Because of contacts he’d made in the States with the Mellon family—wealthy heirs of Pittsburgh banker and philanthropist Andrew Mellon—he quickly headed to the town of Deschapelles, in the lower Artibonite Valley. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I later became closer to her and Allie than to the other children in my new family. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I never thought she really wanted me to write about my family life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they went back to some other rocks and watched the family in all its happiness. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

We sit at the only table available, next to an unattractive family. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Nor would I publish the story without the full cooperation and approval of Mrs. Lakes’ family. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

As Jo waved her hands and gave a sigh of rapture, the family went off into a gale of merriment, and Mr. Laurence laughed till they thought he’d have an apoplectic fit. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

He mailed most of what little he did make to his father to help him hang on to the family house. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s another American citizen in the family now.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

My fencing family at the Westbrook Foundation had their own plans for me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He had been brought up alone with Morgause, because he was so much younger than the rest of the family. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deacon Hurd’s family was there, though, sitting across the aisle in the other front pew. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Later that morning when the family sat down together for breakfast, I couldn’t believe that Mama was reading the paper over the breakfast table, something we were forbidden to do. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next thing I know, she’s comparing these two families to rival gangs in this city. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Most people made fesenjoon with chicken, but my late aunt had reinvented it with bite-size meatballs, and it had become a family recipe in her honor. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

When I reached home, I did not tell the family what had happened; I merely told them that I had quit, that I was not making enough money, that I was seeking another job. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He revived me after I left my family, brought me to Jesus, opened my eyes to a new world, then passed on himself. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Young Elihue was saved from visible shattering by the steady hand of his father, who reminded him of the family’s reputation and Velma’s questionable one. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He comes back with a few interested families, but no one wants to take in all three of us and we would rather brave the cold than be separated. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, doing so would have forever connected Henrietta and her family with the cells and any medical information eventually derived from their DNA. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Major Christian Piercy had fled Philadelphia after his son and an apprentice caught the fever, bribing a stagecoach driver to take him and his family to south Jersey. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The family doctor, after he had examined Cathy, could find no evidence that she had been mistreated. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Why had the kids in that family vanished, when in Finn’s family…. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s not an uncommon story. There might be kids in your school whose families came here under similar circumstances.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The farm and the family was a self-contained world, in the way I imagine all American farm life once was. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“It’s nice to see a family living in the old place,” my mother says. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

When he came to our family parties, my uncles would give him a hard time for being such a dork. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Immediately, he looked up his old classmate Mundo, who comes from one of those old wealthy families who send their kids to the States to prep school, and the boys on to college. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Walter was friendly with a family that lived nearby, and we prevailed upon them to take us in for the night. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Collins had found a young woman who’d come over to Japan with her family, though she herself had not renounced. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“And we need help if we’re going to save our families.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes, I think Nana would be better off dead. I mean, if I got to where I couldn’t take care of myself or didn’t recognize my own family...what’s the point?” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She had promptly found work with another family nearby, but things had gotten off to a rocky start. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the two women remembered that in China families married young boys to older girls, who baby-sat their husbands their whole lives. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bethlehem Steel was a gold mine in a time flush with poverty, especially for black families from the South. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But the fact that all of her family, and my father’s family, were miners did not impress my mother. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, it’s the history of my family! But why would Uncle Albert want to keep these stories secret from me?” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

On week-days, of course, the boy had to get to bed early, but over the weekends Papa Bellini let him take his part in helping out with the family business. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, please! You’re worried about what the world is thinking? Worry about this world! Worry about what your family is thinking!” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

After St. Louis, with its noise and activity, its trucks and buses, and loud family gatherings, I welcomed the obscure lanes and lonely bungalows set back deep in dirt yards. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A letter came from Tientsin, not from my family, who thought I was dead. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

After hearing that for maybe the fiftieth time, and learning more about my family’s baseball legacy, it occurred to me that the trunk might not be real. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

At breakfast the next morning, the others talked about their families. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The family Bible and a huge dictionary with its own magnifying glass lay side by side next to a red plush album full of cramped formal portraits of my ancestors. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I had to be no one, with no name, no personality, and no family or friends to care about. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Ahmed has informed us of her family situation, and therefore, we would like to also invite her parents and grandmother to be part of this event. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

We still make movies and videos, often about children and families. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

If it’s not an isolated incident, if it’s truly something as global as sun flares, then the little hope he held out for his family is gone. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The girls tried to keep up their business but they went in shifts to sit with the families, and they carried pots of soup when they went. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The village gathers, and the young men sing songs they’ve made up themselves—songs praising the elders or their families or the cattle. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You killed my family,” he spoke in my ear through gritted teeth. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In South Africa, it is hard for a man to ignore the needs of the people, even at the expense of his own family. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole family came down to London Docks to see me off on the boat. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

My board has pictures of family and friends, and in between the spaces, holding it together, are tiny houses in all shapes and colors, cut out from magazines. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

A wholly different fever followed upon her family’s recovery, an illness of weakness and grief. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“But I think it’s been in the family a long time.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

As a graduate student from a poor family, he also had money worries. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But the beet-sugar breakthrough did have one important effect in another part of Europe: the Ukraine of Marc’s family. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

He bows quickly to the other family and hurries over to us. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I had advised Walter and his family that we would likely need to go to an appellate court for any real chance of relief, despite how positive everyone thought the hearing had been. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Two of the most publicized demolitions — Lexington Terrace in West Baltimore and Lafayette Courts in East Baltimore — were huge projects, housing hundreds of families, that served as centers for crime and infectious disease. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And my family and I are finally going to see the restored Elwha River. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“We showed him pictures of the whole family. And that great shot of you holding that flounder on the boat!” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

We leave with two of Khouy and Meng’s women friends but the third stays behind to search for any surviving family members. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I was stuck with my family’s guilt—a guilt that not even my mother would talk about. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

She only wished there wasn’t a giant, invisible timer lording over her family, ticking down to when they would inevitably move again. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

When he received it, he was so struck with my resemblance to members of his family that he called again. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Mr. Dalton said that this was to give them a chance to support their families and go to school. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

We are enclosing several copies of the Carolina Times to share with the families in the Bumblebee community. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“If you insist on taking this path, you will jeopardize your family. You will defeat the purpose of the panchakanyas.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Karl was thunderstruck, and he turned and stumbled back to where his own family had set up their picnic on the beach. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

“I got a family and a farm,” Elmer senior hollered back. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

In our tribe, parents give their kids both a first and last name—family members don’t share a last name. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I could almost feel the heat that replaced the family warmth around the table. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He remembered how his mother’s family had balked at the idea that the police had a permanent presence at school when they’d heard at Thanksgiving the past year. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He had pictured that scene Hestia showed me—of himself in the good old days with Thalia and Annabeth, when he promised they would be a family. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

But soon he’d be singing again, to his lost family, to his god, to everyone they passed on the trail. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She numbly accepted apologies from the Shaw family. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Father began to speak quietly then of the Old Ones, the spirits of the dead members of our family to whom we offered food and the sweet smell of incense that pleased them so well. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

So instead we flew to him, for what would be a sort of attempt to have it both ways—a family day spent mostly in full view of the public. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

This allowed the urban rich to flaunt their wealth while the rural poor struggled to feed and clothe their families. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This at the cost to myself, my family; and at the risk of losing my life, my honor, and my property. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Then why not go be free with the rest of the family in Nueva York?” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Perhaps a little family history would be useful at this point. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The wisest person in all the universe, Prometheus had well been able to protect his own family. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood in the middle of the kitchen, trying to imagine what had happened, and preparing himself to walk into the living-room, where all the family seemed to be. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Into these rooms he and his family moved, and the laborers, with Ching at their head, lived in the old house in front. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world!” burst out Jo, who was in an unusually up-lifted frame of mind just then. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our family had a part of those marshlands that was just ours and nobody else’s. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I was strong because I was supported by family, friends, and even strangers. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

We have no way of reaching Chou and our family to let them know we are well. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The family left this one room for Aunt Rose alone; even the cousins, in all their audacity, would not cross the threshold uninvited. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She was instructed to leave her family dwelling and move to the Birthmothers' Dormitory. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Wilfrido couldn’t kick us out, but what if my family couldn’t renew our lease for some reason? The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

They had been soundly flogged for letting the Vole family escape. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The white families swarmed in a camp off the main street, inconsolable and abject, the meager possessions they were able to save piled around their feet. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Men and women from merchant houses enter, displaying their families' wares on their clothes, in their hair, or even embedded in their skin. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The Stevens family does not let Saturdays go to waste. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

In the evening, Mother called Dr. Agar, our family doctor. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

With no place to work but their own rooms, it wasn’t long, of course, until their families knew the girls were making Egyptian costumes. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rachel preceded the two girls down the aisle to the family bench. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Second, Jefferson suggested that Adams’s description of aristocratic power was appropriate for Europe, where feudal privileges, family titles, and more limited economic opportunities created conditions that sustained class distinctions. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The dining room contained Elvira Caruthers, a wayward daughter who cared more about gossip than chewing her food before swallowing and who had died before she could create her own branch of the family line. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I considered leaving the foundation in search of a new coach, but I felt a deep loyalty to the foundation and to my teammates there who had become more like family. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“The point is having a nice party with your family.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She could see her family’s blanket from here. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Only orphans are being chosen. If you have any family left, you have to stay here.” A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if he did dream—should he simply tell his family unit, as he did so often, anyway, that he hadn’t? The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The family prayer says they should be joined intimately to one another. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I imagined him gathering his family to tell them about me. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Quite unaware that one of his daughters was behind him, Sibanda reached the tree and began to sing to it: My family eats like hungiy dogs— I wait at the side like a timid cat. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Maybe he was afraid his family would slip. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Two days later, on July 7, the Oker family received a letter from Henry Gordon stating that he no longer needed the apartment. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He’d filled out the rest of the form in his room, late at night when his family was asleep. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He's smart like that, and I can see it even if his family don't. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Maybe next year we can sneak away and spend Christmas together somewhere far away, where our families can't find us. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Since there is no money coming into our family, my mom had to give up the apartment we rented. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

But it was true, the priest that came with the first colonizers to the valley of El Puerto had raised a family, and it was the branches of this family that now ruled the valley. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In support of my personal belief that real life doesn’t live up to writing about it, the members of my family seem to have spent most of their time that year engaged in correspondence. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The family waited around the table for him while he sat happily alone at the Athenaeum, reading and eating his dinner as he had taken to doing. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She whispered against my ear, because she couldn’t hold it in: “Sophie. You know the only way they can get a young bonobo is by killing its family, yes?” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve been dying to go, but with our whole family, it’s too expensive even with our Florida resident pass, so I ask him about it. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She’s there and I find her sitting with the rest of her family There’s a younger girl and a small boy. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

At a time when I needed a family but could not deal with my own, he gave me the family I craved. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Farid jan, this can’t be safe for you either. Maybe you shouldn't be seen with me. You have a family to take care of.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A village in China of fifteen hundred people might support itself entirely with 450 acres of land, which in the American Midwest would be the size of a typical family farm. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Recall that, in 1999, when Terryl had cut her cable television, the pediatric organization had called on families to prevent children under two from watching any television. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The subscriptions had dropped, partly because many people could not afford a paper, and partly because so many Whig families were leaving Boston for the country. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How does New York sound for spring break? We haven’t taken a family trip in a while.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“So you just go back to America,” Conor carried on, “and go back to your other family and we’ll be fine here without you. Because this is going to work.” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“And so is the rest of that family. If you quote me, I’ll deny it.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But finally I struggle out in answer, “You have a Flores,” gathering my family name up for courage. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Chineke! Bless me. Let me find enough to fill my stomach. Bless my daughter, Ifeoma. Give her enough for her family.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I understand my place better, in this family, in this town, in this country. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Predmore was the last of seventeen children and always said the family gave out of strong stomachs before it got to her. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She hurried her family onto the bus just as the driver was closing the door. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

An hour passed in agonizing slowness as Doha sat with Minki’s family. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The rest of the family was not so fond of her. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

An unusual number of husbands, fathers, and friends had come down to stay over Sunday, and they were being suitably entertained by their families, with the material help of Madame Lebrun. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sailed into Char’s arms observed by the stunned faces of Father and my new family. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I think about getting a crutch, but I’d have to hop clear back to the family room for that, so I grab the handrail with both hands instead. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

But you might have a chance to save your old friends and family. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

My family lived in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago, in a tidy brick bungalow that belonged to Robbie and her husband, Terry. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When Vanderbilt died a few years later, his family offered the sisters $100,000 if they would leave the country. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I discovered later that her true name was Ruchel, a Yiddish name which her family Americanized to Rachel, which she in turn further changed to the even more American-sounding Ruth. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many families left the camp, to search for relatives or to hide in the bush from the Nigerian soldiers who were coming with whips. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

More than anything else the Bellini family liked Italian opera. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next, it was off to Busch Gardens with Daphne’s family and the Paines—the people who first had told the Courters about me. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Hunting is a marvelous pastime. Communing with nature and all that! Although it can be dangerous. In my own family there have been some—unfortunate accidents.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

She was close to retirement anyway, so she left the family and Charles provided her with an annual pension for the rest of her life. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

You want to talk about my family and here I been dead to them for fifty years. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a brownstone you either own the whole house like us, or the floors are split between two other families—three, max. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But once a year, they all smiled indulgently at the commotion from the little ones waiting to receive their names and families. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“They took me from my family, cut my hair, beat me every time they felt like it, and sent me to work for the mayor when I was eighteen.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

But it wasn’t enough to keep a family of five without Hazelle working her fingers to the bone on that washboard. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She wrapped up the family’s affairs, readied the children, and boarded the Illinois Central, resigned to whatever Chicago might bring. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The generals and their families were to be honored at the celebration. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

The family computer was balanced on my lap. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The “Jones Theory” was much repeated—especially to the Joneses, a dignified and sensible family, who refused to be flustered. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

But neighbors, friends, and family knew better than to protest, knowing and fearing that they would be next. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I went to see Dr. Leona A. Turner, who has been my family doctor for years, who practices in East Elmhurst, Long Island. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one in our family knew how to read. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reports that label my family as corrupt, power- hungry, moralizing dictators? Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

We have a daughter and a son, whom we raised as normal American kids without the burden of my family's past. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know anything. I want to know your medicine. I want to be like Nokomis. I want strong medicines to save my family.” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Fred tried to smile, but I could tell he was still thinking about his family. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I said, those people in that picture are just like your family. Why are you so spaced out?” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

She tried not to think of what his life would have been like with this other family, rooting him to the ground, sheltering him in their wings. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Jake guessed the harvest would be good enough so the third levy wouldn’t break most families. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“And the Liberal Party will go to hell,” Severo added, anticipating the damage to his political career that could be caused by having a bewitched child in the family. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Then let's start with your family," he said. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I was afraid of walking away from my own life, my friends and my family, my whole history, everything that mattered to me. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had seen her before, of course, when the Chancellor brought his family to the palace, but the King had never done more than keep track of her as a potentially useful tool. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Yoyo wants to cry, too, but she is sure if she does, the men will get suspicious and take her father away and maybe the whole family. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She picked both blacks and whites and children from both wealthy homes and poor homes, zeroing in, ultimately, on twelve families. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The family gave a collective sigh of relief, and Hyacinth beamed with pleasure. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The part of the theory requiring some revision was that guests would feel at home if they were treated like one of our family. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pastor is talking with the school principal, Charlie’s family doctor, and two guys I never saw before. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I’d been doing odd jobs for Mr. Smith and his family for years, having been hired to do everything from babysitting his kids and giving them piano lessons to attempting to train their untrainable puppy. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

On Mr. Ray’s cue, we lifted and turned, and slowly marched Nancy with all her friends and family behind us singing, into the sunlight. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“My family lives on this side so you three sleep in that corner over there.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was the only time he ever growled at someone in his own family. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was in many ways Americanized, but in this respect she was Chinese still — when family marched, she fell in step. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe we can make it a family trip. We can bring your parents and your grandma.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Sunset at six o’clock means that life does go on after dark: reading by lamplight on the porch, our family’s evening event. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The maturity of her judgment ensured peace in the family. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Because I was a sponsor, I had ringside seats for Arnold and my family, and when we arrived it was pretty exciting. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

“And great justice,” added Miss Volker, nodding respectfully as she recalled Mrs. White and her family. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Perhaps she would teach children how to snare rabbits, make parkas, and carve; or she might live with some family that needed her help. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

You need to steel yourself to a lot of things when someone in your family is really sick. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, now you do. You see, this is the beauty of starting a new family. You can have different kinds of family members.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“By the time his family got him out he had lung consumption. Fellow was a wreck. Never came back to his studies.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A family once brought in an unconscious young man pleading with my mother to help him. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He had always decided everything in the family. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve traveled this far—how can I go back to living the humble life of a farming family? The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m—my family is kind of religious. Actually, really religious. And my parents. Well, they wouldn’t be super happy if they knew where I was. And who we were with.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Neel could see Ma sweeping the area around the outdoor stove where she and Rupa cooked, near where the family gathered to eat. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Reynie had gone to bed thinking of the people he might one day—if everything turned out all right—consider a part of his family. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

She taught me a lot and kept me from missin my own family, Macon and Papa. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I joined the club, no one in my family would pass judgment. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He wore civilian clothes, replaced the soldiers with unarmed policemen, enforced the amnesty laws, and helped a few families of Liberals who had been killed in the war. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I told her he’s a great guy, a caring and supportive soul who had spurred me to reunite with my family. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Father moved wife’s entire family from China to California to form support system. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

At a certain point, we all broke through to a deep-down understanding that we were a family. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

All my family were gone, and I had no more possessions of any value. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Years later, they purchased a house across the street and began to rent the blue and green houses to other families. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was an old practice, holding family members responsible for the crime of a relative. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Els,” David says in his I’m in high school, so I know everything voice, “that is our whole family’s MO.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

There was now good blood in the family against a future bad choice by one of its women. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He predicted that the painting family would soon produce a number of landscapes. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want to stay at the inn, waiting for her family to return, like some forgotten piece of luggage. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She’s too old for this—too old to wait around to be placed with another foster family. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Their testimony is very important, because they were the only members of the family who lived completely removed from the three-legged table, protected from magic and spiritualism by their rigid English boarding school. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shortly, two senior detectives appeared and began to question the family’s lone survivor. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Okeke and his family had not returned, and now a bowlegged man, a professor of chemistry who cooked on firewood and had a chicken coop, lived there. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Lines like Many workers in Zimbabwe receive a small pay which can’t even feed the families and Two families have to share a room in some parts of Zimbabwe stuck out. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Normally I was the one who was quiet, my family making noise around me. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Of course they did not even remotely suspect that the missile, when it was fired, the one that would annihilate the family’s Good Name forever, would come from a completely unexpected quarter. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Terryl found a community college, feeding off encouragement from the Man- dels, the family she worked for at the accounting firm, and her own raw faith that she could change her circumstances. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Rabiya wants everything to be nice for this family, or at least closer to what she has. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Now Wang Lung in the old days when the great family were there would have felt himself one of these common people and against the great and half hating, half fearful of them. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

They sometimes worked on the installment plan, taking little or no money up front from a defector or his family. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

My family had highs and lows, made money and lost what money can buy, had good days and days that were ground out like cigarette butts. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

TJ comes into the kitchen, and we gather at the table to say our family prayer in unison. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Valley and Thorn both had family stuff the next morning, and alone with her thoughts, Seven felt anxiety creep in. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He picks up a photograph of my family and studies it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Mama’s father came from a family of stonecutters around Niigata, on the inner coast of northern Japan. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat on a couch and looked out at the nearly two dozen family members who were staring at me as Armelia spoke. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Her family thought it had more to do with a “romance gone wrong,” but the truth has been lost to time. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was only by bartering gasoline for groceries that he managed to keep his family alive. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sought warmth and company in the bustling Bartleby mausoleum, but the Bartleby family—seven generations of them—had no time for him that night. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Relatives in other states called to check if family members had been killed. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

How could I be the man of the family if nobody paid any attention to what I thought or said? Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

She flew home to Kansas and arrived by taxi on Saturday morning at her family’s plot at a graveyard in Wichita just as the funeral service began. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pressure from creditors and families was growing too great. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He chased golf and tennis balls to run away from family responsibilities. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Compared to those of Megan's family, our family rituals were either less rigid or nonexistent. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Most families controlled small areas, but two were large enough to dictate policy. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, I knew I was going to fit in just fine with Annie’s family. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

If getting Mommy’s undivided attention for more than five minutes was a great feat in a family of twelve kids, then getting a midnight snack in my house was a greater thrill. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Terrible deflection, by the way. You could have said, ‘Because I felt awkward eating too much at a family gathering with people I’ve never met before,’ and been done with it.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The last photo taken of the Das family sits on the kitchen counter. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He missed how when he was very young, his father would take him to Tempe Town Lake and they would feed the duck families. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Peeta, this is your home. None of your family has been heard of since the bombing. Twelve is gone. And you’re calling for a cease-fire?” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I take after Mom’s side of the family. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Within these families certain notes have more prominence than others, a hierarchy evolved from the natural properties of sounds in all resonant materials. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Regarding my family, I see faces that do not closely resemble my own. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In addition to the financial strain of exchanging a steady paycheck for the vagaries of self-employment, Walt’s separation from his first wife left him with two families to support. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He mentioned the warning to the family and said not to go there. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I tried another first year by her family’s car. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Mallory had a Talent for matching orphans to families—she felt a tug, deep in her chest, she said, when she sensed that two people truly belonged together, and she just knew. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Shortly after that, he traveled west to the State of North Dakota, and he settled there and raised a family. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

This house, invisible to Muggles, has been left in its ruined state as a monument to the Potters and as a reminder of the violence that tore apart their family. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Nearly half of the members of the metropolitan bar earned less than the minimum subsistence level for American families,” Jerold Auerbach writes of the Depression years in New York. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Ella’s family came up from the Deep South, and she makes it sound like that, like it comes with capital letters. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's the traditional Philippine house, built on stilts, with one room where the whole family lives. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

She smiles at the other family as they pass. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

To leave West Virginia, even to leave Welch, would have been unthinkably disloyal, like deserting your family. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He’s just lost his whole family; I shouldn’t be thinking like this. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

His family was kind to me, and accepting. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“We have reached our destination. From here, the Lord willing, you will disperse to families who need you and want you.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“One ought to be at Enscombe, and know the ways of the family, before one decides upon what he can do,” replied Mrs. Weston. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

My friends tend to be accomplished, overcommitted people, many of them with busy family lives and heavy-duty jobs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Maybe if I had gone to each of their houses, whacking random family members with a nail-studded two-by-four, they would have begun to have some basic comprehension. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Supper is a family gathering and no one leaves the table till it's over!" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“But how can my family get a thought?” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

In 1855, when he was nine, the family moved to Chicago, where his father established a successful wholesale drug business. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Some had walked all the way to the mines, others to the islands of the South, all of them seeking their families’ daily bread wherever they could find it. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Notwithstanding the leadership’s rhetoric about the family nature of the business, the gang’s wages are about as skewed as wages in corporate America. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

And at the end of the week, after I’d cried and told Mom how alone I felt, Mom called the office and told them we had a family emergency. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The farmers spoke of much illness among their families. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He lives in New Jersey with his family. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They had stolen so much from us—our homes and families, our very identities. To take something from them gave us strength.” Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

And in the freezer: family value—size ground beef, frozen pizzas. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Rows of chairs for our families make up the next circle. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Now that I knew my family was safe, I spent all my time worrying about how we would pay for my treatment. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Mr. Clutter, at the mercy of the gun-bearing visitor, was forced to obey instructions—forced to accompany him to the second floor, where they aroused the rest of the family. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even when she moved in with the family and had no money. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You guys are a family of three, so you can grab three cans, plus a bag of dry beans.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Amar gave us a little over an hour to find and inoculate Uriah’s family and get back to the compound unnoticed, so I only have time for one of them. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The car chugged to the top of the hill, and I sat up as the Strong family farm sprawled out to the horizon. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Each family split off and lived by itself, laughing at the others because of their great noses, but not liking to be laughed at for their own noses. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Anya expected everyone to go to the table then, like her family always did, and say their quick prayer over the wine and bread. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Then the families talked to a local pastor, who checked that both sides had consented to the union. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It has to come from somewhere, and the place where we seem to get these kinds of attitudes and skills is from our families. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He had saved his family, in a way, every bit as much as One Horn. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I also am unfortunate; I and my family have been condemned, although innocent; judge, therefore, if I do not feel for your misfortunes.’ Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days after that, the whole family came to visit me in the hospital and my brothers and sisters each had a turn holding me. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Th e horrible thing was: I could see the family resemblance. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

For his part, Bobby never explained what either Karpov or Kasparov had to gain from prearranging match results, except to keep the title in the Russian family. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The names Xhosa families give their children always have a meaning, and that meaning has a way of becoming self-fulfilling. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Crows live in extended families, and they pass information across generations. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Consider now a randomly selected family of four that is known to have at least one daughter. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

On November 7, 2016, the evening before the election, Barack and I made a quick trip to Philadelphia to join Hillary and her family at a final rally before an enormous crowd on Independence Mall. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Bryan recalled that a week after the shooting he had returned to the scene of the crime with Mollie and her family to identify Anna’s rotting corpse. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But the family never went back to Cuba, and my grandmother never saw her sister again. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She brought the yellow crystals on a red paper plate to her family, one by one. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I could get food for those. I know a girl who would like those, and her family has rice.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

My family’s contribution was more than my father said he could afford and he would not pay it. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

That was when the government was encouraging families to eat at neighborhood canteens to reduce housework and allow women to work outside the family. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Maybe a dog whose owner died in the Tap-Out, and needs a family like ours.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I reached out, felt the presence of my family, my ancestors surrounding me. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was heartbreaking for me to hear their stories and to see the little children whose families were dead. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

At its birth the two of them had felt the same raw pain of separation, a wound that only the family pressing tight could close. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Azzam family were very elated that I was qualified and accepted to go to Mecca. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next door is a smaller room, the bedroom and study of the two young ladies of the family. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

As I wrestled to make that choice, I entered into a phase that would become famously known in my family as “Simone’s bratty period.” Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The least I can do is help her feel better about not being with her family. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

My auntie, who had a very bad temper with children, told him he had no shou, no respect for ancestors or family, just like our mother. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I tell my family I want to be a writer, they smile and say, We see you in the backyard with your writing. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Children who arrived at the refugee camp without their families were grouped together, so Salva was separated at once from the people he had traveled with. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

At seven-thirty in the evening, when the entire family was listening to the radio in the private office, he took his treasure and stole off to the loft again. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

It just reinforces for Pete that welcoming his own workers’ families was the right decision. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Despite the fact that nobody showed signs of having been infected, the Elgon Masai could tell stories of how a family member, a child or a young wife, had died bleeding in someone’s arms. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got to tell Jerome’s family. Him dying was my fault.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Temperance lived with his second family in the Meadowlands, and we visited them sparingly because my mom was always afraid of being poisoned. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Could you please wait for a moment so that I can talk to my family?”The soldiers nod to Pa. Pa and Ma go inside the hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll have to ask her more about her family later after we do this thing. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

"I told him you were ready to be part of this family." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Or I began to drop in about dinnertime at the home of some family that we knew. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not allow his family to come and watch him, for those who gathered were often rough: layarounds, drinkers, wintering voyageurs who idled their time with gambling and trader’s rum. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Bruce Weslowski, our family therapist, drove Luke and me to Tampa General Hospital. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Family is family, he told himself as he walked up to the old oak door and knocked. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

If they ask where I’m from, I give vague answers, saying I used to live with my family in Ibarra. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon after, his family had come and taken her back to the Houston area, where they lived. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The bedspread has been strewn with flower petals, a final gesture before their families withdrew. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

My own family basically did what the American justice system does: I was given more lenient treatment than the black kids. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

When we believe it is safe, we leave to find our foster family. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His friends and family must be going out of their minds. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I faced a china dog toward the door after I dusted it, which would cause the family’s luck to run out. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Every Syrian heads for Ankara. It’s easy to travel to, and a major city. Your family will know to find you there.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

There were four bedrooms, two baths, and a breezy family room. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I jumped in the family pickup and raced to the stadium. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

What I do know is, Hilly and her family drove in this morning from a weekend in Memphis. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Hannah slipped into the chair, knowing it was the one the family reserved for the prophet Elijah, who slipped through the centuries like a fish through water. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old family adage was a reminder of where he came from and the expectations that came with that. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Eventually another family bought the house, fixed it up, and lived there for many years. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They are mostly oblivious of the extended Croteau family, and have barely met the Croteau cousins, who are close to their age and live nearby but lead quite different lives. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I still feel guilty about playing a part in ruining our family, but maybe Dad actually is happier now. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I have a wife in America, a home, a career, and a family. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Like the grandfather I never had the chance to know, he’s the glue that connects my life here to my bigger family and all its history and traditions. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

You might be gone, but you’re still part of our family. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then Amit and I would become a Bengali couple in an arranged marriage, playing the same roles as our parents and grandparents and Das and Sen family ancestors have for generations. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Old Mr. Rivers, she said, was a plain man enough, but a gentleman, and of as ancient a family as could be found. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

His family’s like really old and meg rich? Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, a long time ago, there was a French explorer named Cadillac, and he was the one who discovered Detroit. And that seal was his family seal, from France.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Father and I are currently working on our family tree, and he tells me something about each person as we go along. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

After tests were returned and grades given, the student body, which acted like an extended family, knew who did well, who excelled, and what piteous ones had failed. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father explained that the whole family, except for me, would leave immediately. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And when you sell a black man away from his family just because he talked to me, you can’t expect me to have any good feelings toward you.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Not only to insure the survival of one accident-prone small boy, but to insure my family’s survival, my own birth. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He spent the time writing poems and letters, which could never be posted, or telling his companions about the princess, whose nickname in her family aide was Piggy. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said that occasionally The FBI Story would air on local television, and she and her family would watch it and cry. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But I said to myself: “After all he comes of a long-lived family on his mother’s side. There is time yet. Wait!” The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Mollie—who, like her mother, then wore leggings, moccasins, a skirt, a blouse, and a blanket—slept on the floor in a corner of her family’s lodge and had to do many grueling chores. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The Hulls believed in fresh air, so they had a sleeping porch where the whole family slept, winter and summer, with the windows wide open around three sides of the room. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jahrling went home for dinner with his family, but after he had read his children their stories and put them to bed, he returned to the Institute and worked until late. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Habib had opened a small dry goods store in downtown Kabul to support the family after the opium crops had been destroyed. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Mostly there were families, some men on their own, and a few soldiers too. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

From her bed, she could hear her family continuing their lives without her. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

We pass long, gated driveways, the kind that always fill my family with wonder and awe. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Like some other Mexican families, my family suggests Mexico’s confused colonial past. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Not really. Don't you see? The theatre is a sort of family and, like him or no, Nick is a part of it." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Dalton, do you think that the terrible conditions under which the Thomas family lived in one of your houses may in some way be related to the death of your daughter?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“His family probably didn’t take very good care of him,” she said. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“About a week ago, with his whole family. At the same time as Madrina, in fact. She was eyeing them the whole time. Then rich boy came over and said hi. Introduced himself and everything.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

But he told me that when he first learned what Morrison had done to his family, he feared what he might be capable of doing. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Sometimes one person, sometimes a whole family settled down to sleep. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Now some of our family have things they want to share with you,” Valentine said, clearing his throat. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

One part of me wants her to leave my family. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dear Lucy, I’m sorty for everything that happened to your family. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The Dumbledore family had indeed lived here, and part of it had died here. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She was effectually prevented, but she wasn't on speaking terms with her family for several weeks. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He ran away before he could be punished, and that meant Goré Mtoko’s family hadn’t got revenge on him. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At lunch, she told me stories about her family’s cruise to Newport, Rhode Island, and how she slept in a real lighthouse where they told scary ghost stories and everything. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“The Zamoras are a generous family and a pillar of this community.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I was worried about living with a family. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I ran into an old family friend —Jacob Black,” I continued. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Looks like our family’s back to normal,” Dad says to Mom as we sit down for breakfast. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

They called me the rubbish bin of the family. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Martha, at eleven, became the fastest in the family at mental mathematics. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am the black sheep in the family. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was there, we had gone to see Uncle Perry in prison as though it were a typical family outing. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She, after all, is the reigning head of the family. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“This might not be the peaceful family lunch you hoped for.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“You just used me and waited for her to die. I’m not going with you, Finn. These folks are my family now.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

There we found the entirety of the pictures of my family in the same cabinet where my father kept the liquor. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The monarchs shower favored families with land, titles, gifts, and notoriety. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Ah. You’re here. Well, I hope you ladies had a restful few days with your families over Thanksgiving?” he says. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Miss Havisham’s family I took upon myself; intending to communicate with Mr. Matthew Pocket only, and leave him to do as he liked about informing the rest. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Another staircase led up to the room where the van Pels family had lived, this one steeper than the last and eighteen steps, essentially a glorified ladder. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Héctor, the boy in our family, was the only one to get new pants and shirts, because none of Mami’s New York relatives had boys his age. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

There aren’t many places in Brooklyn my family and I have ventured into. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

As for the families, they just stare at us in shock. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He is beginning to think about varieties of one single color, differences of tone, for example, in the same family of yellow. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Mundín opens the door, his face so drained and pale that I’m sure the police have somehow tracked me down and my family is in deep trouble. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The family fled to a vacant lot a block away where they spent the night watching the fire’s terrible march. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

“But it doesn't make sense. He's such a close friend of your family. It might not have been him.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

More acute was her complaint that the family wasn’t close anymore, like some others she knew. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could not attend the entire year, because during the dry season his family moved away from their village. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ordered Shin to kneel and pressed him to explain why his family wanted to escape. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The more prosperous families had coal sheds; the poorer ones left their coal in a pile out front. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

If a new family moved in next door, they might have a boy her age. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

She grows to love him, despite what her family might think—for his charm and education, his knowledge of art and his sensitive heart. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Has Martin really said “we”? I'm responsible for the first damage ever done to this family treasure. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’m not the same Niamh who left her gram and aunties and uncles in Kinvara and came across the ocean on the Agnes Pauline, who lived with her family on Elizabeth Street. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The questions about his family still knocked around in his head like billiard balls. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And Mary Willis and Loma and Camp could ride with him! We can squeeze in Mary Toy between you and me, Mr. Blakeslee, and it will be a nice family affair!” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Virtually all of the company’s three dozen employees and their families lived in Schnatterly’s mining camp, Boulder City. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Do you think,” asked Arthur, “that feuds are good things? An they making for happiness in your two families?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would stand me Between them, When I showed them My thirty books, And the cuts On the warrior, Our family of people. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

All my classmates certainly must have been uneasy on that first day of school—as most children are uneasy—to find themselves apart from their families in the first institution of their lives. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know that she’s testing me to see if I’m a true silverback, one who can protect her family. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“Hey, Dad,” Matt said, “why doesn’t the Marine Corps send its families overseas sometimes?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The older children of the family would have been surprised and, according to their several natures, pleased or outraged by their father’s consideration of these two younger ones. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

They say that children who use their family language in school will retain a sense of their individuality—their ethnic heritage and cultural ties. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There's our obligatory portrait of the Elector hanging on the wall, surrounded by a handful of our own photos, as if he were a member of our family. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

They had their own factory on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and a growing list of customers, including a store uptown owned by another Jewish immigrant family, the Bloomingdale brothers. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I can tell he’s sitting in his favorite chair in the family room and guess that he recently finished saying his prayers and is reading Quran. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Course, a lot of families were still busy fighting the war in their heads. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Together the stores provided the family with a comfortable life in Kacanik, until ethnic violence tore their homeland apart. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

In the crepuscular light, he is connected again, bound to his father and, through him, to all the family back in Zundert. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I wished I had been born into a red family so I could do my revolutionary duties without worrying. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandmother infuriated him sometimes; but still, she was his only living family, the only person alive who loved him. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Poppy said Abu Hamra’s family had their well closed in by Israeli soldiers a few years ago after his nephew was suspected of throwing stones at an Israeli tank. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

People who need jobs or seek family, who, to keep going these long rough years, have begged and scrounged for food. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

When family members fussed over how good the elephant was, Vincent destroyed it. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Kind of. Not my family specifically. But anything that happens to other Jews happens to us. So when the old tsar killed everyone in Sarkel and Atil and everywhere else in Khazaria, everyone felt it.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

And the last few days have shown me what our family is really made of: we are our memories, our love, and our things. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He offered him his friendship, invited him to bathe in champagne, tried to make him understand that the females of his family had insides made of flint, but he could not weaken his obstinacy. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Pa’s complexion is the darkest in our family, though still really light, like a white person’s tan, and how he looks is how everyone expects me to look. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

But he couldn’t let her get his family in trouble. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Tattoos While U Wait could have been a banquet hall holding the Ema family reunion. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I’m surrounded by friends, by family, by my teammates and coach, and by warm, supportive strangers. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

We know very little about the family and dare not ask them questions. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ray said, “We keep the living room for family conversations,” which is true, I guess, since we never had any family conversations. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

LINK: You mean because my family turned out to be from the Holocaust and hers turned out to be from the KKK? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

My family does not look very different from them. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You must show them what a nice family you come from." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

They saw only what everyone saw, because it was all they wanted her to be—the popular girl from a wealthy, influential family. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Our family tried to carry on as normal, but we were tense all the time. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

At the one extreme, Mandarin and its relatives, which constitute the Chinese subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan language family, are distributed continuously from North to South China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Or I thought of my family, of how they were spared this terrible agony. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Certainly the fair made a powerful impression on the Disney family. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t till he’d returned, dirty and exhausted, that the family had breathed a sigh of relief. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

It has been important for me to have caring biological family in my life. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

When wages were down or workers were laid off during slow seasons, the family was often not sure where the next meal was coming from. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Her family, who had watched the entire exchange through the windows, jumped guiltily away. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“The point is you have options. If you continue this quest ... what happens when you free Thanatos? Will it be good for your family? Your friends?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

In Florence, the capital of Tuscany, Vincenzio became a court musician, and his family mixed with dukes and princes at the artistic and intellectual heart of reborn Europe. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

By that summer, Afghan families were working an entire sec­tion of the San Jose flea market. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

My older sister, Nikki, and I loved to look through the window as families arrived at the swap market across the street. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

But when one doesn’t see one’s family for many years at a time, the transformation can be striking. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My family and I leave thirty minutes before the funeral starts, but the parking lot at Christ Temple Church is already full. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

After all, his grandfather could have left him with his neighbor Omar’s family. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“I can have you out of this family in two minutes,” Shawn said. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“All right, then. I’ll go up first. See if I can get work. Then I’ll send for you and the boys. Move the whole family there.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have a strict policy in our family about always telling the truth, so I have no choice but to say it. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Estranged from her family, pregnant by a man she could not be seen with in public, she was alone. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We passed a family, all in their nightclothes, throwing buckets of water against the wall of their house, as the fire chewed through the wood. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her family was prominent and respected and she was attractive in a rather dignified way, but this young lady, I am afraid, had long been in love with Justice. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I always spot people who look like my family, and get a feeling of home. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I would have bet the family fortune if I’d found a sucker big enough to take me on. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

An adopted extended family from the West Computing office stepped into the void left by the aunts and uncles and cousins in Farmville. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t family, but wasn’t it a good idea to try and educate people who didn’t know about root but wanted to? Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

My family was growing concerned about my haunted look; I was having trouble sleeping. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some part was always about to fall down, and for five generations the same family, the Parslows, had been employed full time by the College as masons and scaffolders. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

But Richard was going on a plane that day, going back to his family. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cooter saw I was starting to believe and said, “And if family breeding contests don’t count as some up-north, big-city learning mess, I don’t know what do.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Since Lightfoot, just being around them was like getting fussed at for wearing shoes in winter and having a cow and a family cook. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He hurried to tell the other families in his building. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Fischer’s assurances notwithstanding, his peripatetic alpine career was rough on his family. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He had become our family, but the man wanted a real family member who could authorize his burial. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

In fact, I want my family, my block, and my whole hood to see us. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Of course, I sit in the best seats, the ones reserved for senators’ families. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

A few hours at the library sufficed to convince me that some aspects of our agreeable family legend were untrue. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I wonder what terrible things forced this family to leave their home forever and escape to a new place where they don’t fit in or speak the language fluently. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Anger is fire that can burn you up, the way it made my father hurt his family. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is not the first time I have failed my family since I got here, but for some reason, it feels that way. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

My family— Grandmother, Mother, Daddy, and my brother, Conrad, plus most of my aunts and uncles—had gathered at Fair Park for a Fourth of July picnic. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All my worries about how to pay for my care and where my family would stay were lifted. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Isa descended the staircase with heavy footsteps while her family and friends watched in silence. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

My father’s anxious office-seeking consumed our family’s fortunes, the remains of my mother’s dowry. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

By Molly’s next birthday she was living with a new family, and her mother was in jail. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The family lived at Robert Taylor for nine months. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

This family that you could tell just came out of some church were walking right in front of me--a father, a mother, and a little kid about six years old. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I will need a letter from the parish priest and a physical examination by my family doctor. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“The family she was staying with gave her to the Russians to save their daughter. The boyfriend was a story she made up to continue on. She won’t really look at the baby yet.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

How could such a coldhearted criminal be a part of this family? Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Now that the Cranes had spent years bouncing from state to state, their family adventures were starting to feel...Emily wasn’t sure what the word was to describe it. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

At school he addressed the young teacher as “Master,” but now that Shadrach was so much a member of the family the necessary formalities of a schoolroom were forgotten. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was no way she was going to let all of Grafton in on her family secrets. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I can tell she thinks we’re acting like a real family again. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

How could Papa not have not noticed the family? The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I had built a new life, and it was a happy one, but I felt a sense of loss that went beyond family. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Those who'd be playing first had to sit away from their families in the front row. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He answers that the INS has no records of birth or entry or naturalization for nearly three dozen of them and their families. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The family continued north, passing through Salt Lake City, things and places blurring—the auto mall, McDonald’s, Best Buy, the exit for the University of Utah. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The analysts would call his family the source problem or say he drinks and smokes to assert his independence. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I mean the older generations. This family”—she solemnly indicated the grave of my baby brother—“has started bein’ buried here.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It’s just the better families, packing up to leave. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Why couldn’t I have died with my family? she thought wildly. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Auntie An-mei had saved two thousand dollars, all to spend on her brother’s family. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

You forfeit membership in the family, the blood fraternity, and no matter how hard you try, you can’t pretend to be part of it. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

As explained above, scholars cannot even agree on the basics, such as the existence of private property, nuclear families and monogamous relationships. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The report came back that due to an unspecified family crisis, the banker’s son would be unable to marry for some years. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The burdens of being “the first” didn’t fall only on our family’s shoulders. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Hope all is well with work and family. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

If you can—like if your family isn’t dead in Kurdistan—then you write letters. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It was more a family than an army. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one time my family went to Connecticut, it took us a whole bunch of hours. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

That we had been enough of a family to keep him home. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I grew up in South Africa during apartheid, which was awkward because I was raised in a mixed family, with me being the mixed one in the family. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The problem, however, is twofold: these vulnerable families have nowhere to go, and the impact is inevitably discriminatory. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Fadi turned the ring on the lens and focused on a family of ducklings swimming on the glistening water. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Raising children required constant help from other family members and neighbours. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t like I had a great family life to turn to. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it seems like I’m the only one who has to worry about someone in my family getting shot. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I know, I know, it sounds like something you saw on "Miami Vice," but all I'm doing is repeating what I've heard from the family. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It seemed a strange way to live, without family, but he was just as glad not to have to pretend to love another set of parents. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Jomon language of Kyushu may instead have shared a common ancestor with the Austronesian language family, which includes Polynesian and Indonesian languages and the Aboriginal languages of Taiwan. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Until now, I’d hung around with good people who cared about important enough things but who were focused primarily on building their careers and providing for their families. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Country life was not for them, even if planting was how they had been raised and their family heritage. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I wish I could find her a good home, some kind family willing to take her in. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Pa walked back over to the family and said the same thing we say to all the new-free folks when they first get to Buxton. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“I mean I am going to live here with the Allen family.” Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Johnny found myriad avenues of distraction from his family’s penury. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fearing that my family might think I was finicky, I lied to them, telling them that the white woman had already hired a boy. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course I’m a little scared. But I’m doing this for my family, for you and your brother. I gotta show that I am somebody—no one else is gonna do that for me.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It therefore poisons all life with which it comes in contact: the cat beloved of some family, the farmer’s cattle, the rabbit in the field, and the horned lark out of the sky. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

"I'm already part of this family. I'm like a charter member." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Moody, the person in her family she’d always trusted to see things more clearly than she could. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I was the baby of the family and the only boy and got most of the attention, which I enjoyed. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Over the holidays, his family and others who share the trailer move into a newer, three-bedroom duplex. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I was in my room after lunch, reading James chapter five because I would talk about the biblical roots of the anointing of the sick during family time, when I heard the sounds. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps God will bless our family and make the baby a priest. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My family used to call me Little Star.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Those who fear crowds would have to meet one-on-one, and those who fear psychiatry would be forced to find comfort in untrained friends and family members. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Right away, the Israeli agents singled Liyana's family out and made them stand off to the side in a troublemaker line with two men who looked like international zombies. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Few families on the side streets had refrigerators, and halfway down the block was a wooden pallet on which sat kegs of ice. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Now I transport black market goods, but only because it feeds me and my family. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

When she had a family to take care of. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The families drop by one another’s homes on Sunday afternoons. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Charlie left first, off to the police station that was his wife and family. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It means taking on family members as unofficial patients with their edema and diabetes. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

We lived with it as a family, and we lived with it as a nation. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And, in some broad sense, my writing is political because it concerns my movement away from the company of family and into the city. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have lived with the family for a month now, and the longer I am with them, the more my hatred grows. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My family was all together again and we had our own home, so it seemed that all was well. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was your family’s turn for Oneg Shabbat. It may not seem like a ‘big deal,’ bringing fruit and cookies for Friday-night services, but it’s important to our school, to our community.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She and Trey are so not acting like family though. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s different. Do you think Dupree Johnson’s daddy loved his gas station more than his family? Or Robbie Chambers’ daddy loved his doughnut shop more than his wife or kids?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lynching of Charley, who was known by Walter's family, was believed to have been prompted by an interracial romance. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

We ended up staying with the family in Burundi for about a year. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

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

It was extremely rude for one citizen to touch another outside of family units. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Our whole family is gone. It is just you and I.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He called it the Forum Julium in honor of his family. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

“I had always expected to become devout. All my family died very devout. But somehow it does not come.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

For it was one thing for her to reject her background, to be critical of her family’s heritage, another to hear it from him. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jessie retrieved her list of things to do for Christmas Eve dinner and examined it while listening to the sounds of her family awakening upstairs. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Feeling a little like I’d stepped into a funeral without knowing the family, I stayed quiet. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Our playmates’ families exchanged their unwanted food for sugar, coal oil, spices, potted meat, Vienna sausage, peanut butter, soda crackers, toilet soap and even laundry soap. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it’s quiet, I think about my family. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The other two workers seemed to have even more bottled up inside them, their worries of money and family. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I held out the small statue that had been owned by my family ever since it was given to my great-great-great-grandmother Defile by a French man who had kept her as a slave. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

It was her good fortune to find a permanent job in the home of a well-to-do family whose members were affectionate, appreciative, and generous. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until the students learned about the pain of Anne Frank, Zlata Filipovic, and others—and saw themselves—were we able to come together as a “family” and label ourselves the Freedom Writers. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Many affluent families left Pensacola for Santa Rosa County, and military families from nearby Eglin Air Force Base settled there. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

No one from Nya's family had been hurt or killed by Dinka. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she went into the hospital, it was a time of great anxiety in our family. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

My family surrounds me as slowly, painfully, we continue up the trail. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The most important thing had always been what other people thought—appearances before herself or her family. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Also, the brothers believed that through the Nation of Islam they could finally become part of a larger family that could reunite them once again. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sighed now—in his sudden loneliness rubbing his eyes with the back of his hand—and picked up his camera, for he could hear his family coming. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

If only Papá had been more willing to do his job and make us a family, maybe El Sacrificio would be more than just an exotic name printed on a dead man’s driver’s license. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I know your family will miss you,” he said sympathetically. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

That night Royal and Cora sat in the front row next to Mingo and his family, the wife and children he had rescued from slavery. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“All guests of the royal family are invited, and now you’re guests of the princess.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I never eat my soup all at once, and do not want my own family to take mine away. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sefia had guessed a long time ago there was something different about her family—their secrecy, their isolation. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He seemed unaware of his watching family as he pulled my face to his, lifting my feet off the floor. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I am all that is left of my family. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Katherines love for Jimmy and her confidence in the new path her life had taken softened her fathers hard line on graduate school, and he certainly couldn’t resist the thrill of the family’s first grandchild. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Later, when the other Japanese families arrived, we ate all night long: salted rice balls, fish cakes, rice crackers, rice candies, and barbecued chicken. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, I hadn't heard a word from my family in all that time. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carry the dirty plate and fork to the family room, where I put them on an end table. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

That I’d go back to Raleigh and our broken family would suddenly disappear and in its place would be a real family, holding hands and saying the blessing? Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

You can imagine yourself brilliant as your sister, slower moving, quiet and thoughtful as your older brother or filled up with the hiccupping joy and laughter of the baby in the family. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

And my family had never talked about the massacre, even among ourselves. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

We pick our way through family groups, past piles of bags and bundles. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Take care and hope all is well with you and your family. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Disease not only shattered the family bonds that were the underlying foundation of Indian societies, it wiped out the political superstructure at the top. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Of course,” Mrs. Branwell continued, “those Orientals are very family oriented.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they paid for the next guy, and the next family, and the next, and the next. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You still gonna do this, despite what they done to you, to your family, Hobart?” she asked. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

By that time, all the family names for boys had been exhausted. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was the sardonic look on his face his family knew so well—the joke on himself that made him laugh inwardly. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“My family will be expecting me. And I’ve finished my pocket money.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so, on this triumphant day in the family’s history, all that is visible of Nicholas is his head. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

As excited as I was to have an American family, I had grown used to the idea that Mabinty Suma’s family was mine too. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only now when I sit in the back seat I have to cover the parts that say a little mouse has been here because I am the only Mouse in the family. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The family could settle down and stay in one place. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Now in the spring of 1842, the family made a trip to Maer, where Charles, freed from his coral reefs, started to think again about his species theory. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Following in the family tradition, Vesalius went first to the University of Louvain then, in 1533, enrolled to study medicine in Paris. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Her pupils were daughters of the best families who had nothing to do and had taken up the fashion of ceramics, which was more elegant than knitting for the poor, as their grandmothers had done. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

What suffocating intimacies, what dangerous, insane, obscene relationships between the members of the family group! Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

All our folks were hardworking people who had struggled to own their homes, to provide a stable life for their families. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Growing up in a family of engineers, Valentina was comfortable in the sciences and performed well in all testing. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

I know that if I do, it will place another wedge between me and my family that I can never remove. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Amanda didn’t understand that most of the hurt he felt was not for himself but for her and the rest of the family. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are even suggestions that mountains as far south as the Shackleton Range in Antarctica may be fragments of the Appalachian family. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

A surprise party hosted by my family after my return from Rio. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Nobody approved of the party, but knowing what the family was up against, they weren’t about to make it worse for us by not coming. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It was a sight the girls never forgot: an impeccable black staff in a fabulous house, serving a well-heeled black family. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Half the town is liquor stores to keep the Marines happy. The other half is covered with mobile home salesmen to cheat the young enlisted men with families out of their pitiful salaries.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or the family could come up with a new nickname for him, like Bayani. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

As soon as the family disappeared, he darted out across the floor and scooted up to the newsstand. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not even to make sure my family is okay. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Others reported that there had been a death in his family and he’d been called away. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Lake Charles, Louisiana, the news bulletins from New York City worried Theodore and his family, who had relatives in the city. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“The emperor declared he’d kill anyone and their family if they were found on the western side while he’s here. So don’t cross the walkway. Do you understand?” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Electric lights lit the windows, and inside we could sometimes see a family sitting down to listen to the radio together, or washing dishes in the kitchen. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Finally, Blancaflor delivered the prince safely back to his own home and family. The prince’s father was grateful that Blancaflor returned his son to him...” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

An unpleasant scurrying told him the roach’s family was searching for the dishes that were usually stacked there. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Who, in real life, plops herself down in a totally strange environment—without housing, family connections, or job—and attempts to become a viable resident? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You got a ready-made family now,” she quipped. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, at home with the family where he was accustomed to have Mother at his side, he felt frustrated, and seized every opportunity to go down to the hospital and visit. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the families were out: the news had spread quickly. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stay in this other family’s driveway in silence, staring out at the ocean, where the sun has made its gleaming road to the horizon. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

And he didn’t know that all Indian families are unhappy for the same exact reason: the fricldng booze. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

When they learned it had been a dramatization, the family was thankful. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

On election night, Nixon ate dinner with his family at the White House. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

We passed a family of rabbits grazing on clover; a groundhog; a deer and her fawn. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Cause I know just about everbody on my side a the bridge and plenty a white families too, and that sure don’t add up to be no two hundred thousand. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Would you think about your family and your childhood and your dreams and all you’re leaving behind? The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Large, high-resolution monitors and quality speakers were turning their computers into sophisticated cultural centers in much the same way TV sets had morphed into family entertainment units. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve visited families who lost everything in Hurricane Katrina and were tearful and grateful just to have a working refrigerator and stove. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I selected an episode of Family Ties, an ’80s sitcom about a middle-class family living in central Ohio. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Riding in the van, squashed between all the kids, I sit there, and for the first time with this family, everyone’s quiet. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The only true family that God has given me is my loving parents and the supportive Freedom Writers. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

—The Unity Cultural Association wishes to thank all students who brought in canned goods for needy families. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the direction of Mollie and her family, Anna’s estate also hired private detectives. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Boats were used for fishing or visiting family members downriver. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The family socks basket was another thing Petra didn’t like—she always ended up with one sock either too big or too small. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

My heart was pounding, as if Kim had announced that my family won a lottery and she was about to reveal how much. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is over a thousand dollars each now, and we’ve spent it each month just to get our families food. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Of course you don’t. When it benefits the man. And isn’t this a ‘private family matter,’ as you say? A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The girls and their mother made regular appearances in the social column of the Norfolk Journal and Guide, the model of an upwardly mobile and professional black family. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Shortly thereafter, he started a successful appraisal company with my dayee Shahrdad, and over the years, they employed nearly every member of our large family. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

It was the pitch- perfect voice of the man who for years had maintained my family’s lawn and cleaned our pool. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Look,” Pauley said, “Billy is tracking down your family in California to call them. Do you live in California? Do you remember how to reach them?” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“How else would we manage to feed our families? To brighten the dark?” others say. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

One day when Chester was fifteen, with a learner’s permit but no license, he slipped away with the family car. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The virus was hitting families selectively, but no one understood this because the flow of news coming from upriver was being choked off. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By “we” I mean my family: Mother, Daddy, Judy and me. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Book Scavenger was an online community of people who loved books and puzzles and games as much as Emily did, and it traveled with her no matter where her family lived. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He moved his wineglass toward his family, who looked back self-consciously, lowering their eyes at last as everyone drank. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

And my family—my family thanks you too. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

When I was young, he would drive the family from Florida back to our hometown in western Pennsylvania to visit relatives. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

White families, meanwhile, were moving out of the city in droves, lured by the suburbs—the promise of better schools, more space, and probably more whiteness, too. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Well, you can blame me for that one, sugar. I’m the safe one in the family,” Grandma said. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I remember what Ruth said about Professor Swann not having any family. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“You got that from Dad’s side of the family,” Mary Anne said as Ben drove toward the Club. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My cousins and I were thick as thieves, and we would stay that way even when we grew up and started our own families. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

It was time to settle somewhere, time to build a family, to remain safe and constant, on land. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He came from a rich family—the other men made fun of the silver buckles on his boots. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

But apart from eating a piece of candy for the sake of his family and praying for their safety, there was nothing I could do. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Together the family unwrapped the rest of the presents and exclaimed over each one. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“I could not help thinking about the families, suddenly receiving the news that their children were dead.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Joaquin knew that that was impossible, that he would always be intertwined with the things he had done, the families he had had. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Generally,” her mother responded, “the fairies ask for the same thing: a family’s first-born child, to take back with them to Taninli and mold into their own creature.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This hasn’t been the best day, but it’s something we went through together. Now it’s woven into the fabric of our family story.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The family, including Maman, despise the boy’s Nazi collaboration, but they fuss and cluck over him when he visits home. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

There were the legacy kids, whose fathers and grandfathers had been Tigers or whose families had funded the building of a dorm or a library. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The Dactyl Hill Squad had become the closest thing she’d ever known to a family besides her actual siblings. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

People were jerks, so he flooded the whole world, killed off the whole human race except Noah and his family and all those pairs of animals. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“I would hope that everyone does the research assignment and writes a report on their actual family, Douglas.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Constant police raids caused the family beer business to flounder a year after it was begun. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How will a family find you if they don’t see those cute freckles?” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The five hundred dollars Mama owes the bank makes it worse, looming over me like a giant spider spinning a web around my family. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

My family who has only themselves and dirt and corn. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mop and I shook our heads and waited for Bren to put the glasses into his blazer pocket before going to the lounge area to greet the rest of the family. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“You know, Kyle,” said his dad as the family walked across the parking lot, “your mother and I are extremely proud of you. Writing a good essay isn’t easy.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Give them the memory of their families back. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Yet as Donald Braman, author of Doing Time on the Outside, states, “One can only assume that most participants in these discussions have had little direct contact with the families and communities they are discussing.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

And after Mr. Shears had gone to work she made a telephone call to the office and took what is called Compassionate Leave, which is when someone in your family dies or is ill. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It's possible she actually prevented another tragedy from befalling our family. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

As the therapist in the family, Carla likes to be the one who understands. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The interactions between people at Worm Creek were not at all what I was used to in my family. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In a loud voice that swept through the sleeping neighborhood, he called to his family, “Stand by for a fighter pilot.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some summers there had been road trips with one or two Bengali families, in rented vans, going to Toronto or Atlanta or Chicago, places where they had other Bengali friends. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

All this talk about my mom makes me wonder about Maxine’s family. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I can call,” I said, flipping open the emergency family cell phone my mom had given me. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

But all she saw was that infuriating drawing of her family she had stuffed into her pillowcase last night before the tornado hit. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I watched my former coworkers scatter across Poland, one by one, family by family. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

If she needed to, she could break and run, away from the bushes where her family slept. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I tracked Day’s family down and watched Thomas shoot his mother, when I looked on today as the crowd in the square was gunned down ... Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I go cold all over, thinking of Grandma’s family. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

All his life Kyril Montana had cultivated the habit of leaving his job at the office: once home, he relaxed; he became a family man. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My family was Christian, and we went to church every Sunday. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Ralph was an unusual partner for Karen, but she was in such serious decline that nothing she did made any sense to her friends and family. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I wanted to think it was my family that had kept me away from the street scene Sapo had built his life around, but it wasn’t. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Nobody is on the slopes where I spent the whole day with my family. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The components in the making of this film were very significant and intertwined like the main branches on a family tree. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if the box had been full of old family photos or heirlooms—something special that you wouldn’t technically need for a year, but was still important all the same? Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Beautiful houses, whitewashed and large, the kind of house where you could raise a nice family. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I had the master key because another one of my summer jobs was assistant apprentice super for my family’s complex. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

While I was in Kakuma, I had written letters to the International Red Cross, asking for help in finding my family. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had let go of my dream of reading about when I was sixteen and took on responsibilities to help feed all the little ones that came to our family. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now she is in God’s hands. I must stay with the rest of my family.” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The preacher is quoting verses from the Bible, and the family is weeping, and everyone is weeping, even Amanda Monk and some of the cheerleaders. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They sat on the bench adjacent to Wakil and his family’s. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Instead, he spent all his days helping out at the clinic with the rest of his family. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Someone could have remarked that it is Leah who wears the pants in our family, which is true. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But now I know they split up because my mom cheated. And you knew, because your parents moved to get away from her and try to mend their family. Your family.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

My family’s old furniture had been shined up into an impressive dowry and placed in the front parlor. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman’s family had been paid off, and the young prince shipped to school in the mountains. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

We watch all kinds of clips full of family in different places, but always the feeling’s the same: of love, of home. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Then I made the mistake of telling him that my father had also said that if the Zamborskas said that she was wonderful in every way except for smoking, Summerhill will find Vivian another family. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her family might not rise higher, but they would no longer sink lower. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s a large family, she still has seven children under ten years, one a babe in her arms.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to leave my new family when the papers finally came through in March of 1948. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nearing our house, I saw the whole family had come out on the porch. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The silence at dinner is only interrupted by the chomping of chips and salsa at what used to be our favorite family restaurant. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

After I took the oath, the families of the graduates flooded the field, and she was swept away in a tide of Gens Aquilla before I had a chance to speak to her. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was as if the defects of the family and none of the virtues had been concentrated in both. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Its tranquil beauty mocked the relative prosperity peasant families had enjoyed for centuries, before the dam was built. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the balance — no job, no family, no visa. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I've helped transform the apartment of a single, lazy, hoarding hermit into a family's living space. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

And here I am with buckets of money, far more than enough to feed both our families now, and he won’t take a single coin. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

They’re as happy as any bird family can be, as happy as Axel is here in this special place with his own family. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Cady had only ever dreamed that this day would come— the seventh and final day of her trial period with a new family. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Harry had heard these rumors about Malfoy s family before, and they didn’t surprise him at all. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

In one of my paintings of my family’s house, my father is sitting on the stoop with his head on his knees. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Baba sings in a fake deep voice as he passes through the family room, making me laugh for the first time since that afternoon. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

There are rich Spinneys and poor Spinneys and regular Spinneys, but there ain’t no swamp Spinneys, and my mom’s family never let my dad forget it, believe you me. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

On family vacations in Belize, I’d seen girls on the beach with belly rings, and I thought they looked so cool. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The remainder of our family is together again. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here are the top five names among high-end and low-end families, in order of their relative disparity with the other category. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“I loved her as well but it was never the same. You are as dear as family to me, all of you. More dear, in some cases.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

His immediate family was with him in the house. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dicey led her family out to the end of one dock. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there they sat for a precious few minutes, Papa and his two youngest children, while the rest of the family awoke and the sounds of the city began its crescendo all around them. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The courtroom was packed with Walter’s family members and supporters. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

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

Surely Dumbledore had chosen them, as the eldest member of the family once his mother had died. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Among those three hundred people gathered at the distracted-driving summit, there were vigorous voices of people who lost family members, who created MADD-like groups to take on distraction. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But they quickly sensed her intelligence and encouraged her to attend Berea College, a small liberal arts institution in Kentucky that accepts students only from low- income families. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Coming up with quick lies must run in the family. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Barely two weeks had passed post-Olympics, and I was with my family in Chicago at the largest Islamic conference in North America helping to staff our Louella booths. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

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

The last time they had had a family meeting, Grace had told them she was pregnant. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

And then I get some dry clothes from the house of a family who are dead. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Three days later I encountered more police officers—the ones who broke up our family forever. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

In the morning, Jackie disengaged from the family that had gathered to pay respects and take her to the mortuary. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I will not move until you return. When you tell me what he says, I will fly you back home to your family.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

McKusick began his research on the Lacks family at a time of great flux in research oversight. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But the family was so keen to learn good English that they hardly ever spoke German to me. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth quietly answered “Undoubtedly;” and after an awkward pause, they returned to the rest of the family. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

“My family is in there. They can’t reset everyone! How could they do that?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Her father-in-law’s intention, she supposed, was to create an ambience of solidity and family tradition. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The family watched footage of enormous waves, uprooted trees, whole towns washed grey with torrential rain. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“You’re the only guy on the force who’d try to arrest somebody away from his mother. And why did you bring in grampaw here? Ring up his family and tell them to come get him.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her sisters and brother were persecuted by the police, and the authorities attempted to forbid anyone in her family from living with her. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of my family, of all the things I still wanted to do in this world. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was his day off, he said; he’d made the trip to show his family the glacier and to look for bears. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This treasure you claim to be yours? It belongs to my family.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

I said something about what if what if we could somehow stop being the Beautiful Sinclair Family and just be a family? We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

In any case, given that a family has at least one daughter, what is the conditional probability that it also has a son? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Should she stay in New Orleans, or move the family to Baton Rouge? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I had been spending insufficient time with my family and Makaziwe’s request provoked pangs of guilt. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His fame and income helped turn his family members' lives around. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

His family's modest holdings were on the smallest of the Fingers, and Petyr had been slight and short for his age. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She explained that though many members of her family believed that Hale had wanted Vaughan silenced, they suspected that there was more to the murder. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Those people, his family and his friends, of course, were looking at me with rage. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“My mom says our family was here before the border,” she said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Chipper had, after all, eaten the family Bible the winter before, chewed right through it from Genesis to Revelation, shredding generations of inscribed Hickams in the process. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I would like you to be with me. I mean, with us. With my family.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

After the doctors warned that Garfield's recuperation could be slow, the family decided that the two youngest children should remain in Ohio with relatives throughout the summer. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Even Taisin had arrived alone, having already said good-bye to her family. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The Pritchards were a large family that lived upriver about five miles. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever Grandmother started lecturing him about his ancestors—how they’d come over from China and prospered in the import/export business, eventually becoming one of the wealthiest Chinese families in Vancouver—well, it was boring. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He was educated in a one-room schoolhouse and raised on a farm in Henrico County, near Richmond, Virginia, and his family, the Jordans, were easygoing folks. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your new worker dragged out three file storage boxes. I found all sorts of information on your birth family, foster homes, schools. . . .” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It didn’t last long, and luckily, didn’t go much further than my family. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

In July, with Emma recovered enough from the pregnancy and birth to travel, she and Charles took the family to London for a week. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

"There's not a man or woman in sight that won't help catch you. We're all one big family here, you see. And we don't like strangers." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

First Charles told his father that he was worried he wouldn’t be able to support a family with his current plan of pursuing science. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As incredible as my Olympic journey had been, my greatest gift had been the chance to bring joy to those who love me most—my family. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But then he was in no mood to worry about his family. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

The family reunion atmosphere of each practice where they knew everyone and everyone knew them. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about where my family was and whether they were alive. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

My sisters and I managed to sneak beneath the wire of his expectations, but we worried about my brother, who was seen as the family's last hope. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

"That's true, sir. And the white family that owned the land when it was a big plantation still lives in town." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

That kind of thinking starts with families, mostly. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Let’s all sit down and have a nice, peaceful family lunch.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“If that’s too personal you don’t have to tell me. My family getting their call was a nightmare and I’m not a big fan of talking about that either.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Whole families are squashed inside the few shared taxis in the line, bags and bundles packed around them. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I never thought it was strange that our Jewish family celebrated Christmas with Nan, Aunt Louise, and our English cousins. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

This would explain why the Dictograph set up by the private detectives working for Mollie Burkhart’s family had never picked up any incriminating statements, and why Rose’s clothes had never been found in the creek. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When my family visited my aunt’s house in San Francisco, my grandmother searched for me among my many cousins. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not a word passed between Bull and his family at supper and at times the noise of the silverware clinking on plates seemed deafening. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Driving home that night from meeting Walter's family, I thought of the story in a whole new way. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Likely the rest of his family perished, as well as anyone else who objected. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He was tired of the long trips to New York, the constant lies to his family. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her family was the only Jewish one in the village. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Mom’s side of the family is from Brazil. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

She said my alienating the family would one day seem foolish to me, as it did to her. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Here in the cool shadows I feel protected, as though I’m undercover in the jungle, a secret agent, spying on my own family. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We shared a bathroom on the first floor of the apartment house with two other families. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

White people treat dogs like children or members of the family. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Not the same family,” I bit back, possessive all of a sudden. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Everyone spent their days trying to figure out how to get stuff for their family to eat. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It won’t be until June 11, 1998, when I can proudly say, “Now my dream of being the first person in my family to graduate is coming true!” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

His family had access to education, resources, computers. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

As with Dutchy and Carmine on the train, this little cluster of women has become a kind of family to me. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Your father and I don’t want any more fighting. Especially in the family’s house. Understood?” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

But against this there were objections; and she finally resolved that it could be the last resource, if her private enquiries to the absence of the family were unfavourably answered. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

“It was written for people like you. For families like yours.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

But Park feared that if he missed the vote, the government would notice his absence, declare him to be a traitor, and send his family to a labor camp. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

All I know right then is that I have to get Shiloh away from the house, where none of the family will see him. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We should set up a family meeting,” he said as her mom’s hands moved to her paper napkin. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It’s dead obvious from the shock trapped in Dr. Chin’s raised eyebrows after meeting Troy and Emilio that he got no forewarning about the nontraditional family next door. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Chicago is like the man who marries a woman with a ready-made family of twelve,” he said. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

His mother always cried poor, but she put a lot of thought and as much money as she could scrape together into making sure she wouldn’t be embarrassed by how her family looked. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Each civilization had its own term for the People, but they were undoubtedly members of the same hidden family. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

But the rare urge west had fixed upon our family, and so my aunt crossed boundaries not delineated in space. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole family was a flurry of movement, grabbing jackets, guns, cartridges. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“The family don’t need no museum, and they definitely don’t need no wax Henrietta,” she said. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But Pascagoula doesn’t offer to come in on her holiday and, assuming she’s with her own family, I don’t ask her to. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

When he found a sermon leaflet in his family’s mailbox, he studied it and an idea grew. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

With all the silence around us, I wondered for a moment if they had been the Angel family’s entire life force. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Such a bewildering excess of things we had for one single family, and how useless it all seemed now. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

This made Harriet wonder about her own family, especially about Old Rit, who was forever talking about the promises of freedom that had been made to her. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and I are the Oscars of our family, always asking questions. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Dad seemed disappointed at the family’s reaction to the Island Examiner article, but 1 couldn’t lie to him. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

My vacations had all been spent at school: Mrs. Reed had never sent for me to Gateshead; neither she nor any of her family had ever been to visit me. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I was a new person because I no longer had family to remind me of what I had been.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Anyway—a miracle!—my family agrees to shoes if any to fit me can be found. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

As much as I want to be part of this family, I am not. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Guards hurl themselves against the family, flinging them to the dirt. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The only problem—the rest of his family was still in Bellmont. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s her fault. She’s why I’m here. I was looking for her when everything happened. I thought she wanted to be with my family, but she left us.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

My family poured water mixed with milk—considered a blessing—in my face, and some bubbles settled right on my eyelashes. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a minute, I even wondered if he still wanted to be my friend, knowing my family was all broken up like it was. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Owing to the pressures of our shared commitment to the ANC and the struggle to end apartheid, we were unable to enjoy a normal family life. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Persians have mastered the ancient and noble art of the awkward family photo—in fact, we probably invented it. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

So the three of us formed a kind of family, as much as our peculiar situation would allow. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

My friends in Cambridge had become a kind of family, and I felt a sense of belonging with them that, for many years, had been absent on Buck’s Peak. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The modest two-story house would be their family home for more than twenty years. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

That’s why there is an infinite labyrinth of stories, even in just one family. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

But once beaten and broken in battle so that he cannot regroup his troops, there is nothing else to be feared than the ruler’s family. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Wasn’t there any family to notify when the father died? Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The families that get the early telegrams have that contented look. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Since a lot of people were going away with their families to places like Florida and Indiana, we all exchanged presents with the people we weren’t Secret Santas for. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

One of my daily chores is to wash the family’s laundry. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clothes, food, bedding, shoes—everything a family could need—was thoughtfully and quietly left for them on Stella’s porch or at the doorstep of what was once her grandma’s house. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It meant that all family units were to be dismantled to make way for barracks housing only single men and women working in the white world. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our whole family was committed, even if it felt a little scary. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Your father’s family had equal responsibility to provide your needs. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I then asked my family to help me think of names for the club. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

She bawled me out again, and the whole family wound up getting involved. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“My family, and my flowers. That’s all I need in this world.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

My dearest Papa, Koh-i-noor is upset because her family seems to neither understand nor care about her wellbeing ... The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe we could watch TV together as a family instead?” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

That doctor has stayed on with his family, in spite of the danger—they’re from someplace in the South, Fyntan thought, Georgia or Kentucky. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There is no actual law that says I can’t visit my family while I’m an apprentice.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

When anyone in the family asks what I'm writing, I usually say, Nothing or A story or A poem and only my mother says, Just so long as you're not writing about our family. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

But it was so chilling that someone—maybe Dad, probably Benjamin—dialed 911, which no member of my family had ever done before. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Her whole family had been decimated, and now it appeared as if she’d lost her husband, too. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And the city women, who wrap their skirts only a little differently, come to bargain on feeding their families. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the time I was six, I stayed with her on Saturday nights while my parents went out, and together we prepped for Sunday family dinner. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It looked as though they were scared to perform any spell that might make the Roberts family fall. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He gestures to the wall where a portrait of the family hangs—Mr. and Mrs. Spencer and their two little ones, their pale faces staring out at us. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

There were family matters eating at him as well. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The tall, slender man and his goofy wife had been guests in the family compound. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want some squirrel family to find it. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I think the kids need help and I think the families need help also. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t think of anything worse than watching my family hurt. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

The fugitives withdrew and waited until the family put out their lamps. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The boat passengers wave wildly, laughing and yelling the names of friends and family. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered his mother taking the newchild, his sister; into her arms, while the document was read to the assembled family units. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

She did not like us to socialize too much with the partying side of Daddy’s family. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And how did my family make the cutoff? The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Usually in the spring, each family took it upon themselves to scrub the exterior of their house with hoses and brushes. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The doctors and other family members agreed: it might be good for her to do just that. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Beyond this O’Brien was careful to keep his job apart from his family. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In church every Sunday, with my younger sister, Adria, at my side, I’d kneel with my eyes tightly shut and pray for my family and my teammates. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He would drive the whole family to this diner downtown. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I got to the food line in plenty of time, but my pretend family wasn’t anywhere around. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

We would single out someone, or a couple, or sometimes a whole family—although for the purposes of the game, it was always better to single out a person shopping alone. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Even families making less than $30,000 a year subscribe to the American dream; more than half say they have achieved it or will do so. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Your family. Where are they? Do they know who you are? Do they know how important you are?” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

You would say something about a family or a village in the district, and he would say that was nothing and compare it to something bigger or better that he had seen in his youth. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he was against it, as he explained, because it was not manly to make trouble for someone in front of his family, and Don Apolinar had returned with his wife and daughters. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

If Sticky cared, they said, he would try harder to win, since only by winning would he bring wealth and happiness to the family. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He used the kind of voice that, in my family, means that a voice a whole lot louder is about to come along in a minute or two, so you’d better start preparing. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

If a villein inherited enough strips of land to support his family, or if he was lucky enough to serve an honest and generous lord, he might live in relative comfort. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Look at his family,” said Harry, closing his books, too. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

After a day or so, you would meet your family and your official period of visitation began. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

It would have been a sensible plan, except that Thom’s family was heading to North Carolina for the rest of the summer, and Rado was going camping in Colorado with his mother and stepdad. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I want marry. They love me but they say the family want Igbo woman. Because Igbo marry Igbo always.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I’ll make sure you and your family are good,” he says. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Think of your families—” “They do, old man,” Father said. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had known me longer than the Courters, so in my mind, they were more like family. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

This was the sort of house only a wealthy family could afford to build. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes,” she said gingerly, “when there’s been a death, it drives a family apart, instead of together.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He and his family had lived in South Alabama for generations. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It would have made a nice spot in the summer for an ordinary family to sit and eat a picnic. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every summer we joined the poor inner-city kids the Fresh Air Fund organization sent to host families or to summer camps for free. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lee. Got more name. Lee papa family name. Call Lee.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a mystery to both of us why his painting wasn’t valued in this family. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

The family had a heritage of not drinking, and a religious faith. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

When your family’s one missed check away from rock bottom? On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Even though it was Friday, and Park's family always watched movies and made popcorn in the air popper on Fridays. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I doubt that anyone in Ankara would take my name, my date of birth, my height, to help my family find me. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Between coaching and helping the families of players and employees, she had had little time for rest or for dealing with the details of her own life. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I’m walking on a boardwalk somewhere with my family. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Ralph took the whole family out for a drive to celebrate; even Theresa came, though she’d been up all night at the hospital. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It shows a field stretching away away, and in the furrows a family pausing from their work, grinning, all happily. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Tomorrow we’ll go to services as a family. Then I’m taking the three of you out. Mom needs a break.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Some people got really ride, and then their families would have to scrape up extra food to feed them with. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I talked about how you were family, Mom teared up. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

After your father came back from college in the States, Mami explained, he got so busy working and raising his own family that he didn’t pay much attention to politics. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Soon the rumor mill was spinning out gossip that the Smith girl’s father was a drunk and the family lived in a squalid shack. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

He looked around him before he left, as if he was trying to remember what the family looked like and what they owned. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“Well, Quincy, what do you think about the new addition to our family?” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They were a family of politically conscious Quakers committed to racial equality. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And besides that, most families I knew lost some of their children. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dropped out, and soon after, they sent her to work for my father's family because they could no longer afford to feed her, either. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

There are tons of other families who came to support their moms, dads, grandmas, brothers, and friends. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

They'd go to the rural areas to live off the land, but that was not an option for my family. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

My big sister is carrying the whole intellectual weight of the family now that she’s the first one to go to a four-year college. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Emery talks about her parents, and moving away, and how badly she wants to get into medical school, even if only to prove that she's different from the rest of her family. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Even with a shortcut along the lakeside, I'm running just barely in front of the sirens and won't have a chance to widen the gap before I reach my family's house. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Even dinner with my family went well until Grandma India mentioned news of Central High. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So it made perfect sense for a theatre family to start on board a ship. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Six months after Merriam was born a new crisis hit the family. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

My worst fear: that my family will die, and that I will be responsible. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Or that my family doesn’t love me as much as I love them. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“And I think, even though it’s great that we found your dad, well, you know what happens when we find family.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

It meant that we, who also resembled no other U.S. president and who also had family from faraway places, could one day rise up and do the same thing. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“My family is in danger because of you,” she said. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

For a girl with no family and no home, Tess is surprisingly optimistic. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The last thing I wanted was what had happened to some of my friends' families: a divorce. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I look at my little sister and think how she has inherited the best qualities our family has to offer: my mother’s healing hands, my father’s level head, and my fight. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She was making enough for the family to move into a four-bedroom apartment in a prewar building overlooking Lake Michigan. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Shortly after the piano recital, danger entered our lives and stalked my family. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Muff stopped by to bring the girl’s family a cake and found her up to her elbows in laundry—in the bathtub of all places. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe this family, this beautiful bird family, is the kind that sticks together? A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In his opinion, he said, a white man who has never even killed a bushbuck for his family was not the expert on which god can protect our village. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only complete satisfaction with their Cal Tech existence came from him and his family. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Out went the ornate bric-a-brac, the austere furniture carved with the family crest. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made my family the focus and recipients of my intense energy. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Had assumed he was with the family in front. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Left her family to move here,” I say. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

In our tenement there were families who spilled in and out of each other’s apartments, sharing child care and stews. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

They made the scientists’ families feel like unwanted intruders. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The soldiers tell us that the family has gone to a reeducation camp, but we know they have disappeared, never to be seen again. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there were countless other killings—killings that were not included in official estimates and that, unlike the cases of Lewis or Mollie Burkhart’s family members, were never investigated or even classified as homicides. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She had opened a dresser drawer—and there was a whole family of wonderful little mice! Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I also miss my family and that Mateo kid so much. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

All around us, other families also have stopped to rest for the night. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad was the funny one in their family, always trying to get her more serious mother to laugh. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She is not allowed to utter his name in front of her family, and she burns all his letters. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It flowed from her mother, his mania over their family. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Because there’s no way a kid can grow up in an environment where ninety-three percent of the families are on some form of government assistance. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

All it takes is a single question, a word or a sentence, and before you know it, the entire family is involved! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

It was better, they counseled, to stay put with friends and family and the familiar life of the sunny South. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In fact, you are most likely to be murdered by a member of your own family on Christmas Day. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first time our two families had met, and the feeling was joyful. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Every year when the rains stopped and the pond near the village dried up, Nya's family moved from their home to a camp near the big lake. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

While she wasn’t opposed to joining the protest, she said, “I thought all my family and everybody I knew would object.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

At length, however, his civility was so far awakened as to enquire of Elizabeth after the health of her family. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

She thought, we are all going out in the same car together, it will be just as though we are one family. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

When the World of Men failed, my family would continue on, unaffected. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

More than once her eyes moistened, reflecting the tears of the family. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Is that any way to treat us? Your family? I’ve always been like a mother to you. And Carlos has been like your father.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was an extended family, Mami’s aunts, uncles, and cousins, who dropped in and out of our lives with warm clothes, advice, and warnings. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I am an hour and a half away from her, and I am part of a happy family. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

And on a cold Sunday afternoon, he was joined in his home by a small group of friends and family for a “living funeral.” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, they welcomed me with open arms and accepted me as a member of the McCabe family. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Unlike my mother, my father, Eugene, discovered Islam from his family members. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The kids who came from the wealthier families around Nairobi always complained, but I loved it. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were content, though, or as content as could be expected, and the neighborhood was tidy, working-class, full of families. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“How dare you speak to this family like that!” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

On Boxing Day its transformer blew up and nearly wiped out his entire family. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The house was fringed with palm trees, magnificent gardens, and concealed but nonetheless imposing outbuildings in which the family indulged its various hobbies. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I go back for all my family’s belongings and get stuck, having parts of them won’t matter if I’m reprogrammed and don’t remember them at all. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

My job now is to take care of this family. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Our family is poor and survives by farming a small plot of land. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But there’s no one like that in our family, Grandmother,” Alba replied. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neighbors and acquaintances eat outside in the yard and in the street, and the family eats indoors. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

That night our family and Eang’s sister with another friend remove the gold nuggets from their bras, waistlines, and the hems of their shirts and pants. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until he was a teenager, his family lived in the country several miles from Durham, tending a small farm of tobacco and corn using a team of mules. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you ever talk about your family? What are you hiding?” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The brothers offered me food and shelter, but how will my family know I’m in Ankara? Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

So many black families spend all of their time trying to fix the problems of the past. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

That afternoon I wait with nervous anticipation to meet my new family. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hope of finding his family had kept Kanei moving over the months. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“It would sort of suck, having all those people around your house all day. Like, people who aren’t in your family just, like, constandy in your space.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I’m dead. I don’t care anymore why I died. I just want to go. Get away from my family’s pain. From you. And you,” I say to Sarah. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Now this illness, our family’s enemy, has returned to claim yet another victim. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

And it was also common to send children to work for other families—one fewer mouth to feed. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

This one had run into a burning building in his youth to save a family member. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Tho from all the children he got, you’d never know it I never know nothing bout her family. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So listen up, family. At my funeral no one is allowed to wear black. And for music, I want something poppy and old-school, like Mr. T Experience.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mami, tell me, did Uncle Bill end up getting us a lawyer so we could sue the families of the boys who caused the accident?” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“And yet this is our own family, the Prices, living here!” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see pictures of her and her family when she is three, eight, ten, fourteen. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Bad humans killed my family, and bad humans sent me here. But that day in the hole, it was humans who saved me.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“And then we’ll all be together as one big happy family,” said her other mother. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

True, he would have preferred living on the beach in California, but it was still kind of cool to have someone in your family robbed by a famous outlaw. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The tools and the wheelbarrow were borrowed from several different families. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Like what a happy family on TV might do to have a Big Talk. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I remember her writing “Services: Cookies” on the family calendar in big letters. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

It had not been easy for him to arrive at this decision, to convince his family, and to make the long trip to the capital alone and without a centavo to speak with the patron. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was enough for Stanley to buy his family a new house, with a laboratory in the basement, and for Hector to hire a team of private investigators. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

We were still a family and they were still traditionally married, but she divorced him in order to separate their financial affairs. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Croteau and Woolner are not the only ones aware of the class divide within the family; so are the two sets of children. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I do not want to bury another member of our family. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought they would just get married and take their knowledge to another family. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Nobody in our family likes onions, and the only time Mom ever fixes them is when she’s upset. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

She knew why I was there, and had plenty to say on the subject, but seemed utterly exhausted at the idea of talking to me, yet another white person wanting something from the family. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In many families, it was young children who were sent to the saloon for the takeout beer, a practice that particularly outraged those who regarded the saloon as a den of evil. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Six months is a long time for a family to tolerate itself without any outside distractions. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His Dauntless family will have the option of visiting him in his new faction, a week and a half from now on Visiting Day, but they won’t, because he left them. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The pact did not succeed, however, in incorporating Fernanda into the family. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Once, when he was seven years old and his family lived near Milwaukee, a drunken hunter drove a snowmobile full-speed into an old birch tree. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon after this Arthur Goldreich and his family moved into the main house as official tenants and I took over the newly built domestic workers’ cottage. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind our barrack was the outhouse that we shared with two other families. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the long run, I hope that she will understand all the pain that she has caused in the family. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Well,” he said, “somebody in your own family is joining in. Abby has one.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

During the next several months, Guiteau and his family attempted to obtain a pardon, going as far as sending their request to President Arthur. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

With heavy feet, I walk uphill to my family’s shack. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some other desis, an African American family, a few people who look like they might be from the Middle East. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“Were . . . well, it’s hard to explain, but we re monster fighters. Where’s your family?” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Any line of talk that departed from the family and verged on the political might mean the abrupt termination of the visit. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one who forgot she had a baby and forgot she has a family. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then I will be the famous Park in the family. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

On the surface, the line tender, the family, the police, and the paramedics wait for four tugs on the line. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

However, at ten years old, Kim knows he has to endure their cruelty to help feed his family. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Is to leave a family to embrace it? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The daughter of a wealthy Tory family, she was also a close friend of Major John André, England’s chief of intelligence in America. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Second, during those years, I would have continued to be away from my family a lot, and I was getting very tired of that. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You probably don’t know this, but the Cullen family has an unpleasant reputation on the reservation.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

A lifelong bachelor, he had no family in America and so had become attached to ours. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I also needed to write an essay for school about a family subject or theme, so I decided to make my speech the same as my essay. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Now I know you’re the strangest one in the family after all. And you had some stiff competition!” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, as a teenage boy, he and his family became the “enemy.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Many citizens of Century Village were widows who had once been great family cooks, so they formed a committee to plan the wedding dinner. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ernie was escorted from the stadium by police to a waiting taxi in which he, his family, and their guest departed. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if they are my cousins, my family, I have to help protect them, too. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

And I had to sit at the little kids’ table because there are more cousins on my dad’s side of the family. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The portrait, in the style of Gainsborough, showed an aristocratic family—parents, two teenage girls and an infant, all thin-lipped, and pale as ghouls—posed before a vaguely Tuscan landscape. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I had made up my mind that recording both of my grandparents’ stories was an important project not just for school, but for me and my family. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

People in the pew behind the family said later they thought she was just missing her granny, pore child. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“He’s doing what he thinks is best for our family. It’s our job to keep you both safe.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

All I can think about is Edith Graham, leaving her home and her family to pursue a career in acting. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

His brother, once in car sales, had become a CO, too; and many family members lived nearby. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Me and Jay will help keep the family safe.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He invited them in to complete their business transaction and, before they were done, they found themselves eating a hearty noon dinner with the family. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Someone had made a path for his family to come and go. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

And as she sat by his bed, he told her what he needed her and the family to know. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They see the life and the feeling that Vincent meant to evoke, of real people, in a family, with faults, eating around a table, peasant life, real life, unromanticized. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was a mistake so big that my father, and my family, would be paying for it forever. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He should have said, with sonorous finality, I’m the father in this family. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hoped it would be years before she looked in that Bible and saw how Miss Love had written herself into the family. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Weed was coordinating with slavers, and he’d brought her and her family to New York, did that mean... Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Did Denise’s family eat Christmas dinner staring at an empty chair at the table? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They turned the house upside down, taking virtually every piece of paper they could find, including the transcripts I had recently been making of my mother’s recollections of family history and tribal fables. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two hours later, the bathrooms are wiped down, my bedroom is visitor-ready with clean sheets, the family room is vacuumed, and the old magazines are in the recycling bin. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

In interviews with one hundred residents of two Tallahassee, Florida, communities, researchers found that nearly every one of them had experienced or expected to experience the return of a family member from prison. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I had been left home by the family with the admonition to take care of the house until they returned. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

Among other problems, most had small seeds—imagine trying to feed a family on sesame seeds, and you have some idea of what it would have been like to subsist on maygrass. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In the end, I chose four intellectual movements from the nineteenth century and examined how they had struggled with the question of family obligation. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Tersteeg does betray his confidence, and when the news of his indiscretion gets back to his family, Ma and Pa are horrified. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

About three hundred families have already bought memberships, which now cost $300,000. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Her family’s distress increased in the late 1890s as the U.S. government intensified its push for the culmination of its assimilation campaign: allotment. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“If you wish to go to Yankee Stadium to search for your missing family member, press one.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

But he wouldn’t put our family in danger. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Now Frank was back in Greece, which meant that the Zhang family had completely circled the globe. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t wait to tell my family that I had finally made friends with the clock—and for the first time in my life I was waking up early! Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Gradually, however, with my assimilation in the schoolroom, I began to think of myself and my family as Catholics. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could go get supper with my foster family. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through a posting on a school librarians’ Web site she sought out family reunions, where she imagined she would encounter interesting frictions between prosperous siblings and relatives still mired at the bottom. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Tate asked, using the nickname Walter's friends and family had given him. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The main thing that marked Andrew’s birth for me was our first trip to meet Abel’s family during the Christmas holidays. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

That morning, when I offered pollen, I prayed for his family and those who loved him. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Mama wasn’t the only protector in the family. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Because of the prince’s status, we were allowed to meet one another in the consulting room, not the normal visiting area where one is separated from one’s family by thick walls and glass. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother stayed in school until fifth grade, but then her family could no longer afford to send her. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I knew my family was among the roaring fans, and I hoped they could tell I was smiling at them, sending them my thanks for lifting me up. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Ivy thought about offering to go to Ms. Clement’s house or maybe the Vance family on the other side of the woods, but she didn’t want to go alone. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Uncle Max moved out because it got too uncomfortable, and then Dad moved out because he wanted a new family. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“They interview your family and friends. And can they do that if they’ve killed them all?” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Rather anticlimactically, she adds, "A disgrace to the family." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Fine. I’ve just seen Voldemort murdering a woman. By now he’s probably killed her whole family. And he didn’t need to. It was Cedric all over again, they were just there....” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Principal Jenkins sent a letter home to every student’s family saying it was the right of all children to receive a public education. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

We had just moved Koocah’s cage from the living room to the kitchen, where the family spent most of our time. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“That’s so cute! So, how is that going? Did he ask you to marry him again? Give you any other family heirlooms?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

After he was discharged, he rejoined his family and took a job as a policeman in September 1861, becoming one of the first 150 men hired when Washington, D.C., formed its brand-new Metropolitan Police Department. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

In the old days a hunter would shoot or trap animals just to feed his own family, perhaps his village. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

She said she had always thought highly of his family. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

His family belonged to a Baptist church, and he sang in its choir and believed in the doctrines. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

By Saturday morning, as my family rushed about the house making breakfast and doing household chores, I lay with my face down in my pillow, hoping they would be quiet. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Poor people of color, like other Americans—indeed like nearly everyone around the world—want safe streets, peaceful communities, healthy families, good jobs, and meaningful opportunities to contribute to society. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The story of one’s “first time” may be repeated to family or friends, but for ghetto youth, almost no one imagines that the first time will be the last. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Any black family that had been around Boston long enough to own the home they lived in was considered among the Hill elite. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her family had raised sugar beets, cattle, hay, and corn. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

That summer, for the first time in my life, I did not accompany the family to Norway. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can get Snook a job at the shipyard,” he said, using Jimmy’s family nickname. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Her letters also kept her family up-to-date about what was happening on the home front. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He glanced over the rest of the family. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I stretched my neck to try to see around the back-to-school-shopping families and teenagers crowding the walkway, dodging shopping bags and ginormous purses. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Shaukat's daughter. This weekend. Borrowed some money for her dowry, even though it’ll still be a modest one, given their financial circumstances. Your family never mentioned it?” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

For a few seconds it seemed as if it would tear itself out by its roots, but after a while it calmed down and began to shed food for the hungry family. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, she’s rich all right. But she’s not crew. No matter what you say. And I don’t trust her. I asked her about her family, who they were...” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

They were the picture of a perfect family. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

My dad said, “Was he there with his family? Did you bother the poor man?” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled into the driveway and was surprised at the profound disrepair; this was a poor family's home. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

His mom took him to see Gaylyn, the longtime family friend and counselor. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The censure of her family was like a hard shell under which she found a certain freedom. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

They gladly paid for what they could get from family farmers like the Trotters. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

They stopped at a hundred miniature stores with crooked floors so Poppy could greet the owners, kiss-kiss on both cheeks, introduce the family, and be offered coffee or tea, though he kept saying no. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

As my family steps into the dazzling sunshine, I start to sing the happiest song I can think of. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

In plenty of important ways, she was a part of their family, too. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Stung by the criticism from her father and husband, Elizabeth Cady Stanton stopped accepting invitations to public events and once again focused her attention on her family. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Even if it has to be without our families, the three of us can still build a life of some sort on Sagan. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Holding the folder she had given him, he made his way through the throng, looking for his family unit and for Asher. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was so pleased to have my whole family involved because I wanted everyone to know that Ibtihaj Muhammad Day was their day, too. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Spending time with families, even seeing big families in SmartMart or stuffed in a minivan, sometimes did that to me. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The last bequest was for Loomis Toy, “the sum of fifty dollars in appreciation of his loyal service to the store and my family.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

However dissimilar, we feel like an unexpected family. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

As Pearl learned more about her new hometown, Moody began to learn more about Mia’s art, and the intricacies and vagaries of the Warren family finances. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

If you or someone you love is named Cindy or Brenda and is over, say, forty, and feels that those names did not formerly connote a low-education family, you are right. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

There was no doubt in his mind that the most efficient way to rear a large family would be to have one huge litter and get the whole business over with at one time. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Victory was theirs and he was eager to go back to the house on Odim Street, to be close to his family, to see Nnesinachi. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ralph retook the driver’s test by himself in June; and every day after that, as soon he came home from work, he’d rifle through the family mail, hoping. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My whole family loved him. We all loved music, too. My brother and sister and mother sang really well. My dad just sang really loud, loud and happy, though always out of tune.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

No one else runs up to me, no family or friends, but plenty of people I don’t even know are cheering and calling “Maria Virginia!” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Never could I have imagined being in a house full of family and still feeling lonely. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I went by a friend’s house instead of going directly back to my family’s rooftop hideaway. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“What are you, sixteen? An entitled cheerleader type from a perfect family? Think everyone in the world owes you a favor?” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

A few nights later the entire van Daan family was awakened by ghostly noises. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

It had been the same announcer throughout the war, so that by now Tessie felt she knew him; he was almost family. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Then he whispered, “I am not a happy man. I got a wife and children and I don’t happen to be a hard-working man. I never wanted a family.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The family couldn’t speak much English and Sissy knew no Italian but as the months passed, they learned some English from her and she learned Italian from them and they were able to talk together. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I was born, she actually picked cotton for a week at Longleaf, my own family’s farm. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Her family forgot about her, her best friend betrayed her, her crush...well...she wasn’t exactly sure what June was thinking, but based on her silence and tears, it couldn’t be anything good. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Let’s salute our Boys and Girls Club family.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“His family has gone down to Pawley’s Island to visit his mama’s sister.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He led her down the hallway to the family room. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The brick oven had been heated for two nights in a row, and the whole family had gone without sugar since Sunday to make sure that the minister’s notorious sweet tooth would be satisfied. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

His family can see his mood darkening off and on, and they wonder what is wrong. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t want to see him go anywhere else, get away from the family, and never see him again,” said L.V. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The amount of food you got depended on the number of people in your family. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Among his first official acts was killing two of his own brothers to avoid future family problems. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

After all these centuries of tender loving care from millions of Tang families, the Stove King had gotten quite pudgy. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He created all of this so that no one would ever have to suffer the same fate as his brother, that no family would ever go through what his did. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Yes, sir. My family’s taking me with ’em.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been an incredible, symbolic day for our family and I hoped for the country, but it was also a kind of ultramarathon. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Reginald and I talked all night about the Lansing years, about our family. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, the typical illustration portrays a happy family scene, father and son smilingly preparing to apply the chemical to the lawn, small children tumbling over the grass with a dog. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

That's the worst weakness you can have, right up there with having a family stuck in a quarantined zone or a street orphan needing you. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Mum boasts to visitors and relatives how, no matter what, we sit round as a family to share an evening meal. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

There are several digital and holographic frames that rotate through family photos. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We only had two months before the school year was over and Karen’s family would want to go skiing, so we had to finish the sixty-six books in sixty days. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Amy is with truth considered ‘the flower of the family’, for at sixteen she has the air and bearing of a full-grown woman, not beautiful, but possessed of that indescribable charm called grace. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Well,” he beamed, "it sounds as if it’s been a jolly test. Running along so soon? Tell me, frankly, what do you think of my family?” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe a family photo sat on his desk. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

On my family: My mother buries her grief in her work. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Newcomers without friends or family spend their first night in Thailand in the hollow, wooden church. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He loved to backpack with his family on weekends, and he had an intricate professional knowledge of many mountain ranges in the state. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tilt my head, wondering what family she means. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

By repeatedly rebuffing the friendly advances of her new Wizarding neighbors, she soon ensured that her family was left well alone. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He said his great-grandfather was a French missionary who had been beaten senseless by a mob in his family’s village. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now who’s the best-looking person in the family, eh? I hope you enjoyed your week of being the pretty one, ’cause the queen is back, baby. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Soon the memory of this place would fade and the family would talk no more about it. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Over and over in our training he would say that same sentence: Visualize the enemy, the rebels who killed your parents, your family, and those who are responsible for everything that has happened to you. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Born on a farm in Utah, Linton came from a family without much education. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Though nouns are often the names for people, places, and things, the noun category can only be defined by the role it plays in a family of rules. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

At one point in time Kilanga was a regular mission with four American families and a medical doctor who visited once a week. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe,” she said again, “my real and true family will step right out of the fog.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Every week, Nok's mother's society friends gathered around her family's dining table for cards, dealing out gossip as they dealt out their hands. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He didn’t tell his family that day, because he didn’t want them to sway his decision. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Wishing you and your family all the best.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Because this family stuff, this life stuff, it was messy. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

All I have here are a few friends, no family, and I'm young enough that it will be easy to insert me—just wipe and resupply a few people's memories, and I'm in. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

And his host family is terribly worried about him. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“To regain our health—which meant we had to go where there was food—and to find our families.” Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The consequences for real families can be devastating. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He had it from your father’s family that both she and her husband died of cholera almost as soon as they reached Marseilles. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look. His driver’s license expired six years ago. He probably doesn’t even live there anymore. Truth is, we don’t know who he is or what he does, or even if he has a family.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I had no idea how long the trip to Wolf Point would be for Perilee and her family. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The pair informed the family that they had come for the rent. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The next afternoon, while Baba was out fulfilling his promise, the family had another visitor. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Raising the issue of class was likely to get you tagged as a Communist, a designation which killed your political effectiveness, not to mention your ability to put food on the family table. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You know that small table where we keep the family Bible, nne? Your father broke it on my belly.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

All the time I could see them watching me like a hawk, waiting for a chance to say Well I’m not surprised I expected it all the time the whole family’s crazy. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was something that had been born into her and her only—the something different from anyone else in the two families. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Comstock, the attorney and guardian, knew Gregg’s father well and provided legal counsel for the family. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He was educated in a one-room schoolhouse and raised on a farm in Henrico County, near Richmond, Virginia, and his family, the Jordans, were easygoing folks. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was old enough to have a sense of family. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Helda was living with another German family in the Bronx, sharing a bedroom with two other boarders five nights a week. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our money problems haven’t disappeared, but I see how hard she works—the way my whole family does—and it makes me do the same. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Morosely Kit followed the family into the house. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I feared that if my answers didn’t match up precisely with those of my family, we would not get to go to America. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I’ll barely have a family since I don’t know their cell phone numbers, just their home line. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He was frightened—for the despairing man in front of him, for himself, and his family. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

It happens to be one of those days when I see everybody in the family, including myself, through the wrong end of a telescope. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Pappa gained a real family, which is what he’d wanted. They stood by him from the beginning. He and Ma have this fairy-tale marriage.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I remember my brothers sitting around the table talking very intently about what we were going to do, how we would keep the family together. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe some old dude fishing late night with no family. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

"Assistant district attorney. Judge: family court, state supreme court, appellate division. Appellate has two p's and two /'s. Never married, no children." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

If someone is an engineer and is going to contribute to innovation in the United States, then shouldn’t they have priority over someone who simply has a family member who lives in the country? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

As the days passed, the family’s fears began to be allayed. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wants his mom to keep her approval ratings up without having to manage a complication from her own family. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Miao-Yao speakers live in dozens of small enclaves, all surrounded by speakers of other language families and scattered over an area of half a million square miles, extending from South China to Thailand. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“What about you? Would you stay in your family?” she asks me. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The union leadership had repeatedly pressed the Chamber of Mines for a minimum wage of ten shillings a day, as well as family housing and two weeks’ paid leave. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each single combination of numbers was a new set-up for the family and no two stories were ever the same. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mind grows lazy and wanders around too many topics—her schoolwork, a cute boy she met in Phnom Penh, movies she saw—but always it comes back to our family. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For an hour the line is busy; by the time he gets through, his mother and Sonia are both asleep, a friend of the family informs him. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then, after he had served only six and a half years, he was pardoned by the governor of Texas; Middleton had a girlfriend, and Lewis’s family believed that she had bribed authorities. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

My hope of finding my family plummeted when I learned that I was to stay there indefinitely. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“What was that he was saying about the doctor’s family?” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Luma spent Christmas visiting her players’ families and delivering boxes of food. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“But”—she wasn’t done—“I convinced your father that since we do know Amy and her family, and since they do live right across the street, you can go to the birthday party.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She continued to paint, adding to the family’s income. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I bought clothes for myself and my sister and even some for other members of our foster family. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The members of my family have always had a knack for selftransformation. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I had that terror people must have had during the war, when they denied they were Jews or Gypsies or homosexuals as the Nazis dragged off their families and friends. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

As Galton imagined it, a record of the best traits in the best families could be maintained by society—generating a human studbook, of sorts. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“In almost every family there’s a fool or a crazy person,” Clara assured her while she concentrated on her knitting—in all those years she had not learned to knit without looking. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said those words so often they had become the Tucker family motto. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

“After all, the cabin boy is your ancestor. This treasure belongs to you and your family.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

As he later recalled, he told Hale, “We have unquestioned signed statements implicating you as the principal in the Henry Roan and Smith family murders. We have the evidence to convict you.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I’d assumed he was in for murder, for squashing a family to death with his bare hands, but it wasn’t anything like that. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“But I realize being real ain’t got anything to do with where you live. The realest thing I can do is protect my family, and that means leaving Garden Heights.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

His first concern—as it had always been—was his family’s safety. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Maybe she doesn't think making breakfast makes up for intruding into their family home for two weeks. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I could see him sobbing during his account and his family gradually joining him in crying. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“How come Olga never felt the need to be out in the streets like some sort of Gypsy? She was always so comfortable here at home, spending time with her family. Bien agusto, mi niña.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

On the silent TV a beautiful happy family is sitting around the kitchen table. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members, that’s what Milton felt, seeing his father sunk in desk light, jutting out a moist underlip, scanning a dead language. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"Sure. Low-caste means your family cleans bathrooms or does other jobs no one wants. All of us in our cell were low-caste." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

All that Byrd could see then was that Frank’s family tree was dropping branches and leaves, and that she needed to get Axel and Frank and herself to the reunion. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Our family remains dependent on Khouy and Meng to bring us food whenever they can steal away from their camp to visit us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a silent, rather dangerous family conspiracy. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

They drew imaginary subway maps and worked out math problems on a whiteboard the family kept in the breakfast nook. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t go to the family supper before the viewing—in fret, I’d skip the viewing, too. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

"A dog,” said Jack, "would be a pet. Everyone in the family could pat him, and I would be his master.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her dad, her stepmom, and her brother are practically part of our family now. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Like others on the Osage tribal roll, Mollie and her family members each received a headright—essentially, a share in the tribe’s mineral trust. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The recent catastrophe cost the family a fortune in insurance deductibles. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was late January and we had just returned, a week before, from Corcoran where my family picked cotton. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I wept for the sins of all who had brought my family to this dread dark shore. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your mother,” said Yan Chang, as if talking to herself, “is too good for this family.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

In order to communicate with the rest of the family, he kept a little chalkboard with him at all times. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They did get together, however, for yearly family portraits. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“From over there—New London—born there. My uncle’s in the service and two cousins. I guess we’re a kind of submarine family.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was the angel necklace I found at the bottom of my jewelry box, the one Dad got for both of us that time our whole family got the “Flu of Doom.” P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But whether a child’s family is intact doesn’t seem to matter. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

And there are moments when the inequalities within the family are painfully obvious. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

My uncle didn’t have children of his own, so he raised the children of family members as his own. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The family home in the north—Briony imagined streets of blackened mills, and grim men trudging to work with sandwiches in tin boxes. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I gasped when I opened it and found my hospital newborn photo, family snapshots, even professional baby portraits. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Women return from shopping to find their houses sealed, their families gone. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

On family issues, we remained friends; politically, we were in opposite and antagonistic camps. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The collector relayed the message of forgiveness and Sissy came back into the Nolan family again. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least twice a week, I would accompany one or more of the adults in my family to his store. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except for two Jewish families, they are ostracized from society in Hattiesburg. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being from the country, the family is very superstitious—especially the mother. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moments later we were inundated with a flood of calls from media, clients, families, and children’s rights advocates. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She takes my arm and walks Tobias and me away from her family, shaking her head the whole time. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Abraham Lincoln ate breakfast with his family and planned his day. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If the tree was that big, it probably was a huge violation of association rules—and believe me, my family knows about that, because everything we do is a violation.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The remaining photos in the top box were pictures of other families and church groups. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Now was not the time to tell family stories! The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

His apartment isn’t far from where my family lives. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Some questioned my traveling alone without a family escort, others opined that my fencing uniform was too tight. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

But deep down, they are still boys in rags bringing down coconuts for el patrón when he visits his fincas with his family on Sundays. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

So since no one knew about me, the crisis demanding the family’s attention centered around Auntie Braxton. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later it became clear that Marburg belongs to its own family. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that he’d admitted it to someone outside his family, it was like a balloon inflated inside him, waiting to be popped. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He thought, not for the first time, how much more convenient things would be if the Morales family could afford a computer. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I spot Simon's family near the dramaturgy display, doubled up on bouquets. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I continue to sort out what’s just my childhood, just my imagination, just my family, just the village, just movies, just living. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could the white community ignore the cruel injustices and pain suffered by those families? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And yes, we need to take you to visit your family. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I don’t think it’s like that in my family. My parents don’t treat us any differently.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I will probably grow very rich and very old at the Equatorial before any member of my family ever visits me here. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sometimes say that it’s a bit like what I imagine living in a fancy hotel might be like, only the fancy hotel has no other guests in it—just you and your family. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He will write to Theo a few years later that at this time a fear swept over him, that he was terrified of his family. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She left her family, her country, her father, for Stephen Kellner. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Hunt was fierce, a frown in a suit, with a client list that included most of America’s richest families. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

This time Izzy had crossed every line, and now—each member of the family was slowly realizing—she might never be back. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“His sister is with him. He’s got to go before a judge for violating his probation, but since Marcus’s family isn’t pressing charges, he’s hopeful the judge will be lenient.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

His family came to America to follow the American dream, but when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, they were forced into internment camps. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It means I signed a contract with the government that said I would never talk about my work with anyone, including my family,” he said. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Every weekend, the family — mother, father, two boys, and a girl — piled into their car and went away, to where nobody knew. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

That Gale really is my family, or will be one day, if I live. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was ready for a vacation—we both were, goodness knows—and I longed to see my family, beyond my power to convey. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Papa’s other family would be the agents of our salvation! In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thankfully, Dad was still tucked away in the family room, focused on the laptop. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Lots of things aren’t fair,” Connor said, and I wondered if he was thinking about his ma, or maybe about my family. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Five, including your brother. Looks like you have a nice blended family.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Lillian prayed aloud, “Blessed Mother, thank you for my family. Thank you for their health, for their intelligence, and for their good humor.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, my dear young ladies, remember what your ma said, and don’t fret. Come and have a cup of coffee all round, and then let’s fall to work and be a credit to the family.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, the little bit of family history Vonetta had first recited spun itself into a long, winding yarn. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“It’s like a kid you were hoping...and a family you’re really close to...,” she said, trying to explain before interrupting herself. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The halls of Clairmont used to be decorated floor to ceiling with black-and-white family photographs, paintings of dogs, bookshelves, and Granddad’s collection of New Yorker cartoons. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

It is confusing that my family was not the poor to be championed. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was twelve years old, old enough to separate from my family and live with the Huangs. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

No sooner had Louella proven itself a success than I had to abandon the day-to-day operations of the company and let my family handle the business full-time. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Perhaps we’ve eaten of the wrong fruits in the Garden, because our family always seems to know too much, and at the same time not enough. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Mama was letting Miss Love in the house, maybe she’d let her in the family, too. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Mother said my rage was a real threat and that Shawn had a right to protect his family. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I was only four years old when I started, but I was the first child and the family needed my help. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So you know why my family were murdered?” asked Bod. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“It is an ability passed through families by blood, though not always consistently in each generation. Why do you ask?” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“There was a point in Mary’s family that they were relieved the ordeal was over,” Jefferson wrote. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“My family has plans this weekend. Can’t we just vote now and get it done?” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

They was about four or five families all together in the crew. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Isolated, segmented, and stratified, these families are cut off from the single, the gay and the gray, and, except for those tending them, anyone from lower classes. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Mohammed’s incredible rise and premature passing had shaped the trajectory of Zeitoun’s family in general and of Abdulrahman in particular, but he didn’t like to dwell on it. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Charles Clinton Spaulding left his family’s farm in southeastern North Carolina in 1894 for Durham, where his uncle, the town’s black doctor, Aaron Moore, lived. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I grew up in a country settlement where some people lived in tiny shacks; families without indoor plumbing had to use outhouses. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“We have a child. She needs you. I need you. We have to keep this family together.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Jessica!” she gasps, sitting up, revealing the family photo album under her arms. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Luckily, I’m passing a Restoration Hardware, and Mom says rich families on the other side of Jankburg buy couches from there, so I’m probably safe for a few blocks, at least. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Mop’s and Bren’s parents picked them up, and the rest of my family left at different times. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Well, at least he was using the alias all over and not just with me and his family in Hint. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

This family is, like so many others today, attempting to grapple with the many questions and the moral and ethical issues that surround the “birth” of HeLa, and the “death” of Mrs. Lacks. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Imagine what your family will say when they wake up and realize you saved the world!” said Aru. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It's a difficult life, tying to live on your own, away from your family and community, in a city known for being cutthroat. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Punishment, swift and sure, was left to the family. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The gyptian families, who lived in canal boats, came and went with the spring and autumn fairs, and were always good for a fight. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t wait to get home and tell my family about the Smiths. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And what will you do when he’s gone? You’d be a burden to his family.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was tragic, Ridgeway said, to see the degeneration that can happen in just one generation, but money does that to a family sometimes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

My family’s a little bit poor as long as both my parents work. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

And, since the women in my family had been the ones who discussed it in such worried tones, I felt my dark skin made me unattractive to women. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought of the large black bird circling over the flames of their family mansion. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She would protect her family, and she would find their parents, no matter how hard it was. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

And now, because of my idiocy, she has tracked me right to my family. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Everyone got amnesty by telling on everyone else until we were all one big rotten family of cowards. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were going to live with a new family, and we didn’t know if we’d like it there. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The housing shortage continued to grow, compelling more families to push into new neighborhoods. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It’s the first time I have said that word to anyone outside of our family. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Notify the new Receiver’s family unit that he will be staying with me tonight, for additional training.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

This original sin against my family told whenever anyone addressed me in Spanish and I responded, confounded. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mom, he’s pouring tea and carrying luggage to help feed his family.” I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

In 1906, looking for a place where Harry could make his mark on the world, the young family had left Williamsport, Pennsylvania, headed west, and settled down in Spokane, Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She was young still, and had not experienced death before, not in the small two-person family that she and her mother had been. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was this one family who ended up at every exhibit at the same time we did. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

We had not seen her, nor did we know her family, and the marriage, in the second year after Sacrabani’s birth, was solemnised at her parents’ house without either of us being present. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the white people around us weren’t leaving, there weren’t a lot of families like ours moving in behind us. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Returning to her family’s house in Baton Rouge, she found her mother there. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Dicey swallowed, as much in relief as in disappointment, and turned to face her family. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I shall be only too pleased to do anything that might help the family, Mr. de Winter knows that.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Are they hard to grow? My husband is the gardener in our family.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not know her face, but she insisted that she knew my family and me. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She and her family had extensive land down there, with a lot of bees. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Then, my mom told my brother to not use such language in front of me, which was strange considering I am probably the only one in the family with a friend who is gay. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

At the rooster’s cry, our family gathers outside the hut to say good-bye to us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever anyone in her family was fighting, her mother would start yelling, Not in the head, not in the head! Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Wasn’t the word from the highest in the land just this: turn in deserters or there will be terrible trouble for you and your family? Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

All she knew was that, crossed with shadow, their family life took on a poignancy sharper than she could stand. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

My favorite was the first line in Anna Karenina: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost a century of family love and dedication had been poured into the place, and now it was gone, just like that, torn down by a city's rage. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

With our few bags of belongings, we went to a hotel in Burundi, where we stayed for a week with other families who would be relocated. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

As the family wept, my brother and I left our home to go to you. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

And just like that we are talking again and making plans to ask Pastor Dames before church next Sunday if Bethel can help the Mosley family. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Well, now I had a different family to take care of. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

When the family came for the garlands, they complimented Mr. Govind. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

She stared at some bottles, some short, others tall, arranged on an oval tray, like a family posing for a photograph. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

When the family picked up and left, almost without a word, he was devastated. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Returning, he gave the venison to his starving family and to Tallow, who shared it out to Auntie Muskrat, to LaPautre’s hungry children, and to Fishtail. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“I will send cloth and food to Goré’s family, and a cow to take the place of this girl. That, surely, will please the Mtokos.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I considered it weeks later, it seemed I had made a thousand mistakes, driven a thousand knives into the heart of my own family. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Celia has judged 193 cases since she was elected to the People’s Court, from petty thievery and family disputes to more serious crimes of medical malpractice, arson, and counterrevolutionary activities. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were a typical American family—and still are, though the events related in my story have, of course, had their effect on our lives. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

And though Tanin wasn’t related to her by blood, the Assassin was family. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

When he reappeared, Atticus gave him the keys to the family car, some money, and a lecture on not doing over fifty. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Nation and I began working after school as well as weekends in order to help feed our family. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“This is a sad and tragic time even for our family,” he said, holding his hat. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

After the explosion, my family and all our neighbors ran out into the street. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But forget how many words there are; speed-reading ahead, I need to figure out how to deliver stuff like “we’re a crummy family that ain’t worth loving” like a boy. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was a moment or two before he took in the meaning of the photograph, which showed a family group. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I don’t think his family would object, and I should be very happy, for they are all kind, well-bred, generous people, and they like me. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

My other hobbies are movie stars and family photographs. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Somewhere I have a family who have rooms filled with nothing but books and who still grieve for their baby who was stolen. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I kicked my shoes off in the hallway and tiptoed past the family room. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

My family was my world, the center of everything. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Hide these. When they find me, I don’t want them to trace the rest of the family. They use photographs to trace you.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sly is singing the words over and over as though he is trying to convince me that this whole world is just a bunch of families like ours going about their own family affairs. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“But I want her to graduate. My children will be the first ones in the Nolan family to get diplomas.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sacrificing yourself to save your family seemed like a noble thing—a very doglike thing to do. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He was an animal now, for hiding, for attacking, and he lived only to preserve himself and his family. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But most send em off to family. A orphanage is... different altogether.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

What if it contains family secrets that make me question everything I know? Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

How in the world did their families survive the holidays without them? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was just a drawing, but it wasn’t something she was ready to show anyone, especially not her family. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I needed only forty more dollars to pay for my family’s passage, minus what Mr. Stieglitz had just given me, but even that felt impossible. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

After years away from the plantation, after taking a wife and starting a family, they had convinced themselves they were free. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The main character, Mary Richards, was a young, single woman who was interested not in starting a family—as practically every previous television heroine had been—but in advancing her career. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

What he wanted now was time to spend with his family and for someone else to grab hold of the reins of the city he loved with its daunting array of problems. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Sure, I love the idea of our family’s archenemies turning into sycophantic suck-ups, but when the strange actually materializes into reality, it definitely leaves you reeling. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Looking at my family, all there together, I felt like a relative from out of town. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t stop the feeling that she was disappearing from her own family. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

How many times had she been told that no proper member of an upright Confucian family ever questioned the conduct of elders? In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Even his own family looked at him with a newfound respect. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“The family Albert and Billy started. I thought Joseph might have told you?” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

If it weren't for that, Stanley's family would now be living in a mansion on a beach in California. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Just the thought, the image, of having to touch one of those guns, of being expected to fire one of them...Is that what it would take to be a part of their family? The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Mr. Potts had driven other foster children to family visits and medical appointments. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He was a footnote in his own family. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Not the way you can tell with Rachel and Lucy who have the same fat popsicle lips like everybody else in their family. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And in your family, so in the world...we shall cut away the canker that infects us until only those of the true blood remain....” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Homo sapiens long preferred to view itself as set apart from animals, an orphan bereft of family, lacking siblings or cousins, and most importantly, without parents. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like thousands of refugees arriving from Syria to the shores of Greece, Ghalib and his family must now find somewhere safe to make a new life. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Flis wife, Peach, became increasingly concerned about his immersion and the way climbing robbed their family of his presence. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

White families lived on one side of such a line; black families lived on the other side. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

This year Rachelle is going to a party thrown by one of the exchange students’ host families. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if Salva’s family were helping him, even though they were not there. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s based on small family farms like Salatin’s, which practice true sustainable farming. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It was one thing when someone was telling her stories about some weird old professors, or even her own family members. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The dormouse watched Cluny’s eye rove lazily from his family to the blazing inferno. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Our family, old Grandma’s family, was so highly regarded at one time. She is used to being respected by people.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her job through two marriages—the first for sixteen years, the second for fourteen—had been to mother her children; but now she had to run a family, and she was learning late. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few miles to the south, a swirling pyre of flames and black smoke was all that remained of the Zhang family mansion. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Though we’d argued over the drain of his political career on our family for years now, I did love and trust Barack. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen the imperial family several times, the emperor an ugly, hard-looking man, the empress pale and pretty, but dressed in bad taste, I thought—purple dress, green hat, and yellow gloves. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Frank remembered —his family was descended from Poseidon, too. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I’m not going to take any stinking sass from you. One fool in the family’s enough.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Believe me, there are plenty of jerk fathers out there who are just fine not seeing their families.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I was wondering,” she said, “could I buy some tamales from your family this Christmas?” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“What sort of family do you want?” she asked me. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

A family sitting around a pair of Shabbos candles, surrounded by a barrier that observers could peek and prod through. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yes; the family have always been respected here. Almost all the land in this neighbourhood, as far as you can see, has belonged to the Rochesters time out of mind.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then the March family turned out en masse, and Jo exerted herself to some purpose, for people not only came, but stayed, laughing at her nonsense, admiring Amy’s taste, and apparently enjoying themselves very much. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

His testimony had caused so much anguish for Walter and his family that I had created a larger-than-life image of him. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Their family tree, where they’d lived, holiday trips, and happy memories. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

He was conspicuously absent from the dinner at the mayor’s house, although the rest of his family came. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I stared down at the words and began to think back on the terrible act of violence I suffered at the hands of a family member. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

First, of course, I was reunited with my family. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s been frosting those cakes and cookies for years in his family’s bakery. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The black- light walls are lined with plaques paid for by families of the dead who are asking the angels to bring their loved ones back to life and give them a happy eternity. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

While Maria settled into Frankfurt to deal with the family crises, her husband remained in Nuremberg. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The father tilts his head in, bringing himself a breath closer to his family. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

After that, they went to stay with a friend of the family in Burundi so they could get medical care. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Instead of talking about helping with the cows or having apple pie, Vonetta recited a small bit of our newly learned family history. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

It was only two weeks earlier that I came up with the idea of hosting the competition at the church Soojin’s family attends. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Except in this family... Only Mama uses water magic. Papa doesn’t have it, and none of my brothers have it.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Walt’s family was in Baton Rouge, and it was likely that Rob and Walt would go there for the weekend, he said. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Fannie found miners’ families in rickety houses with no running water. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

The household staff ate together like family, everyone crowded around the big table in the kitchen where Cook kneaded bread and plucked chickens and did all the hard work of preparing food. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Thumb- tacked to the doorframe were photos of his family. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her dedicated, austere life could not be thus explained—she was the daughter of a solidly comfortable, erudite banking family. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

And maybe she could even ambulate his clothing and his boots and send him home, where he could wake up in the loving embrace of his family. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“What is the small pot that feeds the whole family?” he asked a child of about five. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I used to complain that family dinners lasted too long, that we were forced to sit at the table when I needed to study for exams. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the family still called him Barry, which I found endearing. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Each time it happened, Roger whispered a little prayer of gratitude that so far his own family had managed to hang on to their house. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“But if your family is broke,” asks the boy in the gold suit, “then how did you and Quinton get in?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

How can I say, “In the future, I don’t want my family to feel bad. I don’t want to feel bad”? I squirm on the chair, bite my bottom lip. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

When I realize the family is speaking in Tamil, my heart turns from a hopping frog into a heavy stone. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

My family still spoke it sometimes, to each other and to other people on the island who knew the language. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I’d absorbed my family’s love and my parents’ commitment to seeing us succeed. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“How I conduct my family is no business of yours,” Jason said. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Games have, Wittgenstein said, a ‘family resemblance’, but this does not mean that the term—or the difference between a game and a sport—can be adequately defined. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Oh yes—an old family heirloom,” she said, patting the locket lying on her large bosom. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It was the day when the delight of Christmas really took fire in the Stanton family. The Dark is Rising 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I would be with my family every weekend and every holiday. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

In any case—did the Roman gods, the gods of her family, want such baubles? Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

But I wasn’t the only good rock thrower in the family. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maurice, however, was the family intellectual, the only one to go to college. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The family did not prosper, however, and, in fact, struggled merely to stay in place. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The sounds of Uncle Abdullah beating his wives and daughters filled my family with sadness. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

She walks through her apartment inspecting things, picking up the same framed photographs of her family. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

My brother’s job and mine—thinning lettuce and picking carrots after school and on weekends—helped support our family. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

But I usually saw my family for dinner. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

During the week of a scheduled execution, only the condemned prisoner facing a scheduled death is permitted to have family visits. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I could feel my family all around me. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Carlos always gushes about his wonderful family. We feel like we know you already.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

We were thinking not about country but about family as Malia Ann Obama, one of the two most perfect babies ever to be born to anyone, anywhere, dropped into our world. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

How many actors ever get to do a play with people they absolutely love, who are as close as family? Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He went to museums, took long, predictable walks—and enjoyed family picnics. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Grandfather stands in his box, backed by the rest of the family, reminding everyone here that one of the Empire's most powerful gens has seen a son graduate today. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“A telephone hotline has been set up for assistance in locating missing New York City family members,” the woman on the radio said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The kids fell silent, imagining what it would be like to have your family die and be the only one left living. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Bobby quarreled not only with Sofia but with the entire Polgar family about the exhibition. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The family friends and neighborhood folks were crying. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Follow me, stay together,” the father hollers to his family. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the inn, Ivy climbed the creaky steps to her family’s room, bracing herself for a flourish of activity and noise. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He spent a year with foster parents in Archer City, but when three-quarters of the family’s cattle died off, they sent him back to the boys’ home. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then, without looking at the crowd or my family, hoping that no one would follow me, I ran away, back to my rock. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“Four in the family,” his father says when it is their turn, producing two U.S. passports and two Indian ones. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

My home was raided and burned to the ground, my family killed because two of the rebels gave Darin’s name to the Empire. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She was buried with her people in the cemetery behind First Congregational, straight in front of the headstone that marked the family plot, not far from her grandfather of the perfect picket fence. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Maria Isabel wouldn’t be the first in her family to go to the United States and leave children behind. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

His family watched him leave, then fanning out in well-drilled squads they set about assaulting the long-standing dust from the recesses and corners of the massive house. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Actually, it kind of belongs to my family,” said Grace. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed so scary to me—a man shot in the back at night, unable to defend himself, with his family watching him die in his own driveway. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

After years of slow back-and-forth, the families were stunned by the abrupt finality that confronted them—the hearing had taken mere minutes. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

We ask, good Jesus, not that we beat West Charleston High but that we do our best before our God, our family, and our country. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a drinking streak in that family—” “Aunty, there’s a drinking streak in every family.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t family; he wasn’t even Kohl’s friend before today—but what was the saying? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

After the family had eaten, he gave the girl her daily ration of half a loaf of bread and a jug of water. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Diana had always said that the mill was her family. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

To the left is a narrow hallway opening onto a room that serves as the Frank family’s living room and bedroom. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The family decided to advance their departure for Tres Marias by two weeks. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ran to the forest where their families had earlier hidden, but they weren’t there either. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

When my mother grew up in the Bronx, despite rising poverty levels, the sense of family and community were strong. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

And even President Barack Obama and his family. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The family kept following where Pa was pointing. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Finally, he said, “And this one is from my family. When I couldn’t find you this morning...” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

To get away from the violence, Poppy moved his family first to Harlan County, Kentucky, and then, when battles erupted there, to McDowell County, where he went to work in the Gary mine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

We had come up with a plan to make our families money. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I'm sure my family in Iran wondered why I followed the same predictable script for every conversation. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She proceeded to pump me about my family and circumstances, pressing me until I said, “I hadn’t thought it was the custom here to interrogate visitors.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Wherever a trickle of water came out of the ground a house sprang up and a family began to grow and multiply. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

That comes to $34 to feed a family of three at home. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

How alike the two families were: friendly, giving, accepting. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The family has many fifty-pound sackcloth bags of rice hidden in their corner of the hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As people filed out of the courtroom you could see hope growing among Walter’s family. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The next day at school I inquired among the students about jobs and was given the name of a white family who wanted a boy to do chores. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandfather had a famous saying that caused great pride in his family: “Bah Jesus, I live for my wife, my children and my dog.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was always on the edge, trying to hold on to the rim of the family with what gifts he had—care, and reason, application. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean the Internet, not the rats. But that’s not the point. Percy, do you understand what I’m saying about family?” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Without family, I don’t even see a purpose.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

But I can’t go home—Uncle Max is probably still there, eating dinner at our family table, talking to everyone like he’s the favorite relative they’ve all been missing. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

A few months later she married Dusty, and for a short time we seemed like a happy little family. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Sometimes their families didn’t hear from them again and were forced to sell parcels of land to Gupta. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah well, Hare’s the family name, don't y’know. My parents named me Basil, though the old mater wanted me to be called Columbine Agnes. Always longed for a young lass, she did.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The car provided another form of closeness for my family, a chance to talk and travel at once. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

This morning, I told the chickens that my parents said their eggs were delicious, and that all the rest of my family wanted to have some too, and to know all about them. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I turned back toward the lawn, horrified to see my family being chased by wild animals and the wild animals being chased by agents, who were firing their guns. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The idea of having a family was so far off to her, the idea of not having one felt equally distant. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

They have detained a lady from an important family. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Music walked in the door with Papa or Maria like another member of the family. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

One of their more flamboyant escapades has become a proud family legend. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

From this room a new wing for one of the younger families would grow. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike poor Señor Rosario and his family, she and Salvador had succeeded. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Trouble was, I had no way of knowing which families still had parents. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lake Windsor Downs offers four choices to home buyers, each named after a British royal family: the Lancaster, the York, the Stuart, and the Tudor. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you know anything about your mother’s biological family?” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I told how I had lost my family the night the northern soldiers came to Duk Payuel, and how I fled across Sudan with Abraham. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When my family came to visit, their arguing and laughing and singing and shouting echoed through the quiet halls. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“We might be poor. But Ma didn’t go back to Jamaica. Sabeen’s family is richer. But they didn’t go back to Turkey.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

They stood for a long moment with their suddenly huge family staring off across shadowy fields and orchards, smelling the turned soil and the sweet night breeze. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

We march into the amphitheater to the applause of family, students, city officials, the Emperor’s emissaries, and an honor guard of nearly two hundred legionnaires. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

When Mama Lessie was alive, my family would hop in the car on Christmas mornings and drive one hour south to Clanton, where we would celebrate the holidays with my grandparents. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t touch the back of your head while walking, or someone in your family will die,” said a boy. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

As Sasha’s family filed out of the courtroom, Jasmine dashed over to speak to them. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“No. No. They lived with their families. Maybe just a few houses down. They used the houses to hold people, to interrogate them...” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

White families had gathered as usual, looking forward to a lazy Sunday away from work and household chores, a chance to relax, children entertaining themselves with sand castles and water play. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Someone has to puncture the prevailing fiction that we’re a “family” here, we “associates” and our “servant leaders,” held together solely by our commitment to the “guests.” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My family pulled some strings to get special permission. After Dylan, it’s really the least we could do.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The family had always counted on her income, and now, more than ever, it was her job at Langley that provided all of them with economic stability. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Not every German family could afford a radio, but those who could gathered around, eager to hear what the new chancellor would say. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Because the facts would say that not all birds find their way back to family. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Her family had been the first colored family on her block, just like us. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Beginning with the night they moved in, the Myers family was subjected to terror, organized by an ad hoc group calling itself the Levittown Betterment Committee. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

These people were nothing like me or my mother or anyone else in my family, but I had no anger toward them. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex tells her cheerfully in the hall outside the family dining room. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The families of the oligarchy forgot all about the barrel organ, and Marcos became the star attraction of the season. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Musical notes, as we have seen, are grouped in families called ‘keys’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Mr. Lyons’s side of the family had moved to America way earlier, but Grace still called him “Uncle Charley.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever my aunt and cousins would call Haiti, I’d imagine my life as an American—living in a house full of family, going to school, having a car and a boyfriend. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

So we had this odd little family conference while Jeffrey attempted to choke down some food. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a child in my family didn’t ask questions. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which is how my grandfather and my father and my sisters and I all came to be bom there, the first black family in the whole county. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I really wanna see a member of the royal family wait in line for hours to eat cow parts. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Eduardo’s family has been holding a vigil in front of the office since last night, his mother and father, his grandmother, his two sisters and his baby brother. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Fetch him in, Jenny. Just a little family party. All want to see him, eh?’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was typical: There were vending machines against the back walls and small rectangular tables where inmates could meet with family members. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Only girls who want attention wear red and they are generally viewed as “bad” and “improper,” more than likely from a bad family. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Everyone in your family is very powerful. Your brother and you divide the world between you. Your mother come back to life to break your bowls. ” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He passed out the mysterious envelopes while his family watched him in stunned amazement. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“We were in House Beautiful last year, and the Home section of the Times the year before that. Not quite what I’d pick myself, but Kathy’s the decorator in the family, y’know.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

For a family to leave, an American must come to camp and sponsor a family. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Then plan after plan started leaping through my head, like a family of scatty rabbits. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Because none of the kids went to him for anything and because he didn’t earn much money he felt like he was cut off from the family. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Abby’s family would settle in front of the One Stop, and I made myself not look over. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

No, I felt that I had betrayed my immediate family. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

While I waited for my family, I stared at the clock in my room. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z