Now even Mr. Lapham would have to ask him if he wanted to get in, and he ran off to swim. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The time I would have had for a social life was completely taken up by my new school hours. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He had no rope, only die bowstring and the other cut shoe-string in his tennis shoes— which were by now looking close to dead, his toes showing at the tops. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then, it seemed as if the Indians had been helpful to the settlers as well, so I didn’t see why they needed civilizing. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Already, the black center had lightened, familiar images of county landmarks brightening into view. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He had exchanged them for the most wretched things, for the transitory, for the pleasures of the senses, for high living and riches. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wrote this one night: “The raft is almost done. Bando has promised to stay until we can sail out into the deep fishing holes. “Bando and I found some clay along the stream bank. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people, the thousands of people who had dangled so peacefully and quietly, now surrounded Roza and Finn, crouching like animals, needle teeth bared. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Then he launches into a speech about the war ads, how they’re trying to talk black folks into going to fight for the so-called freedom we don’t even have on our own shores. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t intended to tell him this story, or any story, but maybe she had. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The mother cat had gone into the coal shed to feed her kittens. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

As Jonathan watched, a man came out of the tavern, someone he had never seen before. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like someone had crumpled up a pitch-black blanket and dropped the Weird Watsons down into the middle of it. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tossed his rock just a foot or so farther out than Thomas had. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It has a super view from the cockpit, and can seat two passengers as well as the pilot. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Each was put in an airtight isolation room; the staff had to wear hazmat suits to go in. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Citra took guilty pleasure at the fact that the girl who had been sucking up to Rowan was one of those ejected. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

You avoided them if you could and stood up to them if you had to. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The old woman's sobbing was having a strange effect upon me-as when a child, seeing the tears of its parents, is moved by both fear and sympathy to cry. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I had gone all the way around I was bathed in sweat and exhausted. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Fudge had been lenient with him because he was so relieved to find him alive. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

All along, he had been secretly hoping that Riddle would demand the walk-up. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their life had changed, although they still felt sad for the loss of Diepe and thought often of their brother and son who had now gone. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

They asked me three more times, had me write every single thing down. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“I honestly didn’t think I had a friend left in the world.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The Box had the highest testosterone level in the prison, and somehow smelled like it—close, musty, with an acrid whiff of perspiration. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then it came to me that he wasn’t dead yet and maybe he didn’t have to die. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think Aaron would have stayed here long. He doesn’t speak English well enough to talk to any of these men.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She could have taken shortcuts through people’s yards. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“I have seen babies like that, Zola. In such a hurry.. “We were afraid.” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

But I wanted to be exactly like them, so that I might have new dresses, shoes, and especially a bicycle. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The bone had fractured and caved in considerably over an area of about four inches. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

To have any chance of leaving Riverbank, they would need powerful allies—and they would have to work in absolute secrecy. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Uncle Pa has a steady job and he brings home his wages every Friday. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

This had cobwebs on it, too, strung in and out of the steering-wheel spokes, and over the metal hubs. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I don’t think I could have borne it. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They don't have much of a selection for vegetarians, but I pick my way through a salad and some spinach with alarmingly bright orange-colored cheese sauce. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

But...she had difficulty not staring at him. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The sight was too terrible and beautiful for a cricket who up to now had measured high things by the height of his willow tree and sounds by the burble of a running brook. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hobbits under the spell of Tom’s words may have missed one meal or many, but when the food was before them it seemed at least a week since they had eaten. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She seems to realize that she has something to atone for, but she’s not sure exactly what it is. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

So many applied that patients had to have a doctor’s certificate stating that they did indeed have yellow fever in order to be let in. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Most of these have now left most of us, thanks to antibiotics, plumbing, civilization, and money, but we remember. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hearing what had happened to Emmett chilled me to the bone, and I would have been sick if I hadn’t seen the look on Mr. Breland’s face. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

By the time I entered the corridor, he had already reached its end. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Only if he thinks the same of me, but I’m the kind of person you have to treat with kid gloves, I know that all too well. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I suppose that had happened; even with his friends. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

What seems to happen becomes its own happening and has to be told that way. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was a woman perched on the roof, as ratty and filthy as any of the other infected Mark had seen recendy. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

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

I knocked on the third door on the left, which had a sign on it that said wtlltam black. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But having the kind of fun that seems daring and embarrassing in front of strangers requires a special bravery. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

"We ran down an elk and had to drive off a treecat that tried to steal him." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Emery always has the best advice, even when it's compacted into five minutes because that's all the spare time she has between classes. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I watch what I eat and I don’t have any more than the other girls at lunch. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

“If you really want to impress Posy, you’ll have to dye yourself bright pink,” says Gale, thumping his tray down beside mine. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Alex walked down from his home to Forty-second Street Thursday morning around the time he would have left for school, far earlier than he needed to, but he couldn’t risk missing the bus. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Rather remarkably, they persuaded themselves that the animal had enjoyed "the agility and ferocity of the tiger," and portrayed it in illustrations as pouncing with feline grace onto prey from boulders. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She sipped her coffee and listened quietly as I explained how I had found out about Gimpy’s cheating, my own reaction, and the conflicting advice I’d gotten at the lab. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“My mom drove me nuts with her citizenship test. She doesn’t know even the basic facts, like each state has two senators.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t seemed suspicious; it had never occurred to him that Pearl might lie. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Their feathers had changed since we arrived in the port. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She would sometimes become so distraught and ill that her sisters would have to find a relative to take her to the hospital. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I have the idea to stuff it under my shirt and stagger around the stage with my hand on my lower back like I’m pregnant. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

And now he noticed that loose peas, like little green marbles, were all over the ground, like a hundred pods had just exploded. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

According to her youngest grandson, Elizebeth still had “a voice like a lion.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I wonder about the other tributes, how they're managing now that their main source of food has been blown up. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

His younger brother Sandor had left the same day to take service with the Lannisters as a sworn sword, and it was said that he had never returned, not even to visit. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Reginald, I learned, had been suspended from the Nation of Islam by Elijah Muhammad. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

All had been picked up in New Orleans after the storm. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t have seen me, couldn’t have seen anything other than a possible hiding place. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You will see, only with the diamond blade circular saw do you have one chance.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Frankie had already slipped his stocking off its hook and was sticking his hand down into it. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

"Well, we'd have to change the name of this place," Simeon said, accidentally bumping bags of chips off the shelves behind him. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Because no sooner had Fezzik’s great hands reached out than the man in black dropped and spun and twisted and was loose and free and still quite alive. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I have a strong feeling that I’ve just met two kids who will never make fun of my name. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I cried out and must have babbled something. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Party shall continue unabated, in full festival Mode, for some few weeks thereafter, or until the belittled Pestilence has run its course through the Assembled. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Jenkins asked what the last school they had been in was; her grandmother looked at Dicey, and Dicey told her. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

A camera had been installed behind the mirror. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here and there we see dues to what might have been. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“They had one daughter, and this is a picture of her. Her name is Miranda.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"How strange! But perhaps you have not been here very long." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Whatever restraint she had before is slipping away quickly. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

"He was lucky to have survived," Stanley's mother was quick to point out. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

What he saw was a boy in the rags of what had once been a school uniform. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The results have been tantalizing, annoying, provocative, stimulating, and, at least until recently, substantially inconclusive. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would Samarkand or Cathay or Cipango have suffered the same fate if visited? Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In their absence, it was painfully quiet, and the creeping thoughts that had waited in the back of her cell seemed to crawl forth to meet her. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I suppose I had Father Issues too, though they paled in comparison. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She’d fall to the ground, and she and her companion would have their guns out, and Otto and I both would be dead. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

No doubt she had run across the news about other Wizarding schools in some book or other. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“When I thought I had a baby inside me.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Three young peregrines had survived their first flights. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

As he rapidly read its contents Francis became furious, for he noticed that part of the argument depended upon a theoretical idea he had propounded some nine months earlier. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

In order to see them, I had to put in a formal request for a visit, which had to be approved by the Head Office in Pretoria. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the kind of thing the girls at school used to tell about after they had had a date. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

However, once I got there, I had a bit of trouble getting plugged in. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dany had no answer for him, only the raw feeling in her belly. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Zielinski had been a great friend of my mother’s, dandling baby Helena on her knee. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I don’t have any way to contact them. Any way to warn them not to come.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

This time, before your mind can calculate the answer it will wander away down the street with the child, dancing to the African music that has gone away and come home changed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was glad to see the little bird, but I couldn’t remember what it was that I had first put into the basket. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

This bizarre image—it is, we’d have to admit, memorable— was splendidly misunderstood by the time it reached the Middle Ages. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

And of course what Franny’s mom had just said wasn’t true: I had cared what someone thought. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I have it during the day, but then it’s a daydream. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He cabled Luther Rice, “...Burnham nor anyone else has any right to dictate whether we shall have a closed or open fence, any more than from an artistic standpoint.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The rest had been cremated in the heat and their ashes sucked up by the swirling wind and blown away. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’m famous for my love of animals, too, and have created quite a little menagerie in the compound between the garden and the restaurant for everyone’s amusement. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow the lights that had been on before in the secret room were gone now, so Ms. Morales’s phone flashlight was the only glow around them. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The bottom skidded to one side like somebody had kicked its legs out from under it. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He shoved his hands into his armpits and walked faster, praying that Morrec had remembered to warm his bed with hot bricks from the fire. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

If you have many friends, your life is full. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, after swimming in the River Cocytus, Annabeth had heard enough whining and moaning to last a lifetime. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“At first they thought bipolar one, but when the delusions got increasingly psychotic, and I started to have auditory hallucinations, they changed my diagnosis to schizoaffective.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“In addition, my valve has been misbehaving and has prevented me from bending over to reach the lower drawers.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She came to work at the start of the summer term in June, and they had gone out together a couple of times even before Bran had to leave for Florida. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But someday his father would die and then the Prince would be the king and he would have to select a queen to supply an heir for the day of his own death. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Just as I'm wondering how far the truck has driven, I hear Liz's voice over the music. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He was quite near the clearing where the frog had been and perhaps still was. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I thought maybe Dad had taken the information sheets about the blanket to work with him, but they're on the piano bench. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

That event had taken place in February 1908, when a small group of twenty-three women had marched up Broadway in New York to a meeting hall. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

My mom even texted me asking if I wanted her to bring my favorite winter hat to Hina’s so I would have it for school. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

They had been clumsy and shy at first, but the giddiness that flooded through her after the kiss had plowed through all those nerves. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Maybe so. But she doesn’t want to see you today. Come back tomorrow. Maybe she’ll have changed her mind by then.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that day, Mate read right out how there had been a demonstration at the university, led by a bunch of young professors, all members of the Communist party. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went past the rosebushes to Baba’s mansion, Hassan to the mud shack where he had been born, where he’d lived his entire life. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps, I thought, God had not seen the murder take place, and that is why He had not punished Tenorio. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I now think that I have severely underestimated Adiah’s potential,” he continues. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I was getting one of the dinners my mom had left in the freezer, and an envelope with my name on it fell out. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I still feel uncomfortable with the idea that everyone has been watching us, like I need to cover myself or hide where they can’t look at me anymore. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Outside on the pavement she paused, looking at her list and ticking off what she had bought. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

He knew he would have but one shot, one shot and then he would run. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Fine. But we have to be as quiet as possible.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He had a blanket pulled over his head, was apparently asleep, absenting himself from the whole affair. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It looks like your finger has looked every single time you’ve ever worried about it.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

And we have to change into our PE clothes right in front of everyone on our row in the locker room. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

When his turn came, Garikayi asked, “My mother’s house has no door. What am I?” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Only an hour, but the world had melted down and sprung up in a new and colourless form. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other than his eyes, he has no more color to him than the translucent spiders that lurk in Serra’s catacombs. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Back in the 1960s, when she had money, which was hardly ever, Mommy would take us down to Delancey Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side to shop for school clothes. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The smell is so awful that I have to breathe through my mouth. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

If someone had laid out the consequences of their behavior, they would have unquestionably behaved otherwise. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

At some point we asked him some direct questions about where he was on the day of the murder, which must have alarmed him because we heard from him less often after that. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

His intent was to make himself secure against the French, and he would have immediately succeeded in this if Alexander had lived. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

By focusing on skeletons, he was able to avoid discussing Clovis, the focus of the conference, because Howard had found no skeletons there. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I have a hard enough time remembering to do all my homework. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I had seen crows and one other raven in traps but never with this kind of rage. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But his face had closed; he didn’t want to talk about it, and she knew better than to ask. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each holds Big Ma’s interest “It has something to do with Cecile’s paper,” I said. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jon glanced back at the face, wondering who had carved it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“It was the first bit of information that had come to me about the atomic bomb.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Philip Butler of the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries has pointed out an ominous parallel in that we may find ourselves in the same situation as the robins. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Farm life had made Gene different from other young men: he was serious for his age, more physically impressive and independent-minded. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Howard University has my new address, and they've been filling our mailbox with catalogs and postcards. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It was that which she had taken for a clammy hand, a drowned hand come back from the dead to squeeze the life out of her! And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

"You're not the only guy who wants satellite time, you know. We have Ares 4 supply missions coming up. We need to concentrate on Schiaparelli crater." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have never known if Momma sent for us, or if the St. Louis family just got fed up with my grim presence. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I ran across the court, I felt a pain in my right heel that was so intense I had to stop playing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So lemme see if I have this right,” she said, setting down two plates. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Night was falling, and he knew he had to be home, safe on his roof. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I had prepared an occupation for him; for I was determined not to spend the whole time in a tête-à-tête conversation. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“To drop by the Uglyville art school. They have bungee jackets in the basement. A whole rack of spares.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Lynn had to take me to the motel office and ask to use their bathroom. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Another part wonders, with a touch of desperation, what it would feel like to have someone’s lips against mine. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He slowly brought another arrow out, put it on the string, and aimed and released and this time saw the flurry of feathers that meant he had made a hit. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the reality she constructed for herself nothing had been wrong before her brother fell off that pallet. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Most dull teachers at least had a few credentials to back them up. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Viola and my mother had an easy relationship, and I never saw any high-handedness between them. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

But the gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would have three days of limbering up and a chance to resupply at Monson before plunging irreversibly into the deepest woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

As the number-one preferred destination, Tara had a fully fledged passenger lounge. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“If you had not insisted upon burning everything that came into your path, I could have tried, but as the situation stands, trying would be worthless.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

There had never been much use for it down in the mines. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Then Hephaestus had found me and told me I could leave. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

In the dark he made an inarticulate sound of fear that had in it a slight edge of satisfaction. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

May Belle had followed him down again as he had guessed she might. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I think he might laugh, since he doesn’t have a shirt on anyway. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Mott had traveled to the area from Philadelphia to attend a yearly Quaker meeting and to visit Martha, her sister, who was expecting a baby. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Death has always walked close—an earthquake, a hurricane, a disease, a thief and his knife. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I think he may have met someone there, but I don’t know who.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Since her marriage, Maria had followed the path of the lady artist, creating decorative works that sold well. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And then, inexplicably, you had the absolute audacity to love me back. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

In our old clan, we had never been very close. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you need arms? I have rowed in a galley.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

It said, “We have three rooms’ worth of furniture. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As long as you have the sound of laughter,” he groaned unhappily, “I cannot take your sense of humor—and, with it, you’ve nothing to fear from me.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I had expected that we would make a better showing...I try not to think of the damage to myself personally,” Roosevelt confided to his friend Arthur Hamilton Lee. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The seat was comfier than a leather recliner, and the dashboard looked like it had been designed by NASA. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She was the unhappiest I had ever seen her. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

That has to be the best part of being in love—the feeling of having a home in someone else’s brain. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

So that means Rowdy and I have spent 40,880 hours in each other’s company. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

During the festivities I thought about the biggest celebration we used to have in my town at the end of the year. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was true the bed was wet, but I knew I hadn’t had an accident. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s Saturday, so I have a lot of appointments today! Lots of houses to show!” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Doesn’t that mean people have to let you stay in their motels and eat in their restaurants if you want to?” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I have some sort of condition that keeps me from thinking through what I’m going to say. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have to be afraid of him. Some people act like witchery is responsible for everything that happens, when actually witchery only manipulates a small portion.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

So I had to take the message to them on foot,” Alex continued. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I retraced the path I had taken several days before. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The caravans had been stopped at Giza for some time, waiting for the wars to end. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

So many black people had internalized the logic of apartheid and made it their own. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He wanted his pretty little wife and he wanted something else and he couldn’t have both. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

All those people...people she had never met. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

As Mr. Curtain banged through the door to the Institute Control Building, it occurred to Reynie that every door in the Institute must have been designed to be opened in this violent manner. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The afternoon had been wasted on the cat; Ignatius had tried to trap the cat in the bun compartment and take it home for a pet. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charles and James had in common one of life's most difficult challenges. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

How could she ever have believed Nehemia was the one killing the Champions? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Because, dear,” Gloria says simply, “it’s what your gram would have wanted.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Not only does Gogol Ganguli have a pet name turned good name, but a last name turned first name. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He attended a special conference and when he came back he looked tired and thin, and wasn’t allowed to tell her where he had been. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But, standing there shivering in her nightgown, Violet knew she had to try. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

And sad that I still had no clue how I was going to raise enough money to save Fig. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She was lying there, injured, and he had not stopped to help her. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One of Brown’s ships brought up a load r S of rum and slaves from the islands. They must have sold thirty-five, forty people in two hours’ time.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

This made the woman wail, as she could think of no reason why the bird should suddenly have turned against them in this way. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“I think things are actually starting to pick up a bit. It’s gotta be the billboard. People see that baby elephant and they just have to stop and spend their hard-earned cash.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“You won’t forget your lines. We went over them a billion times. You had them down perfect yester—” “Will you stop bugging me for a minute?” the Object snapped. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But it could have been the other way. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She said no, she wouldn’t have me running about like a shorn savage. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“I am proud to have you in our home tonight,” Wahid said. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He might have doubled back, and be waiting for her with murderous thoughts behind the stable block. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

One of the shames I have carried for years is that I blame myself for all of this. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

About three weeks after the fire, Mother announced that the skin around the edges of the burn had begun to grow back, and that she had hope for even the worst patches. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Busy Bee had hinted delicately that it was to be an abode for Royalty??! And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

One story might serve as the tragic symbol of the fate of the birds — a fate that has already overtaken some species, and that threatens all. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The piano strings had been removed, and in their place were more books. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Straight ahead he could see more beach, about a mile away, but to the left and northward there was a large bay that must have stretched close to three miles. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its flame was burning, it was giving out light, but it had a shadow. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

There was something else the cap’n wasn’t seeing about Sylvanus neither, and even though the boy was a thief, it had me feeling right sorry and sympathetic for him. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

They had participated in secret conversations, received certain assurances, and gone so far as to make reconnaissance forays to outlying parts of the city. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality,” Milo remarked. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

She swept the floor, beat the curtains, aired the house, despite the snow that had started up again. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He didn’t feel like he had a fever anymore. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

And stitching it all together, she could not understand how Thula could have been so cold to a motherless child, nor how Joe’s father could have been so impassive in the face of it all. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Even drilling was not a new thing for those of us who had been to boarding school. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben’s hamster was cute and had an incredible setup with a big cage and all kinds of connecting plastic tubes and hideouts. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He’s moving at a good pace in front of me and has just rounded a corner. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The topic had been the prophet Job and how his patience and devotion to Allah had persevered, no matter what calamity had befallen him—even when his body had been covered with painful sores. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

They would have chalked it up as just one of the well-known perks of a few stiff drinks. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Now and then, I see people who have a bright scarlet streak painted into their hair. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

But the Bulldogs were undefeated with a four and zero record and had stunned the Rebels the previous week in a 35-21 win. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You didn’t have to do any cleaning,” he said. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And then you will leave. There’s a garage not far down the highway. Call this grandfather of yours, have him come get you.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

When the monster held Harry’s arm behind his back, Conor had felt Harry’s muscles resisting. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Near eleven o’clock she remembered a piece of pound cake she had put away. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

They were having too much fun, and enough people smuggled in liquor anyway. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Manet, ever the careful teacher, had taken care to describe the dangers of every material we used. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His palms and fingers were sore, and his burning arm and leg muscles made it clear that they had already traveled too far. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

One doctor, noticing inflammation under Dr. Philobosian’s eyelids, had stopped the examination and chalked an X on his coat. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

As news broke that the Martians had reached the Midwest, the pranksters lit firecrackers in the basement and flicked off the electricity. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

And if my original ten percent really is enough, what if it had been nine percent? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

But no one had seen a gene in action or knew its material essence. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

When I thought of that, and how my idea of my own future had been changed in the past week, I could not stop smiling. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Even if he was stubborn and stupid, she had to get him out. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I recognized him immediately in that flowered Hawaiian shirt, but just the stink from his cigar would have given him away. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Regarding this self-description, Bobby explained to a friend that he had never been defeated. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“But people don’t have a right to talk against the President, do they? That’s going too far!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite his fingers against my windpipe, despite the way my vision has begun to go dark around the edges, I make sure of my strike before I drive my knife into his chest. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The two soldiers who had come and eaten her jollof rice filled her with rage. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Danny seemed to hesitate before the door to his father's study, almost as if he was wishing not to have to go back in there again. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She walked up to me and handed me the drawing and the silk blue ribbon that had a number one printed on it in gold. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

And his face became like the face of one of those mean natives the Phantom was always having to beat up. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

From his new perch, Strauss fixed his sights on Oppenheimer’s last means of direct influence on commission policy, a consultantship he had been awarded by the previous chairman, Gordon Dean. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Johnny had not once looked at his hand since he had stood before the furnace and seen it lined with silver. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A blustery howl of wind hit me, and I actually had to shift my feet to keep from stumbling. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

If the final chord is the tonic of either the major or minor key for that key signature, you have almost certainly identified the key. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to have those thoughts running simultaneously and constantly, constantly. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Once the lights had been erected, the crew began jackhammering, breaking up the green tennis court into chunks. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I know how hard this has been, but it’s almost over, I promise. We’re going to be okay.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

We looked at Whit like she had grown a second head. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The first thing I noticed about East Shoal High School was that it didn’t have a bike rack. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He had become my anchor, suddenly, my tie to my own world. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“We must have missed a turn,” I am forced to admit. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“We have traveled too long to be met with bad news straight off.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Now he knew that they were not lions, for if they had been lions the real lions would have smelled it and would not have tried to attack them. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“I don’t understand maps, Etienne. Minutes, seconds, declination adjustments? You know these things. All you have to do is find them, plot them, and broadcast the coordinates.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They had stopped flying and were now perched side by side around the hole on the ceiling, peering down at us from the darkened heavens. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I grab the handle and for one horrible moment I think the door will be locked and I will have to wait and I cannot wait. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was the kind of thing Mary would shake her head about, laughing to keep from crying, with Thomas Byrdsong, a black engineer who had come to Langley in 1952. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She found several other small streams—they had been much larger, but the rainy season was already two months past. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Probably they had got lost, or wandered off somewhere to amuse themselves. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

So everyone acts as if nothing has happened and everything’s fine. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“How long have you been keeping this from me, exactly?” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, I’m not thinking of s-selling then. It was before . . . my stroke. I had a good farm, sixty-five acres. I don’t want to sell one piece to anybody. ” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She slowly helped me off the cabinet door and proceeded to have a panic attack. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Fred had asthma. The noise made me think he was here.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Instead, he consoled me by telling me about the mistakes great heroes had made when they were children. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I understood for the first time how he must have felt in his darkest moods. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

He’s got on the white robe with the circular red and white cross patch on the chest, and he even has the pointed hood with the eyeholes cut out. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In the mornings I was the first to get up and make the fire and brew the tea for the others, and through the day there would be various things I would have to do. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know where I’m going, but I have to get to him. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But it was well camouflaged, as if it had long been part of the island. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“If my grandfather had run from the hollow that killed him, he might still be alive,” I said. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I paused where I had stood the day before. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

"I have interval pings. Working out our intercept range and velocity . . ." Martinez and Lewis stared at Johanssen as she brought up the intercept calculation software. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clara ran her eyes over everything and found it all quite lovely, just as she had politely approved of a sunset on the high seas, the Piazza San Marco, and her diamond jewelry. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cannibal, though, was too quick and had seized her before she could seal off the cave mouth. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He smiled, a facial expression I didn’t know he had. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you know,” he said, “that until this moment I believed I had murdered my mother?” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Whenever I have a problem, her voice echoes in my head, I like to retrace my steps. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I had long felt with pleasure that many of my rustic scholars liked me, and when we parted, that consciousness was confirmed: they manifested their affection plainly and strongly. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Monday had the same one except in pink, her favorite color. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It had been almost two years ago, on a sunny early summer afternoon. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Jam rubbed her upper arm as they stepped outside after the movie; the theater had been chilly, and sometimes the hormone implant in her arm ached when she got cold. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Even modern European plant geneticists have failed to develop any crop except macadamia nuts from Australia’s native wild flora. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Reflections on conversations with Yusef; how I never had to explain myself to him. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

A cat has no choice, a bee must make honey. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have one nice word for a hurt man?” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I walk home, feet and shoulders aching, ears ringing from the noise, the sun has already come and gone. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The school probably had attorneys telling him to avoid accepting responsibility. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I knew that because I had caught them at it now and then. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

‘And he has passed into the shadow from which none have returned. I could not dissuade him. He is gone.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He returned a few moments later, the message still in his hand, and told Burnham the operator had refused to accept it. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“At least you still have your brother,” I whisper. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

By then she had performed unfalteringly under the twins’ perspicacious scrutiny and had confounded all their expectations. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So what do a blackbird’s wails and warbles have to do with finding our way out of the library?” said Akimi. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

To strangers it must have seemed he was hardly affected by the loss of his mother, but we knew better, we who could see the devastation. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Shasta's heart fainted at these words for he felt he had no strength left. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

He says they have only two nurses left to house, and he doesn’t see why they would each need a bedroom. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

There was more to Cheesethief than he had at first thought. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Nothing silly like a Gaming Machine, nothing frivolous like the soft upholstered furniture decorated with fringe that a foolish young couple down the road had traded for. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I know Jeffrey must appreciate all of the playtime you spend with him, and I could tell when I talked to your mother that she was very proud of how responsible you have been. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sounded harsh and flat, “as if her mouth had been stretched too wide,” thought Robin. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I watched them for a long time, and thought about something I had seen on a BBC nature program some time before. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

If Brew had made it he would have been nineteen on the twenty-sixth. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If your son is dead, Lucius, it is not my fault. He did not come and join me, like the rest of the Slytherins. Perhaps he has decided to befriend Harry Potter?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She wonders if Carmen has been able to get hold of Victor. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She had left the blue dress hanging in the closet. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

After they had admired our paint job, Miss Whitlaw produced a small bottle of wine. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a point, as McMillan acknowledged in a published apology. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Hugo de Vries had proposed that mutations were responsible for variation: changes in genes created changes in forms that could be selected by natural forces. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I had hung back at the entrance, cagily I thought, waiting to see what would happen to the others before I followed. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Even before she was born, Ni'vea had known she was not of this world, because she had already seen her in dreams. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had to go — pack up our things. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Doesn’t matter. If the government wants to take them, they will. But for now, I’ll wear them. Your father will love to see that I have them on.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

None of the Fugees had heard of a gang called the Africans, and many thought Tito had been bluffing to frighten the American boy when he claimed to be in such a gang. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

All the way home in the car Mom had borrowed I kept picking it out of the tiny hole I had worked in my pocket and slowly tossed it out the window. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The British had sailed their war ships up the North River and had fired on the town, but now all danger was past. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally Mommy sent me to stay with my sister Jack who had moved from Harlem to Louisville, Kentucky, with her new husband. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Judge Norton had retired weeks before the ruling from the Court of Criminal Appeals. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In 1949, just after she had moved to Montgomery, Robinson had boarded a bus for the airport. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Washington had been made a major in February 1753, an amazingly high rank for a man who was not quite 21 years old. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hélène had the day off, and Clarissa was working double time to finish a new app update before Christmas, so it was just the two of us in this enormous house. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

"We have white shadows in the woods and unquiet dead stalking our halls, and a boy sits the Iron Throne," he said in disgust. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The gene molecule had to somehow look like a gene molecule. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“You mean if he loses, he has to tell us where Thanatos is. But what do we have to wager? What kind of game do we play?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how to explain the strange gap that has formed between us, so it was easier to talk about her in the same way I talked about Lucy. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She says we have to bury you, too. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She flipped through its pages and carefully extracted a delicate green four-leaf clover that Joe had given her and she had pressed between the book’s pages. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And my list had migrated from my room to the middle of our dining room table without any help from me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It was best, Dad had said, to use fairly common names when going with a fake ID, something people wouldn’t really remember or, if they checked, they’d be overwhelmed with information. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“The porter saw her. She must have driven down here straight after that, and gone like the wind too.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

This afternoon the town had been deserted except for the loafers who stood around the filling station and the street comers. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have not talked to Danny in so long,” he said quietly. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was frustrating that she didn’t have clear symptoms that could point to a particular illness. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tally had to lean her board into motion again to stay within earshot. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

His long dark curls had been teased and sprayed into a sexy mane. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

And Lazlo had fixed on dark time, and he had wondered at the word haunts, but he had never thought to consider shadow. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He was a remarkable kid from a remarkable family, inspired by his father, whose own upbringing in the poverty of El Paso couldn’t have been more different. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been a different man Frankie had beaten, first with the butt of a revolver and then with his fists, but the sounds had been the same. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The fourth grade’s violin performance had only just started, and already Alice was squirming in her seat next to me. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Dorothy Hoover had shown that a black woman was capable of the highest level of theoretical aeronautical research. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He had heard it everywhere, in prayer and in daily speech, and wherever the saints were gathered, and in the unbelieving streets. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

It’s great having four big, frisky German shepherds around; we’ve come such a long way since the days when Adria and I had to beg our dad for just one dog. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I am scared to think of what would happen if we had to choose among ourselves who would stay on the boat and who should die. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cain teased her—breaking not only her body, but her will...He had to stop it. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Act tough and you are tough, as Dad has said and said and said—like I’m some kind of broken umbrella. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

‘You never know. Salim might have gone there. It’s possible.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Tiger General and some of the brothers had stepped onto the sidewalk. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Since my mother has left the ship he thinks it best that you eat at board with Goodwife Cruff and her family.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Just chats and talks and laughs at his jokes, which aren’t really funny She has lunch at five to twelve. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

That would be a fair supposition in the twenty- first century, but our hunter-gatherer ancestors wouldn’t have agreed. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I thought about how so many of the killers at the massacre in Gatumba were teenagers—kids who had been taught to hate us, but did not know why they hated us. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Vincent called him that evening, and Obinze was mildly surprised, because Vincent had called him only once, months ago, when he changed his bank and wanted to give him the new account number. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

‘I didn’t know they had different tastes,’ the small sister went on. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had not only read medicine for six months under a doctor over in Athens, he’d gone two whole years to medical school up North. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn’t women have their share? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

We had business to attend to, but Dad and Styx were smiling like nothing I’d seen in a while. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Grandma had already heard it on the grapevine that Shotgun was no more, though she wasn’t the first person people ran to with news. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have so much as a stout stick. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She must have known how terrifying her disappearance would be. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The poor kook had tried to make his mother think he had a girlfriend. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

By mid-1912 the two of them— just twenty and twenty-one—were beginning to feel that they had their feet under them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They had been ordered to turn in all furs at Stawki Station. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

But eventually her wild antics brought her at odds with the WCTU, which had been providing her with financial and legal help. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I wanted to call him back to us, to have him next to Chubs, because I was sure this was it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

In the new light, Gabe could see that the weapons had changed. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Fire Snake has already come home to its mother, Earth. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She would just have to make another promise to stop. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then one day they came for Papa as well, because they’d found out that he had met several times with the negotiating committee and had helped come up with the negotiation points. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He has vowed that his son David will never do the kind of second-guessing that he does. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The answer is: far more than they have been prepared to acknowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I suddenly feel bold in this dim light and new bond, this space that has become all too warm. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

All that time the cat had slept on. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

On Saturday, the boys had their paper bag packed, and Maniac had a new deal: go to school for another week, and he’d treat them to another large pizza. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sounded as if I had pulled him from some other train of thought. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure if he had on a sharp suit, or just jeans and a T-shirt, because he wore a long burgundy robe like the ones you wear when you graduate from high school. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

When Ralph had wiped off all the mud and had polished his chrome, he rummaged through the remains of his nest for a bit of carpet fringe. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Brown has pointed out that we are traveling “a one-way street.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

But she could sit by the fire and read what she wanted to read, a luxury she had never been able to indulge in before. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

When we got there I was wore out, and the heat and burning oil had made a dirty brown mess out of the Pierce’s neat new engine. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Most peculiar. And you have no idea where he might be?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

If not for the wild, squirrels’ nests of hair, lack of clothes, and overall unwashed condition, they would have looked practically childlike. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

She has to double-check if she can believe me. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

It was usually covered by the loose tunic all the Tang men wore, but today he had worn a special blue silk coat. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t have to tell you anything,” she said with a boldness she did not feel. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

For he had taken his petal the next day and secretly substituted it for another among those drying on Min’s shelf. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

When the man was Lancelot who was mad on God in any case, you had to be both sanguine and cruel to expect him like that at alL But women are cruel in this way. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had only minutes, perhaps less time than that. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Would you like to have an excursion with the Signora?” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have a ballroom or billiards or a back room to gamble money away. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

There was hardly anyone to be seen in the narrow alleys, only a few of the Black Jackets, as Meggie had secretly dubbed them, with skinny boys following them like puppies. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He scrambled up, apologizing while doing so, and he reached for his mother, pulling her out from under the other protestors who had fallen as well. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He was sentenced to be hanged inside the penitentiary, and White, though opposed to capital punishment, was given the grim task of overseeing the execution, much as his father had done in Texas. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Sponsored by a major newspaper, the Johannesburg Sunday Times, their team had inspired effusive national pride and had received a personal blessing from President Nelson Mandela prior to their departure. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“You cannot think how I have been dreading that it would be thought expedient that I should be sent to an ‘institution,’” he wrote on September 26. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Although Shay announced once that she wanted to go home, heading back on her own didn’t seem to have entered her mind. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Everyone has stopped seeing the person that I am, the girl named Ruthie. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

George Hyatt, a Navy doctor working with the National Cancer Institute, had experienced this phenomenon firsthand. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The resulting backbone would have to show minor in- and-out buckles depending upon whether pairs of purines or pyrimidines were in the center. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

A thick fog had swirled in, they'd strayed from the road, and trees had closed in on them. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

It must actually be quite a depressing moment—to have slogged through a mountainous wilderness for ten or eleven weeks and to realize that for all that effort you are still but halfway there. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The Under Thirteens had a week to prepare. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

‘Go on now! But take care of yourself, and come straight back as soon as you have settled the ruffians!’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

How could he have made such light of it? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had pushed to the front of the crowd, his cold eyes alive, his usually bloodless face flushed, as he grinned at the sight of the hanging, immobile cat. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Like I could deny him after all that he had done for me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It was my job to make sure other kids who didn’t know where their mothers and fathers were didn’t have to put up with Todd. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Never had Laertes spoken so lovingly to me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The rest of the family forgot about him, including Fernanda, who did not mind leaving him there when she found that the soldiers had seen him without recognizing him. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He had intended to go back to his apartment after the drink, and study, and order in some Chinese food. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

T he fish was so big that there was little fishes inside that he had eaten whole and a frog too. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have had a long enough vacation,” he wrote. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The Courters hadn’t asked me to make a list, and I had no idea what they might give me—or what I was supposed to give them. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I went into the bathroom, took my first shower in a week, got dressed, and when I got out, I was so tired I had to lie down and get my breath. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Then I have to walk back to it. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

But why did he need salt beef, hard cheese, and bread crawling with worms when he had wine to nourish him? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Some people don't know it, but the catcher has to do a lot of thinking. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then at some point he said that his ankle had healed, and he walked the rest of the way. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it was simply a matter of someone throwing a stray punch, and it would all be over before you knew it had started. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I have luck, I had good luck there. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a name that protested its own origin: even though he had systematically demolished Darwin’s theory of pangenesis, de Vries paid his mentor a final homage. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

What empty words these were coming from my father, a man so used to fitting his form to the mold of power that he had no true shape of his own! Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She had been talking to herself, so what she said was a fragment of a much larger conversation. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once a device had been invented, the inventor then had to find an application for it. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Irene didn’t answer, and in the dark I couldn’t quite make out what face she had on. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Leaving means I have to be on my guard. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

They are close to the river, in a forest that has never been cut down. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been a terrific game, full of excitement and mystery and way-out imagining, but it had been a great deal more than that. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He glanced constantly at the West Door, looking for any sign of Alby and Minho, Newt’s concern having rubbed off on him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

In Amsterdam, Maria would have seen butterfly collections such as this one, showing specimens from all over the world. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The tree they had hit was attacking them. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Only people who have been “down the line,” as the song puts it, know what this music is about. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

I was glad I was too thin to get my period because that would have pushed me over the edge. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

They still didn’t know what had happened to Marina. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Not in a regular bathtub, but in a special pool designed for having babies. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She looked again at the word she had written, then erased it with her own toes, stamped the sand firm, and tossed the stick into a pile of glistening kelp nearby. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Reasonable? You can’t get no pot of gold being reasonable. Can’t nobody get no gold being reasonable. You have to be unreasonable. How come you don’t know that?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kelley had been up for more than thirty hours when a new first lieutenant arrived in the chaotic ER. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

‘Tandy, tell me your movements of the last six hours. We have to do a complete report, you understand. It’s necessary for us to know where everyone was when your folks were killed.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

That could have been enough to prompt him to bar Oppenheimer from his lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The soup and sleep and bread had done me good. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I did not have any of those things at the funeral. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She never scolded me, but kept begging me, with a sorrowful face, to tell her what she had done wrong. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Thank goodness, I had the foresight to belt myself in. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It had better be the last of the trip. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She had begged Ned not to go, not now, not after what had happened; everything had changed now, couldn't he see that? A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Hugo remembered another movie he and his father had seen a few years earlier, where time stops in all of Paris, and everyone is frozen in their tracks. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

It seemed odd that the Sleeper had taken the bird, but not the cage. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“My wife went on afia attack some days before the war ended, and we have not seen her since.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He had a hairy, tar-black mole on the underside of one nostril and a heavy rough mustache the color of poplar bark. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

James Baldwin’s books, translated, had made a tremendous impact, as had the book Black Like Me, by John Griffin. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had heard on the radio that Korean churches in China sometimes helped defectors. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He had placed her iPod on top of her library books on the coffee table. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I tossed in bed and had anxiety attacks. We slept two to four hours each day throughout the four years of the war.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

My list of Most Disgusting Things Ever had a new number one. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

What she had to say was terrible and afraid. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I’m so generous, you can have two minutes.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Mrs. said she had the right to change her mind. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I did not want to be violent with her, and yet I did not want to be beaten for a wrong I had not committed. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time The New York Times picked up the story about the hiker, the Alaska State Troopers had been trying for a week to figure out who he was. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess he had too many other worries on his mind to get upset about that. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They all turned to Bits, who had been characteristically silent the entire time. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He had to get home before Albert did. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He seemed remarkably unabashed for a man who had just been discovered pretending to be an armchair. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

That alone would have stopped my father's heartbeat. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“At least the jackhammers have stopped,” he said. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Sophia had a hand up to her ear, and Moss could tell she was listening to something in her earpiece. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

You know somebody has really cried a lot of tears over something when they don’t cry at the point a normal person would. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I had just found a few hours of peace at the pond when this attack began. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Lera received a medal for her history-making victory, and she had to travel to Moscow to go to the awards ceremony. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Never in his life had he been so close to a white woman. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even if he and Goblin had dawdled a bit on country roads, they both liked arriving at the inns at a gallop. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My mother didn’t enjoy being pregnant. My father said that since he had a son, he didn’t need any more children.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Sure, flying clubs had allowed female pilots to become instructors, but not to move directly on to military flying schools. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I wished I had something to give him to show that I was good for it. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

But out there on the page, the connections have to be signaled by the lexical and syntactic resources of the English language. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I was bored, and besides, I had been gone all night. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Thousands of kamikaze planes, suicide boats, human torpedoes, and midget submarines had been prepared by our enemies. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was his birthday, and Habib had promised to take the boys to Toys“R”Us after prayers to pick out a present. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have the vaguest conception of what you’ve done to me.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

As I have told you before I am not a son of a wealthy dad, your gift increased my clothes. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Plus, there was the fear of the unknown— I still didn’t understand why Cherry’s attorney had contacted me. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t think she could sleep, but a full day of fighting monsters in the summer heat had taken its toll. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But they don’t have to come to terms with it. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I would have guessed that it was all too much and he'd lost his mind, but he seemed to be doing a good job of taking care of everything. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

‘My real daughter Hygeia isn’t like that, I assure you. She’s quite nice. At any rate, you did well reprogramming the statue. You have a surgeon’s hands.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

There were parts of the college experience I yearned to have, but that were impossible as a college athlete. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Long had it been forging in the dark smithies of Mordor, and its hideous head, founded of black steel, was shaped in the likeness of a ravening wolf; on it spells of ruin lay. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I have come to think of myself as engaged in writing graffiti. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If we’d refused to fight,” she says, “our friends would have died. What were we supposed to do?” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

They had to be, for if Flo thought any other chimps were too rough, she would charge over and threaten or even attack them. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I do believe I may have some canned peaches somewhere down here as well. Follow me.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He had never missed a practice or one of the afternoon tutoring sessions Luma made her players attend, she explained. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I clung to the willow branch but the mandragora that now filled my veins had stolen my strength. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It had almost no features on its face, which had puffed and swollen like risen bread dough. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

It was the same room I had been in in the first grade when I had had Miss Scalapino. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

You have to remember that publishing this story was the right thing to do. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Harry and Ron were deeply amused when Professor Trelawney told them that they had received top marks for their homework in their next Divination class. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I knew how to make a cornbread and I got to doing that so Mama wouldn’t have to. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

At bayonet-practice I had constantly to fight with Himmelstoss, I with a heavy iron weapon, whilst he had a handy wooden one with which he easily struck my arms till they were black and blue. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nettle had been hanging on to one rock this whole time. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Harry had no room in his head to worry about anything except the match tomorrow. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He said it so seriously that she blinked, wondering if maybe she had accidentally struck up a conversation with a psychopath who had a thing for baking. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Being mistreated because of the color of your skin, your size, or having to prove that it really happened. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Was it just a coincidence that both victims had been wealthy Osage Indians, in their thirties? Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I simply grumbled, little realising that my entire future had actually depended on that one piece of paper she had fought so long and so doggedly to secure. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just never thought at my age I’d have to abide by pizza delivery guy dress code.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I had no place to run to, and even if I had, it was too late. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wonder whether you could have a look at my off hind foot?” said Bigwig. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have too many selfies of him on my phone giving the “light skin face,” his eyes squinted and eyebrows raised. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Jason gets scared, thinking that it’s having an attack or something, but Mom explains that it’s just the bird’s heart beating. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

My collection of candy wrappers had fallen out of their notebook and were crumpled under my stamp album. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra had the impression that there was something to celebrate, though Mrs. Coulter never said what it was. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

‘Turn round and let me have a look at your faces. I almost feel that I dislike you both, but do not let us be hasty. Turn around!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I could have left and camped in the gorge again, but my enormous desire to see another human being overcame my fear of being discovered. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jinny had never been so eager for anything in all her life. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Newton, and others, should have realized that a static universe would soon start to contract under the influence of gravity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Guard your tongue, Mormont, or I'll have it out. I am no lesser man, I am the rightful Lord of the Seven Kingdoms. The dragon does not beg." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They’re familiar with the musical genres, timbres, modes, and instruments, rhythmic and melodic patterns, and have learned the culturally acceptable cadences, harmonies, texture, and so forth. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

She who had always feared automobiles was being swallowed by the backseat. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I wanted her to feel the contrast to when Chrissie and Rodney had touched her, and I deliberately chose exactly the same spot. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder how different my adolescence would have been had I been free But no, it is my parents I see—their optimism during those years when they were entertained by Italian grand opera. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where it had been briefly paternal and encouraging, it now turned searching. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The only sounds were inside their heads — the moaning and wailing of the ghosts of all the poor slobs who had ever blundered onto Finsterwald’s property. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Xi don't like iron, Fin had told her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Yet that slim little ingot, the one he had poured but a short time ago, how easily it would slip into a wineskin! The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“My husband works in a bakery,” she rattled on pleasantly, openly, as though she had known me for years. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nailer! Sloth! Where the hell have you been?” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He had spent most of the evening in the morning-room, playing bridge. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Sure, she had money, but it was her parents who each had a car and bought the castle that Caitlin lived in. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Orphaned before he’d been weaned, Pax had never eaten raw prey. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

That was why Dicey always ran along the sand beside the ocean, as if she had to race the waves. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next, he broke off some bread, a chunk that he would have been excited to share with his siblings if a relative had visited and brought it as a gift. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Our potato tikkis have browned beautifully on both sides, sizzling with the aroma of cilantro and olive oil. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

And when he finally let us go for the day, I spent as long as possible packing up my books, trying to delay the awkwardness of having to talk to him. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Back inside, Dyedka waited impatiently for dinner as Mama set out the spice box, a cup of wine, and the braided candle Papa had made. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

They had a terrible time at first: Here was a maze to end all mazes; and in the dark they quickly lost their sense of direction. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Not having a stopper, she used part of a clean cloth to plug the bottle. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

And when Mother came into the spare room before I went to sleep I said, “I have to go to Swindon to take my A level.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But before Elinor had had the ashes taken away, she had filled a jam jar with the fine gray dust, and it stood on the bedside table in her room. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

And out of nowhere a middle-aged couple had found her. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Chiron had thrown me a pen that turned into a sword. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

When a hurricane blew through, as one had just a year before—tearing off roofs and casting boats up on the shore—everyone suffered at least a little. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

He had to be dragged around in a tacky old wagon she had got for Christmas three years before. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

So while everybody pats each other on the back, I drift off to my bedroom to have a word with my mother. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

He had watched her rub on the salve and wince, and he had winced in sympathy. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

She had been sleeping in Flea Bottom, on rooftops and in stables, wher-ever she could find a place to lie down, and ,it hadn't taken her long to leam that the district was well named. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“You may be sure, dear Joe,” I went on, after we had shaken hands, “that I shall never forget you.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

For several moments he had had the feeling of being back in a nightmare which had recurred from time to time throughout his life. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She had two energy bars left to get her through. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I had been so involved in my conversation with Chubs that I had completely missed the silky blue lake that had suddenly come into view. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Northerners, as far as she could tell from what she saw and heard in her travels, had turned the Fugitive Slave Law into a joke. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in all the churches I have had to listen to the new English mass. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had to lean in to be heard amid the constant hammering of the anvils. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Even Davos wore mail, though he could not have said why; his shoulders and lower back ached from the unaccustomed weight. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His foot had gone to sleep, and he stamped it so hard that the floor shook. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t have graduated without her. And if I hadn’t graduated, I would have never gotten that job at the telephone company, and I would have never met Gene, and...” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

In some churches, groups of bandits have entered during Mass and robbed all the parishioners at once. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

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

The breakfast dishes had only just been cleared away. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Lourdes tries for nearly an hour to telephone her mother in Santa Teresa del Mar, but the operator tells her that the rains have knocked out the phone lines on the northwest coast of Cuba. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would have given all his titles for the freedom to weep . . . but he was Robert's Hand, and the hour he dreaded had come. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“It has come to me that thou hast found a great fortune, a great pearl.” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you think someone with the aptitude for multiple factions might have a loyalty problem? If she’s got aptitude for Erudite, how can we be sure she’s not working for Erudite?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It sounds like water pouring over a rock. You have no idea how beautiful it is!” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If we continue like this, we’ll have to start calling it remorse code.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Like him, she had already gone through a simulation of the job in front of her. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

At some point a knife had made an appearance, gripped in his right hand. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Basil Stag Hare eyed the food which Matthias had hardly touched. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Tally would have to talk to her tomorrow. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

And even if I’m not alone, if someone has Garrett right now, his well-being takes priority, and I must be fearless. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He didn’t do that awful grownup thing where he looked at her parents or siblings to translate what she had said. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I had thought in my middle-class innocence that knee pads were one of Monica Lewinsky’s prurient fantasies, but no, they actually exist, and they’re usually a standard part of our equipment. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

These were the privileged passengers who would have priority boarding with the officers and wounded. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

At first I would have been embarrassed to tell him, later I just never bothered. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wished he had a place to put all his funny-looking things. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The panels had started to slide apart, letting in a whiff of...ozone? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The Freys had taken it for their own since Harrenhal's fall. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Luke was pretty sure Toby had physics this period, so he peeked into the classroom as the room began to fill up. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was a good time to have a friend, even if he was imaginary. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Abby has an entirely different costume for the party, because by now everyone has seen Cleopatra. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“Mum, can I have a Pygmy Puff?” said Ginny at once. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The cruel things Miss Peregrine had done recently made more sense now—that hadn’t been Miss Peregrine at all—but I was still left with a million questions. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I knew that she had many friends at school, and that her friend Alana was the one she considered to be her closest friend. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

While many in the crowd believed that this decision had been made on the spur of the moment, it had been planned in detail for some time. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“We had an agreement. You have not told me a single cuento yet.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I asked him, “Do you have a decision?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Pearson used his peremptory strikes to exclude all but one of the handful of African Americans who had been summoned to serve on the jury. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But at least I didn’t have to wonder anymore what would happen to Kazi or if he would live with another family. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They had recorded his number without his noticing. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hackett had told me he’d hidden bottles in crevices all around the base of Horn Rock, and we wandered over to the far side, where no one else was around. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I knew I was hungry, but I didn’t have the appetite to eat or the strength to find food. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Once you were a winner, you had to stay the winner they expected you to be. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know how much time I had, how long Grandma would wait before finally telling my parents about my communication with Marcus. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, some provocative theoretical studies have suggested that planetary systems are a galactic commonplace. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Great. I should have installed a smoke screen that makes the ship smell like a giant chicken nugget. Remind me to invent that, next time.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

You know you have the votes before you go to the floor, but it’s still difficult because anything could happen. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Glad I don’t have hair to fool around with,” Jay said, rubbing a hand over his head. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She had so many questions, but the one that came out first was “How come Mama can see you?” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Peddlers had come off the street to tempt the girls with ribbons and cheap jewelry. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, well, now you have. Care to join? Only if you think you can keep up.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

This is a good thing for me because I have super-fair skin. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

At the university, teachers had shied away from topics like racial oppression, lack of opportunities for Africans, and the nest of laws and regulations that subjugate the black man. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it had gone, the fear Malcolm had been holding down since he stabbed Bonneville came back, and he had to lean forward and be sick. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The same girl who had been so engrossed in her book by the fountain. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

But I had never known him to have any dealings with churches or hold any kind of prayer meeting in his home. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It had dark windows and a neon pink paper hanging from the rearview mirror. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We are on solid ground, but the bottom has just dropped out. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

She would have said she would run away from home. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I told the operator my dad had fallen. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

They were “having problems,” which Genie knew was just parent-talk for maybe/possibly/probably divorcing. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“We made sure of it. Aren’t many of the bigger ones on this side of the river, but they’re around here and there. You shouldn’t have a problem getting from building to building.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The previous afternoon, Lopsang had exhausted himself carrying a satellite phone for Pittman, in addition to the rest of his mil mu ix in load, from Camp Three to Camp Four. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I had to sit there, with my hands in my lap, watching the rain, watching Maxim with his back turned to me, standing by the window. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Why had I gone and said something so mean to the only kid in Colby who was nice to me? Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

And what sins have you committed in a day, my child? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

This was the big showdown, so Nergal had brought all fourteen of his demons. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

She helped me through college and helped me get into graduate school as well; she didn’t pay my way, but if I had an emergency, she would help. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had to figure out which string to pull to make her arms and legs move properly. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Until that instant when I saw my father beaten and bloody, I had somehow felt I was safe. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

A stoner’s calm, I had thought at first, given the slow, spacey way he spoke and blinked. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had been a rider switch on Ligaroti—perhaps Howard had talked his son into going with another jockey—and Workman was suddenly available for the San Antonio and Santa Anita Handicaps. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has, I notice, a jagged run in her beige stockings, and her eye makeup is smeared. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

That moment when we decided to go searching for my lost tape, it was like suddenly every cloud had blown away, and we had nothing but fun and laughter before us. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he had gone to get more food, what was he going to get it with? The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

It occurred to me that perhaps I had. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Decent people everywhere were affronted, and Milo was all washed up untn he opened his books to the public and disclosed the tremendous profit he had made. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I have something that might cheer you up,” she went on. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

If his father had cared about him one bit, he would not have invited Leandra to Las Vegas in the first place. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Ordinarily I might have felt a little funny hosting a dinner in someone else’s home. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I think somebody would know if Kronos had re-formed. The gods would be more nervous. But still, it’s weird, you having a nightmare the same night as Zoe. It’s almost like—” “They’re connected,” I said. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

We must each of us, as you point out, be grateful for what we do have. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I had waited so long for this day. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Instead, the headmaster arrived at the start of class and called out all the names of those students who had to leave. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

When he poured the last of the pineapple juice down his throat, one of the children stepped forward to ask, “Can we have your can, mister?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hmm, yes. It’s one thing to snarl and bark orders, quite another to steer that wicked contraption. However, I do think I would have got the hang of it with just a bit of practice.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

We had just come from seeing the men. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I unfolded my candy wrapper that I had crumpled up and flung on the table. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

And then an angel comes down and shows him what life would be if he had never been bom. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

But it was perfectly possible that O’Brien had really forgotten the photograph. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Guthrie isn’t the only teacher who has expressed concern for you, Caden,” she says as kindly as she can. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Tell me, sweetheart, are you very good at math and puzzles? Greens are incredibly smart and have astonishing memories.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Where once a mighty curtain wall had stood, only scattered stones remained, blocks of black basalt so large it must once have taken a hundred men to hoist them into place. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He sometimes kidded me about being so short, but I always had an easy answer: “Bigger guys make bigger targets.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bride had the place of highest honor, between Ramsay and his father. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“We don’t have time to study the meaning of every word,” Mr. Gatti said. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

To his astonishment, it immediately exuded so much juice he was amazed the shriveled bean could have held it all. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my Prayer, nor His Mercy from me. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I wished that I had been born into a trouble-free family. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had no jet boots, no ship, and no magic items or memorized spells. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“It was a close call, though. Thank goodness Peeta had the wherewithal to warn us.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

If not for the silence, it is unlikely anyone would have heard him. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Everyone whispered that the child had his father’s eyes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“You see? Imagine a man his age risking what little life he has left for something so absurd as a country.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

After I’d played for about ten minutes, it came to me: My aversion to Adam’s shows had nothing to do with music or groupies or envy. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ned had known their faces as well as he knew his own once, but the years leech at a man's memories, even those he has vowed never to forget. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And She that walked in the darkness had heard the Elves cry that cry far back in the deeps of time, and she had not heeded it, and it did not daunt her now. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Despite his attempts to alter his destiny - joining the worst cohort, trying to change the camp traditions, taking the least glamorous missions and befriending the least popular kids - he had been made praetor anyway. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Can he confiscate an endangered species if somebody has one?” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have to feel our way. It isn’t far.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Even so,” His High Holiness went on, “these are terrible charges, and the realm must know the truth of them. If Your Grace has told it true, no doubt a trial will prove your innocence.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“When he has returned to his country, you may do to me what you would have done to him.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The compound had row after row of shining metal houses and dozens of liquor bars glittering at daybreak with an aura of fresh vomit and broken glass. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, she had not expected such harsh retaliation. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had not said good day, and he had not offered to say it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was true that he had just heard, from his wife’s soft mouth, words that set his mind to riot; she might as well have twisted knives in his ears. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alys was childless herself but had been midwife to many and was no stranger to damaged young. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I told her that Perry had a rite to defend himself. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All women and children have to leave Hankow today. You have about three hours to pack and get ready.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prohibition has been drilled into children for so long that they have made it into a jump-rope rhyme: Don’t say ain’t or your mother will faint. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

That was the secret—don’t have any spare time. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

That was when I had my first relationship with a girl. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

No wig shops, no fish markets, no Mr. Charles, which had to suck. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

That is surely childhood’s end, when you look at a thing like a rabbit needing skinned and have to say: “Nobody else is going to do this.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As his youngest child I had grown up blessed with special attentions. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hey,” I said, “I have to go to the bathroom. Be my partner?” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“I want to be under way before we have to speak with them.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Every alchemist who had ever lived and died in search of it had had the answer all the time, running through his very veins. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Her bright fur shone at the base of the large pine that towered over the meadow, the pine under which her sister had died. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He realized that the horned toad must also have a weave of wind! Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Her dark hair was still lustrous and long; someone had put it in two ropy braids that reached almost to her waist. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It just was and it had always been. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hands had stopped shaking after the second pull of the trigger, and I held the gun steady. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Crazy thing was, the next day at school we were having a field day, and I was paired on a relay race team with Lu. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

"A doctor's wife has so much entertaining to do." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though we have boxes to unpack and a whole house to marvel at and clean, I can’t get enough of this grass. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The woman had to throw her bags overboard when water started to fill the boat. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The friendship, so long in storage, had never completely died. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

To be like Styx, to really fly, would I have to leave behind everything? The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I mean, you’re never home. I have to do everything these days. It’s almost as if you’re not even part of the family anymore!” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

He closed his jacket, hunched his hands into his pockets, and set off to the spot on the shore where he hadn’t jumped on that very day he had met Mrs. Cobb. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“We all know I’m crazy, right? Well, you don’t have to worry about that anymore, because my colors are gone.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Spurge had made a little pile of leaves, then twigs, then sticks, then logs. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Joe, we shouldn’t have come and looked like this…” she whispered. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

And, just like the haint, this person had wanted the Story Box for its power. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

It had been a way of preparing herself for them, for the battle to come. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

And the biscuit had some ham in the middle of it! Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Although the majority of the population had—by choice or by force—become Christian, the church saw Europe’s Jews and Muslims as threats to its power. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

"Did your sister have to be so rude?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

To his surprise, when he turned, he saw that she had taken the mugs to the sink and was beginning to wash them, as if it were an ordinary evening. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I have pain in my back and I’m going to bed. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I set up the congas at the height I liked; I was tired and thirsty, but I couldn’t wait to come back down and play the Latin pieces I had been sweating over all year. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But, surprisingly, she was happy and had made up a new story. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had made a reservation at a hotel. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few months earlier, the greenhouse had been beautiful, blooming with life and color and real, delicious light. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They had struck, set fire, withdrawn; there had been no fight. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ruth May had attempted to convince every family member in turn that she could lift a full water bucket by herself with her one remaining unbroken arm. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

She had to concentrate hard and sing it many times. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

There had been life and culture before that. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

I will name no names, Joseph, but so they are pleased to call him up town, and I have seen that man.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“If you do not understand what I have said, then say so.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t that wonderful?” said Werfel in his perfect Elven.“Lady du Burgh and her whole family have learned the language of your people. They want you to feel absolutely at home here.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

She had always thought of Boston as a safe place, a haven, for runaway slaves, just like Philadelphia. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have to learn everything we do. Sayan Kotor is telling me that the ravine leads to a pass. If we get there before they see us, we could escape yet.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have done all this before. Every other new bird I put in here flies into the wire before it learns it’s not free.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

But now that government has largely withdrawn its “handouts,” now that the overwhelming majority of the poor are out there toiling in Wal-Mart or Wendy’s—well, what are we to think of them? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I have to see Rhiannon—I can’t cancel on her for a second day in a row, not when things feel so precarious between us. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Only last evening, Molly, who was ten years old with black bangs and a pigtail, had called him. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Our relationship had taken on this pattern: I gently prodded him to do something; he would mull it for days or weeks. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For she was well enough when he had need of a woman from a tea house for himself. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

We always have the TV on in the salon. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Crooks had retired into the terrible protective dignity of the Negro. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Physical therapists worked his arms and legs to keep the muscles from wasting away, but something vital had gone. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t really have a summer break in the conventional sense because I started teaching at a university. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“We will have to see what is to be had,” his father replied. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Some had downcast eyes, but they sat very still. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was also clear that she would have to be helped in a delicate, tactful manner. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Then they don’t know. They think you’re a bragger and a liar, and they have every right to, but they don’t know.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

The only road of old to Moria from the west had lain along the course of a stream, the Sirannon, that ran out from the feet of the cliffs near where the doors had stood. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Dalton had been in the room while he was there, but she had not known it. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

As we ate, I felt the dampness from the grass seep through the seat of my light blue pants, the ones Audrey had helped me pick out when we’d gone shopping. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“You have been here quite long enough,” the doctor said. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

If my organelles are really symbiotic bacteria, colonizing me, what’s to prevent them from catching a virus, or if they have such a thing as lysogeny, from conveying a phage to other organelles? The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They better have the fixings ready in the kitchen,” Guzzo said. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He nodded his head like I had passed some sort of test. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

As we walked the Hulls to the car that their Aunt Kay had driven up from Los Angeles, I told Andrea about my crazy feeling. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can draw it out of your own wallet. Any man with a wife who’ll pay fifteen dollars for an old preacher’s moth-eaten stovepipe hat has four bucks to spare.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mom started the braid on the other side and I had to hold my ear to my shoulder for what felt like forever. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

His father looked on and never commented on that, but now suddenly, Joe had the uneasy sensation that his father had disapproved of such wanton murder. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Calder had never seen either one of them look amazed when they opened the mail. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

And then it wouldn't matter so much that they didn’t have any money left. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would have clawed them out if he’d dared, his head was pounding so. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She didn’t move as I approached, and I had to work to take a breath before I spoke. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Over the years, an enormous amount of research has been done in an attempt to determine how a person’s performance on an IQ test like the Raven’s translates to real- life success. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I mean, all she asked was “Why didn't you call me?” and “What have you been doing?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Most of the Lakota and Cheyenne warriors in the encampment had been in battles before. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

It came to him in the night sometimes with a sudden appalling shock that the boys he was fighting were boys he had grown up with. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not say where she was going with the meal sack she had swung over her shoulder. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wore this tiny frilly white dress and might have been around the age of your baby. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I had missed the morning greeting to the sun. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

She knew, therefore, that the only animals who could have made the prints were the serval or the caracal. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also in the box she kept three mystery books her Dad had given her, a compact, a box of watch parts, a rhinestone necklace, a hammer, and some notebooks. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She’d had to connect her laptop to her cell phone but kept losing reception. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I don’t tell her I wish I had a father like the man in the signal tower who gives you sandwiches and cocoa. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

We tried to make arguments about an interesting twist in that case: His jury had never decided that Michael Lindsey should be executed at all. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

There was a vague mention of “that time before” and of saving grace and a promise that he had changed. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ron and Hermione, meanwhile, had found a place in the stands next to Neville, who couldn’t understand why they looked so grim and worried, or why they had both brought their wands to the match. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I have been frightened half out of my foolish wits, but I have somehow earned this joy; I have been waiting for it for so long. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

He held a bag so hastily packed he had not even done up the zipper, and he watched me throw some things into a bag, saying nothing. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

His brown hair was combed into a moderately high pompadour and had the slick appearance that came with the overly ambitious application of Wild Root Cream Oil. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had been talking some ten minutes when Michel fancied he heard a bell. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad had to go to work but Mum had the day off from being a nurse and it was half term so the five of us could go sightseeing, she said. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, by the next morning Harry and Ron thought that meeting the three-headed dog had been an excellent adventure, and they were quite keen to have another one. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The teachers have come now and are dispersing everyone. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Joe had a permit to graze two head of cattle in the National Forest from June through October. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as the fighting broke out at Camp Jupiter, the war god’s two voices had started screaming nonstop. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Not if he gave it to her. If he gave it to her, that makes it her ring and if it’s her ring she has the right to give it to whoever she wants.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

She leaned her head upon her hand to shade her eyes from the light “And what have you been seeing and doing and feeling all these days?” he asked. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

He explained that he had seen some adult refugees playing soccer in the park and had assumed they were affiliated with the Fugees. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

She looked like a football coach who had done a good job with her team and was satisfied to stand next to the eighteen-yard box and watch. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her own voice said crossly within her head: “He shouldn’t have gone. He should never have left us.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I do have one thing going for me. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry you had to find out the hard way,” he said. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

In her parents’ house, things had been good or bad, right or wrong, useful or wasteful. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The girls among us focused on the obvious fact that a Mexican girl who didn’t know how to do laundry had to be just about the most unsanitary creature on earth. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry. I’ll do everything I can to make sure you’re safe. But now I have to get these kids out of here.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“An-mei, we have made your dying clothes and shoes for you. They are all white cotton.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

For one thing, Kevin and I had lived here together for only two days. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The tip had been hammered flat, and a jagged blade, three feet long and rusty, had been welded into place. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Attendance at Prayvaganzas isn’t compulsory for them, especially if they’re on duty or have young children, but the galleries seem to be filling up anyway. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was turning the team over to a boy who had run out of the shed. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Even if it means I have to deal with those snotty new girls at school. Lettie’s never going to quit when she finds out I’m learning to work root.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Water and time will probably be all I have to work with. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“It definitely had something to do with their head,” Mark chimed in. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Matters are also facilitated when the prince, having no other dominions to govern, is constrained to come to live there in person. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice had brought him back from the dark; it had been the tether he gripped and used to drag himself back to some semblance of sanity. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Judge Harry Lemley of Hope, Arkansas, had been named to hear the Little Rock School Board petition asking for a postponement of integration for public schools. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they had strength and cunning, and they had found a way to steal and harness other people’s powers for their own needs. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had repaid him by slashing Bliksem and stabbing his arm. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though my throat feels sore from singing, our pile of money has hardly grown in the last few days. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Your work here certainly has the blessings of the Mission League, Orleanna.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And with the grievance coming, I was going to have to answer for it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many migrants have had their caps stolen, so they wrap their heads in T-shirts. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

And through it all, Alex realizes with a start: He has friends now. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He had read Farmer’s piece and wanted to meet him. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

She’d caught a cold at the beginning of winter and it had gotten worse. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He tried to repeat the lines with the sinister yet regal voice Mentor had used. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Not till the next morning, when the matter of the trip to New York came to a head, did I suspect he had a mean streak that put Loma’s in the shade. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

At the end of the second day she had memorized the position of the letters on the machine and didn’t have to consult the chart. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I had a few minutes, so I ran through the aerobrake lockdown checklist for the reactor room. Everything's ready for acceleration and the compartment's sealed off." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wonder if I could have a quick, private word, Harry?” said Bagman eagerly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Because what else do I have to do on New Year’s Eve now that Charlie is gone? Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

And how foolish must one be to be reassured by the information that no bear has killed a human in Vermont or New Hampshire in 200 years? A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Yet if we start looking for the word ‘evidence’ being used by seventeenth-century scientists we discover something peculiar: they have the word, but they hardly ever use it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I mean, the past two weeks had been the worst of all. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, we had to bring her to the Hot Hour. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She had used kerosene to try to get the fire going better, and it had exploded, just like Dad had said it would. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

And twelve more white men had stopped whatever they were doing to listen and pass on what happened between Janie and Tea Cake Woods, and as to whether things were done right or not. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

By the time he came to his senses, darkness had fallen and it was too late to do any sensible tracking. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I had always thought he was younger than me. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘But I guess he knows we came down it. We had better be going on.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then I became competitive in school and had no time for dolls. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

‘That does not matter. I have ridden in many a wagon before this.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The rest of their sixth-period social studies class must have had the same idea, because nearly every table of the library was full. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Trust me, Brandon. This is important. The more information we have about him, the better. Plus, some of these guys might lead to more information about Siobhan too.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They hadn’t counted on the highly controlled jabberjay having the brains to adapt to the wild, to pass on its genetic code, to thrive in a new form. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“If only Mija’s mother had brought her to me even a few hours earlier, she could have lived. If only they didn't believe in shamanism more than medicine.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Yes, and one of the things Abuela would have wanted was for you and me to cook a wonderful meal together for the entire community. So, we need to plan.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

After she took my temperature she said, “You have a little fever. You’ve probably just caught them.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though die inn had come well recommended by the master of the Meadowlark, that did not mean Quentyn was willing to leave their goods and gold unguarded. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The bedchamber felt as cold as die dream forest had been. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They were silent for so long that Olanna felt she had to apologize. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

By seven o’clock all the guests had arrived, led into the house by Fred and George, who had waited for them at the end of the lane. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“I don’t have a line to show where they stop.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Otherwise she would have added, And you leave Mrs. Baylor's son alone. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Already your lungs have flown away like a bird and your guts have slithered away like a snake. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The youngest of the Baratheons had been born with a gift for easy courtesy that his brother sadly lacked. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There was always the chance that they alone had been given the answer. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have a new cabinmate who I don’t know, and who I don’t wish to know. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

You may remember from the first book that Kay was inclined to throw his tongue a bit too much, and he had got himself unpopular on account of this. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above them, the intention craft hung as firmly as if it were anchored and bolted there; no gust of wind had the slightest effect on it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

But as far as Day knew, no one had ever asked permission to publish it. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

After a while he found that he was approaching a small hollow, much like the one on Watership Down where he and Silver had found Kehaar. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of what he made he only kept enough to have beer about twice a week. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Figure 1.64: When a note has more than one dot, each dot is worth half of the dot before it. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

One in back says, “Yeah, right. Like that dweeb would have a girlfriend. He’d be lucky to get a pet bird.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you come outside and wait for the bus with me? Then when the bus comes, you can go back inside, and Mom will have your breakfast ready.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“You have a lot of accidents,” Frank noted. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

For weeks the Soviet scientists had been privately discussing what would happen if this bomb test failed. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain had cleared the air, and the grass smelt fresh and sweet. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

But Hazel forged ahead, so he didn’t have much choice except to follow. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The sun and the Earth are unique, and the universe has a centre. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Muffling a curse, Habib returned to his spot next to his wife, who sat on a wooden crate Noor had found. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

What had he been thinking as he primed himself for the kill? Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

We later heard that Major Knowlton of the rebels had led two hundred men to Charlestown to assault it; they making their way across the mill-dam. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I wondered dully whether the mosquito that had just bitten me was carrying the disease. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

And you boys will have played a part. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Leaving a spacious, reasonably priced one-bedroom in the middle of the month usually signified that someone had done something really bad. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Still, with two children like Janie and Bill and a husband with such untidy ways, there is no denying the fact that she had to pick up the place rather frequently. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Not until the sun has risen do they finally close their eyes, side by side in the black wrought-iron cradle lined with striped blankets that already awaits them, despite their early arrival. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

If Permian was to go to State, they would have to perform in ways that no one had ever imagined, rise to heights beyond even the expectations of the fans. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go after these girls I think I have a chance of developing real feelings for, but then they get all weird and googly-eyed and expectant. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

So, it was something else she had done wrong. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Seaward Pines Academy, established MCMLVII, has always reminded me of a cemetery, even though it’s a fancy private school. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

For the last couple nights, Nailer had lain in his bunk, his head filled with words and letters, dreaming of spellings that Knot had tricked him with. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Leo’s new mechanical hoist system had lowered the statue onto the hillside with surprising ease. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s precious to them; it’s all they have left. Just like that pack of yours. It seems pretty important to you.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Juliet laughed delightedly, as if this was the most ridiculous thing she had ever heard. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

And when the glad shout had swelled up and died away again, to Sam’s final and complete satisfaction and pure joy, a minstrel of Gondor stood forth, and knelt, and begged leave to sing. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Why were you rude to Miss Van Campen?” she asked after she had done something for me very skilfully. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Everything that had happened on this terrible night was because of his very existence, but it wasn’t his fault. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

These turnovers were an institution, and the girls called them ‘muffs’, for they had no others and found the hot pies very comforting to their hands on cold mornings. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now that the time had come, she felt in her heart that it wouldn’t be so. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jo’s only answer was to hold her mother close, and in the silence which followed the sincerest prayer she had ever prayed left her heart without words. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have to eat those, you know,” I say. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Initially, simply the pleasure of your company. And I have information to share. What’s that phrase...oh yes. You may learn something to your advantage.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He was telling her that her editorial had been correct— truthful. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Carole reminded her that a month ago they hadn’t even had a diagnosis. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

But then, much later, another rather curious idea arose, an assault by mysticism and superstition into what had been largely an empirical science. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The city would have been beautiful if the snow were white. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I admitted I hadn’t and inquired whether it was really necessary to have one. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Fie would have liked to go up to them and hit them in the face—hard, again and again. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Last summer, just before my grandfather married Margaret, my mother and father got divorced, and Mother moved the two of us to upstate New York where she had grown up. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

At this point in his lecture, Botticelli laughed so hard that he had to sit down and catch his breath. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. They can’t imagine how it happened. There must have been some in the snow, and...” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think life is necessarily fair. But if you persevere, you can overcome adversity. It has to do with a person’s willingness to work hard, and I think it’s always been that way.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Our family seems to have produced one of each. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had just filled a box with zucchini and was carrying it to the edge of the field. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“Your city has been my fascination since I was five years old, playing Tizerkane in the orchard, and felt its name...plucked from my mind.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The belief that terrestrial processes were gradual had been elemental in natural history since the time of Lyell. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“It would pleasure our mother to have another woman in the house.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the days after Christmas, with just a week or so left in the Iowa campaign, it seemed as if half of the South Side had migrated to the deep freeze of Des Moines. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Her parents named her for Great Britain’s Queen Victoria, who had taken the throne the year before. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She felt slightly guilty for eavesdropping on Kaz, but he was the one who had turned her into a spy. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Godzilla had cornered us against the fence, and we didn’t dare make a move. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Earlier in the month, the Australians had arrived in England to row in the most prestigious and tradition-bound of all crew races, the Grand Challenge Cup at the Henley Royal Regatta. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“A hundred and eighty-six bucks. Everything I had.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

No matter what race we are, what ethnic background, sexual orientation, or what views we may have, we are all human. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I didn’t see any rims before I got in, and the front seat has cracks in the leather. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

We had rice and tortillas with “carne con chile” my favorite dish. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Haitian American engineering feat at Cange was not a case of simple technology; the pipe bringing up the clean, sparkling water from the underground river could not have happened without sophisticated engineering. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Thoreau, to protest slavery and what he saw as America’s unjust war in Mexico, had refused to pay taxes. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It had kept this small plot of land safe. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“We have to be dignified,” she would whisper then, stepping down the stairs in an especially stately way. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

At lunch on the day of my Chicago visit, Jesse and I could hardly stop talking about what had happened at Littleton. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My 101st guard Danny had said, “When you let yourself lose your focus, you make big mistakes.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This message of intimacy could never be translated because it was not in the words she had used but passed through them. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was such a funny sight, even I had to laugh. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She had changed from her sequined Sunday wrapper and the blouse with puffy sleeves. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He’d never felt so low and dishonorable, so unworthy of having a friend. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Samuel showed no sign of having observed any change. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even last night, before they’d run, Mama had been prepared to take a punishment that she hadn’t deserved, to give up her own freedom so that Koffi didn’t have to give up hers. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Stella had stayed up far too late writing. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I had heard of runaway slaves starving before they reached freedom, or poisoning themselves because they were as ignorant as I was about which wild plants were edible. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I think about Suesetta’s family and how she’ll have enough money to buy something for everyone and how she had enough money to get candy without having to use her offering. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Kok had a noble agenda: He wanted Bobby to continue his career, and he wanted to be a privileged witness to his games, as did almost all chess players. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s have a good day, guys. Eat ’em up!” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“It’s so pleasant to have you home early, darling,” Lillian said lightly. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He must have climbed up by the steel latticework posts that anchor the thing in place. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He had a harder, older look on his face, like he’d never do the Watusi again. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

How had it landed here, so many blocks away? Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

I learned later that plenty of kids had gone, and Rukia Marshall had posed for a picture with Senator Kennedy. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Blurring is good for the things you don’t want to see but it doesn’t work so well for the stuff you actually have to Deal With. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

So far, aside from one scare—at five, Milton had nearly died from a mastoid infection— they had both been healthy. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I think Rome at its worst had nothing on Chicago during those lurid days.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

"He's important, Halley, a trustee. He's rich and sick and if anything happens to him, they'll have me packed and on my way home." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the marten had disappeared, probably to catch up on his long-overdue daytime sleep. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Grayson had a way of jumping into a subject without warning; it was during Maniac’s dessert that he abruptly said, “Them black people, they eat mashed potatoes, too?” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

For years, the girls and I had shared Barack with his constituents, and now there were more than 300 million of them. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“They don’t have to tell me twice,” Sticky said, slipping into bed. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The soaring kite was heavier than I had expected. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Now, you couldn’t have been at Caledonia. I would remember a face like yours.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The two girls had an enjoyable day and thanked Winnie, saying that they would like to return. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘You have left the Shire, and are now outside, and on the edge of the Old Forest.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

A lot has changed for me since Saturday. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Mom said those were called manteaux, which was yet another word Farsi may or may not have borrowed from the French. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

But I had not the strength, the courage, to get off my bed and shut my prison door. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Another reason for the strange faces was that the parts of the brain that control facial expression had also been destroyed. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The food had been the most difficult to get. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Now it was as though I had been suddenly awakened from a deep sleep. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has no shortage of admirers in the Capitol. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Now you tell us what you was doing in London, Lyra. We had you down as being took by the Gobblers.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“If you had any foreign bodies in your legs they would set up an inflammation and you’d have fever.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

But they had hardly crossed the lawn when Lustig stopped and looked off across the town, down the quiet, dreaming afternoon street. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I couldn’t come up with eight more jots for tuition, I had nowhere in the world I could go. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Brian was a senior and he’d had Leon as either a classroom teacher or as homeroom supervisor for four years and he was still uncomfortable in his presence. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Feed: Like all animals, chickens have complex dietary requirements that must be met if they are to remain healthy and lay well. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Grunt, who had lost his tongue for speaking carelessly in Lord Roose’s hearing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Whatever the explanation, whatever that had been in the sky, the real sun or not, it was gone. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Police would not say whether son Percy is a suspect in his mother’s disappearance, but they have not ruled out foul play. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Then, suddenly, the engine cut off, the Gs went to zero, and we knew we had arrived. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It transpired after a confused five minutes that the man had heard Gatsby's name around his office in a connection which he either wouldn't reveal or didn't fully understand. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

She glanced at the bag of clothes Tori had left for her. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The kids had stopped crying, and now she felt their collective attention turn toward the empty waters around them. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Arm realized that no ax had ever been laid to these trees. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I have a family, loving aunts and a good home. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I don't want to ruin another marriage for him—not when he has two little babies to take care of and he's so happy with Serena. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He saw no sign of air conditioning, which meant it must have been a thousand degrees in there. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She has roach legs protruding through her clothes, sticking through the cage of her ribs, down her torso, six of them, three on each side. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here I was, looking at an actual dead person, a person who I had seen alive just days before. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the street, Milo and three of his friends had surrounded Brandon. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Why did you not go with them? It seems as though the whole City has gone there.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The troll had been temporarily blinded by the electric light and was thrashing about in the center of the floor. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

In an instant, the dragon has bounded across the turf. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

With a nail we punch a lot of holes in a pot lid and there we have a grater. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I hug her back—not with the girl-next-door kind of infatuation I maybe would’ve had in the past, but with a sincerity that I hadn’t felt before. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

That old truck and I belonged to the Marines and we had to go back into battle. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would sail around the Greek mainland, following the routes that Greek heroes had taken in the ancient times. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The trees around them rustled, and she had to squint to make sure no shadows were loping out toward them. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The unpaved roads, the scrubby bushes and trees, the huts roofed with sticks bound together—everything was just as Salva remembered it, as if he had left only yesterday. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if the not-so-tough guy happens to have a gun, he stands a good chance of winning. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

It was also the only building in the square that had any lights on that time of night. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

And, to raise morale, he had the same reports planted among his own men. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were two sides of me, right then, the old Natalie, who would have tucked her head down and walked into the classroom, and the new Natalie, who walked right up to the car. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Hupfer, has it been your experience that I have ever forgotten anything?” asked Mrs. Baker. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

There had been a time when he had a head full of hair and when Ruth wore lovely complicated underwear that he deliberately took a long time to undo. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not understand the dreams I had at night, but I knew that they were not holy. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

His hair, the same silver-blond as hers, had been pulled back tightly behind his head and fastened with a dragonbone brooch. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Ser Barristan had asked some of the queen’s cupbearers to help, but the sight of the burned man was too much for even the boldest of them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“But I have to practice,” I said, panic making my voice rise. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

They have interrupted the girls in their work. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I had managed to make it all the way to the railing. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“No time,” said Louisa, who had died in childbirth, giving birth to twins. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Many of our neighbours fared much worse than we had. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

This one was as thin as a wisp of air, and had struggled for so long just to be. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Gary had found that out during test day in one course. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the time, I could forget about it, but the inexorable truth is this: They might be glad to have me around, but I was the alpha and the omega of my parents’ suffering. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Do I have any say in this?” he asked. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The campaign job. I don’t wanna wait until I graduate. I already read all the materials you gave me. Twice. I have time. I can start now.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Didn’t they realize that we had to get out of the metal container? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

When she told him what had happened, Phill’s mind split in two— “big-brother mode and attorney mode,” as he put it later. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The civil rights assault had failed because of defections in the ranks. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He... Oh. The augury? Yeah, teddy bears must have nightmares about that guy. But you’re in! We need to get you cleaned up before evening muster.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Tired out but proud, the animals walked round and round their masterpiece, which appeared even more beautiful in their eyes than when it had been built the first time. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The author then must furiously try to minimize what she has been saying, which only arouses the reader’s suspicions. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The last had been first—a good sign. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would never have thought of such a thing himself. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Everyone was—which must have been his intent. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“I have to ... otherwise ...” He left the thought unfinished. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have a feeling this is one of those stories she’s going to be telling forever, the kind that gets bigger and crazier the more time goes on. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

They could taunt her into a self- doubting downward spiral, causing her to withdraw from the opportunity that Dr. Claytor had so meticulously prepared her for. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Why do you have that tiny braid in the back of your hair? Is that like a Padawan thing?” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

So I had a hunch what was about to happen on the deep- sea boat when the bald crooked-nosed guy grabbed my sister around her neck. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I was to have three weeks’ convalescent leave and then return to the front. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Even though we have two classes together, we never talk about important stuff. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

That means I have thirty-five sols of extra food. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fang readjusted the joint between his nails, which he kept a little long for the purpose, had another toke and held it out for me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Neither of them had ever been radical—even at a time of protests, sit-ins, marches, riots—but now they owned two houses, four cars, a small boat they docked at the marina downtown. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He had to get it out of the farmyard and down to the road. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t bring myself to look at Rob, not after seeing what he had done—and I knew if I looked at Cate, I’d give myself away in an instant. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I watched them moving back and forth on the strip the coaches had marked off on the floor using masking tape. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

And he realized that if he hadn’t had a tantrum about riding on the tailboard, he would have been on that bus, too. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I think you must be mistaken, my dear Spiker. That miserable tree never has any peaches on it.” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

The round had entered at a steep angle, smashing down through the hip and colon. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had gone so long without removing his work boots, that when he took them off, the skin of his feet came off with them. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He is also, I have seen, preparing them for the election, and Independence. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, not a problem. You’ve made a lot of progress today. There’s only one more thing we have to do: call your principal.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Otherwise I could only tell them to have hope and try to hold on to those who'd listen. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

That place had felt like a museum except for Valley’s room. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

She still didn’t have the key and might not get it for several more days. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Zero was a number that didn’t seem to make any geometric sense, so to include it, the Greeks would have had to revamp their entire way of doing mathematics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It’s times like these I miss our massive backyard in Alabama and how easy it was to just go out and tumble until I’d flipped so many times, it felt like my brain had realigned. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

How could none of them have thought of changing the design to make the plow more useful? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But she had sixty varieties of roses, and most everybody in Cold Sassy was beholden to her for nursing a relative back to health or laying out the body for burial. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

My advice will often shock purists and occasionally puzzle readers who have always been under the impression that this word meaning or that grammatical usage is an error. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

They bring me up to date on what the rest of the kids were saying, and how the whole situation had kinda hit the Internet. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

She proved to us that she was down for us, so now we had to be down for her. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It has got a few holes punched in it. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Ophie could have been excused for missing it at first, but maybe she hadn’t wanted to see it. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I have never seen so many different colors of hair. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

But couple it with magnetism, and suddenly you have movement—waves. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Since the time of your uncle, the colonel, nothing has happened in Macondo.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

After Lizzie died in July 1921, Mollie’s brother-in-law, Bill Smith, had presented his suspicions to authorities that she’d been slowly poisoned, but by August they had still not looked into the case. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The word girl had caught her eye instantly, and she had slipped the magazine in her jacket to look at later. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Yeah, I knew I must have had a stupid grin on my face. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The bird had recently finished building herself a new nest. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It had probably been a long time since he’d talked about anything other than himself. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The inside of the school looked like a maze of stucco walls, each hall exactly like the one she had just come down, or turned around in and walked back the other way. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Believing he was in friendly hands, he said he had a message from “General Clinton.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was May fifth, but it didn’t have to be. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

"Well, I'll tell you. Some day I'm not going to be working for an agency. Then I'll have plenty of time to get out in the country." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

It felt peculiar, having nothing on, and being outside. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The sun had just finished burning away the morning dew, and farmers harvesting wheat and barley in the fields looked up as we thundered past. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Instead of laughing, as Reynie had expected, Sticky slipped back into his nervous behavior. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had always been well liked and gotten along with just about everybody. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

One of us has to swallow our pride and take the blame for the whole breakup. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

From there, the family had arranged to visit Williams College in Massachusetts for Garfield's class reunion and to initiate the enrollment of Hal and Jim in fall classes. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

They had tight, smooth horns thrusting up here and there where the snow had all disappeared. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

When they got to the railroad site, David announced that they had to clear more track, using vibrasaws to cut through the vegetation that had grown up around the metal rails. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

And maybe witnesses, too—didn’t trials have witnesses? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

As for the girl, she must have loved him, and loved him completely, or she would not have done as she did. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I always had to know my parents’ passwords for email and other accounts, in case of any problems. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

How could it be that in his triumph he had saved everyone but her? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Being an outcast, not being able to participate when my good friends had become leaders, was depressing,” said Hermann Rosenau, whose father was Jewish but mother was not. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

As much as she resisted, as much as she told herself this was not the life for her, she had come to see its importance, and how good a scythe she would be. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

There was no telling how he might have influenced Mama Tataba. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have also enjoyed going around the country and globe speaking to people about these stories—and then hearing back from all kinds of audiences about the Weses they’ve known, or even been themselves. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“But Lymon was reading those words—hast, loveliness—what kind of book is that?” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Ever since they had run away from their grandfather's house, Prosper had asked himself at least three times a day whether he had been right to take his little brother with him. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I learned that insects are arthropods and that they have tibias too! Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Too much time would be wasted if I had to account to Nemur for everything I did. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn't like she was figuring something out and had just gotten it. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Remembering how wet it had gotten, he set it back down and picked up one of the Hessians’ guns. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

And before that a myth, a poem of what his father had been, what fathers could be, what place we took in the story of our people. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

They were often there when we returned from school, sitting with hats in their hands, as we had done upon our arrival in the big city. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have to work for the win,” she said, “even if it hurts.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

But on another, by keeping new officers on their toes and keeping the blocks running according to the rules—by being a force for consistency—Wickersham may have been insuring himself against repeating the experience. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Proud? People have lost their lives because of the Klan!” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The sliding door has been rolled back and many of the drawers are gaping open with clothes hanging out. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I have all my research written up in cool charts and graphics. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

I kneel down to him—I have to know. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

If the inmate hadn’t been greedy, I thought, he might have got-ten away with it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I take it the tournament will be keeping you pretty busy this weekend and you may not have your paper ready by Monday?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

When Dad’s mother came to live with us, Mother decided to have Number Seven in a Providence hospital, since Grandma could run the house for her. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he answered only, “Good. We shall be glad to have you.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was difficult to believe that I hadn’t just imagined what Edward had said, and the way his eyes had looked. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He could see that she still lived, and he covered her with the thick woven coat that he had thrown aside as he entered the sea. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The pain had died down, and Steven said he hadn’t lost too much blood. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

That day I tried to get some sleep in our tent, but the soaking Grandpa had taken in the river had given him a cold, causing him to snore. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

This had been going on for some time when Number Two suddenly looked about for Mr. Benedict. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Baruch seemed younger, as Balthamos had said he was, and was more powerfully built, his wings snow-white and massive. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Jon told him they had tried unsuccessfully to move the eggs. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He had enough grant money to pay for seven radiocarbon dates. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It had been over a year since I’d really been with someone like that, and a crackling chain of micro-explosions fired through me. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

More than once in the past this had served him well. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The opulence of having a teacher for each grade made a deep impression on them. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were other Horcruxes out there somewhere, but he did not have the faintest idea where they could be. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Still, it felt good having a child around again. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each of the king’s men had the bearing of someone who expects to be respected and accepts that respect gracefully. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Rush had predicted that the two patriarchs would reconcile, then go to their graves at nearly the same time.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

In Pawhuska, I stopped at the Osage Nation Museum, where I had arranged to meet with its longtime director, Kathryn Red Corn. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Baba had planted the grove when Neel was a baby, and he guarded the family trees fiercely from woodcutters. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Now that he has both hands on his gun, I notice the ragged hole in his cheek where something—falling stone maybe—punctured the flesh. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Other friends told the Marches that they had lost all chance of being remembered in the rich old lady’s will, but the unworldly Marches only said... Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, along with Britain. Britain has also declared war.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

This Surya had a tired expression, weary after a hard day of work, sitting astride a horse with folded legs. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Before she had quite arisen, she called our names and issued orders, and pushed her large feet into homemade slippers and across the bare lye-washed wooden floor to light the coal-oil lamp. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Jerome a couple of these “acceptgoats,” as Papa had called them, were beaten, but it didn’t stop them from accepting. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He had sat down again, but in such a place so as to prevent me from bolting. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

At first I think she is going to tell me something else I have to do, but instead she tells me about when her brother, Jake, was born. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

When we returned, the drill instructor had stopped warming up the soldiers. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“They told me my son had died,” his father said, gripping his shoulders. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Black said he probably could've been a scientist or a doctor or a lawyer if his teachers had got that he was different. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He hoped she had found comfort in God. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

We told him some of the things that had happened to us. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You had me bawling, even though I knew it was you. Bawling, kid.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Most of her things had already been stored away in her employers’ home. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had a mirror brightness in the glavelight, and caught gold in it, and gray. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Are you having trouble making up your mind with so much cool stuff to choose from? Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought Adah’s lameness and Mother’s desperation had purchased his sympathy. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Astronomers have begun to measure the change in the universe’s expansion. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

And the stiffness he had first attributed to sleeping on the cold ground now showed itself as pain. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The duffel bag he has brought waits on the hall table. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

You never have to worry about me biting my tongue if something I know as truth is on my mind. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when I caught sight of the sack he had left behind, I told myself he was bound to return, if not for me, for it. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

He sucked a nipple that was not there, slavered on the neck of a girl he had barely spoken to, foamed over a sin that took place in the uncontrolled cosmos beneath his skull. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had seen the look on the faces of many people. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“And maybe there would have been more losses, with the bridge still left standing. I thought you wanted the bridge destroyed.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Watching my sister walk along the path winding away from our village later that day, I was reminded of the yunka stranger and how the clouds had hovered about him on this same trail. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

It must have taken a lot of drinking to get in this state. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The worst feeling had been the aloneness, before they had heard the footsteps, the knowing that however loudly he cried out, there was nobody at all who could hear him. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“No obligation. Sleep on it. And listen, in the meantime — I notice you don’t have a watch.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today he had come for more than the recital of his rules. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It saddened and embarrassed Hall to be publicly castigated by this demigod, this ur-climber who had been one of his childhood heroes. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Swell ladies and gentlemen that Terrance had met on his travels, as well as a newspaperman from London come to report on the American scene. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

All this time there had been just two rooms: male and female. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Others had mounted the tables and two of them screamed out their song from the top of the bar. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some carried ammunition boxes, the length of two cement bricks, between them, and others had semiautomatic machine guns and RPGs. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He had to find an unsuspicious way out of the Pink Mansion as soon as possible, he realized. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

It’s as if the air is rippling in tiny visible waves, distorting the sharp edges of the wood and a goblet of wine someone has set there. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She answered in the affirmative, and, unable to resist the temptation, added, “When you met us there the other day, we had just been forming a new acquaintance.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

For all these years, her heart had painted the picture for her. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I sat opposite her, clasping the book I had just found inside the sycamore hollow. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

A moment after he said goodbye to Mother, Tyler called me, demanding to know what had happened and why I hadn’t come to him. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When he had looked on the faces of the sick and seen their hurts he sighed. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Alcante had such a beautiful presence that he seemed like the guardian angel of the pavilion, but Farmer worried about what would happen when he returned to his home in the central plateau. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

To take a clear photograph, an agent had to hold the pen exactly eleven inches above a document, using his forearms as a kind of tripod. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I would do my chores, and if I had anything to say I would write back. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Many children at school have parents who sell beer and run stockvels. And they have everything they need for school. Maybe Florah, George and I could be like them.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A light- bulb had burned out, I figured. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way Agent Fiona fussed at him, he had to be telling the truth. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“How long have you been in the service, sailor?” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I had deliberately decided not to try to assume one. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I planned to use some of it to pay for my CharlieTicket to ride the T. I also had some of my leftover birthday money, in case we needed it. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Alexander the Great had died more than two thousand years ago. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Even before Mr. Loomis came, I had already been wrestling with the idea that I had to tackle that acre and a half with the shovel. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Father stared at Mr. Potato Head, who didn’t have the nerve to look him in the eye. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I next ventured down to my lab, I discovered Mom had taken back her kitchen hardware. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not surprising that food has become the focus of an international movement. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

His brother, the late King Robert, had grown a beard in his final years. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Percy’s letter was enclosed in a package of Easter eggs that Mrs. Weasley had sent. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The woods had a way of grabbing bits out of pockets and scattering them for other people to come across. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had to look hard through the maps in my geography book to locate them. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I had to do was find a picture, and I failed. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Val stood on the platform as still as if she had been carved of salt. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Percy had seemed so intimidating and powerful, like a real hero. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Young ladies have a remarkable way of letting you know that they think you a “quiz” without actually saying the words. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I fired again, but he had disappeared from sight, and I guessed from the motion of the brush that he had headed downhill, back toward the house. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Their roles had not been reversed, but still, something had changed. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“It had been sent to another island to be repaired. So there was a notice to airmen that the glide slope was not operating.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He swore an oath in pain, then, having recovered, exclaimed, “‘Pon my honor—excellent, Serjeant.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

No, there had to be a scientifically acceptable reason for what they were witnessing. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

But a great many of the hillmen had given themselves up; and they were afraid, and cried for mercy. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

There had been sorrow and loss, relief, reverence, and pure joy. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was getting colder but they had campfires all night and left them burning behind them when they set out again in the morning. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in the objective world, I made things happen within. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She always has a book or a dishrag in her hand, and sometimes both. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I want to tell her about Tobias and everything that has happened between us. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

As those in positions of authority are not brave enough to correct this error, I have taken it upon myself to reveal the truth. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He told Robin, too, of far countries: the Holy Land where crusaders had fought for the tomb of our Lord, and of Greece and Rome, whose ancient languages were the beginnings of many other tongues. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t talk about the neon sign he’ll have or the big rolling tool cases or anything. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I think maybe Holly didn’t have to say the alphabet in her head. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

It feels so good to have someone feel sorry for me, I don’t mention that my parents don’t know what happened. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Over their shoulders they wore blanket rolls, in which they had rolled up their belongings so that they looked like they were wearing doughnuts. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air had that unstirred quality of an abandoned house. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I stumbled to the infirmary, stepping over bundles of life jackets and coats that passengers had peeled off. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I was sixteen, had never taken an exam, and had only recently undertaken anything like a systematic education; still I registered for the test. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We all sat in a circle right in the middle of the cross, where the two boards would have met, where the heart of jesus would have been. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Among these was my great-grandfather, who had died fighting the British demons when they had wanted to force the Tang people to let them sell opium in the Middle Kingdom. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You will love having this woman around. She really makes things happen.” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Already sent for. But Marse Tom is having bad pains in his chest.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“They say red thread is special, sacred; though I, myself, after having spent so much time with it, know it for what it is. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Tendai still had his Scout knife, so he carefully cut a small opening and looked out. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Trapped between these two spreading arms of dark fog was Fela, who had been working by herself at an out-of-the-way table in the corner of the shop. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The preparation of it had taken the better part of four days. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I thought that maybe he was having a stroke. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Even the Romans had raised him on a shield and made him praetor, and he’d only known them for a couple of weeks. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The more worked up she became the faster she spoke and the faster I had to write. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t even look at them without having to bite my tongue. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Listen, you don’t have to keep the sketchbook.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

For a decade he has run a parfumerie on the rue Vauborel: a straggling business that prospers only when the cod are being salted and the stones of the town itself begin to stink. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“So you won’t have to go through a lot of that old junk, later on,” she says delicately. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

That’s when I realized I had no idea what we were going to do next. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“I thought Dominick was the one I had to worry about.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He said when he was in the English army in France the Germans sent gas over which made him so sick they had to take him to the hospital. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe you have to see it performed live to appreciate it. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“When the new Receiver failed, the memories that she had received were released. They didn’t come back to me. They went...” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered that neither of them had gone to Roberto’s high school graduation. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Whatever had been there, the music, the currents of air that had moved so restlessly that day, was gone. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

One of them, a shrunken old man with stubble and a hollow face, has an earthenware jug tipped up to his lips. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Bobby had told Sverrisson that he would like to be buried in the small country graveyard close to the town of Selfoss, about an hour’s drive from Reykjavik, in a rural farmland community called Laugardaelir. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Even through his pain, Doha had to smile. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

In all the years Mark had known her, she had never sounded so angry. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Yes ma’am, she say, and I thought I had this house too, but look like it belong to your sister Nettie and you. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It appeared that he had been dealing in the prisoners’ gold teeth for his own benefit. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the force of the gunshot knocked me down, so I had to have been hit with something. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Fate had given him another chance and—what? Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He might have accepted a ride out of the city from one of the helicopters or rescue boats. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The man laughed, a bright and contagious sound that had me smiling along before I could catch myself. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

In Haiti, TB still killed more adults than any other disease, but no one in the catchment area had died from it since 1988. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Every holiday I had to visit and feed the homeless,” she said. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Alex has always suspected the soulful brown eyes and perfectly groomed stubble and dramatic cheekbones won back any votes Luna lost by being both Latino and openly gay. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She had me when she was a teenager, but that didn’t stop her from finishing high school, and she moved more times than Steve could even dream of! Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Howard got on the telephone and pulled every string he had. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had sent him off at once, but leaving, he had set out all the ready food he could find done up in a packet as fuel for my three days’ run. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

His father had said no but helped him set an alarm clock so he’d be the first to awaken. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

But his father enjoyed it very much indeed and in the course of the next few weeks told it to so many people that Cor wished it had never happened. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

For out on the bridge, Father Mike, too, had stepped on the gas. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He had become chief minister of the KwaZulu homeland with the tacit support of the ANC, and even his launching of Inkatha as a Zulu cultural organization was unopposed by the organization. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice quavering, she answered her critics "I have my reasons," she said, even though she knew she didn't. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Plus Salim had given me his savings, so I had more than enough to buy two London Eye tickets. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Bush administration says that the tax cuts have actually made the income tax system more progressive, shifting the burden slightly more to those with higher incomes. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Luckily Shasta had lived all his life too far south in Calormen to have heard the tales that were whispered in Tashbaan about a dreadful Narnian demon that appeared in the form of a lion. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

MapleG: It seems to me you can have a chapter test any day. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hey, Annie, did you really mean what you said when you told me that having me as a friend was the only thing you like about this school?” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

We had to record oral histories from senior citizens in a retirement home. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

So “super unfair” means not having time to discuss your Mars colonization ideas? The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“I can stay here. Somebody has to watch the car,” he said. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I have to say this for our minister, he never stopped giving us the lesson. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He had a shotgun. I told you. He was going to defend the place. And now Bonneville’s got it and killed him. He’s lying in the water....” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The houses are in disrepair, and many have boards over their windows. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

His eyes were open, and they had great depth and clarity, as though one could see deep into them and as though they could see deep into their surroundings. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Char said that one of the knights, acting as a scout, had seen me. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We have to keep going before it gets any later,” Valley said. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

They were living in Rome the first year that Gogol and Moushumi were together, on a Guggenheim that Astrid had gotten. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lourdes could not see but she smelled vividly as if her senses had concentrated on this alone. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never before had a cell phone in my backpack, and the officer at the receptionist desk played the message before she would allow me to take it up with me. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Horrified, I leaned closer—the word mutilated had electrified me, it was the only thing I could see on the page—but Henry had turned the paper over and begun to study the other side. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

While I had been watching my classmates, Mr. Mwila had placed my essay on my desk swiftly and then gave Ellis his paper. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

And I had one additional bonus: I was the one who set them up in the first place. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It would have no vitality. It would disintegrate. It would commit suicide.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I had been in town, trying to trade some threadbare old baby clothes of Prim's in the public market, but there were no takers. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Johnny always had something to say to make the class laugh. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Our queen is the embodiment of our land. It has been this way since the dawn of time, and it will be so until our last queen dies.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“It has a hole in it. We’re actually friends with Davis Pickett. Doesn’t he live here?” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

After we had that conversation, I kicked my doubts to the back of the closet. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Osage have found new sources of revenue, including from seven casinos that have been built on their territory. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It was the extension of a dialogue we’d been having over seventeen years already. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

So the evidence of sense is not, as one might think, the testimony of the senses but our confidence that our senses have properly grasped the object. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I wish my mother had never been detained. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

If it had been cloudy I could have looked at the window, thinking what he said about idle habits. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chapter 1, like Chapter 3, had not actually told him anything that he did not know; it had merely systematized the knowledge that he possessed already. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

But we still had to get plane tickets and visas and everything. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

A white rabbit hopped beside me, and for a moment I thought it was a blob of snow that had fallen out of the sky. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I don't have to do that again," I said to myself. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t care that he didn’t have a toothbrush or change of clothes. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, if I had to synthesize my own enzymes, if I consciously had to remember and direct all the chemical steps required to get energy out of food, I would probably starve. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before too long, though, the veterans, who’d been having a bit of fun watching us being pathetic—we were to do much the same the following summer—came out and took us in hand. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But how could you have missed it? Mrs. Cormier put it in your mailbox on Friday afternoon. Didn’t you get your mail this morning?” The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

They seemed to have a deep understanding and respect for each other. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Papa does more of the checkups and surgeries, and Dr. Ahmed helps women have babies. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

If they had succeeded they would have asked for him to be allowed to go with them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

For days at a time the animals had nothing to eat but chaff and mangels. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

He had a new bottle of brandy in his hands and a corkscrew. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Sitting on his lap had been like sitting on a pair of tree trunks. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He stared at Woundwort with a detached, appraising air which the General had not encountered for a very long time. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, most people might call me a mongrel, but I have some pretty fancy bloodlines running through these veins and Russian wolfhound happens to be one of them. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

Bull asked his son what he had extracted from the morning exercises. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Calvin says, “Well, for thousands of years, humans have believed that birds will guide souls to the place of the dead.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Randomness is not easy to obtain when playing cards, either, since shuffling a deck two or three times is not enough to destroy whatever order it might have. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

If that had been the end of it, he would not have minded. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She was smiling back at me, and she looked ruffled, as if she had fallen out of bed with her clothes on. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Poe, you have to go! You have to visit them.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Do you think I always had hands like these? A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I had seen him like this only one other time—when he was getting massaged—and the echo of his aphorism “When you’re in bed, you’re dead” began anew inside my head. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When disaster struck, we all had to do something. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how long we have until she completely loses it. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Mom, Dad, and I had cake and ice cream and played Monopoly, which Dad declared was the greatest game ever invented. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“She does, except when we have other kids staying here,” Natalie said. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

An elderly woman like this would have no chance of swimming to safety, much less have the strength to cut a hole through her roof. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The communists I'd known in the past had always operated on the assumption that come the revolution, they'd be the ones lying around party headquarters with clipboards in their hands. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

To shriek like an insane woman who has been locked in an attic for a great many years, you have to practice. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

There, it would have been unusual to go for an entire school year without being interrupted by war. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The appeal of the dilemma has nothing to do, of course, with any interest we might have in women drug traffickers or in the criminal justice system. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gulliver had nothing to do with his Grand Failure. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Moved by the gown, by some strange memory of miniver and colour, the poor Wild Man had gone from the King’s table to the well. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Chester had made a stab at it, but a halfhearted stab. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The furnace must have run out of heating oil. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Nor did he see his granddaughter’s worn sweaters or his daughter’s antiquated clothing or her hands that had been ruined by household chores and clay. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he thought about how it would feel to have nobody, to have his entire family gone. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

As it turns out, the mere fact of having a unit to myself makes me an aristocrat within the Blue Haven community. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the rush of the moment, it seemed that Jason had been unable to get Little Jason inside his boxers, and so there it was, hanging out, digitally captured for posterity. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

No princes had lived in those wretched hovels, no red-robed bishops, only farmers and laborers whose stories no one had written down, and now they were lost, buried under wild thyme and fast-growing spurge. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I’d been on the feedlot at Poky only a few months earlier, yet I had trouble connecting that place to my cheeseburger. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“What do sorcerers have that prentices lack?” he inquired. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

There sat Beatty, perspiring gently, the floor littered with swarms of black moths that had died in a single storm Mildred stopped screaming as quickly as she started. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their principal dam had gone out for want of attention by its skilled architects, and the lake had drained away. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

They didn’t look back, but the police had already lost interest. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That troll had nothing to do with me,” protested Root. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Ricci realized that Galileo had an aptitude for the subject and supported him when he asked Vincenzio if he could switch his studies from medicine to mathematics. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

After work, I called around and found that this practice is entirely legal: if the purse is on the boss’s property— which of course it was—the boss has the right to examine its contents. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Logically, there has to be a point when this is physically impossible, but Coach West doesn’t seem to think so. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

By that time almost twenty-five men had gathered in the front yard; some were poring over U.S. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The voyagers had traveled 600 miles since Endurance was first trapped in the ice. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The boy sounded haggard, yet strangely determined; he had a fevered shine to his eyes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But by three in the morning, I’m the target of every colorful bit of profanity District 7 has to offer. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

We have tonight and half of tomorrow before the feast, before I must go to Hollow Hall, before my plans either come together or come entirely apart. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They had never yet had a Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher who had lasted more than three terms. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Do you have to always he the hero? The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Lip service had been given to this idea months before Fuller’s arrival. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

My wife and I had lost our first two children; we’d decided to abort after prenatal diagnoses of a rare but invariably fatal genetic disease. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The policemen had been so thorough in rummaging the kitchen that I had no doubt they would find my parents. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Martha didn’t seem that worried, and told me that other gymnasts she’d coached had suffered the same stomach pains when they were anxious before meets. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Only the fingernails had color; they were metal claws the same gold as the feathers, as if some essence of the figure had pierced the mutilated flesh and burst out from the cuticles. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

For some reason, the Captain had at last said something I thought was funny. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn't take us long to take down the pack, but it was time we didn’t have. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Also I had to help my dad quite a lot around the house. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I mean . . . literally, you couldn’t be moved. You had almost no substance. If it weren’t for Coach Hedge ‘No biggie,’ the coach assured him. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I said, “I have never been out of the state of California in my life.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

She had learned to wash her feet at night without being told, so Jinny no longer had to shake the sand from her blankets in the morning. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was as though a sharp little gimlet had rim into the solid congealed mess of Emily Brent's brain. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Could she really let these...these beasts have it? When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

As I say, that had been my plan, and when the one-nighters kept happening, it unsettled me a bit. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But we have a date to go running with a wheelchair and potting soil tomorrow at six.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Many have roofs of tejas, some already slid off to the ground, leaving gaps. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

It had become a friendly contest, to see which one of us would break the daily streak first. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Reynie had to hand it to Rhonda: She might not be smart enough to pass the test, but she was clever enough to get away with cheating on it. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

At the time, their decision had seemed logical enough to Emily. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The mother goat, who was locked in the shed, had not seen her son’s slaughter, but she hit her horns hard against the door. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“But at least I don’t have those big feet either. They’re an affliction, those feet.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

They don't have their hands on her but they're controlling her movements all the same. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There had been no flak there at all. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t even dared to look behind her to see if any had fallen. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“But if you finish quick and do a good job, you can have the rest of the afternoon to play.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

And for years, despite his family’s poverty, the man I killed would have been determined to continue his education in mathematics. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked over to where Mum and Aunt Gloria were having coffee. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rang the bell, and after a while I heard a pair of sandals approach, and a maid I had never seen before came to the door. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyone with three fingers could play it, and if you had one ear and a bucket you could carry the tune. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And Odysseus took his time, turning the bow, tapping it, every inch, for borings that termites might have made while the master of the weapon was abroad. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put on his coat and found stuffed in a pocket the pamphlets Jan had given him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was all this light on his face; he had to squint to look at me, which made his nose crinkle adorably. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

You had to become an officer in the air force and you had to take lots of orders and be prepared to kill other human beings, and I couldn’t take orders. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Before we can get back onboard, however, we have to file into a single line to “meet” our new friends. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told him that Joan was my cousin's name and that I had no idea how stacked she was. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

His dad had had some theories, of course, but he couldn’t explain how the fish had been able to change so fast. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Charlotte and Morrie, who met as students, had been married forty-four years. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Valerie pushed aside her black bang and indicated two pale marks, one on either side of her forehead, as if at some time she had started to sprout horns, but cut them off. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Yes, she had done that with her hands, wedged them away under her arms when she was afraid or sad. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I felt the need to explain to people what Walter had taught me. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He had even brought a China plate, a silver spoon, and a silver knife for himself. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had tapped, at last, into heredity’s inner logic. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Merlyn,” he said, “approved of the Round Table. Evidently it was a good thing at the time. It must have been a step. Now we must think of making the next one.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Miss Lamb had ‘enjoyed’ the story, this speech was not exactly grateful or complimentary. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No; I have found when she is absent this long, she is liable not to come back till late.” The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

He was simply having lunch with the Lions Club, of which he was past president now. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can read that?” he questioned, with the same amazement he had shown when she had proved she could swim. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

When I put my hand up that day, which I did every chance I had, teachers granted me the right to speak with a single syllable that was music to my ears. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy looks at me, and I have no clue what expression he sees on my face, but both of his bushy brows shoot up. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

I had been angry enough, frightened enough, humiliated enough to try. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He suddenly looked as menacing as he had the night when Harry first met him, the night when Harry still believed Sirius to be a murderer. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Rachel is one of the rare ninth-graders invited to the Senior Prom; her social stock has soared. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mona seemed to see the confusion in her face, for the old woman said, “You read that book tonight. And when you return to the Academy, perhaps you will have something to teach your teachers.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I just... I have to ask you. What changed your mind?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I might take to gardening myself, and in time have one or two things altered. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Once you saved the world by taking the form of a fish. Now you have saved me by taking the form of a fish. Thank you, thank you!” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was probably the best teacher I’ve ever had—strict, fair-minded, dedicated to her job. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hair had been neither cut nor combed in months, his clothes were pointless and he had no socks. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She hoped that she wouldn’t have to say the rest of the sentence, that Billy would finish it for her. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” the Sea King said, but he had a puzzled look on his face. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

We waited at the bridge for two days and kept looking in the direction where our dad had disappeared. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

After the roots and leavings we had existed on, I was grateful enough for the food, but of what she bought Nathan would not touch a morsel. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reads it and tells me I don’t have to be so brave anymore. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She had never been so afraid ... . . . until the day of her wedding came at last. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

What happened next has become part of historical legend, a tale told to every American schoolchild. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she was gone he was overwhelmed with grief and decreed that she should have the most magnificent of funerals. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘We have found many of our folk lying slain as they fled thither,’ said the scout. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He advised the others that if they had weak stomachs, they should not do likewise. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She had stuffed a towel into the bottom of our door and insisted it was safe, but I worried— about the cigarette and the “girlfriend.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Now Amelia has a new fixation,” Mom fires back. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“We only severed the connection the spirit had upon Nathan. Right now, it is finding its way back to his uncle. It will be very angry.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He referred to her as Vivi and told me that she had asked him to call her that. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three quarters of a mile in the blazing heat, from Nuthanger to the foot of the hill, had cost Hazel more pain and effort than anything in his life. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

At school, any interest in my disappearance for two weeks is upstaged by two much more exciting developments: Christmas is coming and Sammy has joined our class. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

We see one—even I have been quiet enough not to startle it. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

It looked even cooler than Dad had described it. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“This is kind of like being a diviner. Do you have a bauble?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He swung the flashlight and saw a couple of wooden wagons that must have been used to carry equipment down or tin back up to the surface. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He wants to see people break— has always wanted to, ever since he set up the camera in my execution room when I nearly drowned, and probably long before then. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I had bent over and kissed her cheek, and she had put her arm around me. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, we have access to those cameras too.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

"I did not want to risk two wires for a spark. It would be dangerous to us if we had static while setting up." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He must have known for quite some time. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Francie wondered whether someone had to die to make that clear to a child. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

That means their note has exactly two waves for each one wave that the men's note has. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She, who had descended with such joy and pain, had begun her upward climb—upward, with her baby, on the steep, steep side of the mountain. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Because you already had seconds,” he said instead. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

If anything, the courtyard felt a little cooler than it had a moment before. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Right, comrades. Now we know a bit more about things, let’s have a show of paws. All those in favor of letting the mouse go free.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Because Mr. Carter and Mr. Caston had both been in prison for nearly fifty years, we wanted their immediate release. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As soon as she sees him, she starts then turns suddenly to run, but in turning before she looks away she knocks her head against the tree she has been leaning against. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had taken years to solicit this information about where she grew up. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The person in that painting with the steel bones and legions in his skull would have saved Jesse. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The early farmers of the Fertile Crescent and China were heirs to the technology that behaviorially modern Homo sapiens had been developing to exploit local resources in those areas for tens of thousands of years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I would much rather have a governess, Father. I would study very hard if I had a governess.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

At least three determined individuals had managed to climb over it since I’d moved in. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The dirt at her feet had a story, the oldest story Cora knew. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She had to tilt her head up just to see its featureless face regarding her. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Like what?” said Mary Poppins sharply, as though Michael had deliberately said something to offend her. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t personal: it was just the way things had always been done, they told her. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He hardly felt proud of them, nothing like the books his parents had chosen for him or the bizarre knitting he was sure Hyacinth had spent hours working on. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

If you want to get treated like a man, you have to dress like a man. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I stood there, trying to figure out how to tell Brij that I have literally never had a sleepless night about school, period, let alone about...all the stuff he said, when Maddie walked up. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I have no memory at all of that summer’s day, no privileged knowledge of whether that child succeeded in getting the watermelon into her mouth. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Jack Hodgson had brought along a paraffin tin filled with nitroglycerin; he had created a timing device that used the inside of a ball-point pen. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the process of being discharged from the Union Army, he had gone to a white officer to seek help in filling out his papers. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I had so often done in my orphanage days, I began to wish for some savior to come by and, seeing at a glance my superior qualities, take me away. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Is it possible we have such a big part of us in common? Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

All the heavy furniture and bedding had to be left behind, and these were promised to the Huangs as my dowry. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not mention the Standard or what had happened to the editorial offices. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Peeta, it turns out, has never been a danger to me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Adah said carefully,“I think Mother has presumed him dead for a long time already.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What has this poor child done to you that you would wish her dead?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But as she walked away, Inej saw Nina had another reason to depart. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In the end, we had no option but to choose between the lesser of two evils, and opt for a diminished education. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re just going for a drive. I thought it might be fun”—he paused delicately—“if we got away from school for a while, maybe had some dinner...” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Abuela, you don’t understand how hard it is. Everything is so easy for everyone else. ’Cause they have money. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He didn’t have a single coin in his pocket or a scrap of food to eat. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

To think she had cleaned this house a thousand times! Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Shoot, I figure if that man was smart ’nought to cheat all us, he have to be smart ’nough to know better than to gamble with no white folks.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

It had been a long time since Flora had heard her father say those words. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

In the clearing he had made last year, Pa was plowing around the stumps and putting in his crops. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He simply vanished, as if he had gone slap through the floor without leaving a hole! The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

At this moment the phrase “police reform” has come into vogue, and the actions of our publicly appointed guardians have attracted attention presidential and pedestrian. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“They started there, bombed holes into the runways. No one can fly in. They want to have their government installed before the UN or whoever else cares to help can get here.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that he was aching to dispute Cooke’s optimism, but the memory of the fight he had just had was so fresh in his mind that he could not speak. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Francie didn’t tell Evy how she was afraid the baby would be born crooked because Mama had worked on her hands and knees up to the last minute. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I figured they’d have to go down so deep to reach water that they’d come up on the other side of the world. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, I will lift this so that you won’t have to strain your voice. What did the doctor tell you about your elbow or whatever it is?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the men told the chief that the only way we could possess such foreign cassettes was either by having looted them or if we were mercenaries. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She told him about how the barrier between the worlds had been breached by Lord Asriel, and about some of the consequences—the melting of the ice, for example. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Otherwise,” White Deer reasoned, “you’ll have to take it up with the Sleepers. They’re not about to let anyone go around beating up one of their brothers without their permission. No matter what he’s done.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nor would she have believed it after the aggressive realism with which she revealed to her that the anxiety of falling in love could not find repose except in bed. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Soon after the accident, Stephanie, the older of the girls, had begun to play World ofWarcraft, using her father’s account and his computer and desk, peering into his hefty NEC monitor. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

They had child protection services and things like that. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

If I had the power to conjure them at my birthday celebration...Robbie and Cecilia, still alive, still in love, sitting side by side in the library, smiling at The Trials of Arabella? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He has a very different idea about the money, about Vincent. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

As he ate he felt that they were thinking of the job he was to get that evening and it made him angry; he felt that they had tricked him into a cheap surrender. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I didn't want him to have to endure more beatings or to be tortured. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Gary Edwards was ineligible to play, Carter had to forfeit the three games in which he had played, and Carter was out of the playoffs. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A painful wrench ing in my heart made me cry aloud, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of all the things that Harry had said to him, beyond any revelation or taunt, nothing had shocked Voldemort like this. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He realized that once again he would be digging long after everyone else had quit. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Why not have let me know you were coming? Difficult though it would have been, for you I would have stayed awake.” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“You have no idea how much I wanted this to work out. No idea. I wanted this so badly.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“If she had a knife on her. I ’d be taking you to the hospital right now.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although they had no sense of humor about their names, Ken and Bob did like to joke a lot. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A bird, it had been, about the size of a very small chicken only with a fantail and stubby wings that slammed against its body and made loud noise. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boveri had identified the chromosome as the physical residence for genes, but the deeper architecture of genes and chromosomes still remained unclear. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I know how it feels, is what I really should have been saying. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Even if he wanted to take us with him, how could he possibly persuade the Nazi administrators, especially Amon Goeth, who had absolute final say over us, to go along with such a crazy scheme? The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

‘Nor do I. I would have nothing to do with such matters.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Usually I only have small pieces of paper. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hauptmann promises trips to Berlin; he unrolls schematics from an electronics factory in Austria and says, “Several ministries have demonstrated enthusiasm for our project.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A gray station wagon stood on the gravel in front of a house that was bigger than the school Meggie had been attending for the last year. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She, too, is wearing the same baggy shorts and T-shirt, but she's carrying a clipboard and has a whistle around her neck. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He did not immediately open his eyes when he had finished his patrolling; he was listening hard, as though he might hear the door pop into existence. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Now I say, friends, the time is overdue to let them have it. Battlespoil they want from our dead bodies to add to all they plundered here before.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three doctors, a half dozen soldiers, and a small number of theater patrons have battled their way into the box. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Third, Mr. Voskuijl has to go to the hospital next week. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I guess even I had to admit that I was getting a little too old for toys in the bathtub. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just go in there when I’m having a bad huntin’ day,” he explained. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

But they did not say anything, because Pa had told them never to touch a new bullet. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had sometimes thought that having six brothers must have toughened her up. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

If you have any plan to improve your house, even if it’s just planting a new tree, you have to have it approved beforehand by the Architectural Committee. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wheelie knew every kid in the school, and she knew what classrooms they were in without having to think about it. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Ah,” he said, “We have an old Alexander dictionary, of course, and then there’s Webster’s and Worcester’s, which are more up-to-date.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The sun had not yet lifted above the hills marking the distant horizon. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, Joaquin still had his, but Maya’s parents had put her through two years of braces in order to correct it. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

A few days later, the Preacher let me and other folks know it had been showed to him that my rock chunking was gave to me as a gift from Jesus! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He drew pictures of the horse- drawn wagon Day had made out of two-by-fours. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I had never seen this nocturnal room before, and I almost went into shock when I got a look at the vampire bats. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I think of the dream I had the last night on the train, where I followed her in mockingjay form. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

In some of them there was a hunger for rank—in Jubal Early it was a disease—but Armistead had grown past the hunger, if he ever had it at all. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad’s hotel in Dubai had a pool surrounded by date trees, under a sun so bright hot and white that it bleached everything. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Whispering has just gotten a deal more dangerous. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And I'm not sure if I'm just tired, or if something has changed, but as I look at her, with my hand in hers, I smile. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He had simply said, in answer to her surprised inquiries as to the change, “I can’t afford it, my dear.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was seven, she begins, I had an intestinal disease that went untreated for lack of money to buy medicine. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

An Adam-style house had stood here until destroyed by fire in the late 1880s. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Why, it must be because you have no other purpose but to plague me. How many times have I refused you?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The pounding had begun in her temples and the pain was radiating behind her eyes. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The few who found it invigorating tended to be men who had waded in its “river of death,” Sinclair’s phrase, and panned from it great fortunes. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Sir Ector’s health had been drunk with “Best respects, Measter,” or “Best compliments of the Season, my lords and ladies, and many of them.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had bombed our dorms in an attempt to keep me out of the games and from carrying out Hideo’s final goal. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“JoJo, don’t push it so hard. It’s straining. Do we have a flashlight?” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know what our problem has been for the last couple of years? You know what it was?” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He could also see that the rodent farm would never be a reality, so he decided that he had better hasten things along before some clever fellow won the heiress. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harvesting the remainder of the summer squash crop was no less tiring than it had been the day before. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Her brain and heart had been spinning ever since Sam kissed her. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I had to figure out a way to stop him. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I had become indifferent to my old connections, an attitude I had adopted in part to justify my flight and somehow alleviate the pain of my separation from a world I loved and valued. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can feel it. Every day on the road—I feel something pulling me. I don’t know what it is, but I have to find out. I know it’s important.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

As soon as Dr. Philobosian had severed the cord of flesh, another, spiritual connection had grown up in its place. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We have settled now into our Birmingham life. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I guess I’m more irritated about how today has started than I realize, because Chelsea lets go of me and says, “What’s wrong?” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

The man had absolutely no sense of humor. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I half couldn’t believe I’d said all that out loud—actually calling attention to the fact that I don’t have much money. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

But I want the world where my daddy is and don't know why anybody's God would make me have to choose. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I have to cling to the memory of it. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Matt had often talked about a barbershop of his own. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I knew the minute you knocked on the door. That’s why I came outside. A polite person would have gone away.” Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She referred softly to the fact that her uncles had long ago stolen the deed to the estate. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She came to the rock where the woman had told her to leave the food. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I can understand why she might have wanted to stay with Christoffel instead of Mrs. Janssen—an old friend rather than a stranger who didn't even know who she really was. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Her stomach felt squeamish and unsteady—the last time she had felt like this was when she ate the fish head stew Allegra’s mom had made. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

My mother heard his collapse and, in her rush to see what had happened, dropped the sizzling cast-iron skillet and potato pancakes on the floor. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The two hundred miles an hour wind had loosed his chains. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

We would not have had to shout our grievances. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still had some material and a dress pattern for Ma. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grabbing them by their tails, he dropped them almost instantly, blurting falsetto eeks because they had wriggled back up to nip him with their toothless little mouths. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where before there had been silence, now he heard: wind in the trees, Hodor’s breathing, the elk pawing at the ground in search of fodder. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In July 1975, the United States and the Soviet Union had their first joint mission—a Soviet Soyuz capsule docked with a US Apollo module. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Piper barely had time to withdraw her fingers. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She had the violent weaknesses and passion for beauty of the shanty Nolans. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, many or most inventions were developed by people driven by curiosity or by a love of tinkering, in the absence of any initial demand for the product they had in mind. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But none of her visions had been like this, with her kidnappers just as alarmed as she was herself. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have gone from craft work straight into the factory, from the air-conditioned morgue of the Hearthside directly into the flames. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one has ever spoken to me like this before, with real respect. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The baking machines had not completely dried the surface. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Stuart was a great disappointment, failing to display the Southern hospitality and honor that Booth had come to expect. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was all he could manage, but Luna had said it all for him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I loved white church because I didn’t actually have to go to the main service. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Hale said that the men from the bureau had told him that they had ways of making people talk. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Baby Kochamma and Mammachi thought that they might have gone down to the river for a swim, which was worrying because it had rained heavily the previous day and a good part of the night. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So have I, my son, so have I.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“He has an athlete’s body. Anyone could see that,” Erin says. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In March of 1864 he felt a glow of personal triumph that his resentment had perhaps been justified. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z