On average, twelve hundred Congolese had been killed every day since 1998. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Part of that seemingly endless day was spent getting things ready for the coming night. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, just a few days into the season, the ground under Joe positively lurched. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In fact, Helm and Girard would faithfully attend to what came to be known as the pest house for sixty straight days. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Most days I actually believed my own story. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Deep breath, Ibtihaj,” I told myself, remembering what my mom said to me the day I came home in the third grade after Delia Sanders and her brother Justin threw snowballs at me after school. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

On the days that the radio played Ammu’s songs, everyone was a little wary of her. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dreams and prophecies. Why must they always be in riddles? I hate this. Oh, leave me, ser. Tomorrow is my wedding day.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I was just glad we survived more than a day’s worth of riding without a real reason to call home. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

One day, several migra officers came in, arrested four migrants, and put them into their truck. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

With the wind the way it was he might wait all day for a shot, unless something startled them on the other side. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just four days later we are suddenly summoned into the kitchen at 3:30 P.M., even though there are live tables on the floor. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within a couple of days, no, within a matter of hours, a process was moving fast and well beyond her control. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The day Papi tore up the floor, I followed him holding a can into which he dropped the straight nails, still usable. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

For a moment that seemed as long as a day his eyes rested indifferently on Ranofer’s face. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Shackleton reduced the water ration to half a cup a day. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Though day, the crickets called in the grass; my mother’s singing rose from the camp. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Three days before Christmas and only ten days left in the whole year. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But one day, an evil Witch rode across the sky on the back of a dragon. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The past few days the ghetto had been left to the Ordners, the Jewish police established by the Judenrat, Jews appointed to govern other Jews on behalf of Hitler. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry about it, Vik. It’s been a crazy kind of day,” I tell him. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Nine days they lamented him; then they laid him on a lofty pyre and set fire to it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was an important lesson, for I suspect I was a bit stuck up in those days. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His best friend accidentally shot himself, and to this day, he still has nightmares about his death. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Just as he had done a few days earlier, he slid a coin out of his pocket and looked at it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Dog days in Maycomb meant at least one revival, and one was in progress that week. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I think he had just remembered that the training officers debriefed the OJTs every day and reviewed the actions of regular officers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

What comes next is the quietest hour of the day; when they’re all asleep, there are no disturbances. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The last light of day was gone by then; the only light came from the stars above and the faint red glow of the dying fire in the center of the grove. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I think that these are the glory days for that boy, and this moment will just be another story someday because all the people who make touchdowns and home runs will become somebody’s dad. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Kira greeted him happily, showed him the robe and threads, and told him of her day with the old dyer. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He heard nothing until he woke up to a most disagreeable noontime the next day. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jinny wondered if he had known, that day, what was coming. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Alcantara, for example, told of one day double-parking his van in Harlem so that he could drop off something at a relative’s apartment. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Come to think of it, hers had been the first face at the door after the PA announcement on tie-dyeing day. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Then he had vanished for a day or two, because the trial was not to take place for a fortnight. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Overcoming the initial shock of her husband's death, Lucretia summoned the strength she knew was needed to cope with the days ahead. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was expecting a test, but instead Mr. Pennyworth said, “I think it is time to spend a few days on practical matters. Time is passing, after all.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Walensky shrugged and fired a cigar, “Smooth as butter. What’s going on anyway, Doc? First, there’s no work for three days and then we have this mess of jiggers.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

It is possible, the old people said, for a human being to live for fifty days on water. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

For days, I thought I’d lost her, and I just got her back. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Each day I speared a fish for him and when I got home he was always at the fence waiting for it. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Singer sat at the middle table three times a day. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Besides, it was a cloudy day, and museum attendance always improves in bad weather. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two days later they struck another American base, killing ten more. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But I know it ain’t fair to be mad at my dad because we’re poor, so I go, “Ready for some lunch? Today is grilled cheese day.” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The smell of the tree was his smell, too, and the smell of the place she was leaving the next day, and she began to understand how she would miss it. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

What if he’d actually given me the note days ago and I just never noticed? King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

But am I supposed to spend the whole day crying? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

They don’t even inform my parents of our destination until the day before. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He lay on his back, keeping his eyes tightly closed, and thinking about why Hooper might have disappeared for the rest of that day. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“We got it easy, huh? All the livestock down at Montano and nothing for us war heroes to do but lay around and sleep all day.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She and Grandma had been trying all day to get Conrad to see things their way. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness, I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too, I feel the suffering of millions. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Or one day will they all connect up and explode inside of me? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

In those days there were only two topics of conversation: the Radio Mullah and the fighting just across the border in Afghanistan. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A few days before, he had had a “minor” surgery to correct a previous surgery to make his lower eyelids less droopy, and now it had become infected. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I attended the trial on the first day, as did many senior figures in the ANC, and I continued to attend as often as I could. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although I see Cordelia and Grace and Carol every day, I remember none of those things; only that they used to be my friends, when I was younger, before I had other friends. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Hares will soon overrun the castle. We'll be eating hare thrice a day." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As the days stretched into weeks, Harry began to suspect that Ron and Hermione were having conversations without, and about, him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It happened once or twice a day to some girl in the factory. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

From the looks of the grounds, tom and muddy and littered with bits of dinted armor and broken lances, they had been at it for a day or more, but now the end was near. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

‘You’re a hard mortal to find, my son. For several days Fve been searching. When the sceptre of Diocletian exploded . . . well, that got my attention.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

After the first day—when he had been sick, both from excitement and from the rolling of the deck— Tree-ear enjoyed watching the sea in all its changes. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

One hot summer day when Popo was already very sick, we stood outside watching a village funeral procession marching by our courtyard. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would be ten on her next name day, and she was the saddest child that Maester Cressen had ever known. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"Let's splurge on a few things hot and sweet, shall we, girls? We have time. It's a special day—Star's last first day of high school. A new beginning for both of you." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the days that followed, we were repeatedly warned that nothing mattered more than avoiding any activity that would get us expelled. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The antibiotic cream slathered on her feet comes with a nice pain-numbing element, and so the scorching fire of the day before is just a burning hum. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He was the one who’d given her the message for the mayor on her very first day of work. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

"A little girl like you can't play by herself all day." When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Luke spent practically every second of the next three days either reliving his secret visit to Jen or planning another one. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But I’m right about Brandon. I hope one day you can see that too.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You know, Scruggs,” he said, “we all need a mental-health day from time to time. But why don’t you take a week.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I ate a full supper this day, and my head is again clear. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

In their first days of marriage, the newlyweds are happy as can be, even though Jo has no idea how to keep house—“Its an absolute farce,” she writes her sister Mien. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

By then we would be ready for confession Saturday and then the receiving of the sacrament on the most holy of days, Easter Sunday. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was pale, and though the day was cold, his face was shining with perspiration. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What happened? Are you the one who left four days ago, my grandchild?” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Later in the day they heard that the United States Government Arsenal at Harper’s Ferry had been seized. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was clean this morning, but now that kitchen sparkle and smell like—umm, sort of—a cool day after a rain shower. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Catherine did not notice the blood stains on the undershirt that Princesse had worn every day since she’d drawn on it with her own blood. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

But Askar lived in Ardestan every day, while my dad had moved to the city of Isfahan to be a doctor. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He drinks a cup of hot tea every day because it’s “good for digestion.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“This just might be the toughest two weeks of my life,” I said to Aimee the next day. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Its arteries coated with what looks like foie gras, it seizes up one day. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The next moment, Mrs Taylor was showing in a well- built man, perhaps in his fifties, who judging from his dress had spent the day engaged in agricultural work. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The hours and days, the weeks and months and even the years, grew legs and began to run like an antelope. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Don’t get too used to it—it’ll wash out in a few days. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Well, it was more like every other day, given the temporal differential involved in waiting for a reply. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

But on the fourth day, I had a nightmare. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

War was declared officially on December 4, and twelve days later, the Pakistani army, weakened by having to fight three thousand miles from its source of supplies, surrendered in Dacca. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I take the public bus to school every day, but this time feels completely different—like an adventure. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Army and National Guard troops patrolled Selma that day and lined the highway leading out of town. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to jump on my back one day. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Is shot to death ten days later in a delaying action guarding the retreat across the Potomac. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they punish you in the morning, they know you’ll be taking care of those cows very well for the day. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

For each star there was a night and a place; this was the last night and the last place, when the darkness of night and the light of day were balanced. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’m only two bites into my fourth of the day when my stomach turns. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I do day's work, but I wasn't working that week, because I had hurt my ankle. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

He paints during the day; at night he draws a series of thirty heads, up close. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I dragged myself home at the end of the day, lagging far behind my brothers, who had given up trying to cajole me out of my mood. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Kapugen had seen them walk long miles in spring, with legs and ribs for the mothers who stayed in the ground with their pups for almost ten days after birth. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where tomorrow or the next day their future wives would come up in a boat, small laughing girls now, with their father and mother. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tomorrow’s a busy day for me. The twins are being born tomorrow, and the test results show that they’re identical.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

At that time of day, during the middle of the week, word-of-mouth news just lumbered along. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the days go on, more and more people begin to treat Davi as if she were invisible. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat there in court for three days listening while the evidence built up. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can also call me anytime, day or night. My cell phone number is on the card.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Mariam watched as the girl’s days became consumed with cycles of feeding, rocking, bouncing, walking. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Who Flung had taken her to a shabby room in a shabby house in a shabby street and promised to marry her next day. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Must be my lucky day,” she said, finally delighted by something I said. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It would take him several days to get back to Selma on the train and the bus, and he wanted to relax. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Come on, you’ve come over to my house every day, some weeks.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

After a nurse appeared at St. Tarkmanchatz without warning and plunged a clumsy cholera injection into the arm of each student, Liyana stayed home from school for days with a raging fever. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

One of the four, Bruce Martin, I met on the first day of seventh grade, at twelve years old. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

At her request, the funeral would be delayed until the following Saturday, five days away. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some part of the swarm is always at the same position in the Earth’s orbit, so the meteor shower is always observed on the same day of every year. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The week wore on, each day as hot as the one before, for it was July. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had a paper due the next day. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ross Milton had driven up to the farm the day the letter came. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The movie reminded me once again that on the day I did walk out of prison, I did not want to appear to be a political fossil from an age long past. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t help but draw a parallel to the day he’d left for Insomnia Con. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Actually, I was American every minute of the day, especially during school hours. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But, as the days go by, Fifi grows withdrawn and watchful. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Out in the snowy woods all day, it might have gathered a little dampness, and the inside of the barrel was sure to be dirty from powder smoke. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Especially when Mom and Dad looked so proud—something that didn’t happen every day where I was concerned. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

Once a year she dumps the letters onto her bed and goes through them, devoting an entire day to her parents’ words, allowing herself a good cry. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was like a food adventure, but then over the course of weeks, eating them every day, day after day, I couldn’t take it anymore. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She wears the pants in the family, you know, but her poor son, he has to survive without a mother all day, pobrecito. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day in class we had pretend elections, to learn how government works. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The combatants are streaming in from the east, thousands a day. They’ve looted everything. There are bodies in the street. At least, this is what the radio trottoir says.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I sat there through the final period of the day, not even agonizing over what “I’ll deal with you later” might mean. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

All the next day and the next, it kept batting around in my head. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

"It's your second day here, and it's my second day," Eric announces. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They were all so nice to me a month ago because of my birthday, and yet every day I feel myself drifting further away from Mother and Margot. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

In those days after the shipwreck, she and Matthias had formed an uneasy truce. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I go on his computer and check my email, making sure to write myself some notes about the last few days, so I can remember them. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Daddy’s been an English teacher at Forest Heights Junior High for a long time, but Mother’s first day of teaching home economics at Hall High School was supposed to be tomorrow. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

By now, days had passed; Jonas no longer knew how many. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

But before reaching it—or wherever they were going—they had to expect two days on the open down. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the morning of the sixth day since Shinae had deserted them, there was a loud knocking on their front gate. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The thirteenth day was unseasonably warm, and Luke sweated in his attic. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

In his first week on the trail, he managed just five miles a day, but he persevered, and by August, when he reached his home state, he was up to a dozen miles a day. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

In those days, if you had been interested by peculiar things, perhaps you would have had the luck to notice a knight-in-armour riding past the window. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was with this voice that she enumerated, twice a day as she swept the stairwell, the details of her plight and losses suffered since her deportation to Calcutta after Partition. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

That was four pages of Talmud a day. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Growing up, unless it was raining hard, I was outdoors for part of every day. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Night became day—brighter than day, no darkness left alive. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

By September, he promised, he would be producing 4 grams a day of U-235. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

JJ: I asked my health teacher what meal is the most important one of the day. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

It was already a good day for death, and I was about to go down in history. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But over the next few days as they worked to give everything in Daffodil Manor one more cleaning, shining, polishing, Penelope chatted with Ophie like they were old friends. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“My mom could buy dinner for us for three days with thirty dollars.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

She told him what Nemesis had said: that in six days, Rome would be destroyed. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

After several days of hunger they ate snails, which were bitter tasting. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Nobody wanted to nark on Dana and have to face him the next day on the bus. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In those days, proving a mathematical theorem was often as simple as drawing an elegant picture; the tools of ancient Greek mathematics weren’t pencil and paper—they were a straightedge and compasses. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

At this point, I should explain what had happened to me since that summer day when I last hugged my dear and wise professor, and promised to keep in touch. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hell, I could be honest all day long and what does that get me? We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“You can go on like this all day, but I can’t,” she said. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Not old, but how they looked the day we left Earth. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I closed the book on French verbs for the day. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s nothing I’d like better than to spend the day with you. You know that.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an almost perfect day, except that Abe didn’t know anything about the key or about Dad. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Two days later, coming back from school, Gogol finds his mother at home again, wearing a bathrobe instead of a sari, and sees his sister awake for the first time. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was the one who filled thy crop — I fed thee, stroked thee, day and night. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

A few days later, fireworks brought the Games to a booming close. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

The funeral, such as it was, took place on the third day of the New Year. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I longed for the day when I would have toys to play with and enough food to stuff my belly. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the days I miss Quinton the most, Elsie and I spend the last few minutes before curfew looking at old magazines about VanQuish. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Well, my father had to put up with that every day. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Thursday morning, we are on our way to Oscar’s house for class, Sam and Mundín and I. His chauffeur has the day off, so Mr. Washburn is driving. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The day was soon coming when the world would see if her best, if the brainy fellas’ best, if NASA’s best, was good enough. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

No water for a day and a half. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The next day, he was elected to the Continental Congress. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s about a brother and sister, Jack and Sarah, who go out to play one day and find this old train track in the woods. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

It would be four years before he was in a position to repay him. he days of large life and uncomplicated success were fleeting. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a big science exam in a few days; she figured she might as well get some studying done. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Water trickles down the walls; a bat comes in for the day and hangs upside down on the pointed ceiling above me. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it didn’t take him long to find my address, either, because he was in the shop the next day. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Like, a few times, she'd come over to Park's house on the wrong day for her hair appointment—and ended up in Park's room, trying to find something for them to talk about. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

And the days followed, one after another, much the same except that each was shorter as autumn grew later. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Esperanza was locked in the house, both Armijos were gone, and so the trapped dog wailed in pain all day, each of its woeful howls like an arrow piercing Herbie’s sensitive breast. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Things are a little up in the air. I...I may not even be able to call home every day.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I always say, there’s nothing like fresh hot cake and cold milk to make a body feel better on a funeral day. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They co-ran their luggage business, which meant they spent their days at work together and then spent their evenings at home commiserating over dissatisfied customers or certain suitcases that were damaged beyond repair. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

We were actually being denied the right to participate in the field trip because we were not wearing ties by that same teacher that had talked to us a day earlier. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Of all the places that got caught up in the frenzy of the oil boom in those days, Midland may well have been the most incredible. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then he said, “Right, young man, I think you’ve done enough adventuring for one day.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

After that, it would be three long days on the highway back to Earth, then through the fire of the atmosphere and into the terrestrial ocean below. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She tries to call Dr. Mann later that day, but Annabelle’s phone still has no service. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It had been almost six years since Morrow had last spoken to the media, but he didn’t seem to have aged a day. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“I think it’s about time you tried making it through a day without being stoned to the gills.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Ordinarily that would mean I would go to the church in the morning, and try to make the rest of the day a day of rest. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“If that’s your big news of the day, you really need to find more exciting things to do.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The Confederate generals were Lee and Stonewall Jackson, together with James Longstreet, who brought up reinforcements that saved the day for the Confederates. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Same day—Monday, January 7,1935 When my dad tells my mom, she seems to have no reaction. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next day I listen for talk of the ditch. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

A day later he returned to the Keys and stayed with us for a week—one of the neatest times of my life. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The two of them had ducked beneath it that day, just like Ess and Sam. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

On Tuesday, the day after the interview, I park the car down the street from Miss Celia’s house, around a curve so you can’t see it. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Nobody’s seen you all day. Somebody told me they saw the flag at the guard booth at half-mast and I was afraid you might be dead.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But the lunar month is between 29 and 30 days long. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I feel proud when I get through a whole day with only a bite of beef and a few spoonfuls of rice and a glass of melon juice. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the second day, Mom walked me to the top of the long, steep steps down to the grade-one classrooms. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Reorganizing sickbay and battening down the storage area took them most of the day, but Piper didn’t mind. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

After our final class of the day I drop off my weapons at the armory and get ready to head to my bed, using my study time to doze before dinner. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The situation required several days of wrangling and discussions, but in the end Girard and Dr. Devèze won out. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

But these days, I think about my life’s importance. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

On days when I was not in school, the honking of the horn was for me like the final bell on the last day of school. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, even as he pondered the question, he ran into Old Chao, who raised an eyebrow at his shoes — or so Ralph was convinced. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only two days’ ride from here, the kingsroad was said to be impassable. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

At home the next day, Charles focused on getting all the children who were well enough—that is, all but Etty—out of Down and away from the scarlet fever. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was delighted to be traveling again, and for a few days he was an ornament to the trip. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t you tell him you’d contact him within two or three days?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I close my eyes and I see hers, the color of the ocean the day we met. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty men worked during the day shift producing replacement parts for mine machinery and fabricating a variety of ductwork and support structures. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then one day they did not go to work. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was this their day to take up the wandering life of the wolves? Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the day drew closer, Dede was beset by doubts, particularly when she thought about her boys. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though I was the only team gymnast training at level ten, I had made some good friends at Bannon’s, including two girls who are my BFFs to this day. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And the day after that, my arms ached from holding them out ready to catch the pancakes at just the right moment. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One day man will release and control its almost infinite power. We cannot prevent him from doing so and can only hope that he will not use it exclusively in blowing up his next-door neighbor.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

For in those days love was ruled by a different convention to ours. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

No good and much ill could come from boys worrying too much about whatever Royal Brougham at the Post-Intelligencer or George Varnell at the Seattle Times might be speculating about on any given day. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But you do have a choice. You make choices every day, and maybe you can’t see how they could affect your future, but they do.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“I trash talked in my day, Kevin. But I never stooped so low. Not even against the Knicks, and they had it coming.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

She felt fear, but it was too late in the day to move on. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

On winter days it swims with the odor of roasting chestnuts; on summer evenings it becomes slow and drowsy, full of sleepy conversations and the scraping of heavy iron chairs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I confess that I did not study so much for a love of the truth or my own development, in these days, as to make those young men recognize my equality.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

My stomach is doing flips thinking about what my own first day will be like. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

That put an end to my truancy, but nothing appeared to lighten the long gloomy day that going to school became. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day they dwelt in Hades, the next in Olympus, always together. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

A longtime friend of my father from San Francisco would come to stay with us for several days in late August. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mom’s schedule changed from day to day. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The remaining days go by in a whirl. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Normally it was open just two days a month, and then only for a few hours. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sumac was spending more and more time away from me every day. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

But Roy didn’t get the terrible telling-off we were expecting, and in the days that followed, there were reports of guardians talking—even arguing—about the tokens question. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the days that followed, the Putnam proved herself with flying colors. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bluish brown or sometimes greenish gray, depending on the day. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Today was not the thirteenth day, it seemed; the Red Bull’s steps were empty. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A mirror selfie in some lobby, and I notice it’s the day we met—hot dog tie and all. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Have to go out every day for a whole summer collecting cans and bottles to have much of anything at all. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the third day, she made the designer icing for the rosebuds and put the little bride and groom on top. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was twenty-seven years old now, and there were days when all I wanted was to feel complete. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We could squeeze that laughter in our hands, feel its warmth, like stones that hold the days heat on a summer evening. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, so? I was having a bad day.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“I respect Humble. I respect Bobby. I have more respect for them after a day and a half than I do for most people...in the world, really.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I sometimes wonder what would have happened if Mrs. DiAngelo hadn’t sent me that e-mail the next day. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Kamau had said it would happen over the next few days, but he hadn’t said exactly when the warriors would then head into the Greater Jungle. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

But then, that very first day, Summer switched tables to go sit with Auggie Pullman. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The next day, it starts to rain as we head home from school. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Walter didn't have a tree job that day. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It ate her days in one gray gulp. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I mean, any day that I don’t have to spend cooped up in a classroom under fluorescent lights learning about open versus closed intervals is a good day. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Daniel sat next to Sarah in the front, looking down and picking a blister off his thumb like it was the most important thing that was going to happen all day. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aisha explained that no one had heard from him in days. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun convinced himself that the previous day had been an aberration, that today would bring a return to reason and procedure. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Page 82 Each day, we had a brief reading assignment full of statistics and real-world examples. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The days are warm and the nights cool, with the constant sounds of insects and tree frogs lulling us to sleep. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Over the next few days, I was anxious to get the newspaper to see if somebody would print the story about Mama’s job loss. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just think I need a day off. What’s all that yelling in the background?” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

She’d ask me about my day—all the things that happened at school. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The day before First Communion the master leads us to St. Joseph’s Church for First Confession. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I became anxious that she might die during the day when I was away at school. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Her growth has slowed over the years, but yes, she may one day become too colossal for her current confines.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The way there’re more and more kids coming into the Home every day, I had to make sure no one had run off with any of my things. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“If you’re asking me whether I ponder my death every day,” she said to the woman, as politely as she could, “the answer is no.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I see the power of his approval most clearly on Pauline’s last day. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s enough to make a person cry, but I ain’t cried since the day my mom died. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

A few days ago just a single day outside seemed like it would be enough, but now that I’ve had one, I want more. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Do we just lie down on the cracked, dried mud of the lake bed and call it a day? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It's why I'm at the Holy Cross-Roads Inn, a day's walk north of Paris. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I can still hear Mama humming the Charlie song, and I pray real hard that the whole day is just like right now—happy. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Some days I just know that the loving memory parts won’t come. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The day was clear again and visibility was perfect. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay,” she said, “is that how dinner is going to be every day? A madhouse?” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can pass an hour or two or it could be a day or two and I bet it would feel like the same thing. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a feat of modern aircraft design and engineering, Johnson's team built the first U-2 spy plane in only eighty-eight days. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In my head, I’m already in another day. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“How kind of you to worry. A governess would be much more expensive. And I haven’t the time to interview governesses. In two days, you shall go to finishing school with Dame Olga’s daughters.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

And then, quite suddenly, my school days were over. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Duke vigil ended a few days later when Wright Tisdale, chair of the Duke trustees, announced that a minimum wage of $1.60 for nonacademic staff would be phased in over the next several months. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was seen one day sitting 011 a roof and talking to some sparrows who were just out of her reach. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

It’s been snowing—just flurries—almost every day. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

My first meeting with Professor Steinberg took place a few days later. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It had been over thirty days since she had given Peach to Daniel and Catalina. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

One day in junior high, I was getting off the school bus from a seat in the back. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Every August, on the last day of summer session, you get a bead for surviving another year. I’ve been here longer than most of the counselors, and they’re all in college.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The rebels become bolder, and now patrol the docks of Norfolk by day without apology or shame. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

This morning, all he'd been able to think about was how to get more servings of Eleanor into his day, but now that she was here ... he wished he would've thought this through. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

On January 13, Shackleton announced that most of the dogs would have to be killed—the dogs required a seal a day, while the whole crew could survive on one seal for several days. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

On the day we were leaving, Woody’s car was so crammed with boxes and luggage and kids we had just run out of room. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

What he should have said is that it takes twenty- three people to be 50 percent certain that there is some birthday in common, not any particular birth day such as March 19. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Palmer came home that day to find Dorothy shooting baskets in his room. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe there wouldn’t be the constant testing or rudeness or invective, because you’d know you were going to be together the next day. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slunk toward my bed, paused at my dresser, and stared at the altered photo from the day at the Kennedy Space Center. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

So in the warm summer days the lonesome child sat on her stoop and pretended disdain for the group of children playing on the sidewalk. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ask my teacher on my last day of jail school. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Yes, of course you heard that—who would dare accuse him openly? Mark my words, one day he’s going to hurt the wrong person,” Fozia said. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I thought of that day, and of what Mother had said next. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She finally said, “I know you had a good season, Paul. A great season. Remember me? I’m the one who drives you back and forth to that place every day.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then year after year went by, there was the war, Catherine grew up, and one day I realized I loved my husband. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

My stomach ached every day and every night, thinking about it. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would enroll in junior college classes in the fall, I told Baba the day after graduation. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

One day, she showed us a video in which a scientist described what he called “the most astounding fact,” which was that all living things are composed of the atoms of collapsed stars. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Think of the tests, such repeated, remorseless, scandal- breathing tests, which day after day would be applied to you—until the last and certain day, when you would fail. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was where Tony chose to spend his days. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Then, on the third day after his headache started, he became nauseated, spiked a fever, and began to vomit. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days after the meeting on the esplanade, I took my courage into my hands and went to see Father at his office. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He rolls us over so his body is pressing into mine, the weight of him, the weight of that other day, and Zephyr begins elbowing his way between us. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

From that day on Palmer became even more attached to his pigeon. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries you could travel from Spain to the Azores in a few days, the same time it takes us now to cross the channel from the Earth to the Moon. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was way worse than the first day of school. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Three days later, we came to that passage in our Talmud class, and for the second time that year Rav Gershenson called out my name and asked me to read and explain. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Some days she might only stand on a chair and spit on everyone who got in range. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Within two more days alarm had spread to every comer of Wethersfield. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the day Uncle Tim gives us each thirty dollars and says we do good work. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

It is a different tale altogether, and if all goes well, I may have a shot at telling it one of these days. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luckily, the earth was soft, for the day was wet. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

After the next examination I was helpless for two days. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Each evening we sat cross-legged in the courtyard threading beads in the last light of the day. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Almost every day now there were rumors that the war had ended. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Nighttime driving isn’t so bad, but in the day? Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“I don't want to live on an island! I want to stay here, in the city. Do you think I want to go on a wobbly boat every day? Yuk!” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

In order to win her hand, the devil told him he had to clear an enormous field, plant corn, then harvest it, all in one day. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Maybe Grandpa wasn’t in a fighting mood that day, or maybe he took one look at Mr. McAllister and figured discretion was the better part of valor, as the saying goes. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The next day Tyrion encountered her and her spotted sow amidships in midaftemoon, when the air was warm and the sea calm. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry I drew you that day,” I whisper to Jason. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sleep didn’t come, couldn’t come with the insects ripping at him, so he lay the rest of the night, slapping mosquitos and chewing with his mind on die day. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first blood of the day spotted the sand. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

In fact, to this day, he still remembered the spot where the poor thing was buried. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No need for that. You see her here every day.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

They had lost two cogs to the rocks of Shipbreaker Bay on the very day they set sail, a poor way to begin. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Which changed the whole world in a single day. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The door sat still as a mountain, quiet and indifferent as the sea on a windless day. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

First, in addition to inviting skilled Greeks to immigrate to the capital, the Ptolemies barred native Egyptians from spending more than twenty days in Alexandria at a time. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

I felt as though I was an old hand in the kitchen—ever since those days at the fire station. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what Mom said, but I do know this: A few days later, Mrs. DiAngelo had one fine butterfly garden out there by her pool. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I thought he would be a good person to learn interesting things from, so I asked him if he would mind telling me something about the whale-fishing in the old days. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The other possibility was that the hug had happened, but it was just a meaningless blip in their day, and they’d already forgotten about it. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

They’d had no food and little sleep in five days and in this condition on the outskirts of a small town they came upon a once grand house sited on a rise above the road. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I did something to annoy him, and he shouted it out that first day for perhaps an hour, nonstop—and thereafter, whenever his off-kilter brain told him to, which was pretty much daily. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A World Bank study found that 42.5 percent of Mexicans live on two dollars or less a day. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The next time had been the faces in the audience at the Auditorium, just two days ago. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Through the remainder of the day and night, they slept and ate, keeping the fire going in the stove with the blubber from four more seals they slaughtered on the beach. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

At the end of the day, I did forget about the leeches clinging to my toes, but I did not forget about my sister. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found his mother curled up in bed reading the same Butler book she had been a few days before. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was the end of the school day, not yet suppertime, and the uneasy members of the Mysterious Benedict Society were the only children outside in the chill air. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I thought all he wanted was to have nothing unusual sully his days, that what he disliked or feared most was uncertainty. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

And she answered him flatly and somberly, “Every day was I beaten.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

On a typical day, families were scattered and apart, tykes scampering unsupervised, parents at work; but today hubbies stood with their wives and tykes with their families. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon it seemed that almost every day another transport put in. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents had never told me why—beyond saying I was “born that way”—so on a drive home one day I asked Mom a few questions about it. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The whole house is crawling with fleas, and it’s getting worse each day. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was his first day on the job, his telephone piece poking uncomfortably in his ear while he half hoped that the people he was calling would not be home to pick up. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The next day, however, Harry barely grinned once. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

When it arrived a couple of days later, she yanked the neck until it was loose and sprayed the bottom edge with bleach cleaner to make a stain. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I know this is a big day that many of you have been waiting for—perhaps even rehearsing for.” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

But George Blake's espionage career didn't come to an end on the day he was led in shackles to Wormwood Scrubs prison, outside London. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I have to admit that once or twice that day, I almost texted Zara to apologize about what I’d said in the lunchroom. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In those bright days of truancy we had never thought of What We Owed Devon, as the sermon this opening day exhorted us to do. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

She declined immediately and repeatedly for several days until he accused her of the very thing that was absolutely true: that she was ashamed of him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m glad to see her, but I’m still mad about what she said the other day. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

At first, she had thought that with each passing day, she would come closer to accepting the fate that she had asked for. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A normal day for Camp Jupiter—but on the northern horizon, storm clouds were gathering. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Patterns. But looking at two days’ worth isn’t gonna tell you jack. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Mom can decorate almost a half a million Finkles in a day. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Each day of our competition in Rio went much the same way. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

A lot of times he had tried to get a job in a jewelry store where he could sit by himself at a desk all day with a clean white shirt on and a tie. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

ALBUS: Dad and I had a light on the day before I went to school. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

After all we’d been through over the past few days—not to as a shock. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

One day she walked as far as the bookstalls on College Street. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

After that day, he’s been my friend, He doesn’t speak, he doesn’t smile, but he hasn’t forgotten, and never joins in when the other boys shout: Lack-a-wit Numskull Mooncalf Fool. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

“From the first day of kindergarten, everything about you screamed dweeb—your clothes, your hobbies, your vocabulary—” He scowled. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He was rubbing Robin’s legs as he did every day, talking the while. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

She had been spending every minute that she could steal from her chores under that tree for the last three days. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Maybe she saw your face,” says Bo, “and she knew the day was a lost cause.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Another day of that clatter would have sealed my valve for good. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He signed it and returned it to the post office the very same day. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They explained about the map, and she agreed to take them down there the next day. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

With a carefully tested combination of iron, potassium, and calcium, it will give you a new spring in your step and you’ll be able to accomplish the many tasks asked of you throughout the day. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The day after Wednesday 2 September 1752 was Thursday 14 September. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Nowadays these mixed couples get on TV every other day complaining, “Oh, it’s hard for us.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her objective at first was not to educate me especially for first grade, but to slow me down during the day and to keep me from coughing all night. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

My hands freed, I saved the day, according to what Sinita said later. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Press the button before you have to go, not after you wet the bed. I only change the sheets once a day.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Twenty-seven days, to be exact, where every day feels pretty much like the last. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Not really fair, that I might get myself a beard one day but Khalid never will. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

It was a beautiful skirt and I finished it on the day after the second moon. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day after the fire, Pocahontas comes again with several men from her tribe. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

In the light of day, almost everything we did in Kilanga seemed childish. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"And playing cards with his friends all day, like it was their job or something, saying it kept his mind sharp when really it was about drinking whiskey and having company, right? And winning money?" We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Coulter knew who she was: Ama had been bringing her food for some days now. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The only good thing about it was the food at the revival center on the day she regained consciousness. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Pauline was full of questions, as she had been that second day of class: Why did you set the camera so low in this one? Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

That same blank stare he gave me just the day before. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The day the Mary Rose went under he’s planting a bed of flowers by his back porch, the one that faces the creek, and don’t see me till I holler. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

At all times of the day and most of the night you could see bored faces peeping out of windows. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Ever since we’d started bomb drills at school, I couldn’t help thinking my days were numbered. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On gray and cloudy days, the Baudelaires had the beach to themselves to do what they liked. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

He’s an obnoxious boy who lies around on his bed all day, only rousing himself to do a little carpentry work before returning to his nap. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The third day well he came over on purpose. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The trees turned early that fall but the days stayed warm well into October, and in the country we spent most of our time outside. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Now, because the day is so fine, and thou’rt getting so strong, it might be well if we should go fishing.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Old Grandma was back in her chair beside the stove after all day outside under the elm tree, and she would listen carefully for Josiah to pour water into the tin basin. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Two hundred and eighty days—six days a week most of the time—without ever really knowing what the future would hold. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I don’t care, because that’s exactly what I am: as scared as the day I was born and pushed out wailing into this world. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Just that one day, out of nowhere, they told me that they were separating. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Fired! Bad luck, that. It’s not easy to find work these days.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Within a few days of the funeral, Cleopatra, wretched with sorrow, fell ill from an infection brought on by the injuries she had inflicted on herself. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Two days ago I wouldn’t have been able to guess what would cause such destruction. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t heard that weird accent from him since the first day, but I knew he and Jetta had been speaking German. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Bep is still in isolation, but any day now her sister will no longer be contagious. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“It won’t work. It can only be used once a day.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It only takes five days in hot weather for a Kentucky Wonder bean to gather up its vegetable willpower and germinate. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day we turned for the first time a little south of east. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

By the second or third day, my insides were running normally, and I no longer had that bloated feeling from my greens-only diet. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

In Portland, Maine, I came closest to achieving a decent fit between income and expenses, but only because I worked seven days a week. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wouldn't you know some goon put mustaches on us the very first day. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

“This war only gonna last about three more days. We got us a body count of four hundred and thirty-three Congs in the last fight.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And here a all days she front and center like she be watching herself on screen! The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The shebeens were where men would go to drink after work and during prayer meetings and most any other time of day as well. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

For nine days she neither slept nor ate. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I knew this because one day I asked her, “Are you a genius?” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” I say, and I tell her of the day I fell off Mister Lochana’s speedboat and nearly drowned before I’d even had a chance to fully learn how to walk. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I brainstormed cupcake ideas over the next couple of days, but it was even harder than I thought. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Murphy gives me something new nearly every day—a skirt she says she found in a closet, a woolen hat, a camel-colored coat, a periwinkle scarf and matching mittens. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I thought back to our telephone conversation a few days ago. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

There are some days I still feel like the world is an awful, frightening place. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was a good day to begin my new home. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father came in a few minutes later, looking worse than he had the day before. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

You have brought me joy, and I thank you for that, and I wish that I could continue to feel this joy every day for the rest of my life. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

August disappears entirely for three days, and Uncle Al begins whacking heads again. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

After she hung up on him at two a.m., after she’s gone 100 percent No Contact, he was absent for three days, and she’s almost surprised to see him. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

There was no question of sending the twins to school the next day. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Later that day, when the sun was at its highest and the inside of the plastic house was hot enough to bake us like cassava, he returned to collect us. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You pay that much for tuna tomorrow or the next day?” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The air was gentle as though a summer day had lingered beyond its season, but Gwydion’s words chilled him like a sudden cold wind. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

I’m happy to go home at the end of the day, even if that means entering a dark house. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“You should come to Eyllwe with me when I return—and make sure you stay long enough to experience one of our blistering summers. Then you’ll appreciate your freezing mornings and days without sun.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

In October 2004, Shin and Park began spending fourteen hours a day together in the garment factory. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

My mother, who was no doubt waiting for me after a long day of unexplained absence, takes in the scene. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

‘We have been careful enough in the last few days, and this supper is no feast; but we have used more than we ought, if we have two weeks still to go, and perhaps more.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Besides, she asked herself, who knew what day it was, what year, in this place? The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom freaked ’cause of germs, and spent, like, two days cleaning them over and over. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The lady used to bring her home after work on the days when Mom didn’t drive. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The next day, Patricia Webb ran some tests on the virus and found that it did not react to any of the tests for Marburg or any other known virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama told me that evening that I would be discharged in two days. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then I imagined the boy from the gas station skating up the way he had the other day, looking for her, and dread welled inside me. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

One day we are playing street crickets: it is like cockfights, small-scale. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

A great banquet was served during the day, and I often gave myself a bellyache by eating too much while listening to speaker after speaker. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father was mild, like the sea oil a windless day, with an unruffled surface and little variation. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

And believe it or not, the day before we left on this campaign trip, we got a message from Union Station in Baltimore, saying they had a package for us. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Within a few weeks, the puppies were stumbling away from her, and Moody Blue spent her days herding them back, but when they were about six weeks old, Moody Blue started ignoring them. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

One day when I checked 'em, my biggest one, the one I'd been watching closest, was gone. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

So no bath for Ruth May that day. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the day when school got out for winter break. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It would take us a few days to get ready. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Until that day, Most sincerely, Stephen Hawking The week was incredibly boring, except for when I remembered the key. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was a cool dark summer night in the first days of blueberry picking time, and Omakayas had just fallen asleep when something made her awaken, a dream or a sound. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

On a day when I should have been miserable, I actually wanted to laugh. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The day was going great until I got to math class. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Mark asked about plans for the next day but Alec insisted they weren’t ready yet. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

And it was hard to remember a worse day in his life than the one when he turned to his wife and simply said, “This thing’s got to go.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The snow had stopped three days ago, but none of it had melted. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Eh, I don’t know,” Tyler Baldwin says one day in American History after they watch a film about the Wabanakis. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

By the light of day she was fine, and that seemed a further clue that it was a dark, bad thing inside her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was a big, big day when I got my first book and Atak began to introduce me to the world outside East Africa. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day at two, four, and seven, Ruby plods through the sawdust with Snickers on her back. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

It dies of hunger and exposure in the next few days. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

If a solar flare hadn’t shifted the comet off course a week earlier, we’d be watching Fire Snake harmlessly pass Earth in a few days like it had since the beginning of time. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I forbid you to ask him, Fred. No, don’t you dare. As though he needs reminding of that on his first day at school.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“Good day, madam. Can I interest you in a nice vacuum cleaner?” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

My arrival—and my bouncing—means that she can’t stay in bed all day. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

So the summer went along and I lived my ordinary life, which was mostly chores all day long. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he thinks I’ll be a doctor one day even though I hate blood, and bad smells, and the actual insides of bodies. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When Zhenya wrote a letter home five days after her squadron’s first flight, her tone was full of enthusiasm. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“I would be faithless if I looked the other way when his son has fallen upon evil days. Still—” Zau’s ragged eyebrows lifted arrogantly. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Liyana said to Rafik, “I would like to go to school with the donkeys in the field. To stand all day in the free air with an open mouth. No bells ringing.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later, on Halloween night, I offer to sit at our door, handing out candy. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The tubing showed up on the back porch two days later, leaning against a far corner, along with some bar stock as well. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m so happy you’ve returned. This is a little exhibition we used to tour around the Continent back in the halcyon days. I thought you might find it instructive.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Much hath happened in this one day,” said Brother Luke. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I don’t dare look at Taryn, for fear she will see all of it on my face, the whole day’s events, the almost kiss. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

One day, while I waited at the locker for Frieda, she joined me. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy nodded as if he understood, so she put half her provisions into his hands—more than he would need for just one day. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t go with him because I had a logic exam the next day and had to remain home to study. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Each day I visit black Mary, who looks at me with her wise face, older than old and ugly in a beautiful way. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I, her only son, was sixteen I contracted pleural pneumonia, in that day a killing disease. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Three days later it was announced that he had died in the hospital at Willingdon, in spite of receiving every attention a horse could have. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

I go straight to Ellis’s table and say, “Hello, fine people of Unity Valley. I’m taking the day to talk about perfection. Do you have an opinion one way or another?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The next day he was back at work, bandaged, bruised, and barely able to walk. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was taking mail anywhere from ten days to two weeks to make the journey these days! An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

In the next day or two Frodo went through his papers and his writings with Sam, and he handed over his keys. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Their actions had simply made impressions upon my sensibilities as I lived from day to day, impressions which crystallized and coagulated into clusters and configurations of memory, attitudes, moods, ideas. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Men were holding them in front of the same bakery where I had stolen the cake that day. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

So one day he just jumped himself up onto the pew bench and threw his arms to the sky and shouted at the top of his lungs: “Hallelujah! Amen!” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was true, the hall rep confirmed the news, and they all sighed, contemplating this sudden unwanted break, and returned to their rooms to pack; the hostel would be closed the next day. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

His mind, which had been so quiet all day, began to whir with the thoughts of all the bad things he’d done. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Before that, I had never realized people thought feet were gross. Anyway, that was right before starting kindergarten. You know what the first day of kindergarten is like for a five-year-old with no arms?” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

That means, the first day we met, Rani made Jay say yes so that I could stay with them. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Of course, the day soon came when Janina said she heard it. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

She was tired from the wild run here, from the long night with Maddy and Az, from a hard day’s work. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Some days it was so hot, me and Howard would lay on the porch with ice cubes on our foreheads and tell knock-knock jokes. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Even the level-headed James Chadwick recalled experiments at the Cavendish “so desperate, so far-fetched as to belong to the days of alchemy.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It was rather as though, after being in makeshift wet dock for days, the Queen Mary had just sailed out of, say, Walden Pond, as suddenly and perversely as she had sailed in. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

The next day, he brought me a book about famous buildings and the men who had designed and built them. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

After all, this was a day unlike all others. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Early the next day, Paolo showed up at the flat carrying a tote bag. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

On the day before the San Antonio, Smith and Howard put Sonny Workman up on their colt Ariel Cross for a race. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day, I decide to progress the relationship and follow her. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Think of it, having to sit in such terror for a day and two nights! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Because Phobos is ridiculously close to Mars, it orbits the planet in less than one Martian day. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or they pay only a fraction of the going wage, which is 50 pesos, or about $5, a day. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

There comes a day I have been waiting for. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

One day I saw Atal in the backyard furiously digging a hole. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I was happy to see they was still sleeping for it was uncommon to spend the day alone with my father. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first day Francie worked at the Bureau one of the sisters said to her, “You have a Brooklyn accent.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bought myself a new pair of hiking boots and did the full three-mile circle every day. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was not enough, not after a long day’s walk. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Victor,” he asked, “what do adults do all day?” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the light of day, the Hideaway is nothing more than peeling paint and sticky floors. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

In two day’s time they were walking the beach as far as the headland and back, trudging along in their plastic bootees. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The disquiet of recent days burns away like morning mist. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

One day his gorgeous Asian girlfriend pointed out in Spanish class that I was the spitting image of Anne Frank, and he enthusiastically agreed. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

For a few days a series of canvas tote bags accumulate in the hallway, cardboard boxes full of liquor, shopping bags full of food, cases of wine. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“They got a sellout in Marshall,” Caines told his players several days before the game. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was too nice a day for leaving. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I didn't want to be reminded of the day we spent in that pantry. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And one day, she even wrote it to me. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was about three or four days later when pork was served for the noon meal. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is as though we have always been in this position, the front porch swing moving gently back and forth, the sun warm on our faces, the day only halfway over. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

One day we went down to the house together because Piper wanted a bath. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘If you have walked all these days with closed ears and mind asleep, wake up now!’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

All day they walked up and down this onesided avenue of aromatic leaning trees, blowing on stiff ungloved fingers and looking with bleak hope at those people who paused. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three days after the Military Pronunciamiento, I drove to the Ministry of Defense in my Congressional car, surprised that no one had come to invite me to participate in the new government. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day she told him she was pregnant, she had used the very same words, saying them in the same gentle way, turning off the basketball game he’d been watching on television. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“At the end of thirty days, everything purchased with this money will be repossessed.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

So up to a hilltop I trudged each day, and the heavy heat of summer made me glad for the bigger winds I found there. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

"We don't do this every day. Some days we clean out the jakes and pile it on the dung heap." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The day was still a perfect blue October day, as if it had been waiting for me since I'd missed it at lunch recess. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

After that, all through the cheerless days, she hugged the dream close. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I found out that the demon soldiers had been doing this all day. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

More and more these days she didn’t come right out and say what she meant. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

With Uncle looking for his family, there was a chance they might all be together again one day. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it only took a few days to change me this time. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

And then one day the invisible man decided, the monster said, its voice ringing in Conor’s ears, I will make them see me. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

It was an unusually hot and humid day, and with the twenty of us crowded into her entryway, it felt even hotter. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Jay first got sick, she would disappear into her room for days on end. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Why else would we close up our shop and take a boat and climb this abominable hill, all on the coldest, wettest day ever known since creation?” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There will be no other day,” she promised. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

And the day before, she froze the blood of a bird. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I stare at the screen for a minute, trying to reconcile the tone of this email with the Nathan I knew for a day. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Without hesitating, Mother Ermentrude replies, “Late October. On the feast day of Saints Simon and Jude.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

But I couldn’t do that until I had some money, and my first endorsement checks wouldn’t be deposited for another day or two. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Our parents never did find out about those blue eggs, just as they never knew about the turtle we found on the road one day, after a car had crushed it. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Now the guests were ready, and they drank the stirrup-cup, and with great praise and friendship they departed, and came at length to Helm’s Deep, and there they rested two days. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It was a beautiful day in September and I was standing on top of a diving board. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started making zines earlier this year when I discovered Dad’s collection of punk music zines from his high school days. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Infuriated by his failure and by Ron’s and Hermione’s attitudes, Harry brooded for the next few days over what to do next about Slughorn. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It was early morning on a cloudy day, and we were in the midst of a storm of flying fish. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Their numbers would continue to swell, one hoped; more ships were straggling in every day. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In the months that Cora had worked for the family, the mother’s bad days had markedly reduced in number. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

As soon as I woke up the next day, I looked down at the pillow on the floor and more than anything I wanted Wishbone to be there. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He’d been cornered by her earlier that day, and in order to escape her chattering on and on about not leaving her treasure behind, he’d agreed to help. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

On the fourth day Kit felt chilly and lightheaded, and by twilight she was thankful to sink down on the mat they dragged to the fireside near her cousin. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

There were no views of the bay on this overcast day. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He had lost track of the days there. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

From now until race day, Bolles told his boys, they would row six days a week, rain or shine. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Hence the elimination of Saturday classes, the shortening of the school day, and the lengthening of vacation—all of which occurred over the course of the nineteenth century. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Another employee collected Freebie for a day at the doggy spa. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Pigeons can fly hundreds of miles in one day,” Scipio answered. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was his day off, and we had been playing tennis at Ellis Park. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had been told that each passenger would receive one hot meal per day. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“You know it’s not real safe to hitch a ride these days, right?” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

On Midsummer-eve, Adèle, weary with gathering wild strawberries in Hay Lane half the day, had gone to bed with the sun. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

On windy days, the foul smell of the city dump competed with the stench of the Tent City dump. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“We will wait, then. Four or five days will make little difference, after all.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I combed her hair for hours each day, but I could not comb a smile onto her face. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

But something about the street bothered Mac as soon as he saw it: we were in the center of Cape Town in the middle of the day, and yet the street was empty. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I keep an eye on Miss Celia the next day, waiting for her to sneak upstairs so I can see what she’s up to. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

An acquaintance at the Early Childhood Center told Camilla that one day at work Marion had called Bunny six times, and the last time he had hung up on her. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Tell about it! It would just take me all day, that’s all!” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

It was a cloudless day in late September, cold enough to justify a coat, but warm enough that a sleeved dress with tights could be managed. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Though Pretty was growing less plump with every passing day, and Crunch was fur and bones. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was a cool day, damp from a recent rain. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I cannot take off another day from work to come back here. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“It’s our last day before school starts. Let’s have a nice breakfast together just like old times, okay?” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

But as the days go by, my old life is beginning to look exceedingly strange. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next day, I take the train, then the bus. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

And there he is, hardly any bigger now than he was in day care, and he's standing there waving his crutch up at the tree. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mark pointed to the other side of the camp, toward the spot Alec had identified the day before as the direction they needed to go. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

But his mother insists; his father is leaving for Ohio the following day—doesn’t Gogol want to go with them to the airport, to see him off? The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

After six days on Nevis I am fatter. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Cane was blessed with ninety-three years of healthy living, and several people who attended the funeral commented, “She didn’t look a day over ninety.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

When I came to a line like “Fight manfully onward,” I could believe that if I held out, one day I might really get to Washington, P.A. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last class of Aimee’s first day at her new school was her least favorite, physical education. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

It’s been twenty-five days since I woke up. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

He dipped it into that same bucket I’d kicked a few days earlier. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“What day did your mother do the washing, Jacob?” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The average listener tuned in five hours a day. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

‘The evil of Sauron cannot be wholly cured, nor made as if it had not been. But to such days we are doomed. Let us now go on with the journey we have begun!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The next day, I was surprised that Jessica wasn’t her usual gushing self in Trig and Spanish. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Darius, who doesn’t like school, who is sometimes stupid and mostly a fool, said something wise today, though most days he says nothing. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day, just to get her to go away, I started reading the page she had opened. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he says his dad took him right home that day to Kathie. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I lie in bed and think of the hospital where the white sheets were changed every day and there wasn’t a sign of a flea. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She drank half the glass in one long gulp, then wiped her mouth daintily and said, “Did you have a nice day at school?” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time the stress of the day was moved aside; he could think logically now. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I nibbled on it each day—a gram here and a gram there. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

No one asked me to the prom anyway, but Frances kept saying, “Please go to graduation, Ruth. We’ll walk together on graduation day. ” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It reminded me of the quiet that settles on the coldest days in winter when it hurts to breathe and everything is still. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Every day, Mrs. Fisher writes a sentence on the board, and we have sixty seconds to write something about it. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

And people downtown were passing just another day. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom entered the enclosure multiple times a day to feed milk to the infant. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Some days it’s hard to know when Vern is talking crazy and when he’s making sense.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The knights had been staying for a week, and Lancelot, listening hungrily to their Table news, was weakening every day. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Suffer through that racket or work in an oven. That fan doesn’t really cut it on a day like today.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Some of us can’t stand cold northern winters with their short days and characteristic germs, while others of us can’t stand hot tropical climates with their own characteristic diseases. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Leanne Washington’s days as a volunteer at her church did more for Lambert’s children than most people will ever know. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Most jockeys took a more straightforward approach: the radical diet, consisting of six hundred calories a day. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I’m done washing up and getting dressed, Daddy is gone for the day. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Please understand me, General. Millions of people take public transport every day. No harm comes to them. I know you’re worried, and I’m certainly checking all the buses, but isn’t it too soon to panic?” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The next day in school everybody was talking about how I had won the game and everything and how cool I was with it. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day has turned even colder, the wind more forceful, the sun a faint white patch. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I once read in The Thriving Executive by R. J. Sherman that the number one way to sustain a job in this day and age is to make yourself indispensable. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Helpful Helpdesk Inc. took millions of calls a day, from all over the world. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

That was a day the lacrosse kids stayed to use the school field. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The minister of education also sponsored a school in his area, and every year there was a day of competition between the two. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leave and stay in the country for a few days! First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe Mom will get to write about poultry shows too one day, and she’ll take me with her when she goes to cover the story, like she used to sometimes. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Even on a hot day San Sebastian has a certain early-morning quality. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

But that day they’d walked up together, just the two of them. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The next day, Saturday, might have been one of the best days of my life, and the funniest part about it is, nothing really happened. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

She did not have to wait long for it to begin; in fact, she had barely made it through the task of giving the children the day’s spelling words before the summons came. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The renter had been living with Grandma since Dad died, and even though I was at her apartment basically every day, I still hadn’t met him. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

From then on, night and day, Buck never left his prey, never gave it a moment’s rest, never permitted it to browse the leaves of trees or the shoots of young birch and willow. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jesse called it one of the most exhausting nights of his life—they didn’t sleep at all—but it meant paying for only one day’s truck rental. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s the first thing my dad teaches the students on the first day,” she said. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The days and hours began to speak now with a clearer tongue. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

They let me be, and next day I could go out with my squad, though I felt shaky. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The woods became our savior, and each day I went a bit farther into its arms. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He placed it in the middle of a paddock where his cattle had been three days ear- Her. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

After two days with the Pentagon Papers, Sheehan returned to D.C. and showed his notes to Max Frankel, the Times's Washington bureau chief. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

When the Long Dance was over most people slept the day away, and gathered again at evening to eat and drink. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

On Thursdays kitchen girls and garden boys, dressed in their Sunday best, continued coming to the townships to spend their day off with their families and friends. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told Mam he was very sorry for her troubles and he’d give her a prescription for something to ease the pain of the days to come. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

That was more than a day’s pay, Daddy said. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was moving slowly; it had only been a few days since she’d been able to get up after being sick with dysentery. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“But if you don’t die today, you’ll die tomorrow, or the next day. And then the same question will arise. How will you face that terrifying ordeal?” The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I speak so rarely these days that when I do, people make a point of paying attention to me. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

As days turned into weeks and the likelihood of finding Father deteriorated, our situation became increasingly desperate. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

All night they walked, and in the first dawn Kino searched the roadside for a covert to lie in during the day. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

She cooked his favorite dish, potato shorwa, though he could scarcely eat more than a few spoonfuls, and took him out every day for a brief walk around the block. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the early days of space travel, one consideration in choosing astronauts was weight. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

From that day forward swimming became a part of Robin’s everyday life. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

The survivors remained in the sick bay with the doc for the rest of the day, but the crew couldn’t stop talking about them. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He tells her he has a deadline at work, but it’s not true—that’s the day that he and Maxine are leaving for New Hampshire, for two weeks. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

So every day he gets in his white van, still with its rainbow logo, and makes his way through the city, watching it rise again. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

One day, Ann was folding clothes at her job while her employer was having tea with a friend in the next room. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He believed he had once seen an Elf in the woods, and still hoped to see more one day. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It is possible that historians will one day look back on the images of black men in gangsta rap videos with a similar curiosity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I need you alive and so does Julie. Now don’t be a dramatica like Aunt Lorraine. Think about how wonderful it’s going to be living someplace with heat and electricity and three meals a day.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

It had taken the rest of the day and most of the night for the Brazen Beasts to gather up the corpses. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She’d figure it out one day, but for now she could go on believing that some higher power sent me where it thought I needed to be. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I tried one day to get some guys to play with me at lunch, but without Scout, they wouldn’t. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was evidently the portion of the castle occupied by the ladies in bygone days, for the furniture had more air of comfort than any I had seen. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Here she let me slide on half the problems for all the days I was absent—why can’t I show more effort? The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

I mark off every day on the calendar. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Up until a few days before, we still weren’t sure 1 would be going to school at all. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

On the afternoon of the first day, the charter was read aloud, section by section, to the people in English, Sesotho, and Xhosa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could only imagine what she’d be feeling the day before next school year—freshman year of college. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

My cousin Mlungisi, to this day, cannot comprehend how I survived being as naughty as I was for as long as I did, how I withstood the number of hidings that I got. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In those early days, this was one of the only times that we could converse. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If a student pleased her during a particular period, he could not count on special treatment in the next day’s class, and that was as true the other way around. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The following day, the plate of cookies was still there. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“But men who go out and risk their lives every day would like a little more respect.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a day’s training I am judged fit to go out with a team, where I soon discover that life is nothing like the movies, at least not if the movie is Dusting. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day I had asked my parents why my brothers and sister and I couldn’t go to Kiddieland. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

That was the last time she had seen his face . . . until the day she was brought before him in King's Landing. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Jackie had been numb all day at work, knowing the worst was to come. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

So I fished around in my pocket and brought out an Indian arrowhead that I’d found the day before and gave that to her. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because your lazy husband forgets to put it out on the right pickup day. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

And though I’ve disagreed with the idea every day this week in humanities class, sometimes I think I know what he meant. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

"You know they don't give me all day up in here." How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

One day over lunch Ethel announced that when she was old enough, she intended to spread the Christian word to African primitives. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

On especially black days I sometimes tell myself that if I’d loaded up with degrees when I was able, I might not now be teaching anything quite so collegiate and hopeless as Advanced Writing 24-A. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

The job is wheeling Brian Finestein around the block in his baby carriage after school, for an hour or a little longer if it isn’t too cold, one day a week. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

When I finally caught my breath, I smelled the smoke and saw the light, bright as day, outside my window. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She realizes that there have been other days when the pink-yellow light of morning made everything look hopeful, but not to her. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

There was another volunteer working that day, an older woman with a long gray braid and bright blue eyes. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Booth was already dead, so four of the eight conspirators who had been put on trial took center stage on execution day. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That was the scariest sight I ever seen in all my born days,” Herbert Spencer said. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Strider judged that it had fallen two days before, and had washed away all footprints. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Baxter had warned us to leave the house extra early so that we wouldn’t miss the bus on the first day of school. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“I guess I’ll have to save the French toast for good-news days from now on. Anyhow, it’s not really bad news, just...” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

There was an hour allotted each day when they could do whatever they liked. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In the view of the white authorities those days, sloping shoulders were one stereotype of the Coloured physique. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well! I call that a good day’s work. I’m gonna calculate our detour route now. See you all at dinner!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

There are polar ice caps, drifting white clouds, raging dust storms, seasonally changing patterns on its red surface, even a twenty-four-hour day. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But his talk all those years later was a sobering reminder of how high the stakes had been that day whether we knew it or not. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

For the first few days she was at the home she cried a lot. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

There existed in those days a true camaraderie in our profession, whatever the small differences in our approach. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Associations with other men were for a week or for a day and then they drifted apart. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Young Tristran Thorn, eight years old, did not attend, finding himself packed off to stay with extremely distant relations in a village a day's ride away. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Felix had devoted the past three days to basketball and not much else. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a day of happiness and celebration. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

By the end of the day the hurricane was off Cape Hatteras, on its way north. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

What was it the teacher in her Legal Issues class said the other day? Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was a clear day, and although we couldn’t see the sun setting, we could see the sky’s response. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

When day began to dawn above the hills Farid went to the two captives, gave them water, a little of the dry bread they still had left, and a few olives. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Like the earth, the sandy bricks radiated the day’s trapped heat. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Away from the fences, the armed guards, and the strange sense of threat that pervaded Sayle Enterprises, it was as if he were breathing fresh air for the first time in days. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The day before that, I woke up in my own bed and watched an old woman die. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to one report from 1689, each pair of workers was expected to cut and bind 4,200 stalks a day. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I watched with the profoundest satisfaction as five days of grime ran down my legs and out the drainhole, and noticed with astonished gratitude that my body had taken on a noticeably svelter profile. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

One day I memorized all of “The Walrus and the Carpenter” because I wanted Ruthie to hear me. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked busying myself with work all day, going back and forth to the river and continuously washing dishes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I remember the first day I made the whole walk by myself, the day he didn't have to carry me in one arm and the case in the other. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Things at school seemed to get worse every day. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Arable gave him a feeding around noontime each day, when Fern was away in school. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Hazel could recall Hawkbit—a rather slow, stupid rabbit whose company for five snowbound days underground had been distinctly tedious. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The block was safe to play on under the watchful eye of housewives who sat in the windows in the summer, catching whatever breeze there was in those days before air-conditioning. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Of course today would be the day the sun got stuck in the sky. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But that was as far as things went that day. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I know it was late May because each day he dropped a small pebble into an old can that he’d found on the beach. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

After he was gone to the yucca fields the next day, I searched and searched, but I could not find the spot again. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was almost a relief one day when a sudden squall hit them and had the men fighting like demons to reef sails before the masts snapped. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day our posters are up all over the walls—and they stay up. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

I do a quick EVA to swap cables, then I'm back at the wheel for the second half of the day's drive. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

We seem to be the horror story of the day. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

We spent days tracking leads, interviewing dozens of people, following wild rumors, investigating different theories. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The next day, he and Marion would be having lunch together or walking down by the playground. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

In Chicago there developed a confusion of orders—no one’s fault—just one of those things that happens, and Adam’s six cars of lettuce stood in the yard for five more days. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But then one day we saw his mother spank him upstairs and he actually cried. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think it’s my favorite day of the year.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, when there was a need, another ferry came in the afternoon, and on that day a second one did, bringing another bag of mail with a single letter in it: for me. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Laurie had to have a quart of fresh milk every day and the milk modifier was expensive. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

To me, a day was mapped out and dressed for; I called it my POD—plan of the day. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“Oh, thank you, sir. You have made my day with your kindness,” I said. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anya hunched over her dress that Zvezda had torn the day before, drawing a needle and thread through the cloth to repair the tear. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He and his buddy Stringer were leaving the same day, and they threw a huge party. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Until a few days ago, I'd always assumed they were fairy tales. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She thanks God for giving her strength to get through the day’s travails. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

And we’re off, not exactly at a run, through the long, rough corridors and up the hill to begin the day. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just curious how much I’m going for these days,” Leo said. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I was cleaning outhouses by the end of the day. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

I follow him thru branches and bushes, the river rushing closer to my right than it’s been in days. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

She bounces again, saying, “Tomorrow would be perfect! It’s Friday. One day, then the weekend...You can get your feet wet, you know?” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

It was on this day, when she was leaving, that I told her my secret name. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, Kasim has his old, ugly car back and it feels like the first day we went out together. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Now I was counted in my cell every day, and I was counted on to be there morning, noon, and night. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The next day I sat in the kitchen with Viola and watched her punching down the bread dough, the cords working in her forearms. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Throughout the entire day at Ellis Park I had been exisiting in a different world, a sort of make-believe world. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day without Monday made her absence grow bigger and bigger in my head, like the tumor my great-aunt Jackie died from. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

To the pond and back—to the pond and back—nearly a full day of walking altogether. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stroke seemed to ease tension in the family too: Deborah’s brothers began calling every day to see how she was doing, and Zakariyya even said he wanted to visit. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The power and truth of that moment stays with me to this day. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The lemonade and bun are delicious and Alphie the new baby is chirping away enjoying his baptism day too innocent to know his name is an affliction. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Only the day before Francis, in a swish of black cashmere and cigarette smoke, had brushed past me in a corridor. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Every day he declined in sagacity and vigor. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“We put the cats down the day they come in.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

“It was last year, but I’m learning and growing every day.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

That day, no one but Holly knew that my dad was in prison. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He’s set his alarm for eight o’clock, not wanting the day to go to waste. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

By the time they got home, they’d received even less food than the day before. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

"You don't look so good. You want the day off?" The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day grew warmer, and the sun beat down upon her head and the burnt remnants of her hair. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Poppet following moments later in a new day only just begun. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But Lyra’s coming had changed everything, and so quickly: within a matter of days she’d left her world altogether. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Jinny woke early the next day because something was in her nose. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“She’d make a big roast and then the next day it was gone. Who was eating all that food? Always looking up at the ceiling. What were they looking at?” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But evidence of the deadly presence of the chemicals was obtained by placing test goldfish in cages in the river; they were dead within a day. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The good days began to outnumber the bad. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“Well, this finger is for today, and this one is for tomorrow, and this one is for the day after that, which is Christmas. You see?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“You couldn’t have picked a better day,” Ben gushed when I wandered over with my own bag full of morels. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

A few days before, on October 5, he and Adolf Hitler had stepped out of a black, armored Mercedes-Benz in the countryside west of Berlin. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Scythe Goddard decided it was a day for samurai swords, although Chomsky refused to part with his flamethrower. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Much against her will, Jo at length consented to sacrifice a day to Mrs. Grundy, and help her sister through what she regarded as ‘a nonsensical business’. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pattie had never met me until the day a hospital supply truck drove through a red light. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“You go out every day,” said de la O. “You were on assignment. You are out there looking for Chuckie—the VC.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was the end of the hottest season, or the building of a storm, for we were coming into hurricane season, or maybe it was just because most people had worked hard all day. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘That,’ the BFG said, ‘is because one day I is catching so many dreams I is not having the time or energy to write out long labels. But there is enough to remind me.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two days after my operation, my temperature soared to 106 and I started convulsing. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How can you even say that? I haven’t had a wink of sleep. I haven’t eaten anything in about three days.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I wonder now if the day I set out to steal that tax return wasn’t the first time I left home to go to Buck’s Peak. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The postal, box near school has a sign on it that says mail pickups are every day at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

French officials warned the Americans that their most secret information, including word-for-word reports on their conversations with Beaumarchais, were showing up in London within days. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sat in the rain for seven days straight. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was lonely for a day or so until one morning some man, more recently arrived than I, stopped me on the road. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I smiled as if he had made my day. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, and it’s about time something did. I’ll expect you in three days with another one.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

But it's as if he's some kind of mind reader, because he says: "I'm going to start running. Tomorrow is my first day." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

It’s morning, and there’s a whole day to get through. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But I know from experience they must be two days old. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Two years had passed since the day I met Frankie, but our first encounter was engraved in my memory like a knife wound. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He worked during the day in an offhand, insolent manner, but there was a strangeness to his eyes whenever you spoke to him. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t, so he played a song about a miner’s child who dreamed her daddy would die if he went to the mines that day, but he went anyway. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

My only hope, as I saw it, was the fact that I hadn't washed for days. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Trub says, “One of these days I’ll play that song for you. It might sound depressing, but really it’s about not letting life get you down.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

It’s like my brain has decided to purge information to make space for the events of the last two days. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Each day she went to her mailbox, hoping to find a letter from Lovelace. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

I ran out of oranges on the first day, but I collected more at every village that I slept in. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

On our next to last day on the trail, our sixth since setting off from Rockfish Gap, we were walking along beneath dull skies when there came an abrupt, cold roaring of wind. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“She was almost fourteen years old. She hadn’t been herself for a few days. I think that she probably went away to die.” Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, he had made her gather her few things from the servants’ quarters, where she’d been living, and sent her off. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was a bright, smiling yellow that buzzed like a summer day. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Every day Dell asks me when I plan to go back to middle school. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

It was his first meal for days, and he was hungry. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And there would be horses, thousands of them—something would have to be done about the tons of manure generated each day. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

When I went back to school the next day, the first thing I noticed was that there was a big shift in the way things were. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

We travelled for ten days before we were ensconced in Precambrian rock and vicious pine. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“We don’t have the money now, but I’m hoping some day we will.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

An image jumps out, of sailboats gliding along the bay on a pretty day. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

For a horse, it was said, the pension would be five pounds of corn a day and, in winter, fifteen pounds of hay, with a carrot or possibly an apple on public holidays. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

He had already been blessed enough for one day. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Why was it not possible to cut a few days or weeks out of your life? 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The next day, the American soldiers took the captured boys to Dachau, a liberated concentration camp located just twelve miles outside Munich. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

For several days at a time Nat was not able to take a sight. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly the minutes and hours of Friday tick by, then it’s Saturday, and our last day with Shiloh. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some were dispatched in a day, others were disputed for years. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Saturday is the happiest day of my week. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The very next day, however, to Julie’s surprise, there was a wedding. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I feel guilty for talking about my problems so much over the last few days. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

A strong walker, pre-acclimatized to the altitude, could cover the distance from the Lukla airstrip to Everest Base Camp in two or three long days. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

On the seventh day the ague came upon him again, but he did not stop work. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

So they set out eastward from Astowell into the Open Sea, on the first day of the Fallows, before sunrise. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

On some days I found myself thinking every waking moment about nothing else but my safety—consumed with learning skills that would keep me alive. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she would go to the nursery, where she would rouse and dress the children, take breakfast with them, and settle in for the day’s lessons. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The third: After two days, police surprised him while he was asleep in an empty house near Chahuites, 190 miles into Mexico. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Spending my days in Otavalo, I notice that whenever there’s an indigenous holiday, like Inti Raymi—the Festival of the Sun—the hotels and streets and squares overflow with tourists. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The money we made selling your necklaces was all we had that day—and it was even less than we’d made last time. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

After working all day at the diamond mines, Papa would need the largest serving of rice. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said, “Dad called me from the building that day.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sir Cadogan spent half his time challenging people to duels, and the rest thinking up ridiculously complicated passwords, which he changed at least twice a day. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Remember,” she says after a moment, “every day is another day closer to getting your new leg.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

He told himself no one was as clean as they had been, but with school officially starting again the next day, he wanted to look as respectable as possible. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

My mother gave quick instructions to our porter, pointed to our two small trunks and handed him money, as if she had done this every day of her life. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

My name will be on it one day. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

He helped Robin to the ground and got him in to the fire, for he was cold and stiff from the long day in the saddle. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

In the back of my mind, I thought about my winter sickness, about all those days she spent in bed with me, comforting me, refusing to leave me, but I buried those thoughts and counted. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“What you’re saying contradicts what I see and hear every day in my company,” said Ziegfried, a tall, bald-headed German who worked as senior manager for a large German electronics company in Johannesburg. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a few days, thankfully, it stops, as though my wish has come true. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reporters outside Dawit’s store, the way they crowded around Moss days after his father’s death, their microphones in his face. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

In those days, treetops poked behind the walls of every house. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even though the Wave came out only once a month, I worked on it every day. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The class was made up of all white, wealthy kids who couldn’t have more stress than planning what they were going to wear the next day. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t announce it to the press for a few more days, but the man had made the decision of his career. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“My dad’s resented me since the day I was born, Percy,” she said. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

One day, a worker slashes a volunteer with a machete. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘But handsome is as handsome does, as we say in the Shire; and I daresay we shall all look much the same after lying for days in hedges and ditches.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He stays in bed for the whole day waking only to cough and cough and cough. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

"Be brave. I swore to see you home, and now I can. The day has been chosen." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There’s been another woman in his life since his days in these very mountains, but everyone knows she’s only a companion—a mother, a sister, not a true lover. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fiona did not enter the attic that first day, but the sound of her steps turned Cora as stiff as her old sailing mate Skipper John. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It might have been the day that gray photograph was taken. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as it had been the first time Ophie had opened the closet, the day Mrs. Caruthers had demanded she never open the closet again. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I’m almost eleven years old, and if I have to look at puppies in paradise one more day, I think I’ll puke! Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The next day at breakfast, Tanasia and I are the first two there. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

These days she took to cutting her hair in the back with her dress-pattern scissors to keep it from growing. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Hazel tried that with Mrs. Jacobs on her first day at Lovelace. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I’ll get off early from the squadron one day next week and take you. But I got something big planned for this morning,” Bull said, looking down at his watch. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I arrived home from school the next day and found a note on my desk: Mr. Ferro called—machine shop. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I grew up wanting to make dreams, too. Your husband gave me a great gift that day. I hope one day I can repay him.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Imagine a child born in the first second of the first day of the first year: January 1 in 1 AD. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Daffodils clustered like bugle bands in front yards as the Beans Boys left school behind on a sunny, cloudless day. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

After that day of watching him at Sundae School. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

She’s just as dark and wears the same frayed red dress every other day. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But the Russians hadn’t come yet, even two days after the war. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The memories began to flood in, to drown him fully in the horror of that day, but he pushed them away. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She'd been here only a few days and was adding Mr. Grant to her already long list. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“We’re all going back to the old days and the old ways for a week.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jalil guided her, one palm cupped around each of her shoulders, through the same gates outside of which, two days before, Mariam had slept on the sidewalk waiting for him. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Aron lived in a furnished room in Palo Alto, and he walked the mile to and from the campus every day. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In those days, the purposeful act of ending human life was considered the most heinous of crimes. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Five days left to decide how to answer the queen. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“You said it at lunch the 1st day.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

"School's out in a few days, Horace. I'm coming up to the gym and see if I can whip some of that belly off you." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

They just get tired of arguing. at the end of the day. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They grew amazingly fast—so fast that their skin split open every few days and they wriggled out of it—“just as a person,” she noted, “pulls off a shirt over his head.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Honestly, I just wanted to take it easy for the rest of the day. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He frowned and said, “You get three meals and fifty cents a day. It would be twice that if you had your own mule.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brigid was on the brink of tears all day. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

On this day he is walking for three hours, returning to Zundert from school. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

One day she relented, and we set forth from the castle in a fitter enclosed by curtains and borne by servants. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they would remain there in silence until nightfall, opposite each other, looking into each other's eyes, loving each other as much as in their scandalous days. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

In addition to training sessions twice a day, we had to sit for media interviews from the gaggle of media outlets—both national and international—camped out in Rio. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Ivy thought about the question she’d left in her locker the day before—Talk about what?—and her hands shook as she reached for the answer. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Six weeks is a long time, Agent. And it’s a hostile island. They’ll be lucky to last two days,” the Boss answered. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

It was almost five o’clock in the evening, although it could have been five o’clock in the morning; the sky had barely changed at all throughout the day. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

She must do this each day until it stopped hurting. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“My dad and I bought this stuff a few days ago.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Just days before my fifth birthday, my mother took me to Philadelphia to register me for ballet lessons at the Rock School for Dance Education. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said revolution on the first day of class, just like Sister Mukumbu had taught us about revolution and spinning and changing on our first day at the People’s Center. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

After days in which the Democratic nomination filled the papers, there came suddenly the thunderbolt of General McClellan’s response to his nomination. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know how she fed him day after day and night after night from the same cob of corn, but he was full and content. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The journey would take Charles all day, about twelve hours. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They say the rules change every two days. And they almost never come into the city anymore.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow might be the last day; he hoped so. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

And then one day she started making excuses. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I was sitting in the morning-room, having just read the menu for the day. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

My mama told me that she walked into the room one day and saw the mistress sitting right there next to the master’s bed, knitting and looking fit as a fiddle. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

And their daemons got to pump and pump all day and night, or else perish with ’em. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

People had been nervous around it for a day or two after Kilvin’s demonstration, but it had soon become just another piece of equipment. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The day falling back piece by broken piece into view with school and the storm, the tree in the house. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The next day I stole the best cake I could find from a bakery. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

While sitting there, he caught sight of an old friend from his Tijuana days, owner Bert Blume, and the two began talking. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though the day is bright for a change, it is particularly cold, brisk air stinging his ears. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He leaned back against the wall, looking at me as if he’d had me figured out from the day I was born. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

If someone mentions the Cottages today, I think of easy-going days drifting in and out of each other’s rooms, the languid way the afternoon would fold into evening then into night. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each day, Olga begins at dawn at the city’s drab public general hospital. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The next day the saguaros and prickly pears were fat from drinking as much as they could, because they knew it might be a long, long time until the next rain. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Which I’m not, as my stepfather reminds me ten times a day. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days after he’s settled them all in, Vincent receives a visitor who vehemently disapproves and threatens to divulge all to Dorus and Anna. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

September 22: Four women were arrested and sentenced to thirty days in the workhouse. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

In the old days, when voting time came, the politicians would tell us we were all the same, one happy family. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She was, but if you want her to never be around a baby again, you have to let them know what happened that day of the 911 call.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And let’s not forget the two days of ditching school—a rotten cherry on top. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Two days later, on Wednesday, June 17, a German U-boat surfaced off the coast of Florida in Ponte Vedra, near Jacksonville. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“Let’s call it a day,” Mr. Hayes says at the front of class. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Strikebreakers were safe inside the Yard, but those who journeyed beyond the Great Gate at day's end walked into danger. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We had rice most days for dinner, but I didn’t want it with peas or butter beans, or even collard greens. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I am sure,” said she, “I cried for two days together when Colonel Miller’s regiment went away. I thought I should have broken my heart.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Back when my mom was on drugs. I saw her strung out in the park one day. She came up and tried to hug me. I ran off screaming.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

One day he won and so went double or nothing the next, and lost. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I knew nonwhite graduate students who were bewildered by the requirement to compose a term paper and who each day were humiliated when they couldn’t compete with other students in seminars. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three days’ worth of food, maybe four if she skipped a meal or two. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I felt happy-tired, like I had done a lot in one day and had nothing else to do but rest. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The most important thing would require me to go back to the difficult days of August and September. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was denied because of an earlier drug possession charge for which he had pleaded guilty and served thirty days in jail. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was a big part of the class grade, and Tommie had been worrying about it since the day their teacher assigned it. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was that same unwanted tourist most days, not because Moss saw no need for it, but because he was tired of it consuming him so often. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He needed more money; if he did not get more than he had now he would not know what to do with himself for the rest of the day. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, you can’t spend your days in the Main Administrative Office and then hope to scare someone with a story about a headless ghost. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He moved around silently on the days that Master retired to the study for hours. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

What is this business of letting someone in off the street to run a nursing home, or at least a vital chunk of a nursing home, for a day? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama said it could wait one more day if we wanted to get there in one piece. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the third day, Monique had to go back to work. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father must have had to drive the car to work the next day looking the way it did, and I’m sure that didn’t sit well with him. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He sees her hollow eyes and her protruding stomach as she loses more and more strength each day. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

You would think they would need them, spending their days in the sun as they do. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Every time I passed Harry on the stairs for the next few days, I smiled stiffly. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

In meetings over the next few days, Groves was given the complete picture. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four days after Anna’s wedding, Vincent moves to Brussels for his trial period at the school. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I was thinking about her one day, walking home from the grocery store on Gibb Street. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day is the same: movement therapy, homework, lunch, group therapy, art therapy, individual therapy, then “closing circle.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They lived by day and she by night, and they shared one meal in between. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

One spring day, Dr. Greenfield—the addict turned psychologist and addiction specialist—got a new patient in his Connecticut office. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Daddy died first, then three days later, my mother. I nursed them both, and I never got as much as a pimple.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

His stomach hurt, and the thought of running the rest of the day suddenly depressed him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He mimicked me from the day we’d met again by the pool. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Said they should just come cheek it every day, until something happened. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Baker figured that since I was leaving early, I should do the whole day’s work in the morning. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I deliberately drink one every single day—just because I know they don’t want me to. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

She explained over her shoulder that we were going to the doctor and she’d “pass the time of day” on our way home. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would need to five from day to day on what I could catch, trying to get enough on the days when I could fish to last through the times when I could not. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d be one of the kids clamoring for “more, more please, sir” when Mr. Bolton would eventually sigh and say it was enough for that day. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Then, with annoyance, she realized that it was probably Agnes Stokes, sneaking around to find out why Gilly had skipped school for two days. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

I can go a whole day sitting in front of the house and only see about five people. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I guess I’d want comfort, too, if I did nothing but lay eggs all day long, week in and week out.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so I zeroed in on my first goal of the day—getting to my first class without barfing up all my soggy, microwaved cereal. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I need a pocket for the mini gummy bears pack that Muhammad gave me the other day. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

A few days later, there were two letters on the kitchen table from the housing office. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It’s easy enough to figure out: 𝝅, our distance from the sun, three hundred sixty-five days, and there you go. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

"I'm not sure how that will be possible, since you will be rotting in jail for the rest of your days." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

And just beyond them were villages crowded cheek by jowl—“there was one day when we passed more than twenty.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She sat all day long staring at nothing. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Our dog, Tinkle, the part-Jack Russell terrier who had followed Brian home one day, caught the rat in his jaws and banged it on the floor until it was dead. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I lifted my head to the sky and let the water fill my mouth and swallowed my first sip of water in two days, cool and so sweet. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

That was the day I rode my sled in through her cellar window. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Engineers spent two days getting rid of the zero, repairing the engines, and putting the Yorktown back into fighting trim. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The next day I broke one of Mom’s big rules. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Police found me two days later, wandering the dirt roads west of Calypso, wearing a grocery bag for underwear and covered in hickies I couldn’t explain. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Our country outing next day was more in the nature of a rehearsal at first. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

And two days before, on the third day of June, Raymie Clarke’s father had run away from home with a woman who was a dental hygienist. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

One day, on my way out of the building at shift’s end, Chavez asked if I’d heard what had happened during the executive team’s inspection of the Box that day. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I shudder to think what the state of my in-tray would be if I was away from work for five days.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Then it had been getting free of Tante Heleen and the Menagerie, and after that, surviving each day, getting a little stronger with every morning. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The practical, pragmatic part of our upbringing wouldn’t allow me to put much stock in the gentle, well-intentioned platitudes people would heap on us a few days later at the funeral. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The best part of our holiday centers day took place when our Collaborative friends visited. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

She did eat about once a day, though, so at least we found comfort in the fact that she had some will to live. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Nurse, this young man can go home. I want to see him in my office in ten days.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I should’ve just shut up, but I thought I could make the day turn safely normal if I just said the right thing. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

On his door he tacked the same sign he had posted there before, stating that he would be absent for several days on business. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

In those days, phone calls were manually patched through by an operator at a switchboard, with long-distance calls often relayed through multiple switchboards. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I prayed I could have her kind of courage on the trial day. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The wild and the dogs and the stunning joy of dancing through the wilderness with them hung over me—no, danced out ahead of me—every single waking minute of every single waking day. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

When I climbed inside, my mother instantly said: "First days are always hard." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Over the next few days, I tried to get more strategic in my tactics. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Mary Alice clutched her head, which she often did these days. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Television is like a strain of the common cold that can spread like lightning through a population, but only causes a few sniffles and is gone in a day. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knows no teacher acts like this on the first day of school. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

The tropical, stale heat the sidewalks had been sucking up all day hit me in the face like a last insult. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Then one day the sun glowed blood red. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Today’s the day!” she says as we check in. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

As I cleared away the table, Madam informed me that my day off would begin after I brought in wood and washed up the dishes. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this way she was able to get herself out of bed every day. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the rest of the night and most of the following day, Beck lay out on the ice, exposed to the merciless wind, cataleptic and barely alive. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Even as in biblical times, there were miracles on the earth in those days. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, there were many days on the ice when getting a sight from the heavens was impossible. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

It was quite unlike any other party they had seen that day. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

There was nothing so excusable that caused her distraction this time—on a cold day in February. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, he dropped his mask on the ground, and like smoke on a windy day, he disappeared. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

But whether the intervals were of days or weeks or only seconds, there was no way of knowing. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I remember watching them that first day, comparing them. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And then one day you have to look. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I hear him saying, “Hey, Veer—it’s not every day you get lowered into a hole by a guy with a wart on his nose, right?” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The next day I stood bravely by his door while others went into his office and left. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

And now that school’s out, I have all day to look. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“So? Let’s hear it. I don’t have all day.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mother’s ten days in the hospital were pure misery for Dad. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adele did not mention Grandpa’s arrest a few days before I turned five. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t talk to her for several days; we looked only, small glances, like sips. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

For one more day at least, she was alive. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

She had slapped him when he complained he hadn’t eaten anything all day. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The first day we came to the farm, there was someone in the woods spying on us. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

"Here's another thing I always carry. A souvenir of Oxford days. It was taken in Trinity Quad--the man on my left is now the Earl of Dorcaster." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Classes were canceled and the masters spent several hours of each day conducting examinations. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Sunday is the only day she can fit in a full night’s rest. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

It was the first warm day of spring. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I tossed and turned all night, worrying that the soldiers would be gone the next day. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was born on January 1, 1900! I lived every day of the twentieth century!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It reminds me of the day the blue-eyed Jewish girl was shot. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

So when I was growing up, me and Darryl would work on puzzles of my mother every single day. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

As in, That was the best day ever! The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But then again, if I were to say, ‘What a nice day,’ quite breathless, you might look about you to see what had put me in a fright. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fishermen in the village would trade stories at the end of the day as they unloaded their catches and set their boats up for the night. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“I feel like I haven’t seen you for days and days.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Thus it was that my classmates and I prayed easily throughout the school day. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Asked one ordinary Congo afternoon what she'd done with her day, Hugh's mother answered that she and a fellow member of the Ladies' Club had visited a leper colony on the outskirts of Kinshasa. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The bank battle was an unpleasant interlude, but it didn’t interrupt what was becoming the key portion of most of Bobby’s days: reading. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then one day she’s discharged, and the pastels take it apart, and put it back in the box for other patients. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Since it was a snappy gold-colored day, we went off to get some more rabbit skins to finish my winter underwear. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The click of her high heels reminded Gerald of that day long ago, and he suddenly felt a little dizzy. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mass anti-Zionist rally was announced for a date a few days before Passover. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

And on the seventh day, I got into the weirdest fistfight of my life. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I spent the rest of the day checking out the girl. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Because there might come a day when there is no flashlight, there is no gun, there is no guiding hand. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

One day, Helmuth decided that the German people deserved to know the truth about the Nazis. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Gone were the small-town rhythms and the day of the waterman, replaced by connections to the larger world and the vitality of middle-class dreams. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

McCandless said that he would be staying only a day, just long enough to wash his clothes and load his backpack. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Georgie lay still and quiet beside me, I told him the familiar story of our days at Oak Hill Manor with Mother and Daddy. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

This time I knew exactly what was out there—a lot of long, taxing miles, steep rocky mountains, hard shelter floors, hot days without showers, unsatisfying meals cooked on a temperamental stove. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was strange being so close to him twice in the same day. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, if I fought with my brother, shed tie our shoes together and make us go around like that for a day. And if we so much as shoved each other, wed get another day.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Despite all the invites, the congregation didn’t swell much that day. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Anyway, Shorty was really serious about nothing except his music, and about working for the day when he could start his own little group to gig around Boston. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had thumbtacked a poster to the back wall of the locker on the first day of school. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In order to confirm her prediction she brought her cards to the house a few days later and locked herself up with José Arcadio in a granary off the kitchen. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“There is no difference between night and day in this place. I do not see how one can calculate the time.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

We did what we always did that day. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had tuberculosis of the lungs, and he measured his temperature four times a day and had an X-ray once a month. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was a day we had yearned for and fought for over so many years. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brad’s buddies got three days each for ganging up on Patrick after they broke up the original fight. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He said he’d asked his mom a thousand times what she’d said to me that day but that she refused to answer any of his questions, that she’d shut him out completely. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I sat with Zion out on the sidewalk at lunchtime the next day. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

After Aimee’s very worst day in her entire life, hands down, no contest, worst day ever. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

He spent more days in jail than the runaways he brought in, snoring in a cell next to the miscreant he had stopped hours earlier. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

My ticket would get me to Cairns, Australia, a day and a half after I departed. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

No cry of “lights out” was ever given on Robben Island because the single mesh-covered bulb in our cell burned day and night. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The group got a little bigger with each passing day. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it had never, ever occurred to me that they didn’t blow off their steam and go home that day! Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

And I don’t go the next day, either. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They wanted something less fruity than the truth, but truly, what is gayer than a woman who languishes away in a crumbling mansion wearing her wedding gown every day of her life, for the drama? Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He has a list with him of the people he has to call before the business day is over: Call rental office. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

If I’d taken my glove off and popped one of the guys from Buffalo in the face, torn his mask off and given him a bloody nose, I’d have been a hero that day. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

And the older girls curled their hair just so every day, and they walked giggling in their skirts through the rain and mud as soldiers with guns stood in the watchtowers. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Funny, he had not thought of her much during the last day and night. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Alec announced that, according to his calculations, they only had one full day of traveling to go. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

He had led searches himself for the first three days, and had scarcely slept an hour since Arya had disappeared. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

At some point in the day when it pleased me, usually about 11:00 A.M., A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Badal, the water man, would bring it up the hill to our compound every day from the well. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

What do you wish for on the first celebration of the day you lost everything? How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

All day long I was disrespected by criminals; I felt that home should be different. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s hope this curbs the threats from our neighborhood vandal. I’m going to check with the chief. I’m sure he’ll want police detail to stick with your family at least another day.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He told me that he spent Saturdays and Sundays and all his days off there. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Not me—like Juanita I was big boned, darkly bronzed from being out in the sun every day, and homely as a gingersnap. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I just don’t think it’s a good idea to tell her, Arturo. She was coughing pretty bad the other day.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It’s not like the old days when she was pregnant. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

To a day that hardly seemed any better. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

She wore the old black cardigan all the time now, even on warm days, and she insisted on keeping her legs wrapped up in strips of an old wool blanket. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hisao wrote a letter to his family each day; the food, he said, was not very good, but they were not really being mistreated. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

But now that I haven’t been, it’s become one of the many things I miss about Pakistan every day. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Instead of only one day, they now had almost two weeks to work over the coast of Guam. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh,” I said, “when will they ever show these films during the day? I never see anything.” The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Some several of the new investors were merchant relatives of Mr. Gitney’s, the Young Men whom I had seen about the house in earlier days, but whose presence had never amounted to much. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She knew that they were no more human than the woman she had seen in her kitchen on the day of the hunt, but this time, she did not have any desire to ask questions. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Asghar and the other guys made us promise to play again the next day. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

For my part I believe the black lawyer who tells me that there is never a day in his life when he forgets he is black. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, would you like me to open the blinds and let the good Lord’s sun shine in on you, or would you rather sit here in pitch darkness all day long?” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Hailsham was going to close any day and there were plans to sell the house and grounds to a hotel chain. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I was supposed to be spending the day polishing up my CV and my interviewing skills. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stayed in the fodder house all that day, lying on top of the com, listening to the drip of the rain, waiting for dark, when they would set out. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Peacock snails came up frequently in my notes, year after year, but they were difficult to find these days. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He struggled each day, making his way with difficulty down from the sheep pasture in order to teach and help her. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

At night he listened to the whistles of passing trains, and one day in the summer of ’32, he couldn’t bear it any longer. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

This my bedtime, she says, Mexico people sleep in the day, take me. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I swear I started growing to fit the name that very day. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But after a few more days—a few more mealtimes—even that feat was accomplished. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Next to the elevator is the blinking blue light over the metal door Ben showed us on the first day. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe he has changed, if he’s willing to sit near a guy like Dallas at lunch every day. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

When i left my office that beautiful spring day, I had no idea what was in store for me. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fadi sighed, wishing his father were with him, but these days Habib was too busy, or too tired, to waste time clicking away with a camera. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

But the talks proved too abstract and bloodless, and far too disengaged from the social and political issues of the day. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But on good days it still feels like a vacation, an evasion. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

And then one day perhaps the city returns and rips out the sore and builds a monument to its past. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I finished in the top thirty-two, but a blizzard hit the same day we were due to fly home, so we were stuck in Colorado for three days. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

And still I don’t know what day it is. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Malcolm’s mother said she was worried about her mother because she hadn’t been well, and said she’d go over to her house in Wolvercote the next day and see if she was all right. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

At the end of every day, the butchers lovingly cleaned and stored their knives and cleavers, the tools of their trade. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He’s been doing that a lot these days. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I’ve never been that keen on visiting, but lately I been talking a lot about my days in Marshall with this man that be coming to see me now. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t see him again for one hundred and eighty days. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I really want to order something fried, but the last thing I need is my face looking like a pepperoni pizza come the day of the pageant. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I walked to the cigarette counter, where the same girl I had talked with every day waited on me. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prison certainly wasn't funny, but with each new day it was receding into my past. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Each day after this, I visit the plant, bringing it water in a little bowl. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

“One of your tasks will be to sweep the front porch, steps, and walkway every day until the snow comes. Rain or shine,” Mrs. Byrne says as I follow her to the front door. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“We spoke about your thieves’ lamp not more than two days ago. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

After the “Hellos” and the “Good days”, there was an awkward si­lence. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Come on, girls. A long day like this calls for some frozen custard. I asked your mom, Amina, and she said you can come to Kopp’s with us.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Nhamo spent the rest of the day scouting around the area she had chosen for her camp. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remained in my room for two nights and days, not caring that I missed the entertainments in the great hall. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Perhaps, like Reverend Timothy entering the store that day, this was another event that was meant to be, meant to bring her closer to Christ. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Each day you crowd this house like wolves to eat away my brave son’s patrimony. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Her actions were quite controversial back in the day.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

It had only been a day since I’d last seen him, and I hadn’t tried to quell the riot of excitement in my stomach. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

More to the point, I am wondering what the two-job way of life would do to a person after a few months with zero days off. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our darkest fears were confirmed the next day when Father went to empty the stove and discovered the clip, used to fasten it to a pocket, among the ashes. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

For a few days the war was more unimaginable than ever. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day of the recital, Mother told Dad I had a “thing” that night. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I know all this because I used to ask to hear the story over and over: the story of the day I met Sal. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Three days from now, he would be with the merchant’s daughter. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mirjam must have written it to Amalia in class one day, but was forced into hiding before she could send it. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow might be different, but this day had ended well. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was October 7, 2002, and like most days in Stokum, the rank little pinprick of a town where I was born and raised, the seventh of October unraveled in a completely unmemorable way. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Long shadows fell across the water, making it a lot colder, even though the day was bright. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

One day, we boys are playing a game that is much like English football. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

But now I remember the wish, and I can recall the details of that entire day, as clearly as I see my daughter and the foolishness of her life. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started noting the changes in my appearance each day. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The big man had been greensick every day of their voyage. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

"It's an autobiography. The story of my life, so far. There's lots still happening every day, so I'm just trying to keep up with...well, myself." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The spare garage is sheltered, even on blowy days like today. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I spake comfortably to him and fetched water both for him and for those around him, who had not received succor all day. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I practice mostly with a gun, but they reserve an hour a day for specialty weapons, which means I get to use my Mockingjay bow, Gale his heavy militarized one. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

That day I had an answer of sorts—my phone was ringing, I was in a hurry—but I doubted it would fly with Wickersham. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They soil themselves every day instead of washing. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I hope he’s being nicer to you these days. I still remember that time you punched him right in the face. Over a song, wasn’t it?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“The chill’s gone from the air, and the real hot days—the scorchers—are just around the corner.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

These days, I thought of that energy as my own special superpower. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The scorching days of summer were ending, and the days were becoming more comfortable. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The crew drove to the pond and back several times a day. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day at practice Mr. Nipper said he wasn’t going to put anybody else on the team unless there was an injury. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

As the summer days grew hotter and hotter, Chandra and I would stand in the courtyard every afternoon, looking up at the sky, waiting for the rains to cool us. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Every time the memory weaseled its way back inside Toby’s brain, it stung, just as fiercely as though not a single day had passed. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“The circus trainers chained her to the floor, Ivan. All four feet. Twenty-three hours a day.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Then one day Lee sent Johnston some reinforcements from one of his corps and Grandfather found out that the Twenty-third Mississippi was one of the regiments. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moss experienced a flash of a memory then: Esperanza, days earlier, making the college fair about herself. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was easy now to picture what this place would one day become: that sad and desecrated wreck I had first discovered weeks ago. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

My mind flashes back to that day I spent at the beginning of the school year, trying on pointe shoes in a dancewear shop in the U District. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Next day he had forgotten it all again and was hatching more crazy plans. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Dri, tap record. Thank you. Okay, so we are four days on the water, and, well, we are here. We will not be defeated. We will carry Stef’s memory home. Dri?” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it gets to the end of the day we stop again and put up our tent, heavy canvas with wooden poles. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had driven 350 miles to get to Pennsylvania, had spent four long days in the state, and walked a net eleven miles of the Appalachian Trail. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

That was another good thing about going to the zoo on a gray, gray day—no one cared if you shouted. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The kettles were then filled with copies of President Wilson’s speeches and were kept burning day and night. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“If this building is two thousand years old, it makes sense there could be some kind of secret passage left over from the Roman days.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I was always hungry for anyone to give me one-on-one attention, so I was pleased when Mrs. Merritt took me aside one day. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Then we have two days to find my mother.” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

All day long they removed debris from destroyed buildings. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

It feels to Marie-Laure as if they have wound these past four days toward the center of a bewildering maze, and now they are tiptoeing past the pickets of some final interior cell. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

And for the rest of that day I thought, The pest is gone. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Furious that Germany attacked civilians, the British retaliated, bombing Berlin the next day. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The truck continued thus for three more days and nights—four in all since my awakening. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I float through the rest of the day, and he’s all I can think about. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

How if a person dies, and their body is stolen by a zombie master, the zombie master will make the body rise and work all day and all night as a slave. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma was always saying the wrong hurtful things for half the day, then she spent the other half of the day apologizing. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

That day was the beginning of what were known as “contact” visits. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sure “Epsilon-5” would be purged any day if they knew what he just told me. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Yet every day I wish that I was not. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I expected that somebody at the cottage had flipped out and ruined the day for everyone. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Looking at it, Chronicler remembered that though it was the beginning of a day, it was also late autumn and growing colder. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The following day, newspapers carried the story, many on the front pages. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I didn’t think Jimmy was serious, but Colin said we should show up at lunchtime the next day, just in case. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

He said looking for work was more worry than a hard day’s labor. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I came home each day, I would check the mail and intercept any letters from school, answering those that needed answering and discarding the others. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I stayed with Helena the next day, keeping her in bed and using the last of my food supplies. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

One day, someone special is going to look past all of this exterior stuff to see the inner me. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

And about the bunch she wanted to be with every day. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

All that day and night, he waited in the pile of bodies, looking out at the harbor, hoping the flatboat would return. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Only on the third day after the death—the day of the funeral—did he have to share the spotlight. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four more days passed before a US deputy marshal knocked on the door of Anthony’s redbrick house on Madison Street. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The excitement of the day had inflamed her husband’s passions. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It’s like having school twice in one day. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They spent days searching the records of every hotel, boardinghouse, and real estate office they could find, “all,” Geyer said, “to no purpose.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Marcus’s mum had said he was on a day out with the scouts. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been two days since he had eaten, or maybe three. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

‘They shall ride with me at early day. The rest may go with Aragorn and ride as soon as they have a mind.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

"We were hunting in the woods one day. Hidden, waiting for game," I whisper. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

So that’s where I used to go, in the day when no one else was likely to be about, to play my song over and over. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Charles put a letter in the post by six thirty in the evening, it would get to Down around noon the next day. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each day, she seemed to drift further away, to become more insubstantial; it was as if she had the same peculiar wasting illness that had consumed Minnie. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Besides, my trip to Ares 4 will be at least forty days. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The campaign rented an RV for a few days in Iowa, so that we could do barnstorming tours of small towns, punctuated by rousing games of Uno between stops. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

So it goes, and Henry is there, in his head and his lecture notes and his cubicle, every single stupid day, no matter how many shots of espresso he puts in his coffee. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Long and bitter. A life without honor. Until his dying day, men will say he was afraid to fight.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I keep expecting to feel better, but every day it’s a little worse. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Pond was growing weaker with each passing day, and he only had one more braid of sweetgrass to help with the radiation poisoning. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Two days later, when Don Walter sees the article in the paper, he clips it out and posts it above his desk. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would have been impossible to have carried Zero up the hill from here, especially after walking all day with no food or water. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Bing Crosby had stayed up all night recording at Universal so he could have the day off, and came with Mrs. Bing, rooting for yet another hopeless long shot from their barn, Don Mike. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They still grossed Genie out, but every day he got more used to it by shaking the flies into his hand with one eye closed and pretending they were seeds. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Exactly eleven years to the day that my mother was first arrested, the newspapers featured the Moss arrest. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

A door locked somewhere inside me that day and I can't find the key. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

"You let everyone see you so easily. No one needs to know that you don't want a guard. Nobody wants to be followed around all day. Not even the queen." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The days when she couldn’t leave the house, even if she wanted to. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It was almost three o’clock, the most stagnant hour in the day or night. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Hamilton’s last days contained several other incidents of equivalent poignancy, though they were only recognizable when viewed through the knowledge of the looming duel. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

That was where I planned to go the next day to look for chimpanzees. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

That same night, trying to get to sleep in an overnight, I kept thinking about something that had happened to me a few days earlier. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

On days like this the Wall was beautiful. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Siddhartha thanked her and laughed, and when she learned that he had not eaten that day nor the previous day, she ordered bread and fruit to be brought to him and attended him. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then again, maybe he was just playing it cool—he was in the gym that day. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

On the last day in English, we finished selections from Travels with Charley and I turned in my Travelogue assignment. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

A few days before Christmas the man from whom his grandfather rented the farm “turned us off the place,” the boy continued. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was warm, too, more like the dog days of summer than the breezy beginnings of it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Three days before, Laila had gone outside for a breath of air. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I wonder every day whether she still exists. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“I arrived home on the same day I had left. Don’t ask me how. I don’t know. After eight days at home, I came back here.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

That day, she had scooped two babies up and held them both with one arm. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But all day long, though Jane and Michael had watched her anxiously, she had not seemed to be thinking about it at all. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

He was walking through the market one day when he overheard someone ask a butcher for his best piece of meat. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Mars has been visiting me these last few days, keeping me company. He told me of your quest. Find Death in Alaska and release him. Do your duty.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

On the third day they finished the screens and James set to work mending the front steps, with Maybeth to give him an extra hand. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the day construction began on the hospital, Selvam ceased to belong to us. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The security guard at the front door acted like girls were wandering in and out in their gym clothes all day long. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

It was a warm day in Indian summer. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day Liyana’s family rented the whole upstairs apartment of a large white stone house out in the countryside, halfway between Jerusalem and the town of Ramallah. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The day before, Shelly and I had divided the stash of food coloring: seventeen bottles for me, seventeen for her. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

This one told her to perform headstands, that one to chant Vedic verses at specified intervals throughout the day. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

On my way out, I stepped on a plastic animal figurine that had fallen off the top of my bureau days before. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

This raindrop will one day be a king, old man. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The brass band, playing “Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean,” marched and slammed back into town, and everyone took the day off. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would not leave us that day, even for her nap, but rocking in her chair after dinner, she fell asleep, her mouth slightly open, her head rolled awkwardly against her right shoulder. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day, the first minutes of class would be filled by harsh salvos of criticism aimed at Mr. Loring’s round, assailable figure leaning against his lectern. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked like he had not slept in days. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Within a few days of the first ripening, more of them were dropping than we could ever eat. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He missed her every single minute of the day. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

"Within four days of running out of food, he'll barely be able to stand up, let alone control a rover. Plus, his mental faculties will rapidly decline. He'd have a hard time even staying awake." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

When allowance day came, I found one dollar in quarters on my dresser next to my talcum powder. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“The first day of February!” cried Mrs. Bucket. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be all day about it,” she snapped. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

After a few days Boori Ma moved her baskets and her cooking bucket to the rooftop as well. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She had been there for the last three days, ever since the mailman had delivered another letter from Milton. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We are left with a cup of barley and a cup of wheat for each man per day, and this is filled with wriggling mealworms. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The rains, which should have come in early summer, withheld themselves, and day after day the skies shone with fresh and careless brilliance. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Let her go. Better to waste a day than another month. Maybe a little tour of Twelve is just what she needs to convince her we’re on the same side.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Only a few days before the meeting, my banning orders, as well as Walter’s, had expired. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day a team of people methodically sorted through the trash heaps in search of anything that might be at all useful. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later, two slow-moving men with heavy feet came in to see the boss. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But after the journey north the evening games had disappeared, and Ophie sorely missed those better days. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

They cried and wailed, for fear and great wonder had come upon them with the rising of the day. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

After the pictures, we’d be free for the rest of the day to mourn the final moments of our unstructured summer. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then he returned to his preparations, and that afternoon it was announced that the Heart of a Dream would leave harbor in three short days. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

How could it be that my first one, that long-ago day with Maeve, still seemed as fresh in my heart as my conversation with Stephen and Samar from the previous night? Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Okay, thank you. Have a good day now.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The next day was a Sunday, and as he had every weekend for weeks, Joe took Joyce and drove over to the lot on Lake Washington where his father was building his new house. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

With our free hands we gripped each other’s fingers like we’d known each other a lot longer than two days. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll be together again in a few days,” he said, tightening his arm around me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The name of the man who had stood naked in ranks that day to receive his Distinguished Flying Cross from General Dreedle had also been—Yossarian! Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I was underground, but Walter managed to put the two of us together in a house in the township and we spent the whole day talking. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then one day, the parson’s daughters fell sick. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

I wanted to ask her about the vision Hestia had shown me, about her early days with Luke and Thalia. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

But I only managed two days of revenge. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The next day, Shumach wrote humorously of the assembled onlookers at the match: “Chess spectators are like Dodger fans with laryngitis—men with rampant emotions but muted voices.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

As we walked into Kevin’s hospital room the next day, the foul smell of death was choking me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I remembered the first time I met him, that first day of mine at Manderley, when he, and Beatrice, and Giles had all been at lunch, and Beatrice had been tactless about Maxim’s health. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I sit there, broken in half, chugging the rest of my beer like it’s orange juice, remembering the English guy downing the gin that day. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I was a little girl, not even six years old, when the happy days with my family in Juba disappeared forever. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The kids who are going to find the Golden Tickets are the ones who can afford to buy candy bars every day. Our Charlie gets only one a year. There isn’t a hope.” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

To this day, I have an excellent photographic memory that enables me to remember details of the day-to-day moments of my life, indelibly. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Now, I know hip-hop is what you kids are all about these days,” she says. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“It was a good day. And good pie.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

His affection grows day by day, but some mysterious force is holding us back, and I don’t know what it is. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

They certainly have a great deal to do and are all overworked day after day. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mess or no mess, I’m thinking about that day I look back twenty years from now, and I’m not about to have some rent-a-tux on my arm.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

‘You better stay up here because they got policemen guarding the yard. Maybe in a few days I can bring you something to eat.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Until that day, Shirley had never really understood something Grandfather had told her many times. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

As for cleaning the house and making a fire, well, I would do that later: the day was long, and my mother’s job hunts often took her away from home for the whole day. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was going to be another long work day. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

On rainy days, we’d play tic-tac-toe for hours or watch Power Puff Girls marathons on TV. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Akira had his own shelf too, filled with “Japanese” rocks and “special” dirt and “nice” grass that he collected during the day. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Today,” he said softly, “we got the whole day to spend together. Ain’t that grand?” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I shall tell you of the days to come. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

On the second day they pulled down the rest of the honeysuckle on both sides of the house and gathered all the piles together near the edge of the marsh. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The old brain's getting wonky these days. Sorry, son." Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The journey to Machu Picchu lasted several days. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

She was in the same pretty white dress she’d worn on reaping day. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“But the day Marcus hit you—that was the day that you stopped wanting to do stuff together. You stopped—” He shook his head. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Back in the courtroom, Mr. Richardson was grateful that no one heard the last day, when Mrs. McCullough had been called to speak. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Parents who spent their days designing, building, fixing, and operating machines of transportation signed their sons up and gave free rein to their own tinkering instincts. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

We only knew that Milton was suddenly around the house during the day. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The day was consumed in bringing water to the afflicted. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

But up until day five—and ever afterward, on the whole—Our Father was delighted with this new attention from the chief. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then one day Mamacita and the baby boy arrived in a yellow taxi. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come tomorrow at daybreak, then. Three days it took me to make that box, so you will give me nine days’ work in return. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He edges through the compartments, his duffel bag heavy with books for his Renaissance architecture class, for which he has to write a paper over the next five days. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the appointed day, an ominous hive of an inch or so square popped up on the colt’s coat. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he’d realized that day that there was no better time for it. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“Have you ever,” Czerny said to me one day, “thought about starting a little after-school program for kids?” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He wondered if there was, only a few days after the hurricane, already a market for her services. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Now the time of disaster had come; they would not survive another day. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

One bright and fragrant spring day—as if on a wild equinoctial whim—Holmes suggested that Minnie invite her sister to Chicago to see the world’s fair, at his expense. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

That first day, we were clumsy with our new tools and extracted litde. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Traveled by night, hide by day, found food wherever it presented itself, sometimes going without for days. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

School and the family and the things that happened every day were in the outside room. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Mother wore that same faded cotton saree every day—she needed a new one made of silk to wear on holidays. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

"Your dad's a big guy, Tara," David said the other day when I tried to join him on the swing. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Min was the only potter who had not visited Kang’s display that day. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

In a day she romped a little and by the end of the week she was a well dog. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, I heard I was there for two days. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

But the next day there came no dawn, and the Grey Company passed on into the darkness of the Storm of Mordor and were lost to mortal sight; but the Dead followed them. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He remembers the sustained isolation it had demanded, speaking to no one for days at a time, and so he doesn’t say anything. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Giants screeched, moaned, grunted, and hummed that the bride was beautiful, the groom was handsome, they would be healthy for long and forever, and this was the happiest day in anybody’s memory. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Stanley must have looked surprised, because Mr. Sir went on to explain that they started early to avoid the hottest part of the day "No one is going to baby-sit you," he added. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

How was she going to sell enough lemonade to earn sixty dollars in two days? The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

In April, Melissa called me one day at home to let me know about a snarky column written by Maureen Dowd of the New York Times. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And of course, in Lord Darlington's days, when ladies and gentlemen would often visit for many days on end, it was possible to develop a good understanding with visiting colleagues. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

He recollected that on a good day in winter, when the maple trees stood bare, he could look through his dormer window out beyond the trees and see the green salt water to the southwest. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She’s not looking at me, but she doesn’t try to push past me as if I don’t exist, the way she acted the day before yesterday—the way I thought she would this morning too. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But on calm days when the sun was not too harsh and on calm nights, he came out. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a few days after that card, and she’s trying to be friendly. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Washing-up day on the island was a simple process, and everyone loved it. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

In the days that followed she grew strong and fat. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Next day, early in the morning, they came down again to the borders of the Road. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Please? It’s my first day pretending to be Duke in front of the cameras.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He told me everything he did every day. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

With just nine days to go before their first game, Luma figured her best shot at getting this group of boys to bond was to make them face a great challenge together. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Perhaps having looked into her face that day, he had counseled his companions against revenge: It will cost you. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

While we waited for Mnyamani to map out our bottle-stealing itinerary for the day, out of the corner of one eye I saw a group of schoolboys coming down the street, heading in our direction. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her attempts to track Scythe Faraday’s movements on the day he died was proving harder than she thought. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

All day I wanted to sleep, after we got to Basic Training. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Creekwood really blows its load on costume days all at once. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

But the big visit happened Wednesday evening, one day after Fang’s name had hit the paper. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

They had started the rebuilding of the windmill the day after the victory celebrations were ended. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Every day, he woke up wondering if the stick would somehow catch fire and burn, and he would cease to exist. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Under an old day planner and a couple of overdue library books, I found the museum gift shop bag. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Augurs left me in the middle of the Great Wastes for the First Trial. After a few days without water, I started falling down a lot.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

In it, Aaron stood on a soccer field, the same field I saw every day through the window of my math class. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t know about that, but the other day President Clinton said the polio vaccine is one of the most important things that happened in the twentieth century, and her cells involved with that too.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Only one day old and he yawns with the concentration of a wise man. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t bear being left alone for another day. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And none of us, even on the sunniest days, went without his furled umbrella. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then one day after school I followed her. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

By day’s end there was every indication that Chicago’s fair would become the most heavily attended entertainment in the history of the world. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The next day, I stood on Thomas’s old front porch, gripping a bunch of flyers. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

And two days later, as a red dawn broke across a windswept sky, Bran found himself in the yard beneath the gatehouse, strapped atop Dancer as he said his farewells to his brother. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We spent those days frantically trying to clean the house in anticipation of the return of the child-welfare man. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

One day, a weird thing happened to me. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

This made her very hungry all through the day. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

When, one day, his butler overheard him thundering away from his bathtub, he approached to see what the matter was. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Because Bill unexpectedly outlived Rita by a few days, he had inherited much of her wealth, and upon his death the money went to one of his relatives. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Outside, in the ring of trees around the pond, the birds were celebrating, giving the new day a brass band’s worth of greeting. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I loved the days at the end of summer. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She wore an outfit entirely made of sequins to celebrate her first day and appeared as we all stood outside the classroom, waiting for school to start. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He looked like he hadn’t slept in days. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

When I go to work the next day, I don’t have to fake being tired and pale, because I can’t sleep. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

As the day wears on and the new plants get nestled into earth, her whole being seems to change. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Thyon Nero has taken an interest in your work. It’s a great day for you.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“You are in a hospital in Peshawar. You’ve been here two days. You have suffered some very significant injuries, Amir, I should tell you. I would say you’re very lucky to be alive, my friend.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Josephine,” she said, using her old name from the days before she knew of her curse, when she was weightless. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

When launch day arrived, I was quite nervous. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the top of a fresh page, she carefully recopied the cipher she’d printed from the Book Scavenger website a few days ago. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

We spent the night, and the next day I called a friend, who said he could borrow the money from his dad to get us out. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

On those teaching days, Nigro would greatly increase his son’s allowance if he’d sit still long enough to learn chess tactics. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The regime he imposed was draconian: He subtracted the labor that kept Pennsylvania’s inmates occupied during the day in their cells, as well as the opportunity they had for daily exercise. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the samples of the Cardinal boy had arrived from Africa, Geisbert had spent days gazing at them. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first day at sea, they didn’t speak to each other. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"I think he fears to face your father in the field. His strength grows less each day. The river lords have de-parted, each to defend his own lands." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He didn’t appear back home until two days before the fall term was to start at Emory. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I’d work through the night on a restoration so Dr. Lange could report to Koch the very next day. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

During the day I couldn’t eat this food that should have been thrown away, so I was always hungry except in the Mess Hall. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Helmuth wears the same clothes he wore the day of his arrest, seven months ago. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

She added that the glass of milk and the crackers that schoolchildren used to receive each day had been discontinued, and that mothers were quieting their children’s hunger with cups of tea. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know it’s not the usual day,” he said, shivering, “but I thought it was important, so...” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I’ve been off the meds for a few days now, which I know is good, but I’m still feeling so down. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

She and Dorus took the family out for an hours walk every day around the village. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Claire paused before saying, “Well, I mean, that sucks, but at least you’ll see your dad next Tuesday, right? It’s just a few days. Maybe you can spend more time with him next weekend.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

If any worries did manage to push their way through to the surface of my consciousness, I could float them back where they came from until tomorrow, and then until the next day. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wang Lung stayed away from her court for many days at a time because her temper was too ill to enjoy. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Papa said to only eat two a day. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

One day the Conservative faction were revolutionaries that defended Chairman Mao’s ideas; the next day, the opposite Rebel faction became the heroes of the Cultural Revolution. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow they learn to live in the two very different worlds of their day. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually she wore sharp red lipstick that highlighted her dark skin and matched her Sunday suit; that day she wore no makeup, her face was streaked with tears, and she wore a regular housedress. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

From this shelf, Edward saw Bryce open the door one day and stand in the threshold, the silver harmonica in his left hand flashing brilliantly in the sunlight flooding in through the windows. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

It was part of the sounds of the day. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Here the birds are buntings and longspurs. They do not fly to the sea twice a day like the puffins and sandpipers that my father followed.” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when I got home the pain started to come back and I had to lie on the sofa for two days and take lots of painkillers... The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

One group stayed with us a whole day and night. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a newish feeling; he had felt it the day before when Papa had scolded him and his sisters for the way they had treated the Beiderman. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Next day in school, the cheerleaders told her it was all a big misunderstanding and acted as if they were sorry. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Even if they hadn't been at his house the day of the crime, most black people in Monroeville knew someone who had been with Walter that day. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He’d known him ever since his first days at the chandlery, when he used to drop in between voyages and spin yarns with Sam Smith. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

So every day we stayed in the house, thinking of ways to amuse ourselves. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we could make twenty miles a day. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then it took her a day or so to look through them all. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

For one thing, every day, the perimeters of her former estate seemed to double, as did the contents of her almari and coffer boxes. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

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

All day long our parents and I searched for food, because the kits were always hungry. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Did Dad drink that every day?” my mom asks. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The Oxford Times was a weekly, so it could have been any day in the past five or six. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The worries that Lucky Ruiz had brought into her life were with her day and night. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want Cletus to know the pain this caused me, that I wasn’t enough to bring Ob to life each day. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

The day was warm, and we ate outside watching the waterwheel turn. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our interaction at the reception was caught on camera, and in the coming days it would be reproduced in media reports all over the world: “A Breach in Protocol!” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Nathan told her about his journey to the Third World in three days. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Slowly, in those last few days, the boys—each in his own way—centered and calmed themselves. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

That’s how high school dances are these days, in case you didn’t know. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Today is the day I thought I would finally discover my true champions.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Despite the State's early-morning maneuvers and the bad omen of the dog and Mrs. Williams, we had another good day in court. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Well, this is my first day, too. So I guess we’ll try to figure things out together,” he said. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

As far as he could see there was nothing but bundles and stacks and more bundles neatly placed like little abandoned shrines in the late day, in the warm-blowing wind. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

A little after noon the next day, Friday, I met up with Angela at the Clarion. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Whatever they fantasized about, it all seemed possible that day. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ox was even slower than the wagons, so that day they hardly got anywhere at all. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was like one of those days that it’s raining on one side of the street and not on the other. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Funny though: somebody posted a video clip of Tupac from back in the day. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“We’ve wasted almost the entire day,” said the Englishman, sitting down with the boy near one of the wells. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it’s glorious, I want to live in that place, where the stars are just marking a vast unreachable shell, like they used to believe in days of old. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

We hiked through thick sand the opposite direction of Santa Cruz to lay low for the day, stopped about a mile past where the Mexican cop had asked our names. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He would hurl himself onto the street, overcoming every obstacle in his path, and remain at large for two or three days. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Angel was a big burly woman with bandages around her ankles because she said standing all day hurt her legs. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Naomi spent the days before New Year’s Eve making herself a dress. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

A cigarette in bed was the tombstone marking each day’s end and the reed through which she breathed herself back to life each morning. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Every day we hear tales of other families who cannot see the end to their terror and thus commit suicide. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, and wait for something to go wrong with only two days to go.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Even though Mr. Larson had not done much day-to- day teaching for a number of years, quite a bit of learning happened in room 145 anyway. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

We’d make do with what was in our cupboards for the next few days, Daddy said. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, our meeting with Miss McDaniels is the first day we get back from vacation. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

So it was my first, first day in Snow Hill School. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

As a result, people often underestimate me—which is how I like it “I sleep deeply,” I said, “but my brain works overtime, organizing everything I’ve learned during the day,” I told him. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

The next day, she showed her Martian to Tab and Emily, feeling shy. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Augustus asked if I wanted to go with him to Support Group, but I was really tired from my busy day of Having Cancer, so I passed. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Billy Pilgrim’s daughter took him home later that day, put him to bed in his house, turned the Magic Fingers on. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, two years later, all the school cafeterias in town were serving delicious food at least four days a week, all because of Nick the Consumer. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean, we’re still getting to know each other. I know it’s going to take time, but hopefully one day you’ll feel like you can tell me anything.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“If you never hear from us again, well, one day you’ll be able to tell our story. You can tell your kids about us. Or your grandkids. And we won’t entirely be forgotten.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

We were in Manila for two days, a question of fresh feed, new cargo and, we were told, the performing of routine maintenance work on the engines. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You ever think it should be two days of school followed by five days off? That’s obviously the best schedule for learning.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

In the morning, they’d bury their C ration cans and other garbage, and head out for another day of working their way through the jungle. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I reminded myself throughout the day that curiosity was normal; I shouldn’t let it bother me. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

In the polar region, the sun falls below the horizon for 180 days. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

There was, it seemed, more reason for merriment than the deception of malignant spirits: This day the women were rowed ashore from their ships, and have taken up residence with us. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

My parents don't know today is anything other than a regular day. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

"I wouldn't hurry things. Some other day, don't you think?" The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

I did not eat much chicken that day at luncheon. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But one day—April the twenty-second, a drizzly Monday, it had been—he ran ahead of them all, the red mud slooching up through the holes in the bottom of his sneakers. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Her hip did not pain her, now that she was not walking every day, and her feet did not hurt her so much. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The book is exactly where I dropped it the day before. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

And I was, on that day, in that moment, content to be under the spell of the sea and the islands and the here and now. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Three days away from home, and he seemed none the worse for wear. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Two letters from Dante in one day on my bed when I got home from school. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Some days our interactions felt like he was trying really hard to overcompensate for that first error, for thinking my parents were about to ship me off to a harem or something. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

There was, even so, one topic we never discussed properly, and that was about what she’d said to us on the roadside that day. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a scorching hot day in New York City. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

All were camped along Horse Creek, a day’s ride east of Fort Laramie, the Long Knives’ outpost. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The performance was uncompromisingly British, and I quietly concluded that the white-mustached figure of Bragg now spent most of its days sitting in London clubs like the Athenaeum. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“I was just here a few days ago. I locked the door, Mattie. I’m sure.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A picture of Zimbabwe Ruins, with a knife driven through it, was at the top, but the days were crossed off in a perfectly orderly way. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The day I’m too old to climb on a stool will be the day I throw myself off the roof.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

In one day, my Aunt Fannie Mae went to heaven and I moved to Detroit. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Who can tell me how many apples I have here?” warbled Teacher on day six. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was an evening, back in 1906, before Joe and Violet went to the City, when Violet left the plow and walked into their little shotgun house, the heat of the day still stunning. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Subway’s bad this time a day,” he says. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Most, virtually all, of the entries were just notations about sailing for the day, the direction of the wind, how long he had been out, what the day had been like. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But on the days Mom was in Philly, Dad was still in mute mode, and when Mom was back, she slept and my dad spent time with Jeffrey. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the same day, Bliss told reporters that “the wound looks better than at any time yet,” and the official bulletin described the president as "somewhat restless” and "tranquil.” Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The boy recited with a thrilling clarity, and a jarring touch of what my generation would call Cockney, though I have no idea these days what the significance is of a glottal t. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was the first really fine day they’d had in months. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“It’s difficult to find in hardcover these days. It’s a British publication, a very small press. It took four months to arrive. I hope you like it.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I am thinking if I do not see Ju Mi every day then she will find a new friend. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

One cold day, the two boys were ordered to scrub the floor of the SS food-supply shed. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

As it was, every single day— on the way to school, during school, and on the way home— I felt I had to get high. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was scared and worried about what turmoil the next day might bring. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It’s funny that I eat lunch with these guys five days a week, but we never really hang out apart from the group. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

There were three others with us—Phineas in those days almost always moved in groups the size of a hockey team—and they stood with me looking with masked apprehension from him to the tree. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

On this particular day, Bobby was going over once again, perhaps for the hundredth time, the fourth game of the 1985 World Championship match between the two Russian grandmasters Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

One day, Farmer promised himself, attached to the clinic would be a legitimate hospital, with equipment as good as anything found in a developed nation. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Then comes Tjaden’s turn, he gets a long sermon and three days’ open arrest. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Little Tilly didn’t understand a thing of all that happened that day. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The district where the bread originated indicated the day. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I was reading in the paper that we bombed Central Europe for the first time the other day.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the day, die pain had been dull, but now it was shooting along both sides of my head. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

All that day and many following, I sat by the side of the road leading to the bazaar calling to those who passed, adding to the general clamour. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or what if I'd slept right through one short day and into the night of the next? Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Surrounded by elegant waiters, elegant people and elegant food, I thought of the other parts of town where I would live in the days to come. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But to be a scythe means you are a scythe every hour of every day. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

A few days after the wedding, Reverend Hunt takes to his bed again. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

If we hadn’t seen the ships, big ones with curled Russian lettering, moored to the docks like Gullivers, we might have come back another day. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They send their kids to private day schools and drive expensive 4X4s and they belong to country clubs that have no blacks and no Jews. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So I can know what day my dad was here and also what he bought.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

One day, for exam-ple, I made a special phone call for him because, instead of going to the hospital, he had somehow ended up at the School Building and missed a medical appointment. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We needed that much time to paddle and drift away from the blood trail, to realize that for the first time in several days we could breathe a little more freely. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Each day I am more convinced of that than the day before. The Purebom see no farther than the walls of Qarth, and Xaro . . ." "He asked me to marry him again." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I been looking forward to it all day. Let’s see what Miss Scarlett is up to now.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was probably the only nourishment he had taken for days. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Ha. I wish. She asks about you every single day, though.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Just two days’ journey down this road,” the soldier replied. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have suffered more...than any previous day with insects,” Cherrie wrote in his diary. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

She bought enough room for our entire family and a bed; she would stay days and nights, not missing even the repeating scenes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was continually buying books, usually two or three a day, keeping most, discarding a few, and giving others to friends. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And also because the vague suspicions — expectations, really — that I’d been forming all day, as Alice tried to transform me into a beauty queen, were so far wide of the mark. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I could be having a boring or awful or just not very fun day, and then as soon as I started playing my trumpet, it felt like the skies were opening up. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

That’s like being hit on the head with a crowbar once a day. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It said it right there—Sever Hall, room 215, from 12:00 to 1:30 on Thursdays, starting that same day. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I have no idea what time it is or if I slept or how long I slept or even if it is day or night. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

On the third day after we arrived in Buchenwald, everybody had to go to the showers. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

His parents and brothers were a lot to take at any time of the day, but especially in the morning. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Regardless of what had been going on between us that day, deep down, none of us wanted Ruth to return home despondent, and at that moment we thought we were safe. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Matt will go back and forth. He will be our tie. And one day he will bring you.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the next twelve days the yellow fever traveled through this mosquito’s body until it reached her salivary glands. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Some days he works twelve hours and comes back home looking like someone beat him with a bat. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Even though I wasn’t on camera, I’ve been too nervous to eat all day.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Watching Justin and his friends that day, I got the sense that there was more to her than I knew. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

In those days, I was something of a rabble-rousing speaker. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people of the house had gone away for three days to visit relatives; Gabriel had driven them to the railroad station after supper, leaving Esther clearing up the kitchen. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

By the end of the day, I was persuaded things would improve, even while I felt newly burdened by the weight of it all. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I have not eaten in two days, but now that I am here, it is enough for me to feast upon your beauty.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Two hours later, court was recessed for the day because proper loudspeakers had not been found. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is this car ride going to last seventeen days?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

We had waited many days, but today we were sure he would come. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is the autumn of wonders, yet every day, every single day, I go back to that burned afternoon in August when T. Ray left. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as I got older, and as she realized her days of hard-core parenting were com-ing to an end, she became more than a mother, she became a friend. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

It seems now that she wept for days. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat on the steps of our veranda, feeling the warmth of the day’s sun still caught in the slate beneath my feet. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

All day she told me to show everyone the book. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

As a diplomat, he negotiated with the confederacy of Five Nations in 1744; in those days, knowledge of Indian ways was an essential part of the statesman’s toolkit. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Soon as she heard—Camp told her when he came home to dinner that day—she rushed over home and ran upstairs, where Mama was crying in her room. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

But a day passed, then two, and Blaine remained caged in his frozen silence. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Incredible to think what an ordinary day it was for her, to begin with. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Two days later, when Johnny was taking in some ribbon syrup, he had a passenger. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s grown accustomed to texting with Henry almost every day; the time difference doesn’t matter, since they’re both awake at all ungodly hours of the day and night. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I wonder if Elizabeth is someone I will one day share secrets with. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

When, as someone entered, he said good morning, or good day, he said it barely looking up, and with an indifference that fell just short of insolence. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

There were all kinds of posters in those days; they covered the telephone and telegraph poles. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today’s a half day, and I was shocked when Mama picked me up on time. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Everything looked legit, so I filed the info away for a rainy day and forgot about it—until about six months later, when I saw the Sixer barricade around Castle Anorak. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

This wealthy young entrepreneur might not be such a bad sort, if he was prepared to pass the time of day entertaining children. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They look like they might have been working on a boat all day and just stopped off to grab some brews. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that was just for a couple of days. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“The operative words here are ‘past few days.’ Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was some kind of scam to spring him a few days early. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

My avatar could run at a maximum speed of five kilometers an hour, so it would take me over three days to get there on foot if I ran nonstop the entire time. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

But the stiffness in my joints suggests more than a day has passed, even two possibly. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I pulled myself from his mind, day by day, piece by piece, memory by memory, until there was nothing of Ruby left to weigh him down or keep him bound to my side. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Minerva thanks him, but doesn’t really give him the time of day. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Morning, darling,” she said brightly, as though it were just another day. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Then I would turn the hose on him and get him very wet, which he liked on hot summer days. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The easiest time. But also the saddest, in a way . . . the end of another day, the return of the night. Darkness is so predictable, don’t you think?” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Joseph and Brian Boss and Nick Porter and Jay Perkins all got four days of suspension for fighting—the last four days before Christmas vacation. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Theresa’s geranium they moved outside, with vows to water it every single day. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The long hot idle summer days palled on me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something pops up in my friends’ activity bar just then: Fizz likes Farooq’s status: “So sad Muslim girls are letting go of their modesty these days. A sign of the End Times. ” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Maybe I’m holding out hope that one day, someday, things will change. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

His hopes of succeeding accelerated when one day Perry produced a pastel drawing he had made—a large, in no way technically naive portrait of Jesus. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

My gear’s been decked out for school every day since I went shopping with Mrs. Walton. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

When the bound man was fatigued, the three shifted the rope to another of their number, and so made their way over days to Hampton and Lord Dunmore. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Fat Barry, the day manager from the store across town, joins in, and works up a red-faced sweat before the song is over. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The fact is, there was little choice but to approach the matter as I did - as I am sure you will agree once I have explained the full context of those days. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

One day I woke up to find a different kind of visitor. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Jesse looked deflated, resigned, as if the wind had suddenly been knocked out of him after days of intense focus on the trip. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Worms were worse, but still not as bad as the pain in your belly after days without food. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The old age of slavery overseas and a Parliament elected by only 3 percent of the English was ticking down to days, to hours, to minutes, to seconds. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z