Like so much else in Kabul, my father’s house was the picture of fallen splendor. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing seems to change at all except Marie-Laure grows: she can no longer wear any of the clothes her father carried here in his rucksack three years before. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were frightened as they went to her father. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

At any given time, two or three law students studied under her father, and many of them delighted in teasing Elizabeth about her passion for equality. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The guards are under the simulation; they keep moving even when the bullets hit them, keep moving until their hearts stop, but they don’t reach my father. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I had said that my father was allergic to pet hair, which was why I couldn't have a dog or a cat or even a pygmy goat. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

When her father had first presented her with his plan last winter, they had argued over it for hours. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

When he read his father’s books, he was the first. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Someday,” she had told Matty and her father when they begged her to return with them to Village. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

None saw her last meeting with Elrond her father, for they went up into the hills and there spoke long together, and bitter was their parting that should endure beyond the ends of the world. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

His father always told him lies were a sin against oneself, and he was certain that dozens of people had already reported the explosions at the school. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“You are no longer a child, Reuven,” my father went on. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

My father supported him at school, and afterwards at Cambridge—most important assistance, as his own father, always poor from the extravagance of his wife, would have been unable to give him a gentleman’s education. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

My uncles argued with him, but he was my father, so I believed him. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He followed his father that afternoon, and they joined in the tug-of-war and the three-legged race. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“My father does not carry around a machete.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

And there was Robbie, who exasperated her with his affectation of distance, and his grand plans which he would only discuss with her father. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

A terrible thought crossed my mind: What if he had wanted to be rid of his father? Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

An honest man except when it comes to food, our father would lie, claiming to have just returned from the pricey new Fresh Market. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ali thought me getting to know my father better would help with whatever I’d been feeling lately. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

My father laughed at that, the first time he had laughed in months. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Although he was not present at Ford’s Theatre when his father was assassinated, he was an eyewitness to Garfield’s assassination in 1881 and was nearby when President William McKinley was assassinated, in 1901. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

From what I've read, their fathers seemed to really love them. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Rufe, I have to get out of here before your father wakes up. Will you show me the way downstairs so that I don’t awaken anyone?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I stood near the sofa for a moment, blinking my eyes which always hurt a little whenever I came from the darkness of my father’s study into the brightness of our living room. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Question says, Your father is a foreigner from the North and he don’t matter but you still have to join. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“My dear sir, upon no account in the world; my father can direct me.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

“My father isn’t a soldier, but that’s because my mother was killed in the accident and there’s no one else to take care of me and my little sister.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Mohamed, my best friend, couldn’t come because he and his father were renovating their thatched- roof kitchen that day. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I’m supposed to give you love from your father! He’ll come for you soon, he says, and he won’t come alone.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“It's from that summer house he had. The one his father gave him that we never went to. He has to liquidate it and I’m getting the money!” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“My apologies,” Celia says, her eyes darting back to the shadows, but her father has vanished. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She realized that she could never satisfy her father in this way no matter how hard she tried. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Her mom had suffered a stroke, and after enduring a long convalescence, then had to confront a painful divorce from Ophelia’s father. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, when I met Dante’s father, he was wearing jeans and a T-shirt and he was sitting on a leather chair in his office, reading a book. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

He claimed that my mother had brainwashed me into hating my father. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Your father told us not to,” I said. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

One night, the old guard in the museum forgot that Hugo’s father was up in the attic, and he locked the door, trapping him inside. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“When did you find out that your father couldn’t read? ” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child’s blindness, added to a student’s thirst for knowledge. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

The skid delayed for a year the reunion with his father. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘But, if you’ll excuse me, my immediate business is with Perseus Jackson. I tracked him all the way across Tartarus. Now, here in his father’s ruins, I mean to crush him once and for all.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

They worked tirelessly alongside the men, and the honor they brought to the city was relished by all, especially the king's father. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

And he began to curse his father violently as we moved for the door. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did this; she cut it from her father’s head in his sleep and carrying it to Minos she confessed what she had done. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finding a shady place on the veranda, he leaned up against a column and began to shine his father’s shoes. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her father’s face framed in muttonchop sideburns, saying “Groovy!” and “Right on!” a lot. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I wished for my old home in the storm sewer; I wished I could see my mother and father, and run with my brother to the marketplace. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

What he did see in the room startled him: his father knelt in front of two interrogators who sat at their desks. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

As he unlocked the car, my father said, “I bet you’re glad you don’t have to go through something like that.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“There is a reason for it, you know,” his father continues. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Still, I had watched how my father always managed with what he earned. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I had a duty to my father and my people. There was a secret marriage pact.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But one omission in the local newspaper article upset my father. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

His father, in full uniform, sat at the kitchen table, sipping from a steaming cup. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And you, Owens? Will you be a father to this little lad?” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“We were told that he was placed with a foster family that was on track to adopt him,” her father told her. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

When my father phoned asking about the photo shoot, I pretended to know nothing. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

This isn’t something I knew about my father. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The hilarious grown-up comments he made when a child and the cavalierlike courage he showed when he was a young man and went to find, then kill, if he was lucky, his father. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which is that I long to earn from our father the deed to thy farm. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I’m guessing that my father is working on one of the booby traps we planned out a couple of Saturdays back—which I’m sure will turn out awesome. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Hell, I even remember the ones who had to drop out after the Crash: Henry Winchester, whose father stepped off the ledge of the Board of Trade Building in Chicago. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

When our father came home one night, I asked him, “Aba, will we have to burn our TV as well?” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

"I remember when my father was a king too." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“You need to make things right with your father,” she says. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Probably money. Oh, and his father is a doctor.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“I'll go,” my new husband and my youngest brother said to their fathers. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father got most of the action on video, while his mother took pictures with her new digital camera. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The chest does not hold that much,” my father answered. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father knew every place in the boy where a word would fester. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father ran his hand into his pocket and pulled out a nickel. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father, the man I had loved like no other, lay six feet below me. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Claudius and my father stood with their heads together, conversing in whispers. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It’s the most my father has ever said to me at once. he's not even angry as he says it. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about what Linda had said about her father—that if I came up their walkway, he would just turn me around and send me back home. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“My father used to own a shop in this village. And my shop will live up to his motto—‘The best work at the best prices.’ Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

I read Herodotus, “the father of History,” or, rather, I read about him. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he went into the enclosure and he looked carefully and he saw the place where he would lie below his father and his uncle and above Ching and not far from O-lan. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

"My father drank overmuch of the Lord Crow's wine last night. He'll sleep most of the day." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My mother longed to go all the way to Narewka to find Hershel and her family, but my father said it was still too dangerous to travel that far east. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Then my father’s eyes lit up as they drank and talked of the old days and told the old stories. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the day my father was due to arrive, and from the time she got up, my mother was beside herself. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the house, the girl began sobbing and screaming for her father. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“My father planted the fathers of these plants,” Kabuo said to her angrily. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Anthony’s father, on the other hand, encouraged his daughter to speak out about issues that concerned her, and he gave her money for living expenses. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

My mother and father were in the fields, so my sisters and I ran for the trees, only to watch this passing ghost steal one of our chickens. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Sherman’s father had counseled him to think about things a little more before he did them, but that was all. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

We were closer together than we had been since the night her father knocked on her bedroom door. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“If only he had been fat,” joked my father, “we’d be twice rich. But your father’s fathers were all cursed with heroic fitness.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It is a Sunday night during my childhood and my father is taking me to the movies at the Detroit Yacht Club. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Mundo!” she calls to my father, who has gone ahead into the living room and is greeting all the men. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

His newspaper, she said, had a responsibility at such times; his father before him had known that. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

My father looked from me to Danny, then back to me. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She kissed our father on his cheek, a gesture that never failed to embarrass me. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Foreign gunboats hadn’t done this before, my father said, and there was no telling what might happen now. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Everyone’s just been admiring the brooms my father’s bought our team.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I felt then that these men—these “fathers”—were the greatest of cowards. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Some of the men, my father occasionally among them, would pay hefty bribes to the policemen and would be let go. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is to his credit that our father was such a gentleman. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Especially your halmoni. She said not to complain, don’t bring more attention to us. But he wouldn’t listen. He was so upset! I’ve never seen your father that angry before!” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Well, said Fujiko, now your father is gone, folding laundry in a camp in Montana, and we all must get by, endure. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Nathan was desperately thinking of ways to convince his father that he had to stay. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

My father remains a witness to the evening. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father’s tribal rule had as its fulcrum the constant performing of rituals spanning the range of day-to-day living. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had hunted leopard and lion with his father, and he had already shot his first charging Cape buffalo while his father stood beside him to make the back-up shot in case he missed. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was my father’s cloak that he had thrown over me on the night he was killed. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I felt a funny mix of embarrassment and pride as my father paraded through the narrow street, boasting of my faraway friend. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Her father hated them, saying they looked too much like high heels, but Candice liked how they made her taller. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

My father was propped up in his bed, his legs elevated and wrapped. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

My imagination told me that my father was trying to poison me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What is it that is happening out there at that ranch?” my father asked. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this epiphany occurred only after the intervention of time and misfortune, when my father’s self-satisfied existence had begun to crumble beneath him. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even we laughed, although we knew that his mother did not call his father by name, and a son does not know his father’s name. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father began to cough again, the deep, dry, racking cough that shook his frail body and frightened me terribly. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t asked his father where Sounder had come to him on the road when he wasn’t more’n a pup. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gratefully, I leaned against him and thought of Saturday nights long ago when once my father carried me up the stairs. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Or: “They admit that Agamemnon was killed by Clytemnestra; yet despite this they say that I ought not to have avenged my father.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“We’re off to fight evil,” said Flora as her father backed the car out of the driveway. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Walt Disney’s father, Elias, helped build the White City; Walt’s Magic Kingdom may well be a descendant. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The boy’s mother and father worked for a Danish relief organization in Kenya, and lived in a house in the town of Kisumu, on Lake Victoria. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, she said quietly, “Yes, your father, too.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father leaned back, the slightest glimmer of pleasure on his face. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

"Jon, did you ever wonder why the men of the Night's Watch take no wives and father no children?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Shrewd he was, this fellow who came round my father’s hall, showing a golden chain all strung with amber, a necklace. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jam bit down on her toast and looked at her mother with wide eyes, unwilling to break the spell of her father’s remembering. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

My father switched to trumpet, because he could play any instrument. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Jinx” would be the way I’d always refer to my young father. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Without doubt, his father, Robert Scholl, was proud of his son. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He stood his ground, my father, tall as Goliath and pure of heart as David. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother is at her vanity when my father enters the bedroom. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In the letter to Kiowa’s father he would apologize point-blank. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stepped into the kitchen as my father came home. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Not that I know. It’s possible. I never met my father. I guess my ma would have told me if he was Native American, though. Maybe.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Perhaps in that moment he remembered how his father had buried everything Japanese beneath the soil of his farm. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Although I didn’t know John and his family until two years ago when I moved into the neighborhood, from what I’ve been able to gather I think his father was a compulsive alcoholic. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then her father came down in his long underdrawers and, with quiet but intense profanity, told the fellow what he could go and do to himself. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My father was a drunk, and so was his father.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

His father’s voice entered Ben’s ear like an icepick. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your father has been selfish lately. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t love you, I promise.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

And Dill’s happy to be following Jesus, but even happier to have so pleased his father. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Late Christmas was a holiday that only me and my father celebrated. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“Was that what they were on about last night?” said his father, folding back the sports page. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I didn’t tell my father about that last conversation I had with Danny, and I had many nightmares that year in which Reb Saunders screamed at me that I had poisoned his son’s mind. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

My father taught me to see Erudite a particular way. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

And if Q is like a father to Dray, then Q is my father, too. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Lily hinted all the time that our father was untrue. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

"When last I saw Renly, he was a boy no older than Bran. I do not know him. Send someone else. My place is here with my father, for whatever time he has left." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“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

She was of the Faith, like her father and grandfather and his father before him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

That night, at last, she started to write, recklessly, three, five pages, looking up once only to see her father passing by the hall on tiptoe. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Scipio's father waved his hand at them impatiently as if the three children were nothing but annoying birds polluting his house. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Another difficulty there is that my father, whom I warmly refer to as Bore, put a lock on our phone—one of those round locks you put in the first dialhole so you can’t dial. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I buried my head against my father’s chest. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He urged her father to allow Elizabeth to attend Troy Female Seminary, a secondary school founded by Emma Willard in 1821. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Three princesses, each lovelier than the last,” he told their father. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It seemed the news of my father’s miraculous healing was spreading, earning them more and more customers. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

What my father could not know then was that of the remaining three, including himself, only one, my Uncle Jim, would die in bed, of natural causes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a very nice hobby,” my father says. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

My father lost his appetite for the business. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Charles always wondered if first cousins produced sickly children, and now here was his father confirming that concern. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“From what that announcer is saying, it’s because of your father that we're in this mess.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He saw the shadow of loss darken his father’s face. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then she sucked in another big breath and said, “Because . .. because I think you know why your father doesn’t like Mr. Shears very much.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I must see my noble father, for he missed me sorely. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You had better call his father, then. We’ll probably be moving him upstairs.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

James doesn’t allow us to call him “dad” or “father” or any of those other sentimental, lovey-dovey names. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

And then his father grabbed the back of his shirt and hauled him over the side of the truck. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It is known that his father is a big man, and when William came to us he was already an unnaturally large baby. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The voices of her children joined her in an uneven chorus that lacked some of the fire and fervor of the first five prayers for their father’s safe and punctual return. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some have said that my father was ahead of his time, but the truth is he was on time and perhaps we were late. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then when my father went away, my uncle started writing his own music, telling stories in his songs. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She and her father were even there for about half an hour. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He reminded me of both my father and Granddad. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I guess my father figures that nobody he knows will see him in this neighborhood. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father even stayed up past eight o’clock to speak to him. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

"Now, we should be getting along, or my father and mother will be wondering what has kept me, and they will leap to some entirely unjustified conclusions. For I have not kissed you, Tristran Thorn." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I followed closely behind my father as the old woman led us through—the way she looked and walked reminded me of Gagool in the movie King Solomon’s Mines. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beside the bed, still dressed in mail hauberk and travel-stained cloak, sat her father's brother, the Black- fish. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Mamani was born in France to an Iranian father and a Lebanese mother. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

In the bathroom he stood behind his father and spoke to the soap-faced image in the mirror. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I got my father and two other men from their crab houses, and we raced back to Auntie Braxton’s. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Well, thank God for that," my father said, relief in his voice. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

And I could see by the early morning light that the man who had saved me was not my father. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I assumed he meant my father, and I scoured my brain to think of who might have died. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“They said I was—they said they—they said Lord Asriel put me there because my mother and father died in an airship accident. That’s what they told me.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Veruca’s father, Mr. Salt, had eagerly explained to the newspapermen exactly how the ticket was found. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

It had been Robin’s plan to issue orders as his father might have done; to have been lordly and commanding. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I heard the front door slam and my father’s voice call out, “Helllllllllooooooo...” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The person this man is the father of.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“They just needed a little help cracking a code. Turns out, I’m pretty good at that. The easiest questions on your father’s IQ test were the more visual ones. The puzzles.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

It took him a little while, as my father had not bothered to mention the majority of the baron’s titles such as the Viscount of Montrone and Lord of Trelliston. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Second, in the way my father had taught me, by attempting to find or reconstruct the correct text, the text the commentator who had offered the simple explanation must have had before him. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Now see how terrible he looks,” the father observed. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

If only her father had been stronger, she might have chanced it, but Hoster Tully had been bedridden these past two years, and Catelyn was loath to tax him now. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The question is whether it’s worth my time to kill you—knowing that as soon as I stop my father your destruction will be assured. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

During the spring, water flowed over his father’s waterwheel with such force that it excavated a pool nearly ten feet deep and twenty-five feet long. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

At sea, my father didn’t think so either. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

His father reached for him, but John was faster. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The preacher says, A great father, son, and husband has crossed over. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

“Say thanks to your father,” my mother said. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if that wasn't enough, I added, "My father and brother are already there." The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“He gets them from his father, graceful and gentle. Perfect for seducing young nobles’ daughters.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Automatically, she found herself depending on her father to make the important decisions, and on her mother to advise her on social engagements and the proper clothes to wear. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Hey, Smart Guy," my father would say, "offer your grandmother another piece of that gum, and you'll be the one scrubbing your teeth in the bathroom sink." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“I’ll return, just as your father came back to your mother,” he said. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother’s hand is wrapped around her shoulder, and her father is pointing at her acrylic painting—an image of a house on a lake, with several geese dipping their toes into the water. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But there it sat, sagging a bit, squat and honest as her father had built it. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s probably found a place to stay,” said my father. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

I took my father’s straight razor out of the medicine cabinet. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I don’t know if I can see my father clearly. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

When my father came back, it couldn’t have been even an hour later. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I could almost hear my mother singing to me and feel the tickle of my father’s beard against my cheek. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

There were often strange cars parked outside her father's place. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

The other audience members sat calmly, as if in church, while my father snapped his fingers and bobbed his head low against his chest. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

When the doctor arrived in the afternoon, I went to tell him that my father was very ill. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cholly had always thought of his father as a giant of a man, so when he was very close it was with a shock that he discovered that he was taller than his father. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the rez, you know every kid’s father, mother, grandparents, dog, cat, and shoe size. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some prominent members of the community came to consult with my father, who had connections at the upper levels of the Hungarian police; they wanted to know what he thought of the situation. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The father reached over the seat again, and after saying something to his son in a soft voice that didn’t match his hard lie-scent, he grasped the fox by the scruff of the neck. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes he says, “Mr. Ganguli, are you able to positively identify the body? Is this your father?” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I gave him the breast and long after he was done, I cradled him there to help coax out the tenderness in his father. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood for a moment with my back against the door, turning my father’s pocket watch around and around in my fingers to ground myself in the moment. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The boy was tempted to be rude, and move to another bench, but his father had taught him to be respectful of the elderly. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, and it seems as though she's as good at it as her father. Look at this fairy.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Once, she barked at the ceiling in our basement so insistently that my father pulled down part of the insulation and found a possum’s nest made out of leaves. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Ishmael’s father—owner, publisher, editor, chief reporter, photographer, and printer of the San Piedro Review—had a special interest in these proceedings. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The father’s last words arrive about a minute later. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

By the end of November, it looked like my father was right: we were in for a wicked winter. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

They chose her and the man who became Shin’s father as prizes for each other in a “reward” marriage. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“I met your brother over at my house. I met your father, too.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

God of my fathers, if you can hear me in your watery halls beneath the waves, grant me just one small throwing axe. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But now that Manuel Gustavo is at the manger door, so to speak, his father has to come up with some explanation just short of immaculate conception. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Her father had called to say they were going overseas. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And if he ever found out that Perrington or his father had sanctioned it, or somehow played a hand in Kaltain drugging her...Dorian’s hands clenched into fists at his sides. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Daddy,” said Burke’s father, “you let her alone now. Let her eat.” Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t say how I admired him for not crying about his father being in prison and for trying to be a normal kid. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father looked at the yellow tights again, sort of shielding his eyes, and considered. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I thought about my mother, father, sister, and brothers. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Stonecrop blustered out of the house, and Turner and his father watched him take the street by right of possession. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

My mother, my father, and I all seemed fine and happy at our house until the baby died. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Possibly because they know me from the Hob, or knew my father, or have encountered Prim, who no one can help loving. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Patience with the ways of nature had been instilled in her by her father. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, one Fayu man spotted the man who had killed his father. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ben said, “I saw your father once, but I’ve never seen your mother. Where is she?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

My father was disappointed when I told him I wouldn't be returning for any more lessons. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Had not Zau almost said he would accept him, a month before his father died, when Zau had come to inquire after his old friend’s health? The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

My father jingles his keys and the change in his pockets while he talks with them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was the day after my brother had been gone for six weeks that my father brought Vilonia Kline into our house and sat her down in the living room. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

And my father couldn't imagine abandoning the life in Kraków he had worked so hard to construct for himself and his family. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

When finished, he moves his hand across the top of his stubbly head, pausing briefly at the scar halfway down the back of his scalp, a souvenir care of his father’s belt buckle. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

How many questions had he needed an honest answer for and gotten instead, from his father, dark silence? Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She looked around: the thing that had once been the other father was between her and the steps up and out of the cellar. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

So I decided to tell the class about my father. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He calls me daughter, and defends me, and says he’s proud of me, and calls me pretty and smart—all the things I always wanted to hear from my own father. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It said, Keep all the doors locked and call your father if you need anything. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

It was Gatsby's father, a solemn old man very helpless and dismayed, bundled up in a long cheap ulster against the warm September day. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

There the stranger waited at the gate while the girl went in to tell her father that there was a man who wished to eat some food. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

My mother in a long white coat and hat, and my father in a T-shirt and jeans. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Sir Charles was talking about his own father! The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was many evenings and weekends before Shirley realized the treasure her father had mined from the basement. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

He had been born free—one of the lucky ones—to a black mother and a white father in North Carolina. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I did take some of my father’s advice to heart, for he was not stupid. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He had been going back and forth to town often since his father’s death. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s rice flour, and your father wants you to have it,” the foreman said. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Yet, my father told me, despite independence, there would continue to be a white man behind every tribal chief, who would have the final say in all matters concerning the reserve. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The boy defers to his father. This is only right.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

My proud, fearless Pashtun father was shaken in a way I’d never seen. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

My father moaned through his hangover, but still got dressed and went to work. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Phorcys, son of the Sea and the Earth, was their father. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shook the reins to the lovely mares with long manes in the wind, guiding them full tilt toward his father’s hall. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When my father says thanks, it’s just a word. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother followed right behind the pastor, accompanying his rhythmic prayer with hallelujah whispers, and my father’s manly but, I guess, godly grunts, all eventually—finally—leading to an amen. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Well, let me ask this, then,” my father continues. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

But he went into the living room with his father anyway. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

She issued a string of commands, to the father, to the mother, and to me. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Our father would work two jobs, and our mother would work overtime if it was available. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

When my father and I had passed through Bucharest on our way to America, the Ripper had been the talk of the capital. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I thought about what you said the other day and talked to your father about it.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

All people knew was that she’d done something crazy to help her father and that she was dead. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

My father said Joseph could watch but after today he’d be helping. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

It was then I realized how cruelly I had judged her, how my perception of her had been distorted, because I’d been looking at her through my father’s harsh lens. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But the old standby, the one of my father being blown to bits in the mines, is rare. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

When she wrote that she was worn out from cleaning and cooking for her father, William said he wanted their marriage to run on different lines. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He was ashamed to say to his father that he wished his body to be clean for a woman to see. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“My father was a fan,” he says finally. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

My father’s eyes burn into mine with a look of accusation. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Malcolm was sure no one else could see: his father was chatting with the newcomers at the other end of the bar, and the men at the tables were playing dominoes. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

George’s mother and father are stay-at-home parents, and George and his two brothers stay at home with them each and every day. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

It carried with it the whiff of a father that he remembered from before, when he was small and his mother was still alive. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I decided I would wait for my father for five minutes. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I ache for my father to bless me; I hear Lev weeping, speaking the names of everyone who should be here but is not. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The children crowded around, clinging to their fathers’ legs. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Char resembled his father, but softened a bit. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Their father refused to spend that kind of money on sneakers. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I climbed into my bunk, above my father, who was still alive. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father would come home from work, patting my head, saying, “How’s my big girl,” but always looking past me, toward my mother. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t like your father,” I told him. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

One woman asked about her father, another her son. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Ever since his childhood on his father’s Virginia farm, Washington had spent most of his days outdoors. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not until I have something sorted out,” my father said. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quick upon his father’s word Telemakhos ran to the room where spears and armor lay. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He let the moment at the cliff’s edge come to him again, wincing with the hurt of it but watching his father’s face closely. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I could see my father set his chin in his stubborn, not-giving-in way. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You must not say this about your father. He is a good man. I acted without his permission, and I deserve to be punished.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

While he waited for it to boot up, he ran hypothetical scenarios in his head—ones where he stood up to his father. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

"She is right in a thousand ways," said the father to himself. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Further flight was useless, for his father had decided to bombard him. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

I suppose every mother is reduced to idiocy when describing her firstborn, but, oh, he is a beauty—large and dark like his father, but with the bright blue eyes of the Bradshaws. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. I’m talking about me. I know your dad is still angry with his father. Probably will be for the rest of his life. He’s great at holding a grudge, Jimmy Junior is,” G’ma says. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

When my father discovered my colony of frozen slugs in the basement freezer, I chose not to explain my complex theories of suspended animation. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

My father grew up in the Kensington section of Philadelphia, part of the city’s hardscrabble “river wards” that consisted of blocks and blocks of narrow row houses. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He grew up in his father’s castle, far from the sight and smell of suffering, much less the experience of it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Flora wasn’t sure, but she thought it was possible that her father was the world’s loneliest man. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Dyson’s critique was a fair one, but like other media commentators, he remained silent about where all the absent black fathers could be found. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, for example, can fathers grab their daughters here? Or here? Can they touch them like this?” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And his father said, “I guess you better be getting him used to the saddle pretty soon.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

How much did he know about his father, really? The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not really a matter of doing better, is it?” answered the father. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

And we heard our mother and father’s voices from the top of the stairs. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I also realized that there were good reasons why my father didn’t take me to Idaho when he got the news of her death. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Beans is just older than you. He knows more,” my father told him. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I knew that my father and the men on the back of our truck were holding on to its bars as though their arms were made of steel. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

On my way home I decided not to say anything to my mother and father about Little Ann’s accident. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember my father’s screams filling the house, and his hand around my mother’s throat, slamming her into walls and doors. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

And worst of all, how three words spoken in anger had put his father in danger. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

At times, staring at the baby, she sees pieces of her family in his face—her mother’s glossy eyes, her father’s slim lips, her brother’s lopsided smile. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

To please our father, Laertes took every chance to engage in fierce competition with Prince Hamlet He knew that to advance at court, he had to master all manner of sports and combat. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

There Glenn was raised in permanently straitened means, for his father never again found steady work. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Each time, he wondered how his father could do this to his mom. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Seeing no vines nearby, my father instead ran over to Phiri and wrapped him up in his arms. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Spending time with his father had become an ordeal. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Besides, Star Trek was when we acted like we were a real father and son. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

When I stood up to leave, my father perked up slightly. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He looked at his father and then tilted the can and drank. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Our father was solid and tall, six feet, and our mother was delicate and tiny, four feet ten. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

At the head of the bed was the door that led to my father's study. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Blancaflor wasn’t afraid of her father seeing her leave with the prince.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He has never touched the Gogol book his father gave him on his fourteenth birthday. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Secretly, she watched her father eat his breakfast. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He thinks of his father, in the apartment just yesterday morning. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But in the eighth year, back from exile in Attika, Orestes killed the snake who killed his father. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father, who was a city employee most of his life, had essentially been conscripted into service as a Democratic precinct captain in order to even be considered for promotions at his job. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

His mother shows the paper and the note to his father. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

My father’s wife stepped aside and left a space open at the foot of the bed. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I remember that my father worked alongside American soldiers—like friends. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But Jennifer hung on anyway, and her father pretended to try to shake her off, which made her laugh and laugh. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

It reminds me of the mines and my father, trapped, unable to reach sunlight, buried forever in the darkness. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

People gave him pound and ten shilling notes for Christmas and birthdays, they gave him more because he hadn't got a father, and then there was pocket money. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Liyana’s father still talked about shepherds as if they were everywhere. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I felt my father’s strong arms carrying me out, and my last glimpse was that of my mother and Ultima kneeling obediently at the foot of the Virgin, praying their thanks. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this point, her aged father balked at leaving the house, insisting that the fire would change direction before it got to them. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Neither her mother nor her father would be of any use at all. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“You make me feel very old and very much like a father.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

She leaves properly then, and I see her father watching me from the car. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Why did not you all learn? You ought all to have learned. The Miss Webbs all play, and their father has not so good an income as yours. Do you draw?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Do you think it would be possible for our father to be—dishonest?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She’d seen it too many times in her dreams when her father was held captive. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

"Every single car that comes through my hands gets the treatment," the father said. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

We watched her father as he packled in the garden below. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

I am not my own, he thought, but belong body and soul to every parishioner in Phippsburg who might have a word to say about me to my father. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

My father hid them until they assumed the consistency of tar, but why did he bother? Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Your father’s a card,” the boys say uneasily, later. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

My father bought a small white chicken, my mother brewed beer, a few relatives were invited, and a small celebration was held to mark George’s passage from infancy to childhood. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Nobody else could have thought up a trick like that! Your father was right to warn me about you!" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I want you to be kind to him, Gwea His father is one of my oldest friends.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Useful things ... your father used it mainly for sneaking off to the kitchens to steal food when he was here.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Her father thought the only contribution he needed from her was for her to nod and smile and look flawless—like their family was supposed to be. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

My father didn’t like the doctor one bit after that. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just like my father, he never explained why he had a gun. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He went back to talking about his father. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

When her parents separated, her mom stopped attending, though Candice still went with her father sometimes. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I don’t have to be careful as long as I have you around to shine ’em up,” his father retorted, not gruffly, but as a statement of irrefutable fact. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What do you mean, you have no idea?” my father asks. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Their father gets up, swaying a little with drink and tiredness, and opens up the store. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along with his mother, he worried about his father in the concentration camp and his sister, Jadzia, who was still staying with the aunt and uncle. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

My father picked one, bit into it, and then put it back. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know whether she was saying what she believed or was just trying to keep me from thinking that my father was dead. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What are your employment prospects?” her father asked. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He flopped comfortably into the chair which had been disconcerting his father. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the sweet little boy who had been the father of his family went out and found a new family in the streets. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I thought I saw someone peek but the windows at this madman who was my father. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

One night her father picked her up out of bed and carried her to the window so that she might see the wolves. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he followed my father to the living room, where the television was timed to the local news. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

My whole life really began with my father reading me the Morgenstern when I was ten. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

My father’s voice was tense with anger now. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brandon’s father, referenced in the play but never seen, is off somewhere in the Third World, volunteering for Doctors Without Borders. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

There was a certain story my father was fond of repeating over the years. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“His father’s settled his people at Oakenshield and will be back this afternoon with eighty fighting men. What did the bearded queen have to say?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Z chugged the water, then headed down the hall toward his room to grab his father’s old army duffle and the letter that had arrived last week. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Grandpa and his two brothers walked ahead, and their father and mother walked behind them. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father sipped his tea again, and we sat quietly for a while. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Well sir, there they were, tellin’ us what to do again—” Her father grinned. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, leaning over the cracked, “tattle-tale gray” bathtub, he scrubbed his father’s back; and looked, as the accursed son of Noah had looked, on his father’s hideous nakedness. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“What can I do?” my father asked, trying to console the poor man. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Alartha, I owe it to their father. It’s the least I can do.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I walk behind the father and his family. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fatima, come eat before everything gets even colder,” her father called to her. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I remembered that, after Ali dismissed himself from the house, your father told me he and Hassan had moved to a small village just outside Bamiyan. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Edmund’s father seized the king’s treasury, and the lords contended for control. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Sometimes my father did this in the morning before sitting down at the breakfast table, but I never asked him what he was doing. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Here’s what had happened, the way my father told it: The Carmichaels drove their forty-foot, gas-hogging motor home all the way to the Keys from someplace up in Michigan. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Probably not. My father will beat me for sure when he figures out what has happened. But remember me, will you?” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Accustomed to their mother’s long workdays and their father’s extended absences, they missed Dorothy, but her departure didn’t interrupt their high-spirited lives replete with family, friends, and school. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Our father tells us to help out more, which means that he’s frightened as well. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Before I knew it, my father, Jeffrey, and I were all bundled into the car, along with my school books for studying, my sticks and practice pad, and extra clothes for all of us. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, convincing my father to take them in will be fun and a half. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Second, that the gods would make her laugh again, because she had not smiled or laughed since her father had been killed. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

David’s parents—Owen was his father’s brother—were taking turns staying with him in the hospital. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the Mount “Charles got some of his fathers good doctoring,” Elizabeth wrote to Aunt Jessie. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And go straight home, or your father will have my head,” she added, giving Sefia one last shove. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

My chest grew tight as I rehearsed my father's words on my way to school. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

My mother and father stayed up trying to figure out what made her say those things. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

To think I might have been his pupil someday, if my father had lived, Ranofer thought. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“It so happens that I have just now scheduled a picnic with your father in Holliday Park.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Your mother shouldn’t blame your father. She might as well blame me for not saying anything.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In addition to new playground equipment, they planned to add tennis courts, and thanks to community input, they had decided to dedicate the courts to her father. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Now, my father was always honest with me, I thought, because he said that in the end that was better. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she began to steal glances at her father. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Candice had seen her mother answer enough questions about her father to know how to handle people who were being rude or nosy. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

My father said, “Any press is good press.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Early the next morning, Jake rode with Grace and her father back to Warwick College. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

His father, who worked as a store merchant, court clerk, and bank cashier, remarried five years after his wife's death. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Zola and her father and the villagers are watching with their mouths widely open, as if they are thinking, What creatures are these? The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Uncouth and un-ruly they might be, yet the wildlings were his, and he trusted them more than any of his father's men. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She walked all over the mountain but found her tied to the fence behind the corral, tethered with an intricate knot that nobody used except her father, Lott. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Having so long ago exited his life as a father, he had now, at long last, entered it again. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

She followed her father, and I followed Phoebe. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

When the mother and father were gone, Will brought the whisky in from the forge and the clan had a meeting in the kitchen with whisky passed around in round-bottomed jelly glasses. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her father looked up at the pretty salesgirl and smiled. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

And it does sound as if you were brave, Scorpius, and you, Albus, but the lesson even your father sometimes failed to heed is that bravery doesn’t forgive stupidity. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

We still have stains all over the backseat of my father’s car. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once we learned that our great-great-grandfather on the Charles side was owned by his father, a white man, Fern couldn’t stop looking at Big Ma. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“His parents were friends With Jeanine Matthews’s parents, before they died. Your father and Jeanine used to play together as children. I used to watch them pass books back and forth at school.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then Ice’s father got stabbed to death on the same day that Showman’s bar had a fire. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Every father’s dream, that his daughter will be out of the house before the hormones kick in. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Lily did everything just like the Catholics, especially when she spotted him walking up the church’s steps between his mother and father behind us. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

His father had owned an Italian restaurant, and his mother died of cancer when he was young. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“I loved him more than my own father,” he said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But I didn't, and maybe my boldness impressed him, because he told me my father was at St. Michael's prison. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

After my father died, when I was thirteen, it only got worse. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Plato, who was small like his father, sang out with mock censure, “Shame on you, Callie. What did you do?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

His father took him and his brother Bill to the community boxing ring, where they were swept up in the prizefighting craze of the 1920s. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then my father stood up and admired his fishing pole, its grace, its strength. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

That boy is special, and it doesn’t hurt that Chuck “Da Man” Bell is his father. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

School had been due to end the first week of January for our usual winter break, so my father decided to postpone the holiday. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Adah is safe. Rachel is a demon. And your father is giving a sermon about Pharaoh’s army and the plagues. Everyone is all right.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The sextet of Robert Frobisher. He was an amanuensis for my father, when my father was too old, too blind, too weak to hold a pen.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Overcome with sudden shyness, I retreated to my father’s side. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I dared not remind him of his duty as a father to love and protect me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Then change it,” his father said simply, quietly, after a while. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“But we already nearly lost you once,” his bewildered father had protested. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her father had left home when she was a baby. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The boy untied his sister and then led her back to their father’s new place. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“Speaking of the library, did you ever talk to your father?” she asks. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

I had all but forgotten about what I heard in the Amity compound, about the information my father risked his life for. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You know what your father is? Your father is scholar.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father standing a little in front of her, waiting to see us safely on our way. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

By contrast, my father seemed reconciled to the new quiet. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Suppose I did let you run some errands for me. What would you tell your father?” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two men, long legged and thick chested, could be father and son. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He has never been told why he was really named Gogol, doesn’t know about the accident that had nearly killed his father. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“These are wise men, father,” said a younger man, “seafarers, voyagers. Maybe they know of a land we do not know of.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

A few hours later, while Chou and I feed the children their lunch of rice and fish, we watch the father walk up to Kim as he waters the garden. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could have easily killed myself, killed my mother and father, killed the birds, killed the trees, and killed the oxygen in the air. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Because racism never made sense to my father, he never subscribed to any of the rules of apartheid. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Aurelia waited, her whole body clenched and trembling, for the people who would come and force her to do her father’s will. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

In 1973 I wrote and had published two essays in which I said that I had been educated away from the culture of my mother and father. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother paused a long time before saying, “I just fear your father's response. Of all the boys you might find in this town to have a crush on...” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

No father could be more exciting than an explorer. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coach Warner now refers to Dad as one of his “football fathers.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Shirley understood why her father had brought her ten thousand miles to live among strangers. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You poor child. Is your father always so strict?” he asked Meggie as they climbed down the steep staircase. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Oh my God, your father will kill you!” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were getting close to his father’s house. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

My father unwrapped the package and took out a very large ginger jar. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was an obvious nurturer and immediately made my father feel comfortable in his own skin. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Then the front door of The Dump opened, and I thought it was probably my father coming back to help out. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I think it was at this point that my father had peered over the page and told my mom he had to go to work. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It’s the most emotion I’ve seen her show since I was a child, since my father slammed her into our living room walls. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I had been sort of a father to him since our folks split, and I know he missed me. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And people who want to curry favor with his father,” Simmon added. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In spite of his meager graduate student wages he sets aside money to send every few months to his father to help put an extension on his parents’ house. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Bible say honor thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long upon die land thy God giveth thee.” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

My conversation with my father; my worries that I’d done the wrong thing. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

They were standing with a man who looked like he could be their father. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom says, “Your father and I are glad to have this time with you, honey. It’s good for all of us to get away.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

My father would groan in acknowledgment, lowing the refrain of my youth. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In their father’s final years, after their mother’s passing, their sire had taken the comely daughter of a candlemaker as mistress. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My father and mother went for a drive in it every evening, right after Walter Cronkite was finished. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“My father’s heard a rumor that the Blood Shrike’s dead.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

But the man, big and black, looked something like my father. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Cathy said she wanted to be a teacher, which delighted her mother and father, for this was the one profession of dignity open to a girl of a good but not well-to-do family. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

His father scrutinized him from head to toe. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The only problem is”—Keith steps in now—“it wasn’t your father who sent us.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

On the way, the father stopped at a casino in Prim, Nevada. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Here’s another thing that’s also true: I am my father’s greatest regret. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

As the paper in the king's hand flapped like a nervous butterfly, the father grew angrier. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I feel as if I am back in the privy again, watching my father die. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Apparently your father thought it would be a brilliant idea to have an article written about himself. He sent the reporter here to ‘interview’ you.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

My sentences tangled and twisted together, every word I said had my father looking more startled and more confused, until finally I just pulled the list from my drawer and shoved it into his hands. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“My lord father—” “Your father is a castellan, not a lord. And a castellan has no right to make marriage pacts.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“This man had a dog,” her father always began. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She would have realized her father had lost brothers and friends to the dictator Trujillo. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Then when I look in my father’s eyes, I see it. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He had sandy hair and green eyes, and last time I saw him, he was taking my father away in an ambulance. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The next morning, as Stella was washing up out at the pump, her father joined her, a strange look on his face. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He imagines his father, in his twenties as Gogol is now, sitting on a train as Gogol had just been, reading a story, and then suddenly nearly killed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The princess flushed, and Hotah saw a spasm of anger pass across her father’s face. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Adam was staring at his father in wonder. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

King Hamlet's body was interred beneath the floor of Elsinore's chapel, near his father's bones and those of his father's father. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

When my father hung up, he looked much more like my old dad, my pre-October dad. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father always said when you want to go somewhere you’re not supposed to be, just walk in like you own the place, and nine times out of ten, you’ll get in. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Ajay’s father taught Class Two, despairing that his own son was one of the slowest to learn inside a classroom. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

She tells me get into that pub and tell my father to stop the drinking and get the coffin and the carriage. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I lift my father’s barbells,” I said, crossing my fingers. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of years ago, I read about those girls who were killed in a bombing at a church in Alabama in my father's copy of the Los Angeles Sentinel. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I resolved to search until I found my father and David. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

So my father would put words in her mouth. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took his time responding to each and even sent a text to his father that said that he missed him, too. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Finally his lord father gave a command, and two of his guardsmen dragged the ragged man to the ironwood stump in the center of the square. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I doubted whether, in the years he had left, I would be able to prove to him that I was not what my father said I was, that I was not a wicked thing. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It’s impossible to imagine my father, who in my experience was aroused mainly by the lowering of interest rates, suffering the acute, adolescent passions of the flesh. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Then they went back and told their families about her beauty and about how many cattle Kumalo had given her father. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

My father held me close and rocked back and forth. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father says, “Your sharp tongue will get you in trouble some day, young lady.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Our apartment was in a working-class, industrial neighborhood just a few blocks from my father's factory on Lipowa Street. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

When he came out of his room, he heard his mother talking to his father on the phone. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to Armpit’s father, the cost of air-conditioning the homes in west Austin, with their high ceilings and grand entrances, was greater than the amount he paid in rent. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t seen her father in four days because of the funeral rites. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’m not good enough for you now. I’m just another poor kid. You think I haven’t seen the difference in your father?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The father relendessly pressed forward pushing out sibilants, like a wild man. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You want to be a whole man, you have to deal with the whole truth,” his father had said. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think you should go look for my father,” she said. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

For my father had opened his curtains and was sitting, shaved and in full uniform, on the edge of his bed from where evidently he had been watching the sky turn to dawn. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

As Dedd is helping her father step safely up the stairs of the galeria, she realizes that hers is the only future he really told. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Major Major’s father had a good joke about opportunity. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

After a moment, I followed, half pitying my father for being so gullible. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He failed to show up for work, and when he did, he worked listlessly, and condescended to his father’s employees. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

But her head—and her heart—were sitting in the passenger seat beside her father, on the way back to Atlanta. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He did not speak of his mother or father, except to tell me once how they had been taken from this world. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“The left side is paralyzed. The right side partly. Probably there is no sight in the left eye, but we can’t determine that. In other words, your father is nearly helpless.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had traded one of his sons, probably my father, the youngest, for her. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon after, Mother married Daddy Clidell, who turned out to be the first father I would know. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is your father the biggest man in the world?” were among the questions I was asked. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

In the hallway, his father was slamming the receiver down on the hook. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s my right as a father. Plus, I’ll have to sit him down and give him the talk.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

What kept Minli from becoming dull and brown like the rest of the village were the stories her father told her every night at dinner. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

On Tuesday, a funeral service was held in the modest redbrick Ebenezer Baptist Church where his father had presided for three decades, and in which young “M. L.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

There were many Chinese there, like her father, and Italians like her mother’s family. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

"Lord Walder is well, my lady. He plans to take a new wife on his ninetieth name day, and has asked your lord father to honor the wedding with his presence." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Didn’t think to put on pants because I thought it was my father at the door. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you worry about your father,” I told him softly. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

My father, he always has a smile on his face and a plan moving in his head. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father playfully jabs the air at my mother. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Why did you shoot my father and run away from us?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She hands new hope for kids with mental deficiencies to my father. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that red plaid dress . . . there was one, a hand-me-down to Prim that got washed to rags after my father's death. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

When the echo died away, Reek found himself alone in the hall with the two Boltons, father and son. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Sam was opening the mill sluice to start the waterwheel for Bando, now a busy father. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I did not think it was for me to tell,” my father said quietly. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

As he stands at the grave, he thinks of his father, and how hard it must have been to lose his firstborn son. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

"His father's bones he shall have, as a gesture of Joffrey's good faith." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She had done what she believed had to be done—what Tim told her that her father secretly wished would happen. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“No, sir. I’m here to meet my father.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Though perhaps your attitude will be useful. I’m not going to pretend that my father’s empire was built on trust and understanding. But you already know that.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Kelly had halted at the shallow end in order to watch her father’s dive. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone had heard that his father was moved. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her father, Charles Ford, was a produce wholesaler. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Her father and her mother were both lawyers, so she spent a lot of time by herself in that big house when she wasn’t away at her prep school. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Some of Vaughan’s children, including Martha’s father, went to live with Osage families, where they grew up speaking Osage and learning the traditional dances. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“That’s exactly what I’m trying to convince Papa to do. I want to go to the university” I confess, playing this man against my own father. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d fished many times with my father and this was easy. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My family mourned me when I married your father. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her real name was Stella Huffer and her father owned the funeral parlor, but she made everyone call her Bunny. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Jean Louise leaned over and opened the door for her father; she reached across him and shut it. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

There in the calm light of my father, all those things that Phoebe had said about Mrs. Cadaver seemed foolish. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

His father was taken aback, for not only had he forgotten about the paper, but he also considered it completely worthless. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

This last phrase - 'no discernible traces left of the recent occurrence by that time' - my father would repeat with a laugh and shake his head admiringly. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Danny could not walk me back that night, he had too much schoolwork to do, so I went home alone and found my father in his bedroom, listening to the radio. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I knew most of the answers but I never raised my hand, because I often wanted to ask questions and I knew it would displease father if I did. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The building creaks. It’s so strange. It sounds like the sailboat my father used to take out on Lake Kariba. I wish I was there now.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Jonas watched as his father poured a fresh cup of coffee. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

He pictured his father, who must have been a shy and quiet boy, for he was a shy and quiet man, seated with his group, waiting to be called to the stage. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“We are certain you will honor his legacy. For now, like you, we are all sad. We mourn with you and honor your father. We think of you in your grief. ” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The look I associated with his father vanished. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The woman slapped her father on the arm. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Quick as gunfire, Ramfis leapt to his feet and crouched between his father and our frozen tableau. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And these two very old people are the father and mother of Mrs. Bucket. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Longclaw was not so long or heavy a sword as his father's Ice, but it was Valyrian steel all the same. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Mother wouldn’t want me to know this, that Constantine’s father was white, that he’d apologized to her for the way things were. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

John thought for that moment that his father believed the words had come from him, his eyes were so wild and depthlessly malevolent, and his mouth was twisted into such a snarl of pain. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

It would be good to see Arya's grin again and to talk with his father. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“My colleague wanted to know about your connection to this place. Is it true that your own father was shot and killed by the Oakland police?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was a real army cap that he had gotten from his friend Ming-ming’s father, a Liberation Army veteran. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe his father didn’t know Sounder was dead. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My father was a great hunter. He taught me much. If Nusan asks where I am, tell her you saw me walking out on the ice. She won’t look for me long after that.” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Obviously his father hasn't trained him properly. I'm so sorry, Ranee." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In that second I sensed that my mother and father had a relationship I knew nothing about. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

"He was right to worry, because I had a fearful temper when I was younger. But sadness drove all the anger out of me after your father died." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

This is one thing that leads me to believe he may not be genetically linked to my father after all. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“It is important that Danny know exactly what he will tell his father. He must anticipate what questions will be on Reb Saunders’ mind. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Now he talks of nothing but Stocktender’s widow, and of closing Village to new ones. What has happened to my father?” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“The last time my father saw her, she was on a wagon headed for Massachusetts to a private school up there. A Quaker school.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was seven years old, and on the day before I was to begin, my father took me aside and told me that I must be dressed properly for school. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Candice waited for her mom to chide her for talking to her father like that. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Surely, it had to be one of those letters that my father and aunt had found as kids, that made them think their father was a liar and a cheat. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

His father jabbed a finger at his face. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

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

I think, Being a father is like being a stand-up comic in an empty room. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

January, February and March of the new year went by, still without any sign of, nor word from, my father. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A babysitter that was a man, so that I could have a strong man around since my father was locked up. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

"I've never liked court much. I was lucky to be at sea with my father most of the time. He's grooming me for a boring life on a boat." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Even if Lambert was “progressive” now, though, could her father say the same about the city when the Washingtons lived there, whoever they were? The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Aisling’s father had lit it shortly after Elinor died, and it would burn all night, sheltered by the curving glass around it. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She also wanted to take my father aside to tell him something. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Don’t be a quitter my father always told me. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“My father’s in jail and I want to help him out. That’s all.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I told him what I knew of you from the few phone conversations I had had with your father, but mostly I did not know how to answer him. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He had written to his father that I was coming and they had made preparations. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Uncle Ken was a big Democrat, like his father. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Listened to Bristol tell my father that either he tell him the truth, or he would have our whole family killed.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He would have sacrificed any one of them to know that what he was doing was making his father happy. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

For example, I did not join the church of which my father was a member and in which he preached. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

My father was exhausted from working ninety hours a week. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

When we left the witch doctor’s kraal three hours later, my father seemed a new man. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was just enough of a father for it to matter. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The same hand that bled with newly split skin had been the same one to coax his father, his advisers, anyone and everyone it took, to consider Project Jamboree. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Laertes was away, seemingly unaware of our father’s death. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He shifted in his seat just enough to look at Adam and his father. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“We cannot feel the bars unless we push against them. My father says it would be easier if we did not concern ourselves so with each other. Perhaps he is right.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Nobody ever mentions it, especially not my father. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew the judge’s cold logic had had its effect on my father and grandfather. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not like I had some utterly poignant, well-lit memory of a healthy father pushing a healthy child and the child saying higher higher higher or some other metaphorically resonant moment. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Looking down at my father’s dead face, in which I saw no trace of my own, I wanted him to get up and explain to me his version of the old days. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

And the living son, the child, Roy, was headlong already, and hardhearted: he lay at home, silent now, and bitter against his father, a bandage on his forehead. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Everything that was Gospel to her she got at home from her father. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Paul came in for dinner, followed by his father. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Dad?” he said again, placing a hand on his father’s slumping shoulder. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“My father went to the store and bought it as a treat. I recognized it right away and loved it. So he would buy lots of chocolate for us all the time.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“My father got into some trouble—a long time ago—before the Tiger King became emperor.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Under the demanding tutelage of his father, Mike could do no wrong in Little League. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I think, I never got to do that with Kasim, just as Pri says, “We never got to do that with our father.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He could never do what his father had done, go out on his own after high school, start his own business, will himself into becoming an enormous success. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Your royal father? A large fierce man with a black beard; you'll recall him if you try. He was king before you." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They had fifty lovely daughters, the nymphs of the Sea, called Nereids from their father’s name, one of whom, Thetis, was the mother of Achilles. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctors listened carefully and then expressed their agreement with Farmer—some, like the girl’s father, eagerly and gratefully. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

My father's name rings loudly from my mouth. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then, my father ruffled my hair, smiled, and left the room. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The young king blanched at his father's words and looked at the paper in his hands. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“We were just speaking theoretically,” said my father. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I tell him all the things you can’t tell your mother or father for fear of being hit on the head or told go out and play. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

But the seed of his idea had sprouted in his father’s imagination, and a week into the new year, Wash found himself walking with his father toward Mr. Crane’s back porch. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

What will not a man give for his starving children and his old father! The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

What if his great father came from the unknown world and drove these men like dead leaves through the place, recovering honor and lordship in his own domains? The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was one of the barriers between the father and his son. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zalmai lay around the house, eyes dulled and half closed, or in his father’s lap, limp as a rag. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Horatio fears I do but trifle with you. He is wrong, mind you. And your father! Your family’s honor would demand that your brother challenge me to a duel.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I knew the time had come for me to face my mother and father. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hunters had to pass my father to reach the boat, and when the first one approached him, he stepped in his path. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

They whisper that he is a soldier, that he is brilliant, and that he is the father of the country. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Her hair was more shiny,” he decided, adding, “My father met a pretty woman on a plane, too.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Standing in front of him, the father says something that makes Kim’s lips purse. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We talk for a while, the father and me. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“My father. It’s only my father ... the way he is.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she looked up again, she found her father’s eyes were wet too. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I have less than two hours to live and I can’t think of a better way to spend that time than respecting Mateo’s final request to meet his father, but for real this time. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

His father took a long time to answer. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Something in his voice reminded me that his mom was dead, and I thought about how everyone always seemed slightly uncomfortable when discussing their fathers in front of me. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I soon began to wonder whether my father was old- fashioned or prejudiced. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

All the day before we moved, my father and uncle loaded the truck with boxes that my mother had packed. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

My father was a stage actor, six feet tall and slightly stoop shouldered. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Safe times, his father smiling and telling stories about people who had made big scores. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

When the ghost of Hamlet's father appeared upon the balcony and beckoned him, I gasped and shuddered but kept on writing. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Reverend Buckminster looked at Turner, and Turner suddenly had the impression that his father was seeing him for the first time as someone more than his son. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the troupe knew my father was working on a song. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

This last part was not true; in fact, Harry had seen his father use the spell on Snape, but he had never told Ron and Hermione about that particular excursion into the Pensieve. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Clay and his father continued their conversation as if Polly and the slave sitting next to her did not exist. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dreamt of his lord father and the Shrouded Lord. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her stomach knotted up every time she thought of her last glimpse of her mother and father—dead, unburied, and covered with flies. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father's family, meanwhile, sprawled across Chicago’s broader South Side and included an array of great-aunts and third cousins, plus a few stray outliers whose blood connection remained cloudy. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Now,” he says, “tell me how your father uses that little talent of yours.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

No matter how many times they’d been to Calcutta, his father was always anxious about the job of transporting the four of them such a great distance. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

My mother had died about eight months earlier, and my eighty-four-year-old father, in a natty seersucker suit, sat in a reserved section with the school board president, an old friend. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“That’s good. Your father said to tell you this is a kosher hospital, and you are to eat everything.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

My mother had my father on a leash and she never took Feminism 101. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Her father had saved his people and destroyed himself. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

My father rushed to the van and began scraping at the snow and ice. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Tuma had kids back in Africa, and he probably saw them more than my own father saw me. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Vonetta pulled out all the stops and told Ma Charles almost word for word about how Miss Trotter shot the deer with her father’s rifle and cleaned out the buckshot. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

She explained that a cousin of her fathers lived now in England and shipped them here. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was Stirling, the wealthy one, who Blaine told her came from Boston old money; he and his father had been legacy students at Harvard. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

His heart went out to poor Akaky, a humble clerk just as Ashoke’s father had been at the start of his career. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I blame this stupid flat brown hair on my father, but otherwise I don’t hold any grudges against him. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I stumble from thornbush to thornbush—my mother and father who hate each other, Rachel who hates me, a school that gags on me like I’m a hairball. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I might have been calm, but my dear father was near tears. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“You are Prussian. Make your own decisions, son,” said my father. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Robin thought of his father and how he had looked on that last day when he rode off to the Scottish wars at the head of the column. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Ben and Mary Anne suppressed giggles into the pillows they were lying on, not daring to let their father hear them. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Raise her right, my father said, and she'll make that name her own. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“The word of God said if we honor our father and mother, we can live long upon the earth, and you doing that, you honoring your mother.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

His son was Odin’s father, whose mother and wife were frost maidens. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Abbey, don’t talk that way about your father,” Mom said, “and the word is ‘deluded,’ not ‘dense.’ Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Many chose food, but my father had to cover school fees as well as rent and food. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The only kid he knew who’d had to become a father figure for his little brother and sister, when he was barely older than them himself. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you just blow them up and put them out of their misery all at once?” he asked his father one day. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Jody slipped into the living-room, and his father turned to him. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, not who I was, but who my father and mother were. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

He shot his mother three times, and his father twice. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was thumbing through a Harper's Bazaar—looking as cool without my father as she had when she was with him. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

My father wanted me to do the same. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

And not only her father; every day she heard that another man or woman had said farewell to this iron earth and sky, and started on the journey north. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Even my father seemed tired, too tired even for me and Sammy. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

"His lord father agreed with you," said a voice at her elbow. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Hanako heard noise from inside, and she quickly stepped behind her father as the door slid open. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then my father’s voice spoke over the rise and fall of the music. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His father scooted in, his eyes boring into Dill, a conspiratorial hush to his voice. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

My father and I didn’t talk all that much on the drive to Tucson. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I dreamed my father and my brother and I were all having a cigarette. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The chair Mr. Loomis sat in was the one my father used to use. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He nods, and we turn away—and walk right into his father. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I disappointed my father in the usual ways. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered Robb Stark as he had last seen him, in his father's high seat in the Great Hall of Winterfell, a sword naked and shining in his hands. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“The king is gone. Good riddance. Long live the presi­dent! My father knows Daoud Khan, did you know that, Amir?” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The photograph had been taken on a sunny day, and the sunlight brutally exaggerated the planes of his father’s face. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

"Oh, Siddhartha,” he cried, "will your father permit it?” Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father knew a lot about witchcraft, but he had no place for magic in his own life. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Give me one reason why I shouldn’t send that video to my father right now.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

We stood outside his father’s study, and Danny knocked softly on the door. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

With her help, they were able to convince his mom and father to let him stay at Church Rock for as long as the project went. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Beefy pulled on his father’s ear, and Talis cringed; the baby’s grip could be painful. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

"Where's your mother or father? I want to tell them they should be proud of you, coming to help a young girl." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I had only observed that your father was an able under-butler and addressed him accordingly. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

His father moved the buzzard with his toe. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eric’s father was the clerk of the county court and often passed on news of particularly juicy trials to Eric, whose popularity increased in proportion. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Yet through it his father’s ba had magically emerged last night and fluttered on silent wings to the Street of the Crooked Dog to help his son. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Now that I know Mom isn’t going anywhere, it’s time to convince my father that we need him here, and not only on the weekends. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

It turns as smoothly as if her father just built it. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Her father got to his feet and turned off the light. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

My father loved being a lawyer and was a well-regarded practitioner, but the fact is he never liked the business aspect of the law or figured out how to make gobs of money at it. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

His father got up even closer and spoke with menace. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The routine of school for himself, and work for his father, had been taken up and they both threw themselves into it. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought he meant Ethan and me, but maybe he meant Dad and me because after he took the call, the look on my father's face was a new way to spell relief. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The father’s already there, pacing up and down, going over his sermon. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I wondered when my father had been to the hospital and why he wasn’t here now. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She had charged into battle against her father with a horrible cut already sapping her strength. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“The museum had sponsored a dig in Madagascar for a few months to search for the bone, and I got to go. You remember your father and me telling you about Madagascar?” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Your father would have done the same for me. Brave of you, not to run for a teacher. I’m grateful...it will make everything much easier....” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Isn’t he the one they call the father of lies?” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“Your father and the rest of the elders will decide, but I’m sure the visit of such strangers will be cause for much festivity.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tom, the third son, was most like his father. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Surely Bon could not have corrupted her to fatalism in twelve days, who not only had not tried to corrupt her to unchastity but not even to defy her father. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Starr, we’re okay. Don’t worry about it. Your father’s being...your father.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Scaramouche turned out to be not only a good coach but a confidant and a surrogate father. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are no revisited scenes of discord with her father or her teachers. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

But what if there is a hell and my father’s waiting for me? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“You need Ripred to guide you to your father. These tunnels are unmapped by humans. You would never find your way without him.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Each man there was probably there for a different reason,” said her father. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

My father’s old vices returned; first the gambling, then the heavy drinking to forget his losses. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this point I’m praying for somebody—anybody—to come and rescue me from this nightmare that I call my father. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

We roll back to the highway and into the hills, climbing up to the McSame houses of Castle Pines, back to the house of my father set in the clouds. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t turn to the anvil because there was no way to surpass his father’s talent. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Three blocks from home you look over your shoulder to see your father’s car slowly following you like a silver shark. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Normally on these rides back from the station his father asks questions, about his classes, about his finances, about his plans after graduation. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

You probably do not know much about this, because you have always been so closely watched by your father in that well-guarded house with your genteel mother. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

It was Artemis the First, our subject’s father, who had thrown the family fortune into jeopardy. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Eddington’s painstaking publicity campaign launched the theory of relativity into popular culture and its father, Albert Einstein, into a life of international renown. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Couldn’t Granny find out who her father was?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d piled all the blankets on his father and he was cold and he was hungry. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

They were angry with the Chinese crews, and on the third day, my father said that mutiny charges had been placed against them. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He can tell someone is approaching, but doesn’t know the difference between you or his father right now. Either way, he’s asking for food.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Men we had known as kindly, generous fathers suddenly became strangers with clenched fists and wide eyes, shouting into each other’s faces. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your father,” Darma says, her tone lighter than before, “is too impatient. He wants things to come quickly and easily. You cannot farm that way. He thinks money will solve all problems. It will not.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Before they left, the man of the family entrusted my father with the key to their apartment, never doubting that he and his family would soon return to reclaim it. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

But his father had continued to comb Lily’s long hair, and Lily, impatient, had finally wiggled under her brother’s touch. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

My father remembers seeing men running away with nothing but their underpants. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Emma’s attempts to stop her father had been vain; and when he had reached such a point as this, she could not wonder at her brother-in-law’s breaking out. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Sometimes my father would forget the stories halfway and make them up as he went along. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Often, these people were delighted by the sight of my father smiling broadly on their porch, propped up by his cane. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Her father’s fingers were plain now, like her mother’s. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Maybe they were in the way your father smiled at you even after you’d messed something up real bad. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nailer’s mind screamed at him to run, but at the sudden sight of his father he was filled with terror and couldn’t move. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Jonathan’s father’s friend objected, shaking his head violently. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go and see the place,” his father said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I hang my father’s jacket on the back of a chair. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The girl was nothing to do with him, and he was quits with her father now. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

And there were the Communists who were supposed to be part of the Nationalist movement, but they had their own ideas, my father said, and they didn’t always agree with General Chiang Kai-shek. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stared into the woods so that he wouldn’t have to see the smile he knew was still plastered on his father’s face. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Somebody hefted two heavy coils of rope into the space between the mob and Wash and his father. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Someone named Woody had been her actual father, and Michael’s father, too. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Now he knew, if he’d had any doubts, that all his father had told him was true. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

And afterward, at home, your father and I had a huge argumant. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And the few things she could talk about to her father and mother were thin and pale and tired and mostly not even true. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a long pause; everyone leaned forward, waiting for the father to begin with his usual, "Mami?" How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Each time she escaped from her owner and came back to her father. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I see my father didn’t have a single friend,” Alba observed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fetched my father, who came walking fast as if I’d discovered a viper he meant to behead. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

All his childish games came back to him, with himself and his father rescuing each other from avalanches or fighting pirates. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since the third grade, when her father made her quit school and help at home, Nguyen had been taking care of her siblings. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She asked, “Does your father ever have any—girls or young women come to your house?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She said nothing of these things to Hasina, though, whose own father was an ill-tempered taxi driver who in two or three years would almost certainly give her away. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mr Charles remembered marvelling at how my father showed not one hint of discomfort or anger, but continued to drive with an expression balanced perfectly between personal dignity and readiness to oblige. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Javier never runs to greet his father like his sisters do because he knows the lessons, the admonishments will begin the minute his father sees him. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Atik had been raised in Anchor­ age and knew very little about hunting, for his father had been a mechanic. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father stands, reaches for the waffles, and drops two onto Finch’s plate. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She could hear the gentle lull of her father’s voice and that of John Churchmouse, blending with the hum of nocturnal insects from the meadow and hedges on this balmy summer night. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

As far as I was concerned, I had no father. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because she has maintained her beautiful skin and enviable figure, Amy remains my father's greatest treasure. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

My father ended the interview by saying he intended to stay locked behind bars until the law dealt squarely with Dusty Muleman. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Something I couldn’t figure about this father who, out of nowhere, whistled a tune other than “Old Man River.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I stood up and looked in the window at her father. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But his mother persists, reminding him, the next time they speak, that her parents had come to his father’s funeral, that it was the least he could do. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“My mother would have had no objection, but my father hates London.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Fern’s sneakers were sopping by the time she caught up with her father. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

There was a small grocery store nearby where my father, before his arrest, had maintained a simple charge account. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the first time her father had ever asked her to do something sneaky. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

His father shares a bed with him and brings him apples and clothes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

"My father says cold water is the best way to wake up someone who's fainted," he said, and with that he tipped the entire contents of the jug over the Trunchbull's head. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m a sugar addict, just like your father is an alcoholic.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But tonight there was no sign of her, or her father. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Send a message to this girl's father and tell him to come retrieve her.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

It was just me and them, and then it was just me and my father. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I told my father that the meal had been delicious, and that I had enjoyed it when it came back up almost as much as I had enjoyed it going down. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

She remembered how her own father had raged when the news had been brought to Riverrun. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Odysseus who had endured the long war and the sea answered: “I’ll tell you now. Suppose Athena’s arm is over us, and Zeus her father’s, must I rack my brains for more?” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any supposed father who doesn’t even address his son say, once a day, isn’t even a father, in my opinion. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

If my father sees it, the hell that’s already going to break loose will become exponential. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

When Donald was told that he had fathered twins, he sank down on his knees and surrendered responsibility for their lives over to God. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

And his father’s scare gun firing at intervals throughout the lightning-ribbed night to scare away all predators . . . but you were not allowed to use those scare guns anymore. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was growing up, my father took me to the barbershop around the corner one Saturday morning, but my regular barber—also the school board president—was not behind his chair. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The father lifted the lid now and then. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father belonged to a loosely knit group of black families in the neighbourhood to whom tribal traditions were a way of life, and who sought to bring up their offspring according to its laws. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And convincing him to invite her to court—mostly by implying what might await him once she was out of her father’s household and without a chaperone—hadn’t been that difficult. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

What was this camp, and who was his father? The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

My father was shuffling around the carpeted living room in his socks, collecting his keys, his wallet, and his glasses like he did every time he left the house. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I heard your father and mother were running down Henry Street with the child in their arms. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I just felt like maybe it would fix itself over time, and that there was no need for my father to stick his nose in it. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Down the halls they raced, but Yoyo was quicker than he and made it into her room just in time to lock the door as her father threw his weight against it. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

When I awoke, sun streaming through my window, I realized it wasn’t just my grandfather’s life that Miss Peregrine had saved, but mine, too, and my father’s. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She knew little of the affairs of men, but she knew that her father’s presence at the table with a man who spewed filth from his mouth—did that make it less filthy? Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Mary Anne knelt down and hugged her father around the knees. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Go back to your company, Corporal Salvador,” Polly told him, “and I will not tell my father that I saw you on the road.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They told me my son had died,” his father said, gripping his shoulders. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I half expected someone—my father?—to come out and throw the diapers on the TV console at me while scolding me, irrationally, for staying away so long. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Her father would have said the shadows were about their own business tonight. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He should be thinking about the job, the money, getting out from under his debt, making sure his father didn’t suffer for his antics. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

His father, too, had been a strawberry farmer before dying of a stroke in ’44. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The baby’s father was forbidden to see her, since she had not “healed” yet, and she spent some dark lonely hours along with the joyous ones with the baby. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t matter who your father or mother is, or who your grandfather was, or what business your family is in. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Somehow, Dorian didn’t think that was the case—not when she had the three giant scars on her back to forever remind her of his father’s brutality. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Often, I went to the movies either with my father or with some of my school friends. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

As his father lectured him on his foolish behavior, Fadi tried to put on a sufficiently sorry expression. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

My father grabbed my arm, not hard or mean but not soft either. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Jonas rolled his eyes in embarrassment that his father had used the silly pet name. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed with his chin at the lower left-hand corner of the mirror—at the same image I had seen in Bat Lady’s house, by my father’s grave, and on Ema. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Aurelia didn’t wait for her father to indicate where she was to sit—she took her own place, as far from him as possible, indicating to Marcus the seat beside her. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Once we have your father, we will not need light. Ares and Aurora can get us home in the dark,” said Luxa encouragingly. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In her head, her father reasons: The gate closed before the door, not after. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In town he scrutinized the faces of men in the same way that his father searched for impurities in metal. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

This in itself would have been a crime, but it was worse than simple murder, for Iofur learned later that the other bear was his own father. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Why would he be my uncle, too? I had an uncle. My cousins’ father.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

My father’s presence was the only thing that stopped me. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus, his sister had no other choice but to involve his mother while his father was absent. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

He finished as the grandfather clock ticked to twenty-six minutes, and he handed the paper across his father’s desk. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

As I stood looking at the two graves, I tried hard to understand some of the things my father had told me, but I couldn’t—I was still hurting and still had that empty feeling. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You walk on my land! That is my business!” my father shouted. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father died at the age of ninety-nine. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father says, wouldn't you think the Jews, because of the tragedies they went through in Europe themselves, would have remembered this? Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

But before anything happens, my mother taps my father on the back. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“She can visit Uju after school and on weekends. But she is not going to live there,” her father said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“His father is another King’s man,” said her husband. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to make sure, so I told her father. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“It’s going to be a big boy. My son will be a pahlawanl Like his father.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Polly chuckled to herself as she remembered a horse her father had once owned. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The card still sits in my pocket as I wish the father a merry Christmas and move on into the evening. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

They demanded explanations from his father, raised their arms to make their points, tugged agitatedly at their beards, and moved back towards their room quite slowly. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before my father went to prison, they played music together, my father on the piano, my uncle on the guitar. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Here was a fourteen-year-old girl sending us more money than my father made in several months. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She wanted to shout that she must help her father, but Elinor put a hand over her mouth and pulled her away from the door, hard as Meggie struggled, hitting and kicking. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He hurried her down the corridor, half expecting his father to call after him again, but no more sounds followed them. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Anya opened her mouth to say that wasn’t a good idea; Ivan and his father would be searching the woods for her by now, and going outside put Håkon at risk of being seen. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The time of the day when my father tells me he loves me and I have to decide if I’ll say it back. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I had felt like running away, but I remembered my father and Narciso standing firm for Ultima. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I studied my father, sitting on the pale gray living room sofa in his blue striped pajamas. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Not even close — but your father will be home soon.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“You know you’re not going to be able to dance with me forever,” Candice said as she tried to match her father’s moves. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When I showed my father the bill that evening, his face lit up. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

My father liked to think I was a civil servant. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How would such a creature walk, sir?” asks Mr. Banerji, and my father, approving, says, “Well may you ask.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Storm's End was strong, it should have been able to hold out for half a year or more . . . time enough for his father to finish with Robb Stark. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My father lay on the beach and the waves were already washing over him. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

To occupy her mind she sang as she gathered caribou droppings and put them on her drag: Amaroq, wolf, my friend, You are my adopted father. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s thirteen and standing at the front of his father’s church with the rest of the praise band. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

May it serve its purpose well, my feeble effort, and preserve my Child from the pitfalls of this world and bring her safe to her father’s arms in Heaven.’ The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Two red spots appears on the father's cheeks. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“We just saw him Friday,” one of his father’s colleagues says. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t had my father to myself in so long. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how much of this was public relations, how much of it was Andre’s father’s influence and how much of it was my merit. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father gets angry when I spend time with her. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

“I could not have fathered an imperfect child,” Mr. Derby declared. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

So well did I act my part that even my father, despite being schooled in deceit, did not perceive my mask. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Her father remained on the court, but Mr. Smith was doing his best to pull him away as well. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Not everybody. Only me. My father wants it that way.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I reached under my bed and got the baseball bat my father gave me years ago. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I knelt on the carpet, listening to my father but studying this stranger, and felt suspended between them, drawn to each, repelled by both. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Trip quickly organized the whole troupe into a great chanting, howling mass that my father managed to withstand for almost a minute before he stooped and lifted his lute back out of the case. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But I was unsure which commandment my thoughts had broken—Honor thy father and mother, or not coveting thy neighbor’s parents, or even something more vague about being true to your own race and kind. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had his father’s eyes—that intense, manic fire that made you suspect he was either a genius or a madman. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“People from all over the world have passed through this village, son,” said his father. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did she not trust me to meet my father’s corpse alone? Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

After I grew up, I heard the chant of Fa Mu Lan, the girl who took her father’s place in battle. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m glad to have someone to talk to so I don’t have to listen to our fathers. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

My father noticed how disturbed I was, but he said nothing. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I am sorry, sirs,” said the man—the father, presumably. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“All the signs point to it,” my father said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

My father would have been proud of this reply. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Danny took his hand away from his eyes and looked at his father. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He was swimming so quickly that he almost revealed himself when his father climbed off the dock and into a skiff. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry. I got you,” his father said. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

I flashed back to the first time I had been in this cemetery, at my father’s funeral, just me and my mom. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

But she accedes to his wishes, as do I. As long as you can, you will please the father, the most holy and fragile animal. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Every time he looks at you he sees your father,” she’d say. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“My father will be looking for me. He’ll pay to keep me safe.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He pulls up a chair by the side of the bed and Patty helps to transfer the child from mother’s to father’s arms. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You expect me to believe that your father wrote this?” he said. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

That hope lasted until suppertime, when my father announced that the town had decided to build a new junior high school, and that Hoodhood and Associates had been invited to bid to become the architect. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

As for me, I was thinking not about death but about not wanting to be separated from my father. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just three days earlier, I had seen my father walking slowly from work. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

My father had wisely sent pictures when he wrote and said we were coming. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father finishes stitching my wound, ties off the thread, and covers the stitches with a bandage. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Rashid forced himself to thank his father, but he couldn’t meet his eyes as he walked out the door. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The father sharpened the butcher knife with the whetstone he used to whet his scythe and his goose-necked brier hook in the summer when he cut brambles and young sumac in the fencerows. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father stood there looking around the room. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

His father was one of the few people Ben had ever met who could wake from a deep sleep fully refreshed. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother and his father were out at dinner. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t we all try to make the spirit of Thanksgiving last year round?” my father suggests, retrieving his towel and shaking it out. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Tim always said the framing of her father’s narrative was just as important as the message. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

One time his father had taken him to a state fair where a rodeo clown got chomped by a panicky horse. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe their father, Mikwam, would arrive and say he needed an always-hungry little boy of five winters to accompany him on his next long trip. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I am the eldest child of the Right Hand House, and the youngest of my father’s four sons. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My father was taken by beasts,” she told him. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her father called it a crown of glory. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Or maybe Black would come by and tell me that my father was down at the precinct, arrested for attempted murder or something like that. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

It was a good thing that my father was with me. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He wanted to look for his father,” I said. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

When Joe had failed at every job, his father in despair put him to herding sixty sheep. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The father and son climb in, followed by a lady who’s wearing long shorts and a T-shirt instead of a bathing suit. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

By now, she has almost dispelled the effect of her father’s visitation yesterday. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell that to my father. Lord Balon bent the knee when Robert broke his wall. Elsewise he would have died. As you will if you do not yield.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I came here to meet my father, but now I have to go home again.” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I think my father has all these scars. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“But it’s not the same. I think it’s because he did not have good relationship with his father. He makes up for it with his own children.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He would trust in his father to save his friend. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

As Yakov’s father dragged me to the front of the chamber, I searched for an exit. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it had been made long ago, handed down to some rich noble from his father. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

So I asked my father, your great-grandfather, whom I considered the best, most kindhearted man I knew, to write a letter to me. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

My mother couldn't leave the hospital, of course, but my father and the Jordans had invited a few friends. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have to work,” my father said. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Pictures of my father and me wading at low tide from rock to rock, chipping off oysters for our supper. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marcus was aware that his father was looking at him very searchingly. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Miles Umlatt described my father as “passionate about the environment” but also “volatile and impulsive.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Jenny is fur and away too young to be thinkin’ about Shad or ary other young man,” her father remarked quietly. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at my father and shrugged his shoulders. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Do you think that your fathers are watching? The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“My father is pretty good with a knife,” he said. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

There are boys who have been admitted not because they are good at anything in particular but because their fathers work for ministries. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When she was Shirley’s age, she had pleaded with her father for permission to take piano lessons. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

My father was able to get his old job back at the glass factory. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Your father would be proud if he could see you.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

El Jefe’s son, Trujillo Junior, says he will not rest until he has punished every man, woman, and child associated with the assassination of his father. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

He was a legacy kid: both his father and his grandfather had attended Granger. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Rahim Khan sahib and I have taught him to read and write so he does not grow up stupid like his father. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“My cows,” Buttercup’s father managed to repeat, hoping he was not going mad. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Like our family, the soldiers also took the father, leaving behind the mother and their three young kids. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And John lies to his mother and father. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

But I was not a clone of my father. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Ben stayed close to him, his chest almost against his father’s belly, their sweat commingling and their breaths crossing like two alien winds. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father would have been quiet for a while, watching the headlights against the narrow tar road. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father didn't care enough to get mad at him. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The Old Man of the Moon again,” Minli said, and she looked at her father. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Hugo’s father grew obsessed with getting the automaton to work. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Mindful of deeper matters, my father did not mark the defiant tone of my words. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

With my eyes still shut, I saw my father appear before me, wearing his green shirt with the bulging chest pocket covering his heart. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Well, I was thinking about asking my father to let me run the ranch.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

His father said that if he was to learn kendo more would be expected of him than of the average person. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You have to take wine to my father, then,” she said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He just hoped his father would be able to understand. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

On the TV screen, a father was beating two children, wooden punches that hit the air above their heads. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

His father, Isadore, was a union organizer in the garment industry who later went to work sewing shoulder pads for ladies’ dresses. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Live virtuously, be meek, have faith in thy Redeemer, and in me, thy father, and I swear to thee that we will be joined together hereafter in unending bliss. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Nne, we have finished praying. We do not say Mass in the name of grace like your father does,” Aunty Ifeoma said with a chuckle. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps, then, her father would not have had to leave. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

My father’s eyes filled with tears as he and I lifted Lynn’s mattress and bedspring out of the room. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Suit #1 releases my father’s arm and pulls him up. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“No,” Angela said, “I dreamt about the black man who works in the restaurant near the post office. Him and my father.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took him only because she did not want to be parted from her baby, and because the wanted to show him off to his father, and partly because she wanted to compare the faces. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

When my father was growing up inside the Old City of Jerusalem—that's the ancient part of town inside the stone wall—he and the kids on his street liked to trade desserts after dinner. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

His father would be cold, he thought, with that great rip in his overalls. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clayton’s father parked and shut down the engine once they pulled into the garage. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

I was still upset about my father throwing a fit when he found my art school brochures last night. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other people cannot see what I see whenever I look into your father’s face, for behind your father’s face as it is today are all those other faces which were his. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Because he had my father’s drinking genes, too. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, don’t tell him. Let him have his peace. It’s hard enough with a murdered father; he don’t need to know what happened to the body.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stresses the verb confessing as if their father were actually being pious in looking ahead for his daughters. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood directly in front of Naheed and her mother and sister, until her father stepped in front of his family. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

MOM: I mean, one of the reasons why your father and I work so long and hard is so you don’t have to wear secondhand clothes. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

"We'll have that soon enough. There will be another battle, between your brother Robb and my lord father, and that will settle the issue." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Enough,” the father’s voice echoed in the lonely church, and the bells that called us were silent. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father used to do the same thing to his mother—point his finger at her when he got upset. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

My father has missed so much of my life, especially the last few years while I’ve been a Freedom Writer. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Ivanito found a photograph of his father hidden in the same drawer. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment, Doha could see an angry, almost anguished expression on his father’s face as he turned away from Mrs. Jeong and rubbed his eyes. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He respected his father; his dad had those big biceps. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Think of your mother, who had no father. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

But I had the feeling that it might be a very long time before I saw Curacao and my father again. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another time I saw for myself: My father’s eyes were much like my own, constantly watchful. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Gaea opened the earth, and I was consumed, exiled here in the belly of my father Tartarus, where all the useless flotsam collects—all the bits of creation he does not care for.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Behind her was the bookcase, filled with all of Raymie’s father’s books, and behind that was the yellow expanse of the shag carpet, which seemed to go on forever. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

They learned to overlook the fact that his parents were divorced, that his father had remarried not once but twice, that his second wife was only ten years older than Moushumi. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

His own father, my grandfather, was a fairly prosperous merchant who owned a store in Sarpsborg and traded in just about everything from cheese to chicken-wire. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Go to your room and wait for your father to get home.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“There are no limits to human greed,” says my father. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He thought of his father standing at the phone last night, haunted by the persistent ringing, and he thought, I should have sold the chocolates, after all. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Your father stands in your path as you’re on the way out the door. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

And he wasn’t going to let his father know he was grieved. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A boding of ill we thought it, my father and I, for no tidings had we heard of Boromir since he went away, and no watcher on our borders had seen him pass. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

My father returned to his study, and I went to bed. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

We drove there in silence, and just before we walked into the club, I took off my carnation and handed it to my father. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

His father is a respected climbing Sherpa who taught him the basics of mountaineering at an early age so tThe sirdar is the head Sherpa. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Mothers and fathers rushed off to Western Union offices to send congratulations to their sons back east. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They were filled with bitter, furious hatred for her father, who had unlimited power to do good or harm, and chose harm. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Lourdes says he shows up to classes in overalls and reeks of manure from his father’s ranch. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Are you struggling to come to terms with your father’s murder? On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I saw her wandering in the gardens with a small boy, Maxim’s father, clattering behind her on his hobby horse. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Two months of near starvation went by, and finally my father had the money. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is my other wife, sah,” his father said, standing up. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I would finally be able to restore to my mother the wealth and prestige that she had lost after my father’s death. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I swear,” my father said, steering the wagon to a clear space at the side of the road. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I know what my mother is—she is someone for whom the end of a thing justifies the means of getting there, the same as my father, and the same, sometimes, as me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Tears had not kept her father out of prison, nor had crying made a difference when he’d died of smallpox. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My father commanded all the guards to shoot to kill if any of you tried to escape. I don’t think Chaol would ever have given that order,” he added, though he wasn’t sure why. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Yes, that was his downfall. Or part of it. I think Marisa Coulter was involved in some way—perhaps she testified against him—we’ll look up the details. And he’s claiming to be Lyra’s father?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Auntie Fatmata told us to stay inside, but I was sure that I heard my father’s voice carried by the wind. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

That she was wed to his father's shipwright and pregnant to boot only made her more intriguing. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My father viewed rich people with a shade of suspicion. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Well, I doubt he would even answer the door if I knocked,” her father said. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Your father doesn’t like you to stay out late?” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“In a few years,” his father tells him, “you’ll be ready to read them.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He went to stand up, but then stared down at his father. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

And he has been flapping those grim wings to some purpose of late—Lucy’s mother and Arthur’s father, and now.... Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Some of his friends were for the Communists, some were against, but my father had made up his mind not to take sides. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear my uncle drag his suitcase across the floor above me as I listen to Esteban read his father’s poem. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

All that mattered was whether or not Hamlet would take action to avenge his father. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Note well, now, what I say, friend, and your chances are excellent for safe conduct from my father. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pontus, which means the Deep Sea, was a son of Mother Earth and the father of Nereus, a sea-god far more important than he himself was. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Disease could wipe out an army quicker than any battle, he had heard his father say once. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But then I heard my father say, “How amazing was that?” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Roy had put the book on his Christmas list after it had settled a friendly wager between him and his father. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jesse tried to understand what his father was saying to him, but he felt stupid. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Who does he think he is?” said my father. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

On Saturday night, Ben eased his father’s squadron car up to the main gate of Freedom Bay, the Capehart housing section that sheltered the Marines stationed at Ravenel Air Station. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see my father's quick hands twitching. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“It is not my father’s death that grieves me most, but the coldness of my husband.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I’m a month away from starting my junior year of high school, and I just found out my father only has four months to live. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

My father would have been happy to support all of us; in fact, I think he would have preferred it. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was thinking about his father and about his father’s three oldest friends...Moony, Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I ain’t close enough to hear, but his father says something sharp, something that wipes the sneer clean off Tyler’s face, and then Jack Croft himself looks at me. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

My mother barely greeted me, and though it was a Saturday, my father was gone. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Their father married again,” the doctor went on. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“That explains why you are so different from the dragons my father told me about.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“He has lost his reason and is possessed by his father’s demon,” I said in amazement. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

When he was young, John had paid no attention in Sunday school, and always forgot the golden text, which earned him the wrath of his father. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The adults in Volpe’s household—his mother, father, and maternal grandmother—spoke Italian to one another, but not to him or his younger sister, Rosemary. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Mostly what she remembered was holding the phone for that long silence—the silence of her father not saying anything, and her not saying anything back. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

To give directions to the driver in the car slowing beside you, to be polite to the father of the kids you babysat, to be friendly and fun at the party? A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I had assumed that Cardan lived in the palace with his father, the High King. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Janina’s father grunted and leaned into his harness until he was practically level to the street. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“Look here,” said his father, grasping him roughly by one arm, “look at your brother.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Hugo thought about his father’s description of the automaton. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Because she could not have known the reason for her father’s objection to the marriage. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Especially when my father said that Mr. Big Bucks Ballard was the skinflint of skinflints, and there probably wouldn’t be much to eat. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Do you want to bring it up with your father? What would you propose we do with it? Look around. It’s a wreck.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Would his father have arrived in time to save him? Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

That evening my father gave permission that I could go. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had expected his father to turn back, but still they had continued, stepping onto the sand. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She and her father usually went to a few games during the summer. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Now remember what I told you. Don’t do anything to upset your father. He’s easily upset on trips,” she said in a soft voice. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

To-day, over all our land, the unburied bones of our fathers and sons and brothers tell the sad mistake that those men made when long ago they left this one great wrong. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Maybe,” Mary Lou said to Phoebe, “your father is being too quick to judge people at work. He needs to walk in their moccasins first.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The narrator, a famed marine biologist named Pierre Aronnax, works at the same museum as her father! All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

His father exhaled slowly, as though waiting for a wave of rage to subside. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I sure wish my father would get a day off. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malia was out ahead of us already, her chin high and her smile giant as she caught up with her father and waved. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

"My father has donned the ancient crown of salt and rock, and declared himself King of the Iron Islands. He claims the north as well, by right of conquest. You are all his subjects." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He was a work friend of Ma’s who had known her since the old days—back when she was still with my father. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

She kissed me and her father good night Adam soon came in to do the same. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was an invisible wall between the world out there, where his father’s death wasn’t ever-present, and the world in here, where it always was. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

He is mediocre to the last degree, though as obnoxious and self-satisfied as was his father before him. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The father kept his cheeks puffed out because the third oldest burst into giggles every time she looked over at him. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t bound to 600 square feet of ghetto retail space like my father, who more or less duplicated the same basic store in various parts of the city. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Your father lied. Killing is the sweetest thing there is." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He seemed in a state of constant transition, phasing in and out of dimensions, unsure whether to be my father’s son or his wife’s husband. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“The iniquitously expensive and secretive British secondary school my sister and I attended. My father thought we were too young to be sent abroad, but he was determined that we be as European as possible.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“It is a good way to return to the earth,” my father agreed. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bishop asks me a catechism question,What is the Fourth Commandment? and I tell him, Honor thy father and thy mother. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

My father answered their questions in detail, and they listened intently—this group of men with nets, blowing their smoke into the wind. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Uncle Claude slapped Hugo on the back and said, “You come from a long line of horologists. Your father would be proud. Now hurry up.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

His father later told Shin about the day in 1965 when the family was taken away by security forces. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Apparently my father had told my mom about my list in the plane on the way home, and I guess the news had practically knocked her into the Atlantic. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It was bad for my father to get excited that way, but there was nothing I could do to stop him. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Hazel could hardly believe this guy had the same father as Percy Jackson. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I carefully pushed it to one side as I had seen my father do and then poked my head through; all the time my eyes were on the prowl for danger. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only Sophie Mol, with First World panache, had prepared for herself, for her biological father’s photo, a face. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flora’s father never walked through the hallways of the Blixen Arms. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

She gave her father a sad, pathetic laugh. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Later I asked her why our father didn’t hit the rude man. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“So, you see, dear one,” she said sweetly, “it was her mama’s fault the law went looking for my father on the charge of bigamy.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

And hiding behind the facade of my father’s book, this is what I heard: The Aliens Have Landed in Lake Forest CADE: Hi. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Where was your mother and father last night?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

After molding the bricks, my father spent days in the valley hacking the long-stemmed grasses to be used for roofing, then tied them into round bales. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

They were looking for an apartment, and after a long search, my father found one in a London suburb. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“I—” Dorian glanced at the window, then back at his father, steeling his nerve once more. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It is difficult for me to believe that the untroubled young man in that photograph is my father. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Her father carried his work bag close to his chest, as if it was very heavy. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Harry had inherited just one thing from his father; a long and silvery Invisibility Cloak. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I poured the syrup on my pancakes and smiled at my lying, cheating father. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He told them to go to Mount Ida, near Troy, where the young prince Paris, also called Alexander, was keeping his father’s sheep. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He knows he can’t win against Richard Nixon,” said my father. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“He who is the lost father of all.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He went on: “His father was an innkeeper in Delft, but was also a weaver who manufactured a fine satin cloth called ‘caffa.’ Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Ben refilled his cup, and held out the jug to my father, who declined it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Jody’s father gave him an old pair of spurs and bent in the side bars and cut down the straps and took up the chainlets until they fitted. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Your father is first among the gods, yet you are always second best - to your Roman comrades, to your Greek friends, even to your family. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Don’t care if it was my father’s land once,” he’d say. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

What did my father—who had dreamed of Australia—think of his children once they forced him to change plans and remain in America? Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moulding another thick lump of porridge in his hand, my father said, “Then let us join stockvel. We don’t need a license for that.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father hesitated, then ushered us all into the bedroom. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

His father reaches out to him with the thick, sinewy copperhead and Dill extends his hands. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I remember Hassan and I crouching that next morning outside my father’s study, as Baba and Rahim Khan sipped black tea and listened to breaking news of the coup on Radio Kabul. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“But your father, at the table. He said he thought Ross Barnett was wrong.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

His father had looked up as he closed the book, and he had smiled. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Zola! Where is your mother? And do you have a brother? And why do you live with your father?” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

But Mr. Gardiner could not be seen, and Mr. Darcy found, on further enquiry, that your father was still with him, but would quit town the next morning. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

“She has been insisting to my father that you are a witch. She says no respectable woman could keep afloat in the water like that.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

His father had disappeared some time earlier; how much earlier, he could not remember. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She told me later, my mother did, that she had a vision of my father’s end. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She meant that as a compliment, and my father seemed to take it that way. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I thought maybe she was a bobcat,” said the blond man, who was surely Burke’s father. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Whenever she had a chance, she slipped outdoors to work in the vegetable garden or to tend to the animals with her father. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

His father’s cold eyes went to the bottle. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

But I wonder if even the brand-new Ford Mustang convertible comforted my father any the night my sister left for California to find herself. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Or was it earlier than that—was it back when my father was still alive? Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was stopping at the jail so the father could speak to his son. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

After Lefty came home from the hospital, my father took a TV up to the attic to provide some entertainment. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He did not have a chance to finish his accusation because my father reached out and grabbed him by the collar. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her father opened his mouth and said something, but she could hear nothing at all. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

While the father gambled, Jeremy and his friend hung out in the arcade. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It is my father who looks diminished now. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

How could they if she found herself stuck on a man old enough to be her father? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I explained everything about my mother dying when I was small, my father going to' his Maker earlier this summer after a tractor accident, which was the story I was sticking with. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look, this sale is something my father arranged before he died. You can’t do anything about it, so just stay out of the way!” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

And would’ve stayed too except when the dark came her father, whose eyes were little from crying, knocked on the door and said please come back, this is the last time. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Go to your father and brother. The alley on the right, down to the basement. Knock twice, then three times, then six times.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

First class, overnight on the Madras Mail to Madras and then with a friend of their father’s from Madras to Calcutta. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have a father in England so that we can get all we want from Kathleen O’Connell’s shop and pay when he starts sending the money in a fortnight. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Her father, whom she scarcely remembered, had departed that way one morning not many months after the birth of Gabriel. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

However, if you will consider the situation for a moment, you may come to see the inappropriateness of someone such as yourself talking "down" to one such as my father.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

As a special treat, his father sometimes bought mangoes. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father was a sharecropper who moved the family to new land every few years. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

She is very proud of her hands, which can make anything and stay pink and soft while my father’s became like carved wood. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For telling your father you were about to get yourself tossed into jail?” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

What if her memories of her parents—her mother full of grace, bronze and dark and smelling of earth; her father cradling her chin when he dropped her off at Nin’s—were fabrications too? The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Then he spotted the portable radio my father had brought me the night before. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

For the first time we all gathered around the dining table, my mother, my father, Mr. Pirzada, and I. While the television aired unattended we covered the tabletop with newspapers. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

When we came back—long before my father came back from work—she and I began discussing Christianity while she cooked. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nailer watched them, forcing down the creeping fear he felt at the sight of his father’s grinning features in the spyglass. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

It means that my father will have to do something for Lewis in the future. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m just wish my father, mother, could be here.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

That had been six years ago, the same year the Japanese had killed Sunjin’s father for being a resistance fighter. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Every inch of it was built by my father and grandfather from all different kinds of wood—whatever they could borrow, barter, or beg for. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Despite what my father said, I knew that as Safina and I got older, we’d be expected to cook and clean for our brothers. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Her father answered in his sweater and sandals, his newspaper dangling from his left hand neatly and his reading glasses perched on the bridge of his nose; her mother stood just behind him. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Dante rolled his eyes and sat on his father’s chair. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Almost a year ago, a family lost a father, a husband, and a tremendous writer,” Mrs. Priest says. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Bruno had jumped up on to our table and was also watching his father. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

His father watched, judging him, weighing every word. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The little girl was named Laura and she called her father, Pa, and her mother, Ma. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they came my father was happy, not only because they were his people, but because they were a happy people. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Holmes insisted that when he had last seen the Pitezel children, they were alive and traveling with a woman named Minnie Williams, en route to the place where their father was hiding out. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He gave me a pillow, his mother’s knitting basket, and his father’s suspenders. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

This nearly drove my mother crazy because I think she wanted to keep up with him, but it was not her natural gift like it was with my father. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

It came as no surprise to her, in the first year of her marriage, to learn that Ned had fathered a child on some girl chance met on campaign. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The girl climbs off and grabs his hand and walks her father back toward us. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

It’s been one full night since my father has seen me. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“She is Ophelia, my daughter and my treasure, the exact copy and very picture of her departed and lamented mother,” said my father grandly, before I could open my mouth. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He could not remember the last time his father called him “big guy.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

"Your father and I are Americans, Anu," Ma said. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Early the next morning, his father led him up the wagon road to the shingle-sided schoolhouse at the top of the hill. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He reminded his children that it was his duty as a Catholic father to ensure that their souls did not rust during their year away from Catholic schools. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rain was in the forecast for tonight, his father said. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Don’t question me, daughter. Pick up this phone and dial that number. Your father needs to know.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“That much!” my father cried, astounded; the amount was a tenth of his wages. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

While his father was involved body and soul with his water pipe, the willful first-born, who had always been too big for his age, had become a monumental adolescent. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Her father's guards waited on the water stair with her brother. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The mother and father of nations, I said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Incredible,” my father said and shook his head. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

"My father is no traitor," he told the direwolf when the rest had gone. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

None of the gaps were big enough for him to hide from his father’s machete reach. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was diinking that he would never take over his father’s bar. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Then, throwing his arms around this marvel of a father Telemakhos began to weep. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your father has many good qualities,” she said to me, “but he’s not the most stable role model for a young man like yourself. He’d be the first to admit it, Noah.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Rhiannon’s father is in the kitchen, about to leave for work. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“What sort of nonsense is this?” said one of the fathers. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

He had been the executor of her father’s estate, appointed by no will since Mr Coldfield left neither will nor estate except the house and the rifled shell of the store. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father leaned forward to smile into Doha’s eyes. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Did you talk to Bunny’s father?” he said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

"You...you little cheat!" the father suddenly shouted, pointing at her with his finger. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

He’s got my father’s soft eyes and optimistic spirit, my mother’s implacability. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Malcolm’s father was right: Lord Nugent had been lord chancellor, but that had been under a previous government, a more liberal body than the present one, and ruling at a more liberal time. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“It was left to me by my father. My uncle cares for it. When I have enough money for seeds and irrigation, I’m going back to my village. I hate this city.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

But then they both finally got out of the car, and I stayed at the window wrapping myself in the sheer white curtains as I watched my mother and father. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

My mother liked my father’s quiet sense of humor and that he had an entrepreneurial spirit. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The going-away fathers walk ahead, the mothers carry babies or push prams. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Thank goodness, just then I thought I saw my father running in front of me. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

My taxi was cutting through the back streets of Bloomsbury, past the house where my father lived after his second marriage, and past the basement flat where I lived and worked all through the fifties. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Farewell, my son,” his father had said, “forget not to be brave. God knows when we shall meet again. Farewell.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

They stop and set them on the ground and Dill’s father dances up to them, clapping his hands. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

On the last night that I talked to Scooter, before the morning and the cherry tree, I asked him to try to change my father’s mind. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

The boy wanted to go to the town to find out what had happened to his father. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But instead of answering me, she kept repeating that it was important to keep Uncle Jim’s land—land that had belonged to her father and his father and his father before that—in the family. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

While two thralls lit his braziers, Theon stripped off his travel-stained clothing and dressed to meet his father. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He is the youngest of his father's thirty-five children, twenty-five legitimate, fifteen from his own mother, the second wife; he has no past of his own. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

My father found an axe in the tool shed and gave it to me. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But my father was rich and everyone knew him, so I was spared the metal rod treatment. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

My father, awkwardly enough, introduced her as “someone who I think can help us find Gabriel.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The public discourse regarding “missing black fathers” closely parallels the debate about the lack of eligible black men for marriage. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The man’s story was as follows: as he and my father waited for the bus several police vans suddenly swooped upon the bus stop. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father was there now, parked in his fancy car, a newspaper parked in front of his face. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

As Juanita used her fingers to scrape back Pita’s hair and resecure its braid, I thought about where our father might be now. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Every Saturday night now for almost a year he had watched Mario tending his father’s newsstand. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My father, he was a fox. No more questions tonight. You want some coffee cake?” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, as though he could not suppress the question, as though it burst from him in spite of himself, he asked, “Was my father a wizard? He was called Tom Riddle too, they’ve told me.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Oh Lord, he just like his father, Mr. Ladies’ Man.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Dill’s father raised his two fists and put them together side by side. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I defended myself, as I imagined, against the fear my father made me feel by remembering that he was very old-fashioned. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

“I have a big family already,” the father says. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew my mother would be cooking food for everybody and that my father would be hiding out in his bedroom again. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

My father, appreciating his employer's position, volunteered immediately to take the General, and thus was obliged to suffer intimate proximity for four days with the man he detested. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Because it was still dark, we had to use a flashlight to see our way down to the toolshed, where my father kept his bait in two old refrigerators. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I exclaimed joyously at the prospects of going to the tent, but I quickly checked my enthusiasm when I thought of my father’s vehement opposition to other religions, especially Christianity. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and his father need to take her to the hospital. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Tad attended his father’s funeral with his oldest brother, Robert. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

And although my father was not a fisherman but a pharmacist’s assistant who had once been a doctor in China, he believed in his nengkan, his ability to do anything he put his mind to. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Another quick study, just like his father,” said Mr. Stonecrop. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

A jar of Pond’s cold cream, his father’s lifelong answer to after-shave, sits at the side of the sink. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

His father hesitated, holding the knife to Pima’s face. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Mithras protects us! I am the pater of this brotherhood—” “The father,” Annabeth translated. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We tried to care for each other, and we both looked out for our father. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He held my father’s rifle casually in his hands, as he surveyed the mob. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Aiyi and my father gossip unrestrained in Mandarin, exchanging news about people from their old village. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you take this opportunity to listen to your father, Beatrice?” my mother says gently. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Gerhardt Fischer, the man listed on Bobby’s birth certificate as his father, was living in Berlin, and at eighty-two he was not in good health. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He thought of his mother, his father, and Sirius. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

His father had insisted that he pay her too. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

If Joseph’s father had come within range, you know he’d have limped out of that barn. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

I imagine my father, a portly bear who I have never seen move faster than a brisk walk. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The situation was serious enough that Gerhardt Fischer, Bobby’s father of record, feared Joan and Bobby might be in great danger. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

No, my father—the new and improved Paine Underwood—stayed calm and polite. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Ay, Maria Luna,” Ultima interrupted, “you leave Antonio alone, please. Last night was hard for many men,” she said mysteriously and went to the stove where my father poured her some coffee. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had reason, in the years that followed, to remember his saying this; and time, at last, to discover in herself the depths of bitterness in her father from which these words had come. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Now we are ten men,” my father whispered. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was a long, terrible silence at the other end of the phone, and then his father hung up the receiver. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Virtually overnight, Johnny’s father was bankrupt with seven children and a wife to feed. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” said Flora’s mother, “I don’t know. Flora Belle’s father is coming to pick her up for their Saturday visit. He’ll be here any minute now. And she’s still in her pajamas.” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

“For God's sake," my father would say, “it's two o'clock in the morning. What are you calling for?" Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Though I felt no great love for my father, his company was familiar to me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

At five o’clock in the morning, Blanca awoke with an upset stomach from the cloyingly sweet smell of the flowers with which her father had adorned the nuptial chamber. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

An hour later, as the evening sky dimmed, the two of them drove off in my father’s car to attend a party. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

My father and I returned home the day after Labor Day, and I called Danny immediately. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I went down to spend a few days with my father, and I made it my mission: This weekend I will get to know my father. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

JING-MEI WOO The Joy Luck Club My father has asked me to be the fourth corner at the Joy Luck Club. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My father is at his Pavilion of Solitude,” Sifen said, waving his hand toward a remote building far down the lakeside, “painting as usual.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Years later, when her father was in New York, baseball became their obsession. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zbyszek stood next to his father, hands behind his back, studying the ceiling, and I could see that Mrs. Diamant and Izio had both sidled nearer, listening while pretending not to. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

If you want to help savages, her father said, teach school. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

My father had thought to teach me this after he had been in a sailing accident and stranded on a life raft for two days. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

My mother was right when she said my father was good. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“My name is Macon Dead too, but I’m thirty-two years old. You knew my father and his father too.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I will always remember my father in this moment, the potency of him, and the desperation. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

His father said that all white people were wicked, and that God was going to bring them low. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Contrary to what his father hoped, there was more time to visit the wine house. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father would hold out longer, donkey that he was, but not much. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

For a moment, and only for a moment, I entertained the notion that Davis might’ve helped his father disappear. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

My father put his hand on my head when they left, the way he used to when I was six years old. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Lyddie tried to keep up the spinning, but when she had to take her father’s place outdoors, she was too exhausted to try to spin and sew in the dim candlelight. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Before Maria could learn much from her talented father, he died while visiting a mineral spring to “take the waters” for his health. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

His sister would be scornful, the Sand Snakes would mock him with smiles sharp as swords, and Lord Yronwood, his second father, who had sent his own son along to keep him safe... A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“What will happen to them now? It is very hard for children without a father when there is little money.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I take all of two steps before she says, “You’re just like my father.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Her father had built a career on it. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“He’s something of a genius. He has a Punjabi mother and a Bengali father, and because he learns French and English at school he already speaks four languages. I think he skipped two grades.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

What my brother knew, my father must also know. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

So I heard the boom of my father’s rifle when he shot my best friend. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The tour ends and the children disperse and Marie-Laure is reinstalled in the Grand Gallery with her father. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“A little boulder jumped down a hill and broke my father’s leg. They set the leg and gave him cripples’ work, straightening used nails with a hammer on a rock. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bando turned the steak on the spit, rose, and shook my father’s hand. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father must have had to drive the car to work the next day looking the way it did, and I’m sure that didn’t sit well with him. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They frowned, and that visit led to this: “Do you like school, Sophia?” my father had asked. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Early the next morning, when the light was gray and uncertain, Sarah Ruth was sitting up in bed, coughing, and the father came home. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Now the others began to act out, and the sense of justice and desire for equal rights that Mommy and my father had imparted to us began to backfire. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Jordan, a wide man, blocked the gangplank by standing right behind my father. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She also admired Matilda who had sworn her to secrecy about the parrot job she had brought off at home, and also the great hair-oil switch which had bleached her father's hair. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Not the end—I genuinely can’t remember getting in the car, almost running over my father, hitting the telephone pole. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

What the cameras didn’t show was that behind his glasses, my father’s eyes were glistening too. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Because of the lights I cannot tell if my father is out there, but I am pretty sure he is. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

They must have all loved her, except perhaps my father, the only brother who never went back to China, having once been traded for a girl. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had not his father also suffered the same pain that he was now suffering for his son? Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Salvador, now that your father has died aboard Captain Ortega’s boat, perhaps Ortega will favor you more. He had no insurance for his crew. He may feel he owes the Torres family something.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Yes, shame even of her own father, for being a “no-no.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Mi bija, it’s not just Ivette’s mother. Her father came by the bank today to remind me of my duty to the revolution to report anything suspicious.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

She waits for her father’s voice in her head to raise an objection, but none comes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Like her father, she also suffered from bouts of insomnia and anxiety. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In Georgia I’d seen people angered by my father before, or intimidated, but not contemptuous. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They say that her father is as rich as a king,” Chaol said. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“They help each other,” her father explained simply. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ignore it,” my father would say, while my mother fidgeted in her favorite love seat. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

In the old crippled men and women of the plantation he saw what lay in store for his mother and father. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

One day one of my father’s subjects lodged a complaint against him involving an ox that had strayed from its owner. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I was born, my father worked at ‘clean’ jobs. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Since when is it wrong for a father to take care of his little girl?” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Your father,” she said, watching him, “knows best. You listen to your father, I guarantee you, you won’t end up in no jail.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The boy hung on to his father’s coat. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Milkman was curious about his father’s agitation, but not alarmed. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Either your father or I is going to have to come with you. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

"I really want to help. Look, I happen to know of a possible job at Liberty Paints. My father has sent several fellows there . . . You should try —" I shut the door. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, he was picked up by a black foreman who worked on one of the large tomato farms owned by Philip Turner’s father and driven to the nearest house with a phone. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Milkman thought then that his father was boasting of his manliness as a child. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father gripped my legs to keep his balance. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The third oldest turned her glass, stem up, and giggled without much enthusiasm when the father puffed out his cheeks again for her benefit. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He’s white, of Irish background, and I’m brown, a mix of my Egyptian mother and Indian father. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

She got up from the couch and went to see what her brother and father were doing. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

My father seemed more worried about this than my mother. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

His father was employed for many years at a manufacturing plant operated by Crown Cork & Seal, which makes beverage cans. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I hate to tell you what I think of your father.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Because he licked her father, instead of the other way around, this romance ended in the fireman marrying Sissy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father by then was in a paroxysm of exasperation. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His tone was calm, flat, uncaring; he'd reached for his father's voice, and found it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“What would you have us do, Moshe?” my mother said, putting her hands on my father’s shoulders. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Though Jonathan kept asking questions about the battle, his father only shook his head, while his eyes grew clouded. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

I looked to my left where the bridge started and saw my father and Chavez running towards the excitement at the center of the bridge. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father was a man of action; he did his best to ignore the unseen world that the sages worked in. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I had told him about my father’s sickness, and he had told me about the accident. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

My red father never did tell me what he did for his presentation. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

But it still felt like when his mom and father were together and fought all the time. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The yellow stone my father had given me. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Whereas his father lacked the interest or discipline to save his reputation and that of his family, Charles measured himself by his image in the minds of others. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mommy knows this and despite her personal differences with the new minister, she didn’t want to see what amounted to my father’s and her life’s work disappear. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father seems to notice my reaction to his cooking. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way his lord father had died, for one. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Now the father is trying to feed the toddler, who keeps turning away. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

When Diana is four years old, her father returns to Long Beach. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Or we'll tell your father that his fine son likes to creep into other people's houses at night!” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

This meant that there were hours and even whole days when I could not be interrupted—not even by my father. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

A sick feeling came over me, and I wondered how close my father had come to something far worse than a fistfight. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Marc and Nadia have not spent much time together,” my father’s wife said. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

My father did not answer; he continued gazing at the floor. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr. Bucket. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

On the following Saturday, Julian and his father came to our booth again. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course I love your father. He’s my husband.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt guilty for not trusting Valley earlier, and now, seeing how afraid Valley looked at the mention of her father, she felt even worse. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The police said to my father, “Well, you’re not off the hook, you still have to send one.” Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I ask her what she’s typing, she says, “Just some work for your father.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Light glowing through the blinds every morning, enough for my father to read by. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I was standing in front of a black man just like my father, but this one was wearing a tie and let me play with his computer. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

To wit: a little boy named Isaiah has a lot of books at home; Isaiah does beautifully on his reading test at school; this must be because his mother or father regularly reads to him. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Furthermore, it must be remembered that my father was a butler of an earlier generation who began his career at a time when such attributes were not considered proper, let alone desirable in a butler. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

A day came when young Siddhartha said what was in his mind and openly turned against his father. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said that the boy’s father—his name was Leon Miller—was in custody and would be charged. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Half of something, a quarter of something else, brown skin and black hair like his dead mother, but with weird pale blue eyes like his father. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

‘I swear on my father’s grave this, I swear on my father’s grave that.’ American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Sophie’s father only nods modestly and says, “Thank you. So have you.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He said, “Have you asked your mother this? Or your father?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Instead I found a small, budding excitement at the thought of hearing a story my father would have sought out. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Don’t believe the rumors, woman,” my father said with an air of authority. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But somehow my father did not look as though a miracle had been performed. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I brought out my father’s lute and clutched it to my body. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Like I said before, some kids when their fathers drink, they bust up the house or hit their mom or worse. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Dudley was sniffling in the back seat; his father had hit him round the head for holding them up while he tried to pack his television, VCR, and computer in his sports bag. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

It was a good thing my father was strong. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

When we stopped in front of the synagogue where my father and I prayed, he muttered his “Good night,” turned, and walked slowly away. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Reiko’s father had been killed helping to liberate an Italian town. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

As youngsters, we participated in all the usual seaside activities—which were fun, until my father got involved and systematically chipped away at our pleasure. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Five doll people lived in the house—a father, a mother, a son, a daughter, and a baby. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t move until her father came and pulled her into his strong embrace. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

It was a big, soft package and inside there was blue-and-gray-plaid wool that looked like a blanket, but it was not a regular blanket, my father said. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Piper lowers her voice and steps closer to her father. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to an account recorded by a friend of Stanton’s, her father told her, “Your first lecture will be a very expensive one,” threatening to disinherit her if she went through with it. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Maria started to run away, but she was halted by her father, Senator Mendoza. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wants to be married to my father. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

This would drive my father into a fury; eventually he would come busting dramatically into my room and order me out, his forefinger trembling, rolling his eyes like Othello. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But withheld from my mother and father was any mention of what most mattered to me: the extraordinary experience of first-learning. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you see the vineyards?” my father asked. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father had hit me only once in my entire life. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She had chosen him because he was much larger than the others, and because he walked like her father, Kapugen, with his head high and his chest out. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said softly, “I wish you were my father.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I love you, too, Dad,” Nathan said, nodding even though his father couldn’t see him. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Some days, when my mother spent the day and night at the hospital, my father brought Sammy and me to the hatchery with him. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

My youth quickly made me a much bigger drawing card than my father. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

That night, I dreamed of my father again. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

At night she runs her fingertips over her father’s model: the bell tower, the display windows. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He handed out copies of the plans for the new design to all the school board members, keeping his back to my father and me the whole time. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Like my father when he’s being a proud Pullman porter seeing the world, and baseball and not cooped up in Tuxedo Junction. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father was still in the camp or perhaps dead too. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Then the father realized that Siddhartha could no longer remain with him at home —that he had already left him. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suppose you talk us all outa this and the kid really did knife his father? Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you want to know who the father of my child is?” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I opened the door hours later when I heard my father come in, and the bowl of soup was at my feet, sitting cold and misplaced. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know. And when my father would tell me I would say to him, ‘Get to that lake—get my mother there—don’t let it happen again, not this time. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But you won’t appreciate my father’s skill if you think flying a kite—any kind of a kite—is just putting a bunch of paper and sticks up into the air. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hush, Lina. Let’s say our prayers and give thanks for that wonderful meal. Let’s pray that your father is just as well.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Filthy animals! They took all our food and even your father’s watchmaking tools.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

It was addressed to her father, her brother, her son, "or whoever now holds Riverrun." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In 1860, when he was not yet nineteen, his devout father urged him to join a religious commune in Oneida, New York, run by a man his father admired. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

When you were boys, did your own fathers tell you nothing of what Odysseus was for them? The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hope was that they’d grow up to be bright and energetic, optimistic like their father and hard-driving like their mom. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They raced into the ladies' waiting room and saw their father on the floor with Secretary Blaine standing over him. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“This Russ—he’s special. His doing well here at Bellmont means a lot to me. His father was a close friend.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father said it was better to have told the guards than to have risked concealing the plan. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The English papers carried excerpts of the senator’s speech and briefly mentioned my father. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

With his father’s grudging approval, Mohammed crewed on local fishing boats in the afternoons and evenings, and even at fourteen, after a full day of fishing miles from land, Mohammed insisted on swimming to shore. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

My father no longer sat on the tree stump. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

But when the western sun touched the clouds with orange and gold the vaqueros got in their trucks and headed home, and my father was left to drink alone in the long night. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh! my dear father,” she cried, “come back and write immediately. Consider how important every moment is in such a case.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

He had permanent frown lines between his eyes, and he was taller even than my father. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I was lorded over by Mommy, my older siblings, friends of Ma’s, and relatives on my father’s and stepfather’s sides whom, years later, I would recognize as guiding forces in my life. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was stuck because she wasn’t thin and athletic like her father had tried to convince her she needed to be. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

"I was never very safe in my father's castle either." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"What's wrong with watching the telly, may I ask?" the father said. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then I tell her how, before he died, my father read me books where people spoke like that. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

My father systematically went about showing me the true mechanics of the actor’s trade. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The bed was my parents’ old one; my father bought himself a twin the first year we moved into the new house. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I type a quick command and bring up a window to search for my Memory Worlds, all the carefully compartmentalized pieces of my father that I spend so much time revisiting. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Instantly the father turned the plow aside, thus proving that he had all his wits about him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her father’s second marriage had only made her life miserable, and she had never respected Ana’s single-minded quest for a husband. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now it would be the place where I would meet my father. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry about Canton. Your father’s going to call him. You’ll be all right.” Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

“From what I can tell, this James Parker guy was rich. Like millionaire rich,” her father said. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Well, Frank Buckland was Matthew Arnold’s father’s sister’s husband’s brother’s son, therefore, they were almost kin. See?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She tried gallantly to produce a generation of Darwins who could spell, unlike their famous father. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were identical to those of her real father. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father wandered over to the folding chairs set up outside the tent for the men under the night sky. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I could see my father’s mouth pronouncing it with reverence, like he did for everything that had a touch of the old about it, the words from our language; like a prayer. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

My father looked at me with a new face, strange and terrifying to me for what it lacked in confidence. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And that’s for your crazy father sinking my father’s boat,” he said. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

What if other people and things began to disappear — her father or the TV? Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The black sail was seen by his father, King Aegeus, from the Acropolis, where for days he had watched the sea with straining eyes. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the narrative, he’d made a kind of literary peace with his phantom father. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And my father in his throaty voice said, “If you close your eyes really tight, wherever you are, you will see these stars.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

When he returned to New England in late August, he and his father fell into a simple routine. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clay stopped to scratch his head, then said to his father, “I hear talk in town of folks in the North starting to speak about ending slavery.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others of us followed our fathers out into the woods, carried guns and rods. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the end, my father was right—though perhaps he did not know how right or why—to say that I would never know what real work is. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found his father and the kids sitting at a picnic table on a soggy lawn. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Rather than pretending that I was madly intellectual and thought I’d fit right in inside the ivy-strewn walls of Princeton, I wrote about my father’s MS and my family’s lack of experience with higher education. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The rear door of the car opened and my father was observed to be standing there, a few steps back from the vehicle, gazing steadily into the interior. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Out of long habit, she folded her hands and bowed to the King, but she did not acknowledge her father. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The person has to be a male and could be a father or relative, teacher, or friend. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Uncle Jet, ask Nali for help. Ask my father for help. It’s not weak to ask for help!” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

His father wouldn’t have noticed his text anyway. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

My mother got up and stood close to my father. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I was sorting quickly through the boxes, making piles of people of my mother’s side of the family, then my father’s, and then one of faces I didn’t know, a growing stack of strangers. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before he could enter the doorway, his father caught him and clapped him on the back again and again. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your father made a promise to my dying mom, and two weeks after she’s gone, he sends you to tell me he was just kidding.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I knew Noodles couldn't believe I was telling my father the truth, when I could have easily just said that Doris knew. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

After Adam had realized that this was his father he was still puzzled. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

My father yanked my leg and I clawed at the chimney harder. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sticking out his chin, just like his father always did, Scipio walked toward Barbarossa. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“That can’t possibly be true. Doesn’t your father have family in London?” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

My father often remarked that it was strange, but now it doesn’t matter. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

‘And they lived happily ever after,’ my father said. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Your father probably got fed up because Safa unlatched a neighbor’s chicken coop again. You know you’re the only one who can keep up with her.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“I don’t particularly care what my father approves of any longer.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Through the trailer’s open windows, I heard Lissa and her father debating where to put their things. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

In a way, he was scared, and he wondered if his uncle was or if his father, Crazy Horse, was. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

When my father walks in the door, my mother rushes to meet him. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was going to buy the car in his father's name so if he was arrested, his father could keep the car. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Therefore when Chryseis had been returned to her father, Agamemnon sent two of his squires to Achilles’ tent to take his prize of honor away from him, the maiden Briseis. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know what happened,” my father says, getting up to pace the way I often do. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“What’s interesting about him? That he is a Lagos playboy Hying off his father’s money, said money accumulated from a diesel importation monopoly that they have because of their contact with the president?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He listened as the father came home and shouted at Bryce. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

My father had dressed that morning with special care. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Her father was down to ninety pounds, just skin and bones, and he was in pain and miserable. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Johnny’s father had one passion that overrode all his other interests and kept him going through those hard years—rowing. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

My father’s friends always gave us coins and told us what songs to play on the jukebox. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Soon I could tell by the sound of the steps it was my father. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Flora’s father introduced himself to everyone all the time, even if the person was someone he had already met. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

It was the best Kaz had felt since his father died. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“But my father is a watchmaker. He’s not a government worker. Why would they arrest him?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Bang-bang- bang, their father likes to joke, aiming a finger pistol at each one, as if he were shooting them, not boasting about having sired them. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She never saw her father, who had run off to Australia weeks before her birth. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

What sort of thing was that for his father’s son to do? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father was in the living room, ten feet from where the incident began. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Pocahontas whips her head around when she hears her father’s name. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

In Kabul, hot running water had been like fathers, a rare commodity. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When Ann started losing her breakfast in the mornings and sleeping all afternoon, her father fretted about the mysterious illness that had swept over his youngest child. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The paper floated in the air like a white butterfly and landed in my father's lap. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

When his father passed into the kitchen, he dashed up the steps and into his room. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“My son’s fifteen!” your father says to the head pastel. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

For my part, I took on the job of locking the house each night when my father was away. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He sounded more like his father than himself. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

His father leaned down the table and put his big hand on top of Jesse’s hand. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

The man swung the loose end of the chain, and it struck the boy’s father across the face. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I seen ’em in the Noise of their fathers in town, mourned like their wives but not nearly so often. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

She sends me a card on my birthday with fifty dollars in it, which my father nags me about until I finally go to the bank and deposit it. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Gregor pulled his head back from the door and raised it in the direction of his father. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

As my father read it to us, the color drained from his face. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Five years in my past, my father used to take me and Charlie deep-sea fishing on the weekends. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

My father’s brother, Leroy, called Lee, was in jail, and my father was constantly getting letters from lawyers asking for money for Uncle Lee’s “case.” Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

"I think he fears to face your father in the field. His strength grows less each day. The river lords have de-parted, each to defend his own lands." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He says something else about watching each other, but his words are swallowed up in the calls of a hundred people merging to become the voice of any father, any mother. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Her father even promised to buy her a car if she stopped seeing me. Can you believe it?” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

But the Swift family had deep roots in Cape Cod going back 250 years, and G.F.’s father did not want him to leave the family home. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

As for my father, he would have called in the Devil himself to spare my mother any suffering. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course it’s not lovely. My father has obscene taste in jewelry,” she said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“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

But as they turned into their neighborhood, Candice accepted that her father had no intention of discussing her. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

His father was a butcher in Deh-Mazang, and, from time to time, Khadim was known to fling bits of calf intestine at passersby. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Before I left, my father had been teasing Atal, saying he could be my secretary when I became prime minister. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Your father is talking nonsense. I’ve never heard such a story!” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nor, I fear, was his father, Elvan, both of whom died on that island. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Once, when I raptured in a violet glow given off by the Queen of the World, my father asked me why, and I thought he was crazy not to see. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d sensed there was more to his story than being an ambassador from his father, Pluto. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It upset him because so many black children at that time had no fathers in their homes, and he wanted everyone to know I had a father. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Wang Lung leaned down to him and said loudly in his ear, “Here am I and I will buy you a coffin second to my father’s only!” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

That evening An-mei and I went to work and searched through strips of fortune cookie papers, trying to find the right instructions to give to your father. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Madge’s bedroom is on the second floor along with several guest rooms and her father’s study. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now all he had to do was wait for his father to drive to the airport and line his car behind the rest of the taxis waiting to pick up passengers. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“When your father lived in China,” Brave Orchid told the children, “he refused to eat pastries because he didn’t want to eat the dirt the women kneaded from between their fingers.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am your brother’s wife. You must tell me about my father.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her father had just returned from a business trip, bringing her back this latest present. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Her father’s heart, beating there inside of him. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

“But my father is stubborn. It will be fine, though. Our house in Ingria was two stories, and he said our new house is a little small, but we can build.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

"That couldn't be. My father would never betray the king!" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I kept knitting for you, and I kept thinking about the father of the missing girl. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The suggestion triggered memories of his father’s love for that group. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tim hadn’t been on her father’s staff as long as the others, but he was smart and perceptive, which is why her father’s chief of staff hired him right out of graduate school. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He was rail thin and quiet, and when he grew up he would probably be tall, like his father. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And my father’s woe, and the desolation of that late so smiling home all was the work of my thrice-accursed hands! Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your father says you’re not to have another penny until he speaks to you!” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Several weeks later, for no apparent reason, my father was released from prison. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“My father sends greetings and asks how you fare with the harp he gave you. I can see it wants repair,” he added, with a friendly laugh. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s so little of her, I’m afraid to say much, for fear she will slip away altogether, though she is not so shy as she used to be,” began their father cheerfully. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father added as an inducement the fact that I was only fifteen years old. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father then took a piece of string and cinched the trousers at the waist. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abbey and I were curious about what my father had said on TV, but neither of us was brave enough to sit up with Mom while she watched the tape. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Travis walked in to see his father finishing off a can of Budweiser, his feet on the coffee table, watching the Braves play the Cardinals. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“Her father will murder me if she gets shot out there. Now, turn around and cover her eyes, unless you want her to watch....” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He’d never heard his mother speak to his father like this. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

But his father was alive and attempting a reconciliation with Shin. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

His father was a doctor, and Alex had counted on him to get more cartridges for Bri’s inhaler when she ran out. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“She is with us still, but to be honest we have already lost her,” her father has written. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

His father paused, and looked around as if he was unwilling to let this priceless shard of information fall into the wrong hands. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stagger to a chair and she says, Just like your father. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Christmas as Christmas had passed unnoticed since their father had died on Christmas day. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly without means, his father began casting around for boatbuilding work on the London waterfront. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“My father told me about that, but he never told me why,” I said. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe there’s a father and his little boy and they’re sitting on the beach. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

So when he stepped into his father’s study the next morning to begin the first formal day of tutelage, Turner was about as grim as a dark cloud lowering itself over a Sunday-school picnic. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The father looked at the boy and said, “Child.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ceyx, a king in Thessaly, was the son of Lucifer, the light-bearer, the star that brings in the day, and all his father’s bright gladness was in his face. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for his father, Shin remembers that he sometimes showed up at night and left early in the morning. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I wonder if she is as nervous as I am to face my father again. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Let your father have the key if it’s so important to him. Let him have my dead body, too!” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Charles’s body responded to his fathers death, or at least it seemed that way. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father’s life and its stages of personal metamorphosis and enlightenment documented in this text stand as a confirmation of how one can, through witness and transformation, ultimately claim one’s own divine path. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t blame his father for the accident, not exactly. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I wanted to talk to my father first. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Then the boy opened his eyes and lifted his black brows and shrugged his shoulders and he said to his father, “You spoke of it first!” and then he turned away and went out. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

As Mrs. Fanning turned to follow, she leaned towards Sandi's father and brushed her lips on his. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Her father’s arm was around her mother’s shoulders. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Girl, you done so good,” her father said as he checked Stella’s makeshift bandage. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I tried to imitate my father and get the wheel—and thus the fertilizer—as close to the rows as I could without packing them down. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

We live, he said to the hushed congregation, in a day and age when fathers often do not receive the respect they should from their sons. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Yet she and my father honored their pledge to adore and protect each other. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

How many people had told Moss that his father deserved it? Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I saw your father taken by beasts, Jamison had said. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then a few days later, I found out that my father had been right all along. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

My sister got better every day, and I heard my mother telling my father that she thought the house itself was making Lynn better. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z