. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

But before the boarding house, there are apartment buildings. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Tally pinned herself against a building, trying to disappear next to a stack of firewood. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

For such a large building, it was strangely quiet, as if even sounds got lost inside. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Always in the company of male guardians who stare us down as we pass, the women whisper like black ghosts through the crumbling streets, vanishing suddenly and silently into ruined buildings. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

My best friend, An Yi, and our homeroom teacher were standing outside the main building. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alby turned and pushed his way through the crowd, then headed for the slanted wooden building in the corner. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I’m carried swiftly across the dark street and into another building. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sometime in the late nineteenth century clumsy repairs were made with unpainted cement which had turned brown and gave the building a mottled, diseased appearance. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The only thing that seemed to help was building my castle. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

A master shipwright, building a cargo vessel, lays down a broad and shallow hull; just so Odysseus shaped the bottom of his craft. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How about doing something to help around the building, like planting flowers or something? Miss Josie can help. She’s great with flowers.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The idea on the ground was to get away from buildings, vehicles and other people. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Papá and Joe García borrowed money from a savings and loan company to buy a small tractor, tools, wood to build a shed to store them, and an outhouse. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Such a wall would take a very long time to build,” said Loki. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

There, in an entryway lit by a single sconce, they find a plaque nailed discreetly into the facade of the building bearing the restaurant’s name, Antonia. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I saw the man walking around the building again. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I hope to catch a glimpse of the very tops of the tall buildings, but the car is moving too fast—with its fancy seats, too-loud music, and the scent of shiny new things. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Can you have dogs in your building?” she asked him one night, leaning against the doorjamb while he placed books in a half-open box. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Felix Chavez, a courtly Puerto Rican from Brooklyn, had worked as assistant to a building’s super. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the boys explored the building, they found it to be squeaky-clean, well lit, and efficient but perpetually cold and equipped only with cold-water showers—an unwelcome reminder of their old shell house in Poughkeepsie. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The activities toughened up kids, building their endurance and determination. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But the news crew didn’t walk around the building, and so as far as I know, there is no video footage of the Reston action. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t burn the building to the ground, Tash. I just moved it until later.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Like the other members of the Saturday Afternoon Club, he expected to hear Burnham discuss the challenges of building an entire city on such a short schedule, but Burnham surprised him. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z