"That's your father when he was your age. We alerted the police in Chennai city. They're too busy to search for every poor child who goes missing, but it helped that we filed a report." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

For several minutes, the wagon jostled and swayed as Baaz drove, and she listened as the city’s sounds grew faint. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“But there may be someone—someones—in that shiny Alkean city yonder.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I wondered how the bottles had survived the rickety trek across the city. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

She'd seen the mother on TV, being ushered out of the city mortuary where she'd gone to make arrangements for the burial of her son. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Behind him was the path he had climbed, with the city of Puyo below. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The twinkle of city lights barely broke through the fog, making the air look just gold-hued enough to be magical. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I ran up to the roof, looked at the city, and thought about Kevin. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

We came in over the city, which they usually avoid for noise reasons.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Now, Kwang’s political machinery was just beginning to market him in the other quarters of the city. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wilderness for city kids. You mean poor kids. Wilderness for poor kids. I can’t remind you of you. You were never as poor as me.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m not saying I don’t want to leave the city and see what’s out there, but we’ve got enough going on here. How are we supposed to help a bunch of people we’ve never met?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

My grandparents live fifteen minutes away in Rockville, which is the city right next to us. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Rumors were swirling, particularly in East Coast cities—what was I going to do? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the daylight, Will could see how ancient the buildings in the heart of the city were, and how near to ruin some of them had come. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is not new to this city, to this country. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

If each one of those soldiers had at least one M-16 assault rifle, there were about twenty thousand automatic rifles in the city. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The person who finds this “inheritance” will receive a tenth of the money; the remainder will be allocated to the city. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But they didn’t need the Divergent to march out of our city like an army to fight injustice and save everyone, as Edith suggested. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“I’m a shepherd, and I have been to many places, but I come from only one place—from a city near an ancient castle. That’s where I was born.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“With a friend of my dad’s. I’ve been staying with him for a few days. He wants to show me the city, only he keeps having to sit down. Artie Thatcher, you know him?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He said we were several miles outside the city of Umerkot. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He knew what had happened in our city in the 1960s, but he hadn’t known how deeply involved I’d been. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, he fired Commissioner Curtis and began recruiting volunteers to help get the city back under control. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Lydia Darragh and her family were living on Second Street in Philadelphia when British troops entered the city in September 1777. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those gates looked so close ... and if the talk in the slave pens could be believed, Meereen remained a free city for the nonce. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He would be willing to die himself, he said—“But not even for my own city will I slay my son.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they are correct, and Aspero turns out to be substantially older than now thought, it might win the title of the world’s oldest city—the place where human civilization began. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Brother Yam kept a schedule of the boats that docked at the base of the mountain in case a sick villager needed to be transferred to the hospital in the city. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

On April 24, amid the escalating battle over school desegregation, with the city still dragging its feet nearly a decade after Brown v. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The smog blanketing Tehran was transformed into dense orange clouds by the lights of the city below, and then we were flying through it and I couldn’t see anything else. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

They’d fashioned sticks into fake spears and pretended the two of them alone could defend their city from the creatures of the Greater Jungle, the monstrous beasts of legend. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He’ll let us have money to take the bus back into the city. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

No city officials, however, braved the crowds to come. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

His father, who had emigrated at the turn of the century from the city of Odessa in the Ukraine, worked mainly as a trucking clerk, dispatching drivers on their routes. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, we are still not able to read the writings left behind from those ancient cities. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

But her mother and father would find cities like Rochester and Syracuse too big and bewildering, too noisy. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked for hours through the city, long meandering walks that took in whole neighborhoods which we would pass through without buying a thing or speaking to anyone. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the federal government set up the Housing Authority in 1934 to help local governments replace substandard housing, many cities rushed to grab their share of the half-billion-dollar program. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

If we got to Saigon, maybe we could see what the cities were like before the war was over. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they ride the Metro train into the city. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

We huddled on the bathroom floor listening to bombs fall in other parts of the city. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Downtown Reykjavik, a charming city of almost 120,000 people, has the atmosphere of a typical Scandinavian village, although it’s somewhat larger. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Soon as he boarded his bus I was gonna walk all the way across the city to the Lighthouse. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

"I'm sorry I ignored you both. It's just there are so many poor kids in this city. This country. This world. You have to look away. You understand, don't you?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

But it might also have seemed curiously incomplete, with half the city falling down and in need of repairs and the other half under construction. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

These are groups of families, usually in cities or suburbs, who put together a big order once or twice a month. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The two dogs he’d brought with him from the city lunged and snapped at the TV star cowering behind the bars of his cage. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“But she says the whole city will erode. I guess the question is how long will it take. Weeks, months, centuries.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

And they had drawn these accolades by cleaning big houses and living in one-room Alabama shacks before moving to the city. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Also there were city buses that stopped at this corner to take people to homeless shelters. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I see the train coming from a long way off, making its last journey through the city. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Felicia had enough stored in her closet to knock out an entire city. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Israel Israel did not choose to step aside and let the workings of the city government continue as usual. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I told her that the White House had not confirmed or denied reports that extensive bombing had started in major cities in South America. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mom taught French at the prestigious and expensive Kalman School downtown, and his dad was a sociology professor at Northwestern University, just north of the city. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Above his head the sky stretched in a cold, dark-blue oval, cupping the city like an iron palm covered with silk. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

North of Kaan, half a dozen small cities improved agricultural conditions by lifting up entire fields and carving out rain-retaining terraces on dry hillsides. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Meereen was never your city, her brother’s voice seemed to whisper. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Theatre groups in towns and cities across the United States presented live dramas, comedies, and musicals at prices affordable to struggling families. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

My father could splash it on blithely before he went to the city for work. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It stands to reason, then, that somewhere along that street should be a spot corresponding to the ancient city’s main crossing, the confluence of the Street of the Soma and the east—west-running Canopic Way. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

“What we shall want is a regular service of boats like that of an omnibus line in a city street,” he wrote. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Through Knabe’s questioning of the first three witnesses, the city’s strategy became clear. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

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

I have always hated the emptiness that winter brings, the blank landscape and the stark difference between sky and ground, the way it transforms trees into skeletons and the city into a wasteland. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

After years of neglect, the city was finally renovating Vickers Park. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

A true southerner, she never felt safe in the city, despite living here since I was born. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

However, unlike a similar ordinance adopted in Boston, San Francisco’s policy applies only to public employment, not to private vendors that do business with the city or county of San Francisco. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They had always been within sight of land, and Catalina itself was only twenty-six miles from the city of Los Angeles. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, Zero had listed out the top fifty largest cities in the world, each one repeated back to him by someone else in the crowd at the Pirate’s Den. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I won the city, county, and state spelling competitions organized for black students, Mr. Wesley publicly expressed a special pride in me. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He had enough troops to keep the British in Boston, but he did not have enough men or ammunition to take the city. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

A chill, dark fog has rolled in off the dunes, settling heavily over the city. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

—Plutarch Prepared to put up a fight to prevent Cleopatra’s return to power, thirteen-year-old Ptolemy assembled the royal army near Pelusium—a fortress city on the eastern bank of the Nile. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

No longer content to recline, it now reaches for the sky, much like the high-rise buildings lining our city streets. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I saw two extraordinary novelties, grandeur competing with splendor and the populace striving to exceed their city. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

North Vietnamese units were shelling the city from just two miles away. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“It cannot be! Why, Lord, oh, why? I would rather the best city of my kingdom ruined! Razed to the ground by the infidel!” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Five days later, the Little Rock School Board published their statement saying that the district had been working on a plan to provide separate but equal opportunities for all the children in the city. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Wilderness Adventures was my idea. I was a city kid once.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

So it was spring of the Year One in Erhenrang, capital city of Karhide, and I was in peril of my life, and did not know it. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

When the lights were off, as they were between nine at night and six in the morning, the city was so dark that people might as well have been wearing blindfolds. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In this way good Eumaios led his lord down to the city. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other was Marion Allen, the son of one of the most powerful men in the city—something Marion made sure everyone knew. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

In the city a bold and beautiful young man named Bellerophon was generally held to be his son. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is a city of humans. The others have their own cities, or perhaps ‘lands’ might be a more accurate word,” said Vikus. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

As we left the city behind us for untamed swampland, a strange feeling stirred in my gut. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He announced that they were flying low over the city so the passengers could survey the damage. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I saw his back walking away from Miigwans, out of the safety of the woods and into the unknown of the city. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The churning city of her musical notes flurried into the air. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

"Instead you found that our men had already taken the city. What of it?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I want to tell Day that it’s insane to head for a military city like Vegas. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Here, I knew where everything was: the Center, the park, the library, the city pool, Safeway, and Mean Lady Ming’s. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

"No, and you didn't have to. I smelled that out. You got people here in the city?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Come to the city pier, we stepped forth upon enemy soil and charged our muskets. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

His feeling was that I could start drawing my ideas and cities since I wouldn’t have the space anymore to build them in real life. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“All we seek,” he told Theseus, “is burial for our dead. We come to you for help, because Athens of all cities is compassionate.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was excavated by Oxford archaeologists at the partially buried city of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt in the late nineteenth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The sailors maintain this ring around Lincoln as he marches through the city, even as the admiring crowd grows to hundreds. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Some, when their hatch was raised, simply walked out, head bobbing, as if this were nothing more than a stroll on a city sidewalk. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

"Dr. Brian Walker. I'm...I'm the city coroner," he said, turning a little pale. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The pale mare was inside the city walls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Or maybe the city had shut it down, or sold the lot. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of these trains brought single young women who had never even seen a city but now hoped to make one of the biggest and toughest their home. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Finally the post-office work ceased altogether and I haunted the city for jobs. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess he could have been from a city and sold motorbikes or something. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The day I begged bread from the city officials was the day that showed me I was not alone in my loneliness, society had cast millions of others with me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Old Goblinish, it was a lament sung by the hero Walgund in the days following the destruction of his city by King Degravaunt of the Elves, when the elfin armies overran the forests. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I rip up the map, letting all the countries and cities and towns fall at my feet. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The officer at the drivers side window asked Adnan what he was doing in the city. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It would take time to compile official statistics, but he could see that the city was gone. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Modern drawings of ancient cities tend to show them at an imagined apogee, the great monuments all splendidly arrayed together, perfect as architectural models. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

If Percy attacked the giant, the hydra would ravage the city. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The city rulers encouraged and rewarded the workforce during construction and maintenance of the mound by staging celebratory roasts of fish and achira root right on the worksite. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She dreamed also of Chicago, a city everyone seemed to be talking about and to which everyone seemed to be moving. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Or was she just, after ten years in the city, finally becoming a Detroiter, meaning that she saw everything in terms of black and white? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He knows more about not just art but also theater, music, food, fashion, city life. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It was Werfel’s job to host the elfin emissary in the city, to take the scholar in as a guest in his own home. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

They said nothing as they cut through streets and alleys, Ekon leading the way until they reached another district of the city. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Lots of guys have warned me not to take Sophia out of the city for that very reason. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had always wanted to stand on its roof and look out at the city. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I walk over to a dying potted plant, in this city full of potted plants, wedged in a corner of Heidi’s first floor lobby. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The lobby was hushed as a library, but beyond those doors, she knew, were the cracked concrete sidewalks and the rush and clamor and ruthlessness of the city. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But even in Los Angeles, a city notorious for bad policing, crime fell at about the same rate as it did in New York once the growth in New York’s police force is accounted for. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

As Lord Eddard passed beneath the King's Gate into the stink of the city, his grey and white cloak streaming from his shoulders, he saw eyes everywhere and kicked his mount into a trot. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He followed through with his plans to have us flaunt the law and play on whites- only tennis courts in the city. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pictured the world, all pretty blue- green and floating out in space, creatures and forests and deserts and cities. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I’d spent most of my early life in the crumbling east end of the city, surrounded by urban decay and concrete waste where the skyline looked like a ruined mouth of rotted teeth. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

To his right, the jungle’s trees still loomed like sentries; to his left, a barren expanse of russet dirt stretched several yards wide between the city’s edge and the jungles border to create a no-man’s-land. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

But no one was there; he didn’t even see anyone when he went past Subling Street to the very end of the city. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

C.P. grew excited thinking of what they could eventually accomplish: a thousand low-income whites marching and rallying to demand better housing and city services. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Why was I just thinking of that city? Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I remember seeing that on television, in news clips filmed in one city after another. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He skims the opening pages that are filled with polite inquiries into his own days in London, remarks about how she misses the city, misses him. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And now America had surprised the world with a weapon that could devastate entire cities in a matter of seconds. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The county runs its business out of the east-facing half of the building; the city uses the western half, which houses the mayor and city council members as well as the city clerk. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

"I see it. This city is shaped like a banana. The avenues run from top to bottom. The streets are shorter and they go across." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The police and soldiers were in the city to prevent the widespread looting everyone had heard about. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The city’s fortress walls were so plain, so blank, and then he would go through a gate—and everywhere, Werfel thought joyously, everywhere there was life. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The two scholars climbed up through the levels of the city, the guards marching behind them. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“We even brought in everything from the silo. Mayor Radisson drove the city plow out there himself.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

And, beyond that, recalling Father Quinel’s description of towns and cities, I was too timid to press on. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Have they built cities on the moon?” another boy asked hopefully. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“The story goes that the Romans stole something important from the Greeks, back in ancient times, when the Romans conquered the Greeks’ cities.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was like Annapolis, but without the hurrying quality of the city across the bay. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rechecks the little house under her pillow and fights the temptation to take out the stone and instead reinstalls the house inside the model city at the foot of her bed. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But I wasn’t going to let that no account city boy bury me alive. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

When she moved from public housing to a three-bedroom home in a suburban area in the Northwood section of town, she was trying to create more distance between her and the city’s imploding center. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Thus it was that later that afternoon, we saw the Loyalists begin their own evacuation of the city in preparation for its occupation by the rogue militia. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

When they turned into the narrow courtyard outside the main entrance of Bayside Press, all the city noise seemed to hush. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you don’t understand how these things work. The harbors belong to the city, and we have as much right to them as anyone. We’ve all got a living to make.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The thousands from Orleans Parish Prison, including those who were in jail for public intoxication, shoplifting, and other misdemeanors, had been left on the city’s Broad Street overpass for three days. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Black cloaks would suit them, I agree. I will not suffer such men in the city watch.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He had studied physick at Cambridge and practiced in the city of London before coming north to Yorkshire. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

This time he extolled the English, filling Massasoit’s ears with tales of their cities, their great numbers, their powerful technology. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Elsewhere in the city was a Fleet Week celebration, and every so often the Blue Angels flew overhead as part of the air show. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Why did every agency of communication in the city suddenly spew forth lies, telling our citizens that they had to protect what they owned against Bigger Thomas and men like him? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

The city made no arrangements to help less fortunate citizens procure loans necessary for the actual work. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The old city hall faces the square, and so does the original Carnegie Library. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their situation must have been much worse than anything I saw in the city. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

They are moving cities, the glass and steel compacted onto a single boat. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Heeding Hitler, SS squads rounded up every available man and boy they could comb out of the city, even plucking the sick and wounded from hospitals. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Monday is a full day working in the city I pick up a lot of people and seem able to weave nicely through the traffic for once. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

As the days wore on, they took more and more of the burden of caring for the city’s ill. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

A city bus ride and a walk home later, nothing. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

They approached the western edge of the desert city and stood for a moment at a highway marker that read Indio. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

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

Now we can see a city, again from the air. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Torrance in the early 1920s, Italians were held in such disdain that when the Zamperinis arrived, the neighbors petitioned the city council to keep them out. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

That he should be there now, a man of such exalted professional stature in an office so high above the city, would have come as a great and satisfying surprise to his late father. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The city is so quiet in the morning that the footsteps echo as they approach the bridge. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if the people in this city with the tall whistling pines wanted to grab all they could before the war robbed them of choices. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Two nights later the city’s unions met with officers of the fair to demand that they limit the workday to eight hours, pay union-scale wages, and hire union workers before all others. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Cook sends me into the city with a stack of letters for the courier without so much as a mention of the beating I took. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The worst violence took place at dusk, when the city’s thousands of black factory workers were attacked as they walked home from work. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I bet I know the city better than they do, at this point. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She turned the page, hoping for a photograph of the city where Dev was born, but all she found were graphs and grids. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The Argo II was now parked on a hill overlooking the city. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Even the U.S. agents from the cities upstate appeared to be in no hurry for a visit; it was known that the deserters carried their arms and that they were desperate. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Enough anyway for the rubble to have cooled somewhat, allowing citizens to explore what had been their city. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

But instead of the usual sounds that brought the city to life, it was woken that morning by gunshots erupting around the State House and the House of Parliament. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

More than a thousand years before Christ, near the eastern end of the Mediterranean was a great city very rich and powerful, second to none on earth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two years ago, when the coughing sickness was raging through the city again, her father had died. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Why wouldn’t they just want to conquer the city and keep it as their own? Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They stopped in the big city for a day. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Around the outskirts of the city, cut off from town by the black oval of the river, everything was in darkness. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

And does he think I go to The Institute in the city? I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“And then tell the city that a new mayor has to be found,” added Lina. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Lewis Isbel, a black barber who claimed to have shaved the city’s first mayor and President Abraham Lincoln, talked about his work with pride. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

If an earthquake levels a city, people all over the world will send emergency supplies. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The vista of the city below was astounding—hill upon hill of buildings formed out of the same white stone that built this palace, every window sparkling. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

When I woke, the city of New York was consumed with burning hellfire. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Underneath the flourish and ostentation is the old city, street after street of thick red brick houses, with their front porch pillars like the off-white stems of toadstools and their watchful, calculating windows. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Residents there were stopped at a rate thirteen times the city average. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

From the city of Caracas, Scythe Curie had instructed her to follow the northern coastline east until coming to a town called Playa Pintada. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

And he promised to work toward fulfilling the other demands—a city council proclamation honoring King’s memory and the cancellation of public school on the day of King’s funeral. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Father had bought it for her on their honeymoon in Galveston, a city into which an unimaginable profusion of fabulous goods flowed every day. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Adams was shocked that an enemy soldier was so strongly against the war he wished he could march in the streets of North Vietnam’s capital city. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

By the Common, the almshouse yard was thick that morning with Tory refugees fled to the city, groping now through the palings of the fence and clamoring for coin. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

We can guard the fence or work for the security of our city. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Once we cross the bridge, the city changes. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Like some of the older trains in the city, this one was heavily decorated with graffiti. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The sun shines on city, river, crowd, and king. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you know how insulting it is to pretend to be some nobody thief from a small city in Fenharrow?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

For hours they stared relentlessly at the scarlet ribbon on the map and hated it because it would not move up high enough to encompass the city. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I too shall go, but I shall gladly come again, if you will gif me leave, dear madame, for a little business in the city will keep me here some days.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The prince and the guard, who fell in love on a journey to the Fairy Queen’s city.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The silence of this part of the city is eerie; it feels like a nightmare. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It makes the city smaller in my mind. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Lwów, the city that always smiled, a place of education and culture in Poland. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Every time we get outside, we come up with a new plan and some new way of seeing the city. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

The vast city of Harare was spread out like a jeweled sea. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

On our way back to her house, I didn’t look at the city lights any longer. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Maybe, I thought, I would have to move to the country, or at least to another part of the city. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I would sit up there and breathe the unfiltered city air for a while, feeling the wind on my skin. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The Olympic Village was actually made up of more than thirty white high-rise apartment buildings meant to house the 18,000 Olympic athletes coming to the city. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The city in the predawn is warm and fragrant and sleepy, and the houses on either side seem almost immaterial. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want to find ruins, but a city full of life and color, like the one from the stories. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Some, he heard, were trapped in the railroad yards of the great city a hundred miles to the east. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The next morning I went to see the German with the wire-rimmed glasses at the city hall. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Some were home to the monasteries and hospitals where the city's sick used to be brought. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It’s a city that prides itself on its open-mindedness, its lack of pretension, and its homegrown slang. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Now three-quarters of the people in his parish agree with his work. says, the migrants would be even more desperate, and the impact on the city would be worse. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Its emissaries had boasted to Congress that the city could deliver a grander and more appropriate setting than anything New York, Washington, or any other city could propose. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“In the south and west part of the city. The zoo is nearby, and the university too.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He looks different in person than he does in his portraits or on the city’s JumboTrons, where his skin has a much warmer color and no wrinkles. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Father Masego, the head of the entire temple and city, thinks what I can do with the splendor is extraordinary. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I knew that the city had opened relief stations, but each time I thought of going into one of them I burned with shame. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Stannis may take the city and he may take the throne, but I will not suffer him to judge me. I dp not mean for him to have us alive." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He leaves the Pennsylvania House and walks across the city to nearby Georgetown, where he makes the unusual gesture of calling on Lucinda Metz, an old girlfriend. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then I wouldn’t have to take the smelly bus to the city library. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

So were the offices of the clerks who kept track of which buildings had broken windows, what streetlamps needed repair, and the number of people in the city. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A mortar shell explodes somewhere in the city, and a flurry of dust sifts down. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The Allied bombing of German cities remains a controversial subject, especially in areas where no military or industrial sites were targeted. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The people of Santa Fe, a city of just twenty thousand, began to wonder why so many men with European accents were suddenly walking the streets. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one knew where these documents were; and no one was willing to risk his or her life wandering through the infected city in search of them. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“I confess I am, and so much else besides. I welcome you to our great city of learning and hope that we may be of service.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A pastoral suburb of around 7,200 amid a city of some five million people, Clarkston is still its own town. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

But protesters rejoiced in a mass meeting at the Holt Street Baptist Church, a celebration tempered by the realization that they would have to keep walking at least until the city’s appeal reached Washington. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Working in the city, I keep my eyes open for Alice, especially if I’m near the Quay or the Cross. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“I am in a city called Normal, which is in the middle of Illinois, Dad.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He left the quay and wandered the city streets, muttering to himself. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The smell of steel and forge wafts past, ever-present in a city known solely for its soldiers and weaponry. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

One night Alba was astonished to find the streets in the center of the city dark and almost deserted. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea, in his words, was for the place to be a kind of “work lounge” for those of us on assignment in the city, or for “associates” of ours having unexpected layovers. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

While that assault was carried out, federal agents arrested 450 suspected anarchists and Communists in raids staged in nine other eastern American cities. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

But she knew it wouldn't, and anyhow Sansa was still in the city and would wash away too. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They were a warrior people, not made for cities. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And now as I struggled through the lines of people a new world of possibility suggested itself to me faintly, like a small voice that was barely audible in the roar of city sounds. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amá has taken away my phone, so I call Connor every day after school from what I believe is the only remaining pay phone in the city. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

"Looks like the entire city has turned out for us. Lovely." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The violence continued over the next week, despite a 7 P.M. to 6 A.M. curfew imposed by the mayor and the deployment of National Guard troops throughout the city. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Another Arab visitor reported, even at a late date in Alexandria’s ancient career, that the city was all white and bright by night as well as by day. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The city council was discussing the purchase of a mechanical sweeper. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The oldest, richest part of the city was east of the river, but sellswords, barbarians, and other uncouth outlanders were not welcome there, so they must needs cross over to the west. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was almost impossible to get supplies into the city. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

They gathered armies and made the cities recognize the need for allegiance. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

On the unseasonably warm day, about six hundred persons went to the Valley View Cemetery on the north edge of this city. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know all the countries of the world and their capital cities and every prime number up to 7,057. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She’d never loved the city, so almost every weekend she took the children back to Clover, where she worked the tobacco fields and spent hours churning butter on the steps of the home-house. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

So much had changed about the city, yet there were things that brought her right back to 1957. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They flew over apartment buildings fifty stories high and as long as city blocks. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Yet a few hours outside their city, children are living in a different universe, a refugee camp where water is the prized possession. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

We stopped before an expensive-looking building in a strange part of the city. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents were a city girl and a village boy, but they still found each other thousands of miles away in America. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Behind her was a fairytale city twinkling with Christmas lights. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The city was alive with shopping and sightseeing, smells of steaming hot dogs and salty pretzels on every block. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Complete darkness, not a hint of the silver world outside, the windows tightly shut, the chamber a tomb-world where no sound from the great city could penetrate. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone suddenly stops what they are doing to watch the trucks roar into our city. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The headlights of cars are all painted blue, they say, and at night the city is as quiet as a graveyard: no buses, no trains, hardly any gasoline. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Your city is gone to ash and bone, your people are dying all around you. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Across a river or deep in the blackened quadrants of a burned city. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Has the city fallen, then? Its walls were thick.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There is great pleasure in being out in the city before the sun is up, streetlights glowing, the hum of a Parisian day commencing. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“For that, you need White Harbor. The city cannot compare to Oldtown or King’s Landing, but it is still a thriving port. Lord Manderly is the richest of my lord father’s bannermen.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There was no money whatsoever in the city’s budget for such costly endeavors, plus no desire to undertake them. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Like many American cities during the 1930s, Washington, D.C., with its large black population, was still segregated along racial lines. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Mayans who lived away from the cities worked the nobles’ fields and paid rent to use the land for their own needs. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“The bricks are old and crumbling. They are trying to claw their way into the city.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

First problem: how to preserve fresh meat dressed in Chicago so that it could be shipped without spoilage to customers in faraway cities and towns. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Jennifer and I were paired up in Spanish class for a project on a Latin American city. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

C.P. felt certain that the time had come to take back his city, indeed to reclaim the South. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The three of them sat at the top of the hill, with the lights of the city glimmering beneath them. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The Angels, it is an okay city, maybe even a great one. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then during the next weeks, stories about Sherman’s march began filtering back, first to the eastern cities and then to the Midwest. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole city had been a garden once. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“No mistakes today, guys. If we nail everything on the first take, we can head home later tonight. If not, we’ll need to spend another night in the city.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Find out how many people live in a city like Dallas or Toronto or London or Paris. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

But it could not be called a city, for it was, as the dragon had predicted, destroyed. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The powerful Greek community, which was the ruling class, lived in the center of the city. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

‘No. Close, like near. Close to each other. That’s why I wouldn’t have thought he’d run away. Not in a strange city. Not without having anywhere to go.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

In September, with my bans ended, I decided to take advantage of my freedom and get a respite from the city. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Germans decreed that only 15,000 Jews would be allowed to remain in the city. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Well, I can’t say I blame her. I been in and out of the city for the past twenty years. A rolling stone, if you know what I mean.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

His city’s streets were full of people—some scared to death, others looting stores. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The city's action was a crushing blow and many people simply drifted away from the ECC. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The glass factory prospered, and the owner decided to expand the business by moving it to Kraków, a thriving city about three hundred fifty miles southwest of Narewka. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

My sister Eulalie was two years at the nuns’ school when our father had work here in the city. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The city seems utterly still, as though everyone is listening, waiting for someone to slip. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“The city? I thought you went to the shore.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

In the city, as difficult as it was to get around, we managed. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

If you took a poll, few people in town could tell you who the mayor was, or the police chief, or the city manager. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thrill rushed through him as he left the waterfront, his boots clicking against the city’s familiar cobblestone streets. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

When we got to the city, we went directly to the prison gates. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

One of the best decisions the city has ever made was to convert an old rail line into an elevated park. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Several people saw him, and reported back to Caesar’s messengers, who were ranging over and around the city offering rewards to anyone who could catch the beast or give information leading to his capture. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Visiting Americans will find more warmth in Tehran than they will in New York, a city founded on the principle of Us versus Them. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The Egyptians, who were considered second-class citizens, lived in the old part of the city on the west side. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Since you’re asking so many questions, I assume you know Marion Allen, Russell’s oldest—the one missing an eye—ran him out of the city.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

One day we were driving back to the city from a visit with friends upstate. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After only a few minutes' walk, I came to the massive wall that encircled the city. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“No staff to speak of, the larder half-empty, the city getting ready to explode, and she wants this turned out and polished. Of all the foolish—” A loud beating on the front door interrupted her. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Airplanes make low, lazy passes over the city. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They’d arrived in Pittsburgh empty-handed and they didn’t buy much beyond the necessities in their time in the city, all their money going toward the possibility of having their own place. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

"There are so many lawyers in this city, Patti. I'm sure someone will help." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The city’s emergency broadcast system, which was supposed to swing into action during a crisis, did not go on the air because "the Sunday-morning staff did not know how to operate the equipment." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The small city of Asheville lay spread out before them. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The houses there might not have been as magnificent or graceful as on some of the other squares in the city, but many had been standing for more than five hundred years. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then the long silence would return, lasting until dawn, when the city reawakened and the sun seemed to erase the terrors of the night. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She transforms the unruly bunch of us into a heavenly host of cherubim, hovering a thousand feet above the city rooftops. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The sheep were at the gates of the city, in a stable that belonged to a friend. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, they called the city Rhakotis, which might refer to some preexisting Egyptian village on that location, or derive from the term ra-qed, the generic term for “building site.” Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

It makes me happy in the festering city traffic, even when the lights are green and all the cars remain still. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Almost every highborn woman in the city sat at the long trestle tables, along with a handful of old men and young boys. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Traffic, people talking, sounds all the time— the hum and whine of the city. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The coastal city was shaped like an arc that grew thinner on both ends until the tips stabbed into the sea. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He refused to let his army enter and loot the city. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that time, we lived in a part of town far from the city center. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

With a green marker he draws purposeful lines between cities as if he knows exactly what he’s doing. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

In fact, they could be sending out a text alert right now, and all across the city, hunters would be swinging onto their motorcycles or hopping in cabs, eager to catch me. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“My dad sends them when he’s away. I’m up to fifty different cities.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

A map of the city, obviously, but I’m not sure what the markers mean. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Besides this, the enemy will in all likelihood burn and lay waste to the surrounding country upon their arrival, just when the spirits of the defenders are still ardent and determined on the city’s defence. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

"This city is dead, Khaleesi. Nameless and godless we found it, the gates broken, only wind and flies moving through the streets." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“We’re experiencing a transition—from a town to a city,” said I. David Porras, a developer who tooled around in a Lear jet with red leather seats and painted black on the outside. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where would we go, once we reached the city? The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

At the heart of the story is southern California, whose cities became prototypes for the rest of the nation, whose love of the automobile changed what America looks like and what Americans eat. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

The Mayor knows, for he told the merchants of the city that the budget would be cut down, that no new taxes would be imposed to satisfy the clamor of the masses of the needy! Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

What were they doing in the city, if not helping evacuate people? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Hershel preferred city life and rarely came with Father when he visited us. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Martin Luther King, Jr., had been confined to a Birmingham, Alabama, jail cell since Good Friday, April 12, arrested in a fierce effort to integrate that city’s lunch counters and other facilities. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I figured it out, how to live in the city and get away at the same time. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He kept forgetting that the entire population of the city would be with him on the trip. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He’d ridden into their cities mounted on a spectral, after all, and most of them assumed he was from Weep—at least, until Thyon Nero disabused them of that notion. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A memory rises: Etienne was in a field east of the city with his brother. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

We had both used up Legos from whole sections of our cities. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

From one end of the harbor to the other, Greek soldiers, exhausted, cadaverous, unclean, limped toward the embarkation point at Chesme, southwest of the city, awaiting evacuation. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In the air, Allied planes based in Great Britain were raining bombs on German cities and industrial sites, killing tens of thousands of civilians. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Coins minted in the city at the time showed Mark Antony and Octavia on one side and symbols of religious rites on the other. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Besides the teachers who had visited my school, I had only ever seen them on TV, or during a trip into the city center of Mutare, a thirty-minute bus ride from home. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Those ten sepia-toned photographs were what had started Lefty’s fascination with the city. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

For example, there was the Piscine Deligny, the city’s oldest pool, dating back to 1796, an open-air barge moored to the Quai d’Orsay and the venue for the swimming events of the 1900 Olympics. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I think of the great city teeming on the other side of that curtain, and then the lights go down, and I love Paris. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Without the hired lamplighters, most of the city’s 662 whale oil streetlamps remained unlit, the surrounding areas cast into a gloomy darkness. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

But Germany’s bombing campaign against London and other British cities backfired. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

You-mei’s husband had a job in another city and was allowed to visit Shanghai only twice a year. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The streetlights flicker on as night settles over the noisy, bustling city. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

"Is everyone someone's informer in this cursed city?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

At first, I had been thrilled by the city’s vastness. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The Army offered us rations, which gettings Sip and I could not refuse; and so we repaired to the city gates, where our fiddlers’ fingers took to ruder labor. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the clouds rolled back and the late morning sun brought the whole city, shining, into view. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

This was the highest point in the city: all he had to do was wait. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

In those days, 1951, San Jose was a large town, but not yet a city. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kathy had the minivan’s radio on and heard Mayor Nagin repeat his instructions for residents to leave the city, but she noted that he had stopped short of a mandatory evacuation. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The entire city fell under the command of the Seventh Directorate of the KGB, the USSR's powerful and fearsome spy agency, which kept watch over foreigners and Soviet citizens alike. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The city became for me the ideal of what I wanted to be as a grownup. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They prayed: “O city of Athena, help us, so that the laws of justice shall not be defiled and through all lands the helpless and oppressed shall be delivered.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Someplace close to a city,” Annabeth suggested, “in case we need supplies. But somewhere out of the way, so the Romans will have trouble finding us. Any ideas?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Let me describe this stereotyped situation: A crime wave is sweeping a city and citizens are clamoring for police action. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The penguins were all charmed by the sparkling lights and the confusion of the city below. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

But Papa always said New York was the prettiest city in the colonies, and Nate agreed. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

In Chicago Myrta saw at once that the stories Holmes had told of the city had only barely captured its glamour and dangerous energy. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“My father built an orphanage in Shar-e-Kohna, the old city, south of here,” I said. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Having met Dr. Cable, Tally could see why David wanted to keep his city—or camp, or whatever it was—a secret. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

At least five different organizations had sent soldiers-for-hire into the city, including Israeli mercenaries from a firm called Instinctive Shooting International. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

For two years now, the Taliban had been making their way toward Kabul, taking cities from the Mujahideen, ending factional war wherever they’d settled. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The city could not stand more marches and demonstrations, Grabarek argued. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

On Thursday, October 24, 1929, on Wall Street in New York City, men in finely tailored suits began jumping from the windows of the city’s famous skyscrapers. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He somehow lost or abandoned his surest and quickest means of escape from the city: the one-eyed horse Booth had bought. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, Kraków was spared the destructive bombardments that targeted Warsaw and other cities; even without the threat of bombs, there was terror on the streets. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Some of the city’s defenses had been strengthened since the last time Davos had been here, half a dozen years before. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Governor Wallace’s hard face and tightly knit brows, plastered on the front of Time magazine some twelve days later, covered the nation’s coffee tables and city newsstands. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Arya had started to roll it up when the colors caught her eye: the blue of lakes and rivers, the red dots where castles and cities could be found, the green of woods. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They passed long brick walls dividing the compounds of Seatown’s wealthy traders from the common folk who did the work of the city. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Was this the city’s response to the protest? All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They were still counting as the lights of the city began to glitter across the water. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Second best city in Illinois, Corporal. After Chicago,” Bull said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reality of the room fell from him; the vast city of white people that sprawled outside took its place. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

They were laughter on hot city nights hot milk on cold city mornings, good food and good times fancy dancing and soul music. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The trip up the rapids had been the fastest she had ever flown, even quicker than the Special Circumstances hovercar dodging through city traffic. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Its day of emergence in the morning sky was considered an occasion on which warfare and violence was likely to be rewarded—an optimal day to attack a city. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

If he was floating atop water shared with the lake, surely fish had been swept into the city. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

And all summer long, the German army fought and burned its way relentlessly toward the city of Stalingrad. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

After we’d spent hours talking about politics over a traditional Bosnian meal, she wanted to take me shopping in Dublin and show off her adopted city. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I think it’s worth the risk. We’ll be able to hide in the city. Here were just waiting for them to find us.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the Union troops were camped out in fields around the city, and tent hospitals were built there to treat the many returning war wounded. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I have received a message from the city,” says Johanna when everyone quiets down. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Be prepared to report every time you go into the city. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

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

I’d convinced myself that destroying their ship was all right because they were evil, they were sailing to attack my city, and besides, they couldn’t really be permanendy killed. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

A month later, on March 18, a commission appointed by the mayor eight months earlier to look into the full spectrum of black grievances issued its long-awaited report to the city council. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

They were on the garden terrace, which was at the top of the great seraph’s breast, stretching from shoulder to shoulder, and overlooked the city all the way to the Cusp. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

We had had unsolved bombings for years in my city. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The clinging white mist made all the wires that crisscrossed the city stand out like a cat’s cradle. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was almost too easy the way Sol laughed off Special Circumstances, dismissing everything that went on outside the city. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Wasn’t it like the electric wires that one sometimes heard in the city? The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We thought we’d function in Wilmington as we had in New York, catching subways and buses and living off public transportation and the groove of the city. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They turned at the sound of a frigate dropping anchor, waiting to land at Tartus, the port city a mile east. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

There was the city—fabled Weep, unseen no longer—and the day was bright, but it lay dark. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He was a wonderful creation, unique in all the city of Harare. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

They’re too far away from the city, the grimy little shops, the sweat merchants they used to be and know. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tunnel widened into a huge dark cavern, and in the middle was a chasm the size of a city block. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Circling above the city, I had thought, Nobody will ever find out anything about this place. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Streets really are crowded today! As you can see, Tenebrion is a lively city! A wonderful place to—ow, eh—raise a family or livestock.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

When Helm and Girard took over, no one in the city wanted to be taken to Bush Hill, fearing it was a death sentence. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Papi slows often for the speed bumps that have been appearing all over the city. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Ilium is a particularly good city for optometrists because the General Forge and Foundry Company is there. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He swept one arm out to the east, over the rainbow lights of the city. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I went off through the silent courts and alleys of the Palace, my boots crunching on the thin moonlit snow, and homeward through the deep streets of the city. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Once, after an hour, when they were out of the city she turned to him. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The same went for traveling members of our tribe: Whenever they hiked down from the mountains and crossed the river to get to the city, our house was the first one they saw. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The bells in the seven towers of the Great Sept of Baelor had tolled for a day and a night, the thunder of their grief rolling across the city in a bronze tide. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I imagined the city as it was being built. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I was marveling at all the different types of people in this city. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“We need to pass messages on to our captain. He’ll be able to get word out of the city. Some of the other womenfolk who bring food to the prisoners are helping in this manner.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked her how it made her feel to know that there were homeless people and millionaires living in the same city. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

What could they bring them from the city? Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“They have a city in Florida you know what it is called? New Smyrna Beach!” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In early June, community leaders focused attention once again on landlord Abe Greenberg’s refusal to bring his Hayti properties up to code—and on the city’s refusal to press the issue. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The fair’s Committee on Grounds and Buildings had asked Burnham, quietly, to evaluate a number of locations in the city. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

A feedlot is not a very pleasant city, however. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Two additional battalions of soldiers plus a machine-gun company stood in readiness outside the city. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The procession left the brush huts and entered the stone and plaster city where the streets were a little wider and there were narrow pavements beside the buildings. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents tried convincing Olivia to take off to Los Angeles without me and not settle at a school in a city she was hating on, but she refused. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“So tell me, how was the shoot down in the city?” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The clinging white mist made all the wires that crisscrossed the city stand out like a cat’s cradle. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I’d thought I would see the cities, but mostly I saw truck stops and interstate. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I watched Ixtali row and row, taking us away from the city. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

In some districts the victors ride through the city while the residents cheer. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had always wanted to go to Kiddieland, the city’s popular amusement park, but I had never had the opportunity to go. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ignoring the foreman and the police officer, Mr. Muckle proceeded with great enthusiasm to introduce some local big shots—the mayor, a city councilman, and the head of the chamber of commerce. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new liturgy is suited especially to those who live in the secular city, alone in their faith for most of the week. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half of the city believed it, though as yet they did not have the courage to say such words aloud. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The city had one of the busiest harbors in the colonies, with merchant ships heading to the Caribbean and Europe and all corners of the world. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

The salt water from the sea ruined the crops, and fires razed whole regions of cities and towns. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it hadn’t been for King, the city contended, blacks would be satisfied with things as they had always been. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Francesca applied to the city to make me a “heritage tree.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The laughing girl, the girl who chopped wood and danced in the dirt and talked to pigs and carried dressers and grew enough vegetables to feed a city would leave? Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Every temple had “fished” with enough success that there were far more Muslims, especially in the major cities of Detroit, Chicago, and New York than anyone would have guessed from the outside. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the family soon broke up, moving to jobs in other towns and cities, to the army, and Esequiel was alone. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had come into a space where the trees and the tents did not shut out our view of the city to the east. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are as interdependent, especially in our cities, as bees or ants, yet we can detach if we wish and go live alone in the woods, in theory anyway. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Magdalys flew backward and the city around them spun into a wild blur. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

And how would I fare in a strange city? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arletta Paisley had recently become the national spokesperson for SmartMart, and with both of them greeting me at the city limits, I felt double welcomed. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Tea Cake must be hunting all over the city for that fish. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

By the time they voted, even Joe could see that the city didn’t have a chance in the world. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“The people in the city, as a whole, are innocent. The people in the Bureau, who supplied Jeanine with the attack simulation, are not innocent.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I was thrilled to learn I would be heading to an American city called Syracuse, New York. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we entered this city, our minds were filled with the remembrance of the events that had been transacted there more than a century and a half before. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

In peacetime, the street lamps below would be lit and the city aglow with light. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Headquarters could be seen from a long way off, like a small city at night. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Scrivener’s Arms,” said Malcolm, certain that there was no pub of that name anywhere in the city. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

And now, the good doctor and his wife had invited the whole family out to an expensive restaurant in the city as a treat. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

There were six thousand Redcoats stationed there, and they’d taken over the city. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

The township was a city unto itself, with a population of nearly one million. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I knew more about Springfield than I knew about my own city. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

David said it had once stretched unbroken all the way back to Tall/s home city and beyond. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She would stick to her plan of moving through the city methodically, neighborhood by neighborhood, scoping out the streets and canals. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The sole right he wanted was to be left alone, unmolested by the IRS and corrupt city inspectors and street criminals, so he could just run his stores. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, he was going to see the city up close. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Since Kurds took the city. Think it’s bad getting out?” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The mayor showed up at city hall every day to learn what new crisis had developed, meet visitors, and consider options. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The city of Baltimore didn’t give its kids the California Achievement Test just at the end of every school year, in June. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

They’re not supposed to be in the program but if they got an aunt or cousin or someone in the city they use their address. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The city’s murder rate was starting to tick upward—a sign of even more trouble to come. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The girl he’d once missed so much he’d write her name around the city, like on pay phones and coffee tables, never signing his name. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

After all, it wouldn’t make sense for the Dauntless to make the trek to the city hospital every time they get hurt. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

This was a new city and a foreign country, the city of Vanity Fair and Great Expectations. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Trey and me can’t, either. Not many pools in the city.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

When we’re young, it sometimes seems as if the world doesn’t exist outside our city, our block, our house, our room. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Navigating through a new city wouldn't be so scary if I had a friend there. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“He signed our contract on behalf of his city. Just so.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"A good view of the city. And a few bats." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Some five miles from the city, she spied an enormous circular building, a stadium where bullfights took place. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

For a long time, I stared out the window until I realized that the city had slipped away. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

For many years they treated Oedipus with kindness, but at last they decided to expel him from the city. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not calming, though, that there were no city lights out there. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the buildings were sheathed in white plaster, making the city sparkle in the mountain sun. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Byzantine domes hovered over the city like rising balloons. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

"It's naught. I'm not used to the city yet, that's all." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

For all she knew, he might be dead, his head impaled upon a spike above the city Keep’s gates. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Hazel spurred Arion, and they raced out of the city with a mob chasing after them. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

During and after the storm, he stayed in the city with members of his family, guarding his house. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

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

It will stop along the way in twelve cities and pass through 444 communities. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

A few officers from the city stuck around—Ellerbe, Foster, and Chavez—and I was glad for the familiar faces. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All over Syria, people use microbuses, minibuses, and shared taxis to get around, and buses for far-off cities. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

As if all this time the city has been no more than a scale model built by her father and the shadow of a great hand has fallen over it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

For them, the city represented something new under the Southern sun: a place where anyone could prosper, where ambition and hard work, not skin color, determined one’s chances for success or failure. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

If his job was the dead-end tip of a bull’s horn, the city was the bull. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll bet they just hired the Mafia to dump them into the East River, along with the body of whatever city planner thought MetroCards was a good idea. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

When the list was published on Tuesday, the blazing sun had reappeared, and fetid, warm air once again choked the city. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

All told, the committee would spend $37,647.19 to combat the sickness that infested their city. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Spread out in scores of cities far beyond the Southwest, they find jobs plentiful but advancement difficult. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

November 7: The first Palmer raids are carried out in twenty-three American cities. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

In the city, she’d owned lots of things—practically anything she wanted came out of the wall. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

And crew was a good way for a school, or a city, to get noticed. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It's getting dark earlier these days, and there's bound to be some traffic heading back into the city. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It also said that they were so scarce in the city, you shouldn’t feel scared if you met one; you should feel lucky. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“The city of Ember was made for us long ago by the Builders,” the book said. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The whole way, I’m documenting the city, taking photos of strangers I’ve never seen, strangers I see every day. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Please. I’ve never even spent the whole night outside the city. Not alone.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“But tell me: What happened? You made it to the city, obviously. Did anything happen on your travels ? And what is it your friend had to return?” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

When a battle is over, when he has lived to fight again another day, the great white hetero action hero goes somewhere high above the city, somewhere with a view. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“He’s new to the city. Visiting from Georgia. He was wearing the most ridiculous tie in all the land.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Had we been in a noisy city, we might not have heard him. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Later a young brother and sister gave recitations, which everyone present had heard many times at winter evening entertainments in the city. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat in the backseat alone, her hands uncuffed, as they drove to police headquarters and then to city hall. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The Klan was all-powerful because many of them were rich businessmen, lawmen, politicians, or even city officials by day, though they were dedicated to getting rid of us by night. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

By midafternoon the black Chevrolet had reached Emporia, Kansas—a large town, almost a city, and a safe place, so the occupants of the car had decided, to do a bit of shopping. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a result, in the space of the year that he held the principality, not only was he secure in the city of Fermo, but he had become feared by all its neighbours. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

The women didn’t wear their hair long enough to trail behind them, and for good reason: The streets were as dirty as the streets of any city. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

And here, in my city, the Nazis slaughtered a family because of events that started with love and jealousy and a slip of the tongue. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

There was plenty of open space in the city’s big parks and in the suburbs, outside of Clarkston—and out of reach for the Fugees. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

A few years ago, they started busing students in from all over the city. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

His choice to stay in the city had been God’s will. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Until we moved to the city, we went to the river every year on the first of November. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Give copies to the newspapers in these cities to comment upon, it will assist the sale....” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It grew out of control, filling the city streets like The Blob, consuming everyone and everything in its path. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

His intention was to collect an army to march against the city. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked closely to find my favorite city, San Francisco, California. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In the evening the murky shape of another coastal city, the cluster of tall buildings vaguely askew. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I saw Antonio once again, years later, in Washington, D.C., but he seemed out of place there, all dressed up in city clothes. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked outside and melted into the city, like butter in the stew. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Tina hadn’t left the city in months, and by Friday she was climbing the walls. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why not go to court and sue the city of Montgomery and the state of Alabama, arguing that if segregated schools were unconstitutional—as the U.S. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

They went far enough east to leave the city walls behind, and then Alfhercht went north. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Neither city nor business services had been able to get into the neighborhood while the uncontrolled violence was occurring. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The flames illuminated a small city of wooden crates that had already been packed with personal goods and prepared for shipping. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The novelty of the new world brought forth the adventurer in him—he wanted to see it all, the whole city, what had become of it. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She looked around and tried to envision what this city would have looked like when magic simmered just beneath its surface. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It’s as though she doesn’t live in a big city. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just before ten in the morning, the city was hit by a sudden sideways lurch now estimated at magnitude 9.0 and shaken ferociously for seven full minutes. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

This premier city was the cradle of ancient art and architecture, as well as the site of both the Hanging Gardens and Tower of Babel. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I love the service in this city,” Jack says, his forehead sweating now. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad says, “Just an excuse to come see her and spend time in the city.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Again the sewage threatened the city’s water supply. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

We were headed home—home being the strange-familiar city of Washington, D.C., with its white marble and clashing ideologies, with everything that still needed to be fought and won. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I rub the soft fur flaps, washing away playground dirt and city grit. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The city continued to stagger under the invisible invader’s assault. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Planning is for the world’s great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

While Washington worried, the city’s taverns, beer gardens, and coffeehouses—all 176 of them—were teeming with activity that Saturday. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I followed the gesture and gasped at the sight of a beautiful city that seemed to be floating in the middle of the lake, encircled by a magical mist, bedazzling us with its towering splendor. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He could plan it all himself, select the cities they would visit, the hotels. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sierra wasn’t used to seeing any part of the city so deserted. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Back to her grandmother’s house in the city where the red shutters glowed, and already she had been called “gal.” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

A mistake would disrupt the workings of the city for no reason. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Olmsted next considered four specific candidates: a site on the lakeshore above the Loop; two inland sites, one of which was Garfield Park on the western perimeter of the city; and of course Jackson Park. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The city was bursting with sounds; the shouts of vendors rang in my ears mingled with the blare of Hindi music, the sputtering of rickshaws, and the jin­gling bells of horse-drawn carts. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Fires were common in all cities back then, and Chicago was no exception. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

If the bright city of her drawings really did exist, it would be out there somewhere. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

That was how I felt toward the whole city: that it should be behind glass, adored from a distance, never touched, never altered. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

To me, it seemed like we were fully integrated into the city's life. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The soldiers told us we had to leave because the United States was going to bomb our city. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I want to see Sesame Street,” Sonia had said, believing that it was an actual landmark in the city, and she had cried when Gogol had laughed at her, saying it didn’t exist. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I looked out the window and thought how untouched this part of Los Angeles was compared with the streets in Nathan’s part of the city. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Most of them remain in the cities, prolonging the lives of ancient Silvers, mending livers destroyed by alcohol and the like. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I used to tell Marcus that all the history of London is right here. These aren’t rocks and stones beneath your feet, you know. They’re what is left of the city over thousands of years.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It was gargantuan, a vertical city of shimmering, crystalline towers and bridges, chambers and turrets, domed ballrooms and long, endless hallways. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He then carried it up through the city and easily slipped past the palace guards. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Leaving the city meant leaving all their properties, leaving their tenants’ homes, and this they couldn’t do unless absolutely necessary. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Axelroot did pretty well for himself as a pilot in the Congo, transporting perishable goods from the bush into the cities for retail sale, and he was also active in the diamond trade. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

By carbon-dating some of Shady’s material, they helped establish that the Peruvians had uncovered the oldest known city in the Americas. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but I mean . . . past the farms. What are we guarding the city from?” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Despite spending four years at Hampton Institute, she had rarely left the campus and came to the city as a virtual stranger. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Are you going to stay in this city?” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wanders freely around a city in which Gogol, in spite of his many visits, has no sense of direction. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It gave the people of District 8 a reason to be out on the streets after dark, gathering either in the square or in various community centers around the city to watch. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even with a few lampposts dotting the streets, I can’t see the breadth and depth of this city that is my birthplace, that is now my home. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“The city’s generators are always going down, so electricity is unreliable, and people use diesel fuel.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Allen boys ran them out of Lambert long before you arrived in the city. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then the lights switched back to the land, the helicopters swerved over the city again, as if they had picked up another trail. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Victarion had seen such men in foreign cities, tending their sacred fires. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“If it does go somewhere, if it does lead out of Ember, he’ll be telling the whole city pretty soon. He’ll be a hero.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun promised to check in with him again, and paddled off, curious about how many people had remained in the city. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The same chaos and flight took hold of the northern section of the city. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Laertes was now studying in France, and I pored over maps of Europe, marking the cities described in the letters he sometimes wrote to me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

We hit it off very quickly, and he was clearly glad to have a friend in his new and, for him, very strange city. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The festival took place where anything in Lily takes place: the city park. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The Mud Gate and the Gate of the Gods were open, but only to those who wanted to enter the city; the guards let no one out. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Booth was a creature of the city and its fancy hotel lobbies, saloons, oyster bars, and gaslit shadows. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one debated that the city was in chaos, but now there was debate over where that chaos had originated. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Maybe, she thought, it wasn’t just because of the city. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Nairobi—the name of the capital city, in the south—is a Maa word that means “cold.” Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood outside for some time, gazing down at the city, and his eyes were dazzled. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Such a thing, after a hurricane, when most of the city had been evacuated, was worthy of investigation, he conceded. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

We had to climb up about two stories of steps to get to the High Line, but when we did, we had the most special view of the city all around us. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

A car ride takes that newly infected person to a major city, where more Aedes aegypti mosquitoes wait to feed on him, then carry the disease to another and another and another person. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

From this high view, they looked over the unmoving city under a fixed bright sun and wondered what they could possibly do next. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“These cities are where the largest dome events happen for the championships.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The lesson for him was: When you are from the big city, it’s a very small world. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I keep my eyes on the city for so long that my eyes start to blur. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The crowd spread away from the courthouse steps and filled two city blocks—but that was nothing. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The city, thinks Marie-Laure, is slowly being remade into the model upstairs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Mayor Gayle and several city commissioners insisted the segregation laws were needed to maintain order in the city. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

But now people were watching American troops fighting brutal battles to retake territories and cities that were supposed to be secure. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

What he couldn’t do physically, he substituted with emotional and intellectual guidance and support, which is why he enjoyed his work as a precinct captain for the city’s Democratic Party. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Coach Nat recruited every one of us from all over the city. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

So seeing all the storefronts, automobiles, and people in this part of the city was new and fascinating. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

But Mary Louise Smith, the second teenager with the nerve to face down Jim Crow on a city bus, was, like Claudette, branded “unfit” to serve as the public face of a mass bus protest. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

It was like the whole city was air-conditioned. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Within four weeks, the army said it had taken back the city. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Take a look around. I tried to go to the best high school in the city. And this is where I ended up.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Pick the one you like the most. You, too, Robert and Tim. Pick the city you like best.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

She agreed to see him again, and the next day, a Sunday, he picked her up in his convertible and they drove out of the city to a park in Maryland. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Some naive part of me hoped the deserter would at least make it out of the city. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

But in the case of Hagen Oaks Park, I'm more interested in the city's decision to plant native plants than I am in the birds. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The projects, a drunken stepfather, an older brother concussed by police, a cousin pinned in the city jail. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Everyone living in the city deserves the same protection. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

Therefore, a prince who has a city organized in this fashion and who does not make himself hated cannot be attacked. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Landless rural residents and impoverished city dwellers lay outside the picture, though they—more likely, their descendants—could work their way into the American citizenry over time. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Even from a distance, the city looked majestic. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

All winter the Opel roves occupied territories, cities that Jutta recorded in their radio log coming to life—Prague, Minsk, Ljubljana. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Maestro was something I had come up with when I had started rebuilding my city again. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

It feels friendlier here than in the city. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Where else does the sidewalk tremble under your feet from the rumble of subways underground, and trucks and city buses up top? Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The half block of Paris that she can see reminds her of the cities she drew as a girl: a hundred houses, a thousand windows, a wheeling flock of birds. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Far gone in weariness, in oblivion, the noble and enduring man slept on; but Athena in the night went down the land of the Phaiakians, entering their city. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I get on the city bus headed toward cam- pus, I'm just another person who doesn't want to freeze to death in the wind chill. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dedicated in the early third century at a cost of eight hundred talents, the Lighthouse was one of the first monumental structures completed after the city’s founding. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

In an analogy that would prove all too apt, Max Weber likened the city to “a human being with his skin removed.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I loved an empty city room, just the blinking terminals and a few deadbeats like myself. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pollution entering our waterways comes from many sources: radioactive wastes from reactors, laboratories, and hospitals; fallout from nuclear explosions; domestic wastes from cities and towns; chemical wastes from factories. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Ambitious people, mannered people, neurotic people, high-society people—the kind of people who make life in the city so interesting—became unbearable to me. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I was anxious to leave the city. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

That was when she realized that all the sounds she normally associated with a city—the noise of wagon wheels and beggars and merchants hawking their wares—were absent here. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

A Democratic alderman elected by the residents of Packingtown threatened escalated violence if the mayor did not take action: “We must defend ourselves if the city authorities won’t protect us.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Women from the villages have walked for days to narrow their eyes at this city market. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We found court records revealing that the D.A. and the sheriff, who are county officials, had somehow gotten city charges and fines against Hooks dismissed, even though they had no authority in city courts. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

So there were vacations and weekends in other cities as well as visits and teas in her own, where and when such men appeared. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No! Of Fry maybe. This view of the city is spectacular.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

‘Did anything unpleasant happen in your city three nights ago?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the spring of 1941, the Luftwaffe regularly sent spy planes over Russian troops and Russian cities. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Elsewhere in the city, rioters looted a synagogue and burned the Torah scrolls. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The Rebel troops had been beaten there, and the British had taken over the city, but the way Sam wrote about it, he made it seem like a glorious victory for the Rebels. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hearing wild barks in the middle of a city had been jarring, unexpected, but now they were soothing. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Every morning Nguyen went to the city well to fill heavy buckets of water and bring them home to keep their cistern filled. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

In the years immediately following the flood, Boston’s citizens, most of whom were determined that such a tragedy never take place again, voted overwhelmingly to increase the budget of the city’s building department substantially. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

She just walked through the city and never worried a bit. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“No outsider,” he told his foes, “has ever set eyes on the forbidden city. And as long as I draw breath, none ever will.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

This was the one spot in the city where twenty thousand folk could gather. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Parker tells me that twelve girls from high schools throughout the city have been selected to participate in Woman to Woman. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

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

It looked much like the streets in Canton, the city in the Middle Kingdom from which I had sailed. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

His goal was to empower the wave of migrants rolling into town to become productive citizens of their adopted city. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was strange to see the great city, home to the whole world, so asleep. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He could see almost the entire city from where he sat, including the plaza where he had talked with the old man. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Yunkai’i have many friends inside the city. They will know.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Frankie didn’t know it, but he had given me more than just a means of surviving my first year in this city. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I don’t owe the people outside this city anything, whether I am Divergent or not. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

But that was before I knew what life was like outside the city, and it doesn’t seem as horrific as what Edith described in her message to us. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

It seemed like a lot of old guys talking into microphones in Washington, D.C., which to us was just a faraway city filled with a lot of white buildings and white men. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Bought a car because yeah, the trains and buses are fine, but if we had our own car, we could take trips outside the city where the trains and buses don’t go. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The polar seas will melt and New York will be under six feet of water, not to mention many another coastal city. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I got to my building, where I lived with my moms, walked in through the broken door and took the steps, because our elevator was jacked up too—the city didn’t never fix nothing. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Four days after launching Sputnik into orbit, Radio Moscow announced the addition of one more city to its timetable of destinations that would be overflown by their satellite: Little Rock, Arkansas. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

They have holed up in an apartment that I can only assume belongs to Asher, on the outskirts of the city. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And he wondered, quietly aloud, how they had built this city to last the ages through, and had they ever come to Earth? The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a cruel irony, it was not the Union army that laid waste to the city. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

They wanted me to consider the University of Alabama, because it was closer to home and didn’t have all the distractions of a big city like Los Angeles. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The next day, October 13, she felt worse, but instead of reporting to work, again she went into the city. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Major grassroots organizing efforts would be under way in nearly every state and city nationwide. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Her visions of city life clouded—what did she know about places like New York City and Boston? The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Polokov has taken a job with the city as a trash collector, a scavenger.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

For a while, Indianapolis was the largest city in the world not on a navigable waterway.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

After that vacation, the twins returned to the city ahead of the rest of the family, accompanied by Nana, the city servants, and most of the baggage. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

After school, I take the train to the college on the south side of the city. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Other Jews were relocated behind thick walls and barbed wire in overcrowded city ghettos, created in large cities such as Warsaw and Lodz. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

An entire city transformed into a veritable well of sorrow. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The upper rows were filled with several dozen ghosts and a few older veterans from the city, all in formal togas. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Mr. Bonetti periodically burned the garbage and hauled the remains to the city dump in his truck. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Father Judge’s football team was perennially one of the best in the city. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Nana was dead, and she was here, in a strange city, separated from the life she’d known by valleys and chains of snow-capped mountains and entire deserts. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“That would be folly. Our walls are taller and thicker than the walls of Astapor, and our defenders are more valiant. The Yunkai’i will not take this city easily.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

For the most part I never thought of them; they simply existed somewhere in the background of the city as a whole. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

"That those greedy-eyed city rats take one look at this stuff and walk right past." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When Bobby determined, or at least believed, that he was no longer being followed or pursued, he began to freely wander the city, taking trams and buses to various destinations. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

"A city pale as die moon and lovely as a maid. An hour's ride, no more." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“They don’t have no colored sections. I could go to any restaurant and sit wherever I wanted! “They had drinking fountains all through the city. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unscheduled and no longer under lock and key, he takes long walks around the city. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Denner resin was highly illegal, of course, but that didn’t matter in most parts of the city. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The beginnings of an idea that could honor Siobhan’s family, force the city to face its dark past, and acknowledge what had happened so long ago. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The sun had set behind the castle on the hill, and the lights from the city sparkled on the water. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Accordingly, suing a city police department for damages is generally not an option. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Though he thought the city was fascinating, the society, in his opinion, was somewhat provincial. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Phnom Penh city wakes early to take advantage of the cool morning breeze before the sun breaks through the haze and invades the country with sweltering heat. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of the city lights are on in this area, but the moon is bright enough that I can walk by it without too much trouble. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Over the green higher hills to the south, the evening fog rolled like herds of sheep coming to cote in the golden city. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Saying that he was still pursued by the “hypocrites,” Mr. Muhammad fled from city to city, never staying long in any. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Williams juggled dozens of girls, maintaining three or four different apartments around the city, and all the while supporting himself by smuggling drugs up from the Bronx. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance, the sun was setting behind a city skyline. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

This sort of silliness went on until we rounded a mesa and saw the brown mist on the horizon that announced our approach to the city of Phoenix. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“And this—Tokyo—was the city that Ren answered for. Maybe everyone else also responded based on whatever city they’re physically located in.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

If you've never passed a winter in Chicago, let me describe it: You can live for a hundred straight days beneath an iron-gray sky that claps itself like a lid over the city. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Like two blankets, two cities, two dates, and two people. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The city had welcomed Bo and him like a great, gentle animal. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

So Lazlo didn’t ask himself What could I do? that morning as the second Sabbat of Twelfthmoon dawned in the city of Weep, but “What will I do?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Finally, I came to the city of Warsaw, where I learned to steal food to keep from starving. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Down a long hallway, Aru saw the skyline of a distant city. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

On the hills to the south stood the broken old city wall. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to leave. It seemed impossible that the city could ever get back on its feet again. But I knew I had the power to make things better.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The glowing towers of the Spice Islands' port city rise in the distance. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Shortly thereafter, Congress funded the Negro and Native Reeducation Act and dozens of schools like Miss Preston's were created in cities as large as Baltimore and as small as Trenton. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Buses took off from the Central Depot, going to all points of the city, going farther to Mozambique and Kenya and even Gondwanna, in the north. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the top’s covered by thick clouds and I can’t spot the city. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

But it was hard to picture a city like Ember here in this bright, beautiful place. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

To the bombardiers, the walled city on its granite headland, drawing ever closer, looks like an unholy tooth, something black and dangerous, a final abscess to be lanced away. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When you sacked Rome with the Visigoths, you could smell the smoky scent of the burning city as well as the barbarians’ b.o. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

After long wanderings and many trials on land and sea he reached Italy, where he defeated those who opposed his entering the country, married the daughter of a powerful king and founded a city. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shin left Beijing and took a 70-mile bus ride to Tianjin, a city of ten million people, where he tried again with Korean churches. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The city of Winchester, Virginia, ordered “a guard at every avenue of the town leading from the Potomac, to stop all suspected persons, packages, etc., coming from Philadelphia.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

He collected an army, captured the King’s city and put him to death. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the Great Fire and the arrival of the Governor, flame of any kind had been outlawed in the city. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

There was nothing waiting for him in the city but more hunger and dark alleys and the damp of the canals. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Frustration and anger were boiling over in the largely African American inner cities, leading to riots and brutal confrontations between the protestors and police. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Today I volunteered to go inside the city. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She could risk staying in the city for another day or two, and then she would have to go back to Tanaburi. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Her apartment was located in one of the better sections of the city, and I must have revealed my surprise upon entering the spacious living room. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Booth had sent liquor and supplies to Mudd’s farm for hiding until the day came for Booth and his kidnap victim to flee the city, but it never did. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It cheered when the exposition orchestra played “Home Sweet Home,” a song that never failed to reduce grown men and women to tears, especially the newest arrivals to the city. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He’d run across the city with the flaming stick, planning to use it to light his journey. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You know the lost city of Weep,” he said. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Her husband was an Arab, and there were Israeli paramilitaries on the ground in the city. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It has made itself a home in the wild forest of our great cities, amid the rank and choking vegetation of slums! Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

But he drove a hard bargain, demanding that the main Onondaga village, now buried under the present-day city of Syracuse, New York, become the headquarters for the confederacy. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Uncle Leang and his wife have six children, so with the nine of us it makes seventeen under one thatched roof.Their house would not be called a house by city peoples standards. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was almost November, but the junior high school teachers were still out of the city establishing revolutionary ties, and no one could enroll us new students. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she sees my confused look, she adds, “Because they’re allied with the original purpose of our city, see?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She really wanted to get out of the city. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In ball I was helped briefly by a thin black man called Fatty who was the coach of a team called the Comanches, one of the best teams in the city. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Even so, city life was comfortable and pleasant, thanks to the wide streets, parks, gardens, and extensive system of canals. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

On the second Sabbat of Twelfthmoon, in the city of Weep, a girl fell from the sky. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

An unusually “murky pall” hung over the city. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

People did that in Berkeley when the city wanted to cut down a hundred-year-old tree. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“The moment you see the city,” Eril-Fane had promised them, “you will understand what this is about.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was just that this city was unlike New York or Philadelphia or Syracuse or any other city she had known. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike in classical Athens, however, the power of the city’s civil servants was entirely circumscribed by the king’s, preserving only the outward form, not the substance, of self-government. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

In the city, you never spent much time with other uglies’ parents, except when you hung out at friends’ houses during school breaks. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

His expression says that there are not enough mountains to crush, enough cities to destroy. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The city sprawls across seventy-eight square miles, stretching from the shallow, salty estuary at the edge of San Francisco Bay to the undulating green-and-gold hills where bobcats and coyotes roam. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Even his opponents recognized that Harrison, despite his privileged roots, made an intensely appealing candidate for the city’s lesser tier. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

We passed carts and wagons of every size and description—full ones on their way into the city, empty ones coming back. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He gently patted my back and then left the house and drove off to one of his stores in the city. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They told him that he should leave the city, and that they would help him. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The following morning, as the smoke cleared, the city’s flag could once again be seen. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The officer bends forward and looms over the miniature city like some tormented gargoyle. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

If he needs to restore every home in this city, he will, to prove he is part of this place. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

That was the only way the queen had to know what might be happening in the city. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Barack smoked the way my parents did—after meals, walking down a city block, or when he was feeling anxious and needed to do something with his hands. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

As usual, I had gotten up early in the morning, and I was sitting on the flat stone behind the house waiting for the city to wake up. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The first city person I saw was an old woman carrying a jar full of leeches. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The shop was in a middle-class neighborhood of Oaxaca city, in southern Mexico. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

As they walked through the freezing streets of the city, his uncle explained about the fire and the locked door. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

That same evening, the leaders of the Action Committee, which included Oliver Tambo, Yusuf Cachalia, and myself, attended a meeting in the city to discuss the day’s events and to plan for the week ahead. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Raven had hidden forty-nine more copies of The Maltese Falcon across the city. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

By Ottoman law, Turks must occupy a city’s highest ground, so the convoy is high above the city now, heading down. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The innkeeper asked the guards if they had come from the city. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Strabo offers the best surviving description of the city in its heyday. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Bodega had bought the entire row from the city and had slowly renovated three of them. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He saw the reflected glare of the lights of the city at what must have been around ten o’clock at night. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In April 1944 the Opel rattles into a white city full of empty windows. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The power that ran the city of Ember was feeble by comparison—and about to run out. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Shasta had had no notion of what a great city would be like and it frightened him. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

It was a walled city for poets and astronomers and every shade of thinker in between. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Naturally there are a few smashups every day. The speed limit is eighteen miles in the city, but everybody goes thirty to thirty five, or forty, even in the down-town section.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

And, inevitably, the black man’s anger rekindled, deeper than ever, and there began bursting out in different cities, in the “long, hot summer” of 1964, unprecedented racial crises. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dorm sports results, soap opera story lines, city politics. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

But when they do, we are in the part of the city where the factionless live, about a mile from where I grew up. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Atoned, I said. Before the city. A walk—” “No.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then he went on his first tour, playing in fourteen cities throughout the American West and Midwest. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if you know it, but there’s a whole circuit of commercial gospel entertainers who have come out of these little churches in the city ghettoes or from down South. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have to save the city and the people my mother and father loved. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

It was Richard who had taken her out of that house, and out of the South, and into the city of destruction. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The Rusty Ruins were the remains of an old city, a hulking reminder of back when there’d been way too many people, and everyone was incredibly stupid. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

That’s one of the reasons why everyone in the city has to take the aptitude test at sixteen—if they’re aware during the test, that shows us that they might have healed genes.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

And he knew that Weep, the city of his dreams, which he had just saved from devastation, was open to him no longer. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, it’s convenient. During lunchtime, I go there to read or study. It’s the best library in the city.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“I have to admit, I didn’t think I would ever see this day. I was sure the letters had been lost, or the city had decided to treat them like a hoax.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The roads squirmed with traffic; the cities were so dense with people that all attention had to be devoted to not hitting anyone or not being hit. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like The Hague, Brussels is a big city, its population exploding, too. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A few wanted to assault the city immediately, lest the Volantenes rob them of their glory and the best part of the plunder. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It’s cheaper here, but I can get it in the city. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The city was too noisy, as if people were having arguments everywhere simultaneously. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The city impressed him, he said later, which was surprising because as a rule nothing impressed him, nothing moved him. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Unlike Naples or Syracuse, it was not the result of a dedicated colonizing effort by a particular parent city. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Gregor could hear the horns signaling their approach long before they reached the city. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

For the first year or so, I crashed on sofas and rented different flats in the area with the other immigrants who had come to the city with no money. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

As it was, she didn’t know if the city had any future at all. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I’d grab the first train and make my way out of the city until everything dies down. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She talks about where they should meet for dinner once she gets into the city. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Shay had wanted so much to keep her own face, to live on her own terms outside the city. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

But aside from the latter privilege, and a garrison of Macedonian soldiers quartered in the city Cyrene was left pretty much to rule herself. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Day after day, crouching on the floor, turning the pages of the newspapers, I watch her make her way across the map, by plane, by train, by car, from city to city. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Davis and the Confederate government must abandon the city or risk capture. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

They left the city and came into the open country where the houses were far apart and the hills and gentle valleys began. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

All those times out in the ruins, Shay had made her points about uglies and pretties, the city and the outside, what was fake and what was real. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Emily and James sat side by side in the accordion section of an extra-long city bus on their way to the Black Cat restaurant. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I am overwhelmed with the need to be somewhere else, so I turn and leave my parents and Nita and the city where I once lived behind me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I remember my first summer here in Würzburg, after that dreadful winter when I left the ghost of my mother behind in the burning city. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They used to go up into the hills in Kabul and take pictures of the city below them. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Very early the next morning, we moved to another house in the same neighborhood where we were able to keep in touch by telephone with other leaders around the city. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The city authorities and the Federal Aviation Agency were immediately besieged by calls from worried citizens. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Maybe that was the answer to the city. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both were football players at Sky View High School in Smithfield, the second largest city in Cache County after Logan. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She knew the city well enough now that she could track a route down their hill and through the grid of streets that stretched below to the general location of Pier 39. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

In the year ad 70 the Roman Army, exasperated by years of rebellion in Judaea, sacked the city of Jerusalem and destroyed the Israelites’ Temple there. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

When she rose to speak at city council meetings, councilman Charles Steel, a hard-line segregationist, turned his swivel chair to present his back to her, rotating around again only after she had finished speaking. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

We’re too far inside the city to see anything more than one or two dots in the sky. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“She tried to leave the city with us.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Those of us not ordered to the border will be given city commands, where we’ll hunt down Resistance fighters or Mariner spies. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

That’s the way Pilate must have looked as a girl, looked even now, but out of place in the big northern city she had come to. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was in the city, he lived in an old ruin of a mansion on a garbage-littered lot. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

No one had forgotten how in 1885 fouled water had ignited an outbreak of cholera and typhoid that killed ten percent of the city’s population. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

After all, Art spends a lot more time dealing with city traffic and parking and chefs who can sometimes be pretty picky. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

In fact, I notice I have yet to record here anything of my journey to this city - aside from mentioning briefly that halt on the hillside road at the very start of it. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Running about the streets every day and all day long he learned to know the city after a fashion, and he saw this and that of its secret parts. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

By summer 1938, the city parks have sprouted signs forbidding Jews to enter. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Lee, you were the city girl,” he said. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The city built a new prison, moved the inmates into their new quarters, then rehabbed the old prison and turned it into a high school. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

By the time Cleopatra was born, Alexandria had become the largest and grandest city in the world. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

“If you don’t mind me asking, did she ever tell you why she was let go from the city?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He knew my father had run vegetable stores in the city. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was their city before it was mine, and it is their own lives they wish to squander. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They had participated in secret conversations, received certain assurances, and gone so far as to make reconnaissance forays to outlying parts of the city. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

When Ember was a young city, the storerooms were full. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“That day has arrived. I hate this city.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an anomaly: the greatest city north of the Rio Grande, it was also the only city north of the Rio Grande. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was not very old, but it was in a much worse condition than some of the city's houses that had stood for hundreds of years. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

There weren’t many barriers in the city—not that you could see, anyway. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“You know a war rages in the city, boy? You know you could be shot dead at any time?” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Yet these were only minor cities in their day, whereas London was the greatest commercial capital the world had ever seen. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Ancient cities that had decayed, leaving massive sandy lumps over the flat desert. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I have a checkup in every city, which was one of three conditions my mom put in place before letting me go. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Is it the part of the police department to harass me when this city is a flagrant vice capital of the civilized world?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The postmark is from New York, but he does not recognize the signature as belonging to any of the rêveurs he has met in passing in that or any other city. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Officers ordered them to clear and repair roads to the city. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In neutral territory. Most of the Abnegation have graciously agreed to let us stay in their sector of the city to plan as they clean up the aftermath of the attack.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

And when the Washingtons appealed for justice, city officials denied them at every turn. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Ann was delighted, but decided not to take the heat off the city council, which could still reject or accept the commission’s decision. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to point out that the number of wet hours in the north was far less than people realized but she’d already moved on to what a ‘dead fast’ city New York was. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he screamed, it would burn the city black. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Actually, I think it’s cruel to keep them in the city.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

There was a huge replica of a city near the window. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In 1630 John Winthrop led what was then the largest party of would-be colonists from Britain—some seven hundred people—to Massachusetts, where they founded the city of Boston. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But she hardly knew anything about their city, except that she didn’t know anyone there Shay shrugged. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

And we are out here, and the city is there, all wrapped up in its own coat of a thousand colours. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What are we missing? There’s got to be a connection between Parker and this city.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She described feeling supported by Daley and knowing that she was being useful to the city. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When he was not working, he wrote postcards, scores of them, perhaps hundreds, to the most powerful men in the city, in a voice that presumed he was their equal in social stature. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I made a bone needle, cut out the pants by ripping up one pair of old city pants for a pattern. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joe and I flew home to America in the same plane, and on the way he told me about Prague, and his Prague had no relation to the city I had seen and heard. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to climb every last mountain, row down every last river, explore every last cave, cross every last bridge, run across every last beach, visit every last town, city, country. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The city housing inspector was dubbed “See no evil” man. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

A city which has become the pivot of the Eastern, Western, Northern, and Southern poles of the nation. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I could see Nathan was very tired: the heat and the noise, the bustle of the city, had taken their toll. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He, however, sent out feelers to individuals who he thought might be sympathetic to the Klan viewpoint, people in positions to help the cause: policemen, firemen, low-ranking city officials. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He chose the extreme of closing down the city’s sixty-eight parks, thirty-eight playgrounds, six swimming pools, and four golf courses rather than allowing black people to enjoy them.6 “Federal meddling,” Connor had remarked. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They assume my family owns a big hacienda with plenty of land, that we simply prefer the country to the bustle of the city. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, in the silence of the night, when the city lost its stage-set normality and operetta peace, she was besieged by the agonizing thoughts she had repressed during the day. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s say there are monsters,” I boomed into the near-silent mountain city. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Heat lamps glow in regularly spaced intervals, their flames adding a golden warmth to our skin, and the lights of the city shimmer down below. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As you know, that city was once a strong place, proud and fair, Minas Ithil, the twin sister of our own city. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The city’s madams understood this and were known to meet inbound trains with promises of warmth and friendship, saving the important news for later. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

This was an especially strong wish among the fugitives, who were embarrassed at having abandoned their city in its time of great need. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Achillas hoped that Caesar, with only a handful of troops to hold the city, would be forced to retreat. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Since the day she’d gone to get her operation, she’d felt the massive weight of the city looming over her, and had learned firsthand how much places like the Smoke threatened people like Dr. Cable. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

When I considered the city, I could not believe that it could be filled with people; when I beheld the people, I was amazed that a city could hold them. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Often, Father brought us presents from the big city. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The Johnson family were recent arrivals in their San Francisco community—a middle-class, middle-income real-estate development high in the hills north of the city. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon the news will reach every city and lodge like a breath or a bullet in all the different breasts. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They carried electricity from a wind farm to one of the old cities.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Though it is a truism to emphasize the stunting of free Greek city life in Hellenistic times, Cyrene in the early third century was no mere political appendage of Alexandria. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The city melted away until we were off the expressway and rolling through the countryside of northern Long Island, past orchards and wineries and fresh produce stands. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

And yet everything radiates tension, as if the city has been built upon the skin of a balloon and someone is inflating it toward the breaking point. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

We stay away from the dirt road the Erudite and Dauntless took to get to the Amity compound, following the train tracks toward the city. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

On the rails, Chicago was the big city, but it was New Orleans that would get people to talking. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now there were three kings in the land, and war raged beyond the Trident while the city filled with desperate men. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

That was one thing about being outside the city: It made all that nature stuff they taught in school seem a lot more useful. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Both the Egalitarians and the Survivalists have run on platforms that involve recapturing the cities of the East and making them safe. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Before arriving in New Orleans, Gonzales and his fellow officers had heard a lot about the conditions in the city, and they were tense. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon, she leads Max out through a high arch on the far side of the city called the Porte de Dinan. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The formation flew backwards over a German city that was in flames. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They chose a large, unoccupied mansion called Bush Hill, located on a rolling hill about two and a half miles northwest of the city. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Even prices higher than any in memory couldn’t tempt farmers into the city with fresh food. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shuttled between meetings with various department heads, worked with the staffs of city commissioners, and was dispatched sometimes to different neighborhoods around Chicago to follow up on personal complaints received by the mayor. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

There had been talk of moving the city out from under the shadow, starting anew someplace else. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He is a country boy not used to the city temptations, and I do not want him getting mixed up with the wrong people. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not seen as an unusual request from a senior KGB official like Yurchenko, who regularly toured the city to meet secretly with agents he was running against the CIA and other Western powers. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

At home, on the shelf next to my basketball trophies, I have a whole city of cardboard buildings that I carved out with my X-Acto knife. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The papers poured into the Bureau every hour of every day from every city in every state of the Union. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the country’s earliest years, the North End was home to the city’s colonial governor, Thomas Hutchinson, and to a well-known silversmith named Paul Revere, destined to become famous for a different reason. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

She loved her city, worn out and crumbling though it was. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Augustus boasted that he found Rome a city of brick and left it one of marble; in Alexandria, history has taken a city of marble and left it one of tin, plaster, and tar paper. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Springfield, Illinois, is a small city and a great one. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“Go back to the city. Find out what’s going on there. Find a way to take Erudite down. Then maybe we can find out what Marcus was talking about, after this is all resolved. Okay?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton and his wife fell ill with the fever on September 5, and left the city. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

"I will command the City Watch to help you find iron. Melt down every horseshoe in this city if you must." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The air smells brighter, less like a city and more like a neighborhood. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The SS also forcibly removed Jews from their homes in the cities, towns, and surrounding countryside. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It primed the whole of America—not just a few rich architectural patrons—to think of cities in a way they never had before. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The jasmine plants were still the smell of the entire city of Isfahan to me, but that’s only because I mostly played in our backyard. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Then they put me back in the car and drove me to the city jail—the adult jail. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

What if they see us leaving the city? Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond the main boulevard, the city was a hodgepodge of medieval castle towers, Roman walls, limestone town houses with red-tiled roofs, and modern office buildings all crammed together. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He also let her keep Cyprus and included several thriving port cities and most of Judea’s coastline. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

The cap’n didn’t have to worry none ’bout me wanting to stay in the city; this place had already died and was jus’ a rotting corpse. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

But Chicago’s landowners wanted profit, and at the city’s center, profit meant height. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In French he says, “There will be a—a Wajfenruhe. Stopping in the fighting. At noon. So people can get out of the city. I can get you out.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Once she was outside the city, she would find berries to pick, or orchards she might raid for apples and cherries. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Before the British occupied the city, Stansbury taunted Patriots by singing “God Save the King,” urging them to join him in the chorus. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn my head and see the city of Portland below, Mount Hood in the distance. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It didn’t matter how big the city was, you could get anywhere without getting lost. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

According to the skeptics, Maya society was divided into a small number of blocs, each controlled by a dominant city, each striving to achieve some semblance of empire. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The city stepped up its efforts to remove garbage and began repaving alleys and streets. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

That’s why great former cities in states like Georgia are pretty much ghost towns these days. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

My father paused as well, then continued, “The city is your jurisdiction, sir. But we’ll perform either way. It will either be here or just outside the city limits.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The next day every newspaper in the city reported his arrival. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The city was suddenly separate, ripped from her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Down in the city, the gunmen fired off their guns. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

On Saturday night, April 6, it erupted, as firebombs exploded throughout the city. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Now it’s just a nice building with green-and-white awnings that the mayor calls a sign of “our city’s commitment to destination tourism.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

After all, obtaining reform through the city council or state legislature may seem unlikely, for black “criminals” are perhaps the most despised minority in the U.S. population. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Each city too had a public hearth sacred to Hestia, where the fire was never allowed to go out. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout the tapes, I’ll be mentioning several spots around our beloved city for you to visit. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Directly in front of us are a few of Baltimore's educated colored men, who teach at the city college for Negroes. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The Giant walked into the city hall building. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He actually discovered a coven of true vampires that lived hidden in the sewers of the city, only coming out by night to hunt. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Known for its art deco architecture and expansive boardwalk, the city had a proud tradition of hosting international tournaments. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Monterey is a city with a long and brilliant literary tradition. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe if she returned to the city in a month, starving and empty-handed, Dr. Cable would take mercy on her. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

People missed their pets, of course, and reports swiftly spread that the tiger was abroad in the heart of the city. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Claudette told of having been put into a car, handcuffed through the window, taken to city hall, and locked in an adult jail cell. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“Are you okay? That sidewalk! I’ve called the city three times.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Ton-Ton described the city so thoroughly, he seemed to have a map spread out in his mind. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day his parents left him with a sitter and took the P & W high-speed trolley into the city. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In cities up the river, it was mostly barges that you see tied up. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were so many distinguished-looking men in the park these days—statesmen, princes, architects, and the city’s industrial barons. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Like Vincent, he has spent much of his free time taking long walks into the countryside outside the city, past fields of wheat, inhaling the familiar aromas of hay and potatoes. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Assuming the High Septon had not put her to death by the time he got back to the city. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Of course, no doubt they’d seen the smoke and flames from down in the city and come to investigate. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The Allied plan of bombing the great cities of the Japanese mainland had continued all through our invasion of Okinawa. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know a soul still in the city, she realized. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

And finally: a siege would be necessary before the city would be in Grant’s hands. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hot spring that began in Orangeburg stretched into another hot summer, with angry protests flaring up both in the black community and before various city bodies. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the near distance the grey city wall arose. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He had business to attend to, and besides, he did not believe the illness ravaging his city was a contagious plague. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

They had time enough, on this brief tour, to touch only the larger cities. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

“There must be a fairy city as big as Albuquerque under that!” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The city was bigger than I thought it was. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I was surprised because every other part of her city was exactly like the real-life buildings. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

They were devastating and primarily leveled both cities, but little was told to the public then except that a new kind of bomb had been used against the Japanese. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The men descended on the large shoe store next to the city hall, shouting as they threw hundreds of pairs of shoes into the street. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

There were also some cities named after their founders: Alexandria after Alexander, Caesarea after Augustus Caesar, Constantinople after Constantine. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“This is a grave situation. Your city is bankrupt. Your streets are littered and filthy. Your homes are rundown and your industry is gone. Something must be done!” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the first six months of 1892 the city experienced nearly eight hundred violent deaths. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

‘I’m one of the best immigration lawyers in this city,” he says. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Amsterdam was a city designed for movement and activity, a city that would rather not travel by car, and so inevitably I felt excluded from it. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Far off to the east, beyond the city walls, he saw pale wings moving above a distant line of hills. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was drizzling, but even if there’d been no clouds the city sky was too tainted with light to show the stars. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I can hear ships at sea. Madrid. Brazil. London. I heard India once. Here at the edge of the city, so high in the house, we get superb reception.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He holds the pen on the point of the city. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He wrote to Giovanni Fogliani that, since he had been away from home for so long, he wanted both to come to see him and his city and to check his inheritance. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

“We were eight minutes away from the scheduled time of the bomb release when the city came into view,” recalled Paul Tibbets. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The professor was gone, the city was gone, and here she was under the beautiful stars—alone, alive. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

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

So he surrounded his capital city with a massive wall, about six kilometers long, whose remains stand to this day. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon hung high above the city as Prosper rushed out of the movie theater. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You remember how I told you about me and your mom meeting up in the city? About how happy we were?” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

And on the earth, in every direction, as far as the eye could reach, there spread a vast city in which there was no living thing to be seen. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Granny was planning her birthday luncheon in the city. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The others all left for the city and live there. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

What did I know of computers and television sets and other items of daily life in big cities? Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They must have climbed a long way up; Tally could see patches of moonlight rolling slowly across the low hills around the city, pushed along by the fight wind that barely tugged at the clouds. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Since such a tiny thing as a flower in a brown bowl at the library had thrilled her so, she expected that the great city of New York would thrill her a hundred times more. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without such a reprieve, we knew ourselves in constant danger if the city should be retaken. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Situated at 12,600 feet, it was the highest city in the ancient world. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

At lunch she hiked miles within the walled city, around curls and corners of tiny alleyways, up secretive staircases, along crowded thoroughfares smelling of oranges and rose water and damp, mopped stone. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

Sympathizers and mercenary captains smuggled fugitives into the city ports. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It would take place in cities as often as on battlefields, be fueled by ideas as much as by weapons, and engage cultures and economies as much as armies. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The city’s actions in this regard were only partly successful. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Sputnik was proof, American policymakers assumed, that the Soviet Union had intercontinental ballistic missiles—many of them, hundreds perhaps, with the power to hurl an atomic weapon at US cities. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Through what Kaz now understood had been an observation window, he saw another city guard standing in front of an empty table and two overturned chairs. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Dalian is impressive not just for a Chinese city. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

This room, small and cramped, sat at the rear of a house unfamiliar to Candice, a house in Lambert, South Carolina, a city she had no desire to be living in. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Not having lived in the city since childhood, he had little attachment to it. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The lights shining from the city’s many windows gave it a festive look, and Gregor felt his heart lightening a little. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m having trouble understanding why this place is preferable to city life,” I say. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Do you think I haven’t? He has left the city: nobody knows where he has gone.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Workers from the city were unloading tables underneath a pavilion—probably for the festival tomorrow. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

His half-finished house stood by the tamarind tree, the only trace left of the big man from the city who had tried to take over their island. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“And our city can stand a great deal of freedom, Tally. It gives youngsters room to play tricks, to develop their creativity and independence. But occasionally bad things come from outside the city.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

So they returned to the city and ate dinner in Times Square. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

By the mid-1920s, gangsters were ruling the roost in big cities like New York and Chicago. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“She came from the fringe, and they brought her here, and she lived here for a couple years, then went into the city to stop the Erudite from killing the Divergent.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The pile had been accumulating since 1917, and because the city received little rain to wash it down, it was enormous. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hizdahr’s blood is ancient and-noble. Our joining will join my freedmen to his people. When we become as one, so will our city.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The fact that there were any good wells at all within a day’s march of the city only went to prove that Daenerys Targaryen was still an innocent where siegecraft was concerned. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

At the same time, that very sweep is why the Maya collapse has fascinated archaeologists since the 1840s, when the outside world first learned of the abandoned cities in Yucatan. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The train slows as it reaches the heart of the city, and I sit up to watch the smaller buildings grow into larger buildings. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Taking a deep breath, I said, “Felt the same way in the city at night.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

They marched north, skirting the edge of the city, and headed to the Field of Mars—the largest, flattest part of the valley. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I took the city bus home, and the minute I walked into the kitchen, I saw the tape on the table. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been a squatter for almost fifteen years, and the city had finally decided to sell the apartments to her and the other squatters for one dollar apiece. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

I have to get back to the city. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then it’s an older white guy attacking “this wicked city” for its heretically inadequate contribution of souls to the revival—which costs money, you know, this tent didn’t just put itself up. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

People walked through the streets, different kinds of people than in the city. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Small at first, encompassing with my body, the room, the building, the city, the country, until I know that if I look down I will see my shadow blotting out the earth. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Others perch high on crumbling balconies to peer across the city. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Unmoored and uncertain, he’s drifted from city to city, apartment to apartment, job to job, anchored to the world by almost nothing. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The city, our city, is even closer to total destruction than it was before. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“This is our target. The Ridge. A heavily defended, fiercely guarded, fortified city high up inside Isihlangu.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Farmers still came to her court with burned bones, complaining of missing sheep, though Drogon had not returned to the city. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Because she wants the city to tear down our building and sell the land,” said Jake. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Up until now, I thought Lansing was a big city. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty-four years earlier, he had been the youngest mayor the city had ever elected. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

At a time when New York had become the safest big city in the country, it seemed hard to remember precisely what it was that Goetz had once symbolized. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Burnham loved Chicago for the opportunity it afforded, but he grew wary of the city itself. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He went down to the city instead, in search of naked women he wasn’t related to. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Az and I come from the same city as you. If we’d stayed, we might have been the ones to turn you pretty.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He had not seen her since he was sixteen years old, until a year before the birth of his son, when she appeared in his city. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carthage had been founded by a woman, Dido, who was still its ruler and under whom it was growing into a great and splendid city. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in the moonlight she could imagine people scrambling over flaming cars to escape the crumbling city, panicking in their flight from this untenable pile of metal and stone. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

A few weeks before, officials had announced which city would host the 1940 Games. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Go back to your bed, Sansa told herself, this is nothing that concerns you, just some new trouble out in the city. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They would ride to that crystal city where it is said that the fairies have their grandest palace, and she would know, at last, what Kathleen had known. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The city is also lit by gas lamps atop the Capitol dome. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a certain sense of camaraderie in the city, a feeling that we’re all in it together, no matter how different we might be. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

They hopped in Smith’s small Ford and took the drive to Regina, a big city that would be their home base. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

As Allied bombing continued on German cities, the duties of the Hitler Youth grew riskier, especially as the older Hitler Youth were called to military service. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

A stunned Mary Jackson wondered: was this what she and the rest of the black children in the city had been denied all these years? Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She keeps about enough to wipe out a city, Matt thought. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The city man looked faint, but Honor and Hunter had not only watched the common and counted-on birthings farm people see, but had tugged and twisted newborns from all sorts of canals. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a tiny city of its own, nicknamed Packingtown by Chicago’s residents. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Nok had walked every alley and floated down every canal in the entire city, some of them twice. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

As we walked along, I thought how the city had changed for me. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

"I'll tell you when I know. Schemes are like fruit, they require a certain ripening. Right now, I have a mind to ride through the streets and take the measure of this city." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The city’s aqueduct collapsed like a line of children’s blocks. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The bridge is beautiful at night, but it’s the city skyline that astonishes me every time I see it. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

She handed me the pencil and paper and the cities book, then said, “And when you’re done with the book bring it back and I have something special for you!” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Any city can have a Confraternity, only Limerick has the Arch. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

For you must know that much is still preserved of ancient lore among the Rulers of the city that is not spread abroad. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The fetid stench that had hung over the city for weeks was gone, replaced with brittle, pure air. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the carvings and stained-glass windows in European cathedrals, the art in San Lorenzo and other Olmec cities consisted mainly of powerful, recurring images—the crucifixions and virgins, so to speak, of ancient Mesoamerica. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“This city is a paradise, Tally. It feeds you, educates you, keeps you safe. It makes you pretty.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Of all the houses in the city, how come I hadda move in here? Tell me that.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The midsummer sky was already beginning to lighten in the east, and that was the way that Bod began to walk: down the hill, towards the living people, and the city, and the dawn. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Board of Education for the use of the Central High School auditorium, one of the city’s largest school auditoriums. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Here were the ruins of long-abandoned villages and fortresses, and the fruit and vegetable fields that supplied the city. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the north the nights are cold and the leaves are beginning to turn, but the city is still hot, still damp. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps Your Grace will recall me. I am Ser Theodan the True, and His High Holiness has given me command of your escort. My brothers and I will see you safely through the city.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A lot of people gave up on Newark, and the city became synonymous with urban decay, unemployment, and poverty. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Inevitably, someone repeated the verse from Zechariah that Denmark had quoted: “Behold, the day of the Lord cometh .... and the city shall be taken.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The al-Muflehs were a wealthy family in Amman, Jordan, a city of two million, set among nineteen hills and cooled by dry desert breezes. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The smoke hath cleared from the ruins of the city; we can perceive small people to be touring the empty lots and shells. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Along with the shouts of men and women, every dog in the city was barking alarm, pigs squealed underfoot, and occasionally a musket would fire, which led to shouted oaths and yelps. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one on top is a duo, a guy and girl with a bridge connecting the cities in their minds. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He * * Later that night, after the boys are asleep and the city is dark and quiet, Nino Carlitos bangs on my door. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The city dissolved in a shower of ancient glass and splintered quartz. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Heading inland, it is a short walk out of the city into a landscape that is reminiscent of his childhood in Zundert: fields and farms, windmills. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I’m still glad I’m going into the city.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He encouraged me and taught me how to approach people around our city and state and ask for their help. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And so she stood on the mountain, looking down at the emancipated city, and felt cheated by her inability to feel happy like everybody else. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Therefore, most of the city’s eighty physicians did not believe that the illness described by Rush was indeed yellow fever. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“It has in other cities when there was a tight election,” said Mrs. Brewer. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The camera glides over the cities of my past, capturing their energetic skylines just before they're destroyed by the terrorist's bomb or advancing alien warship. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Just a block of homes burning and sinking into the obsidian sea that had swallowed the city. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

This was the only way to get out of Freetown without being killed by the armed men and boys of the new government, who hated it when people left the city. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

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

In the tenth year we sacked the inner city, Priam’s town, and sailed for home; but heaven dispersed the Akhaians. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Minos of Crete laid siege to his city, but Nisus knew that no harm would come to it as long as he had the purple lock. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wrote the path of cities on my handkerchief in ink. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

They thought about farms and cities and factories. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

They say the hydrogen bomb makes no noise: there’s only a blinding white flash that strikes cities dead. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There it was, monster, in black and white, in a battered dictionary in a great city library. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It is worth quoting at length: As I entered through the so-called “gates of the Sun,” I was immediately confronted with the brilliant beauty of the city, and my eyes were filled with pleasure. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

He was captured on Route 1 an hour south of the city by moped. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“I told you, I don’t have until tomorrow night. I need to leave the city.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“They furl their sails at double-time, then off they go,” he said, “into the city like mice into grain.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Only once, when their connecting flight in London was delayed, did they leave Heathrow and take a double-decker bus tour of the city. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the city walls, they rode past guildhalls, markets, and bathhouses. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

White Citizens’ Councils were formed in almost every Southern city and backwater town, comprised primarily of middle- to upper-middle-class whites in business and the clergy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

As crack and guns flooded the cities and gangs battled over turf, the violent-crime rate for juveniles ages fifteen to seventeen doubled, as did the violent-crime rate for people ages eighteen to twenty. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was located about fifteen miles outside the city limits. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It offers views of the sea to the west; the cliffs below, all strung with entangling wire; and directly across the water, a half mile away, the burning city of Saint-Malo. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

During the fifth and fourth millennia BC, cities with tens of thousands of inhabitants sprouted in the Fertile Crescent, and each of these held sway over many nearby villages. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was an Abnegation leader. I was practically the leader of this entire city. People will rally behind me.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

By spring, Sairy had grown increasingly agitated by the loud noises of the city, with the screeching trucks and blaring horns and pounding jackhammers. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ann secretly took notes and fed the information to Fuller and others, who used it to challenge the city about these closed-door hearings. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

We clutched our only possessions—the bolts of cloth and bottles of vodka that Schindler had secured for us—and walked tentatively through the city toward our old neighborhood. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Summerland is a city on a hill, a place where people can raise their families without worrying about any of this nasty shambler business.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

For me it was just a temporary identity, powerful because it could get me out of the city. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the block it resumed a straight path that could be followed all the way across the city to the bay and Coit Tower on the other side. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

We arrived around sunset, and already there were more electric lights burning in the city than I’d ever seen at one time. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

They were people of the desert, and clamored to hear his stories about the great cities. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

"And I said I wanted to live in the country and in the city both?" The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He started dividing the satyrs into groups—which ones would go to the national parks, which ones would search out the last wild places, which ones would defend the parks in big cities. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I doubted there was enough for a city block, let alone the whole island. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

You never heard if ideas were better in another city, only if they were worse. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

General Gage had ordered that no bells were to be rung for funerals, for fear the rebels should know how sickly lay the city. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

We’re canceling our plans to run around the city so Arthur can be a Super Tourist, and he’s just going to help me study instead. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

There was no officer who had captured the city, so they gave the medal to General Peckem instead, because General Peckem was the only officer with suffident initiative to ask for it. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“And why would the Romans want peace,” Reyna asked, “after your ship attacked our city?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I had hardly left the city when I ran over a large snake slithering across the road. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Otherwise, miles of farmland surrounded Hatfield, even though it was less than an hour away from a major American city. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Still, I am already moving toward it, part of me eager for a chance to move again, instead of standing frozen before the surveillance footage of our city, as I have been. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

But if the city was alive, then he could expect to be drawn and quartered and fed in pieces to the carrion birds. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“You would do well to take it seriously. Its actions may determine the future of this city.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Its temples and villas, enveloped in thick tropical forest, were as close to a lost city as we would ever be likely to see. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

As all this was taking place, deaths in the city increased, from nineteen on September 1 to forty-two on September 8. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The windows zoom in and out on parts of the city at my command. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Several minutes went by, and then another boom rattled windows and shook houses in the city. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The city had transformed in more ways than one. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Kinshasa was a sprawling city of ten million, and if we headed west we’d be sure to hit some part of it. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

‘The Spartans didn’t chain Ares because they wanted his spirit to stay in their city.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Grandfather left for his constitutional stroll around the city, but I was not allowed to join him. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After he began to venture into the city, he took driving lessons. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The ones who built their cities over our graveyards and palaces. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“She was responsible for helping the city council pass that domestic-violence initiative in the spring.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The city tried to paint him as a silver-tongued outsider who never rode the bus in Montgomery himself but knew just how to make everyone who did feel unhappy. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

I saw the outlines, patterns this city must have taken. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if they had wandered away and were now lost in the city, with its busy, dangerous streets and large, succulent population of pigeons? The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

At the time of the vote, with the city’s pride at stake, all Chicago had sung with one voice. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I did not see the meeting that Uncle and some of the elders had with the demons who ran the city. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I start calling around to motels again, now ranging even farther out from the city, into the northern towns, the western towns, St. Paul. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he filled their shells with beer, Lefty learned what was going on in the city outside. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He reported that earlier in the day the rebel Fourth Armored Division had seized the airport and key intersections in the city. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“But you still get to come with us and cheer us on and tour the city.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

This is definitely a thing in my city: honoring somebody by renaming a street after them. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

That might have been that if only, some days afterward, the thieves hadn’t ignored a traffic signal in the city of Saint Joseph, Missouri. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the other students at Kabarak lived in the big cities; they’d be home within four or five hours of school closing. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is this your first time in the city, and are you guys enjoying the beautiful snowfall?” the taxi driver asked. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She floated on the ripe blue cloud an artist had painted crowning a yellow city. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t matter who finds it, as long as it helps the city.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her family was headed to her grandparents’ farm outside the city of Hiroshima, and she’d been hearing for months that a single big bomb had been dropped there and destroyed the city. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Of course being a city boy, I didn’t know what a mile was, but it felt like a mile. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was the most expensive high school in the city and one of the most selective. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the early 1900s, there were more than 1,300 known gangs with more than 25,000 members blanketing the city. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And as she gazed, the image of a city seemed to form itself behind the veils and streams of translucent color: towers and domes, honey-colored temples and colonnades, broad boulevards and sunlit parkland. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Civilization came to the people, and Cuzco was the center of it all, a thriving city of nobles and priests. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The handful of millennia separating the Agricultural Revolution from the appearance of cities, kingdoms and empires was not enough time to allow an instinct for mass cooperation to evolve. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her mind’s eye, she saw herself running through the streets of the city in a red jacket. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

"My parents grew up in this city, remember? My mother and I always talked in Kannada—especially when we didn't want others listening to us in jail." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Now the residents of the city forged an American dream of steel girders, fashioning opportunity with fire and iron. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Within a week, the protests, inspired by the nonviolent actions of India’s Mahatma Gandhi, spread to other cities in North Carolina, and then crossed the borders into Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“This will let us see what’s going on across the city,” she said. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Curtis was still convinced that neither the city nor any of its citizens was in danger. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Or when I heard the azan ring out across the city. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

After 1919, the next large-scale unrest exploded nearly a half century later, when blacks took to the streets in cities across the country during the civil rights movement. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was the only part of the city that maintained a curfew; after sunset, it was closed to the public. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

But by and large, C.P. found that “the doors of city hall were just about open to us. Nobody shut the door in our face.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The tests amply confirmed the city’s antiquity: it was founded before 2600 b.c. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Even when they are not there, when whole city blocks downtown and acres of lawned neighborhoods in Sag Harbor cannot see them, the clicking is there. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We drove into the city in a cold and private silence. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here, he felt that he was shut away from all other people, from towns and cities and school and home. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

If Durham was so different from other Southern cities, so liberal on racial issues, so prosperous for both blacks and whites, then what was the meaning of Hayti? The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

About this time, Marian was invited to join the People’s Chorus, made up of a hundred voices recruited from black church choirs all over the city. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“This was not as bad as a city ghetto with barbed wire, but we were very crowded and we had little food,” Jack said. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Like the street he lived on, recorded as Mains Avenue, but called Not Doctor Street by the Negroes in memory of his grandfather, who was the first colored man of consequence in that city. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

A checkered flag waves and our cars speed off, zipping down virtual city streets and jumping over police cars. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“No one allowed in or out of the city.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

But some city leaders made an effort to step up in new ways. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Everyone knew there was no need to call the city fire department, which would have had all the equipment needed to put out the fire quickly and take care of Grandma. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Michaels had grown up in Brooklyn and, more than most officers from the city, considered the inmates to be basically decent guys, his “homies.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We live on the corner in a little brown house that’s about five blocks from the train station and forty-five minutes from the big city. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“The point of the march was to inspire the whole city to join us,” said the educated man. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“You’ve always known that the Dauntless observe the city with security cameras,” David says. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Was the mayor of Baltimore, since the city is no more.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Behind them, the heads of Serra's Illustrian houses stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the city’s top military brass. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

His face looked like one of those fallen Martian cities, caved in, sucked dry, almost dead. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here is a place on the river like the one you told me about. Listen—instead of the noise of the city, you can hear the wind through the trees. And there.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Rows of tiny windows looked out over the city on one side and the river on the other. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“And tomorrow, at the start of the Singing,” said Doon, “we’ll stand up in Harken Square and tell the whole city.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And personal astrology is with us still: consider two different newspaper astrology columns published in the same city on the same day. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the firm grew, so did the city. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

A single city guard stood at attention beside the door as Van Eck slid a key from his pocket and into the heavy lock. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She leads me to a blank metal door with 308A on it—I wonder what it was used for when our city didn’t require so many cells. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

There was nothing to do about the problem, so he gritted his teeth and felt his belly grind on emptiness and promised himself he would scavenge a feast when they arrived in the drowned city. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He described to her the green wheat fields of Herat, the orchards, the vines pregnant with plump grapes, the city’s crowded, vaulted bazaars. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Because the Black Cat clue had led them to a San Francisco location, maybe this clue was meant to lead them to another spot in the city. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He searched his pockets, the money was there, and in his other pocket he found the usual Seashell upon which the city was talking to itself in the cold black morning. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Skylarks sang in the fields around them, but every night the air raid sirens wailed in the darkness as the Luftwaffe planes tried to bomb the nearby city. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

But on the seventh day, Tehlu drew near before Encanis could bring his power to bear and the seventh city was saved. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A new candidate appeared, the man who would become the city’s first African American mayor, Coleman A. Young. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In Miami, the sounds of cars filled the air, but I couldn't get the pulse of the city. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Wasn’t he there at the request of a city official, after all? The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The first was my mother in colored pencil, in her city house kitchen and her late-forties dress. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When we first get to cities my brother and I go to the bathroom a lot, and drop things in as well, such as pieces of macaroni, to see them disappear. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

My father went to work every day dressed in the blue uniform of a city laborer, but at night he showed us what it meant to love jazz and art. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Let me impale her, end her voyage, and end all ocean-crossing with passengers, then heave a mass of mountain in a ring around the city.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1990, Peralta was in the vanguard of Mexican immigrants who bypassed the traditional barrios in border states to work in far-flung cities like Denver and New York. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s not difficult to find people in America. I bought a map of the U.S., and called up information for cities in Northern California,” he said. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A much bigger city, La Venta, was going up on a swamp island about forty miles away. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The outer city was in darkness, and below her, the low, brown buildings of Special Circumstances were lit only with the harsh glare of security lights. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He had entered the city room through the double doors. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad took me on a ferry and we climbed up behind Liberty’s eyes and looked out over the river, the city, the beginning of things. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like my father, she works for the government, but she manages city improvement projects. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

In a little over twelve hours, they were sneaking the orphans out of the city. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

We just wanted to be present so we wouldn’t miss the trips to the city. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

In their city of New Rome, veterans of the legion could settle down safely, go to college, get married, even have kids. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

At her words I see the two-pronged Hub as small as a toy in the distance, the jagged line of our city interrupting the sea of concrete. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

That was the last that was ever heard from the forbidden city, the unseen city, the lost city, and this was the mystery that had opened Lazlo’s mind like a door. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Every newspaper in the city, other than his own Times, opposed Harrison, as did Burnham and most of Chicago’s leading citizens. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Why not?” she said, watching the dark spaces of the city’s largest pleasure garden. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Esteban was at the wheel, his heart contracted, as they searched for Father Antonio’s old church in the poor quarters of the city where he hadn’t been in years. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The entry is a waterfall. What is with this city and its weird front doors?” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The clothes showed me what it was that this impressive, massive city lacked: elegance. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Thirteen thousand students in the three cities that had moved forward with integration—Front Royal, Charlottesville, and Norfolk—found themselves sitting at home in the fall of 1958. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

And he could picture her as he had seen her so often, standing before the city council, righteous and indignant, like a black Moses before Pharaoh, commanding, “Let my people go!” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

One picture showed a scene in which the people of the city greeted her when she arrived—the first person they had ever seen to come from elsewhere. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It seems all the cities I have heard of, except Shanghai, have changed their spellings. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those beliefs still lingered when I was a child, even in cities like Juba. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He closed it and opened another: the smoke-laden air over an industrial city, with a line of chained and sullen workers trudging into a factory. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know, man. You don’t want to make enemies out of those guys. I hear Felix’s parents are some big-time lawyers with a huge office in the city.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

In some ways the hunt had returned to their city, but no one argued with them. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

As for the name of the vanished city, it had vanished, too. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Maybe weapons weren’t allowed inside the city, but Reyna’s pets could still tear her to pieces if they chose. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Ms. Ofrah said they would be leading protests around the city if the grand jury didn’t indict. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Smeath was a transplant to the city, from somewhere a lot smaller. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“When it was set loose, it ranged everywhere, from the mountains and plains to the towns and cities; rivers and oceans never stopped it.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

When dawn broke over the city, the dark red blooms of dragon's breath surrounded the girls where they lay. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t wait to tell Moniba: America is a very nice place, but it was just as loud and crowded as other cities I’ve seen, with its honking horns and people rushing here and there. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Well can it be imagined that my view of the city was rosy in hue. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Large majorities of black men in cities across the United States are once again subject to legalized discrimination effectively barring them from full integration into mainstream, white society. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I woke at midnight when all the bells in the city started ringing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

If we could break the back of segregation in our city, it would send a strong message to the rest of the nation. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The low, mournful hooting of sauropods sounded across the city as Magdalys rounded the corner. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

As the transport rolled deeper into the city’s skyscraper core, I saw people clustered on every street corner and in every vacant lot, huddled around burning barrels and portable fuel-cell heaters. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He applied to the city for a gun permit. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Levittown is not technically a city or any kind of municipality. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

We speed past hills and shoot through the tunnel that launches us back into the city. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

There were the hornbeam trees a little way ahead of them; there were houses, trees, roads, and in the distance the towers and spires of the city. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slammed the window shut against the noise and heard more explosions in the distance, a billow of smoke rising up over the city. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I daresay I have learned almost as much in the streets of the city as I have in the classroom and on the practice field. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Various cities had been circled with lines drawn between them to indicate my parents’ travels, and the place of their birth, Calcutta, was signified by a small silver star. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

In the distance, near the city center, spires of midnight black and dream silver stood proudly next to ivory domes and marble castles. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

When they moved into the Rookery at La Salle and Adams, a gorgeous light-filled structure of Root’s design, they saw views of the lake and city that no one but construction workers had seen before. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But on that same day a Norwegian tanker, headed for Willemstad, was torpedoed off Curacao, and fear again swept over the old city. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, Manhattan’s a big city, with not much gardening space.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The goods— belonging to migrant workers living alone in the city—were being sent to wives back in the tribal reserve. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They made their way to the outer rim of the dreaming dead city in the light of the racing twin moons. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t like the idea of my living in the city. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The shower of rocks that fell on the city was seen by large numbers of academics and by English noblemen. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Some places in the city are not like that. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“The girls are new to the city, and they deserve to see something nice after all the hard work.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

From their habit of strolling around the campus of a great university or through the streets of the city while discussing such issues, the old school of ‘scientific’ philosophy was known as the peripatetic school. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

They still had to navigate Columbus Circle and walk a mile’s worth of city streets. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Children sent out to herd goats were snapped up by evil traders, loaded onto camels and taken to far cities where they suffered horribly. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

McKissick announced that beginning the next day, the city would see thirty straight days of similar demonstrations. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Still, the idea of attempting to release nuclear energy in the middle of a city of three million made Groves very nervous. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could look out then and see the city of Oakland lying stretched out at the foot of our hill, all the houses looking like toy blocks. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

As well-off citizens closed their businesses and fled the city, they left behind thousands of individuals without any source of income. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

As I came to know Alexandria in my brief time there, I saw that something more important—the business of life—has not disappeared from the city. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Harrison’s murder fell upon the city like a heavy curtain. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In 1967, when my parents were teens, the Newark riots broke out, and the city burned with rage. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Conservatives argued that, having welcomed blacks migrating from the South, these cities “were repaid with crime-ridden slums and black discontent.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

And now that he’s once again living in the same city as I do, the custody rules have changed. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Was there not some wish that he might honor his brother, his family, his God, by doing all he could, by circling the city looking for opportunities to do good? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Governments being overthrown, cities rioting—they were beyond his comprehension. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Surely I could ride a ferry to the city and back again. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

How long she stayed there she could not have said, but after a time she heard a bell ringing, far off across the city. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Kira followed the scenes with her hand as larger and greater cities appeared and larger, greater destruction took place. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After insisting her parents leave the house, she guided the group out of the city and into the empty prairie where their possessions had been left. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

It just wasn’t the same place, and yet each of us was honest, neither one a liar, both pretty good observers by any standard, and we brought home two cities, two truths. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Will we soon be in the city, Mamma?” she asked, rubbing her chilled nose, and watching with interest as the patch of moisture which her breath had formed on the pane shrank slowly and vanished. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Down in the city, the buildings were stone, intricately carved with scenes from the natural world and the mythic one. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Maybe if she went to another city... or found the rangers again and told them that she wanted to volunteer, they’d make her pretty. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The flood was carrying them inexorably into the city, but not smoothly or easily, because the buildings broke up the flow and made the water seethe and surge with turbulence. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The news was terrible: Cars were backed up for hundreds of miles on roads leading out of the city. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

But gradually the boulevard climbed out of the heart of the city, and as they left the crowds behind, the whispering faded. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The driver drops him off outside the city, near its airport, just past the Motel California. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The winner would collect a prize of five hundred dollars and the quilt would hang for a year in city hall. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Hornet read for nearly an hour, while the night outside grew darker and all those who had filled the city with noise during the day were long in their beds. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then came the winds, cold and raw, ripping through the city. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

They pushed open the door just in time to hear the customer say, “You said the Welty would be in! I came all the way across the city.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Moreover, the city's Western sector had only a month's worth of food and fuel supplies. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In a way, it was like this city was built for my brother. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Its northern terminus is the city of Chicago. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

His parents seldom spoke to each other for long, even though Mr. Miller had moved from his city apartment to be closer to the Byrds’ home. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Native San Franciscans, possessive of the city, had to cope with an influx, not of awed respectful tourists but of raucous unsophisticated provincials. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The city had evolved since I had last seen it, during those impoverished years when we lived in Rwanda after the massacre. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He remembered his trip to the city two years before, his delight in the pedestrian pigeons strolling, nodding up and down the sidewalks right along with the people. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“There’s city pools in Brooklyn. But I’ve never been,” Jay says wearily. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I knew it was the wrong exit, but I took it anyway, and without Daisy even telling me to, I got in the right lane to drive back into the city, toward my house. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It occurred to me that an ugly, used lute might not sell very well in a city full of nobility and prosperous musicians. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His informers updated him about relevant items on the agendas of various city and county boards. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

At one point, city leaders started sending food and other supplies into the black districts, whose residents, after days of burnings, lootings, and shootings, were in a state of near starvation. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“But how will we find them? I’ve never been inside a city, but I hear they*re pretty big. More than a million people.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

As part of the new attention being paid to me I had to report to someone at a city bureau for an interview. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was dangerous work, for Nazi informers lurked everywhere in Hamburg, just as they did in every other German city, where neighbors spied on neighbors. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The city hanging there so empty and silent looked new-made, waiting to be occupied; or asleep, waiting to be woken. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Other cities came to Daniel Burnham for citywide plans, among them Fort Worth, Atlantic City, and St. Louis, but he turned them down to concentrate on his last plan, for the city of Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Monte Testaccio, the hill of broken pots southeast of Rome, was a garbage dump for the entire imperial city. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Tally, Ryde, Croy, and Astrix made contact with the city uglies, starting new rumors, teaching new tricks, and offering glimpses of the ancient magazines the Boss had salvaged from the Smoke. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The city of Anaheim started to recruit defense contractors, eventually persuading Northrop, Boeing, and North American Aviation to build factories there. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

Milwaukee put three steamers and their crews onboard a train, leaving that city with only one working engine. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Can you get us to the road out of the city?” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

On June 30, 1975, when North Vietnamese troops crashed through the gates of the presidential palace in Saigon and raised their flag above the city, Lyndon Johnson lay in a Texas cemetery. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In the city, rain is an inconvenience; to a traveler it is a catastrophe. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The police killings triggered a four-day general strike, and sailors and workers throughout the city joined the shutdown. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

We stare at the cloud of runners, sneakers hitting the cracked asphalt of the city street with a steady rhythm. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Instead of creeping stealthily down an unfamiliar street surrounded by unfamiliar buildings while trying to steal the most valuable treasure in an unfamiliar city, guess what I was doing? Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Thousands of men and women wore buttons that said “Our Carter” and watched in silence as, carriage by carriage, the city’s greatest men drove past. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He galloped toward the Navy Yard Bridge that led out of the city and into Maryland. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Acre wasn’t part of the tour for foreign dignitaries who came to view the splendor of Lowell—the model factory city of the New World. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“But the same social system that exists in the cities also exists in the compound; it’s just a little harder to see.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“All men must die,” said Hizdahr, “but not all can die in glory, with the cheers of the city ringing in their ears.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The names we’ll give to the canals and mountains and cities will fall like so much water on the back of a mallard. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Do you think that cities have the right to limit the number of pets per household? Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Matilde was no good at climbing trees since she lived in the city. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can see the sea that encircles the island and beyond it, the bright lights of human cities and towns through the ever-present mist. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Tension and fear continued to stalk our city. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They employed it to build taller and taller buildings, cities in the sky inhabited by a new race of businessmen, whom some called “cliff-dwellers.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

So did Tenochtitlan and the other cities in the Triple Alliance. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Officially, four occupying powers divided the city into Soviet, American, British, and French sectors. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered which city this was, and if I’d been here before, before— I gritted my teeth and forced myself to think of other things. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Shortly before eight o’clock his son left the dining room to go up to his room and dress for an engagement in the city later that night. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Dany was thirteen, old enough to know that such gifts seldom come without their price, here in the free city of Pentos. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It must have splintered many of the city’s wood-and-plaster buildings; fallen torches and scattered cooking fires would have ignited the debris, burning down most surviving structures. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But the view was perpetually bleak, and each decaying, overcrowded city we rolled through looked just like the last. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Nearly one-quarter of America’s city dwellers live in poverty. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And then both of us would wind up building cities in the storage room. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Chattana was a city built on water, with canals serving the place of roads. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The Tiber was Rome’s river, on which the city depended for water—for life itself—and as such, of course, was sacred. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Esteban went back into town and sent a telegram to the city. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

New York Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winner Harrison Salisbury came to my city to investigate the stories of racial violence; he wanted to find out if the rumors were really true. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

For these blessings and to help insure that He would continue to favor them, the city of Chutreaux wished to thank God. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

He spent his youth, however, in his mother’s home, a city in southern Greece. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And here in the city, there were thousands—no, millions—of them. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

For me, today was just another first day of school in another new city, so I did what I always did when I showed up at a new school: I didn’t look at people. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

They arrived in the city during a snowstorm, and one hotel after another turned the three women away because they did not have a male escort. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

And before that, just an idea someone had for the making of a city. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

A tall lord with copper skin and silver-gold hair stood beneath the banner of a fiery stallion, a burning city behind him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

One time, the girl remembered, the Sailor’s Wife had walked her rounds with her and told her tales of the city’s stranger gods. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Altogether, about three thousand Black Muslims from their mosques in most sizable cities were in Chicago for their annual “Saviour’s Day” convention, regarded by them as similar to the holiday of Christmas. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was magnificent, reverent, and like no other place in all the city. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“And speaking of your brother Nico, you don’t have much time. Let’s see...it’s June twenty-fifth? Yes, after today, six more days. Then he dies, along with the entire city of Rome.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He had told Cersei he intended to take the measure of the city. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I remember, as the last forests fell... at about that time, we would see hawks and eagles in the cities. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Capitol forces fell back and have regrouped farther into the city. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

You saw black men in the cities but they kept to themselves. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She considered her situation: she and her baby were penniless in the city, where she knew no one but her husband. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

General subsidence of the waterfront, combined with a rise in elevation inland, have erased the city’s original oudines. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

I shared with my family a language that was startlingjy different from that used in the great city around us. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has written mysterious things on the lines that he draws between cities. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Despite the fact that I was seldom there, it was good to know there was one place in the city where I wouldn’t be kicked at, chased, or spit on. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In London, where the river Thames arches away from the city near Belgravia, one might begin a walk at Vincent Square, the trapezoid-shaped park that abuts the office of the Royal Horticultural Society. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

We lived on a Sea Island called Wadmalaw, about twenty miles from Charleston, the biggest city in South Carolina, and our house was right on the water, next to the salt marsh. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Moses said, “Everything is different. Paris, that’s a big city—” “Bigger than Marshall?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those were not easy times, in that city; the signs of disquiet were everywhere apparent. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Encircled by her army of angels, she drifted across the avenue to photograph a juggler, while I hobbled off toward home, a clear outsider in a city I'd foolishly thought to call my own. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“You have been in the same city as I on so many occasions, and yet this is the first time you have asked to meet. Why is that?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

With that he turned away and went with Pippin down towards the lower city. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

They look like an older version of the Khmer Rouge soldiers that stormed into our city, except they do not carry guns. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat on the roof, watching the movement of the helicopters circling and swooping over the rest of the city. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The others screamed, too, not because a girl was dead, but because the girl was blue, and this meant something in the city of Weep. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Monclova looked as beautiful and as cultured as any large city in the United States. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“One: the original. Sometimes it goes on display at city hall. Two: the one given to the winner. Three: held in reserve in case crown number two goes missing.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Birmingham was considered the most segregated city in the South. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In a village near the city, they found a displaced persons’ camp set up at a former military base to provide temporary shelter and help for war victims and refugees. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Markets in the city were booming with abundant supplies of dried, fresh, and processed foods, including milled rice, tofu, crackers, cakes, and meat. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The actual city of Alpharetta covers only twenty-three square miles in the northern half of Fulton County, but many subdivisions in adjoining unincorporated areas, like Medlock Bridge, carry Alpharetta zip codes. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The nasty weather that had assaulted Seattle since the previous October finally broke, though not before spitting a late spring snowstorm at the city for good measure on March 21. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“No, not a farmer. A storekeeper buys it all from the farmers, and sells it to the city people.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rim arced through the sky at a height of 264 feet, as high as the topmost occupied floor in Burnham’s Masonic Temple, the city’s tallest skyscraper. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

On December 6, Soviet soldiers began to push the frozen and exhausted German troops away from the city. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Meereen and Yunkai have made peace.. The siege is to be lifted, the armies disbanded. There will be no battle, no slaughter, no city to sack and plunder.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He looked behind him frequently as they made their way through the crowded city streets. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She’d wanted to leave the city as much as Tally wanted to be pretty. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

In between, it chugs through the lush rolling hills of Mississippi, through mile after mile of cotton fields and pine forests, past towns and small cities dotting the landscape. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Who knows when some slight shock, disturbing the delicate balance between social order and thirsty aspiration, shall send the skyscrapers in our cities toppling? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Time burned up while we lay there, caught in the sparks that flew overhead, swallowed by the noise of a city ablaze. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they veered sideways over the city of Regalia, Gregor was reminded of the gravity of their task by the manic activity below. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Anya could see out of the city, out to the Dnieper and the forest, both tinted orange in the setting sun’s light. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Yellow fever,’’ he predicted, “will discourage the growth of great cities in the nation.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Your brother and I were defending a union supply area at Milliken’s Bend as part of General Grant’s siege of the nearby city of Vicksburg. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

This was what soothed her as she sank deeper under the city. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Close to 46 percent of the city's children were living below the federal poverty level. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The Reverend Mr. Helmuth was pondering “this unmerciful enemy” as he made his way through the city. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Sharing a cyclo with her, we weave around the city as the driver maneuvers us through the traffic. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“These two girls volunteered to bring provisions to the city,” Marcus says, “and I volunteered to escort them so that they would be safe.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

"Then the honest men of the city owe Timett a debt of gratitude. I shall see that he has the king's thanks." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

One wants to respect cultural differences, but the effect here is dismaying—the city that gave us Cleopatra now obliges women to hide their faces. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Overlooking the entire city was a watchman in the cupola of the Courthouse, one hundred feet above the ground. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Our other plan was to bomb Japan’s cities and factories. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Some people walk through a game park—that’s best, but Father would never agree to it. I can get one by traveling across the city, though.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

My parents and my sister and I have, once more, come up from under the city in the wrong place. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

It’s evening now, and I’m driving into the city. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Six years would slide by during which little construction went on in the city. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps it was abandoned and sacked for religious reasons—archaeologists have advanced several hypotheses for the city’s demise. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He could free the city from its shadow now, and Sarai from her prison. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

So, even though it was not tradition, after her husband died, the woman went to live with her newly married daughter in the city. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

They learned how to take a city bus back and forth. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Your grandma started the festival when she was city manager. She always saw it as one of her best achievements.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The vacation was over and the Truebas returned to the city laden with jars of candy, preserves, boxes of fruit, cheese, pickled chicken and rabbit, and baskets full of eggs. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In our city of Isfahan, they were the shadows on every wall. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

His plan was to leave a single Greek behind in the deserted camp, primed with a tale calculated to make the Trojans draw the horse into the city—and without investigating it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I consider men who always need the protection of others to be those who cannot meet their enemy in the field, but must seek refuge behind their city walls and defend them. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

With enthusiasm, most newly arrived migrants set out to become a respected part of their adopted city. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I know she doesn’t have the same love for me right now after I sneaked Alan away from her and brought him into the city, where airstrikes and barrel bombs scorch through the sky. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Only after the exposition had Burnham and his colleagues learned of the anguished letters describing daughters who had come to the city and then fallen silent. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

We had to meet at city hall to get our marriage license on a Saturday because we both worked during the week. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coolidge had no interest in hearing suggestions that might have avoided such a strike or putting plans in place to patrol the city should it be without police protection. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I squeeze my body closer to Keav as the world moves in hurried confusion from the city. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Makeshift tents, no longer confined to the poor areas, sprout all over the city. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we arrive, I see that the city is doing pretty well — it’s even got an outdoor cafe with real espresso drinks! Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Newspapers reported that even in Bristol, a port city with a harbor filled with slave ships, “the popular sentiment has been very strongly expressed against the continuance of that traffick in human flesh.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

If they did not, he took their cities, wealth and wives and all. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His city was constructed on a lavish scale, to be the world center of commerce, culture and learning. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baba and I had driven over the summit countless times on our way to Jalalabad, the city of cypress trees and sugarcane fields where Afghans vacationed in the winter. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But it did seem possible that in the city, she hadn’t wanted to take in the fumes and gases, everyone else’s exhaust; that air was like garbage air. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But the hills are so pretty. Mostly, with small out-of-the-way towns like this one, you’ll find city people who have come and built themselves homes up in the hills. For privacy.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to picture it: a child half my age, earning his keep, roaming the city, his home wherever he was at the moment, his life entirely in his own hands. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

My goal was to wreak havoc not only on the Allens, but the entire city. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

His correctness grew on him as we neared the city. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Each one tried to outdo the other, and they worked so hard and diligently at it that before long their cities rivaled even Wisdom in size and grandeur. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you think that will matter? Do you remember the men of the city? Do you think your explanation will help?” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole city had become a fantastic jigsaw puzzle and he knew he only had seconds to piece it together. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

In some mysterious way, it turned the running of the river into power for the city. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Two weeks after we left for the cottage we were back in the city. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“The city is certainly going down when that’s out on the streets,” a woman said as Ignatius waddled off down the alley. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above them a city of white stone towers — so tall she could not see their rooftops — rose to the blue sky. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Law enforcement officers generally have no personal resources to pay damages to victims of misconduct, so the city, county, or agency that employs them is typically the target of any civil action that seeks compensation. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

On the north bank of the river the city of Lisbon rose on the hills. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dany took the warlock's words well salted, but the magnificence of the great city was not to be denied. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They repeated Mayor Nagin’s assertion that the city had devolved into an “animalistic state.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The Paqo explained to me, “The runners deliver fish from the ocean all the way to the capital city. The emperor enjoys eating freshly caught fish at least once a day.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The city lives by slogans, isms, and fast sure answers. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

By the time Pong finally reached the city his knuckles and back teeth ached from keeping them clenched so tightly against the vibrations of Somkit's supermotor. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I also remember that my father was one of the people who voted to get the Dauntless out of the factionless sector of the city. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

"We never come into the city," I tell Max. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“The original purpose—you mean, what was in the Edith Prior video? That we should send people outside when the city has a large Divergent population?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Through the city of cars I spy one, a red jeep. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

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

We decide to follow the railroad tracks to the city, because none of us is good at navigation. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

They had this huge 3-D sim game where you build your own city, and you could actually see the holographic buildings rise on the display board. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

And he is in the dying city, crumbling into dust like an elemental fiend. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The city manager was a chum of Keith and High, and C.P. accompanied the two on several visits to his office. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re just so ... good at all this. So confident It makes me nervous just being inside city limits.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

In a way, it reminded her of Lake Michigan when they lived in Chicago, with a city view in one direction and a tranquil spread of water in the other. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Dr. King’s murder caused immediate riots in more than one hundred cities across the United States. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“No one expected Category Six hurricanes. They didn’t have city killers then. The climate changed. The weather shifted. They did not anticipate well.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was nothing which the appetite of man might desire that was not to be found upon the streets of the markets of that city. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Spain saw this arrangement as a buffer to its North American holdings, which at the time included the lower Mississippi and the city of New Orleans. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The city was as silent as I’d ever heard it, only the rumble of a train in the distance. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

In this city that, brilliantly, couldn’t care less about me. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

If it was safe in the city, as he promised, then why did he look like that, and why did he not come with them? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“The use of a second bomb the same week,” he said, “was calculated to indicate that we had an endless supply of this super weapon for use against one Japanese city after another.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, one would say that in this city there could be none who starved. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I am used to kids seeking my attention and friendship in the city. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All those pageants — local, city, state. The car rides with my hair in rollers,” Shanti echoed. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Nearly every city I know has such a dying mother of violence and despair where at night the brightness of the street lamps is sucked away and policemen walk in pairs. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Elberon and major cities, the word had spread the night before. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He had fled the city just before the storm and had been staying in Baton Rouge. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“We had these highly motivated individuals—radar operators and pilots—who would miss attacks or drop bombs on the wrong cities. Why did they fail?” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She had left me alone in this city as if she were dropping a kitten down a well. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

In one section of the city, a gang piled mattresses, barrels, and boxes on the trolley car tracks and set them afire. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

She got married in-stead and moved away to a pretty house outside the city. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You used to live in a city full of pretties. When you became doctors, your lesions went away. Didn’t you notice that you were changing?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

In 1936, a delegation headed by the Parrish Street Gang petitioned the city for a twelfth grade at all-black Hillside Park High School. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had sent Hippolytus away while still a young child to be brought up in the southern city where Theseus had spent his own youth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was Saturday, and traffic was heavy going into the city. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Bolted to the back of each seat, behind a square sheet of Plexiglas, is a map of all the city’s bus routes. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

It was not like the pavement used in any human city; this was white stone, perfectly cut in long rectangles. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Even if Lambert was “progressive” now, though, could her father say the same about the city when the Washingtons lived there, whoever they were? The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Wherever the climate was warm and large groups of people assembled, whether living in established cities or in tents during military campaigns, yellow fever took its toll. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The city lights obscured the stars, but on clear nights, I could see Venus on the horizon, up over the dark water, glowing steadily. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually our cities may find it necessary to reorganize their police on the pattern of the state police. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though he was reluctant to come, Vincent loves his new city. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“It could be like when we were uglies, playing tricks. But telling the whole city the truth.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Beyond the city it reappeared and continued its tumultuous journey eastward and away. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you do a sweep of the city? Check the defenses. See who’s left in Olympus. Meet Annabeth and me back here in thirty minutes.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The city is pitch-black, but even if it wasn’t, I wouldn’t be able to see very far. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

When the people of the Norte Chico were building these cities, there was only one other urban complex on earth: Sumer. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Had he mentioned that he hated this side of the city? The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“You, my sweet, innocent children, are going to deliver this precious cargo to the fine establishments of our fair city. In your charming wagon, of course.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What do you think now? Do you think we should leave the city?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Both city and county police had been crisscrossing their jurisdictions, looking for any sign of Wes and Tony. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

As the city’s streets cross St. Charles Avenue and enter this neighborhood, they gradually change from asphalt to gravel. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not going to be chased out of my city by a vague threat,” he replies. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He had his generals get to work on a springtime plan for crushing the Red Army near the city of Kursk, and hoped to get to Moscow that way. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Soldiers crawled over the city walls like ants with torches, and crowded the hoardings that had sprouted from the ramparts. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Whatever the cop's talking about must be why the city's so creepy quiet, she thought. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

But as they rode through the streets of the Xi city, it became clear that the same miasma was affecting everyone. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

"What did Osney tell her? Is the king hurt, has die city fallen?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Behind the city’s thick white walls, the New Castle rose proud and pale upon its hill. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We didn’t take the D train after all: Dad drove Mom’s car into the city and we must have both been feeling quiet, because we hardly talked at all. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t take long for the brothers to get out of the city and breathe clean country air, Zundert-like air. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But of the look and feel of that glorious marble city, nothing remains. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind, on higher ground, stood a splendid theater, a compulsory feature in any Greek city, and to its west, the Emporion, a complex of docks and customshouses where every ship was inspected. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Now, with Lee’s army out of Petersburg and the Union army in control of the city, Grant asks the president to meet him there. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s dangerous out here. The cities are like these boulders. They may seem solid, but if you start messing with them, the whole pile could crumble.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“What do you mean? Outside the city completely?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

But they all slunk into the city without being stopped. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

When they fall in love with a city, it is for forever, and it is like forever. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the event, he was able to take the city only by systematically destroying it. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I seem to remember that small cities in ancient Greece quarreled bitterly over which was the birthplace of Homer. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s hard to explain now. But I thought you’d have a better chance at a ‘normal’ childhood in the city.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a part of the city where no cars can go, and thousands of people stroll around eating ice cream. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The twin cities were separated by a tall chainlink fence. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Then he said, “Can’t take the city out of the boy to put the country in. ” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

They are all running down one of the countless seemingly endless tunnels below the city. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He had seen one in the zoo in the city once, a black bear, but it had been from India or somewhere. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Harlem especially, and also in some other U.S. cities, the 1964 long, hot summer’s predicted explosions had begun. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

BOOK: A turn in the city, a glide through a lake. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

The cellist, denied first chair in the Cleveland Orchestra, left the city in a cloud of bitterness. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

No doubt the blizzard had tied up traffic all over the city. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Laila knew that somewhere in the city someone had just died, and that a pall of black smoke was hovering over some building that had collapsed in a puffing mass of dust. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

During this period, too, the city fathers resolved to change Durham’s reputation as a manufacturing center with no culture. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was intent on keeping the secret of azoth, it would seem, even in this city whence, long ago, the secret had come. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

More shallow bottoms moved out from the drowned wreckage of the city, sailing in a slow wallow to the big ships. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

And who would guess that the southern city of Hampton, Virginia, was the place to find it? Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Now here she was, a woman getting along in years, forced to make her living among all the black scum of this wicked city. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I live in a city where twenty-five per cent of the population is Negro and I doubt that the percentage is much higher, except in spots, in the eleven Civil War States. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out on the city streets of Washington, DC, Vietnam veterans were arriving by car, bus, plane, and even on foot. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

‘I’ve never driven in a city,’ the ancient and trembling sister announced. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not only that, but Ice had one of the sweetest games in the city. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

But she was gone—gone from the palace and from the city, and horrified they realized that they were their father’s murderers. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he took a deep breath and headed downstairs to the vast subway system that snaked beneath the city like hidden rivers. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Hercules, whose life was one long combat against preposterous monsters, is always said to have had his home in the city of Thebes. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The greatest British warship of them all were called men-of-war—floating cities that could hold a thousand men and almost a hundred big cannons. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

These points had been carefully plotted on maps by mail carriers, the workers who knew the city best. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Farid drove past the buildings and stone houses of the city’s central district. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I went to our capital city HARARE, where I was working as a tea boy at a certain company. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The Washington Park racetrack sat on a verdant strip of land along the city’s southwestern edge, within walking distance of both the Fair’s Midway Plaisance and the University of Chicago. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

You are sealed into one of the thirty-two capsules with the strangers who were next to you in the queue, and when they close the doors, the sound of the city is cut off. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sears Tower is the tallest thing in the city, and for a long time it was the tallest building in the world. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the spray hitting her face, the roar of water all around her, Tally could almost imagine this was one of her expeditions, back when she was a carefree city kid and not a... Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Outside the city walls they camped with their vast herds, raising palaces of woven grass, eating everything in sight, and making the good folk of Pentos more anxious with every passing day. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

One thing saved him: the company—and larcenous advice—of the city’s homeless, many of them teenagers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The whole city was falling back into a dark brooding shade, and silence. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He came out into the darkness and the blood of that cold city street fast and loud and hard, all teeth and bark and bravery. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

As I look at the boys I keep thinking of Romulus and Remus, wayward children, what they might say now about their magnificent city of Rome and its citizenry. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ships left out in the bay could still land men north of the city; a slower crossing, but safer. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“One was even there the night of the tennis game. But you...you risked everything for a city you owed nothing to. Why?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Instead I sat at the desk and stared out the window, at the city hall of Cambridge and a row of small shops. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“You have served this city well for many years. This is not a decision I or any of my advisers have taken lightly.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The walking tour guides one through the city's various landmarks, reciting bits of information the listener might find enlightening. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

According to one study, during a twelve-year period, the number of people returning from prison back home to “core counties”—those counties that contain the inner city of a metropolitan area—tripled. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But in the city, as the go-between pointed out, things were changing. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I work for the city of New York. Now, will you kindly take your seat. Sir,” the fireman answered. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

It was said that he had once been a great priest in the capital city of Cuzco, that he had worked for the mighty Sapa Inca himself. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The city was darker than I had ever seen. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat there and ate the last red tomato in the city and I watched her watching me. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He belonged to a walled city of the fifteenth century, a city of narrow, cobbled streets, and thin spires, where the inhabitants wore pointed shoes and worsted hose. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

We want freedom for all black men held in federal, state, county, and city prisons and jails. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I walk toward the windows until my shoes bump up against the glass, then look out at the city in wonder. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

From this parent branch, if the Lord blessed, other branches might grow and a mighty work be begun throughout the city and throughout the land. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Odysseus, when the time had passed, arose and turned into the city. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one has a pool, not even the city. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The Yunkai’i had sealed the broken gates to keep the dead and dying inside the city, but the sights that he had seen riding down those red brick streets would haunt Quentyn Martell forever. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

If the disease invaded a large city and a call went out for hundreds of thousands of doses of the vaccine, it would take months to produce it. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The doors were flung open at the stadium, and the city appeared below them. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Police in other cities, meanwhile, were spinning a different story during the 1990s. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The lights below grew sparser, and presently they came to a great dark gash in the city. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Maria turned her sights on Amsterdam, the port city of the Netherlands and the center of science, art, and commerce for all of Europe. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Here on a low table at the foot of the bed sits what he has been searching for, a wooden model of the city, nestled like a gift. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When she had been a slave in Yunkai, she had played for every highborn family in the city. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Thousands of torches were placed strategically so that a soft, dusky light illuminated the entire city. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But there was something else now, as Betonie said: it was everything they had seen—the cities, the tall buildings, the noise and the lights, the power of their weapons and machines. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

We walk over the little semi- lunar bridge Baba has built near a cluster of fig trees; it becomes a great suspension bridge joining cities, and the little pond below, a foamy sea. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Why did white people sit in the front of city buses and black people sit in the back, behind the signs that said “coloreds”? I didn’t know. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of Kat, out there, somewhere in the city, under the growing cumulus cloud, on the trail of the strange man who sold us the ticket. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

It knew that the earth goddess intended on razing all human civilization, and this city, which had stood for thousands of years, was saying back to her: You wanna dissolve this city, Dirt Face? The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Of course, he said, you’re bound to have the cough when you live in Limerick because this is the capital city of the weak chest and the weak chest leads to the consumption. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

And remember, my dad works at city hall. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The fact that the case involved Shaker—a community that liked to hold itself up as the standard-bearer—caught everyone’s interest, and everyone in the city had an opinion. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He had the only light in the entire city. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But when he stopped to consider the million lights of the city, that statement seemed almost unbelievable. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Somewhere out there the city burns, the sea breaks, barnacles beat their feathery arms. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

As his army marched east, city after city surrendered before him, until by 245 he reached Babylon without encountering serious resistance. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

His work as a porter had taken him to dozens of cities, and Wash remembered him talking about a train route that went all the way down to Mexico City. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The city had not developed along this part of the shore, but had grown northward along the inland river, leaving a few acres of woods untouched. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z