My friends and I would slip out of the church between Sunday school and the 11:00 a.m. worship service to drink Cokes at Mr. Gaston’s motel restaurant. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Besides reading, writing, and the study of history and the stars Robin was given certain duties in the routine of the church. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

“Remember your tricks on the common behind the church? Before this day is done you’ll never run and dodge again!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I had a hair ribbon that was haint blue, but Mama only let me wear it on the Sundays we went to church. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

We were allowed two outings a week: Thursdays to La Victoria to visit the men, and Sundays to church. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In church, in early November there was Advent, the time for penance. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the church was threatened, it retreated into its old philosophy, turning back toward the Aristotelian doctrine that had supported it for so many years. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He sings with his eyes shut tight, the way I would see old Koreans praying in the front pews of Minister Cho’s huge church, their fearsome bouts of concentration on display, ferociously willing. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks like a painting, she thought, a Saint wrought in gold leaf on the walls of a church, born to wield a sword of fire. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

If he had written operas rather than church music, it might have been a different story. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

On Sundays, blacks had the choice of more than a dozen churches of various Christian denominations. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Ask and it shall be given. My church is my community, and you’re my family, so of course they’d love to hear from you.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

They could not serve as clergy in many churches. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The church was an integral part of British society, and it dictated the rules of the class-ordered society that they all lived in. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

At each church, he asked to speak to the pastor, explaining that he was a North Korean in need of help. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

In the time immediately after the church bombing, no one spoke of the tragedy or the girls who died. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Lit- de by little, as they approached along Michigan Avenue, he began to be aware of a monolith looming in the distance, a building like a gigantic church organ, pipes running into die sky. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But when the voice sang out again—and I realized it was coming from the abandoned church—I told myself that a church was an unlikely place for evil spirits to abide. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The robe he wore went down to his brown feet, and in the dim light of the church it shone blue as a patch of the sky. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

At the wedding, on a brown upright piano in the church, she’d put a big picture of her dad. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“We have so much to be thankful for. We have this wonderful apartment, and we have food and the church and each other.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

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

I walk into the living room, wondering how we could be late when it is still only seven o’clock and church does not start for another two hours. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I soon discovered that if a wayfaring stranger wishes to eavesdrop on a local population the places for him to slip in and hold his peace are bars and churches. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We were on our way home from church,” he said, again totally calm. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

At a church meeting in rural North Carolina, Fuller watched, enthralled, as McKissick played to the “Amen corner,” encouraging the listeners to shout out agreement with his words. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Above that sprawled a medieval-looking city of church spires, domes, and tightly wedged buildings, all made of the same golden stone. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The church mothers nod, fanning themselves with the church bulletin. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There were no shops in Bithynios, no post office or bank, only a church and one taverna. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They had gone up to Grandpa’s house straight from Sunday night preachin’ at the Baptist church. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

At the three New London churches, there was a funeral every fifteen or thirty minutes from nine o’clock in the morning until after eight. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mama said maybe Love went to the Baptist church with Grandpa. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The Baptist church, normally home to only the purest of Manifest citizens—meaning the ones who had parents and grandparents and even great-grandparents born in this country—was suddenly filled with strangers. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

And so Meggie heard her father read aloud, for the first time in nine years, in a drafty old church. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Nobody but a religious fanatic would put up with such gross ignorance for over an hour every week of their lives—nobody but religious fanatics and the innocent victims they forced to go to church. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

They were probably the self-sacrificing group, like the women at church socials who said, “No, you take the chicken breast. I’m just fine with the neck and gizzard, really.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even in church during the privacy of Holy Communion, Father Gabriel bent down and whispered “/Viva la Mariposa!” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It could be like a good luck charm,” Grandma agreed, the church music playing low on the radio. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

There is a white steepled Congregational church, a stone courthouse with an adjoining jail, a cupolaed public library, a wooden well from which Paul Revere is rumored to have drunk. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I got to the church, he wanted to come in with me, and I let him, but made him lie still. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

And even though I was sitting in the back of the church, I could tell she had on a little bit of makeup, and for some reason I just knew she smelled good. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She knows his parents, who attend her church in Harlem. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“And then they found it wasn’t very practical as a church.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“The last place anyone would think you’d Though I was not sure I trusted Cerdic, what he said made sense. But I said, “I want to go by the church first. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

A lot of them went into the church or Mr. Heron’s barn out behind. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had rushed to Wanda’s side, her voice cheery and carefree, and Moss took a moment to give a long look to the church hall. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

For the trees, bare of leaves, arched overhead in the very same way that the groined arches of stone swept up high overhead in the Gothic churches. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I pass through a room arranged like a church, rows of seats facing the altar, where a marble Jesus lies on his deathbed above a base of glittering crystals. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

As Momly pulled up in front of the church, she said what she always said every week. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Then he asked, “How do we get to church?” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“Shush,” I said, as we entered the church doors and took in the sights and the sounds of our local parish. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

We went out across the muddy road to church, and I climbed up into the balcony where the children, Indians and black people sat. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was dim and chilly inside the church. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

So I take off my mother’s church dress and put on a plain sweatshirt that belongs to Chantal and a pair of new jeans. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

We’d go to church, come home, have a nice meal with good meat and lots of custard and jelly. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

His mind wandered as it always did nowadays in church. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Upon hearing that, the Full Gospel Apostles enthusiastically assured her that the moment she began going to church, got us children and herself baptized, God would in no time grant her her request. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they had given him a name: Vincent, after his father s father, and they buried him in the cemetery next to the church where Theodorus was the pastor. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Like many others at the church, she volunteers to help cook dinner for the migrants each day. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“They can murder who they like, church who they like, but I’m not going. For me the war is over.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ornate church building stood on land that long ago saw services held in a rude brush arbor and led by a former slave. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“This is what I consider the mission of the church. It is fundamental,” the bishop says. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

If we had a big fire or needed help or protection, we called our church pastor, who gathered the community men together to provide it. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I walked toward the church but went into the woods so I could come at it from the back and no one could see me eavesdropping. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I glanced up at the stained glass depictions of Jesus all around and then at the statue in the front of the church. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

There was only one middle school, one high school, one biggish grocery store, and one run-down city pool, but about one million beauty parlors and churches. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The column of demonstrators stretched all the way back to the church doors. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the women of the church came over and hugged Mama. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

By then most people had finished their church meetings, and some, still in their Sunday best, were out for a walk. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

They entered the church by the sanctuary door, startling the sacristan who slept and ate in a small room off the entrance porch. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

And then I talked to God about how I was lonely in Naomi because I didn’t know that many kids, only the ones from church. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

At the Jesuit church, I picked up a booklet I had also noticed on Dean Gandy’s coffee table—For Men of Good Will, by Father Robert Guste. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You think I need to go to church more often?” she asked. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Hey,” he says back, kind of quiet and respectful, like he’s in church. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

And she wasn’t giving it up just to make some guidance counselor or church group feel okay. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The men asked if I had seen “anything suspicious” or “anything unusual” at church that morning before the bombing. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

On either side of the slippery path to the church doors, the snow lay deep and untouched. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“My mom was asked to join one at our church, and politely declined,” Candice said. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I was kind of surprised no adult stopped me from walking right up to the church. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as big as the inside of a church, with the same white walls and dark wood. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

My usual church shoes no longer fit, so TJ gives me a pair of low heels he got from school, and I can barely walk in them. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The UDF soon blossomed into a powerful organization that united over six hundred anti-apartheid organizations — trade unions, community groups, church groups, student associations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A community group, a church, and some of the student clubs at school were planning a protest march on Friday. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The village had one crossroad, where the church and mission stood. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father Byrnes was at the back of the church, the seventh station. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But at half past one, Mr. Kreuk comes to my desk and shows me the draft of the notice: I’d written the wrong address for the church. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Our gazes followed the groaning wagon down the dusty street, past the saloon, to the front of the church. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a recording of “Here Comes the Bride” played over the loudspeaker in the Northeast Baltimore church, the rear doors opened and the veiled bride began her slow procession toward the altar. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Something’s wrong. I wonder if Mr. Robert’s friend was right, I wonder if he really did see Kenny in that church afterward. Lord, who knows what that poor baby saw.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sit near the back of the church. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Pastor Schatz from the Lutheran church had recently organized a barn raising. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

His mother was a substitute organist for several churches around town. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who had possession of the keys to the Cossack churches? The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Remember a few years ago when Mrs. Clarke from church started a petition for the elementary school to ban that book about gay penguins? P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

More like a store, but the folks inside are dressed like church folks. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

The church was no bigger than a one-room schoolhouse, but it seemed to be packed to the rafters. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ignoring the laws of debt and repayment, they built churches which couldn’t be paid for in a hundred years. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Accompanied by a CBS television crew that filmed the tour, she visited twelve countries, singing in concert halls, meeting heads of state, and making informal visits to schools, churches, and local organizations. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

My faith in God and in the Catholic church slipped several notches at that time. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

We worked on algebra until four o’clock and then made posters for about half an hour, using school supplies from the church. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“The Spencers will be very thankful for whatever you and the kind women of your church have to offer.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Copernicus’s book, De Revolutionibus, was even dedicated to Pope Paul III. However, the church was under attack. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Many of these blacks were as poor as church mice. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are continually praying in church for your safety and for our other Navajo boys over there. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pastor asked me to plan a church program based on Psalm 23. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

From up the hill he could hear the church bells ringing. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

One Sunday in 1967, after services at Carver Presbyterian Church, Katherine Johnson spied a new face in the crowd, a young woman who had come to the church with her husband and two young daughters. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The organ music pours down and floods the church. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

She puts it around that I don’t know what church I go to, and that we eat off a card table. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

At least, Leo assumed it was a church. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We ran and scattered in different directions, but we all arrived back at the same place: the church corner. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a gray day, the church is gray and the small crowd of people outside the door of the priests’ house is gray. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

They knew which churches passed out sandwiches and when. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Finally he said, “Reverend Price, do I not stand beside you in your church every Sunday, translating the words of the Bible and your sermons?” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some mothers asked if their daughters could live with her, in the flat behind the church. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“No dogs allowed,” Arul said when we arrived at the church. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The first building we pass is a tiny stone church, fresh and clean and open, not at all like the darkness Aaron preached in. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The Protestant churches in the towns were fighting for their existence in a country where they were newcomers. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, very shortly after I joined the church, I became a preacher—a Young Minister—and I remained in the pulpit for more than three years. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

The church was overflowing with people, with friends, relatives, and men in uniform. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, she hated going to church by herself. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Religion at school and at church was never nighttime religion like religion at home. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When else do you get to hear real music, outside of church? The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

At fourteen, I attended my first church dance and received my first corsage from a boy. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Father Quinel lived behind our stone church in an attached room without windows. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the black community members looked dressed for church. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The church really only has about a dozen people in it besides us. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

There was a church organ playing music and filling up my soul. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The walls were red, like the walls in the church, but you couldn’t see much of them. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

On Sundays, after church, the preacher always had supper with one of the families. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Always ready to make me laugh with a funny story about school or church or her own mama. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

One woman was speaking vigorously against the city’s housing policies when the church’s PA system went out. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I returned my cross to my neck pouch, and hurried around to the church’s proper entry. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Blake was not a particularly religious man, though going to church did make him nostalgic for his Protestant upbringing in Holland before World War II. Now, however, his interest in religion was mostly strategic. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Our family never went to church, and I worried that people who did were infallible and we were wrong in our willful resistance to religious guidance. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“The churches got together though. They gone send both them boys to college.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The church bell tolled and drew to it the widows in black, the lonely, faithful women who came to pray for their men. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when the women went to open the front door of the church, they found that it was locked. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He had devoted thirty years’ spare time to his church, and his church had recently rewarded him with a trip to a Methodist music camp in South Carolina. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The white steeple on a church turned brown and started to smolder. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“It’s all just whispers and myths. Supposedly they haunt some ol’ broken-down church uptown by the river. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The line of them stretched down the road for what seemed like a mile as all fifteen ambled toward the church. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was like a church drive but at all hours, the whole body of us spread through the district, jammed into cars and sent out to find them. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not my parents, not my teachers, not my pastor, not my Sunday school teachers, not my church members, not my friends. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

When teachers gave us bags of clothes from church drives, Mom made us take them back. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He invites them to do that in his church every Sunday He gets those guys, Joe, Graeme, and Joshua, to do some readings. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Yet no mosque, church or temple ever felt so sacred to me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

And the sad thing was, she let it happen right in front of the church. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

An old woman sweeping the steps of a church. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The fourth question asked which church was built by the emperor Justinian to demonstrate his superiority to the late Theodoric’s Ostrogothic successors. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Alex left the church uncertain where to go, but ending up on Amsterdam Avenue. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Marengo is having a Methodist church parking lot picnic, starring her. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

How could such a weak fool have risen to the highest post in the French church? The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

There, at the church, we chained onto another car and went all the way to the Spaghetti House. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Copernicus published his magnum opus on his deathbed—in 1543, just before the church started clamping down on new ideas. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

She simply says that church will get better once we know more people. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Francie had been one of the children standing at the curb watching the party leave for the church. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henry and his followers implored believers to look beyond their churches and fight for a place in the American mainstream. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

And we sang the whole song, from beginning to end, as quietly as if we were praying in church. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The women rose, Sister Price first, and then Sister McCandless, and looked around the church. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“They burned a Catholic church up your way not long ago. With some nuns in it.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even church sleepover camp when you were in middle school. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But before moving to Avalon, Ma would take me, Ray, and Leda to church. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

She wondered if John were still on his knees, or had risen, with a child’s impatience, and was staring around the church. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

We walk down High Street, passing the silent church. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

But on the bright side, the event provided a great boost for Father’s church. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Laura is an extremely gifted member of our church. A crucial member. As you could be.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It was more like Carlos, only better, since the church would know just where Bri was and he’d be able to get in touch with her in an emergency. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Like a bunch of fat women at church. The war’s almost over. You can feel it, General. The end is in the air.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is it near to the village, where yon church tower stands?” asked Robin. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

“No. When he had all that about going into the church and not getting married, I tried to fight with him, but he wouldn’t.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

My body grew, even on mush and lard gravy, a miracle which the church certainly should have claimed credit for. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then let’s put this on a practical basis right now. Do you want Negroes by the carload in our schools and churches and theaters? Do you want them in our world?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“You make a fool of yourself in a Catholic church, embarrass everybody at the reception, and come to the table to gloat about how wonderful you were?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

You are innocent until you understand, the priest of the church said, and you will understand good and evil when the communion is placed in your mouth and God fills your body. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moss squinted, hoping his eyes would adjust to the darkness in the back of the church. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Every Sunday, people gathered for church in the courtyard. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I described Mom’s vegetable garden and the Jesus statue in front of church. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Daddy said it was fine when I asked his permission, so Miss Winthrop and I arranged to meet at the church Friday afternoon and walk to the meeting together. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d hung handwritten signs on every wall of the store: one for “Sam the Man Snowballs,” others for sports clubs, church groups, and free GED and adult literacy classes. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The only thing I knew for sure was that the bomb wasn’t dropped on the church by an airplane. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went down the long, dark aisle of the church to the door of the tower. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

They no longer come into the church to hunt down migrants. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Flowers didn’t belong to our church, nor was she Momma’s familiar. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben had watched her at church and her pinched bloodless face and the stiffness of her bearing, as though her joints lacked oil, made him grant her a wide and respectful berth. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

God’s love resides inside us, so whenever we go out into the world, we take the church with us. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She said almost none of her acquaintances knew her grandmother, who never went anywhere but to church, so there wasn’t much danger of it getting back to her. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sunday’s church service seemed specially important so everybody could pray for the souls of the men who were going to die on Tuesday. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let the girl walk Miss Deveraux to the church. You know how the pastor feels about his ladies,” Bill says, voice low. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

As black residents paced outside the church, they ranted and threatened. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

To my right, almost on the horizon, I thought I could see the square tower of a church. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Everything disappeared: the red walls of the church, the faces of Capricorn's men, Capricorn himself sitting in his chair. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Dawn had come, and the Stromford church was announcing early morning prayers, Prime. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

There was this kid at church named Skinny who picked on me. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Stella and the others moved uncertainly to the front of the church. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

On the fourth Sunday of each month, Reverend John H. Cross asked the church’s youth to lead the service, teach the Sunday school classes, and take over jobs the adult members usually did. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Looking for a seat in a space as small as the church we go to, and with just as much noise, but none of the spirit. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

There was that diaper spread over Susan Marie’s shoulder, and her gloved index finger pointing out the church cake, that white finger inviting him to slide a mint between his lips. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Earlier, back inside the church, they handed the plate around for people to put money in just before we left. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

One Sunday this last summer, her whole family was walking home from church. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I began to accept invitations to share my story at churches, synagogues, schools, and political, military, civic, and philanthropic organizations, locally and across the United States and Canada. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

In a church basement, Walter's sister found flyers advertising the fish fry held at Walter’s house; they confirmed that the event had taken place on the same day as the Morrison murder. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She lay buried in the crypt of the church with all the other dead de Winters. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“But Bigger, you said that if you were where people did not hate you and you did not hate them, you could be happy. Nobody hated you in church. Couldn’t you feel at home there?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Coming out of the church, the people of the congregation hugged one another, touched hands, arms, faces. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deploying the most shocking analogy he could muster, the clergyman asked Anthony if she’d prefer having a son of hers attend Buffalo Bill’s show on Sunday instead of church. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But she learned that there were Shiite and Sunni interpretations of the Qur’an, and within any mosque there were the same variations in faith and commitment as there were in any church. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Living as far as they had from the village, the Worthens had never even bothered to pay pew rent in the village congregational church. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I even worked there part-time as a church secretary. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And it lasted forever, three or four hours at least, which confused me because white church was only like an hour—in and out, thanks for coming. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Harry could see a village, undoubtedly Little Hangleton, nestled between two steep hills, its church and graveyard clearly visible. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“There’s no need to be dramatic here. Just explain to Tomas that I told you girls to go to church. We’ll talk about everything tonight.” Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Then Mama raised her hands as it landed on her upper arm, which was covered by the puffy sequined sleeve of her church blouse. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She puts money in envelopes and sends me to churches around the city to knock on priests’ doors, hand in the envelopes with the request for Masses. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Capricorn’s church contained no pews of the kind Meggie had seen in other churches, just two long wooden tables with benches, one on each side of the nave. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

There was no such nonsense in this church. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

For many, the church was their rock, spiritually and socially. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Either they stopped going to church altogether or they joined other churches in the city. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow’s heavy cooking and I’ve got the church supper Saturday night and the service on Sunday When am I going to clean my own house? The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“He used to be embarrassed meeting my church friends,” said Eunice. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

We walk around the church to the pickup, and I show him the green car by the beaver dam. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Padre Leo gave up the two-bedroom priest’s apartment attached to the church so that female migrants would have a place to sleep. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Or else they slept late and didn’t go to church at all. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are more people out here than in the church, holding posters with Khalil’s face on them and signs that say “Justice for Khalil.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

She was yelling at a cop and pointing back toward the steps of the church. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran up the steps and entered the dark, musky church. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kathy Link thinks about Highland Park, with her Presbyterian church and easy access to Dallas. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

My parents, meanwhile, were looking for a Christian church, specifically a Free Methodist church like the one we had attended in Africa. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

El Jefe was no saint, everyone knew that, but among the bandidos that had been in the National Palace, this one at least was building churches and schools, paying off our debts. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He figured people always answered the phone whenever the church was calling. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

His devotion to its progress, like his devotion to the church, was the anchoring force in my life throughout this past summer. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reason we went to three churches was because my mom said each church gave her something different. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

No one knew where Scipio spent the nights, and he never spoke about it, although every now and then he would drop a mysterious hint about an abandoned church. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

‘I presume Mr. Marx was a Christian church man?’ asked the preacher. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

As Europe slowly awakened from the Dark Ages, the void and the infinite—nothing and everything—would destroy the Aristotelian foundation of the church and open the way to the scientific revolution. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Our church placed high value on its children, and I was there in the middle of every opportunity that was offered. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Farid lit the second torch and threw it at the church porch. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

We see each other at church, but all she does is look at me with those eyes that tell me she doesn’t love me like I want her to. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I felt that there was nothing the church or I could give him now. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind wafted in through the open window and over her, the familiar wind, and it smelled almost like the air in Capricorn's church. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

"Y'all can have a seat over there," Black said, pointing to an old church pew. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

She says real low, “Betty Dean, I want you to behave yourself today in church, you hear me? Don’t think I didn’t see you and your friends passing notes during service last week.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She looked at my mother and said, “There’s a union meeting next Wednesday at the church on Frame Street.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

We went to church only rarely now, mostly because it had become such a spectacle, involving reporters shouting questions as we walked in to worship. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The second church offered deep analysis of the scripture, which my mom loved. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I took the flowers off the altar in the church. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

On the other spread the city of Venice—red-tiled roofs, metal church domes, steepled towers, and sun-bleached buildings in all the colors of Valentine candy hearts—red, white, ochre, pink, and orange. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Ever since I’d had my vision of the Virgencita, I knew spirit was imminent, and that the churches were just glass houses, or way stations on our road through this rocky life. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The next morning, as another thousand children between the ages of six and eighteen gathered at a church to march, Connor unleashed a furious preemptive strike. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

They built churches out of plaster and wood and sat within them, reading books written in foreign tongues. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But no sooner did I draw near the church than a figure rose up before me. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Even though it’s Sunday and we kinda owe it to Jesus to go to church on his birthday, none of us wake up until around eleven so we miss service. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I dream about being in the church choir. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I stepped into the church that day, propped up on the Pastor’s arm, I thought I was stepping through a couple of sloppily painted, standard-issue doors, the kind they sell at Home Depot. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

His eyes looked longingly into a corner of the church. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Figure 6.11: These modes are part of the same theoretical system as the church modes, but they were not used in the middle ages. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The church building crumbled, and the school collapsed into dust, then the whole town disappeared into the chasm. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He fills it with family, friends, church, and a five-handicap golf game. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Before, Pa stayed home and Uncle Darnell went to church with us in his black suit and kept a pair of white gloves folded in his pocket. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

In this case, the scales used are the same as the medieval church modes, but they do not have a reciting tone and are used much more like modern major and minor scales. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

They all march stoutly in, shaking the church, and place Sofia mother in front the pulpit. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad, still awkward at social events without Mom, asks me forty-seven times between the church and the banquet hall if I’m okay. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Fra-gile-ness is sitting on her bold as one n’em awful flowery church hats Ma and the other women wear on Sunday. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Mama never missed church, but for the first time in years, she decided she would stay home with Jojo. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

In his parents’ parlor to an audience of distinguished Bostonians, then in the homes of those distinguished Bostonians, in colored meeting houses and Methodist churches and lecture halls throughout New England. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

All week we heard of attacks on churches throughout the island. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved it when we arose early and got to church as other people were arriving. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

After the repast lunch the people at church made for us, we walked home along the hard-packed dirt path that led from the cemetery all the way to our house. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was a small neat place: white board houses, rail fences, all in order, one white church steeple. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My childhood involved church, or some form of church, at least four nights a week. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Father Nicanor felt that with another contribution like that the church would be ready within three years. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She also tells Jay about the churches and organizations that distribute food. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The priest was calling from the church steps, so they ran off to confession. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The area was half-gentrified now, but it still held old corners and dark alleys, an abandoned burial ground and a church with an Italianate campanile standing guard over the boatyard and the chandlery. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I knew I’d been born near the end of September, and each year I picked a day, one that didn’t fall on a Sunday because it’s no fun spending your birthday in church. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

One of the consequences of his decampment into the world of fantasy was leaving his meager group of friends—mostly from church—behind. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“The way you always acted, like you didn’t like none of the boys at school or church...not even Gilbert Harris! I always thought it was because you had a secret crush.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Over the last several years, I have visited many Catholic churches in the several cities I have lived in. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meggie was just wondering what the wood was for when more steps echoed through the church. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

"Actually, these Jonah and Mary banks are supposed to encourage the children to save for their offerings at church. Surely the sisters can't object to that?" How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“How did you know it was the church? You memorize phone numbers?” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I counted all the squares on the sidewalk up to the steps of the church, then I counted the steps, twenty-seven. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

A glacial sun filled the streets, and a high wind filled the air with scraps of paper and frosty dust, and banged the hanging signs of stores and storefront churches. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“He never went to church. They look at him like a family man. His family hates him. They think he’s a war hero. The only place he was a war hero was in the movies.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, none of the new people at the church knew her and at some point the man corrected his error, but that, Ma said, was not the point. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you are old or pregnant, or can’t go to the tracks for some other reason, bring food to the church, he tells them. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Little and I walked down the narrow aisle of his tiny church toward the altar while I explained. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They were many times finer than the white church I had attended back in Mason, Michigan. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma never even wore earrings, except to church. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Mine was too short at the wrists 'cause Mama had bought it the year before for me to wear on special occasions like school assembly and church. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

When they appeared at black churches, they were put up at private homes. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

She didn’t waste one minute telling everybody that my name was Charlie Reese and please welcome me to their church family. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Gladys followed, a kerchief on her head to keep her church hairdo in place, dabbing at her eyes with another kerchief. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

While the organist played church music, more and more people filed in, smiling and nodding at one another. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I didn’t disappoint, walking down the church aisle in my socks while everybody nudged their neighbor and snickered. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The prison is so stuffed, the walls are ready to burst. We’ve had to pack them into the sugarhouses and the confiscated churches, too.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pine Level didn’t have much more than a few shacks for the share-cropper families, a schoolhouse, a church, and a general store, but I was at home in all of it. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

It’s a long haul to church on Saturdays. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She saw Punky Perkins, next to her in church, drop two buttons in the plate in lieu of the two pennies his mother had given him. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Why do you listen to this church Order?” asks Fortune. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dusty road passed in front of the church, then past Tenorio’s Bar and into the cluster of mud houses with rusted tin roofs. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Near five hundred homes were destroyed that night, plus shops, churches, and stables. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their church was called the Temple of the Fire Baptized. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Just as my hand was beginning to ache from the unreasonable weight of my suitcase, we came upon a church. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I still don’t think God would kick you out of church for having a baby. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

"Now you call Dorothy in the morning, before they go to church. Tell her I'll pick up the girls Thursday night. You got that?" The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t have been born these perfect angel parents with halos hovering over their heads and church outfits on. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Tea Cake with his shy grin and Motor Boat with his face like a little black cherubim just from a church tower doing amazing things with anybody’s dice. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“And Lydia’s not from church,” his mom said. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Someone tried to blow up a church with little kids in it? Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Then the church door opened, a priest came out, and the ghosts, haunts, and corpses vanished, and only the priest and the drunk were left alone in the graveyard. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Then she bent down and touched me as mothers of the church “lay hands on the sick and afflicted” and I quieted. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is trying to make the best of it because he wants to work in the church, but he thinks the classes are dumb; he must study things he doesn’t need. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Papa even wondered if maybe Grandpa gave some money to the Baptist church to get it done right, but Mama said that idea was far-fetched—“stingy as Pa is.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

There was one thing, however, that made coming to Sunday service with Gran totally worth it: gawking at the gobs of people strutting into church wearing their Sunday best. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

In the morning, as soon as the sun cast its bright light on the red walls inside the church, Basta had them brought down. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

A few people Dill said he recognized from church. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Emma took the children to church, though during the Trinity prayer, which proclaimed God as three in one—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—she turned away from the altar in disagreement. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Dad drives me home from school I look at the sign in front of the church we used to go to. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Point-blank, I ask, “Are you one of those church kids? Coming over here to get me to go to church?” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

That night, just as the church bells began to ring midnight at the First Baptist on Washington Street, Benton was walking up the stairwell of the bell tower. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“The church is doing its veiy best to give you all a place to stay, but you have to remember that this isn’t a vacation.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I’d seen this Jesus with the long, flowing brown hair at my mother's church, too. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

At church dinners Enrique meets other children who hope to reach their mothers in the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The bishop, who wanted to stay, was being bundled away towards the church, while his crosier came after him like a standard, carried high above the tumult by some faithful deacon. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The silence grew thick, and time seemed to stop within the church, but no one dared to cough or shift position, so as not to attract Father Restrepo’s attention. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Big Ma and Mr. Lucas returned with their courthouse papers, only to find Vonetta and Fern practicing their walk down a make-believe church aisle in the living room. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Who goes to church for the whole day?’ Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He was too far from Washington to hear the ringing bells of the city’s churches tolling in mourning. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He saw that these people are the most vulnerable, the most disliked by the local population. So he gave himself to them,” says a church volunteer, Pedro Leyva. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“So you weren’t in the church business when my daddy was here?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“The music instructor. He taught a course in what was wrong with Southern church music. He was from New Jersey,” said Herbert. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Even though her church members were nice, especially Miss Nora, I didn’t really know these people. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Tom attended a local Baptist church with his family, and the preacher said that everyone was a sinner—even Emmett, the upholder of justice. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And every Sunday after church I would tear The Family Circus out to save. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The decision to join the Moravian church made other Delawares uncomfortable. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Not until Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. came to our church and called the signs and other inequalities to our attention did I really start to notice them and their underlying message. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to remember how it felt to stand in the entryway of the church, trying hard to breathe even though the air felt like soup and everyone was standing too close. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Just like Mrs. Malloy promised, Paul Robeson is at our church this morning. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

First, one of the firefighters who had aimed the water hoses at us on May 2, 1963, came to my church and apologized to the congregation for his part in the violence. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I started up the steps of the church and then turned back. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Below him were eleven male deacons who helped in the running of the church. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Grace says your family don’t go to church,” she says. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Claudette’s church, Hutchinson Street Baptist, was dynamited, its stained-glass windows blown to pieces. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Then my mom got caught helping the underground church and got a fatwa on her head, which means the government wanted her dead—“oh-no” face! Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Then all the Indians got spooked and quit, whereupon the padre locked the church from inside. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the weeks went on, the men began to embellish the dogloos into architectural fantasies, adding church spires, minarets, porches, and domes. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

She knocks on doors of churches, orphanages, hospitals. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Miss Skeeter pull a big brown box out the backseat, then carries it up to the church door, like she dropping off old clothes. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Maybe Luke Dodson sent him to try and get me to go to church again. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

After the Georgia legislature declared a prohibition against alcoholic beverages in 1907, Papa quit making or drinking beer—he believed in being law-abiding—and the churches started using fruit nectars instead of wine. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I rushed home from school, to the church, to the altar, to be alone there, to commune with Jesus, my dearest Friend, who would never fail me, who knew all the secrets of my heart. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

And, by an unforeseeable paradox, it was my career in the church that turned out, precisely, to be my gimmick. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

He lifts his eyes to the church again. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

My family got involved with a local church, and my dad formed a choir with the kids in the congregation. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The latter willingness is one so strongly programmed into us citizens of modern states, by our schools and churches and governments, that we forget what a radical break it marks with previous human history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The temperature inside the church had risen, and the penetrating odor of the candles, the incense, and the tightly packed crowd all contributed to Nivea’s fatigue. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Capricorn held it up in the church she hadn’t been able to make out the picture on the jacket. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“It goes through a village, with a church and farms and orchards, and then on to the town.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

This is what Father Russell at our church said once about the human lifespan. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He never had a woman that any of them knew about and said nothing in church but an occasional “Amen.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed that Helen had retired from playing for church that morning. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She held it stiffly out in front of her like a church collection. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

During the McMillian hearings, a local minister had held a regional church meeting about the case and had asked me to come speak. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The trainings take place in the basements of churches and the back rooms of stores, on long car trips and anywhere else where people can gather. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Out on the streets it was everyone for themselves, but Trapis’ basement was the closest thing to a sanctuary we had, like a church. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When I went to church the priest glared at me so that I could not feel the peace of Christ. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Celia went to a small church a mile away through the poppy fields. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They cruised along the streets, past families dressed for church and winos stumbling out of alleys into the bright morning sunlight. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The biggest building always seems to be the Pentecostal or Adventist church. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I’ll have boys posted in dark corners, close enough to the church, but outside the crowd. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulls paper and pencil out of his pocket, using the low stone wall of the Orthodox church to write. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Referring to them as sacred might feel uncomfortable, because the First Amendment of the Constitution tells us that this nation legally mandates separation of church and state. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

After church, Sander said, "We have the whole day and the whole city at our disposal. Where shall we go?" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He gestured modestly to the church with his cutlass. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Do you have a few minutes? We’d like to ask you a couple questions about some past members of the church.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But I had several special church dresses and one pair of black patent leather shoes I saved just for Sunday church. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“And if you fear the rivals of your church, you should know there is another nganga here, another minister. People also put their trust in him.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

From another part of the apartment came a child's voice singing Humpty Dumpty, awakening humiliating memories of my first Easter program during which I had stood before the church audience and forgotten the words . Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Saint Francis took a wolf to church,” she said. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then: “Why do you have to paint a church?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We finally left the car in front of the fire hydrant right across from the church. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Wouldn’t people like each other better if everyone went to the same church?” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Barack had spent a lot of time in churches during his time as a community organizer, which had left him with an appreciation for organized religion, but at the same time he remained less traditional. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

On Sunday morning, I get up and go to church. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The climate described from inside sterile urban studios was not the one I was encountering in the church halls and rec centers of Iowa. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He said we had been visited with a mighty spirit, and let the whole church say Amen. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t go in for that sort of thing. My wife takes the kids to the Greek church.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The back door to the church was held open by a fist-size rock. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I tug Boomer through the church gates and into the grassy graveyard. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

At the time, Papa made and drank locust beer, and Mama made scuppernong and blackberry wines for church communion. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The farthest we go as a family is taking the car service to church. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Instead, I waited for darkness, past Vespers and beyond, choosing not to stir until I heard the church bell ring the last prayers of the night, Compline. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the back of the church, I stood beside my dad, spitting saliva into a Kleenex. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Naw. I didn’t want to. Nobody but poor folks get happy in church.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

My parents were standing out in front of the church, talking to people. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was wearing two or three necklaces, old fake pearls, like Park's grandmother wore to church, and she twisted them while she talked. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Black people somehow adapted to the blasts—the destroyed homes, businesses, and churches. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Speaking of my mother, she wanted me to invite you to church on Easter. There’ll be supper after and a sewing circle. For the Red Cross.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The sidewalks, shops, taverns, churches, and theaters once again filled with people and buzzed with talk and prayer and gossip. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I had found another kind of inspiration, had seen another way the church might make me into something quite extraordinary. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Remember when I brought the false teeth to church?" he says. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

When someone gives the church money, he responds with a simple “A. Bien. ” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He envisioned her in church, shushing them while Father Franco gave his sermon. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Several church members stood outside with stunned expressions. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A little way off, beyond a line of scattered juniper-trees, which marked the pathway to the church, a white, dim figure flitted in the direction of the tomb. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Inside the church, pink and white flowers and balloons abound. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Counter-Reformation was the church’s attempt to rebuild the old order by crushing the new ideas. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The church, too, dabbled with zero and the infinite, though church doctrine was still dependent on Aristotelian ideas. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t, I couldn’t make it back across the bridge, back to town, to the church. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The camera catches Brick, Noodle, and the 8-5 Kings exiting the church. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Come on, we’ll be late for the Mass. We ran to the church. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

When he preaches in the church, the people’s love for him is like a big wave: it carries him up, up. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled up around the back of the church and parked in the semicircular driveway behind Augustus’s car. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

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

Meanwhile, Dr. Mansfield took a swig of his drink, set it down, then leaned back and formed a church steeple with his fingers. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

She went straight to the waiting room of the gynecology clinic, a wide-open space, empty but for rows of long straight-backed benches that looked like church pews. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Softly, as if she were discussing a church program, she said, “Poor man.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the dialogues ceased after a surprise arrest by police immediately following the last meeting at Reverend Cho’s church, several weeks before. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the church’s objections, Kepler’s heliocentric system would prevail eventually, because Kepler was right and Aristotle was wrong. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

When he goes to other churches to say Mass, he carries his white floor-length robe in a small bag across the handlebars. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It had neither statues of saints or Christ nor an image of the Virgen de Guadalupe, like the church that my family and I attended when we could. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

In his church recitals he broke with tradition and featured classical songs by European composers along with traditional African American spirituals. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Incense serves a variety of purposes in the Orthodox church. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I always find my church’s name to be a hootin’ riot. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I notice a small church at the end of the block, a perfect place to dry off, warm up, and strategize about how I’m going to convince this Guillermo Garcia to mentor me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Nixon and his wife, Pat, attended the White House church services with 125 guests, their names carefully listed in Appendix A in the Daily Diary. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

For the Bedford-Stuyvesant gathering, Janice had already confirmed her plans with church representatives as well as the local Democratic district chairman, who would be on hand to “host” the gathering. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mind goes back to a brightly lit space in the basement of a church his parents and their friends sometimes rented for especially large parties. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Alongside death and despair, this was also the period of astounding Gothic architecture, with the most extraordinary cathedrals, abbeys and churches being built all over Europe. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

As the services progressed night after night, my mother tried to persuade me to join, to save my soul at last, to become a member of a responsible community church. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no services that day, and the church was empty, except for some women cleaning and some other women praying. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Black churches, in this cultural narrative, are places where the “good” black people in the community can be found. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

When we reached the first level I could hear, if only dimly, church bells ringing. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice is deep, and she sings a fine baritone in church. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

His grandma was running from the direction of the church, and he could see her car parked on the road beyond, its lights on, its engine running. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

We drove past Little Richard’s church and then down through Frog Level. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

From there it is quite simple to get into the graveyard of the church, thence into the church itself, and into the tower. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

He learned that railroad stations, post offices, courthouses, and churches were places to escape from the cold for a few hours in the late night. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

By 1918 Marian was singing regularly at church, school, and social events. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

He looked around the church as if he had never seen such a building before, and how could he have? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I told them the church’s story and why we thought the church should be considered for this national status. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Easter is better than Christmas because Dad takes us to the Redemptorist church where all the priests wear white and sing.They’re happy because Our Lord is in heaven. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

A few days later, he walked with it into a London building which, from the outside, looked like a church, steepled and grave, but inside was shabby, harried, knotted with people. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

On Sunday, June 25, 1950, the spy George Blake sat in a church service in Seoul, the capital of South Korea. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Although my father was raised in the church, he wouldn't have prayed for God to spare him. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Time to time, I think I might find myself another man, one from my church. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Saint Francis would take a dog to church,” Maria said in a clear, high voice. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Wait. Then go to Robert Newman—you know, the Christ’s Church sexton. He lives with his mother opposite the church.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every single person in the church stood and clapped for Love and for the words Ms. Brown wrote in that letter. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The boy of coconut-shell skin is dressed better than for church, a purple bow tie, a white white shirt that wouldn’t wrinkle even if he rolled down a hill. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“I’m setting up another meeting for Sunday. For the church. You wanna come to that?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I never saw anyone working up at the church cemetery,” said Turner. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The nearest village, Bucktown, was little more than a settlement composed of post office, church, crossroads store, and eight or ten dwelling houses. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was right about one thing: church had been bad, but school was a whole other nightmare. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen the church name on a sign where blaring yellow sun rays spell GOD. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Everybody went to church in those days, and liked it. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m back in the spotlight of his gaze and having the same sense of vertigo I did in church. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“You think it’s okay with God that we’re listening to jazz and we just came out of church?” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Pa and the other Elders called a meeting in the church for that night. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“And I imagine you didn’t come to my church today looking only for medical attention, did you?” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I looked on as church members put their strength together to become volunteer firemen, policemen, loan officers, and protectors. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A church survey showed that many didn’t attend church because of the migrants. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The church was like my own at Stromford, though with different imagery on the walls. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Frightful awoke from time to time, when the wind blew so hard it rang the church bells. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The members of this church had sponsored John to come to America and had helped him so much. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sit in St. Joseph’s Church and the Redemptorist church and tell myself take a good look because I might never see this again. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

How many people—on the street, in church, on the sidewalks, in shops like this one—knew who we were? In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to sit on the church steps, but the pain was too great. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

After that, everyone filed outside to begin the procession to the church. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He and Pa get into another big fight, ostensibly about Vincent not going to church, and about religion, morality. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I know your church! I’m there all the time. Every Sunday.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Fumbling to get my shoes on, I felt the same old grief I’d known in church every single Mother’s Day. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the church, it smelled as though no living, breathing person had ever been there, the air was damp and musty and dead. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

As a community, we placed our trust in their ability to somehow keep Klan bombs from killing our loved ones and destroying our homes and churches. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Once this proved successful and churches across the country were preaching the ASL’s message, the organization turned its main efforts to getting politicians elected to support its cause. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The church people of Cold Sassy, Georgia, didn’t look at Sunday morning as the time to have a good time. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

A squat church of rumpled stone turned out to be locked. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Main Street had a movie theater, bank, jewelry store, doctor’s office, hardware store, and several churches. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Her only source was the church, and if that community' lacked what she needed, she had no other options. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The people in this church pray with hands clasped together. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I thought we were in a church basement, but we are literally in the heart ofjesus.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

We rounded the corner, and there was the Methodist church, lit with a thousand lamps. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Rumors around church were that Papa even had a girlfriend now. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, after Sunday school, and in my usual rush to get outside and play, I wore my church shoes in the creek to hunt crawl-dads with Roy Lee. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

By then I had collected wits enough to leap to my feet and race out of the church. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

That post on those four little girls who were killed in that church. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“But the main thing is to be a member of the church,” they said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room overlooked a prayer garden that Rameel had designed and built for the church. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

While I liked school, I thought church was boring. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Her mother liked the shoes she sent, tasseled and tapering, the kind she could wear to church. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

With all the government officials, doctors, scientists, and church people present, all seeking the truth as to whether Bobby was Jinky’s father, it seemed impossible that the exhumation was performed improperly. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

How can they devoutly believe everything they hear in church and then say the things they do and listen to the things they hear without throwing up? Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

But after the church bombing, nothing seemed the same anymore, including the way I viewed myself, others, and the world. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I stopped before a gray wall where high above me the headstones of a church graveyard arose like the tops of buildings. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nate spotted crooked rooftops, the wharves jutting into the river, and too many church steeples to count. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Negra hated the church, couldn’t wait to leave her parents’ house and rip up her Pentecostal roots. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“In church, we don’t run,” they explained with definite seriousness in their voices. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She’d learned it when she was only two or three, sitting on her granny’s lap at church. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“You better come on and start getting ready for church,” he says when the song is over. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Today again he waited, eyes glued on the big church clock that loomed high overhead. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The previous week, after listening to the music and the reverend’s sermon, I had walked to the front of the church during the altar call. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, a few tourists stood among the crammed shelves, whispering as solemnly as if they were in a church. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She’s the little lady in the back of the church next to Pop Pop. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Of course, I had been walking on my toes because walking on my heels was impossibly painful due to my jump off the church roof. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was wrong to look back in church, so it seemed that it would be worse to look down. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The truck pulled up outside a building with a tall spire, like a bell tower, but this was no church. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The church was already surrounded, and police were putting up barricades on the streets around the building. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Every day I asked my mother to request a special prayer at her church for Arthur Ashe to win the tournament. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost as if she were reading my mind, my mother said, “Everything’s different now—I go to church, have a good job, and I’m sober.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu’s mother began to sing a church song—“the Lord has given me victory, I will lift him higher’’—which was often sung at collection time. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Shady said to tell you he’s holding church services this Sunday night and he’d be pleased to have you.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

And a Nivea tin full of smelly ashes, probably from some Ash Wednesday when Mama had dragged me to church. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The next time I go to the church is in a coffin.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The young Jewish girl who at one time could not allow herself to walk into a gentile church now couldn’t do without it; her Orthodox Jewish ways had long since translated themselves into full-blown Christianity. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Do churches get bombed and children get killed, and then we all go on living life as usual? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

To the east, the ancient church spires and peaked rooflines of central Berlin rose above a sea of trees turned red and gold in the crisp autumn air. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Even when Briony had crossed the road and walked onto the grass she did not see the church at first. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Syracuse was an Abolitionist stronghold, and the church bells were used to give the alarm whenever a fugitive was in danger. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every afternoon when the school bell rang we ran across the schoolgrounds and over dusty streets and alleys to the church. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Upon reaching the church, I knocked on the door to the priest’s room. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Milkman assumed a preacher lived next door to his church. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The church rose up from the dust of the road, huge brown granite blocks rose skyward to hold the bell tower and the cross of Christ. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the evenings, Enrique watches the priest return to the church on his bicycle, loaded down with bags of donated bread. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He attended all services in the Episcopal church, helped with the flowers and leaves at feast times, and spent many hours with the young and curly-haired clergyman, Mr. Rolf. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A church bell struck ten times and I shivered. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We didn’t join a church in Washington, because we didn’t want to subject another congregation to the kind of bad-faith attacks that had rained down on Trinity, our church in Chicago. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Ever since he talked to me like a decent human being at church, my tolerance levels for Curtis have been much higher. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the grey-robed priests tried to get me to come into the church to say the prayers, but I’d heard rumors and ran away whenever I was asked, whether I had my loaf or no. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Evelyn Smith, Walter's sister, was a local minister, and she and her family occasionally raised money for the church by selling food on the roadside. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The minister took advantage of already being on the floor and asked in a choky little voice if the church would kneel with him to offer a prayer of thanksgiving. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t string up people practically on your front lawn, the same time every week, like church. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I rode Belle up to the church railing. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“But I believe miracles totally work? I know my aunt was cured of cancer in her church?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It said that the factories had been closed because the owners were giving all their profits to foreigners and that the churches had been infiltrated by American sympathizers. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The church modes, like their Greek forerunners, were ascribed certain moods, and a great deal of theoretical energy was expended over hundreds of years describing their effect and their best possible application. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

For nearly a year, I sopped around the house, the Store, the school and the church, like an old biscuit, dirty and inedible. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked tired and wore what my sister and I used to call a “church meeting hat.” Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It helps that he never goes to church. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Besides, anybody who started for church at nine in the morning on Sunday and didn’t get home until after twelve thirty had to be peculiar. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

But I don’t think she expected me to hang out with someone who didn’t go to church. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Its special qualities set art apart, so that it is often placed away from everyday life—in museums, churches, or caves. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The front is full of men’s church suits and street clothes. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

But some New England towns don’t have bars, and church is only on Sunday. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean in a church. I mean really preach.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The church became a central meeting place for Civil Rights leaders to get together and discuss the issues of the day and to plan freedom strategies. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I thought, if I ever got married, apple blossoms were what I would like to have in the church. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

At the car, I open the door for her and we drive back to the church. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“They look more natural standing on the street than in front of the picture-man’s cardboard church window.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would have children and raise them in the church. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

TJ and Jasmine went to the same church, where they sang in the youth choir together. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was the building I’d noticed before, the one that stood directly opposite the great church. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

On Didu's birthday, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson and a group of their church friends of a certain age take her out to dinner to celebrate. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

This is the first Sunday we’ve been here in a while, and the only thing church folks love more than talking about people is talking about people who haven’t been to church. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Yes. They thought you were a well-behaved gentleman. I had only dated boys at the church to Sunday school affairs.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rosa bowed her head and a ray of sunlight pierced the Gothic stained-glass windows of the church, outlining her face in a halo of light. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All those preachers at church say God made everything, right? Doesn’t that mean music, too?” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Between the glowing columns of the cloister is the cool darkness that only churches have, and I stand there and wonder whether, when I am twenty, I shall have experienced the bewildering emotions of love. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I intuited that such revelations made Augustine a Protestant church father more than a Catholic father. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was down beyond the Methodist church now, and the pigeons were flying back and forth around the steeple, and when the band stopped I could hear them cooing. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You bombed our church!” they screamed to no one in particular. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Even the ones that go to church, they still worship the false-eye dolls and get married to each other time and again. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s not much here, a crossroad, woodland, and an abandoned church that looks like it’s ready to fall down. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last brick was set in place as the vicar, having put his glasses back on, made the celebrated pronouncement—man and wife together—and invoked the Trinity after which his church was named. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

As she unfolded it, it echoed through the church, amplified by the nearest microphone, and each pop and crinkle felt large and awkward. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

After the church bombing in September 1963, Kirk stopped speaking, except when he felt it absolutely necessary. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“My mother died when I was three, my old man drank himself to death, and,” he paused and looked towards the church which already loomed ahead of us. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several fairies crashed to the church floor, wings snarled in the goopy substance. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

That my walk across London ended at the church on Clapham Common, and that a cowardly Briony limped back to the hospital, unable to confront her recently bereaved sister. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

When Benton Sage found out that he would be going on a mission for his church that year, he was overwhelmed with excitement and panic. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He’d held his church service the night before, followed by a potluck, but it turned out to be more of a “down on your luck,” as only one person showed up. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

My mom helped with the wedding and went to Ellie’s church and learned about Christianity. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

"Eighteen years of church. A few things had to stick, right? Actually, this is one of my favorites." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We rode on the narrow street, past the big white Congregational church and the Art Association. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Carole carried a small Bible in her pocket whenever she went to church and was involved in most of the Sixteenth Street programs, usually with a speaking part. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was the kind of wordless testimony of struggle and anguish I heard all the time growing up in a small rural black church. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I sing in the children’s choir because Big Ma makes sure we motherless girls enjoy all the pitying looks the church can spare, whether we want them or not. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cinnamon was the same color as me, so I pressed my fingers into it and spread some of the powder onto my face, like Mama did with her makeup when she went to church. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

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

He had posted the title on the board outside the church: “A Love That Forgives.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Generally, it’s cooler than up in the church, but it’s warm down here tonight. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It was easier than making my way up the side of a building, and took me high enough to where I could jump to the wide stone window ledge on the church’s second floor. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The church was having a potluck dinner and bonfire to celebrate the New Year. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It was rabbit fever,” and the illness lasted many months, during which the family had depended upon church assistance and the charity of neighbors—“otherwise we would’ve starved.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frightful caught one of several wet rats that had retreated to the church and crawled up to the bell tower. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

We were walking to our parish church for the Mass of the Rooster, Mama, Papa, my sisters. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of my clothes are hand-me-downs from the ladies at church. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

With all my classmates, I went to the unlit church where the nun led us through the forms of an ‘examination of conscience.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We are, but being a Christian will help us get sponsors faster. Many refugees are sponsored by church groups. Christians like to help other Christians.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A ripple of nervous laughter rolled through the church, a catharsis for Moss. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Subtle,” I say, heading down the path to the church. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Since Mama died, only time he picks it up is Sundays when he head to church. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Father is still carrying on with his tormented Jesus Is Bängala church. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three girls came from the church dance because Jane Appling had invited them, and I think she had one @#$% of a nerve. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Baptist church looked a lot like the Methodist one we went to, pews, altar, a couple of stained glass windows. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In church, at testimony time, her mother was first to hurry to the altar. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I used to think of this as standard Greek behavior until I realized that ours was the only car in the church parking lot consistently swarmed by bees. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“You think someone at your church might remember them?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I knew something in that photo looked familiar. I think they’re standing in front of my old church building. The church moved to a new location a few years ago, before we moved here.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And like everybody else in Marshall, I heard music in church on Sunday, not in clubs. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Creaking benches, murmurs, and a few gasps rumbled through the church. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Either way, thoughts of Faith and Fang and Astelle and how I’d just been slain outside by a single note seemed distant, muted by the church’s shadowy stillness and the Pastor’s lingering calm. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The church had been decorated, with sparse flowers from kitchen gardens and hedgerows, and with streamers of colored crepe paper. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The injunctions against the wrong kinds of investigation were so sharp that the parson-naturalists did not even question the myths of creation; it was the perfect separation of church and mental state. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I motioned toward the little doors along the wall at the back of the church. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I still haven’t gone to church with Mom and Dad on Sunday, even though they ask me to come every week. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She pointed to the rear corner at the south end of the church. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I go along with the Kiss of Peace, but paradoxically I feel isolated sitting in half-empty churches among people I am suddenly aware of not knowing. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I recounted the details of the church bombing, recalling that September morning somberly. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The screen switched to a shaky video of my speech at Gran’s church. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

For a moment, she could see what the church ladies saw: young, handsome, hardworking, strong. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The ceremony in the church took about half an hour; there was a blessing, and then the coffin was lowered and the freezing mourners departed. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In essence, the tribe was asking us whether we shared its feelings; if we refused to join the church, it was equivalent to saying no, to placing ourselves in the position of moral monsters. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some church members didn't get there until later. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

According to Temp, the deacons voted to put it in the church records that “Mary Willis Blakeslee has swapped her religious birthright for a mess of matrimonial pottage.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

His sermons were given in a small Catholic church—St. Jean Bosco in Port-au-Prince—which had become the progressive, liberation theology church in Haiti. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

During that last stay in San Jose, she went on a walk, stumbled across a church service, and slipped inside. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

We had spent two weeks in Cange, and in the midst of them had taken a quick trip to visit the church group in South Carolina that funded Père Lafontant’s projects. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

One of these women had a whispered exchange with a child, who promptly raced off toward the church. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Effie Belle had heard the scream as she was coming in from church. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She seemed to know a story about every church tower. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

What calms me down is the rock of the houses and the towers and the churches. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Breaking the law goes against their church teachings, but the boys feel sure that they have a responsibility to learn the truth. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mom never hears rumors at church about our neighbors having nowhere to watch the parade, after all. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It's a bit of a snooze, actually, because the cameras don't go in the church. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

We’re not very religious, but going to church is part of Mom’s personality. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He wanted the mercy and faith of the church to be the villagers’ only guiding light. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no sign outside the home advertising it as a church, but Ob said, getting out of the car, that it wasn’t the kind of religion people necessarily advertised. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Shady’s place appeared to be one part saloon, one part carpenter’s shop, and—could it be?—one part church. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I’ve always made sure I go to church with the very best people, and we get invited to their parties. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told potential donors that many of the American-born students at Brown had never even been to church, to say nothing of the students from Asia or the Middle East. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

All that church music bounced off project walls, circling its way around the neighborhood. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Milkman stepped off the porch, scattering the hens, and walked down the road toward a clump of trees near a building that looked like a church or clubhouse of some sort. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s a small, serious woman with carefully bobbed hair and pressed slacks and a pendant necklace you see on church ladies, but she grips Annabelle’s hands and looks her dead straight in the eyes. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Or to church, so I could talk to Father O’Malley about “reforming.” P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

For although men in my family went to church, women prayed most audibly. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said, “If you go slowly, you risk getting sunstroke. But if you go too fast, you work up a sweat and then catch a chill inside the church.” The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

We joked and talked, but his chief concern had always been my “schoolin’ ” and “church raising” as he called it. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even from a distance, Stella thought their church was the prettiest in the county. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Mother and Grandmother sometimes took me to churches in adjoining towns for the weekday twilight services. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Why do you think I need to come to your church, Esther?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The church was packed with women in black, each one stoically suffering the three hours of the Crucifixion with the tortured Christ. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both wear dark dresses, like the ones in the old church, though of a later date. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

When Kwang’s car arrived he got out and we immediately led him up the steps, inside the church. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He'd heard church bells ringing in Manhattan and seen reporters converging on the sidewalk outside his house. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Yep. The church let her go so they could pay for repairs to the daycare.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Who did the Cossacks need to go to if they wanted to open their churches for a christening service or for a marriage or a funeral? The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

My mother, trying to cut the tension, began digging in her church bag, which was way bigger than her normal bag. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

On Sunday I thought they would go to church, but no, they held a special service in the pink house, and people came to them. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kneel with people in the pews next to confessionals but when my turn comes I can’t breathe, my heart pounds, my forehead turns cold and clammy and I run from the church. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

In the background, the editors placed the photograph of the church’s stained-glass window with the kind face of Jesus blown clean away. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Several responsibilities awaited me at home before I could leave for church. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody knew somebody affected by it: Daddy’s family, Monday’s family, church congregations, the Mayor, even teachers at school. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Since black performers were not welcome at most of the country’s concert halls, he sang mainly at black churches and colleges. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

They loomed round the church wall, the lovers and helpers of the Wart, and they all spoke solemnly in turn. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If it wasn’t for the ‘church every day and twice on Sundays’ thing...Annabelle says to Luke as they walk back down the gravel road where Dawn Celeste’s camper is. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Then Phyllis says, “Maybe we can ask Bethel to take up a special offering. His family doesn’t go to our church, but we could still help out.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The Doorman and I go to the church to see Father O’Reilly, and he still has a fairly generous congregation. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

On Sunday nights you could see red, blue, and green stained-glass light in the churches and hear the voices singing the numbered hymns. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light turned green, and we were on our way to the church again. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

So William hoists the sacks above his head, his great arms like the pillars of a church holding up the roof. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

So I went to St. Ignatius, and it was cold and damp like it usually was, outside and inside, except inside there were more candles lit than you’d think could fit inside a single church. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

At a little before six each day, little Willy would position his sled in front of the old church on Main Street. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dressed in his church clothes—black pants and a button-down shirt, a brown belt, his cowboy boots—and walked into store after store, asking for applications. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He had dreamed—or so he thought—of a magnificent church with a great, reaching spire that would rise from the city’s tallest hill. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

So Bull ordered the city’s school buses brought to the church. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The dead and their bones ended up in a tiny graveyard next to the abandoned church, at the foot of the volcano, where there is now a proper cemetery. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Benton assumed that he had already been given another, better mission to serve his church. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Opposite, at the other side of the square, the great church rose up in all its all majesty, its stained-glass windows glowing faintly like the embers of a smoldering fire. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was a church full of the newly wealthy; her mother’s small car, in the parking lot, was the oldest, with its dull paint and many scratches. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“So will the folks from the Lutheran church.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, man, I just stopped talking altogether. Quiet as a church mouse.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Uhmma has not sat in the back since the first day we came to church. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I don’t see Bando or the conservation officer’s car, but recalling the note on the library wall, I cross the road to the church. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though this isn’t church, there are a few people who say amen, and heads are nodding in agreement. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Pass two churches and a mosque, all of which show scars of bullets and explosions. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Brian wore his sunglasses inside the church, and Martín just kept his head down. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She had avoided the services at the colored churches in town. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Chester pulled the car to the side of the street in front of the church. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The participants clustered around it, the simple Hart Street church in the background. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Inside the church Cluny sat up in the choir loft, the image of barbaric authority. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Mother’s resolution was to make sure that every single one of her children made it to church at least twice a week. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The way to the church porch seemed endless. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The congregation gathered around the coffin, and the yellow church swelled like a throat with the sound of sad singing. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy had invited a colored pastor to come talk to his Bible study group at church. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a week I would be returning to school, and as always I would be running up the goat path and crossing the bridge to go to church. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The music was heavenly, both Gregorian and Ambrosian, and the church was packed. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You kept pulling at your tie and then tightening it back up. I saw a little kid in a hot church.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they got three-fourths of the way down, I heard the sound of a rope being thrown over one of the beams that went across the church ceiling from right to left. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A week after my mother switched churches, her employer in Randburg, a suburb of Johannesburg, had her registered and given a work permit. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They gave him a large amount, but he wanted more, because the church had to have a bell that would raise the drowned up to the surface of the water. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Armstrong said that before the war began, he’d lead his church members to Jordan, where they’d be saved because they were “God’s People.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And, Celie, our church, our school, my hut, all went down in a matter of hours. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked slowly down the road to the church, and I felt glad and almost peaceful again at being away from the house. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Me and Lily went to that church because this boy she liked once goes there.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He nods and then unable to help myself, I ask, “You said I was her, that first day in church. Who did you mean? And how could your mother have prophesized about me?” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Less than two weeks after the gathering—on August 2, 1848—a second women’s rights convention, organized by Amy Post, a prominent Quaker abolitionist, took place at the Unitarian church in Rochester, New York. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“How long have you been away from the church?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

But I had always felt protected by my father, my grandfather, my brothers, and my church. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A flock of crows watched from the oak tree, perched on the branches like mourners in a church. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

As if they were standing before a miracle, my great-grandmother, my grandmother, and Mr. Lucas continued praising the Lord like they were in church. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

And on Sundays, when Ella, Mary, or somebody took me to church, I saw churches for black people such as I had never seen. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told me about Hell and sinning and how we go to church to learn how to live in God’s image. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“You’re just going to walk into Capricorn’s church and ask for your daughter back, are you?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He grew up in one of the few white households in a poor black neighborhood of St. Louis, where his parents had moved to start a church, which failed to take off. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Grandma and Ruth were out getting things done that needed to be done, going to the funeral parlor, the church. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

We passed the church and the school-yard, and the bus stopped. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

She wondered if Stargirl had been at the church as well. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

They had come into the church the night before and deposited the contents of latrines inside the confessional. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were coming home from church, a big group, my mom and Andrew and Isaac, her new husband and his children and a whole bunch of his extended family, aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I stand in the aisle of the little pews, as much in the center of the church as I can get. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

They walked into the church together, and found a sign telling them to wait in the basement. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

We usually went to my grandmother’s church, an old-school Methodist congregation, five hundred African grannies in blue-and-white blouses, clutching their Bibles and patiently burning in the hot African sun. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The Catholic church should no longer have a special status in our country. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then for all the world like we were at testimonial time at the Baptist church with forty-five people listening besides God, he commenced to pray. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I go to church, and I volunteer at the soup kitchen twice a month, you know? Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The alert, a distinctive and endless gong, like a church bell one block away, is blasting from my phone on the other side of the room. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Everyone at church had read the prophecies; they knew the Days of Abomination were coming. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Soon she was singing well enough to be entrusted with solos when the junior choir performed at the church’s main Sunday service. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

As the funeral train left Washington for Cleveland, warships in the Navy Yard fired their guns and bells in the city's churches and schools rang. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

After mass, long after the priest’s words stopped echoing against the cement walls, she remained in church, inspecting the pews for forgotten veils or rosary beads. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Chan told me at church. Too many TV set found in his car.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here we go,” she said, setting the radio on a church music station. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

There should be a ceremony; I felt strongly about that, and it should be in the church, on a definite date, with flowers. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“We going to a picnic—a church picnic,” she said, and suddenly, unaccountably, and for the first time, smiled. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The next day we go to church, and afterwards I spend time at Suesetta’s. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

On Sunday mornings and Sunday nights the church was always full; on special Sundays it was full all day. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

This is the first time I’ve ever been inside a church. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

There are so many funerals that the pews in churches have no time to cool. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I found a few kindred spirits in the church youth group. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I miss going to church and having it just be part of my routine. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

On the southern side of the street were a mix of larger apartment buildings, and at either end of the block were churches that had recently celebrated their centennials. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

As they stood at the window, they heard the joyous peal of a church bell. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had meant—or so word at church had it—to build an elaborate bungalow of the sort his father had built years before on the family farm at Island Center. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her reply survived: “I am sitting with Mamma instead of going to church. I shall find it much pleasanter to have a little talk with you than to listen to Allen’s temperance sermon.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went to the window and looked out; in front of him, down a few feet, through a window, was a dim-lit church. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Following tradition, Uncle Pete guarded the doorway for more than two hours, until the service at the church was over. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, nice seeing you again, whoever you are. The photos of you are brilliant. I stopped by the church a few times looking for you. Thought you might want to see them.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The minister at Vince’s mother’s church mentioned my name and had the congregation say a special prayer for me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He fled to his jeep and I didn’t hear from him for several hours, then he called and asked me to meet him at the church. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Like I was invading the place or something—a gambler in a church. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Every Easter we had to perform at the New Brown Church, playing our instruments or reciting a story from the Bible for the entire church congregation. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the day, Granddaddy would slip out of the house to take money or food to needy people in his church or to check on a sick member. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then after folks talked about Miss Love cleavin’ to somebody besides Grandpa, they had to speculate about her church affiliation. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

When they reached the square where the church and Capricorn’s house stood they let themselves down from a gutter. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

We went “fishing” fast and furiously when those little evangelical storefront churches each let out their thirty to fifty people on the sidewalk. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before my grandparents died, they would take me to church and I would wear stiff dresses with itchy lace. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

When they reached the church doors he paused, and looked at her and made his promise. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The building looked more like a ruined church than the entrance to a mine. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

In that room where you were lying, a cross hung on the wall above the sofa, like the one we’d seen in church. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

After church, we followed Mommy as she stalked out, and my godfather met her at the door. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The church contained a single, open space where we villagers knelt on the rush-strewn floor to face our priest and altar during mass. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The two rode slowly to the church, dismounted, and then went inside. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The church asked me to play a major role each year when we formally remembered the September 15 bombing. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I watched myself walking with the reporter into Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s church on Dexter Avenue in Montgomery, then up the street to the Civil Rights Memorial. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In much the same way that priests and sorcerers have created gods and demons throughout history, and in which thousands of French curés were still creating Christ’s body every Sunday in the parish churches. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bodies of 112 men, women, and children had been found in a church in Northridge, California, the third apparent mass suicide in and around Los Angeles in the past week. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Around the hospital and the church stood the beautiful ferocious trees, a complex of camphors and teaks. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wyclef is their god and American rap videos are their church. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Something sad, not like organs in churches can make another kind of sound other than a sad one. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“But they seem more like threatening calls than just prankster calls. The callers say they are going to bomb the church.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And then it was one eye—one huge brown eye as big as a church door. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are turning the church’s beautiful green lawn, where kids play after catechism classes, into a muddy brown lot. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It satirized the familiar, everyday tragedy of a chaste young girl, with below-shoulder-length blond hair and udder-size breasts, being criminally assaulted in church, in the very shadow of the altar, by her minister. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

It's mostly just stating her birthday, the year she started the Housewives’ League, and how, as a woman, she is a leader of the church. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They slept at their posts in the shadow of the church so that no one crept in for consolation without their knowledge. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I laid a handful of attention on my face and tuned up the sounds in the church. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m happy to, but you should also take lessons. There’s a Korean-language school that is based in our church. We can sign you up to take Korean class with kids your age.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Then I spot a cross on the wall and I realize we're standing in a church. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She runs into the church to see if Stephen Carey, the sacristan, would spare her a rag and he gives her some kind of canvas cloth that makes my nose sore. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then they saw the facade of the huge church, and their mouths dropped open even farther. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I walk in the church on Wednesday night. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Amelia would go to New Hampshire where her clergyman father had a country church. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Until now he has seen radios only in glimpses: a big cabinet wireless through the lace curtains of an official’s house; a portable unit in a miners’ dormitory; another in the church refectory. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Below my feet was an explosion of stone as the great iron wheel tore free from the church wall. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Ferdinand or Ida or both were often to be found planning strategy or making speeches in churches, associations, and political backrooms. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He sleeps in the graveyard behind the church, between the headstones. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

When Faro and I reached the church, Faro ran and sniffed around in the grass where I had left the bird, but it was gone. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

A church came into view on my right, its tower rising up past a bridge heavy with traffic. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody else had changed out of their church clothes except Jackie. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

First Father Mike did the left side of the church. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And all the while my Mrs. de Winter, my lady with her smile and her lovely face and brave ways, the real Mrs. de Winter, lying dead and cold and forgotten in the church crypt. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was an old hymn they used to sing all the time in the church where I grew up. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The church with the stained-glass windows was illuminated from the inside, which gave the building an ethereal look. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I can see only half of a basement which, I judge from the distance I’ve come, is under the church. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

After she showed the video of me speaking at Gran’s church, then we would do the interview using Zoom. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

They’d spent virtually all their nineteen years on the periphery of various things—families, teams, churches, school cliques—and had developed a profound suspicion of hierarchies, authorities, institutions, bureaucracies, and anything connected with them. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad still make me go to church, even though I’m mad at God. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It is no exaggeration to say that without the church, there would have been no movement. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The other kids in church had poked each other when I’d walked in. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thing Stella liked best about church was that it was not quite perfect. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Even in church, a place where many people seek solace in times of grief and sorrow, families often keep secret the imprisonment of their children or relatives. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Two things that comforted me and quieted my worries, making everything wonderful, were being in church on Sunday and sitting all alone in my room listening to music. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

‘We just been to Sunday School and church. Baby, say the verse from the Bible you learned for your Uncle Biff.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

At that time our church served as a concert hall, a public auditorium, and the gathering place for most African- American social events. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore had stopped walking, level with the church they had passed earlier. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Pop Pop stands there clapping his hands at her like she just preached a sermon at church. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Even in church, folks kept to their own. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

When I look over strips of green grass lining the river, at church steeples and into the cream-and-copper halls of apartment buildings, I’m strong. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh Christ! I can’t believe I just said bloody hell in church. And Christ, I just said Christ! Jesus!” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Genie felt a flush of excitement to be going somewhere, anywhere, other than church or Tess’s. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Our Confraternity fills the Redemptorist church five nights a week, three for the men, one for the women, one for the boys. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Above and below the church were our dwelling places, some forty cottages and huts of wattle and daub, thatch and wood, dirt and mud, all in varying shades of brown. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

And other names, people she hadn’t met but whose names she’d heard whispered in her home and at church: Mary Turner, Obe Cox, Paul Jones. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

In every church he entered, his sin had gone before him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Ever since the church bombing, I had lost my enthusiasm for school. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“For the Fourth of July they’re holding a voters’ rally at the colored church. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ma slipped her a few dollars a week and plates of food at church on Sundays. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He stood before Cluny, who had to strain his one eye against the darkness of the church to make sure he was really there. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I would go home when the Hulls came into town for church on Sunday. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was six o’clock—the church clock was just beginning to strike—when Fenoglio suddenly put down his pen and looked over what he had written with a satisfied expression. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I know how you hate to walk—after your stroll to church and back and pushin’ that cat around the yard, you’ve had it. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He still lives in our town and he still comes to church. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, you, Mom. It might be nice. I mean, no one ever goes to see her. A couple of people from her church now and then. But they don’t stay long.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I stretch a twelve-by-eight-foot canvas and wash it with an iridescent blue gouache—like the Virgin Mary’s robes in gaudy church paintings. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In an attempt to reestablish the lines that separated black and white communities and to intimidate black residents who crossed over into white neighborhoods, they bombed black homes, businesses, and churches. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Outside Lewiston, we found our first bit of hope in a little Baptist church set back from the road in a bunch of tall pines. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

She looked like a demon in one of the comic books Celia got from church. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

What Protestant and Counter-Reformation reforms meant, more or less whoever you were, was a simplifying of church music so that the words could be heard more clearly. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I take a breath and with my back still to him, I raise my hand and wave bye exactly like he did that day in church. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“The stew was for a get-together she hosted last night for her church friends. Plus, I suspect she wants to give us some privacy tonight.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The Ku Klux Klan reasserted itself as a powerful terrorist organization, committing castrations, killings, and the bombing of black homes and churches. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Several years back, he had been commissioned to sculpt the statues for the new National Cathedral, but the dedication had taken place in an empty church. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Catholicism, the genesis of Christianity as we know it to be presently constituted, with its hierarchy, was conceived in Africa—by those whom the Christian church calls “The Desert Fathers.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several times during the week, I have driven past the “Deliverance” church downtown, and the name alone exerts a scary attraction. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

You don’t know what it’s like inside a Pentecostal church full of Latinos. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

His mouth formed the word “oh,” but he didn’t actually say it; he was too busy looking at Rosaleen in his church, Rosaleen who chose this moment to spit into her snuff jug. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a while everything seemed routine: the crowd of people at the church, the line of cars with their head-lights on, the smaller group clustered around the grave for the final farewell. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“I thought you might like to come down to the church so we could talk about what’s happened.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“He plays the guitar and sings. Today he played the guitar in church.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“Mom, were going to talk to Deacon Draper,” Brandon said once church service ended. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“The town wouldn’t let Negroes in the church cemetery.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’ve never been to a church before. It would be a new experience for me.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

“This is war. Even our churches are making the sacrifice, delivering their bells to be recast as cannon. Surely you do not rate your home above the houses of God?” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think this one was ever in a church,” replied Elinor. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In fact, I wanted all of my fanciest clothes with me, so I packed my church clothes. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I walked as slowly and as quietly as I could out of the church. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

How on a July 4 at a church picnic a family was about to break open a watermelon. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ate in the church and slept in one or other of the many abandoned houses in the village; that was the rule and it could not be broken. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Before the church lady could answer, Mrs. Brewer came up and put a hand on Miss Winthrop’s shoulder. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

That world of grocery stores, walk-up flats, cheap restaurants, poolrooms, bars, storefront churches, and pawnshops seemed to hold a natural lure for me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smoke stung Meggie’s eyes, and the flickering firelight danced on the red walls and columns as if the whole church were ablaze. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Outside the church, I’m adrift in a sea of anacos and gold beads and blue ponchos; only a few other people are dressed like mestizos. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The beautiful old church was rank with the heavy odor of rats. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Figgered the church folks would put a preacher up and feed him, too. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

So, every day the church was our help center, where we exchanged used clothing, shared food with our hungry. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The motives behind building the new church were twofold: to resurrect the ancient splendor of Byzantium and to show the world the financial wherewithal of die prospering Greek American community. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

On a Big Meeting Sunday, we’d pull up to church at noon and wouldn’t get home until dark. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Next to one of the churches sat a narrow piece of abandoned land, which Miss Josie always talked about making into a community garden and Oliver wanted converted into a basketball court. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He darted around the crowd forming on the steps and pushed his way into the church. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Finally the boldest of us confessed that the entire thing was a fraud and we played hooky from church. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you remember when I invited that colored minister, Pastor George, to come speak at our church?” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was still allowed to go to church events, but he forbade me from doing anything related to the movement. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Inlets formed rocky beaches and harbours where red-roofed houses and white stucco churches nestled against the shoreline. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Not only were the pews missing from Capricorn’s church, but the altar had gone, too. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The smile I denied him in church overtakes my face until I’m beaming at the wall. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

And reminders of the disaster were everywhere in their village—the crumbling church, the ruined school, the graveyard where Mama was buried. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

She was accustomed to the kind of fiery preaching that the church offered, the extremes of showmanship and drama, but one day, she thought, they crossed a line. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The radio was turned halfway between a church sermon and a swing band. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Thanks,” I say, even though I’m not sure I believe in praying, mostly because Dad, Pop, and I stopped going to church when I was a kid. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t been to church since I was little. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Thing is, I met my last three wives at church. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This family that you could tell just came out of some church were walking right in front of me--a father, a mother, and a little kid about six years old. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He looked like he could be a deacon in a conservative black church. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t run into members of his old church very often. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

It was chilly in Capricorn’s church—Meggie was to remember that later, too—although the sun must have been hot outside and high in the sky by the time Mo began to read. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But, instead, he checked around the side of the church, found a door with a bell, and rang it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I first got an idea of its calibre when I heard him preach in his own church at Morton. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Once, the local director of la migra threatened to lock up the priest for several years on smuggling charges if he didn’t bar migrants from entering his church. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It owned the shanties they lived in, the stores where they bought groceries, and even the schools and churches. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Completely by coincidence, as we moved back and forth between these churches, I noticed that each one had its own distinct racial makeup: Jubilant church was mixed church. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And praising like church folks, jumping from their seats when the music gets good and the preacher gets to preaching loud. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Surely he knew he’d never get Ob and me inside of a church, even if it served a thousand different kinds of doughnuts. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course,” I answered, “I was thinking for the moment we would be married at home. Naturally I don’t expect a church, or people, or anything like that.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

From the back of the church, the children from Riverside School streamed in, their hands clasped as if in prayer. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Salvadorans with MS tattooed on their foreheads, the sign of the Mara Salvatrucha, hang out like dogs at the San Jose church, sniffing out robbery prospects. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“This is the street—this is the church—this is the house,” he said rapidly pointing, and at once turned and made off, his head down and his shoulders moving as he ran. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t remember the last time her church choir had worn robes. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was a fool, and he also saw Father Drozdov every week at church. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Well, she was in church and did seem kind,” Arul said softly, as if to convince himself this was the right thing to do. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I supposed Him to exist only within the walls of a church—in fact, of our church—and I also supposed that God and safety were synonymous. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Another one hooked my mom, and we were forced up the aisle, funneled toward the flower-stacked coffin at the front of the church. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

We made the last turn on the path, and the Vida church popped into sight. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Out of the surrounding silence and darkness came the quiet ringing of a distant church bell, thin, faint, but clear. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He says nothing, just takes the first steps into the church, eyes glancing up at the cross and the pews and the pulpit. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I walked upstairs to the church office and found middle-aged Mabel Shorter unusually flustered as she laid down the telephone receiver. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I could not retreat, as did so many, into the church and its mysteries. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He never pastored in any regular church of his own; he was always a ‘ ‘visiting preacher. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Folks around here wouldn't be too happy to know you cheated them out of their church money.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She remembered faintly the funeral in the yellow church. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could not hold church meetings of their own any more. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was right before Candice was to perform in a big Christmas play at church. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

They might not have wanted me around, but at church I always felt accepted and loved. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In June, just a few months before the accident, Lisa and Van Park attended his farewell at the Garland Tabernacle, a modest red-brick church with spires on each side. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Maybe the church, with the sycamore growing from within, had been haunted. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the people in my community, church, and school also fell into a wide range of complexions. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Coach Douglas and Reggie’s grandma are going to hold a small memorial at the church.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Second row, right side of the church, halfway down the pew, between Mr. and Mrs. Mara and the triplets of doom and Mr. MacKinnon’s wheezy laugh. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Cabot Searcy, having been raised in a Southern Baptist church in Georgia, had little knowledge of this text before this first encounter. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The lights were dimmed, which was very different from the bright lights in the church at my mothers funeral. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He was a music teacher who came to buy Musical America at ten-thirty in the morning on the last Sunday of every month, on his way home from church. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hello? Claudia. Hi, there, it’s Sister Burke from church. How you doing? Is your mother around?” Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He meant it, and Sam knew he meant it, too, so he shut up and the conversation turned to repairs Mr. Beach wanted to make to the church. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Brother Anatole, I fail to see how the church can mean anything but joy, for the few here who choose Christi-an-ity over ignorance and darkness!” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gave me the gift the night before in case I wanted to wake up before church and get started on him. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

His expression was stony, and he made a little church with his fingers. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Except, I realized, one box at the front of the church, which was so utterly motionless. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When old Grandma and Auntie came home that night from the bingo game at the church, Tayo and Rocky were already in bed. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was as poor as a church mouse. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Money and donations poured into the church from all over the world. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In sixth grade, we had a babysitter from Mama's church who wore this charm bracelet. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The howling wind and pounding rain made a frightful noise, and yet through it all a single, chilling sound could still be heard—the awful tolling of the church bells. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“Vince telephoned. He’s asked me if you could go with him to church tomorrow, then out for a bite. I said yes, provided the two of you come home to have dinner with us.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She came to my room as I was getting ready for church. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Many migrants at the church return with smuggler horror stories. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

By the time they got out, it was too late to go to church and almost lunchtime. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The church had ended the temporal practice of polygamy in 1890, but it had never recanted the doctrine. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Aware of the racial violence taking place throughout the nation, the union had posted armed guards around the church to prevent the meeting from being disrupted. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

It seemed that what people learned at their churches on Sundays about unity and love they placed on the shelf during the remainder of the week. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Despite their protests, all the other churches did the same with the exception of the Roman Catholics, the Seventh-Day Adventists, and the United Jewish Reform Congregation — who soldiered on without state aid. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I went to church. It didn’t help. In those days that was the best place to meet a girlfriend. In church! All of us praying to be different.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

As he approached the voting table, he held his hat against his chest, respectfully, like a person going into church. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Activist pastors from South Korean churches invented the escape trade in the late 1990s and early 2000s, hiring border operatives who greased the palms of North Korean guards with cash donated by parishioners in Seoul. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Over the treetops the spire of the village church could be seen, and thatched cottages began to appear at the road’s edge. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Ten days after the church bombing, on September 25 at 2:31 a.m., another bomb exploded in a nearby black neighborhood. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I take the road to Beaver Corners, pass several dark houses and a church, and then I’m out in the wilds again. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little store-front church was only half filled when they walked in, but Reverend Price was already behind the lectern, thumbing through his Bible. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

With experience organizing Klan units in several Southern states, Stoner was as violent as Shelton, and would later be convicted in the 1958 dynamiting of a Birmingham, Alabama, church. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She'd been a church musician most of her life and had worked with dozens of children’s choirs. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He is looking for work with the church. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And just like that we are talking again and making plans to ask Pastor Dames before church next Sunday if Bethel can help the Mosley family. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

‘What the church is saying is that only an English name will make your confirmation valid. ‘Chiamaka’ says God is beautiful. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Migrants deported by the United States often return to the San Jose church. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The small, withered heart of Marie Antoinette’s ten-year-old son is kept in a crystal urn in a French church. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

In Salinas, Olive had experienced niceties of living, the choir and vestments, Altar Guild, and bean suppers of the Episcopal church. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

His voice sounded excited, and he began to explain that he had been at a church service in Sydney, a church that other Dinka people also attended. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clayton and his mother sat in the pews meant for family on the right-hand side of the church. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The church gave us a plastic glove with each step written on a different finger. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly it occurred to me that I made a strange and too obvious picture there—a large Negro, standing in front of a church, absorbed in a pamphlet on racial justice. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My home is in Saybrook, but I am going to Wethersfield to study under the Reverend Bulkeley. In another year I hope to be ready to take a church of my own.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Well, except to church “harvest parties,” which were just covers for Halloween parties. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

And so when the Price family strolls to church we are able en route to peer straight into each and every villager’s house. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They hung out of attic windows, rode on car fenders, delivered the coal, moved into Medallion and moved out, visited cousins, plowed, hoisted, lounged on the church steps, careened on the school playground. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“My limbs all went dead on my wedding day. I vomited all over my wedding dress on the way to the church.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

This time, instead of heading for the Spinney we walk toward the church. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He never sat with the family in church. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Dad got a job in the church. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

A child of the Counter-Reformation, Descartes learned about Aristotle at the very moment when the church was relying upon his principles the most. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It continued driving the fire through the heart of Chicago, devouring churches, banks, publishing houses and printers, breweries, grain elevators, lumberyards, and department stores as if they were constructed of brittle hay. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

“We had to write to check with the church registers. What the Nazi authorities were looking for, of course, were Jewish names.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The water purification plant lay far to the east, and the little church Celia visited—could she still visit as an eejit?—was to the west. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My siblings and I began singing at local churches. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He misses going to church with her as a child. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

After attending church that Sunday, Franz decided to talk to Alex “about how he was living. Somebody needed to con-vince him to get an education and a job and make something of his life.” Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I really mean that there was no love in the church. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Pop Pop and his new friend are cutting up in the back of the church, having a good ole time. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I had followed a few coffins up the hill from the church to the cemetery, but because Momma said I was tender-hearted I had never been forced to sit through a funeral service. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not simply that I found a different Church when I went to church; I went to church less often. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went to church as usual Sunday morning at Winfield Methodist Church, but I had a hard time keeping myself from yawning during the sermon. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

People bring in their own foldup chairs and lawn chairs, and so sometimes it looks more like the congregation is watching a parade or sitting at a barbecue instead of being at church. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

And now here I am, sitting in the church, staring at the white spot on my left foot while the minister talks about God and heaven and angels. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu liked Sunday mornings, the slow shifting of time, when she, dressed for church, would sit in the living room with her father while her mother got ready. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t go back to the church, at least not yet. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The silence in the church ended when Brother Elisha, kneeling near the piano, cried out and fell backward under the power of the Lord. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Tag pulled us over the moment we bumped up on the asphalt of the road that led down past the church. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

When you looked around, where else did you see a single black role model, except in church? Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He began to pity her, and one day when he was to preach in the evening he invited her to come to church. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

While a student at the Eclectic Institute, he traveled to area Disciples of Christ churches, where he was paid to give Sunday sermons. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

By the time I got near the end, I could hear the clicks of Dad’s crutches, as he began his long journey to the back of the church. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

In the aisles of country churches and grand city cathedrals, witnessed by a whole society of approving family and friends, her heroines and heroes reached their innocent climaxes and needed to go no further. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He stared at the man’s jet-black suit and remembered who he was: Reverend Hammond, the pastor of his mother’s church. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe Father Franco told her to stay at the church until she could take the elevator up to 12B. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

But Nelson says they’ve got one foot in the door of the church and one foot out. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ms. Clark called the church. They said you don’t work there anymore.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She marched deliberately into the church, walked “with the air of a queen” up the aisle, and sat on the steps to the pulpit. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Sure, baby. But not for long. We got church in the mornin’.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

This room is my church, and standing on this platform is my pillar. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I go to church. Mass. I go to mass.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It hung above a store that had been converted into a church, and I stepped into the shallow lobby and wiped my face with a handkerchief. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She slides into the center of an empty row, but it's the third bench from the front of the church. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Even Meggie could see that whoever had painted it was no more skilled at his trade than the sculptor who had carved the statue in the church. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“We going to get the church to pray for you,” he said, “and get you on your feet again.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

In church, I used to try and get my brother to play tic-tac-toe on the bulletin, but he always refused, shushing me and pointing to the preacher. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

A synagogue is no different from a church or any house of worship—open to anybody. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Wary that there might be other rats about, Matthias climbed into the church through a broken stained-glass window. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

When he passed the Methodist church, he heard the congregation singing a joyful hymn. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

So as you can imagine, the church wasn’t too full. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Ever defiant, my mother would take minibuses to get to church. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The questions were fairly straightforward: “What did you see that morning at church? Where were you standing when the explosion occurred?” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It would be like the time Lily pretended to be Catholic because this boy she liked was Catholic and she thought maybe she could see him if she went to his church. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

It turns out that the big boss of the church has told Titid to shut up. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day—spodess souls—we walked as a class up the aisle of the church, the girls in white dresses and veils like small brides, the boys in white pants and white shirts. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Colonel Meecham stood at the back door of the church, his arms crossed, and his mind wandering. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some were simply standing, confused, others panicked and ran to the church, hoping to find shelter in the tall stone building or the huge iron wheel that hung there, promising them safety from demons. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She came to their church suppers without underwear, bought their steaming platters of food and merely picked at it—relishing nothing, exclaiming over no one’s ribs or cobbler. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He warned me that it would take at least three-quarters of an hour to walk to the church, which is in the village itself. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Ever since our car ride home from church, my brain couldn’t stop examining the idea of faith without facts. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

It was this last realization that terrified me and—since it revealed that the door opened on so many dangers—helped to hurl me into the church. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

“The church, the pretty dress you wore there, all the attention.” Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes church members would stop by and pray. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

This was a working-class church, a middle-class church. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“In any case, please keep your voice down. We are in church, after all.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Hold your noise!” cried a terrible voice, as a man started up from among the graves at the side of the church porch. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

On Mondays and Wednesdays, he drives the church van to Laredo. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The puzzle was cleared up when a group of older church women took their deacon aside and delicately explained matters to him—naming French as the father. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But history strongly suggests that the ultimate goal for the church and the European rulers was about more than winning souls to Christianity. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

No wonder that letters addressed to people here had never received an answer: as well despatch epistles to a vault in a church aisle. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Odom blushed a little at that, and Mrs. Odom jumped in real quick to tell us about Howard being the Bible Detective champion at church. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Sally hadn't been selected to ride on her church’s float. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon, I take Mother her mail, Good Housekeeping magazine, church newsletters, DAR updates. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

When we had water balloon fights in the church parking lot and waited in line for the ice cream truck. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

This preacher, this leader of this church and congregation, was using this tone to refer to Allah. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Teams from the church go door-to-door, asking businesses to give. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Can I tell you what churches we have in the area? What denomination are you?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Had he not repeatedly refused my mother permission to attend any of the several churches in our neighbourhood? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It came from hanging out with my dad after church on Sundays. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

That Sunday, we piled into Gus’s car and headed down the mountain to church. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

There were some clothes in the crypt beneath the ruined church, but Bod did not want to go down to the crypt, not even in daylight. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

From the humble beginnings of the storefront on Hart Street, to the respectable but by no means splashy domicile off Beniteau, Assumption was finally going to get a grand church building. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In some ways, I felt I had never left Birmingham and the church at all. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And all he said as we hitched up was “Y’all be good now. And come Sunday, find you a Presbyterian church to go to. You hear me?” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He decided to go inside the church, partly because of that, and also because he had never seen it, it was something to do. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Aunty Ifeoma and her children were climbing into their station wagon as we drove into the sprawling church compound. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I met Myrlie Evers, his wife, last fall, when she visit our church with Mary Bone’s family. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She landed on the bell tower of a church. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“You know, they say that there are countless saints who have nothing to do with church and almost no knowledge of God. But they say God walks with those people without them ever knowing it.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

That’s where we end up, instead of in the church secretary spot that Jay used to have. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Tonight, they are parking overnight in the lot of the Methodist church, where the people of Marengo have the flea market on the weekends. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He admits that if his church was any kind of shop or restaurant, it would have closed down years ago. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He took a bus about 220 miles south to Jinan, a city of five million, and spent five days searching out more Korean churches. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

And God is loved in Mississippi, Home and church her people hold dear. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, after a while they just dropped like eggs and we loved having them, but I couldn’t see how we could afford a church with all these kids. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of his prosthetic leg, Pop Pop can’t take two buses and walk another seven blocks to church. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The singing from the church vibrated through him, suffusing him with a mood of sensitive sorrow. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Joan Gilling came from our home town and went to our church and was a year ahead of me at college. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

At church potlucks they play a secret game of dumping random cans of food in casserole dishes and pretending their grandmothers gave them the recipe. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Just our luck, a church made of dirt. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m ashamed to admit it, but I stole some of it from the church. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

It sat on its own little table at the front of her classroom, sort of like the altar at the front of a church. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

While humming one of her choir songs, Gran pulled the car out of the church parking lot. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

We were exhorted to obey God, respect the political authorities, and be grateful for the educational opportunities afforded to us by the church and the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One thousand people left the church, heading for Howard Johnson’s. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In his church, Little Richard raced to the belfry and began to toll the bell in celebration. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Halfway through the song I blinked—at least it felt like a blink—and when I opened my eyes, I was back in the church. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Around them, the city seemed to yawn and stretch, waking gradually as the sun rose over sauropods and swooping dacytls, brownstones and church steeples and municipal domes. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The church is full of whispers and praises, and more and more people stand in line at the microphone to tell of God’s goodness. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Bod walked down to the crumbling little church. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“Why didn’t your church elder report it to me? After all, I am the sheriff here.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then last Sunday, my little brother was getting confirmed at church, and we figured this one time, it would be okay for me to go.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They passed big churches, freestanding arches, clothing stores, and fast-food restaurants. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I’d never “gotten a coffee” before—I’d never even tasted coffee, because it is forbidden by the church—but I followed them across the street and into a café. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“You know, some months Esther will give her whole salary to her church, they call it ‘sowing a seed,’ then she will come and ask me to give her three hundred naira for transport.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“So far we have come safely. Soon Sir Hugh’s men will encircle the town. By then we shall be in the church tower to give the signal for attack.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Luther accordingly had collected numerous popular contemporary folk tunes, given them holy words, and encouraged these hymns, or chorales, to be sung in Lutheran churches. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

September come and a church in Birmingham blows up into a million pieces, with four little colored girls inside. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I know you blame me,” Mrs Compson said, “for letting them off to go to church today.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We stayed the last two nights on the property, me and the policeman here, and it’s been peaceful as a church house. Ain’t that right, David?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked just like a church, with a funny bell tower. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, if we let everybody borrow a fan that wanted one, the church wouldn’t have a fan left.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Speaking to reporters outside the church after the rally, an equally combative Ralph Abernathy met head-on the charge of being an outside agitator. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Deacon Draper,” Brandon began, “if you don’t mind me asking, how did the church pay for the community center?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Nhamo would have joined the church, too, to have such riches. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I wasn’t at home or in school or at Cynthia’s house meeting with the Cavalettes, my parents knew I was at church. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“No. Just when Ma takes me to church.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Tell her I am getting ready for church. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Lily did everything just like the Catholics, especially when she spotted him walking up the church’s steps between his mother and father behind us. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

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

When Blanca grew up she never shook it but embraced God even more, and now she needed something her church couldn’t deliver—some sucker to marry a girl from Colombia. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

So I told one of Blanca’s church friends, Wilfredo Reyes, that I had forgotten something important uptown and had to retrieve it. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Then Cletus said, “Well, sir, do you have any materials you might give us? Anything she might have used in church?” Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

I stood in the rain and read all the names, then entered the church. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

There remained now but a few young men who, belonging to no church and professing no religion, were scattered sheepishly about the pews. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The marquee in front of the church is advertising a Saturday night “tent revival,” which sounds like the perfect entertainment for an atheist out on her own. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were at least a dozen church parishioners at the house all morning with Walter and his family on the day Ronda Morrison was murdered. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to climb the church tower and cut the tongues out of those bells myself,” Eliza grumbled as she beat a dozen eggs. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His Baptist church was just a short distance from the store. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

To address these perceived threats, an idea emerged that allowed the church to grant privileges to “Old Christians” and excluded anyone who converted from other religions. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Impatiently, Prosper dragged him along through the throngs of people, waiting eagerly at the entrance to the huge church, to see the gilded walls and ceilings. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the dream I was at a church, the same church my mom’s funeral was in, except this time the air conditioner was cranking. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

His voice rings clear and steady, filling the church with lyrical notes and giving me goose bumps. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

We'd be all dressed up walking to the bus stop, and Aaron'd say something like "Mama's church boys going to meet their maker." Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

In my closet there are a few shirts and a few pairs of pants and a suit and a tie for church. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kendra ran out of the church, down the steps, and over to the wagon. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The house was empty and quiet; everyone had gone to church. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

But I think I’d actually rather be at church than here, doing what I’m about to do. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

And who knew how many beach rats she’d drugged and collected into the mysteries of her church? Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The same taxi that took Trotter and the children to the white Baptist church dropped him off on the way and picked him up on the way home. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

They died between the sacred walls of the church of God, and they were discussing the eternal meaning of love. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“All the time!” the church, now even more amped up, hollered. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Uju is coming after church to take us to see the house in Dolphin Estate,” her mother said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The ceremony itself was at a local church, after which we celebrated at the home of Winnie’s eldest brother, which was the ancestral home of the Madikizela clan. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tower of the church looked as if wind and weather had been wearing the masonry down for a dangerously long time. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Beyond the houses stood a white church in the middle of the forest. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a strange feeling to walk through the village—a truly deserted village now—past Capricorn’s smoke-blackened house and the half-charred church porch. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In medieval times, men sought sanctuary in churches. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The closest we’d come to that was meeting that kind woman at church. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

When I was about ten years old, I was outside of our church with my friends, one of whom had brought a visiting relative to the service. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Ellie said she would go to church if Momma would let her wear the see-through blouse, and Brenda would go if she at least got a new skirt. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I hurried away from the church so swiftly that I found myself back at the office before I remembered that I was going to Hambro's. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since church is such a big part of my life. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

There was always an Easter-egg hunt on the church grounds, and a parade of people in special hats. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, their church, one of the poorest of the city, was falling apart. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to waste my summer painting a church. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Behind them the church tower rose high above the rooftops, and there was nothing now to shield them from the sentry's eyes. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

When the midnight office was said in the church, the whole household trooped back to the Hall, where tables were spread for the feast. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I would protest as well the diminished sense of the sacred in churches today. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And Milo, tell your momma to call me. I need a ride to church on Sunday.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was standing beside the rusty braziers when the church door opened for the second time. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

So real, I didn't even want to talk about it on the way to church the next day. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Inside the churches, the other singers often talk to the audience between songs, about God or a grandmother or what a song means to them. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

God showed me that yes, I need to be part of the physical church, but I also need to take his love outside the church walls. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, yes. I seem to remember that. Anyway, what I was saying was that you are such a bright young boy that I think we might need to reconsider your duties for this church.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

If the house I live in now with my mom and dad is a graveyard, then Auntie Idris’s house is a church, full of life and love and praises for above. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Besides the time when the choir sings, Sunday school is my favorite part about church. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Meggie could remember how the thin little man had come hurrying up the nave of Capricorn’s church with his pile of books. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

These were the self-same chickens Ruth May had chased around the house that very morning before church. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her skin is dry, rough on my lips, and I know better than to put any gloss on because that's also "too fast for church." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The only thing in the house that was clean was a mirror of black glass, as high as a tall man, as wide as a church door, which rested against one wall. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Heads turned when they came in, and a murmur, barely audible, of astonishment and pleasure swept over the church. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Brandon pointed to a short, round man standing near the front of the church. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

This was more than I had been able to find at church or with the kids at school. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reverend Downe held a memorial service for Dr. King at our church a few days later. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I guess she forgot I was part of her church family. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

It was formal without suggesting that going to Mrs. Flowers’ house was equivalent to attending church. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had seen the fine clapboard parsonage beside the church where he was to live, and the small house set a ways beyond it that puzzled him some. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

It was the same stubbornness that kept her going to church despite a broken-down car. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

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

She reasoned that it hadn’t been a church, or a real marriage so why let it stand in her way? A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

People, suddenly visible in the lamplight, streamed toward the temporary church. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth stands, holds up a green church dress with a round white collar. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

And once more the yellow church swelled like a throat with voices. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

To us, it was what a bar is to a drunk, or a church is to a Bishop. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

About the only place he permitted me to go alone, unescorted by my brothers, was church. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

During those fifteen minutes before the next worship service, church folk would talk with one another, admire the babies, purposefully compliment and encourage the youth, and visit the restrooms. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I was trapped inside my church while people were shooting, breaking windows, and screaming for their lives. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Several black leaders had attempted to raise $3,000 in order to build a new church, only to discover that few whites were willing to contribute. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I wanted to say that when I saw her I was ready, walking into the darkened church with the family and sitting in the first pews. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Nielsen is in and out; much of her time these days is taken up with bridge club and volunteering at the church. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

A couple of years later he had a job playing the organ at a church. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“The church is a bit of a drive, you know,” she said as Camilla circled behind her and went to fetch Francis. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The church bazaars would leave the air redolent, smoky from mass cooking. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Over the previous six days, 130 of his Lutheran congregation had been carried off, and his church’s tiny burial ground was looking more and more like a plowed field. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Beginning with Pope Urban II, the church leadership and the European monarchies sought to bring Christianity as far East as possible and to take over Muslim-controlled trade routes in the process. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

West Virginia miners lived in nearly feudal conditions—their homes, schools, churches, stores, and even their politicians owned by the mine bosses. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

“That’s right. Outside the Law Courts. It was bombed in— oh, many years ago. It was a church at one time. St. Clement’s Dane, its name was.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“She works six days a week but on Sundays gets up bright and early to take Mrs. Tsontakis to church—poor thing’s ninety-three and can barely walk. That’s Zoe. Always thinking of others.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A bus and caravan of cars—sixty people—journeyed with him from his old church in Anahuac to Nuevo Laredo to say farewell through tears. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He heard Rameel laughing with a small family inside their hut as he showed them pictures of his church and of his family, telling them stories and singing them songs. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

All around them, Manhattan stretched out in rowhouses, great majestic cupolas, church steeples, and glowering government domes. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Half the church’s eight hundred members quit in protest. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“There are churches all across the States, though,” said Shadow. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Alexandra said, “We first got wind of something wrong when they’d come to church and sit on opposite sides of the auditorium . Henry said, “They glared at each other for Sundays on end . Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The boy knelt, sobbing, at the mercy seat, and the church began to sing. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

When no one else was there, I would creep into the church to pray to him. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

This revelation caused an army lieutenant, Alexander Ross, to proclaim, “Gentlemen. I am prepared to state that any person from St. Louis would rob a church.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Sierra glanced warily at the vacant lot and dilapidated church. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“You can never trust a con. Nobody came here for singing too loud in church. Do you know what the word conniving means?” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure it is,” said Hermione, her eyes upon the church. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The singing grew louder as they approached the church. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Young people from all our churches would be there. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She had just made her first communion and had given herself so wholeheartedly to the church that she thought she might like to be a nun when she grew up. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I wanted to know about how the external mission of the ANC was faring, I would ask, “How is the church?” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It lay there, a huge leatherbound missal that contained the readings for all three cycles of the church year. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Frightful in her church and Drum in his tupelo sat quietly through screaming gusts and dead calms. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

We took Richard down into the church basement, threw a rope over the railing that ran around the gym, and were stringing him up when Reverend Abbott came along. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“But he walked right back into church. He never faltered. “I was very proud of him for having the courage to do that.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Pairs were nesting in the rococo architecture of the churches and Victorian houses. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

That the ride I’d stepped onto seven months earlier had been rolling toward that moment of emptiness in front of the church sure as a runaway train on a clear stretch of track. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I was very upset with God that day as I held tight, trying not to wet my pants until we got to the church. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I discussed it with Father Benedict, and he says the children can go on pilgrimage to Aokpe but you must make it clear that what is happening there has not been verified by the church.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

An hour later I passed through a small town, hardly more than a church and a tavern that happened to be next to each other. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And I’m looking for ghost girls at church while my hand falls off from writing so many letters. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

A knock came from the back of the church. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

One of Socios en Salud’s first projects was to build a pharmacy next to Father Jack’s church, to dispense free medicine to the most impoverished people in the slum. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

She could just be dropped off at the church. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fed Faro and walked to the church again. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then, if that wasn’t bad enough, some Sundays we’d double back to white church for a special evening service. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And he said quickly, “We will be married in a great church.” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d get a plate every Sunday after church, and I always looked forward to the passion fruit juice, so sweet bees would fly all around me. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I wonder if Father O’Malley will let her in church like that. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Regina wasn’t buying his sales pitch and wrote back that Armstrong and his church were feeding Bobby a line of mumbo jumbo and engaging in fear mongering. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I also had friends from my new church, who helped us settle into our apartment and our new lives. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It happened the first time in the church, in an isolated area. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

We drank the grape juice that they used for communion from the church fridge. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Finally, appealing to Desdemona’s fear of God, Tessie told her that it was a sin to miss church when you were physically able to go. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

You only would hear the birdies twirping and the church bells ringing. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

The Watermelon Feed began with a prayer by one of the pastors at Temple Baptist Church, the biggest church in Odessa. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m dragged through the church’s back door, which is only ever used by the priest and the choir during service and leads out to the courtyard and classrooms. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“She just took in a heap of sewing that she has to finish quick. Marla Kay from church has a sewing machine, but she said hers is jammed up bad.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“My mother always said never expect church members to be perfect. Christians are still people.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Sabrina calls me over to the back of the church, telling me she has something to ask me. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Anyway, I know that somewhere I once read that Mahalia said that every time she can, she will slip unannounced into some little ghetto storefront church and sing with her people. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked to Stone Street where the Catholic church is and turned left, went past the Carriaga house, the Wilson house, the Zabala house, and turned left on Central Avenue at the Steinbeck house. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lark and I stopped to see him this morning before church. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Dressed in their Sunday best—women in high heels and white gloves, men in suits wearing tie clasps—they might have been on their way to church. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Nazis watch everything—churches, schools, places people work. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Big Jerome came in, still wearing his church suit and looking quite dapper. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Police officers run into the church to arrest migrants hiding inside, sometimes with their guns drawn. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“It’s a church, or at least it used to be. St. Clement’s Dane its name was.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

For the first time in the history of the Christian church, people had been told by the Pope that killing people was not only permissible, but a religious duty. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

It did not seem like a Sunday, maybe because we had just gone to church on Christmas day. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a faith formation class this afternoon at church,” she said finally. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

So she and Mama decided the next step would be to go to the presiding bishops of our community’s churches. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lack of high ceremony in church today betrays a loss of faith in communal Catholicism. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw Poppa, but no, not truly him; another son of Africa, brow furrowed, his voice deep and strong as a church bell. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As you can imagine,” he told the cops, “I have some rather dubious clientele. What church for the poor doesn’t?” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Then I use all my self-control not to burst into song—he went to the church looking for me! I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Just a skinny girl with braids who got up and blew the roof off the church. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“My mother's church is on Adams, near the Children's Home Society, where Lily did her volunteer work last summer before the cotillion. All the debutantes had to do some charity work.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Winn-Dixie stood up there in front of the whole church, wagging his tail and holding the mouse real careful in his mouth, holding onto him tight but not squishing him. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was with them that she and my father started the New Brown Memorial Baptist Church, a small storefront church which still stands in Red Hook today. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father was head deacon in this church—there were only two, the other a round, black man named Deacon Braithwaite—and he took up the collection, and sometimes he preached. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

For some, providing short-term shelter at the church is not enough. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

And others, like me, fled into the church. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

He tried to stop her from spending so much time at church, and one of the most effective tools he used was to stop fixing my mother’s car. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Their church clothes were soiled by the time the last mass rolled around at six. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She frowns and smiles at the same time and the kids all run off giggling round the back of the church. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Like you lived in this weird cloudy area between real life and church life, real life and Mont and Dad life. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The new minister introduces her as “the original founder of our church.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was very quiet, and for a moment Elinor thought she heard Mortimer's voice as it brought life into the church with the red walls. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Everybody sat still as if they might be in church and Mr. Chris was giving the sermon. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Seated in the rear of the church was Sheriff Clark with a bunch of his armed deputies, recording the names of people who attended the meeting and taking notes on everything the speakers said. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he saw the panic in my face, he said, “Go get some air at the back of the church. I’ll be right behind you.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Under the church sign, in handwritten Chinese characters, someone had added: “A Chinese Ceremony to Save Ghosts from Spiritual Unrest 7 A.M. and 8:30 A.M.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's an American song, one that the boys learned from church missionaries. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

She attended church and participated in school and community activities. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When they came out, he stood on the rise of the church steps among the four enrobed ministers. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as she took her seat, all the ushers would move to her side of the church because it took three women and sometimes a man or two to hold her. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Me, Cooter, Emma Collins, and Philip Wise were the last ones out of the church. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“This is the church where Aimee played piano for me,” I say. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Now, Gideon and I had been to enough church services, hoping to get a hot meal afterward, that I’d heard the word a time or ten. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The people were hurrying us on down toward some kind of open dirt-floor patio with a roof over it, which as it turned out was going to be our father’s church. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d expected the courtroom to be quiet and serious, like a church, but the crowd buzzed like they were waiting for a carnival to start. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Behind them rise the steeples of several churches. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the night of September 30, 1919, some one hundred African American sharecroppers attended a meeting of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America at a black church three miles north of Elaine, Arkansas. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He never went to church, which Bailey and I thought also proved he was a very courageous person. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

This morning before church, Dad was reading the New York Times Weddings section over breakfast. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Go to church in that cloud of weariness? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know your sister, all she knows is school and church.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Back in spring, when I was in the fifth grade, just months before he, like his brother, was assassinated, Big Ma put on a church outfit to hear the senator speak. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

"Putting up a statue of yourself in a church?" Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Uhmma begins to sing the song from church, the one that reached impossibly for the sky. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

She attended the prayer meeting for Yule May that Aibileen hosted weeks ago, but she belongs to a different church. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She go to my church, work for Miss Caroline on Manship. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Soon as we step in the church foyer, one a the Brown brothers slip behind us and he lock the door. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

When church was over Mama Tataba took us back to the house, while the clever Reverend and his wife stayed behind to smile and shake hands and bask in the general holiness. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frowning, he stood before the church doors, hands clasped before him. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I know people will say that it’s because of the accident that I came back to church— well, they’re right. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I saw Mom and Dad on the right side of the church, below their favorite stained-glass window, the one with Jesus on the cross. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

No one had ever heard of a minister taking in members for another church. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My family was Christian, and we went to church every Sunday. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Oh, so now I’m a church boy? Talk about playing both sides and down the middle too.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was Joanna’s crime, decided Francie—not that she had been bad, but that she had not been smart enough to get the boy to the church. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meetings were held in the churches almost every night. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They had a big party and renewed their vows to each other at church. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Drop out? Of church? You crazy! Ma would kill me!” Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The trees grew straight, then arched overhead like the vaulted ribs of some great church, their stained-glass windows the green leaves dappled with golden sunlight. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“I pray for you night and day. You’ve got to start going to church, too.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The meeting was being held at a small community church a few blocks away; it had seating capacity for no more than fifty people. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

So, rather than pay for professionals, as would be sensible and safe, the churches in Tarbean took the more profitable path of selling demon masks. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They worshiped in Christian churches, in ceremonies that honored African gods. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

He ate the leftovers from our dinner and he and Uncle Willie discussed the developments of the church programs. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A car idled on the street in front of the church. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The following Sunday, my mother took Desdemona and my brother to church. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"What? That's completely insane. Anyway, who cares? It's not like either of us goes to church, right? Is that all this is about?" Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“If it’s church it’s got to be high church. He was talking about how priests shouldn’t be married.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Ash Wednesday before they went back to scatter out along the coast, Amaranta got them to put on Sunday clothes and accompany her to church. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I feel like I just closed my eyes, and already it is time to wake up and get ready for church. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The king said, “We have searched the church.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Papa hadn’t practiced his driving but for a few minutes before church let out, so he wasn’t all that sure he could remember where the foot brake was or how much gas to feed. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The sign out front says “Seven Baskets,” and it looks more like a church than a store. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

By far the biggest structure was a great church—a cathedral as I would learn—which soared upward with a multitude of towers. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

After walking forever, Hazel stopped in front of a church. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But the president of the United States was not worshiping in a church. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Ash Wednesday in February or March and the Day of the Migrant in September, all of the churches take up a collection. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He suddenly realized he was on the familiar 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

And the more I thought about it as Pa drove us back home from church and I sat in my room piled under all my schoolwork, the more I never wanted to do anything. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

I yank the pillow from under his head and tell him, “Uhmma wants us to get ready for church.” A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“The churches used to bathe their special statues in holy water as a way to honor them,” she said. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My first letter, I remember, was from my religious brother Philbert in Detroit, telling me his “holiness” church was going to pray for me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kendra paused at the threshold of the church and looked back. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Instead, black churches set up “shopping centers” in their basements, and chartered buses to transport shoppers to Raleigh and Greensboro. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Leanne Washington's days as a volunteer at her church did more for Lambert's children than most people will ever know. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The green sign outside the church was lit with white lights. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I always knock the people in Blanca’s church, but a lot of them were right there that night helping us move our things, everyone splashing around ankle-deep in water. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Named the church he belonged to and said that he was an officer in the navy. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The burial took place amongst the other paupers’ graves in the walled cemetery behind our church. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I continued at the church school, despite Aunt Addie’s never calling upon me to recite or go to the blackboard. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Rudedge, a deacon in our church, heard Sarah’s cries and moans. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

When we finished, and listened again, we understood that someone was throwing rocks against the outside of the church, against the walls of the church. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s kind of a strange church and I thought Winn-Dixie would fit right in. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Doctors at country clubs, doctors at the seaside, doctors with mistresses, doctors with wives, doctors in church, doctors in yachts, doctors everywhere resolutely being people, not doctors. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Crispin, as Jesus is my witness, churches, priests—they’re all unneeded. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Why wouldn’t the English king and church not share all their land with their own starving countrymen? Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“My husband wanted to start a church but we had no money, so he said, ‘Let’s start it right here in our living room.’ The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would the church promote peace by closing the school? Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In church in a drunken stupor, he had seized the chalice and dispensed communion to his frightened attendants. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she hesitated, kind of dazed, he pushed her toward the church’s big open door. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

After church we would be brought home, again holding hands and singing our way through the streets of Harlem. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

After he died and Mommy remarried, my stepfather, Hunter Jordan, seemed to pick up where my father left off, insistent on education and church. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

If all the other churches had followed the example of those who resisted, the government would have been confronted with a stalemate that might have forced a compromise. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now,” said Amelia, who was far more conscientious about her duties as caretaker than Lyddie would have wished, “where will you be going to church on the Sabbath?” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Before the divorce, she went to church along with Candice and her dad, but she didn’t sing in the choir or volunteer for the usher board, unlike her father. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The number of the church was familiar to me, and yet for a moment my mind was blank. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I decided I would never go to church again. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

"It was a church, then a bank, then it was a restaurant and a fancy gambling house, and now we got it," Halley explained. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Metropolitan was the church in Harlem back then. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The remaining photos in the top box were pictures of other families and church groups. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I cycle all around Limerick with telegrams and stop at every church. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of migrants, mostly men, mill about the large courtyard of the yellow church with orange trim. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Like the hall, Robin’s room was somewhat chapel-like, for the houses of the time of Edward the III of England were very little different from churches. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Similarly, a church member, a taxi driver, gave five migrants a ride up the road. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

So it was always a strange experience to step inside a church to begin with, but that wasn’t why he was so bewildered. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The families that would not darken the door of the church, which by the way doesn’t have any door, did manage to join us for the picnic. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And with her stubbornness she always took the children to the church, too, and they listened. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

"You certainly are. Taking Didu to church with you! What were you thinking?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Baptist and C.M.E. churches went down front and assumed stances a few feet apart. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Even if the church says it is not authentic, what matters is why we go, and it is from faith.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I know I don’t pray very often, and I know You haven’t seen me in church lately, but I feel like I need to pray or something. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The partners at the top firms graduated from the same Ivy League schools, attended the same churches, and summered in the same oceanside towns on Long Island. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I walked into the bright sunlight and heat, looking for a place to hide before ducking under a dwarf tree beside the church entrance. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Buckminster and Turner went behind him and stood with him at the back of the church to endure the handshakes and knowing looks. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I had come upon something very much like a church, but it was still a room. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

People go running past, men and women, and I grab Katherine by the arm and drag her off the boardwalk in the direction of the church as the men start to scatter. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

For punishment, she dictated that the next week I had to go to church in my stocking feet. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A black cat was sitting on the edge of the well outside the church. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In the early hours of Black Easter, Booth and Herold sought their salvation: not in a church, but at the door of a loyal Confederate. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Nah, man. My aunt said she was taking us all to church this afternoon, and me and PJ said we had to get home and catch up on schoolwork." Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

The hall was the grandest space she had ever been in—higher roofed than any church, wider than most fields, filled with hundreds of diners at scores of long tables. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The church was dark, the parking lot deserted. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She asks a million questions about my friends’ parents—what part of Mexico they’re from, what church they go to, where they work—but today, nothing. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

On Sunday, I took Richard to church, the Holiness Church of God, with me, not to convince him of nothing but so that he could see it my way too. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She figured they probably did, probably went to church with some of them. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The trio placed themselves before the doors of the church where the steward briefly addressed the crowd. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Sixteenth Street Baptist Church was the first black church built in Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Happy music sounds like the music they play at the beginning of baseball games, except sped up, and looped over and over and over again, until every lady in the church catches the spirit. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

“From Gilbert? Why? He’s the handsomest boy in church.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The feeling she had about it was as good as the feeling she had about church. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this modern post-religious age, secular institutions flounder to imitate the gift that is uniquely found in the temple and mosque and church. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today, later, with Ofglen, on our shopping walk: We go to the church, as usual, and look at the graves. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

We gave Pa a wrench from the church bazaar. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

She flew down to the sill of one of the four glassless windows in the church bell tower. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Guiteau waited until the service ended and Garfield exited the church. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“We go to services now at a signs church in Flat Rock, Alabama.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Randall forbade religion on his plantation to eliminate the distraction of deliverance, and churching never interested her once she came to South Carolina. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The next step was to find a church: “Always find a church.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine that I’m sitting in a pew—would Mustache’s church have pews or chairs?—and looking up at a big, big altar, talking to Saint Rene. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Like Baby Kochamma in church, on her way to the bread and wine. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the evening of the march, with more than nine hundred arrested children filling Birmingham’s jails, Dr. King held a mass church meeting. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I was wondering if we could all go”—I let the words hurry from my mouth—“to church.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Sincerely, Benton Ezekiel Sage Benton was able to mail his letter in Addis Ababa, the capital, and listed Rameel’s church as the return address. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

My ruminations were particularly profound at church last Sunday when Pastor Mankins illuminated us all. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Traft Martin, a neighbor, asked to take me to church, but I declined. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

But Mom had refused to have children unless Dad agreed to raise them as Catholics and to attend church himself on holy days of obligation. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was held in a huge church, which seemed strange considering Kerry was an outspoken atheist, but that part I could understand. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We knew the priest would not let her be buried in the holy ground of the campo santo next to the church. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She awkwardly accepted tea from my mother and answered questions about her dress and the flowers at the church. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I wondered if Soojin’s Korean church would participate again this year and made a mental note to ask her about it. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

When Salvador and the others came home from church, Señor Fidencio, his wife, and a liquid-eyed, black-haired boy a bit taller than Salvador came into the house with them. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Used to be, we delivered them after church on Sundays. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the courtyard around his church lots of boys hanging out, talking, playing with an old soccer ball. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I tried my best to act like it was a normal Sunday and go into church, but it didn’t feel right. I didn’t belong.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Cari wouldn’t have cared for extra time in a church anyway. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Black ministers would be arrested if they allowed mass meetings to be held at their churches. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wish I could be like all the big people in the church, standing and kneeling and praying and understanding everything. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Most folks got quiet like they were in church. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

When I stepped back and looked at the newly restored church, it truly felt like a piece of God’s work of redemption. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In church this morning, Mr. Jenkins asked Mom how you were doing at your new school. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

We had a small tree and we got clothes for presents, but the most important thing was going to visit the Nativity scene at the church and going to la misa de gallo, midnight mass. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our church was filled with unmarried women who had placed home-baked casseroles, bread puddings, and cakes in Big Ma’s arms so Pa would know they were good cooks and available for marriage. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you want to come to church with us?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walk through the church as though it is a day like any other. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

On Sundays she sometimes wore the visor to church, mistaking it for a hat. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt like sitting in church when the bishop came round to remind us we were miserable sinners. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The church had one of those low, dropped ceilings with the fluorescent lights, which made the room feel instantly tight and obscenely bright. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

When we pulled up to the church, the steps were covered in brown and gold and red leaves that blew around in clusters. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was his first major public speech that wasn’t a church sermon, and he needed to inspire this crowd. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Sunday at three o’clock, Camp had him a nice, long regular-type funeral in the Baptist church. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t till later I discovered several church members had lived together for years as husband and wife and had never gotten married. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were not nearly so easy to enter as a Christian church. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t go to that colored church,” he snapped. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

On the corner at 122nd Street was the Church of the Master, a fairly large Presbyterian church in which I would spend much of my early life. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

It took us an hour to get to white church, another forty-five minutes to get to mixed church, and another forty-five minutes to drive out to Soweto for black church. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In the dark aisle of the church Florence stood, his numbed arms outstretched, unafraid of eternity. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took a seat on the right side of the church in the middle section. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I could be a monk, but church is more boring than watching the screen-test card. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Catch up tonight, okay? Chapter twenty-seven in your American history book talks about how churches were bombed, houses were burned, people were lynched. History MADE.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I saw the ushers from the left side of the church near the big windows begin to move discreetly, like pallbearers, toward Sister Monroe’s bench. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The space was high and hushed, like any church, but the air stank of sulfur, like a pit of hell. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A belief in God and the rituals surrounding that belief— church every Sunday, grace before meals, prayers before bed— were an important part of the Deweys’ existence. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

At ten, he was asked to recite a scripture during an Easter Sunday church service. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Bah! Little do they care about church. That is only to keep up appearances,” my uncle smiled. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time Attorney General MacVeagh walked over to the Elberon Hotel and made the official statement to the press, bells were already tolling in city halls, courthouses, churches, and firehouses. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

As Chester drove Wendell, Kirk, and me to church that fateful Sunday, I thought about my best friend, Cynthia Wesley. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

"I like that. And his mom never misses a Tuesday at that soup kitchen our churches run together. She's the real deal." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sí, she would buy another dress and shoes to wear to church as soon as she could. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

One obstinately or intolerably devoted to his own church, party, belief, or opinion.’ Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

When at last she found her voice, it was a hushed voice, the voice she used for church. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I would have asked what time their church services started and if they baptize people and if so, how? Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“The lonely church, right out on the marshes, with graves round it!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“So we have to add up something about...what? Baseball and the church?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Fenoglio shot him an angry glance but fell silent and did not utter another sound until they had reached the church. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

They make a sad noise, like muted church bells. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It’s not that Mama Ya-Ya doesn’t believe in God or church. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I imagined it beckoned the Muslim faithful to the mosque, much like bells summoned us Christians to church. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The meeting hall is next to the church but separated from the grander building by a garden of white crosses, memorials to the deceased. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Against the Bible to fight injustice? Oh, come now, Amelia. I think you’ve got the wrong book at that church of yours.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The church does have a history marred by pain and loss, but it has also inherited a legacy of hope, love, and reconciliation. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She had hoped she would never again have to see this parking lot, the church, and these hills. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

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

After the play, church ladies went down the aisle and gave each child a gift. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the riders, the Methodist church staged a patriotic tableau, and then the children of the Wolf Creek School—minus their star pupil, Chase—marched, adorned with blue sashes and singing “Over There.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Since Dad went to church only if one of us was being christened—in other words, about once a year—Mother had to carry the ball when it came to enrolling us in Sunday school. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would stay there until next Ash Wednesday, when we would take the fronds to church, to have them burned for ash. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

As I quickly made my way into the sanctuary, I glanced at the large antique clock that hung on the church wall. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Her fancy hairdo for church had lasted less than a day. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Van Gogh home and church community was a small island of Protestantism in the much larger Catholic community of Zundert, and all North Brabant, the province in the southern Netherlands where they lived. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

My father remembers church bells ringing before that moment. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I did have one escape from this constant internal struggle: a church choir that my dad started, like the one he had formed in Rwanda. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But this one time each May, on the day of San Isidro, who was the patron saint of all farmers, they opened the small adobe church in town. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is what the branch president says after he sees the Gestapo sitting in the back of the church, taking notes. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

An image of the funeral cars pulling away from the church, gliding away into the gently falling snowflakes. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The true invasion of New York started with the Firing of a hundred ships’ cannons when we were at church Sunday morning. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

They returned to the circle with the church at its center and to the steep main street. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were playing stickball on 122nd Street, and a foul ball went up on the flat roof over the church vestibule. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He looked out over a valley blanketed in snow, distant church bells chiming through the glittering silence. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It was a faint, thin smile, little more than a lift at the corners of his mouth, while his eyes scanned the church as if he had entirely forgotten Fenoglio. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I slip the telegram under the door and cycle back down to the Franciscan church to beg for the repose of Theresa’s soul. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The bloodstained bandage Mortimer had tied around his head looked almost like the turban he had been wearing when he first appeared among the columns of Capricorn's church. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The people in my church always encouraged me and never asked me for anything back, but I felt a debt accumulating. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As a small boy in Tilsit, I once found my way inside the pipe organ of a local church. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The church buzzed with whispers of concern, and some said the meeting was about to become “an abolition affair.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Helmuth attends a church dance on New Year's Eve but doesn't enjoy himself. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Pastor Tom’s wife must have washed his clothes before they sent him home because everything was clean and pressed like he was going to church instead of coming home after half a week away. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The cause of death was recorded as “heart failure,” according to documents at the church cemetery where the baby was buried. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But there were things about this church that bothered her. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I had been back to Birmingham many times since then, but I’d never visited the church. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“My grandparents were friends of his from church. They said he was a wonderful man and they’ll miss him a lot.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it was more convenient for Dicey to meet Maybeth at the church, if they were going to picnic at the park, or if Cousin Eunice had friends she wanted to visit with. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went to the mall and sat on Santa’s lap, and I wore my angel costume again in a holiday pageant at church. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

In any case, a new general superintendent was being sent to Coalwood to make sure the sale of the houses and the churches and the utilities stayed on track. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He’d tug at my father’s pant legs during church sermons, roam the shadows of restaurant tables, publicly address his mother by her given name: all these spoils of our American life. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The altar boys collected them in the offering baskets and funneled them through the church office. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The church thunders in applause, and I see Pop Pop in the back of the pews jump up and shout, “Saaaaaaang, Nessy!” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Even they, he said—a tiny group inside a small church, in what felt like a forgotten neighborhood—could build real political power. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She hummed along with one of her church choir songs softly playing on an old boom box. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She took on the full responsibility and recognition of breadwinner and returned to church. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

We watched in awe as Helen stood her ground, repeated her resolve not to play for the church choir, and survived a beating with the belt by Mommy without a whimper. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Based on their personal knowledge of Walter's whereabouts at the time of the Morrison murder, family members, church members, black pastors, and others all pleaded with Sheriff Tate to release McMillian. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As directed by Bob Fosse on Broadway, the dancing was raucous, and the themes—Pippin’s relationships with multiple women, his struggles with authority and the church—were overtly presented. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Opposite the church, on the other side of the square, was a large stone building some three stories tall. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, the friends I had known all my life—the kids I went to school and church with—stood all around me. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

One girl, already in her final year at the University of Ife, got an American visa the first time she tried, and gave a tearful, excited testimony in church. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Some of us sat in church after church after church. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He used to go to this church in Harvard Square every Wednesday night for something called “Dance Free.” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was acquainted with all the services the state and the church provided for taking care of the disadvantaged. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

You’d think that being thrown out the church would be the end of it—the shame and all—but it wasn’t. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other church members, however, stayed a good distance back. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

After Jim and Mom left for church, I walked up the path to the tipple, where Dad waited for me. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

When we asked her what she did, what her job was, she walked us to Oakland’s Seventh Street, where dusty bars and smoke shops sat in the laps of storefront churches. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He whispers to me, “She met him at my grandma’s church. Crazy, right?” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

They say a sponsor can be a person, a group of people, an organization, or a church group who will take responsibility to help us settle in our new home in America. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had donated two new vans to the church. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I pulled an extra five from my pocket and dropped it on the church pew while yanking Noodles out of the room. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

There was nothing to look at from under the tree except Gatsby's enormous house, so I stared at it, like Kant at his church steeple, for half an hour. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

She would see him at church tomorrow, and tomorrow afternoon she would have a long visit with him. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Old Mr. McPherson, who showed up at church one legendary Easter without trousers? Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

At the funeral, my uncle Vin escorted us to the mahogany casket in the front of the church to have our final viewing of the body. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

They walked to the church, past the great houses that rested in the shadow of the Lawn, singing fragments of Christmas carols in the atonal Meecham voices, and laughing at every joke anyone made. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We trace our usual path along High Street, past the church, and down to the meadows. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Yet Nicholas was not declared a heretic, and the church didn’t react to the new idea. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Things you learn in church that are hammered into you until they’re so normal that you expect everyone else who doesn’t go to church to know what you mean. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Shouldn’t we go to church first? Maybe a priest should bless me or something, you know, to make me holy.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

On the side of knowing better were his mother and father, all the teachers he knew, the deacons from church, Booker T. Washington, and the diligent faculty of the Tuskegee Institute. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Each and every Sunday, no matter how tired, depressed, or broke, she got up early, dressed in her best, and headed for church. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I get the feeling she won’t be bringing her records over after church tomorrow. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I sort of wished we had gone to church. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

A sticky note on it says: She said I’d meet you in church. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The celebration of my father’s life took place at the Fourteenth Street Baptist Church, the same church my parents had been married in six years earlier. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

At a Korean restaurant, he found a magazine that listed the names and addresses of several small churches. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Some claimed he was the unwanted son of the previous Lord Furnival, who had provided him with the church living when Quinel was still a boy. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Not like he had at first, during those early days and weeks when the church seemed to lift him right off the ground, when a new and holy life had felt possible. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

From time to time, I think I hear the chanting echoes from the church float on the breeze all the way down to the gardens, but Ethan says that is impossible. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Word of it crept in among the nuns; the beggars in front of the church spoke of it, for they would be there to take the tithe of the first fruits of the luck. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

June 11, 1963, three months before the church bombing, proved a typical sweltering summer day in Alabama. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Blake turned around and saw an American officer, spreading word quietly to the other American military men in the church sanctuary. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of my shoes tapping across the cobblestones echoed down the street like a latecomer sneaking into church. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since its construction in 1911, the church had become a worship home and meeting place for most of the city’s black community. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Jim and most of the other football boys went off down the street, but Buck caught Sherman and O’Dell and me out on the church steps. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Somebody inside the church had just turned off the lights. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Who cares about her, I never even met her. Let’s talk about you coming to church with me. In two weeks we’ll be having a special guest speaker, an anointed.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Jaja knelt beside Mama, flattened the church bulletin he held into a dustpan, and placed a jagged ceramic piece on it. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

We joked and talked, but his chief concern had always been my “schoolin’ ” and “church raising” as he called it. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ha! Your church will keep mum till kingdom come,” Minerva was always challenging me. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of times Rebels had come into the church and pulled him down from the pulpit and pushed him around, but he didn’t care. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stared at one another as the car took a right turn and disappeared be-hind the decrepit rectory of the church. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knows it's wrong to steal from the church, but he tells himself it's for the greater good, it's a war for truth that he's waging. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

She also urged interested citizens to come hear her speak the next day at the local Presbyterian church. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was also the age that I was asked, as part of a church assignment, to learn about one of my ancestors. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He remembered sitting on a hard church pew swinging his legs while his mother lay in a box at the front of the church and would not get up. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

There never were any real services in the church, not in our time, anyway, nor any minister. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He remembered, but did not feel, the stirring he sometimes got at church meetings. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But it isn’t Igor who opens the door this time, it’s the English guy from the church. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

As drunk as Pop Pop is during the week, he gets me to church every weekend and makes sure I study hard to make straight As. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I promised; after all, I felt that I owed her something for inadvertently making her ridiculous before the members of her church. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides lots of perfume, she had on the black dress she wore to church that time Cold Sassy criticized her for acting like she was in mourning for Granny. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

At a church a few blocks from the site of the bombing, the residents of Springfield create a makeshift memorial. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“It seems they've locked him in the crypt under the church. What else is in that note? Doesn’t your daughter say who it is she’s to bring out for Capricorn?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He thought, this is church, this is God and Jesus and the Holy Ghost. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The church hierarchy consisted of a priest, whose duties included interpreting dreams. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could find a church, slide her in through the door like a packet. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She imagined him up there, someone like Velutha, barebodied and shining, sitting on a plank, swinging from the scaffolding in the high dome of the church, painting silver jets in a blue church sky. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But this? This the final straw. Brianna wasn’t acting like that when y’all lived with us. Making vulgar songs and getting suspended. Got everybody in the church talking ’bout her. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

While he traveled, however, Charles did go to church quite regularly, both to the services that his captain led and on shore whenever he got the chance. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wilt the Stilt had put one over on old Bill Russell when she turned to Pa and said, “Sweetie, we’re going to church too, aren’t we?” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I know very little about astrology except that my mom’s church calls it witchcraft. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

All at once one of the women, who had been watching them, asked, “Do you and your sister go to church here in Indio?” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

As the rest of the church faded out, the Pastor seemed to double in size. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Sunday morning I get up early, before Hilly and William, before the kids and the church traffic. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Secondly, after tangoing with Ted, I’d been sort of nervous setting foot inside a church. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“We got ten minutes to get to the church, so strap up,” Mr. Ray said, mashing the gas pedal and whipping the car around the corner like it was a go-cart. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Yet we sang in church “Tata Nzolo”! Which means Father in Heaven or Father of Fish Bait depending on just how you sing it, and that pretty well summed up my quandary. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it happened I ran down the road toward the store and the church. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

A wave of longing swept over me; I hadn’t heard that hymn since Charlie’s last Sunday at church. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

But there was a price below which they dared not go, for it had happened that a fisherman in despair had given his pearls to the church. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess he and the other Klan members planted the church bomb to explode on that Sunday as a threat to stop us from integrating the public all-white schools in Birmingham.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I hurried to Dryades and along it to the well-lighted steps of the Catholic church I had visited in the after-noon. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It lay motionless and dark in front of the church, and despite the necessity of it all, I felt a pang of regret for killing the poor beast. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

After the church service, we’d decided to skip the formal luncheon and had gone to a diner. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Below it, women with big, pastel-colored hats filed in for a night service at a storefront church, and a whole other congregation cluttered into the liquor store next door. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The service was held at nearby Sixth Avenue Baptist Church, since our church was closed for repairs. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Can we sleep in the church, Titid?” one of them asks. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In church, the library, the mines, a few coughs that turned into a wheeze. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then she said, “I told your grandfather that the church was very important to me. He said, ‘Well, you go on by yoreself, jest like you been a-doin’.’” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

By and by it would be evening and he would go to clean the church, and remain for tarry service. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He will find the house of course, the store and the church, but he must have found a lot of those on his way. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She wanted to share this view with him, and their regular spot was too far from the church for her to manage a meeting. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

We were surrounded by love—the eclectic, multicultural Obama kind and the anchoring Robinsons-from-the-South-Side kind, all of it now interwoven visibly, pew to pew, inside the church. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The attack on the church began in earnest in 1517, when a constipated German monk nailed a list of complaints to the door of the church in Wittenberg. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Shorter and I worked side by side in the church office on Sundays. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But he’s worried drawing will interfere with his real work—the work of the church. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

His agony began to fill the church and the women moaned their prayers, but the kids would not listen. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time Mom brings her raspberry pie to a church reception, the back of my throat starts itching. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Leah always had the uppermost respect for Father, but after the hullabaloo in church where they voted Father out, she just plumb stopped being polite. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

From her involvement with the local chapter of her sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha, and her choice of a church, Carver Presbyterian, Katherine gained a strong social network and a new best friend. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Following the ceremony, the doors to the church opened to a clear and cool winter day. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“You never see them in the ski brochures we get at church.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She was going to a great church picnic with her aunt, and had come in to buy some lemons. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

One Sunday as Tessie left for church, Milton handed her a large bill. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A handwritten banner draped over the church entrances reads: “Racism Killed Our Brother. ” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think of this as I go through the rituals of a Sunday morning at church. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Citra followed a stone path through the garden to the church on which stood the sign of the fork, and she pushed her way through the heavy oak doors into a chapel lined with pews. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

And how had it gotten into the church? Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

This led many Delawares to join the Moravian church and settle in what came to be known as Moravian Indian villages. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

I went to church a couple of times, once with Brett. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

‘You one of his relatives or the preacher in his church?’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Not like the church at home, painted white with pews inside. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

While Shin was still in the Seattle area, he invited me to a Korean American Pentecostal church in the city’s northern suburbs. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I watched his thick back until he turned the bend by the big white church. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, she even thought she saw its pale church tower in a dark fold of the hills, and her heart beat faster though she knew that it couldn't possibly be Capricorn’s church. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Freddie and the dudes be takin’ ’em to church on this song.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Soft, warm light filtered through magnificent stained-glass windows in the church proper. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

B.J.’s mom came to games on nights when she didn’t have stuff to do at her church. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

After school, the children had to go to church for “instruction” since both were being confirmed that spring. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Boomer and I pass by the church on our way home, I glance over at the graveyard. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

A few weeks later, Old Chong and my mother conspired to have me play in a talent show which would be held in the church hall. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had grown up believing that priests could tell whether someone was telling the truth or not, but Father Stylianopoulos had only nodded and written their names into the church register. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Zero was on the way, and just as the church was breaking the shackles of Aristotelianism, it arrived. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Over the coming years, I taught Sunday school and helped plan the church’s summer vacation Bible school. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He turned and dashed into the church compound. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Over tea, Scarlett told her mother the story of her wrong bus adventure, and how she had found herself at the graveyard, and how she met Mr. Frost by the little church... The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“God has always used wealthy people to help the church,” Havens said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

We waited for him while the church emptied out. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Back at the church, he shows off his haul. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you invite Soojin and her family to come to the carnival next week? Their church participated last year, right? That could be a nice gesture,” Mama suggests. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

And if she could get her mom to pay for it at the newsstand on the way home from church, she read The New York Times, too. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Yet perhaps going to church wasn’t good for him. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sunshiny church youth group a few grades below Dill and Lydia came in and ordered cupcakes and smoothies. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Like most churches on the North Shore, this one suffered from a lack of air-conditioning and we were all sweating in our best clothes. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Montgomery turned into a battle zone on the night of January 10, 1957, as bombs rocked the city’s black churches. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“Go on, do,” said Kay, for the King had come to a halt “Go on,” said Sir Ector, “what do these words on this sword in this anvil in this stone outside this church, say?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, there were two churches in Prairie Lea: the Baptist church, which was acceptable, and the Independent Church of Prairie Lea, which was not. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z