Mami chatted about New York, my cousins, movies, and tall apartment buildings. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He looks out at the water to where they’re building the Bay Bridge—two toothpicks held together by a thread of steel. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the early 1970s, a group of social scientists at Stanford University, led by Philip Zimbardo, decided to create a mock prison in the basement of the university’s psychology building. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Diallo was followed to his apartment building by four white police officers—members of the elite Street Crime Unit—who viewed him as suspicious and wanted to interrogate him. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

We approach the door to the building on the corner. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The teachers' plan was to show how difficult it was to register, by marching past the closed door of the registration office and then out of the building. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

My face wasn’t perfect, but the building blocks were better. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

And this thing we’re doing, in this place at the edge of a river with buildings and row houses on one side, and the cityscape on the other, is just chillin’. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

This had been their response to his presence in the building. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

When we win and it’s time to shake hands, the few reporters in the building rush Boy21 and ask him questions about who he is and where he came from. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Decon it, baby! You don’t know if any dirty needles have been stuck in those bottles. Everything comes out of this building! Everything comes out!” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This one is a beautiful boat-like room of dark wood and bright stained-glass panels of, it looks like, yup, Noah building the ark, Noah greeting the animals as they board, Noah, Noah, Noah. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

From outside the building, it took a while to figure out where the classroom was, but when we did, Fang started to climb. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She had sent me a postcard with a picture of the capitol building where my class had gone on a field trip. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Did she see a brown brick building known until recently as McPherson Hall? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

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

Derring, along with the lab’s health officer, James Tingle, and Rufus House, assistant to Langley director Henry Reid, hustled over to the building, where several West Computers were anxiously waiting in the lobby. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

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

It took a full week before Julian took the hint that I did not choose to walk with him from the bus to the building. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

With the robot’s building expertise, and the small army of helpers, construction of the second lodge didn’t take long. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

But now there is a real building, a strange, modem building, circular in shape. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

These little kids, Ryan and Vanessa, are building with big plastic blocks on the sidewalk. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

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

I have to tell Mohamed about the inside of this marvelous building when I see him, I thought. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He made good on his threat and doubled the number of men working on the building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

A few months after being put on the market, the building was sold and painted hot pink with tangerine trim. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Johnny Cakes was waiting for me behind his building. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a glass door, and as he opened it, he felt the unnatural heat in the building wash over him, and he heard the familiar screeches of monkeys. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How many windows do you think are in that office building?” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The buildings on this street, so near that John could touch them on either side, were narrow, also, rising like spears into the sky, and they were made of beaten gold and silver. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Having fights with people in the building about playing the hi-fi set late at night. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Pong nodded to the building that used to be the prison guards' quarters. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Dad and I did end up spending hours swimming at the Manly Baths, the Wynnum Wading Pool, and Caloundra, but most of it was building on the basics I had already learned. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Alex had already seen the post office, another old-fashioned building near the port. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

But few school buildings had survived the rebellion. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ail around the building police officers with machine guns stood at attention. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mains was the most distinctive building of the lot: it covered nearly an acre and a half and looked like it had been cobbled together from a number of smaller, mismatched buildings. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The sick lay in the stiflingly hot building unattended, calling out for water, moaning pitifully, and vomiting on themselves. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The ceiling of the building was high up and baring its rafters. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a big building with stalls where you can buy anything,” Mami said. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The answer she got was simple: it directed her to a certain room in the tall square building behind her. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m in the lobby of our building, waiting for the elevator, when a teenage girl walks in with a boy who’s maybe four years old. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Thank you,” I say, and catch up to the little kids, as if I planned to trick-or-treat with them through the rest of the building. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I briefly consider heading over so I can have one last look at the building. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Both he and Corporal Whitcomb had been provided with every convenience so that neither might ever plead discomfort as a basis for seeking permission to return to the Headquarters building. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Our new home was one of the oldest buildings in town, Mom proudly told us, with a real frontier quality to it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Out on the sidewalks in front I can pretend Chicago ain’t so bad, but in the alleys and around in back of the buildings, ain’t no hiding the dirt. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

He was, after all, a physician, and his building had a pharmacy on the ground floor. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Frank Millet unofficially kept watch over the buildings of the eastern architects during their lengthy absences from the park, lest some ad hoc decision cause irreparable aesthetic damage. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

A white man who worked in the building stepped into the elevator and waited to be lifted to his floor. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the bus shuddered to a stop at the terminal building, Ann searched through the blue haze of diesel exhaust for her husband among the knot of people meeting friends and relations. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In between the buildings, hiding in the shadows of alleys leading to the barrios, there were stands for passion-fruit juice and pineapple ices. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The building was simple—walls built from mud bricks and straw, a roof made of wood beams and clay. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

At any rate building went forward, slowly, painfully slowly, but at least it did go on. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that the rake I had dropped when I found the drill now leaned up against the building. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

They charged ahead, building momentum, faster and faster. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“They must live in the building,” Dad says when we’re outside. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Kabul Radio, the ministries of Communication and the Interior, and the Foreign Ministry building had also been captured. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The second option was to go into the building and sterilize the whole place. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

There are safety systems in every home and every office building, with multiple levels of redundancy, just in case. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

But as he was crossing toward Mr. Crane’s house, the janitor waved to him from the portico that connected the main school building and the cafeteria. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

Talking about sports, TV popular culture, or anything else the client wants to discuss is absolutely appropriate to building a relationship that makes effective work possible. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

After Martin parks the shiny Porsche in the garage of their building, his father sometimes comes down and the two of them look it over. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

“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

Our building is old, and the roof sags in some parts. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He ran into my building, almost knocking my dad over as he was racing out. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

She tried the bell again, after some time, and then leaned over the concrete banister to ask a woman leaving the building next door if she knew where the Dumfrey women were. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun dropped behind a building, and a shadow fell across the treehouse. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He could run over those roofs, over the snow and round those chimneys until he came to the building that dropped to the ground. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The tower rose to an overall height of 423 feet, making it the tallest building in the world at that time. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

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

Maybe it sounds strange, but I didn’t feel anything when they showed the burning building. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The buildings in the distance start to get bigger, and I can see the ocean touching the edges of the land. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The guards directed us toward a large building four hundred yards away. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

After building the rocket that took his beloved adopted country to the moon, he died of colon cancer in 1977. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

When we arrived at the PPG building we took the elevator up about fifty floors and by then Mom looked pale. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and the man had gotten into an argument in the lobby of her building. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gogol is accustomed to the scenery, yet he still stares, at the short, dark men pulling rickshaws and the crumbling buildings side by side with fretwork balconies, hammers and sickles painted on their facades. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

So that meant he was fifty feet underground, with tons of earth and rock and buildings above him. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

All I could see were the spires and blocky tops of buildings. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He's pacing in front of the building's entrance. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Street parking's good; we land about a block away from his building. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Finally the decon team, still wearing space suits, went back inside the building and collected the spore samples. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Little wonder: at the time of its construction, the Huaricanga temple was among the world’s biggest buildings. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I tried to flatten myself against the building in case the aide had gotten up and walked toward the noise. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

And they don't just own their houses, they own buildings! Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Carmine sits on my lap with his bands on the window, face pressed against the glass, gazing out at the streets and buildings, all lit up. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Not everyone would run into a burning building with nothing but a towel over his head to rescue people,” says the reporter. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

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

Michah works in the building across from the shop, doing odd jobs. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

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

Early in the morning, they woke up to the sound of a series of intense blasts that shook the building. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He sat, not breathing, looking out at the white buildings in the moonlight. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the boy is ready, the man in the grey suit takes him from the grey stone building, and he does not return. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I need help building my house. On my land. Major assistance. A whole crew!” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

But there's plenty of gravel around thanks to the crumbling cement of the chimney and building trim, so the birds on our roof are doing okay. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Pong could hear the deep voices of men chanting farther back in one of the other buildings. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I was surprised that people were not pouring out of the buildings, mobbing the sidewalks. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“How can such solid buildings collapse?” she whispered. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

My memory had no pictures of the crowded- together soot-covered buildings. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d spent six months building a ship that he knew would cross the Atlantic. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Hanako didn’t know what to expect, but she saw that Kobe was a mix of flattened ruins and damaged buildings as well as many undamaged ones. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Finally he spotted her, circling above a stretch of parkland that ran for several blocks between rows of old stone buildings. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

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

Quang-ha appears in the doorway and says: "Dell put up the 'building rep' sign again in front of the best parking spot." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

It was a corner building with a white-arched entry framed with black lanterns. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They chose a uniform style, neoclassical, meaning the buildings would have columns and pediments and evoke the glories of ancient Rome. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They could see the tiny bright streets crossing each other, and the squares, little chips of light, and the dark tops of buildings. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He burst into the terminal building and up the steps. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Great Chicago Fire took nearly eighteen thousand buildings and left more than a hundred thousand people homeless. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

Frank squinted at the sign on the building. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“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

So he had to bring the raft to just below the shelter—bring the raft to Derek—and that meant building it here and working it up the side of the lake to Derek. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

A grown man reduced to trembling at the thought of entering an empty building—even that empty building—because there might be skeletons there? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

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

It's not on any sign outside the building. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He had to find a building where Bessie could stand in a window and see the package of money when it was thrown from the car. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the monkeys had to be examined, however, to see if and where the virus was spreading inside the building. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stone for the building of the hall Heorot came from all over the world. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You each have ten thousand dollars more than you started with and an apartment building to boot. The man is dead, so why not think the best?" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

On West Harrison Street in Chicago, two miles west of the city’s downtown, there is an ornate, block-long building designed and built in the early part of the last century. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The company vacated the building afterward, and to this day it stands empty. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I go upstairs, through the old building and its room full of lamp-lit tables and people softly turning pages or asking hushed research questions, reading glasses on noses. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I’m pacing back and forth on the steps in front of my building. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

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

Emily and James sat in disappointed silence as they rode the bus back to their building. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Zakariyya turned and walked to a bench in front of his building without saying another word. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

They had met in an office that was in a high-rise building, so high that Joaquin could see all the way to the ocean. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Or maybe they just talked to each other until the building fell. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

When I get off the bus, I'm surprised to find that 1440 North Main Street is a busy office building. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

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

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

For the first time since we began building our rockets, I hesitated. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was a regular at the Hillbrow Tower, one of the tallest buildings in Africa at that time. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Westinghouse only began building its pavilion on Tuesday, May 2. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“The Labyrinth is under some building in America.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I was flying much too close to your building in any case, and I survived the crash without a scratch, now didn’t I?” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The downtown buildings radiated heat like giant toasters in the midday July sun, making my dress stick to my legs. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Are we going down there, or are we going to talk until the building collapses around us?” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“I want you to see inside the building.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Hugo shivered in the cold, and in a few minutes the girl appeared from behind the building and ran over to him. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Blocks away, where newly built mixed-income homes sat next to picturesque buildings like the gothic Church of the Advocate, built in 1887, was the direction the neighborhood wanted to go. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Even after we returned to class, the buildings continued to shake; the rumbling didn’t stop. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The noise grew steadily louder as the soldiers neared our building. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

It took a minute for me to figure out that she had meant that Hearst building. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

An early summer heat wave greeted me with a blast of humidity as I left the apartment building with my backpack over my shoulder and my duffel bag in hand. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Colonel Cathcart and Lieutenant Colonel Korn lived and worked in the Group Headquarters building, as did all the members of the headquarters staff, with the exception of the chaplain. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Several factors conspired to prevent Hooke building on the achievements described in Micrographia to the extent that he might have done. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The most startling corridor—my favorite, actually—was the long, semi-open one connecting the max facility to the school building and Tappan, across the railroad tracks. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once we left, Mr. Ray told me he was having a hard time building up the courage to ask the receptionist lady—her name was Melissa—out on a date. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Or maybe if I keep building, they can’t hold the auction if there’s already a house on the land? The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

It did not occur to them to go around to the side of the building and point their video camera toward a window. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hurriedly he left the building and was out on the street before realizing he had not brought up the agreement between Griffith’s calculations and Chargaff’s data. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Congress Avenue was called that because at its north end stood the majestic state capitol building, with its dome and white columns. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Moments later, the hall leads me out into the narrow back alley behind the building and near its garbage bins. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He resigned his royal power and organized a commonwealth, building a council hall where the citizens should gather and vote. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He shoots webs. And he swings from buildings. That would be the BEST!” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Then when I was within a block of the building, I saw that it was Morris JJ’s Pizza. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind him, clusters of other players are already making their way down the paths toward their buildings. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

They hung around together in gateways and at the corners of buildings, leaning lovingly on their weapons as they talked. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

And now that my mother is here—she is staying for a week, or until the electricians are done rewiring her building in San Francisco—we have to pretend nothing is the matter. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

It had the multimillion-dollar sports complex, physics lab, arts center, and global studies buildings to prove it, not to mention the two-hundred-year-old red brick mansions and halls housing all the other classrooms and offices. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He would enter on another day, when he had read all the books uptown, an achievement that would, he felt, lend him the poise to enter any building in the world. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Listen, you reckon them buildings up north is as tall as they say they is?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I used to know the name of everyone in my building—and they knew mine. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

He drove me around the grounds in his own car, and pointed out the recreation hall, hospital, school, administrative offices, and the two-story brick buildings he called cottages where the patients lived. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Through a break between the buildings, I saw that the sun hung low over the horizon. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

Once I turn down Seventy-Fourth Street, I look for Auntie Seema's building, my eyes scanning right and left down the block. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Rain sprays against the side of the building and streams down the walls. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was that buildings in their neighborhood made shade, cooling down the streets, Genie thought. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

They were all talking about the exciting new building. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Low white buildings with black windows stretched out in both directions. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The building across from ours was three stories high, crisscrossed by iron stairs with narrow landings on which people grew tomatoes and geraniums in clay pots. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Would he have been so quick to send her away if he’d known there was food in the building for them to eat? The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Only one thing could help me, so I prayed earnestly that I’d be allowed to sit under the house and have the building collapse on my left jaw. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s unusual for the morning after a blizzard, when everybody stays home, drinking hot chocolate, and if you go out, it’s for sledding, or maybe building a snowman. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

A cluster of low buildings straddles the highway. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

“I think there’s an ambulance in front of your building,” he says. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

There are no columns of smoke, no dark clouds staining the blue, but already we see blackened, broken buildings. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I didn't like the heat of the humanities building, always too hot when it was cold outside. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

James had said his family had been living in this building for generations, and you could feel it. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Dan Dalgard, meanwhile, left the room and remained in an office at the front of the building for the rest of the day. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Over the weekend, we print our flyers out and hang them up around the building. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Baba sounds reproachful as he hurries toward us from the side of the building. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

From the ruin’s taller buildings the great lake, almost ten miles to the northwest, is just visible. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The classroom is at the far end of the building and has long, south-facing windows. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sam was building a fire to cook his breakfast of wild cereal grains he had collected. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I keep thinking what an experience it would be to stay in it—go West and watch the building of the country, see how much of the Old West mythology is true.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I slid my card under the apartment building door and got away from there as fast as I could. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

We lived in a big gray building with windows so small, you couldn’t put your head outside. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the door closed, I felt this wicked, dark sense of spite and anger building up inside me. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

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

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

Aunty Uju’s condo was in a cluster of stucco buildings, the neighborhood carefully landscaped, boulders placed at corners, and in the evenings, friendly people walked their handsome dogs. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He’s been building me up mentally and physically, coaching me for this moment. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

He gazed across the valley, where construction crews were working in the Field of Mars, building fortifications for tonight’s games. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Before I walked into the building, he handed me a letter. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t high, and below it was grass, with a gentle slope away from the building. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The building consisted mainly of one narrow and profoundly vertical room—a giant stairwell, essentially—dominated by a skeletal staircase that corkscrewed from the floor to a stone landing, more than a hundred feet up. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“No point in building a good house unless you put down the right foundation,” Dad always said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Why would anyone go to the trouble of building with stone, only to place a dead body inside it? Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

A truck, a government truck, stops near the tall office building, beside the hawkers’ shacks, and men spill out, men hitting and destroying and leveling and trampling. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Anya watched the laborers haul building materials as the archer’s horse carried her up the hill. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I smile too and continue counting until we are back at our brick apartment building. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

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

Housed in a stately brownstone that had originally been a private home, it was one of the loveliest school buildings in Brooklyn. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And then moving to another neighborhood and building another? The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

A heat haze shimmered over the desert, and he saw a series of ridges that might be buildings. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Scores of workers had been hurt or killed in building the dream, their families consigned to poverty. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He finally forced himself to look over at the haggard building. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The building was square and rather plain-looking, though once inside, the three orphans were intimidated by the hustle and bustle of the people as they raced around the large, echoey room. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Fish swam over their heads, and Percy felt irrational panic building in his throat. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Baba pocketed the keys, pulled me out of the rain and under the building’s striped awning. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, soldiers carried him into a roadside building and laid him on a cement slab. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

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

Is it in the building or outside somewhere? A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

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

The map at the reception area said the personnel offices are in a building that's close to the main entrance. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Little remains of them but shuttered buildings colonized by bats and rodents and pigeons and spiders, while in the case of Whizbang there is nothing save stone ruins submerged in a sea of grass. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The building pushes out into an L shape, and the empty section is the dark one around the back, in a patch of frozen dirt. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

When I get to the building with the public bathrooms, I go inside the ladies’ room and check all of the stalls. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

"Get in there," he says and then he's pulling me through this old burned-out window and we're inside the building. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s what I was doing this morning, out on my land. Mom found a new job and we might have to move out of San Francisco, so I’m building it now.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I went into the hall to find someone who might know anything, and found the building quiet. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

From government buildings nearby white people who headed the Tembisa city councils hurriedly stepped out, jumped into cars and zoomed off under police escort. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like most of the farm’s work buildings, the older log cabins bunched on the eastern edge, put up in a hurry before they knew how big the community would become. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Qareeb and I often spoke about building something for our family together. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I used to think the two-hundred-year-old redbrick buildings were so cute, you know? Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Nearby a swarm of red-faced children were building a snow fort, but they scattered at the sight of the black-cloaked brothers, vanishing down one hole or another. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I laugh, and it’s laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I’ve ever known is coming apart. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Then I turned and stepped out from between the buildings, heart hammering in my chest. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He has been touching me in some way since we left the stairwell of that building, like he thinks I might break apart if he doesn’t hold me together. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The kitchens stood at a distance from the house, and it was to this building that we repaired with hope of some new sustenance. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He enjoyed building but was now motivated to learn true skills. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The Gathering Hall was the only building in Ember with three stories. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

Then I yanked Delilah’s leash and grabbed Hadley’s hand, and the three of us zoomed out of the building. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I see the glow of Amity headquarters ahead, the familiar cluster of wooden buildings with the greenhouse in their center. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The worker knew the FBI kept watch on the building. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I studied buildings a lot, partly to get ideas for the block tower. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“You walk straight down this corridor and through the double doors into the next building. Make a right at the first opening. You’ll see it on your left.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

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

In the year that had passed, not much had changed, except that the building had fallen into even greater ruin. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He walked into the building with Albert Einstein’s letter in his briefcase. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see brick buildings, one next to the other, lined up in long sad rows. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

De Klerk began a systematic dismantling of many of the building blocks of apartheid. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Constructed in the 1920s, the building was renovated into a cavernous courthouse in the 1940s, complete with marble floors and an impressive domed ceiling. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Garfield established a campaign office in a small building behind the house that he used for his library. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Yes; they were looking for him in every building and on every floor and in every room. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

Soon word spread around the building that someone had spilled gasoline down the trash chute. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

A small brown cat nosed and sprang among the trashcans at the back of a building, and the light made even the garbage magical. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

It was the same as always—chopping wood, breaking rocks, building new camp buildings. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hay stored in a section of the building had caught fire and caused much damage before firemen had arrived and put out the blaze. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He says nothing to the other students in the building. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walk in silence until we get to my building. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I could see scattered trees and shadowy buildings around me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

My parents were asleep down in the streets somewhere while a monster army surrounded the building. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

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

Towering white buildings rose all around me, each of them a wealth of pillars, cupolas, and statuary. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“The original blueprints for the Gold Leaf Bank building.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Alhaji, lor example, punched the cement pillar of one of the buildings until his knuckles bled and his bone began to show. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The desert had invaded over the centuries, dimes flowing through the streets like water, but the buildings were in better shape than other ruins Tally had seen. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The whole mountaintop was in ruins—so many beautiful buildings and gardens gone. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Exactly how long it took for the buildings to burn is not clear; Claire only says that it took “many minutes.” The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

And this was just one of a dozen things that kept building up the pressure on my mother. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hampton High School was a dilapidated, musty old building. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The suggestion was that they burglarize a nearby building, the Chandler Sales Company. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had been four workers employed in the building, and two of them were now going to be in the hospital. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The workers installed three sets of parallel railroad tracks along the length of the building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Holding the elevator door open with one foot, Bridge had pushed the buttons for every floor in the building, except for sixteen, where Alex lived. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

In this building the only sound is of our squeaking shoes. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

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 air was fresh with the smell of new growth, and I went into that building and up to that office humming with the pure joy of being alive. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The church was a strange little white frame building stuck up on a hill behind the police station, built when the city was a country town instead of part of the metropolitan Washington sprawl. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

If you don’t know the number of your building, you’re lost. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

What I saw was not the nondescript factory building it had been when my father first worked there. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

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

I look up at the building and laugh, half relieved and half hysterical. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Franz drove Alex the rest of the way, chatted with him there for a while, and then returned to town, where he lived alone, rent free, in re-turn for managing a ramshackle apartment building. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was startling to Stella how busy a small city could be—the cars, the buildings, the people acting like they had important things to do. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Tree branches lashed the side of the building and torn leaves whirled away. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, I saw men building the house of another on my land. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the boys moved around to the front of the building, they found an enormous pair of sliding doors, the upper halves of which consisted almost entirely of windowpanes. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I hope the roof of that imbecile little room falls in on them while they are building it. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“I hear the New Dealers took over a building downtown to organize the volunteers,” Kermit piped up. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then he realized he also didn't want nobody to think he lived there, so his plan was to sit on my stoop until it got dark, and then slip back into his own building. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

It was really just part of the top floor of the building, where the roof had entirely collapsed, leaving sweeping views of the ruins. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

His fury seemed to be building up to an explosion. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was taken home across the Bristol Channel on the paddle-steamer and I felt so wonderful at being away from that dreaded school building that I very nearly forgot I was meant to be ill. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mnemonists, the performers who amaze us by regurgitating superhuman amounts of information, have spent a lot of time building up a huge inventory of chunks in their long-term memories. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I applied and was accepted to mop long white tiled hallways that stretched around the entire perimeter of the office floors of the building. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He stood there, shaking his fist as the plane rattled the buildings in its powerful flight. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

Ahead lay a broad boulevard that skirted on the left the lagoon and the Wooded Island, on the right the tall façades of the Mines and Electricity buildings. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Divergent?” one of them finally asks as the man behind the desk picks up the receiver of the building’s communication system. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Chicago police telegraphed District Attorney Graham that their search of the Holmes building had uncovered the skeleton of a child. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Lorren led me into another stone building, through a hallway, and down a flight of stairs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Dennis kept poking around till he found an empty building that was cheap near Red Hook. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the buildings were made of stacked logs with cracks filled with mud—like Anya’s own home back in Zmeyreka. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The categories of grammar reflect the building blocks of thought—time, space, causality, matter—and a philosophical wordsmith can play with them to awaken her readers to metaphysical conundrums. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“See that big brown building? Yesterday the sun started to go behind it at three-twelve. Now it’s about halfway gone.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I speed-walked into the building, my chest pounding, no idea where I was even going. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I tap the glass in front of me a few times, and the camera angle switches to one inside the building the invaders have just forced their way into. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

As a result, architects relied on old and dangerous habits, such as substituting wood for stone and decorating their buildings with wooden awnings, cupolas, and cornices. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

He leaned out the window, trying to see any sign of movement in the other buildings, but there was none. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

They were sailing through a large bay, making their way toward a cluster of downtown buildings. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Aristotle was not a particularly ardent champion of women, but he nevertheless believed in using evidence as the basis of theory building. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I’m his only friend and that’s because he lives down the hall from us on the sixth floor of our apartment building. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

There was no chance of rescuing them and building up an outlaw tribe at the other end of the island. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

At the Holmes building at Sixty-third and Wallace, now known widely in the neighborhood as “the castle,” the Conner family was in turmoil. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Slowly they crept past the swing set, the laundry building, the dark green trash bins, the rows of parked cars. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

An elderly black man summed up this attitude when he said of the Mutual’s resplendent building: “I bet a colored man can’t even get a loan up there anymore.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“My friend,” said Somkit, slapping Pong on the shoulder, “welcome to the Mud House, the finest burned-out tenement building in the whole city.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The Erudite live in large stone buildings that overlook the marsh. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

There were holes in the streets now, places where buildings had been, empty like pulled teeth. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

When we had all the hives covered, we stood under the pines and gazed at them, this little town of black buildings. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I recognize each building we pass as one I walked by every time I missed the bus home from school. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

But never once did we openly say that we occupied none but subordinate positions in the building. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only light came from the dull orange glow of lampposts and the high-up windows of surrounding buildings. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Grandma lives in the building across the street. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

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 traffic, the people, the food, the buildings.” Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s a nice old lady with an Irish accent and she likes to talk all about the people in the building. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

I look at the old building with no doorknobs. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

He rounds the corner and immediately lowers to the ground, his back sliding down the building, not noticing me standing just yards away. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I stopped for a minute and even though it was dark I studied the rubble of a building that once stood there. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

In an inspection of the building, however, its agents had been unable to find anything they could identify conclusively as a Merchant product. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The entry hall stretched from one side of the building to the other, an expanse of glittering crystal, plush Turkish rugs, and carved wood. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

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

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

The bombs have collapsed the hospital roof and set the building on fire, effectively trapping the patients within. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“I’m building character,” she always said when they complained. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Guardians went immediately to Ricketts’ Circus at Twelfth Street and High and seized the building. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

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

He set the ladder against the building and began to climb. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The Director’s office is in the administration building—basically, it’s a wing of the Hub connected by a narrow, windowless hallway. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Before long the truck left the highway, turned onto a dirt road, and then onto another before it bounced to a stop beside a wooden building set in the middle of flat fields. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Chavez was working the floor buffer machine in the lobby of a Manhattan apartment building. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m within a couple of buildings from my goal when things begin to heat up. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I turned the corner out of the science building and pain exploded in my face. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“His family sponsored the building and helped pay for the startup costs, but everything else—my salary, the materials, the books—it’s all funded by the Ministry of Education.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

As far as Belknap could tell, he and Holmes were by now the only occupants of the building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Rob’s father motioned for his son to go on into the building and squatted on the curb next to Gerald. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Neighbors are running toward their buildings, and puddles are starting to pool along the edges of the sidewalk. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Ali stared up at the tall development buildings surrounding us on all sides. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Not every building had a Colored bathroom, a fact that Mary Jackson had discovered so painfully during her rotation on the East Side. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

There’s a filthy, low-slung concrete building on the right-hand side of the track about five hundred metres before we get into Euston. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

A new wave of anxiety began building in her fingers; she tempered it by making a tight fist. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I got my stuff from my locker and started on out the building. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Where money will flow from the buildings that rise!” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The sun was low behind the buildings, but it was still warm, making my heavy coat a strange choice. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The center of this tight-knit community was Ismail’s apartment, flat 13, Kholvad House, four rooms in a residential building in the center of the city. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Much like the Gothic architecture that shaped the buildings for which it was written, isorhythm did not last as a tool in the organisation of music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But we had different business that day, and it took us to a big brick building I recognized, immediately, as a jail. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Our own Company building had stood up through the quake. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scenery changed from bars, tire shops, and vague manufacturing buildings into smartly manicured lawns and houses. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

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

We’re in an alleyway behind a building, red brick and fairly modern. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as politicians entered the building, women on both sides of the issue would approach the men. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Welcome to this house, lad,” the doorkeeper said, and without saying more led him through halls and corridors to an open court far inside the walls of the building. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

I left the room and went to see Esther at the other side of the building. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I found Maxie sitting with a group of girls in front of her building. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

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

The small building seemed full of people as she entered. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I was expecting him to tell me to fetch my hat and coat and leave the building for ever. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whereas the church rose high, this building seemed to cling to the earth with a weight and bulk that bespoke earthly power. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the early morning, when Burnham conducted his inspections, the buildings were a pale blue and seemed to float on a ghostly cushion of ground mist. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They walked between the huge, black shapes of buildings. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Most of the staff from room 1106 in the New York Hilton went to the Times building to watch the first copies roll off the press. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It was more convenient as well; the cafeteria was just far enough from her building to have to drive, and who wanted to do that? Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

A punishment tour for Clevinger was fifty minutes of a weekend hour spent pacing back and forth before the provost marshal’s building with a ton of an unloaded rifle on his shoulder. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

There were so many keys, like maybe it could have been every key, ever, to the building, the keys somebody had made all the doctors and nurses and staff people turn in before they left. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Sorry about that. You said you’re looking for Carlos? He should be in the basement. He’s fixing an issue with the trash chute. There’s always something in this building.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He got out and positioned himself in the bushes beside the building. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I spend a good chunk of time for the next two days writing a proposal for an interior garden at our building. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Wild laughter issued from more than one building as I passed. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house—well, she apologizes for it, though three bedrooms in a freestanding building for $825 a month doesn’t seem so bad to me at the moment. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

We climbed into an old abandoned warehouse building that stood along the wall at Dabrowki Street. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Outside the three dorm buildings was a large gym, built by Warner Bros, as thanks for use of the Death House and other prison sites in its gangster movies of the 1930s. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The building tilted, and Ear slid up against the railing. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Kids are starting to swarm all around us, heading into the building. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He was walked to another building, and was put into another, empty cell. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The building didn’t seem as full of ghosts as it had. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

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

“I’m pretty proud of it. I lugged a few wheelbarrows of sand here from that playground they’re building off of Maiden Lane.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

There were other buildings lined up beside and behind the house opposite the slave cabins. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I clambered up after Sohrab, convinced the fence was going to peel off the building like the lid of a soup can just before I reached the top. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The steps of this building definitely used to be part of a stairwell, but now they sit open to the outside. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The cages, as Basta had called them, kept ready by Capricorn for unwelcome guests were behind the church, in a paved area where trash containers stood next to mountains of building rubble. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

They bombed all four squadrons, the officers’ club and the Group Headquarters building. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She was in there, perhaps in her bedroom, preparing for dinner—out of view, at the back of the building on the second floor. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The remains of a central building and a well and the jagged foundations of several houses, like broken teeth in neat, tidy squares. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Waving flags and singing freedom songs, the triumphant marchers stand before the capitol building. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

They walked across the dark entrance hall, both hardly feeling the tiles under their feet, and headed for one of the exits on the north side of the building. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then all of the citizens had been ordered to go into the nearest building and stay there. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The whole building seemed to lean slightly to the side. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

At the edge of the lawn, behind the building, there was a line of underbrush and trees sloping down a hillside. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

If the apartment had any kind of heat, he would have stood by the front door of his building for five, but since it was just marginally warmer indoors, he opted for fifteen. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

There were lunch counters in most of the main buildings. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Scattered about London there were just three other buildings of similar appearance and size. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

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

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

Sure, the blue sign was still clinging desperately to the side of the building, but that was about the only recognizable thing about the Supercenter. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The craft of building may have come from Elves or Men, but the Hobbits used it in their own fashion. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It looks almost like the Grafton Hill projects, except these brick buildings barely have any windows. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

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 simply reminded him of his best memories—building things with his mom in her workshop; sitting in the sunshine with his friends at camp. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

After the bell ending the school day sounded, they headed into the massive main building. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He lives in an apartment building now, but when my grandmother was alive, they lived in a house. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

For one thing, they could now see that the building next door was missing two groups of three or four windowpanes; it looked as though it had been shot in the eyes. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pink marble building stretches up with turrets so high that if you climbed one, you might be able to whisper to the God of the Sky. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

They seem to be stepping out of the building. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

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 itself was nothing special—a boxy brick building on a nondescript street. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

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 car stops in front of a large brick building that looks deserted. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was dark with the tallness of the buildings and the narrow streets. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought I had seen tall buildings in Freetown, but these were beyond tall, it seemed they were poking the sky. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But now, that anger is building up, making me feel like I’m going to lose my mind. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

They zigzagged through narrow cobblestone walkways, past courtyards with potted hibiscus trees and white stucco buildings with butterscotch trim and wrought-iron balconies. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Across the street was a building that had been turned into a hospital, and I watched through a hole in the blanket as the Nazis pushed sick people out the door and down the steps. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

This is the basest of all possible emotions, the feeling that was with us before we existed, before this building existed, before the earth existed. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

She must have seen me come in the building from outside, because none of the onderduikers are hiding. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

When Arnold took the photograph, hundreds of men were at work on the building, but its scale was so great that none of the men was immediately visible. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

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

Our building, owned by Indians, was one of the few places where Africans could rent offices in the city. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in the meantime, we were the landlords of the building, weren’t we? The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“We need to go and speak to the sheriff, convince him to barricade the town before it’s overrun. Consolidate everyone into a few defensible buildings. We’re too vulnerable, waiting for the next attack.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Twenty or thirty buildings were made of abalone, white but gleaming with rainbow colors. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He would have to get out of this building. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

They ran down Bank Street, named for the series of fancy banks in gray concrete buildings that lined the street. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

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

At Devon the open ground among the buildings had been given carefully English names—the Center Common, the Far Common, the Fields, and the Fields Beyond. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The buildings were like castles in pictures and we who had cleaned up everybody’s mess since the beginning knew better than anybody how to keep them nice. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

And when the church doors open so everyone can make their way to our building, I hear the congas. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

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

I almost fall asleep in Darius’s arms, on this roof, across the street from my own building. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She looked out the window, where a bright half-moon hovered above the buildings across the street. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

His fears lest his burst dream of road building discourage her were never realized. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

As they walked down the carriageway, Ignatius said, “This building is repellingly flamboyant.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I help her guide the end of the ladder through the classroom window and across the gap between buildings. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Rose’s was some building we had explored at 300 West 57th Street. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The manager of the furnace company—his name was never made public—decided to attend to the matter personally and met Holmes at his building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Police officers surround every corner of the building, and there are even a few cruisers at both entrances to the parking lot. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

At the corner of an alley he saw an empty building with a gaping window on the first floor. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

On October 22 gale winds ripped display signs from buildings downtown, tossed houseboats around on Lake Union, and necessitated the rescue of thirty-three people from various storm-tossed pleasure craft on Puget Sound. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I just had to bring supplies. We’re building it in class. And I’m done with all the rest of my homework,” I say. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The thick ugly odors of unwashed bodies and rotting flesh from the shallow graves behind the buildings grew stronger. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Those with government jobs will move to the glass building above the Pit. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Sun-bleached for sale signs line the curbs, and paint peels from uninhabited buildings. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat down on the cot and felt things building inside—pushing against my chest. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex met Kevin outside the building at seven in the morning, the way they always did on Mondays to go body shopping. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She hugs me, and the sudden movement triggers a mini avalanche in the paper loops that fill the building. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The jury's waiting for me in a luxury Manhattan apartment building, and the last thing I want to do is face Martin and his parents. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Shawn designed and welded the main frame—the massive beams that formed the skeleton of the building. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She sped down the steps and across the quadrangle, between the chapel and Palmer’s Tower and into the Yaxley Quad, where the oldest buildings of the College stood. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

A large portion of the building’s north end collapsed, which in turn caused the failure of an elevated gallery designed to ring the interior of the building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“There are buildings in Chicago more than ten times higher,” said Lynn. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

A tall building in Stonetown’s busiest district must surely have many offices inside, he thought. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

A long, straight path led from one end of the building to the other. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But the boys simply took my hand and pulled me inside the building. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

To draw the attention of others inside, I realize, as four men emerge from the broken building. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

There's a redbrick building, music blaring from one of the ground-floor windows. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I gave up the idea of the biographical sketches and settled finally upon writing a series of short stories, using the material I had got from Ross and his friends, building upon it, inventing. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the people in the building didn’t like her, claiming that she tried to make herself different from the others. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

On Tuesday nights, when international Bible studies of the University of Central Oklahoma could meet, my sister and I sat in the corners of dark church buildings. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“But if you make a commitment to jump off a building,” President Johnson said, “and you find out how high it is, you may withdraw the commitment.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He didn’t see us coming around the side of the building as we headed for Mrs. Castro’s Mercedes. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

And then the SS started clearing the buildings. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The one building left standing contains the very library where Anatole, as a young household servant, taught himself to read and write English. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was shadowy under the maples in front of the building. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

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

“I’m so happy for you! And your dad didn’t even have to buy them a building.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Initially his wife was against building it, but Giebel pushed it because it was a wonderful symbol in a part of the country where subtlety was owning an eight-seater prop instead of a Lear. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

One sheet of paper did have what looked like a plan of a building on it. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

A block down the street they came up to a building that looked like an old house but had a sign out front. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

What had that to do with responsibility, with building Brotherhood? 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

I gazed up at the tall buildings of Rockefeller Center. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

There were so many that poured out of the doors of this school, and there were different exits on all sides of the building, too. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Yeah, she had started building her own city on the opposite side of the room from mines. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

In the large brick building in Tegucigalpa, young women sit in rows behind sewing machines, furiously stitching medical scrubs for export to the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

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

After much study, the steering committee selected the R. N. Harris Elementary School, a modern, one-story brick building. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

A roaring cheer spilled out of the building. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

The various fraternal organizations are working together to beautify the area around the spring with flower beds and benches and are building a special fountain so that all might come and partake. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She saw the rider she’d just pistol-whipped fly off to the side and crash into a building wall, then slump beneath it and lie still. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The members of the secret church would meet in abandoned buildings. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Only when I see the Hancock building in the distance do I start to feel nervous. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

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

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

From a spigot on the side of the building, he fills the bucket. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The Titan army ringed the building, standing maybe twenty feet from the doors. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

An officer came out of a building and yelled at her, “Sandy, come in here.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Do you know any underworld types who could help us break into building twenty-four?” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

She rested her palm against her forehead, and heard another tick as the building shrank tighter. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

A few people slipped out of the ranks, hoping to hide in some abandoned building. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shale, in particular, breaks into perfect building blocks with the tap of the hammer in the right place. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d been scouting for new buildings for me to sketch around the Meatpacking District downtown. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

“Meet me at the parking building in an hour. And wear your new suit. I want to see it on you.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I just kept walking until I reached the building. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

Next she drew a few tiny people walking on the street below the buildings. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

Pushing his glasses back on the bridge of his nose, Kelvin says, “Nature’s amazing. It’s better than a park. Way better than my apartment building surrounded by gravel and weeds.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The collections always covered the rally expenses, and anything beyond that helped to continue building the Nation of Islam. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We spent all day building our blockhouse, and Mom said Quentin was too tired to go home. He’s sleeping in my bed.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t comment as he pulled up in front of the Panthers’ apartment building. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Capitol building is real big, pretty on the outside but I never been in it. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Temple building ceased in this season to free more men for the fields. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

We lower our bags to the steps of a large municipal building and sink to the cool stone to rest and take stock. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Since that time, Tokyo has been eerily quiet, so the strain beneath the surface has been building for eighty years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

There were lots of brick buildings and some tall ones too. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a wide, two-story building, one lot away from the corner. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The young man who ran errands for the owner of the building was standing in the hallway, one powder blue suitcase in each hand. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I look from corner to corner, at the cameras, and fight the scream building in my stomach, chest, and throat, the scream that fills every part of me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

All across southern England houses and villages were devastated, large buildings were swept away, farm animals were drowned, and as for people, the number of missing or dead was, for the time being, uncountable. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know, the people who own the building or whatever.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

To our left began the houses and buildings of the town. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think there’s a vacant apartment in my building,” Rick said. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I was on my way back from Granny’s when I saw people breaking into the building. I joined them. Now we have food to last us a while.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They exited the building through the great Golden Door, which arced across the light-red face of the building like a gilt rainbow. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“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

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

Sarah and I walked into the building together, then paused at the entrance of the gym. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He didn't say anything then, but the next night he made us have compulsory study hall in the academic building and he came up and made a speech. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

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

Out the front door of the apartment building, through the passage of Mickiewicza 7, around the corner, and behind our block of buildings. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Whether one agrees with this approach or not, the building testifies to the strength of Wright’s vision by precluding any other way of seeing the art. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They did this and went quietly up to one of the big arched doorways whirled into the inside of the building. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

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

First, however, she moved out of the two rooms into a spacious first floor of a building that had been built as a store. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

This building happened to be a famous factory where they made chocolate, and almost at once a great river of warm melted chocolate came pouring out of the holes in the factory wall. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

The soil destined to support the northern half of the building showed total settlement of less than one inch, consistent with the rest of the park. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

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

From the building nearby she heard the buzzer that announced the midday meal. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

No one wants to tell President Wingfield that he was wrong and Captain Smith was right about building a palisade, I think. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Arcadio is building a house,” she confided with feigned pride to her husband as she tried to put a spoonful of calabash syrup into his mouth. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

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

Smelling a story, reporters and photographers from New York’s newspapers raced to the CBS building. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Some kids climb to the tops of buildings, hang over the edge spray their names upside down from there. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I halted the car in front of his building, my mind still in blurry overdrive. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The people around the unfamiliar building wear no uniform to distinguish them, but they don’t wear factionless armbands either, and they carry guns. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I pointed to the building by the group of mango trees. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

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 always difficult to determine the age of a London building. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“We need that money, sweetheart. For our future. I got five of you to take care of. A building is just a building, in the end.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

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

“It was so complicated. Perhaps if I had known more about the buildings, about what happened to them — ” She was embarrassed. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The epicenter of activity was a monstrously ugly concrete building, the Summit Information Center, with big windows, broad viewing platforms, and an exceedingly lively cafeteria. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The sky had clouded over and a light mist was falling as I left the building, but the rumbling in the sky hinted at a coming storm. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

We fount the sheriff’s office and pushed open the building’s door and went in. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

In her view, monumental buildings implied a large resident population, but again there were plenty of anchovy bones and little evidence that locals farmed anything but cotton. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Free men of Salem, building a ship to defend America.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

My desk lamp, shining on a piece of scratch paper, is the only light on in all one hundred rooms of this building. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He folds down in pain and then is led inside the building. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

He stood in front of the Bayside Press building in the same burgundy-and-silver-blue outfit James had described him wearing at the book carnival: top hat, suit, and walking stick all in Bayside Press colors. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Once I got around the cafeteria, building three was easy to spot. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

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

The look of concern that had been building on Uriah’s face disappears. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

They shot at her, and she ran so fast she slammed right into the back wall of the building instead of through the door. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

When she went to the north side entrance she saw empty cars standing in a double row the length of the building. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Mother Lois took us for a ride along University Avenue near the University of Arkansas school building where she had attended classes. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The personnel manager consulted a further document, then picked up his vidphone and made an inside call to someone else in the building. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

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

I consider what everyone else has said and I can feel my anger building. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Squaring her shoulders as she’d been taught to do on those afternoons in the portable building where the debate team practiced, she faced her audience. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

All these, however, were mere distractions compared to the single most important task on Burnham’s roster: the selection of architects to design the fair’s major buildings. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Smoke filled the crowded room and the music stopped and the students dancing stopped and the DJ told them to quickly leave the building. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Washington believed that the French were building a fleet of canoes “to convey their Forces down in the Spring.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting there in the sports car before the main building at Mandeville with the huge box of Dutch cookies on her lap, she must have made the authority a little suspicious, Mr. Levy thought. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

We drive past the same kind of ruins I saw when we left the city—the buildings collapsing under their own weight, and the plants roaming wild over the land, breaking through concrete. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

We crossed Old Main, swung around the admin building, and took the road to the gym and student center. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Had they knocked through the building next door? City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Mama said no 'cause me and her had allergies, and even if we didn't, our building didn't allow pets. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

If this used to be some kind of building, surely it wouldn’t be made of only two-by-fours. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Yesterday, in our attempt to best deal with the situation outside our administration building, a young woman, Hayley Simpson, was killed by one of our officers.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Sitting on top of this normal brick building, there was the most amazing glass...thing. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

People were lying in their beds and when that corner fell off they fell out the building. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Beto stared at the roof of the building, now on the ground. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Each evening the sun colored the buildings ochre and lit the motes of dust raised by the breeze until the air itself became a soft orange veil. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It was time to see what had become of his office building. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

We were putting up a new building, one made of stone and guaranteed to last a century. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

President Johnson flew to upstate New York that morning to dedicate a new building at Syracuse University. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

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

Now they’re talking about tearing down all the high-rises and putting everyone in low-rise buildings as the solution. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

For hours, he’s been sit- ting on the ground, leaning against the wall of the building across the street, the place where he played me the music that magical evening. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dog had gone back under the building, so the boy entered the yard and moved toward the children. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I duck inside an abandoned utility building about a hundred meters from the water. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

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

The plane is inside the building—breaking apart, exploding, melting, burning furniture and people. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow he would begin building a shelter under the watchful eyes of Edwin and Garvey. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

You have to pass the closet to get to the laundry room, and people in this building do laundry at all hours. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Baba tells us he's borrowed a car from another Bengali family who live in the building where he's rented a flat. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It is situated on the high street of Taunton, very close to the market square, a somewhat sunken building, its exterior characterized by heavy dark timber beams. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

I had tried so hard to bear her loss and had swallowed back the tears that had been building up inside me for two seasons. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

While construction crews began expanding roads and nailing together new buildings at Los Alamos, Oppenheimer turned to his next task: “a policy of absolutely unscrupulous recruiting of anyone we can lay hands on.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They shouted in response, and our forty voices echoed off the buildings of Midtown. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

No officers would be allowed to leave the building; wall-tower officers were to step out onto their catwalks with rifles in hand. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the light faded, gaslights on the streets and in the buildings below caused the smoke to glow a dull yellow. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They swung me around the administration building and into the academic quad. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I pointed to the miniature zigzag staircase she was building. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

One looming problem was how to color the exteriors of the main buildings, especially the staff-coated palisades of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Look at the building—you walk in and it smells like urine, you walk up the stairs and it’s dark, broken lights. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

We read he’s building himself an actual castle with spires and a moat near Brussels, to provide a respite, I guess, from his villas in Paris and Spain and Italy. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ma doesn’t say a word as we walk back to her apartment building. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

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

“I was so relieved when Charlie bought it. My dad wouldn’t let me work on building another car when we had a perfectly good vehicle right there.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

So the next day, instead of going straight home after school, when I got to our building, I walked to her apartment. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He stood in front of the Bayside Press building in the same burgundy-and-silver-blue outfit James had described him wearing at the book carnival: top hat, suit, and walking stick all in Bayside Press colors. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Patches of green lawn dot the space, and sprinkled between them are individual buildings surrounded by trees. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even the two plain buildings looked particularly pleasant. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A crowd of people had already gathered by a loading dock on the side of the building, under floodlights. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

He and his twin brother Zethus undertook once to fortify Thebes, building a lofty wall around it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The buildings looked substantial, unlikely ever to erode. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

As the car pulls up to the front of the building, I’m greeted by two of Hideo’s bodyguards, both dressed in dark suits. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Finally one day they arrived in a city—so much larger than what Amari had ever known that she stared in wonder at the huge buildings made of stone. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since yesterday afternoon the building’s boiler has been broken, turning the apartment into an icebox. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And right across the river are hundreds of tall buildings, some shooting straight, piercing the clouds. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

The road by the building was jammed with Rebel troops. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Diego packed his playbook in his backpack and we both smiled and nodded and then walked past the cafeteria toward the classroom buildings. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

There were bicycles leaning against the back of the building. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Even now, I feel that old twinge of excitement at the sight of the building. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The building itself wasn’t that imposing; it was only called the Tower because it stuck up like a broken finger in a sea of one-story wooden shacks arranged in rings. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Much later Belknap realized why Holmes had wanted so badly to show him the building’s roof. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

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

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

He made it clear to the officers that the building was private property. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be one of the largest buildings in the neighborhood—two stories, with very high ceilings and the steepest roof of any house she had ever seen. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I probably sat on the front steps of that building for an hour waiting on Rose. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He lived in a simple log cabin—yet the cabin had been reassembled on the rooftop of Fulcrum City’s tallest building. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

People were clogging the streets around the White House, spilling out of restaurants, hotels, and apartment buildings, filling the night air with celebratory shouts. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

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

Billed as “the finest building of its kind in Oklahoma,” the theater had Greek columns and murals and a necklace of lights around the stage. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A bedraggled figure slowly made his way up the front steps of our building and appeared at our apartment door. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Will saw him reach for the phone, and left the building quickly. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

On June 1, 1919, seven explosives in five eastern cities tore apart homes and public buildings. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Before I could unstick my throat, she stopped in front of me and pulled open the door to the art building. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The building provided some insulation from the cold. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

More than two hundred other buildings erected by states, corporations, and foreign governments stippled the surrounding acreage. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Inside the main building, we walked past empty offices in a long, empty white hallway, saying, “Hello?” and “Where is everybody?” and “This place is weird.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

When the cab driver pulled over in front of the building, the meter said $76.50. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed to a brick chimney towering over a flat-roofed building where a thin line of smoke curled lazily into the air. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up in those big five-story apartment buildings and the narrow wooden houses in between people knock on each Other’s doors to see if anything is needed or can be had. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

LeAlan: When we were knocking on the doors of the apartment building where it happened—I mean, this touched me—a young man that answered the door said he was thirty-seven years old. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It has been years since I jumped off a building in my Abnegation uniform; it has been decades. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Other folks were also moving into abandoned buildings, she said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In that particular flat-building and all the neighboring buildings, creaky shutters were closed and tied with petticoat strings to the window bars. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I try to make this building like an island for all of us washed-ashore refugees. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

The higher floors of the buildings were all dark. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Those who needed to be out and about were on bicycles making their way from one building to another. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Christmas lights were draped across the eaves of every house and building that they drove past. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

His bowels seemed weighted with lead, and he walked slowly and lingered against fences and the cold, wet walls of buildings by the way. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then he put his arms around me and gently led me into the court building. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She ran to the building and disappeared around a corner. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He even wrung his hand and hopped on one foot so that the building shook. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I was put in a building that had once, I was told, been a barracks for SS officers. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

After acknowledging Simplicio’s death and naming the waterfall after him, the men once again began the backbreaking job of building another portage. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

One building had a row of giant oil lamps over the entrance to promote a sale on until October 31. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

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

Four cables, attached to tracks on the buildings, break through the stones, dragging up the net that encases Mitchell. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The only time any of their buildings showed was at low tide. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

I walked out of the building with a queer feeling that I was playing a part in some scheme which I did not understand. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the buildings were new to her, but the grid of downtown streets seemed familiar. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Meggie saw multistory buildings, palm trees with dusty leaves, and, suddenly, still far away but shining silver in the sun, a glimpse of the sea. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

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

They lived in the same apartment building—but what did that mean? We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Because now she was pretty certain that “bandits” had, at one time or another, “crawled in” to this building back when it was a bank. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

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

It was afternoon by the time they got to the last round, and Mrs. Olinski sat shivering in a windowless room in a building big enough and official enough to have its own zip code. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

To the boy, the sounds were alarm bells ringing off the bricks of the school building, making his stomach ache as he forced down his lunch of a browned biscuit smeared with lard. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I moved what I had been building into the living room and it got even bigger. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

We did not stay because the building was big and old and when the bathroom ceiling fell into the bathtub, my mother said, I am not Henny Penny and that is not the sky! Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Entire buildings of people, it sounds like, all of them working too many hours to count. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Alba saw a van pull up before one of the public buildings. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn the key in the lock without fanfare, intent on making it out of the building without being sighted. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

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

Glass office buildings stood next to excavation sites. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Money might be part of the American Dream, but it isn’t all of it. Like a building doesn’t make a home.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

The doors looked like they were made out of chopped-down trees just like the rest of the building. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

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

“Owns lots of property besides our building, and does other business too.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I thought—But now the song was ending and the building rang with applause, yells, until the chant burst from the rear and spread: No more dispossessing of the dispossessed! Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later that Tuesday morning, Tony Russo pulled into the driveway of his apartment building. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

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

And he has been considering the example of his future father-in-law, Daniel Chalmers, a Baptist missionary to the Philippines who ended up building power plants there and making a small fortune. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

But as Cressida gets Castor and Pollux in place, I feel my anxiety building. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

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

After Strong described at dinner one evening his experiences supervising the carpenters, plumbers, and electricians building his house, Lawrence drove him up the hill to the Rad Lab site. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The five stood in front of a brick building and all smiled widely. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

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

I’d written down details about her class, like what time it ended and what building it was held in. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Wooden houses and small brick buildings lined the river and rose in uneven stacks on both hillsides. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I leaned up against the side of the building, watching the people come in and out. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The expedited work was finished by the end of May, and a vast circular building near Strawberry Canyon originally designed to house the world’s biggest cyclotron became the headquarters of an entirely different project. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

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

She was building quite a reputation in a short amount of time. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“During the first weeks she boarded at a distance, but later, from about the 1st of March until the 15th of May, 1893, she occupied rooms in the same building and adjoining my offices.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I mean, before they came here I could stand it, being alone in the building. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s a museum,” Poppet says, overlaying the pieces in her mind and seeing where they match up with the building she has already seen in the stars. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I imagined where the buildings stood, almost as I once did nosing around old Roman villas in Europe. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thunderous boom of artillery fire shook the building. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Isaac ran toward a nondescript building while Augustus fired a machine gun wildly in a series of quick bursts, running behind him. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Interesting that it is much more like elfin architecture than goblin architecture. They must have based these buildings on elfin cities.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

A two-story gray building that had been a store downstairs and had an apartment upstairs. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“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

Then, just as in the front part of the building, there’s an attic and a loft. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I don’t intend to talk to Four—at least, not until I find out where he’s going, late at night, in the glass building above us. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Victor walks into the building—undisclosed location, of course—with Andrea Donahue, a coworker who doesn’t stop to admire the portraits of smiling Victorians and past presidents on the yellow walls. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

No rain came through the roof; it had the best bed I had ever slept on; and there was a shower in a building near the dormitory. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

The swimming pool, certain shops on a certain street, Stop & Shop, this dorm, the buildings that house my classes—all of these are as safe as it gets, which is still not nearly safe enough. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I stare down the building’s steel girders and black windows, all the way to the cracked sidewalk. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She stretched out an arm and motioned at the line of eight weathered wooden buildings. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The fair’s main buildings would rise along the lagoon’s outer banks. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

When he comes to school age, the magnificent buildings are already there to receive him; the ample staff of teachers welcomes him with open arms. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The man was mounting a ladder which had been hoisted up the side of the building from the ground. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

I turned down a side street of narrow limestone offices, stopped at the third building, and wheeled my bicycle through its wrought-iron gates. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

With each production, they set an incredibly high goal and go about building something. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

They had us dig out the foundation for the Factory, but the camp controllers didn’t trust us with the actual building of it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

As we approached the outskirts of town, there was traffic, and buildings, and lights, and people on the streets. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

For the next few weeks I stuck with Captain Carroll and other military personnel, continuing to write my story, more sympathetic than Farmer had been to their mission of nation building. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I stop in the backyard, holding my valise and staring at the long flat building behind the house. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

No matter where I was in the building I could hear the blast. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Below him spread the city of Bologna—a jigsaw puzzle of red-tiled buildings in a valley hemmed by green hills. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Go inside. Report to Window Three for your IDs. It will be on your right as you enter the building.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

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

For a long time I looked at a picture of the building they called Commons. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

In London, night came too soon, it hung in the morning air like a threat, and then in the afternoon a blue-gray dusk descended, and the Victorian buildings all wore a mournful air. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The building was on the corner and one side went straight down. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look toward the Hancock building, which is so far from where I stand that I can’t see the people on its roof. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Each fort had a rough building surrounded by tall dirt-and-stone walls and deep trenches. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Sullivan had already modified his own building, at Burnham’s suggestion. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I remember crying and running to our bedroom and spending the next hour building a pirate Lego set. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Disappointment is building in me, and impatience; and then anxiety. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, the cab pulled up in front of my new apartment building, a slate-gray monolith on the banks of the Scioto, just at the edge of the Twin Rivers ghetto. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He owned apartment buildings and, later, pool halls, and was famous for being that rarity “a man of honor.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The air inside the building is cool; the lobby is empty and dim. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Once we’re back on the bus, I stare out the window at the buildings and cars, and especially the people. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

The school year started in early August, and as soon as we walked into the building, everyone said hello to her, including all the cute boys. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

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

At its fiercest, such a whirlwind could rip a roof off a house and pick up the building’s contents. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The tower was silver and tall and I could see Salim was impressed with London because he looked at the tall buildings with his eyes wide open and his mouth open. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

A green, spacious campus with white buildings, great trees streaming Spanish moss. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They crossed the busy street and followed the white tents around the side of the building to the pier, where a maze of additional tents stretched ahead of them. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The park was the site of an old sawmill, now abandoned, but the outer walls of the mill building still stood, square, like a fort, in the middle of the field. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

A tangy scent of ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg and chocolate wafted around the home eco-nomics building as the budding cooks made samples for themselves and their teachers. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man who sold ladies’ products on the side; a familiar figure in just about every building in town. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Following a long Klan tradition of secrecy, the building was officially the headquarters of an organization called the Town and Country Sportsman’s Club. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, the skyline has changed: the Park Plaza is no longer the tallest building around, but a squat leftover, dwarfed by the svelte glassy towers that rise around it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I once scaled a four-story building in less than five seconds. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Well beyond the gibbet, two men in mail hauberks stood leaning on their spears in front of the long low building by the water, the one with the slate roof. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They were soon engulfed by office buildings so tall Emily couldn’t see the tops from where she sat. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

As we waited for a streetcar to take us to Aunt Cleo’s home for temporary lodging, I looked northward at towering buildings of steel and stone. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Younger people leaned into the wind that swirled along the edges of the buildings. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gray smoke formed a giant cloud that hung over the buildings and expanded outward like paint slowly being spilled onto an empty canvas. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

She’s creating drama, building tension, and preparing to expose the truth, the whole truth. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

The Anatomy House of the Proctor Medical School was three blocks away from the main building, second from last on the dead-end street. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

There’s someone else in this building dealing with something hard. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

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

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

I found a small building near downtown Montgomery, and in the summer of 1989 we signed a lease. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

His cell might be at the heart of the building, or against its outer wall; it might be ten floors below ground, or thirty above it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Then we could share an apartment in a tall building, the way she’d always dreamed. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“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

He paddled to the pink brick building, where the water met the church’s higher steps, and she lifted herself out. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

They reached the first of the modern buildings and Mr. Grin pressed his hand against a glass plate next to the door. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Five years feels like a lifetime when one day bleeds into the next, and your world doesn’t stretch any farther than the gray electric fence surrounding two miles of shoddy buildings and mud. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He slammed a stone column out of his way like a stack of building blocks. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Its massive spreading branches seemed to be enfolding and embracing the tiny building, and perhaps hiding it as well from the rest of the world. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

When I was building, I forgot about everything else. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

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

He had instructed them not to come out of the building wearing a mask or a protective suit. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There weren’t any buildings nearby, and no aircraft were parked there during the day. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The boom-bap of early hip- hop, still young and close to its Bronx roots, tumbled out of the apartment buildings, mixed with Spanish music blaring from boom boxes. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The Executives bustled them into the classroom building, which had seemed large enough from the outside but was perfectly enormous within. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

And part of my history in this building. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Holmes checked newspaper advertisements for a rental flat far enough from his building to make impromptu visits unlikely. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

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

Years and years and years ago the buildings used to be fancy, Ty'ree says. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

About twenty-five minutes later, the country gives way to a few buildings in the distance. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

They were inside the building now, and Finn had never felt so small before in his life. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

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

The building of organs and structures, Lewis concluded, is encoded by master-regulatory “effector” genes that work like autonomous units or subroutines. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later his wife walked out of the building with Hall’s folder in her purse. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Like all the other buildings around it, it is made of glass and steel. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

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

Because of the time of year, the sun was already setting behind the buildings. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and the workers ate on the patio outside of the administration building. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The outdoor path only goes so far—past twenty cages and a storage building—until it ends abruptly at a black iron fence. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The bosses had decided the Pentagon Papers were too hot to handle in the Times building, so Sheehan had moved his operation to the Hilton. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

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

He hated Fords with a deadly hatred, but they were daily building his fortune. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we had to trot down the middle of the street because the walls of buildings had crumpled and spilled over the sidewalks. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

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

It was, in fact, nearly identical to all the buildings around it, with one exception: it was totally encased in ice. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

As I’m walking back to my building, I get a text from Darius. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

We enter the building and are greeted by the almost musical ring of clashing scims. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She’d seen the Museum of Natural Wonders many times on her strolls but never knew what the squat limestone building was for. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

A hayloft spanning an entire side of the building served as a feedbox. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

After picking up materials from Gold, Sam would head for the Soviet consulate, a three-story building in Manhattan. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She watched from the window as they trudged along the long sidewalk back into the main school building. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

They were rolling dice so they would bounce up against the building. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the back of the building were the cooking and sewing labs with their banks of stoves and Singers. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

Palmer believed the building could accommodate all the contributions, especially those sent by prominent women. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Are bones, pieces of building still buried here? Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

She moved around the edge of the square building, looking for a window. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Then the two sisters leaped off the apartment building and soared toward him. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The building used to be a Pick-It'Quick store, and when you walk in the front door, the first thing you see is the Pick- It-Quick motto. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

One day an errand took him to a long building called a ropewalk. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It showed the Baptistry in Florence, an octagonal building, and something of the buildings on either side. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Gene Johnson, poking his head around the comer of the building, reported that the coast was clear. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“In which building is the pope?” one woman asked. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But even though his deafness prevented him from hearing Merrithew crying out for help, he knew his coworker and friend was in the building and in serious trouble. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“The math department is in the science building,” the TA said. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

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

Current Mom is too scared of my flinging myself off a building to be mad at me. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

And even this enormous force might not have overcome the empire if while Cortes was building his ships Tenochtitlan had not been swept by smallpox in the same pandemic that later wiped out Tawantinsuyu. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

As people moved out, their houses were bulldozed and the rubble was neatly, fastidiously cleared away until there were almost no buildings remaining. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The decon team taped the exterior doors, windows, and vents of the building with silver duct tape. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After asking several widows, I found the government building where pensions were given out. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

They’d have to feed her before long, and that meant tying up the canoe, building a fire, heating the saucepan. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

And nestled between the woods and the creek were the same cabins—a crazy assortment of twelve buildings, each representing a different Olympian god. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Once inside, we walk through a lobby that seems more like an office building than a hospital. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

When the driver pulls up to the glass building above the Dauntless compound, Eric is waiting for me by the door. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

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

"I didn't know . . . please . . ." "Send Dr. Bledsoe to me," he said, turning away and swinging up the graveled path to the building. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I follow the rise of a rugged, green landscape, dotted with houses and buildings that look so tiny from here, they’re almost unnoticeable. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

They surrounded the property and a handful of officers entered the main building and the principal outbuilding. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stood in front of a brick building. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There it was, hanging in the sky above the school: the blazing green skull with a serpent tongue, the mark Death Eaters left behind whenever they had entered a building...wherever they had murdered... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Whitby had surely been driven by numb, mechanical logic when he had chosen the Cold Storage building as the place to set the first fire. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

As Meng and Pa talk, I lean against the railing and look at the movie theater across the street from our apartment building. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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 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

The noise level in the Garden was building, like a drumroll. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He points downtown at a building just past the cheap pizza place: Montego’s Discount Warehouse, advertising its tremendous deals with a waving plastic banner. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I felt like a poor person in a tenement building, when someone has died, asking if I might see the body. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The building was a twelve-story showcase of modern architecture, all glass and concrete, rising like a mirage from the site of Benjamin Duke’s old estate, Four Acres. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“We need to go farther into campus to find the building we want—Sever Hall.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

We were in front of a new white building with dark tinted windows that looked like a bank or a fancy office. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The buildings didn’t even always look like goblin buildings. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

As Holmes dreamed and sketched, the features of his building became more elaborate and satisfying. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Around to the other side of the building, tanker trucks pump in thousands of gallons of liquefied fat, usually beef fat from a nearby slaughterhouse. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

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

“There was no sound. People, yes, screaming, complaining. But the building seemed to still, hush for half a second. It hit me, ‘We’re going to die.’” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

And I turn a sharp left down the dank alley toward the A building, alone. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I think it must be another building like the building, filled with long creaky corridors and shelves of pickled lizards and ox eyes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was almost past understanding: Grover was whole or part owner of any number of buildings and restaurants. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hotel had these really cool elevators that sort of hang on the side of the building, with the whole car exposed. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

One of the first things he intended to do after he deposed the chaplain was move back into the Group Headquarters building, where he could be right in the thick of things. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

We passed more buildings — huts and shacks and gray, peeling businesses — all abandoned. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

To my right was a pillared building whose four cupolas dominated the skyline. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Had a midnight bar mitzvah in the basement of an abandoned building. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

They sat on the curb in front of the building and ate crackers and looked for the town but they couldnt find it. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

It felt like we were the only ones left in the building. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Aunty Ifeoma had told me not to bother the ants, since they hurt no one and you could never really get rid of them anyway; they were as old as the building itself. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Parts of the structure were used as a vocational shop until the roof burned down in 1984, when the building was permanently closed—boarded up and fenced in though, inexplicably, not removed. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the photograph, there are hulking concrete buildings with narrow windows along the block. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

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

The building itself feels old and a little intimidating. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The unit had to be sent away for rebuilding, which meant taking down a wall of the building erected around it and returning it to the manufacturer by ferry. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

For even if the answer had been yes, our model building would have gone ahead. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

An elegant dome punctuated the cluster of official-looking buildings in downtown Brooklyn, and there was the wide stretch of Flatbush Avenue that ran from the ferry terminal up to the top of Dactyl Hill. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It then trickled along chutes that zigzagged along the side of the building, causing a series of water wheels with spokes to ping three sets of miniature wind chimes as they rotated. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

In Pyongyang, the weary prisoners were confined with several hundred others in an abandoned school building, where they remained for nearly two months. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

We are all still looking at this building, this long-abandoned building that cannot possibly hold anything but corpses. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was the old Jansenist antiscience creed that was building up in him, but for whatever the reason, Pascal’s newfound devotion led him to abandon mathematics and science altogether. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

There was a bland brick building that looked more like a bank than anything else until she noticed the lit-up marquee that read THE FILLMORE. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Still soaking wet from the fire hoses, she planted her large body in the doorway of the building. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I had to hurl myself from a building to escape from it.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

A big man walked slowly around the building. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I do want this to be foolproof,” Joe murmured as he twisted a tiny screw into whatever he was building on the floor. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

"Musicians' building for him, girls' building L410 for her," the guard tells the registrar while lighting a cigarette. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was a doorman building, very different from the apartments I was used to in North River Heights. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

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

“He won’t even talk to me. Just shuts up in class, goes home and does his homework. Probably building model railways.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Halfway down the street, he slipped into a building with grimy windows and a swinging metal sign overhead: a frothing mug surrounded by a circle of twisted rope. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

There are two deliverymen watching her, either interested in catching her with the couch they’re moving into the building or else placing bets on if she’s a Decker or not. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

A dozen boys were loafing there on the grass after dinner, and a kitchen rattle from the wing of one of the buildings accompanied their talk. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I didn’t wanna speak, out of fear that the sound might crumble my building. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“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

An official came out of the unfinished terminal building nearby and shook Richard’s hand. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

Again he emphasized that he wanted to put off more model building until Rosy was gone, six weeks from then. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I was aware of absolutely nothing outside myself on the drive to Daisy’s apartment building and then to my house. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

We jump out of the truck bed and line up, then walk to the schoolhouse, a small clapboard building with a bell in front. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

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

“He told me he was on the street, that he’d gotten out of the building. He said he was walking home.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The entire edge of the glacier peeled away, cascading into the void—carrying buildings, ghosts, and Percy Jackson over the edge. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

When I get home, Ollie is waiting on the doorstep of my building. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

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

Design specifications required that every building be surrounded by an underwater main and be plumbed with interior standpipes. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In the end, Berkeley got approval for a Bevatron to produce 6-billion-volt protons, satisfying Lawrence’s predilection for building as big as he could. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The wind made the building creak and groan. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He is still screaming when I shove him into the broken building. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Behind us the walkway extended to City Hall, where the city had sprung for some spotlights to illuminate the dome of the building. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

At first, Latimer said, Pitezel took care of the horses involved in the construction of Holmes’s building, but later he became his all-round assistant. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Everything sufficiently distant—people, trees, buildings—is squashed into a zero-dimensional point and disappears. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

They found a big trash heap and a multiroomed building with no pottery and a few maize cobs under the pounded clay floor. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It's parked in front of a tan building with the number 345 in white scrolled numbers on the glass door entrance. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The cabins were the weirdest collection of buildings you’ve ever seen. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Everybody around here called it the crazy building. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We take an elevator to the roof of the building, where a set of tall glass doors slides open for us. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She remembered how intimidating the building had seemed. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The noise was so pervasive that I even thought I heard the movements of those giant presses in the walls and the ceiling, as though the building itself were a vast meat grinder. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

In the shadows, Jack saw bedraggled men in blue-and-gray-striped uniforms, hurrying from one building to the next. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Very soon the thorned fence they were building would enclose the area completely; she supposed they would create some kind of gate, and then they would shove their chickens and their tykes inside. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here and there, in rooms all over the building, some of the animals stared from glazed eyes in masklike faces, and some of them had blood running from their orifices. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the street, behind the buildings, the sun continues its fall. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The Glasses had a fifth-story apartment, a story higher than the school building, and at this hour the sun was shining over the school roof and through the Glasses’ naked living-room windows. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

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

Burkhart was brought into a room on the third floor of a federal building in Guthrie, which was being used as a makeshift interrogation room: the box. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They’ve filled almost every spare inch of the vessel when the entire group finds themselves on the twelfth floor—part of one last sweep through the lower half of the building. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

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

But that wouldn’t stop the Soviet Union from building an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quickly men with flashlights came down off the train, and more came out of some buildings over the tracks. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

In a great blur of snow and silvery glass the building’s roof—that marvel of late nineteenth-century hubris, enclosing the greatest volume of unobstructed space in history—collapsed to the floor below. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

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

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

I see a man walking in the distance when I turn to the buildings. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Soon her name began to appear on government buildings. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Our great grandfathers built stone walls and buildings that are standing today. In Europe some have been standing since the year 1000.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

For Bobby, the building was a totemic destination since it also contained the offices of the U.S. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I rounded a corner and saw that the path led directly to a large brick building. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The pair stood and chatted beside two armchairs, beneath one of the dark wooden arches that are found throughout the grand building. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

This is certainly possible, but we do have some theoretical reasons for believing that we have, or are very near to, a knowledge of the ultimate building blocks of nature. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about Rosamund and wondered what new thing she was building now. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I walked to the side of the building where the entrance was that month because the front entrance was being renovated. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

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

The white schoolchildren were filing out of a large, red-brick building with many large windows, in front of which were beds of multi-coloured flowers. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sixty people died building the Twin Towers, architectural marvels that would forever symbolically represent the strength of America and its principles of democracy and capitalism.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was examining the writings on the walls of the building, and he read some of them aloud. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Holmes sat in his cell at Moyamensing Prison, a large turreted and crenellated building at Tenth and Reed streets, in south Philadelphia. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The only similarity between the rest of the town and the church is the small windows covered with iron bars, but the shambler proofing is barely noticeable on such an impressive building. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Whoa, look at that building! It has to be at least a hundred stories high, don’t you think? ’ The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Twenty-year-old Walter Merrithew was at the building nearest the wharf called Number 3 freight house, helping one of the wagon drivers load goods for delivery. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The old woman brushed crumbs from her lap and leaned against the building directly behind them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“He’s on transportation duty and I get mysteries. I see you building your harem of manservants.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

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

I also saw a pack of those gold star stickers Rose had stuck on her buildings. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

A chorus of horns answered from all around us, echoing off the buildings of Manhattan. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

On Sunday, July 27, the storm that had been building for so long blew the city apart. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He would have said the building was Elizabethan. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

A long time they served in that grand building, and the story does not say whether they ever missed their little cozy room with its cheerful hearth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In all, eleven buildings and several cars were set on fire. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Werner watches the interior of the building slide past in amazement. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

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

Smoke filled the caverns between buildings and reduced lateral visibility to a few blocks. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

"Guess we better start building us an ark. Get two of each animal, right?" Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

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

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

“Oh, well, they’re in storage in another part of the building.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

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 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

The Golden Hall was arrayed with fair hangings and it was filled with light, and there was held the highest feast that it had known since the days of its building. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Now a stranger was taking him into a heavily guarded building— and advising him to run if police tried to apprehend him. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Actually, mostly Canton just sat around the front of the building listening to Mr. Munch complain about things like the school bathrooms. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

He gestured to the side of the building with his chin. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Insects were like death to a poultry plant, so the lights were allowed to shine on the building but no lights could be attached to it. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if the very buildings—this very alley—were suddenly holding their breath. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Shay’s face looked monstrous in the glare, and sparks floated downward to be lost in the depths of the wrecked building. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Um...it’s that huge building across the lawn,” the kid said, eyeing her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Then the man with the pipe spoke up, a swift charge of tension building with his words. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

Her stealing my Legos for whatever she was building over on her side of the room. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Mom’s office was in a building that had been a big house before Liberation. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I know I shouldn’t be doing this, but I’ve been building up to it all day. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am standing against a building, the back of my head pressed against the bricks, watching adults take my place over Max. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Now the crew waited on the building inspector. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw it as building a fan base for his future as World-Famous Rock Star. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Its main building was red brick with white columns, its porch decorated with wide chairs and chandeliers. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

The stable had been destroyed, along with the fire department and almost every other building around that part of the waterfront. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

“We simply cannot have unsupervised boys entering the girls’ building. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

To reach our apartment building, we had to round a corner by one of the ghetto gates where several guards always stood on sentry duty. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The only problem was, people in the Muslim community often referred to me as “the Olympic fencer” because I was building a reputation as a professional athlete who competed on a United States national team. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

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

“I’m going to try to jump to the other building,” Benny said, his eyes searching Big Time’s face. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the yellow-gray buildings on the lakefront were demolished, shortly after Venkatesh’s first visit, the gang relocated to another housing project even deeper in Chicago’s south side. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“Not me, exactly, but the work on my tiny house. We’re building tomorrow. Maybe you can use the footage for your submission...if you wanted. A killing-two-birds-with-one-stone sort of thing.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

They sped toward the fire until they could see the flames blooming white and orange between buildings and over treetops. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He lived alone in this deteriorating, blind building of a thousand uninhabited apartments, which like all its counterparts, fell, day by day, into greater entropic ruin. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The Olympic Village was actually made up of more than thirty white high-rise apartment buildings meant to house the 18,000 Olympic athletes coming to the city. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

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

I snapped my one brick into place on the building I had been working on. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I wait a bit, then sneak to the other side of the building and peek around the corner: no one. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I should have asked, I should, have asked....But then, like a building wave, I felt the heat pouring off of him. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The building was a private venture: Burnham had nothing to do with its construction beyond approving its design. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The Berg stopped up ahead, its blue thrusters pointing downward now as it hovered fifty feet or so above the Town Square, a roughly square-shaped area they’d left bare when building the settlement. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

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

The biggest building always seems to be the Pentecostal or Adventist church. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

From the courtyard, she could hear the other slaves shuffling toward the wooden building where they slept. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It’s awful seeing the plane fly closer and closer, its silver nose pointed at the building. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

These four stages establish the fundamental building blocks for children to develop musical literacy. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

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

The windows of their building were securely screened, though. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea on the ground was to get away from buildings, vehicles and other people. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

This sometimes means running from one end of the building to the other, but it’s worth every step. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Technically, no one was supposed to be living in the building, so the restaurant served as the perfect cover-up for all the people coming and going. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Through his delirium, Nailer could see his father’s building willingness to do violence. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sylvan Memorial Hospital was a low brick building with one wing for whites and one for blacks. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in the moonlight, what I discovered was that between the palace and the next building there existed only a slight separation. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

From the balcony, we could watch the athletes from all over the world coming and going to the surrounding buildings, jogging along the footpaths, or doing laps in the pool. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In a moment the green campus with its vine-covered buildings was behind us. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

We watch him leave, his path taking him to the saloon, and after he's entered the building I pinch Katherine's arm. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

There was a good quarry of limestone on the farm, and plenty of sand and cement had been found in one of the outhouses, so that all the materials for building were at hand. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The farther they climbed, the larger the buildings grew. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

No one is allowed to leave his respective building with keys, and no one is allowed to leave keys on a desk. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“What a small world, right? I grew up in that building,” Mrs. Hidalgo said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The Hotel Barba, where we lived in Italy, was a cement building plopped on a hill. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The photo shoot is in a building cold enough to store ice. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

She had slammed it shut on leaving, but had not locked the dead bolt; after all, not even a burglar could get into a snowbound building. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just before the building curves, they disappear behind one of the columns. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

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

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

The building on my left overlaps with Erudite headquarters on its far left side. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

At one corner of the crossroads stood the most impressive building—a two-story wedge of white marble with a columned portico like an old-fashioned bank. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Several people sent letters that recommended constructing a small building outside Garfield's window and filling it with ice. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Although the township did boast some handsome buildings, it could fairly be described as a slum, living testimony to the neglect of the authorities. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had completed their snow fort and were building up a supply of snowballs for the coming attack. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

It may well be that foragers switched from gathering wild wheat to intense wheat cultivation, not to increase their normal food supply, but rather to support the building and running of a temple. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guard led Stanley into the building, where he felt the welcome relief of air-conditioning. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The only buildings here were tiny log- and-mortar cabins, replicas of the army’s shelters. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the streets, Rasheed named various buildings with authority; this is the American Embassy, he said, that the Foreign Ministry. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Officials and lawmakers now had to balance any spending on science against other burgeoning demands—for social programs, highways, school buildings, and other physical infrastructure. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

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

Which means all the guns in this building should be disabled for exactly two minutes. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

And when he’s moving at a trot to catch up, I make an unexpected dart through the front door of an apartment building. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Frank Millet’s “Whitewash Gang” worked furiously to paint the buildings of the Court of Honor. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Then someone who had just stepped out of the building walked over to us. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I stand at the entrance to the building, blinking, struggling to take it in. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The building of the windmill, with various other improvements, was expected to take two years. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

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

I kept looking for Irene on the beach, relieved, somehow, to see her there, her face shaded by a white baseball cap, her hands busy building something in the thick sand. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

"Not sure. A museum, I think. And more buildings." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“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

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

All the way upstairs they went, and when they got to the top, Franz bypassed the bedrooms, snuffled urgently, and pawed the door that led into the building hallway. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The narrow street was lined with four- and five-story brick tenement buildings, many of them in the process of being torn down and replaced. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there is a second, less celebrated type of volcano that doesn’t involve mountain building. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Think—hundreds of kids and grown-ups go in and out of this building all day. There are cleaning people in here at night. What’s a place that no one would disturb?” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He saw me outside the building, not in it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

On Saturdays I no longer go to the building. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

A gun barrel pressed to my spine urges me forward, through the front doors of Abnegation headquarters, a plain gray building, two stories high. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“When I first came here, ” she said, “I had a little room in a building right about there where the firehouse is now.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The surrounding buildings are half-collapsed and appear to be abandoned, which is probably why I never noticed the Dauntless compound before. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It sparkles my face, washes my lungs, cools the building heat of my body. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

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

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

What was more, ever since arriving in Boston I’d kept catching glimpses of people I thought were him: dark figures dashing by in taxicabs, disappearing into office buildings. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Finally, Frankie said, “The firefighters have to still be fighting the fire, but who knows when they’ll be allowed to try to come back in the building.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

They did not want to give offense by asking for breathing equipment, not at this delicate moment, not when they had finally gotten their first chance to look at the building. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Toward the back of the building are two large tables of boys and girls, all Negroes, hungrily shoveling food off tin plates. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

A couple was making out in the shadows of the building. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The howl of protest that went up all around the building surprised even me. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

Once I slid down a zip line from the Hancock building and imagined what the marsh looked like full of water, blue-gray and gleaming under the sun. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“When you negotiate with the customer in Japan for building a house,” he explained, “you would sketch out a floor plan—most of these companies don’t use computers.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

We paused on East 53rd Street, where a new building was being built. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

It's one of the oldest buildings in Amsterdam, a convent from the fifteenth century, and the address Ollie gave me is on the same street. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He pointed out that St. Helens didn’t have an open vent, as Hawaiian volcanoes have, so any pressure building up inside was bound to be released dramatically and probably catastrophically. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“He’s a genius. Look at the curves on this building!” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

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

Neither the costs nor the troubles we met building Dragonwings could stop us. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Drive it all the way to New Jersey? And then back to your building?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

Heavy rain pelted against the tin roof of the school building. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

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

“When we go to college, we’re not going to live in a dormitory. We’re going to live on the very top floor of a tall apartment building. I’ll be in graduate school.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The street is dark, and the building looks ancient and abandoned. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

For the first mile or so, I feel high and excited, like I just ran into a burning building and saved lives, like I’m some sort of hero. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I can only afford to pay off one debt at a time. So for now we are going to say we are building a bomb shelter.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Paying people’s tuition in hopes of building a better future. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

They stumbled away to join Billy, who was beckoning from the corner of the main building. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn't a big company, just a small rural enterprise run by a couple of brothers operating out of a low-ceilinged concrete building. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The Space Task Group set up shop on Langley’s East Side in some of the laboratory’s oldest buildings. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

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 we approached behind them, we could see only the clusters of white people that stretched for a distance of two blocks along the entire span of the school building. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three demigods stared up at the buildings <5f drizzly downtown Portland. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

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

The open, sunny, fresh-aired summit of Greylock is crowned with a large, handsome stone building called Bascom Lodge, built in the 1930s by the tireless cadres of the Civilian Conservation Corps. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

They chose our company because we protect buildings with a combination of guards, dogs, and sensors. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Superman burst through walls, lifted cars, and caught people falling out of buildings before they hit the ground. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Turning, they ran to the front of the building, lined up in two long lines, and marching like little tin soldiers disappeared inside the school. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

"That there's a heap of building. Where 'bouts?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found the building where Heisenberg was scheduled to talk, entered, located the correct room, and hung his hat and coat in the hall. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young woman at the reception desk inside the foyer of the main building looks at Alicia, takes in the whole picture, and then says, "Miss? May I help you find someone?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

It was a regular stone building with a bunch of windows. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I figured you were the only kid in the building, so it had to be you.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The door’s padlocked, but it don’t take much to get in, ’cause the top of the building’s open where some of the roof’s blown away. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was located in a single-story building near the county courthouse. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

A traffic cop’s whistle was shrieking at the intersection as we crossed back to the building. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The older man that Miles and I saw in the laundry room the other day—Mr. Hollins—gets out of the car that just parked, and he passes by us as he enters the building. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

All of them were lined with old two-story stone buildings, the wood of their window frames and doors long unpainted. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Boss and Murphy were now out of the car as well, running toward the building. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The writer lived in the same building as her lover. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The few people entering the building had to be the last of the PFC workers, fleeing the East once and for all. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The building’s buzzer was broken, so the door was held open with a brick. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was a red brick building with skylights in the high ceiling, so that whatever sun made it in lit up the dusty beams and long fluorescent light fixtures suspended from them. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Claire hiked away from the education buildings and hesitated at the corner, where several paths intersected. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

At a place called Camp Davis, a holiday complex, forty-six people, mostly women and children, took refuge from the rising flood waters in the camp’s main building. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Rani picks a tree by a small lake, not too far from the building where the family lives, to be our new home. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

When we get outside to the patch of grass in front of the building, Tank immediately starts doing his business. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

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

We got in and headed to the isolation ward at the top of the building. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Minutes later, they were sitting across from each other at a small table in the building’s common room. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Then another voice came from inside the building: “Percy?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

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

As model building did not appeal to her, at no time did she mention Pauling’s triumph over the a-helix. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

This building was probably the safest place for him and Wylan to be at the moment. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Beyond the stream there was a rise and atop the rise was a large red building with a white cupola. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I climb to the roof of a nearby building. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

We exit the building and cross the street. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

My plane whirled around a bit before getting sucked between the buildings. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

My playmates and I carved them and played war games in the coffee farms and unfinished buildings at my grandmother’s village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

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

“Speaking of building, we found this great place to build a new shelter!” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He was building a stone wall out of boulders. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He could have used his sound magic to blow up buildings or kill people. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Just the building settling,” Radar whispers, but he seems less sure than usual. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I rushed into the building and ran toward the bathroom door. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

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

Up ahead at the circular entrance is the biggest fountain I have ever seen, and a building that straight up looks like a castle. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

It was a huge, cavernous building, the largest I’d ever been in. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Little Willy went to see Mayor Smiley at the city hall building in town to sign up for the race. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nondescript grey stone renders it indistinguishable from the surrounding buildings save for a tarnished sign hanging by the door. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

"We remain here until the building fills," Brother Jack said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the task of building a new society—with the many opportunities it embodied—fell to the coloreds as well. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

One thing about Cap—it did take a brick building to fall on him. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He nods, and we continue through the unmarked snow to the building where I last saw my mother. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Come on,” Sohrab said, leading me around the back of the squat building. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Is it because you are a mambo—a Vodou priestess who held ceremonies in the courtyard of a Christian NGO building? American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A handful of men had jobs building tracks for the steam railway that skirted the village. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Another visitor, hunting for an exhibit of wax figures, asked a guard, “Can you tell me where the building is that has the artificial human beings?” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She took in the gleaming tower of an office building, the blue sky reflected off its sides. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I see the haze before I see the building. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

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

We followed the other workers into a nearby building. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

At least that was what it would be able to do once Dad finished building it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But when Annabeth set it on the ground, the reflection on the polished metal changed from sky and buildings to the Statue of Liberty—which wasn’t anywhere close to us. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

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

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

I had heard about the spacious classrooms, the tall buildings, and the huge, well-equipped gymnasiums. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We ran into the building and congregated around the double doors in the back. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tryouts were to be held on the field of the Clarkston Community Center, an old brick and cream-colored clapboard building on Indian Creek Drive. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“You poor kids!” panted the driver as he maneuvered between the buildings. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

We went deeper into the city, and low buildings gave way to taller shops and inns. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Wasting no time, I plunged down the narrow passage between the buildings, clambered up the wall, and slipped down into the garden a second time. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

The security detail walks me into the admin building through a dimly lit hallway, passing the Director’s empty office, and through a door I’ve never seen. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I ran headlong around the side of the administration building, focusing on speed and keeping Otto safe and not giving a thought to my direction. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

The buildings, in fact, had been designed to maximize the salvage value of their components. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Their power, building and building, comes from grief. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, a sharp-eyed woman looking out a third-story window in a building across the street saw it there. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because Prism is the most beautiful building I’ve ever seen in my life. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Most streets in the city were unpaved and had no system of covered sewers and pipes to channel water away from buildings. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

There were other buildings, usually the outlying ones, that were virtually falling down, which we couldn’t use for much, but for which we felt in some vague way responsible—mainly on account of Keffers. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Camila and Mya have visited me here a million times in the past decade, and they still can’t get from the lobby to my room without asking every person in the building for directions. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

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

They are blue and, judging by the holes in the building to my right, used to be windows. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Trying to be subtle, I manage a few questions about Oscar in between others on chisel position and model building. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I sit on the bench across from the building; it's dark enough to let my tears fall. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

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

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

It was a silvery building, nothing fancy, with plain white curtains and a carved stone owl over the doorway. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

For the first time in a long time, the building was blissfully silent. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Their guide gestured to a nearby building that appeared to be abandoned. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

A building proclaims the architect’s concerns by the way in which it weaves these elements into a coherent program. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

We keep walking and not talking until we get to a giant concrete and glass monstrosity of a building. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I'm hoping that your view isn't of a parking lot or the side of a building. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“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

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

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

Mike laughed again, giving Chubs’s shoulder a squeeze before he hopped up the steps, ducking under a white sheet that had been strung up over the building’s small porch. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Then, after retrieving him from the water, they formed a phalanx, forced their way into the building, and slid the doors closed behind themselves, letting in only a few Seattle pressmen. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It starts with a scary chase sequence and ends with me falling off a building, where the fall feels like an intense forever as I scream and scream and then I finally jerk awake. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Outside the prison walls, just a few feet from the Hudson River, are three low, white buildings that contrast with the rest of Sing Sing in their newness and cheap construction. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new building sparkling in the North Carolina spring sunshine was a source of pride throughout the black community, but it was a pride alloyed with cynicism for Durham’s poorest black citizens. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I can tell because the buildings are disappearing, leaving just fields, dotted with the rhythmic glow of lightning bugs. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

"They must have...you know, things for us in the medical building," she offers. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“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

By 1848, the year the canal was completed, the nation’s attention had turned to building railroads. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Janae and I pull it out and lay it across the sun-warmed tar, away from the edge of the building where only two feet of brick and concrete keep us from open sky. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The adobe houses of the founders had been replaced by brick buildings with wooden blinds and cement floors which made the suffocating heat of two o'clock in the afternoon more bearable. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I stared out over my new digs: Six one-story buildings, each with sixteen dorm rooms, were arranged in a hexagram around a large circle of grass. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I thought we all knew that our bad reputation has been building in this town, birdhouse by birdhouse, but hey, I guess we can blame everything on me now. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

She said, “Dad called me from the building that day.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But when all this commotion was happening, because people were yelling, a soldier came around the building. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Adam went happily about building and planning his Eden. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Alster Tower was a separate building, twice the size of my home, that George Boldt had built as a playhouse for his children. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Melancholy descended on him as he left the building. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She acted like she was supposed to be walking out out of the building in the middle of the day, like she was on some kind of weeping/half-dressed/ drippy-bag mission. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

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

Leper, luckless in his last year as all the others, had been moved to a room lost in an old building off somewhere in the trees toward the gym. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were two blocks away from my building. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I thought, seeing a white man run inside the building as the policemen dashed from their cars and came running up. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night we told all the boys about the tall buildings in the city, the noise, the cars, and the markets. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“They say they gotta building in New York forty stories high!” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, what I should do is get these three dogs back to the building, and then come back out to find Ziggy by myself. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The hospital’s previous building for mental illness had burned down when an inmate set it on fire, so patients were closely watched to make sure they didn’t cause trouble. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Hopefully the rain holds out until we’re back in our building. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

She used to own a building big as a whale, but her brother sold it. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

With some alternation of terms, some toning down, the passage could describe the building of a termite nest. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The picture pans back and there is my old administration building. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Over the centuries it had grown slowly in all directions, engulfing smaller buildings and courtyards as it spread. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

From the ground floor, which in both buildings is known as the flats, you can look up and see how each structure is made up of two almost separate components. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was now inside the building, at the end of the entrance hall. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

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

As massive as a twelve- story building, it loomed over our heads, leaning 30 degrees past vertical. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

She finally hangs up, and I begin my quest: "I'd like to review the documents on file for building projects that come before the city council." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want an agent from Room H to drift to the front of the building and get into the offices. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He longs to reach over and touch her, but he resists, fearful of destroying the delicate camaraderie they are building. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We bought an Instamatic camera with which to document our life together, and I took pictures of her posing in front of the Prudential building, so that she could send them to her parents. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

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

The building had once been a private house, but the new owner had divided it in half to make a two-room apartment in the back and a bar facing the street. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I walked carefully to the nearest street corner, brushing the wall of the buildings on my left with the tip of one finger to steady myself. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Every thirteen steps or so, they came to a landing and an iron door leading to the inner core of the building. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It struck me odd, each time I thought about it, how buildings could have such personalities. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Lupita, there’s nothing here but tracks and buildings and three railroad cars. There are no guards. Nobody. Dawn’s coming. I’ve seen a better place for us to hide. Hurry up.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

She reminded me of older women I'd been around all my life—women whose lives were hard but who remained kind and dedicated themselves to building and sustaining their communities. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Through the low buildings, chips of stars glitter in a velvet sky. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He kept an eye on the nest as he carried lumber to the men who were building a form around the ravaged piling. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The building’s indistinct pallor shimmered in the dark. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

There was a climbing wall on the side of one building, and an indoor bungee-jumping bridge. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

But he’d been building this abstract new life for them since Luke took state their freshman year. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Instead, a faint, foul chemical smell and a cool, humid emptiness waft out from the main doors of the building. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

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 wish. Been meaning to ask you, can your dad buy them a building for me?” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I scream into my teeth as I pull myself up and over the windowsill, half my body in the building and the other half still dangling. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

As the landing area creaked back, the buildings reappeared. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I wish Finch were here so we could say, Who dreams of building a monastery in Indiana? All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A petite girl with a blue wristband, a headscarf, and floaties does something dangerous at the very last second—she turns around and falls backward, like someone pushed off a building. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

A few blocks from the building I met a group of men, women and children lugging loot from the welfare office. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked down the broken blocks past clusters of abandoned buildings, the glass from shattered windows on the sidewalk, junkies on the steps. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Clayton, Omar, and the other kids got off the bus to join the mob of kids waiting to enter the building. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He was now more determined than ever to get justice for Javier, for Reg and Shawna, for every person who had been harmed by the monsters who worked in the building behind him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

There were the legacy kids, whose fathers and grandfathers had been Tigers or whose families had funded the building of a dorm or a library. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The harbor police and firefighters arrived and managed to put out the latter two fires before the buildings were completely destroyed. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I took the bus Celia told me to take and walked into a building filled with white tables and chairs. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

After the president drove off in his carriage, Guiteau walked around the side of the building to an open window near Garfield's pew. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

While the two talked, I had watched a shadow creep out of the narrow alley between the Sleepers’ hall and the building I was in. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, we stop at a fat, red brick building. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The sixteen-page weekly paper set up its office in New York City in the same building where the Women’s Loyal National League had once rented space. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

And just before it, the white clapboard building becomes visible halfway up a small ridge. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Vega kept walking over to what we were building. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

But then one day Popcorn was found stabbed to death on the roof of his apartment building. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Cluny stood in the doorway as his soldiers filed past him on their way to the Abbey building. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

When we entered the city, it seemed as if someone had lit the many tall buildings that shot into the sky. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

After breakfast we walked two blocks in the freezing weather down to a building where most of the meetings took place. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

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

The buildings here look nothing like the ones I saw in the photograph, and there isn't a single Dominican restaurant for as far as I can see. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“The athletes are always the center ring. That’s the hierarchy of the building. They are the ones who will inherit the earth. It has always been thus, and always will be.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The buildings were freshly whitewashed, laid out in neat grids like the camp had been designed by a fussy math teacher. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Holmes promised stirring views of Englewood, perhaps even a glimpse of Jackson Park off to the east, where the buildings of the fair soon would begin to rise. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

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

As I left, the building was falling down and all the people were yelling. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

So, in keeping with local, state, and federal law, my apartment building’s security system immediately opened both of my security doors to grant them entrance. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I went to the only building with a door and stepped inside. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

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

I’d say it’s twenty-five percent blame for the kids, twenty-five percent blame for the parents, twenty-five percent blame for the building, and twenty-five percent blame for the environment—that equals a hundred percent failure! Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I reach the building, I pace before the entrance to catch my breath. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Instead, they surged through the building’s front door and defied Clark’s order to leave. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I finished with the tables and was told to go down to several rooms at the end of the building for a physical. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There must have been a small building up here that burned, and they buried the debris. We’ve just been throwing them in the woods.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

They reached the steps on the outside of the building. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The scene shifts to the front of the building along Main Street. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For five days and nights, news coverage of burning buildings, tanks, and armed troops focused on American streets, not Vietnamese villages and jungles. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

While I gloried in the beauty of these buildings, I was ambivalent about what they represented. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back when we shared a room, she was the one who'd divide up the floor with masking tape, building an invisible wall between us. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The streets are so narrow, and the buildings so tall that you feel hemmed in when you walk here. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Bigger could not live in a building across the “line.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

His frugal glare extended to the building’s bathrooms. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

And revealed through the trees is HOGWARTS—a splendid mass of bulbous buildings and towers. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

The long white buildings in the back are stables for thousands of horses. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

About the time I heard the engine building up steam, a couple of more men hopped in. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There will be regular patrols round the perimeter of the building to ensure that civilians do not tarry overlong in conversation with the prisoners.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The war had ended before the building could actually be used, so it had been turned over to the University of Washington in the fall of 1919. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Sierra’s voice boomed across the building, echoing back and forth amidst the empty light fixtures and dusty piping. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Tell me more, Lou. Why are you building this? Why a tiny house?” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The architecture was identical—a four-story brick building—lined with rows of windows that blinked like sleepy eyes as lamps and candles were lit against the dusk of an April evening. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

When I’ve managed to walk outside the building, I risk a look behind me. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

They walked behind the apartment buildings to the trail that circled the pond and picnic area. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

If we can make it to the alley, we can disappear into the buildings and they won’t find us. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Trees and buildings blocked his view of the near lanes and the boats in them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

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

“Sorry we didn’t find him,” Dad says as we’re walking back to the building, after Malia and I went on the swings. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

She was making enough for the family to move into a four-bedroom apartment in a prewar building overlooking Lake Michigan. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

There’s a building that looks like a meeting hall, another with a doctor’s snakes carved into the front, and two barnlike buildings that look like storage. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Elena’s sitting on a bench outside our building when Nora and I get back from walking the dogs the next day. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Sam wasn't allowed to attend classes because he was a Negro, but they let him fix the building. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He looked back at the building and wondered if any of his handiwork had survived the fires. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Helena kicks the ball, bouncing it against the blank brick wall of an apartment building. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He later sent a letter describing his welcome, his new position at a building company. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

On woozy legs, I stumble behind the policeman, into the building, and into a stuffy room where fans sway from the ceiling. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

All the while, this little buzz was building inside me. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arturo climbed out first, straightened his cowboy hat, and surveyed the building. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He pointed out buildings along the coastline that reminded him of places in Vancouver. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

"They won't fall for that," I said, and instinctively looked over my shoulder and stared into the dark buildings and boats. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The dark buildings below were filled with phantom flickers of light, echoes of the sparkler burned into her eyes. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, Hall was asked to report to a meeting room in the physics lab building on campus. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hulking Mark I, not yet dismantled, still sat in its barnlike home: a corrugated metal building the length of a football field that hove into view while they were still miles away. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

His men were idle and dishonest, the fields were full of weeds, the buildings wanted roofing, the hedges were neglected, and the animals were underfed. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Like an architectural historian obsessed with only one building, Lewis had been studying the construction of fruit flies for nearly two decades. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Chavez, the former assistant building superintendent, was one of my favorite classmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A crew of villagers is brought in to work, alongside the DPs, on a building project near the stream. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There were lights coming out of the modern buildings. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“We’ve been building these stockpiles for a long time,” he said. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you know the building is on fire?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

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

Faeries live in hills and valleys and barrows, in alleys and abandoned mortal buildings. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Accustomed to building fires on the beach, they found it easy to light the small starting pile of leaves and twigs with the matches Dicey had taken from the counter in the store. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The building held shops for glass- blowers, joiners, potters, and glaziers. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They led him out of the front door of the building, to the street. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The paper birds roosted on branches and stones and the remains of chimneys and walls and old buildings. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“The library was closing. I can’t control when people decide to leave the building,” Erin said, without taking her eyes off Drew. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

There are no flowers or blooming vines crawling up the buildings, no benches where students can relax. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The building is long and low, with a door on either side. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He drew a few blank lines and spent the afternoon trying to recruit everyone in the building. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The cluster of buildings all had stacked-tile roofs that sloped steeply to the sky. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I scarfed the food-diaper down on the walk to my building and wiped my face as I rode the elevator up to the sixth floor. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Soon they began building Muslim-style sugar plantations on the islands, some of them staffed by slaves purchased from nearby Africa. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The museum was housed in a recycled portable classroom building parked adjacent to Power Plant No. 1. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Old San Juan has buildings that look like they were constructed hundreds of years ago. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

He’d overturned the chariot and destroyed several buildings, but every time he threw off a wave of attackers in his hurricane, the ghosts simply got up and charged again. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

There's a back alley between the tenement buildings, you can't see it from the road, and Iggy takes us along the alley to this other place. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

This teacher that taught biology, Mr. Zambesi, stuck his head out of this window in the academic building and told us to go back to the dorm and get ready for dinner. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

It is late and the pavement is dark despite the streetlamps dotting the line of grey stone buildings. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

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

After he got punched, Sal started playing basketball in the alley behind our building. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“It was a tall building, not far from the central market,” said Tendai as the squad car came in low. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Pawhuska is filled with its share of abandoned buildings, but it is one of the few towns that remain. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Blue and pink chalk in hand, I claim the sidewalk in front of our building for my hopscotch board. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

For such a large building, it was strangely quiet, as if even sounds got lost inside. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

For that matter, the whole building was unusual. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

In that day there was no measuring of pelvic arch, no testing of blood, no building with calcium. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In, in, in and then slam\\ Arm struck the side of the building. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The courthouse is an imposing, old, pillared brick building occupying a full city block, but the entrance is off to the side, down a set of steps. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

He looked to the right, to the left, behind him; then moving more quickly, he circled the building, disappearing from my view, reappearing, staring at every window, upstairs and down. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Dunno. Just looking,” said Lyra, and led the way to a squat, square building a little apart from the rest, with a low-powered anbaric light at the corner. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered if there was a big fire somewhere, but in the morning Lori told me that the orange glow came from the air pollution refracting the light off the streets and buildings. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But the trouble is that she’s even bigger on building group skills. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Through them, silver and gold sparks fly on either side of the club’s glass doors, while a Warcross logo hovers over the top of the building. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Everyone spills out of a plain, whitewashed building with a cross hammered onto the door. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The sprawl was different: buildings spread farther apart, palm trees and low hills in the distance. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

What she had made was called a grappling hook, which is something used for climbing up the sides of buildings, usually for a nefarious purpose. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

A large building, it took a man standing on another’s shoulders to reach the pointed roof. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Had buildings in Lagos always had this patina of decay? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

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

I had already explored most of the park, so I decided to make my way around the back of the soda shop and see what was behind the buildings. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I remember that bright-purple door on the short and wide gray building that takes up the whole section of this street. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Then somebody would bring up about Granny’s ancestors leading a wagon train from North Carolina, how they camped here on the ridge under some big sassafras trees while they were building their houses. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“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

I was just above the spires of the taller buildings on the Upper East Side, nowhere near the hospital. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Even in the Capitol, there’s nothing to match the magnificence of this old building. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The building collapses in a rush of fire and thunder. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was a pile of a half dozen stripped new deads in front of the apartment building, with no guarantee they’d ever be removed, which meant dodging rats just to get through the door. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

It was a wonderful building, at least seven stories high, landscaped with topiary bushes shaped like animals and a waterfall. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Distraught at the possibility that he might lose the race, Galileo frantically set about building one of his own, knowing nothing more than that the instrument involved two lenses in a tube. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

He was fifty yards away by now and nearing an opening between two buildings. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A few years later they moved to a larger building on E Street in San Bernardino and opened the McDonald Brothers Burger Bar Drive-In. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

Nora pauses and then says, “You know, there are other dogs in the building.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

James directed her to a huge marina, where lights burned in many buildings and in many of the small windows of the boats tied in rows along the docks. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The school was about four blocks away—a big, redbrick, square building that took care of all grades, kindergarten through the eighth. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The school, a four-story brick building with a yard in front, sat just a couple of blocks from our house on Euclid. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In contrast, Holmes’s building was dead space, like the corner of a room where the gaslight could not reach. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I made myself a little dark-room in a corner of the music building, and in there I loaded my glass plates and developed my negatives and enlarged them. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Joe Baker took me back inside of the precinct building, into a small room. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bobbie and Clay slide me onto the stretcher and just as carefully bring me back up the steps to my building. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

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

“We must apprehend them before they leave this building.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They walked past a dozen military personnel and into the building. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Several buildings away I heard him call behind me, watched him approach through the dark. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The city’s great buildings and lavish homes awed her, but its smoke and darkness and the ever-present scent of rotting garbage repulsed her. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

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

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

All the buildings on this street had garages on the ground level and the houses stacked on top. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Moon Orchid accompanied her to a gray building with a large storefront room, overhead fans turning coolly and cement floor cool underfoot. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eddie, the super of the apartment building, looked at me with a twinge of sympathy. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Until now, I’d constructed my existence carefully, tucking and folding every loose and disorderly bit of it, as if building some tight and airless piece of origami. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minute he met me, and all out of a few prosy nothings. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was an eccentric, rainy, wind-beaten sea village, downtrodden and mildewed, the boards of its buildings bleached and weathered, their drainpipes rusted a dull orange. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

They walked to the small hotel where Cyrus lived, and on the way Cyrus pointed out the sights, the buildings, the spots of history, with the expansiveness of a lecturer. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the SS spotted the flags, they stormed the building and dragged the men into the middle of the street and shot them as traitors. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

We crossed another street and Hackett pointed to a tree in front of the administration building. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

We tried to ignore the feeling or to fight it off by building more things—bigger rooms, fancier furniture, carpeted hallways, things we did not really need. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The Royal & General occupied a tall, antique-looking building with a Union Jack fluttering from a pole about fifteen floors up. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

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

The building emanated cold, and we shivered and jammed our hands into our pockets against it. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Sea lion brays carried from Pier 39 as Emily and James walked up to their building after school. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Brunelleschi would have had plenty of practice in applying this knowledge when he set out to measure the height of surviving classical buildings in Rome in 1402-4. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

On her way out of the building, limping, with her cane, Andrea hopes HR won’t review her call log tonight, even though she knows hope is a dangerous thing in this profession. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

More than 150 people had been hurt—carried away by the river of molasses, trapped in crushed buildings, struck by flying metal when the tank exploded. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

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

Yet she and her husband made no effort to move from the building, nor did they go to the police. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

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

“Urban exploring. We enter abandoned buildings, explore them, photograph them. We take nothing; we leave nothing. Were just observers.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

My book was all about buildings and stuff. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

We had a year to pay off the thirty-seven dollars, and though I had no idea how we would get the money, at least we were still building rockets. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Every building, including the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building, was outlined in white bulbs. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

There was no one in the yard, and no movement in the buildings’ windows. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

One of the doormen in the building, with whom Goetz was close, was beaten badly by muggers. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The long strip of a building had nine rooms, side by side, with doors that led out onto a narrow veranda. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They reached the edge of the ruins after midnight, and boarded down to the abandoned building where Tally and David had camped. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

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

I wish I could just keep building and not have to worry about this. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The back of the building presented a brick face, some narrow windows, and a glass door. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Past the docks: tall buildings and long straight streets. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

It’s a giant building with a ski slope covered in snow, and giant fans on full blast to keep the air cold. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Looks like a fancy building, but I’m thinking maybe someone there can point me to Wabash. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

When the man and his escorts finally disappear behind a redbrick building they start to dribble away, but continue to glance hopefully over their shoulders, afraid they’ll miss something. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Gluck led the way to a building that he thought might contain the kitchen, and he opened the sliding door in its side. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t remember the turns I took when I came in the building. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Tally climbed the hill toward the trio of buildings, trying to take in the view through the eyeholes of her mask. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

At last she saw a modern building that nestled against the ground, down a low sloping hill. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He glitches back in behind the other player, and before the second player can react, the first one kicks him off the building’s roof. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“What an awful building you live in. Nobody else lives here, do they? We didn’t see any other lights.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

There’s maybe seven buildings total in Farbranch, smaller than Prentisstown and just buildings after all but somehow so different, too, it feels like I’ve wandered right off New World into some whole other place altogether. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

It drove past Garrett and me and pulled up in front of the building. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The women got dressed and then hurried off to relieve themselves in the wooded area behind the building. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fizz gets off, and I go on to my creaky building in the midst of a congregation of old condominiums, neither retro cool nor demolition ready—yet. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

We ran through streets and alleyways to the back of a small brick building. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Transmissions both pass through the buildings and reflect off them. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The SS man smiles and throws the ball to her again, pointing toward the brick wall of the building. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

When I zoomed in on the satellite image of the building, it looked like a black rectangle fronted by dull silver and then grass behind. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The sky tumbled overhead, unspooling into a reflection of fireworks on water and rising white buildings that appeared as distant and inaccessible as the medieval Neamt Citadel. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It is a wide cement building that overlooks what was once the river. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

And they were without doubt the most bizarre collection of buildings I’d ever seen. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

When I got to our building I walked up the stairs, took my keys out, and opened the door. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Stick stopped and leaned his arm against the side of a building. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

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

The foregoing should not be read as a call for movement building to the exclusion of reform work. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She lowered the pail back down, grabbed the note, ran down her stairs and out the front door to their building’s landing, and pounded on the Lees’ door. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I'm running past buildings of tan bricks, five stories high with black fire escapes and windows with bars. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The balconies of the old buildings hung over my head like dark branches in an allegorical forest of evil. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I want you to stay here with your aunt while I scout that building,” she instructed her son. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I’ve seen of the city are concrete buildings, cement sidewalks. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s all crumbling buildings and graffiti-covered walls overgrown with weeds and ivy. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was supposed to be temporary, but I was sealcoating the parking lot of this building and the landlord, he used to stand out on the balcony, smoking a cigar while I worked. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I was building up in me a dream which the entire educational system of the South had been rigged to stifle. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm getting out of Dell's car three days later and the monthly maintenance man has trimmed the lone jade plant by the front entrance of the apartment building. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I remember my parents telling me about how devastating 9/11 was, how those burning buildings and all the posters of missing people are seared in their memories forever. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe it’s one of the other kids in the building. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The only spaces was when a street interrupted the wall of buildings. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

I kept to the back sides of buildings as I crept forward, checking for people before advancing, Otto’s hot nervous breath at my back. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Only a few of us know who the winners are, and Dr. Matthews is building the suspense. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Waterfront buildings glided slowly by, boatyards, condominiums with great glass windows looking out over the water, an occasional small house in the middle of a green lawn. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Of special concern was the fact that the buildings would be sited adjacent to newly dug canals and lagoons. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Through the building's windows, they could see Somkit, standing at the front of a room. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

We were in an office building of some kind. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He spends the days of orientation rushing around campus, back and forth along the intersecting flagstone path, past the clock tower, and the turreted, crenelated buildings. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

More than a hundred buildings nestled dramatically on the rocky slope, linked by a maze of narrow paths and catwalks. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was housed in a building that had been standing there more than a hundred years before when Big Chief Tammany himself skulked around with his braves. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, with more vigor, “You do nothing! This building falling down!” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Either it wasn’t out, or it was obscured by buildings. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is the leprosarium,” Miss Maggie said as she led us to the steps of the big building among the cottages. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

A large building, spruce and white; not only money has built it but men’s hopes and pity, as I know who have seen it grow brick by brick and year by year. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emily turned and looked at the two trees in front of the building. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

At that moment there was a loud explosion that made us all duck, and we saw a huge column of fire and smoke rise over the buildings. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did the folks inside the buildings know a plane had crashed? Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

There was one small tree cringing in front of the building. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

“I see that you’re thinking about leaving,” she said, “but could I interest you in a very special tour of this very special building?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Homemade bombs exploded at the houses of nonunion men and wrecked company buildings and machinery. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Several times, driving in that part of town, I had resisted the impulse to drop in at the F.I.A. building, a brown- stone at 1 Riverside Drive. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only other building that rose above the housetops to compete with the church tower was the yellow top of the schoolhouse. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then he turned and headed in the direction of the building, running. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The village school for younger children was a bleak brick building called Crunchem Hall Primary School. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time since the beginning of the war, the building that Lincoln considers the most important in Washington glows. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Within the fair’s buildings visitors encountered devices and concepts new to them and to the world. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The car pulled up in front of my apartment building on 111th between Lexington and Park. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

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

Kira had matched oranges and reds of different shades and had found the various grays for the smoke and the buildings. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We pull into the school parking lot and immediately notice that there are several police cars in front of the building. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The city was constantly changing—day by day, old buildings were being knocked down to make room for newer ones and a labyrinth of streetcar rails was being laid. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Eventually, we made it to the parking lot of an unfriendly concrete office building. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

By noon they’d be lined up in skeins outside the building, all kinds of people, people holding bags and children, people in suits, in smocks. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is the only private shower in the building,” he says. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The one difference between the present-day office and this one was that it was snowing in the past; bluish flecks were drifting past the window in the dark and building up on the outside ledge. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

One veered off behind the building to the smelly toilet we had been forced to use once and swore never again. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

To a windowless building where he stood in one place all day sifting through dirt without eating or drinking or seeing the sun? The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He looked back up at the building, then behind him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Poking around, he discovered another route to the back of the building. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

He lives in a sprawling apartment in a luxurious building on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

We stayed with my aunt Shaina, now known as Jenny, for a few weeks before moving into a one-bedroom apartment in the building where my uncle Morris, my mother's brother, lived. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The cops picked him up this morning in his underwear; he was in the lobby of the Post Office building, waiting to speak to the President. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He shakes his head and looks at the dilapidated building to his right, which is made of brick and barely resembles the sleek glass spire behind me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Her home was a roomy two-story building in a guarded complex in Kinshasa. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The vista of the city below was astounding—hill upon hill of buildings formed out of the same white stone that built this palace, every window sparkling. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

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

I fly out of the building toward the bushes where my grandfather is waiting. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“Honey, I can’t wear my computer clothes when I do stuff around the building. The computer clothes don’t have the let’s-get-dirty-and-fix-things personality that my coveralls do.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

But my new friend simply showed me the building, shook my hand, gave a fine bonne soiree, and walked off into the wide open night. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes’ walk took them to a grand stone-fronted building where they sat in a wide dining room with snowy cloths and bright silver on the tables, and ate calves’ liver and bacon. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Surely, whoever cared for the building knew about the unlocked door, which made the painters’ tape seem even more out of place. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“More like twenty . . . and we have buildings like that in Havana,’’ I said. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

We’re in the high school building, but my classmates are all grown up. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there are photos of them doing stuff in the world: cleaning the litter in Carkeek Park, volunteering in a soup kitchen, marching with picket signs at the capitol building in Olympia. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It warmed Meggie’s heart just to see it, but all too often it disappeared behind the tall, ugly buildings covering the narrow strip of land that lay between the water and the encroaching hills. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Um...when Erwin died and you gave me a ride home. You went in the building to turn in those papers, and I peeked.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

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

Walking back to the Eye Care house, her gaze strayed to the building’s balcony. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

There was not a lot of wind where we lived with buildings in the way. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

As the buildings rose, the architects spotted flaws in their designs but found the forward crush of work so overwhelming, it threatened to leave the flaws locked in stone, or at least staff. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

What he was building, in those nights in the storerooms, was a kind of database in his unconscious. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

They passed through a bazaar in a cavernous building whose latticework ceiling was home to a thou-sand gaily colored birds. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Getting a gunshot wound was bad enough under any circumstances, but even a mild wound in this building might be fatal. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just like the ties and the motto and the tree and the ivy crawling up the brick front of the admin building. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, there are an awful lot of corridors in this building—,” said Jillson. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He worked, after graduating from college, for Westinghouse, building nuclear submarines. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z