Finally, the cab pulled up in front of my new apartment building, a slate-gray monolith on the banks of the Scioto, just at the edge of the Twin Rivers ghetto. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The only thing a deep breath did in our current apartment was make me want to pinch my nostrils together. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

On the security camera mounted in the hallway outside my apartment, I watched the four dropcops get off the elevator and sprint down the hallway to my door. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The door to the apartment burst open and in tumbled their dad. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Ted found Sax at Sax’s mother’s small Manhattan apartment. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to write, but his apartment was not the ideal lair for a would-be author. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two weeks until I get a new apartment. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I tried to be at the apartment during the day in case Arturo stopped back at home, either to eat or to drop off applications. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“That’s all taken care of, Mrs. Hauser. Thank you. I just wanted to ask you if you know why or how someone could have gotten into our apartment? The doors were all locked that night.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

When the fathers wanted to talk outside, they sat on the curb in front of Mr. Kanagawa’s apartment. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I still go over to his long white and black apartment, still end up on top of his sleeping bag, although haphazardly: Jon isn’t big on planning in advance, or on remembering. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Once a week or so, if I found a quiet moment, I’d pick up the phone and dial the number for our apartment on Euclid. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The smell of cardamom lingers in the apartment, and I know my mother's already up. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In the apartment, Daddy’s suitcase is sitting on the bed, piled with his clothes, his black suit and tie on top. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

When I practiced upon my violin, I did so in the top of the house, away from his apartments. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"The rest of the time we can move around the apartment." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She broke off, because Roy Baty had appeared, abruptly throwing the door of the apartment open and entering; a trail of wire rustled after him. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

She waved me into the apartment, pushing away a carton full of trash. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as I’m inside our apartment, I carefully put my earmuffs on the radiator to dry. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“So it’s like you two have a whole basement apartment to yourselves?” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting in front of the television at the Hotel Beverly, where my grandparents have been renting an apartment on the top floor. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“Will you deliver? I don’t want to leave my apartment; my husband’s asleep and I want to be sure he’s all right.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The kids watched her rush up the stairs, then heard her say, “Yes, Ms. Mitchell, thank you for calling. We’re very interested in that apartment you listed—” followed by her bedroom door shutting. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Charlie leads us between some giant hedges and the apartment walls. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Ask her when was the last time she left this apartment.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t need a laptop, a smaller class, a teacher with a PhD, or a bigger apartment. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

She read the leaflet again and suddenly remembered where she had heard them—at her brother’s apartment. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Though the small apartment was a third-floor walkup, its proximity to the nursing school enabled Regina to look after her children while attending classes. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

When Koch reached his apartment on Manhattan’s Riverside Drive, he unfolded the map. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

And I come into the apartment, walking with so little a limp that only I notice it. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Dad and Mother moved to another New York apartment on Riverside Drive, where Mary and Ernestine were born. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The apartment filled with delicious smells, and his stomach grumbled. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Shin had not thought to follow him and see what apartment building he had disappeared into. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

"I'm fighting with you over how you can't cook anything and how I have to come home from chem lab to a stinky apartment and no dinner and you tell me this now?" Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

It’s a long way to the train station and back again to the apartment on Cite Pigalle; the wait is an eternity for Jo. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I said, “Don’t you think it’s so weird that we were in the apartment together eight months ago and now we’re in this office together?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

My apartment, groceries, and utilities would all be free. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, while lying in bed, he heard a body hit the floor in the boy’s apartment, and he heard the woman scream from across the street. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not back in South El Paso, where he had first lived in a little apartment above a bar, then in a little adobe house that had a cesspool instead of a sewer. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The apartment was so empty and so quiet. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

After dinner he took Deborah back to the apartment she loved and said good night. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Its twenty-odd rooms are separated into grace-and-favor apartments for those members of the faculty unable to find, or afford, other quarters. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our apartment looks way bigger without all the furniture and stuff. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The Collins apartment became a home to Bobby in every way, the boy being thought of as part of the family. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

From inside the apartment, a man was groaning, deep and eerie sounds; they were the groans of a person for whom groaning was the only choice left, and they frightened her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

We did not stay in the small apartment my mother found on Bristol Street, Brownsville, Brooklyn, USA. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

A month after that a guy in full uniform came to our apartment to tell Moms the bad news. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I take another look at the whole apartment, inhale deeply, step outside, and close the door. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have anything invested in Africa yet but a little old apartment boudoir decorated to the best of my abilities in blush pink. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw this at about three o’clock in the morning, alone in my apartment, on a black-and-white set with lots of interference. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

As he dressed he thought about asking Kevin to help him unload the apartments, but decided against it. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

At the apartment, Jule shoved the stack of mail upside down in a drawer and hid her wallet while Brooke wandered around. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

In the apartment, I go to the table and take out the tree book. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

It was a typical student apartment: prints of modern French paintings tacked onto the walls and books and papers piled on tables and chairs. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even then I wondered why anyone would ever want to break into our apartment. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Hussein turned, lowered his head, and began to walk toward the footpath that led to his apartment complex. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Even without Carlos, the apartment was crowded, but it was home and Alex had no complaints. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

When I had been creating my first version of the House of Moneekrom up in our apartment, that building had seemed big, but it wasn’t really. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“Did you get kicked out of your apartment?” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Is that how people introduce themselves around here, by their apartment numbers? A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The rat-faced rhymer picked at his teeth with a dirty claw as he turned his attention to the darkened windows of our upstairs apartment. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The house had three front doors opening onto the porch, one for each apartment. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The rubbish-littered, lifeless roof of his apartment building as always depressed him. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

She flipped on every light in the apartment in what seemed like two seconds. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Each morning, before heading off to work, he drives over to his mother’s apartment. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Well, did she give you a key to her apartment?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He let us stay in his apartment a few nights and decided to throw a little party for my father. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Tonight’s the night,” he once shouted as he ran into Buck’s apartment near the end of a race season, “the Cougar howls!” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deb figures the clue out, and the next, each one leading to somewhere else, hidden in the apartment. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

So whoever arrived first and set up residence in houses or apartments can claim them as theirs. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had access to four apartments, all filled with things that could be used and bartered. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

We went over to Erlan’s apartment to watch the very first episode of their television show on Friday night, me and Mom and Dad. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

She takes the train uptown and they meet at his apartment, where lunch is waiting. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He worked in the Japanese embassy and lived in an apartment building popular among congressmen. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Jimmy unloaded the cartons from the van to the first floor, and then Alex carried them upstairs, where Lorraine met him and brought the cartons into her apartment. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Across a low cement wall is the upper level of our neighbor’s apartment, whose glass doors also open onto the terrace. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The apartment’s entrance was marred by a rusty fire escape running up the front, and there was only one small bedroom—but the rent was $45 a month. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It’s fine with him, not to have their apartment crammed with a dozen crystal vases and platters and matching pots and pans. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Guess what—I have new tenants for my apartment. How about that, then?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Alone in Uncle Milton’s apartment, surrounded by horses, with only the Grubhub delivery guy for company. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The apartment was on the top floor--a small living room, a small dining room, a small bedroom and a bath. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The apartment is empty, so I take my laptop to the dining table and position myself facing the front door to watch for Muhammad’s potential reentry. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Serber and his wife packed up their car, drove west, and moved into the apartment above Oppenheimer’s garage. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now she rose languidly and walked slowly through the heat to the fountain in the center of the courtyard of her apartment. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Finally I got the apartment superintendent on the phone. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went to the housing office at MIT and found a furnished apartment a few blocks away, with a double bed and a private kitchen and bath, for forty dollars a week. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Auburn Prison, meanwhile, had been built in the style of Newgate Prison in New York City, with inmates housed in “apartments” holding two to twenty inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the back of the apartment, the twins laugh. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he wants to go back to the apartment, climb into the loft bed and forget about sightseeing, hold Moushumi in his arms. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But because all we can afford right now is this small apartment, now my parents can’t stand to be near each other. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

To reach our apartment building, we had to round a corner by one of the ghetto gates where several guards always stood on sentry duty. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

As we approach the apartment complex, we see the flashing lights. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

What I needed to do was find an apartment in town, the kind of building where single, plain girls lived, spinsters, secretaries, teachers. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Not exactly. Look, we’re wasting time. We need to get into Mr. X’s apartment. To see what the key opens. I have a feeling it’s important.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Downstairs from Meme’s is a basement apartment that Meme’s mother fixed up and rented to a Puerto Rican family. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

She waddles down the stairs and onto a cement patio enclosed on all sides by other apartments. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quang-ha opens the apartment door and we both can see right away that the room has taken on a totally different quality. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Inside Erlan’s apartment, there were tons of people walking around, setting food on tables, moving furniture, turning on great big light stands. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Change of plans. We’re going to gather in their apartment for dinner. We thought it would be easier, given...” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I took my test in Paris, in the basement of an engineering school not far from my apartment. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“You’ve tricked me,” he blurted out, and stalked out of the apartment, never to go back. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Aurelia had not emerged from her apartment since the encounter with her father. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

But she seemed relaxed and knew to go to Miss Martin's apartment after dance. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t any fun sitting around their apartment all the time. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, a male voice shouted from another part of the apartment, “Eric? That you?” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He raised a finger to his lips and pretended to tiptoe the rest of the way into the apartment, dissolving into even louder laughter a few seconds later. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I’m hardly ever by myself in the apartment because Amá is always all up in my business and won’t leave me behind. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Madrina, the owner of our building, who lets us rent for mad cheap, has to catch her breath when she reaches our apartment. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

In hostile silence, the girls stared out of opposite windows until the cab pulled up in front of Selena’s apartment house. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Around 2 a.m., the party moved from the banquet hall to Baba’s apartment. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

We spent a merry, uneventful Christmas with Toot in her apartment, opening gifts and marveling at her devotion to the five-thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle she had going on a card table. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They weren’t a mile from Luke’s apartment when Jimmy fell asleep. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Every Saturday night, her apartment filled with the heavenly smells of saffron, yerba buena, cilantro, and perejil. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It gave him a little shock to see his mother all of a sudden, in the transparent stockings and shoulder-padded suits she wore to her job, peering into the corners of Mrs. Sen’s apartment. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She sold the house and moved into an apartment, and they lived together for a while. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The special floundered, not knowing what to do; a variety of mute expressions crossed his face and then, turning, he shuffled out of the apartment, leaving Rick alone. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

We made the arrangements, and I was glad to get out of the filthy apartment again. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The cold air that rushed in gave Gerald the fresh breaths he needed, but it also fueled the anger of the flames in the apartment and in Jordan Sparks. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house had three front doors opening onto the porch, one for each apartment. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

In April 1960, Francis Crick and Jacob met at Sydney Brenner’s cramped apartment in Cambridge to discuss the identity of this mysterious intermediate. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

They searched his grandparents’ apartment and seized the radio, extra flyers, and the typewriter. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I arrive at Dell's office and we pretend, as always, that nothing has changed and we don't live in the same apartment complex on the same floor of the same neighborhood of Bakersfield. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

She made the turn that would lead them back to the apartment complex. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

When I knocked on the door of her apartment, Aunt Betts opened the door, saw who I was, and slammed the door in my face. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wished Mr. Black had written about him, and risked his life to tell the world about him, and had reminders of him around his apartment. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I made my way to Abuela’s apartment to talk to her. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Still Helen stood now, desperate, prideless, before Theresa’s blank apartment door. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And when we get back to my apartment, we are not going to do platonic-bro things.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

So she knew the parrot was there because she kept going up and down the stairs from her apartment door to the front door to see if Joe was coming down the street. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plan of the house is simple, two immense rooms per floor, each of which, he is certain, is larger than his own apartment. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t at his apartment, and when we went by the Albemarle, his car wasn’t there. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

When he hiked past Lowell Park, saw the men playing chess at the park benches, saw the complicated graffiti on the side of one of the apartment buildings, he began to relax. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I should have realized he would be at her apartment, but I really had no way of contacting him there. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Dr. Pérez led us on a tour of the patients’ quarters, including little houses and apartments set among gardens and palm trees. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I kept expecting him to turn around, to look at the other apartments, but he only stood with his hand gripping the top of his skateboard and stared at our door. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Because you are not at your apartment,” his mother says. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The boy coming to the apartment, me going to Capitol Oaks, finding the boy with Maribel that day. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

She calls his apartment and gets no answer. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a large room and looked to be the exact size of the apartment in which my father and I lived. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Far down the road, apartment buildings framed a view of the bay with Alcatraz island smack dab in the middle. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

In her apartment, she sank into her borrowed bed and wrapped herself in the quilt. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He sat down on the couch, and presently as he sat there in the silence of the apartment, among the non-stirring objects, the special Mr. Isidore appeared at the door. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

"Now, Rémy will accompany you everywhere you need to go, and stand guard outside the Belle apartments at all times. Be sure to heed his instructions." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It was much larger than Charles and Camilla’s apartment, and a good deal emptier. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

"Our whole family is here now. It's time she returns home for good. She'll be arriving Friday and staying with me until she finds her own apartment. I'm preparing a welcome-back feast." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I began to wander aimlessly through the rooms of the apartment. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

There's no telling when the creature in there will come to life, snarling and roaring, devouring the trash that comes hurtling down chutes from the apartments above. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He could sense right away that the apartment was empty and had been for a while. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I bet he’s been stuck in the apartment a lot. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

We were at my apartment then, so I said, “Let’s go to your place and I’ll help you decide which of your books you don’t read. I’ll even help you throw them out.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I can't go to California. I need to find an apartment.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

White faces filled the apartment windows all round him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

We are only a forty-minute drive to my mother’s apartment in San Francisco. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone played outside all the time because there was nothing to do in our small apartments. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Holmes went alone to examine the apartment and met John Oker. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

For a half second, Luke thought about running back to the apartment and forgetting all of it. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“We already did that. Haven’t located Magistrate Riker yet, but Mr. Harrison Weed is currently busy having what was left of his stuff moved to a nearby apartment.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“So we're good to go on the apartment. We can have it whenever we want. My friend will just stay with her boyfriend.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Aunt Cleo was living in a rented room and I invited her to share the apartment with me, my mother, and brother, and she consented. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scent of the onion rings travels throughout the whole apartment. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Releasing the handles, he examined his arm, then made his way unsteadily to the bathroom of his apartment to wash the cut off. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

As the deportation proceeded, I rushed downstairs to the shoemaker's apartment to get a street-level view of what was happening. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I guess that what influenced me to get my first actual apartment was my not wanting Reginald to be knocking around Harlem without anywhere to call “home.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had heard Mr. Rochester assign him an apartment below—what brought him here! Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Toby woke up confused, calling into the alien apartment. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She called him at work, or left messages at his apartment that he would receive days later. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And when he’s moving at a trot to catch up, I make an unexpected dart through the front door of an apartment building. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The apartment itself is small but luxurious, with built-in mahogany bookcases rising to the ceiling and dark, oily, wide-planked floors. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jack Collins, one of the great teachers of chess, lived with his sister Ethel in Brooklyn and was host to a chess salon in his apartment called the Hawthorne Chess Club, which met there regularly. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They walked into the apartment in awkward silence. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Angela, too frightened to notice that Sydelle ran through the apartment with her crutch in the air, found her partner in the bathroom frantically tossing soiled towels from the hamper. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The restaurant is part of a whole block of Korean businesses lodged in converted row apartments dating from the fifties, when the population was still Italian and Irish and Jewish. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Officer Delinko started up the car and headed for his apartment. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, Fred took one last lap around the apartment. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Glass, pieces of Sheetrock, broken furniture, cups, nail polish, pans, hair brushes, mirrors, bottles, plates, rugs, clothes—almost everything imaginable floated in streams of water from apartments that looked like flooded basements. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I pull the key to our apartment out of my shoe and wriggle it in the lock. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Everyone ran, including the shooter, who dashed back to his apartment. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure why I brought it with me, but I know I’m not going back to that apartment! Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know if we could even get the apartment yet, I told her. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The air in the apartment is cold, and I pull my coat back on. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

A few weeks later I stumbled home from the garage apartment late one night, drunk on some gin filched from a friend’s parents’ liquor cabinet. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bridge and Tab were standing outside Tab’s apartment door, Tab feeling for her keys in her book bag, when the door was wrenched open from the inside. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Looking back, they probably thought we were Muslim immigrants who were going to cram into Ellie’s little apartment and cook smelly food and act unEnglish or something. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I knew she couldn’t come up to my apartment to see me for the same reason I couldn’t call her on the phone anymore, even if I wanted to all the time. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Francis’s apartment was in an ugly 1970s building owned by the college. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Despite Francis’s insistence that he come to his house for a while, he insisted on going home to his own apartment. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It takes four trips to haul everything up to our second-floor apartment and into our small kitchen. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

His father sold the house and they moved to a garden apartment where no memories lurked around corners. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to talk to him about this on the bus or at school, while other kids are around, so I decide to visit his apartment on Saturday. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

But that was the only time Bri escaped from the apartment, and Alex couldn’t find it in his heart to forbid her. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

There, we all crammed into a tiny rental apartment—my parents, Heritage, Princesse, Alex, and me—with just a bedroom and a half. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Hua-hua was sleepy and did not want to play patty-cake or any of our usual games, but we stayed at my Fourth Aunt’s apartment until we heard the footsteps going down the stairs. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took a picture of every doorknob in the apartment. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

After the falling we took the A train to their new apartment, played on the beach till the sun went down, Mama quiet on a blanket looking out at the water. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

He was living in Hyde Park, subletting an apartment from a friend. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

No more writing songs in my apartment, songs that no one would hear. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in time, we had six children; moved from the shotgun to a duplex apartment to a house, and lived the dream—high school football on Friday nights. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

An Yi dashed into our apartment, full of alarm. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

What had Zane ever used his Talent for, anyway, besides busting giant holes in his family’s apartment wall? A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

There’s always pot at Aaron’s house; he has a room with an entirely separate ventilation system and lockable door that his parents could rent out as another apartment. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Still, I like sitting on the apartment’s front steps, watching kids play pickup, double Dutch. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

She saw a loft apartment filled with Roman demigods. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I think about Constantine, after living fifty years in the country, sitting in a tiny apartment in Chicago. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Like the apartment owners, the corporation had departed, evidently for good. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Outside Goetz’s apartment building, on the evening of the verdict, there was a raucous, impromptu street party. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They soon arrived at a decrepit apartment building across from the graveyard. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

With shaking hands, he unlocked the door to the apartment, and yelled through the door, “Get out now! I have a gun!” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I pulled up outside of Daisy’s apartment complex and parked Harold. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Back at the apartment I rigged the micro-recorder up to our stereo. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would spend hours in the apartment, napping, sulking, rereading her same five Bengali novels on the bed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was the one not fabulous section in Brandywine, a narrow valley of older apartment houses between the dumps and the highway that bordered the next school district. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The sound of Daddy pulling back the shower curtain echoes throughout the apartment. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She thought about how she could never go over to her father’s apartment without calling first, although it never seemed like another woman had been there. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They would not have to come back to the apartment all summer long. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

When school let out for the summer, Monique let Jordan move back into the apartment. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon we’ll move into apartments on the other side of the compound. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Bodega? Bodega lives in a lotta places. He has apartments all over the neighborhood. You got to have many places and juggle your place of dwellin’ in order to create confusion. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Hunt paced the dark sidewalk in front of Dr. Fielding’s apartment building. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“All of ’em crammed into a tiny apartment with only one bathroom over in Little Italy,” said Miguel. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

We took the package Frank was given to an apartment downtown near Roosevelt Hospital. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

"Get out of my apartment immediately," said Mr. Samsa and pulled open the door, without letting go of the women. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was April who got the idea of going around the apartment house and asking all the ladies if they had any old junk jewelry that they were willing to sell. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if he had come to the apartment late that night, Maud would have thrown him out of her room, not knocked back a shot of poison. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

On that same day in August, just a few minutes before twelve, Melanie Ross arrived at the door of Mrs. Hall’s apartment on the third floor. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hernandez’s roommate found her body in her apartment the morning of October 27. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Only three or four people live on this floor—about ten vacant apartments. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

After spending the first year and a half of my legal career sleeping on Steve Bright's living room couch in Atlanta, it was time to find an apartment of my own. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He didn’t care about the money or finding a new apartment or his mom going back to school. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I walk into the apartment and see the clock on the microwave flashing 12:05 A.M. and laugh out loud. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Mom and I follow her two floors up to her apartment. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

They shut Boots in the wine vault, closing the door behind them, and walked back through the villa to Marcus’s apartment. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The door to the hall was ajar, and since the door to the apartment was also open, one saw out into the landing of the apartment and the start of the staircase going down. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dominga convinces other immigrants in her apartment complex to sign up. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

That didn’t seem like something a ghost would put in front of his apartment. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve just come to live in the apartment house next door, with my grandmother. I used to live in Hollywood with my mother.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

You’re both standing in the hall next to the door of her apartment, because you told her you weren’t coming in until you said what you had to say. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

One evening, when they were living in the new apartment, Danny came home loaded, in a rage. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He drove one of the rental cars to Fielding’s apartment house, a walkie-talkie on the seat beside him. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

As Meng and Pa talk, I lean against the railing and look at the movie theater across the street from our apartment building. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Part of my job was to deliver the trees to people's apartments. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

On the old man's next birthday, she appeared at the apartment with her little girl. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I wake up early the next morning and wait for Dylan near the elevators in the lobby of the director apartments. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Pattie makes it to the apartment just as the horizon is going purple. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

My mother moved to a new apartment but had lost most of our possessions. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Before I tell you what happened then, I have to tell you about the house, which is practically indescribable if the only sort of houses you’ve lived in before are apartments in New York City. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere along the line they started buying buildings, apartments, and houses, and now they had six properties with eighteen tenants. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I also try all the apartment buildings listed, finding, at the two buildings where someone actually answers, that they want twelve-month leases. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got a surprise for them,” she said, disappearing down the stairs to her apartment. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

But these unbelievably elegant apartments will be shown by appointment only. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

While they’re doing that, I look inside the apartment, and it’s all different. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Alex thought, not for the first time, how ironic it was that they were living in a sixteen-story building and could only get into four apartments. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“My neighbors are all eyes, and men coming in and out of my apartment...Well, you can see how that would look.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

His father had been a janitor for our apartment high-rise before he died, his late mother a cook at my grade school. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I leave a note on the kitchen table, grab my keys, and slip out of the apartment before Mom and Richard wake up. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

She hid in her father’s apartment or managed to be with a group of people every time he saw her. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up in the apartment, as I pick up the phone, I’m already asking myself why I’m dialing the number. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I started looking around her apartment for her. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

After lunch I was a little bored and I wandered around the apartment. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

The lamplight was warm and the apartment still and snug. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Spoon burst into the apartment, peeling off his overcoat and throwing down his briefcase in one movement. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went; following the superintendent’s guidance, we had to thread some intricate passages, and mount a staircase before we reached her apartment; it contained a good fire, and looked cheerful. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Great. There is a car waiting outside your apartment, ready to take you to John F. Kennedy International Airport. Pack whatever you like. The car is ready when you are.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Instead of staying in a hotel, they stay in an apartment in the Bastille which belongs to a friend of Moushumi’s, a male friend named Emanuel, a journalist, who is on holiday in Greece. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The door to the upstairs apartment was unlocked, and Mia looked up, alarmed, as Mrs. Richardson came into the kitchen. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They raced up the stairs to James’s apartment and kicked off their shoes. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Calamity shot past him into the empty apartment, sniffed. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Without a word, he storms out of my apartment. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

And by that, he meant sitting in his apartment. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I usually walk around the apartment wrapped in a blanket and wearing a hat, looking like a fool. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Schatzman, down the hall, and the Krasnow sisters a floor below, with seven children between them, came into the apartment and took over, closing the bedroom door behind them. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The crisscross metal fence around the apartment we rent sags in the middle from the weather, from the weight of too many kids leaning up against it, from the neglect of the owner. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Annie looked back at the apartment one more time and—with an air of urgency—leaned forward and kissed Luke hard. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

LeAlan: When we were knocking on the doors of the apartment building where it happened—I mean, this touched me—a young man that answered the door said he was thirty-seven years old. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our apartment building in LA had a few pots with some flowers and a big old lemon tree, but that was it. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Our little convention seems to be getting rather unwieldy,” Ignatius said of the mad noises issuing from Dorian’s apartment. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Lady Camellia is not to have any newspapers or tattlers or scandal sheets brought to the apartments. Beauty pamphlets and beauty-scopes only." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

We boarded up the windows of our ground-floor apartment, and I helped my parents tape Xs across the windowpanes to prevent the glass from shattering. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Now they were picnicking near where their apartment used to be. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, where there should have been a long, windowless hall with dark green numbered doors leading into other apartments, there was a greening field and a lowering sky. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She got down off the window sill to explore the apartment. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

But even when her nightmares seemed so real—down to the scratchy carpet of their apartment that would always be caked with dust—they were nothing more than flimsy images shot through with fear. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The jury's waiting for me in a luxury Manhattan apartment building, and the last thing I want to do is face Martin and his parents. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There were windows open in the upstairs apartment that faced the back; I heard people talking, listening to the radio, moving around. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

We carried our few belongings up the stairs to the one-room apartment awaiting us. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Pushing his glasses back on the bridge of his nose, Kelvin says, “Nature’s amazing. It’s better than a park. Way better than my apartment building surrounded by gravel and weeds.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Our apartment door was unlocked when I got home from school that Friday, which was strange. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

It occurred to me then that this cop was the first visitor I’d ever had in my apartment in all the time I’d lived there. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Generose hadn’t understood that they had reached their final destination, that the empty apartment where they had spent the night and where they were now gathered was where they would live. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

They were looking for an apartment, and after a long search, my father found one in a London suburb. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He let himself out of the apartment quietly, so quietly that he surprised two drug addicts fumbling in the hall toilet. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

In their apartment, where only Italian was spoken, Louise and Anthony called their boy Toots. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

One of them is not in the apartment, Mercer had said. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Together, we would never have fitted into either of our apartments. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“At his apartment. This morning,” she said, going back to her lunch. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The Poles who had pillaged our neighbors' apartment had tipped them off, telling them that we were Jews and that my father had refused to hand over the key. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“I need to keep an eye on the apartment.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

She turned over to cool her back and to look up at the apartment buildings. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He’s talking to some of the older boys so I take my time walking down the stairs, through the school yard and back to the apartment. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

First off, I suggested that she might think of finding an arrangement like mine: a room in someone’s nice apartment in exchange for taking care of children or the elderly. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled out a folded piece of paper I had been carrying around since that night in Abuela’s apartment. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The apartment had only two little bedrooms, one bathroom, a living area, and a kitchen—a lot smaller than our house in Kansas. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

"I love my little apartment. Crazy how much Flushing felt like home when I moved back." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Fermin gestures for me to follow her to the back of the apartment, to his bedroom. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could easily make out all those apartment complexes-—shadowed squares and rectangles around half-empty ponds of asphalt. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

It was a little overwhelming how different James’s apartment felt from Emily’s, which was nearly identical in layout but nothing else. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I think back to one of our apartments where the landlords kept llamas in their field. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The apartment was cluttered with tables and chairs piled high with books and papers. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

When he stood up, glancing at Annie’s apartment, unease fluttered in his stomach for what he was about to say. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I’ll reorganize myself in the apartment if you reorganize my life? Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Julia left the apartment late that night, in good spirits, Mrs. Crowe later recalled: “there was nothing about her conversation that would lead any of us to think she intended going away that night.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Like, if the apartment is on fire, he’s grabbing us and that mug. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Over at Koch’s apartment, he and Froelick made adjustments as their next deadline loomed. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He steps to the side so I can walk into the apartment. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The apartment was a two-bedroom, so Maya guessed the conversation about whether she and Lauren would have separate bedrooms was out of the question. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Why do I need TV when I have forty-eight apartment windows to watch across the vacant lot, and a sliver of Lake Erie? Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll need you. For getting myself adequate furniture. From other apartments, as you said.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The apartment was warm, the air rouged with cinnamon and fir. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It was in the nineties with dizzying humidity, but neither of us wanted me going in that apartment alone with him. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

On that first day of tryouts, Jeremiah played with all of the joyful abandon you might expect of an eight-year-old who had been stuck inside a dark two-bedroom apartment for months. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The silence that follows is so complete that I can make out the frantic chirps from the birds in the apartment across the hall. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

When he turned in to the apartment, Luke was sitting on the steps waiting for him. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to try apartment eleven F. If I’m not back in half an hour, go there and see what’s happening.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I can’t leave the apartment again because Amá decided to ransack my room to make sure I didn’t have anything else that might be considered scandalous or immoral. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

As Dolores slid into her car, she spied the papers strewn across the passenger’s seat, the mail she’d grabbed from the box on her way out of the apartment. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“And what if someone says, ‘But I have heard voices in your apartment, little girl...’” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They kept a clean, comfortable apartment, furnished with heavy dark mahogany pieces. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The apartment is on the fourth floor, four rooms, and there’s a rented piano in it. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The building had once been a private house, but the new owner had divided it in half to make a two-room apartment in the back and a bar facing the street. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Turtle tiptoed through the sleeping apartment to retrieve it and climbed back into bed, the dead man staring at her from the front page. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Poppy acted as if their modern apartment on the Ramallah road was still surrounded by shepherds. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I run back to the apartment like I’m skating on ice, like I’ve got the wings of a fighter plane, bursting through the door so quickly that Helena gives a little scream. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

This morning, I am stuck at a noodle shop a block from our apartment in this big chair. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For $365 a month, she rented a room in a friend’s Brooklyn apartment on a street lined with aluminum-sided row houses and American flags. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

And what kind of an apartment was this? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The drive was in daylight this time, all the way, even though it had taken them a long while to get everything ready and the apartment locked up. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

But his apartment was also incredibly different, because it was filled with different stuff. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Carver School is twelve blocks from our apartment. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I would wake up in the night in Velma’s tiny little apartment thinking I was in that cell in Montgomery,” she remembers. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The baby, wearing a soggy-looking droopy diaper, was calling, “Mommy . . . mommy . . .” And another kid was howling somewhere in the apartment. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I forced a smile and watched as she slipped back into her apartment. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Emily returned to her apartment later that morning, still trying to wrap her head around her big discovery. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was always so neat in Vega’s apartment. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The apartment wasn’t big, but he still ran across the living room, nearly killing himself when he didn’t see one of the boys’ scooters lying across the floor. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The apartment is jammed with them: thousands on the counters, in drawers, on the toilet tank. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It's one of those assisted living homes where you have your own apartment, but someone is there to check on you and help you with things. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girls rented an apartment in Harvard Square. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t say anything,” I told Maribel as we squeezed in the door to my apartment. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

There were so many piles, you had to wriggle through their apartment in little pathways between the clutter, like you were stumbling through a tight maze. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

So to survive year-round, I would have had to save enough, in the months between August 1999 and May 2000, to accumulate the first month’s rent and deposit on an actual apartment. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Furnished and unfurnished rooms and apartments are available at all times, with or without meals. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

It was the only air-conditioned room in the apartment. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ma had a huge collection of these Pez containers in our apartment. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

It was strange seeing how much bigger the apartment was than their own, how much airier and lighter. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

From houses with lawns to luxury apartments to small, ramshackle homes and Housing Authority apartments. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They live together in an apartment near the college. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

A month’s rent in the worst apartment in New York: $1,150. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

IS: I got her an apartment till she gets herself set up. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Once he’d moved into his new apartment, Bobby’s daily pattern changed. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Five of us moved into apartment 4S, and Mama was thrilled with the spaciousness of the arrangements. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

She had to question the logic of pretending to live in Dell Duke's apartment. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me,” I say, “but do either of you know of any empty apartments?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

We met them in apartments, parking lots, coffee shops, high-rise lobbies, and on street comers. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Instead of a house, we moved into a small, tired-looking apartment. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Standing in their new apartments, the air noxious with the smell of paint, the customers would determine the order of their new lives. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Our apartment building in Chesterfield was one story, shaped like a U around a courtyard. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

When the place where he’d hoped to mount the show falls through, he decides to hang the paintings right in their apartment. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

There is no answer at his office or at his apartment and so she tries the number she has written down for Maxine. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

One morning in late 2001, when Whitiker was alone and the apartment was uncharacteristically quiet, the mail arrived and, in it, an envelope from the state boards. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I was parked a few doors up from our apartment, so I assumed that the officers would drive by in pursuit of some urgent mission. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I put the phone receiver down very gently on the kitchen counter, and then I run up to Safer’s apartment. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Then her brother moved in, so you had three adults and two children in a two-bedroom apartment, which was just not working out. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slip past her, down the hall to the very last apartment. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“It’s got its own entrance. The apartment, I mean. It’s private. We won’t bother you.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

When I finally get in, the apartment is dark; the drapes are drawn, the windows are closed, and there’s an odd smell. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He watched South Korean life unfold from the windows of his apartment. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Then, as Alex walked down the short flight of outdoor steps to his family’s basement apartment, the electricity went out. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Lori, who was still living in her apartment near the Port Authority, was more in touch with Mom and Dad, but she, too, had gone her own way. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

After dropping their school stuff off at their apartments, grabbing snacks, and getting permission to go downtown, Emily and James found themselves riding the bus to the financial district. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

There was an apartment too, with furniture and room for the whole family. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

The boom-bap of early hip- hop, still young and close to its Bronx roots, tumbled out of the apartment buildings, mixed with Spanish music blaring from boom boxes. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She would have closed the door to the apartment and talked him out of his fright in the hall. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides finding him that first apartment, what did this man and his wife ever do for Baba? You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I use keys,” I told him, and I showed him my apartment key. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

We were buzzed in and went into a dimly lit apartment. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Noodles and I both jumped up and looked over at their apartment, thinking that maybe it was Needles coming out to join us. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Inside their small apartment, it felt like an oasis from the chaos in the streets, and it was one of the only places my mother felt really safe. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I went up to our apartment, brush my teeths, and put on my uniform. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Jack’s family apartment occupied the entire second floor of this building in Gdynia. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had grown close with Eldin, the Bosnian goalie, who lived in the same apartment complex. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The same kind of look she had gave me when she first met Rose in our apartment. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

What was so great about a tiny, cramped apartment? he’d always wondered. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The apartment door creaks open, and I hear the click of heels against hardwoods. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The walk from the restaurant to our apartment complex was about ten minutes. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

We lock Helena inside, and I go partway down the stairs, making sure there are no neighbors to see a man coming out of my apartment. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I always knew it wasn't you,” Mosca said as Victor ushered them into his apartment. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

"What floor did the victim live on? Did the apartment get much light?" Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Celia said nothing more until they were inside her apartment with the door closed. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I can just as easily return to my apartments." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The apartment is made up of five hot rooms—two bedrooms, one bath, a living room, and a dining room/kitchen—that feel like the inside of a tandoori oven. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

One night in May, my uncle and I sat on the balcony of his apartment. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When I phoned my apartment,” Rick said, “why didn’t I get my wife?” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

But seriously, three and a half hours in his apartment with no parents, and this is how he wants to spend it? What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

When we got to the twins’ apartment we were relieved to find Charles there, alone. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I squeezed myself into a corner on the other side of a short set of stairs to an apartment building and tried to disappear into the shadows. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

She is Edna’s daughter, the lady who owns the big building next door, three apartments front and back. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anu's apartment, which is pretty fancy, has no garage and one doorman, but the Larsens have two doormen—one for the front door and one for the gate to the garage. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mom cried the first time she saw our apartment. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I close my eyes and picture our apartment and my room. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I turn back just before I leave the apartment. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The drive back to the apartment was quiet. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The man paints the walls of the apartment pink, but it’s not the same, you know. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. That would be stupid. How would you only wear a parka inside your apartment?” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I was holding Victor with one arm around his shoulder and one arm around his stomach as we made our way out of the apartment. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I wonder what Mama would think about the aquarium they have in our old apartment. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I had to leave Ginger back at the apartment because dogs were not allowed at poolside. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t believe in boredom when there’s so much to do around the house, as if cleaning the apartment were as entertaining as a day at the beach. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I close Mae’s apartment door and stand in front of mine. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I can use it to get her back to Orlando, and she can get a summer job and live in an apartment till college starts, and at least we’ll have the summer. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

She told me that the other night she dreamed she had come into the apartment and set fire to all my books and notes, and that we went off dancing around the flames. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The main room of our apartment was large and sunny and decorated with more braided molding. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Since I’ve got no clue where the Van Helsings’ apartment is located, I figure it’s the best place to wait for him. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

She and I were painting an apartment, and he had offered the use of his twelve-foot ladder. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

There was a Baskin-Robbins on the block near Barack’s apartment, and we got ourselves two cones, taking them outside to eat, finding ourselves a spot on the curb. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

This apartment would be a classy place to hole up in for a while, but that’s a luxury we can’t afford. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“I’ll meet you at the door,” he said, tossing on his robe, then making his way through the apartment to the outside door. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

After the show, Craig invited all of us back to his apartment to drink wine and listen to the White Album. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Kelly pulled George into the main room of the basement apartment. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Within days of my departure for the army the police were at my parents’ apartment, looking for me. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Craig and I threw balls and chased each other around the apartment. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Calista practically chewed my head off when I got back inside the apartment. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Max replied cheerfully, and a split second later, my apartment’s security system switched into lockdown mode. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Quang-ha has taken control as the Most Valuable Player of apartment power spraying. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The ghetto authorities, unaware of the exchange my father had made on the side, had assigned them to this apartment. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He worked from dawn into the night in his apartment, scribbling his words in pencil onto a yellow pad. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

In New York they tried to work things out for the sake of the apartment. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Shortly after Miss Fran died, Cynthia was helping her grandfather clean the apartment. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Back in Houston, Leo used to live with his mom in an apartment right off the Gulf Freeway. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He shares a small apartment with his pregnant girlfriend, his sister, and her two children. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It’s the prettiest building in a neighborhood surrounded by run-down apartment buildings and scattered litter in the streets. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The apartment was often as silent as a library. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Immerglick brought me back to her apartment to write their address down for me on a piece of paper. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He’s always called me Mama, since he spent most of his first year strapped to my back with a shawl as I washed dishes and made meals and cleaned the apartment. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And here I was now, twenty-nine years old, sitting in the very same apartment where I'd watched all that TV and consumed all those meals dished up by the patient and selfless Marian Robinson. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

John’s words pulled me to the street outside our apartment on the night Ma sent me after medicine for Missy. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

I hate that he’s about to leave—even though he forced me out of the apartment every day while he was here. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I ask Mom if it’s okay if I run up to Nora’s apartment to tell her, and she says it’s fine. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Optimism reigned in my family’s little apartment on Euclid Avenue. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The lobby of the apartment is warm when he enters, the building’s heat restored. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was aware of absolutely nothing outside myself on the drive to Daisy’s apartment building and then to my house. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He turns and sprints back up to his apartment, and I follow, thinking about how turning someone else’s doorknob is such a small thing but also such a creepy thing. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And our apartment feels darker and more quiet. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

But here I was, roaming the apartment again. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The big clapboard house burned to the ground, but Grandpa and Stanley got out alive, and they moved into a windowless two-room apartment in the basement of an old house around the hill. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

You were just over at my apartment asking about the key. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Small Items shop had overflowed somewhat into their apartment above. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She cleaned apartments and worked for a catering company, both for cash. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I wanted to run back in our little apartment and hide, but something clomp me upside the head. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It was a stiflingly hot August day, and the apartment, a tenth the size of their house on Shogund Street, was sweltering. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He had no idea what Oppenheimer and Tatlock had been up to in her apartment. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had us drop him off at his apartment—he had some excuse, plausible enough, I can’t remember what it was—and when he got out of the car he gave me a hundred-dollar bill. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I knew you had moved, but none of your neighbors seemed to know where. Where is your new apartment? Can I walk you home now?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Papá, I know I shouldn’t say this, but I feel like I’m going crazy being cooped up all day in this tiny apartment, like I am in prison.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

My father came with us to the door of our apartment. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The windows and door were locked, and Mami had warned the night before that I was not to leave the apartment without telling her. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Bobby was content in his basement apartment on Mockingbird Lane in South Pasadena, a small, quiet place out of sight from the world, and he lived there for several years. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

At first, Roza hardly left the apartment, and only nibbled on the food that Sean would bring her in the mornings and evenings. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“When he was little, my father played with her kids here. She was murdered right inside her apartment for trying to stop drug dealers from selling in this very park.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“But there’s someone in the apartment. Maybe it’s the renter?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was sheer chance that Marcus’s mother had not returned to her son’s apartment an hour before to say goodbye to Aurelia formally and make sure she got safely on her way. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

But up there on Lenox, in Violet and Joe Trace’s apartment, the rooms are like the empty birdcages wrapped in cloth. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hold the other three leashes as tight as I can as the dogs and I run back to the apartment building. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

As he spoke, David walked into the apartment and pulled out a wad of cash. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

They hadn’t had any on Saturday, either, and the apartment, which never got much natural light, was dark and unwelcoming. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Mami misses Cuba, where we had an apartment with two bedrooms and a balcony that looked out at the ocean and let in the breezes and the sunshine. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

He bought a violin and spent his evenings playing music in his apartment. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the week, she saw a listing, sent some emails, and went to see the San Francisco apartment. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

We walk past our old apartment and my former schools. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was after the celebration, after we’d returned to the apartment from dinner at Le Cirque. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

The apartment was alive, the sounds of gossip coming from the kitchen as his mother and Eugenia hit it off. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Plus, since my apartment, though rented as “furnished,” contained almost no kitchen items when I moved in, I was forced to acquire my own inventory of spatula, can opener, “utility knife,” broom, etc., at Wal-Mart. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have a nice apartment, very, big, right above the shop.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

We exited the elevator on the top floor and found the front door to our apartment wide open. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Molly waves goodbye to us from the window of her apartment as we flag a cab. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their apartment was a dark, cramped, depressing place behind the candy store. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk around the outside of the apartment at Tatarska 3. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

By the end of the weekend, Dad has moved out of the apartment. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Night after night, the three boys left the flyers in apartment buildings, mailboxes, telephone booths, and other public places. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then I think about it: If the world gets bombed, cockroaches will take over the planet—like they have my apartment complex. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Expecting postings in the lower Hudson Valley, my classmates had begun looking before graduation for cheap, small apartments they could share. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t room for it in our Chicago apartment. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

From my moms and Diego and our apartment and the levee. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

For months the apartment reeked of drying seafood. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was nothing in any of the apartments left to barter. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

It is a question she poses to him often, as they leaf together through apartments featured in Architectural Digest or the design section of the Times magazine. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Was she maybe staying in an apartment where one of them had once lived? Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The study was the darkest room in the apartment because it had no windows, and my father always worked with the desk lamp on, the yellow light bathing the desk and the floor around it. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Gogol looks up at the building, wondering which of the apartments is hers, waiting to see if a light will turn on in one of the windows. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a small apartment, only four rooms, but there was enough stuff in it to fill twenty. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The apartment was too small for everyone, the father argued. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The agencies said they would scatter the Bantu around the various apartment complexes in town, wherever they could find space. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

To any place, to any apartment, to anything. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She’d mentally charted her route to the roof of her apartment building. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later, the dogs are all back in their apartments, and I’m back in mine. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

However, 110 one called enticingly from the shutters; those devious mentalities throbbing away in their dark apartments were apparently more subtle seducers. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the power went out, he cursed and fussed and left the apartment in a fury, heading for a bar where he could sit in cool air, sipping cold drinks. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I’d go home to my little apartment and heat a TV dinner, and feel all virtuous, like I’m supposed to. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Poppy and Granny were both asleep, and the apartment was tidy. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Aaron lived in a small apartment in a big building in downtown Manhattan by City Hall. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The door to our apartment was carved with more bunches of grapes and leaves. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The first time I brought Annemarie home to our apartment after school, I wished for two things. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I hang out with Mop and Bren every day after my shifts at the restaurant, I see Carmen occasionally around the apartment complex, and I eat a ton of ice cream. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s fun. You go in and turn an empty apartment into a home.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Alex left Julie in the apartment and went up to check out the four vacant apartments for which he had keys. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Marie-Laure drags the heavy rag rug from the floor of Madame Manec’s apartment all the way to the sixth floor and drapes it over her quilt. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

On freezing days I have to take bus 209, which is the bus that goes to the apartments, the trailer park outside of town, and all the way out in the boondocks. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

But she is happy with the apartment—there are so many doors, you could play hide-and-seek all day, she tells her sister. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Waiting alone for Daddy in our kitchenette apartment. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Luke was sitting on the steps of the apartment, Annie right behind him with her arms draped over his shoulders. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Shells are launched into the row of apartments, setting off the chain of explosions we heard, and the building collapses into rubble and dust. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Lori, meanwhile, had given Mom a deadline to clean out the apartment. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

And where could you rent such a comfortable ground-floor apartment with a place for your car outside the door? Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In another moment I was within that apartment. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

My family was living in an apartment in a tall tower in Birmingham and visiting me every day. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

One Friday she finds herself alone in Dimitri’s apartment; he goes out as soon as she arrives, to buy a stick of butter for a white sauce he is making to pour over trout. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The security door to the upstairs apartment creaked open, and a shadowy figure stepped out. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I sat down on the ground and wondered if it would be overly wimpy to cry in the lobby of an apartment building in Corona. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Within the apartment he saw darkness and indistinct shapes, two of them. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The rest of the time, she lives in Aunt Tara and Uncle Amit's Manhattan penthouse, which is three times the size of our apartment. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I cared for him in the world as I could not care for him in the apartment. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I sound exactly like a boy who’s been making out with his boyfriend in an empty apartment. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Martin lets me drive the Porsche through the city to our apartment so I get to practice driving. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Every unlikely way the Gestapo could have found Max and my sister in the apartment is running through my head like a cinema film I’d never want to see. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Pong and Somkit had been hiding in Mark's sister's apartment, squeezed in with her parents and four children. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

It’s a picture of his old acoustic guitar, leaning against a worn nightstand in his new apartment. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The place came furnished, but it didn’t have the kind of plain furnishings you might expect from a rental apartment. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It seemed to take no time at all to reach their apartment. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The probability that he could rent this place out would increase significantly if the apartment were vacant.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The apartment consists of three rooms all in a row without a corridor. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He stopped in front of a tall apartment building. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

On the way we stopped at a hardware store and I made a copy of the key, so that she could let herself into the apartment. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want to attend his father’s alma mater, and live in an apartment in Central Square as his parents once had, and revisit the streets about which his parents speak nostalgically. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In truth, she didn’t like staying for too long in our apartment alone. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Last time Mama took out a loan, she had to use bill money to pay it back and we almost got kicked out of our apartment for missing rent. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Now, unless this was a mouse the size of a bear, someone was trying to break into our apartment! When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

No one would think to look for them before that, and he could just take the laundry up and fold it in the apartment. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But I sat, because if I walked out of that apartment, we would most likely never discuss what happened. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

One rainy day back in second grade her mom was so strung out on drugs that she couldn’t unlock the door to let Fuchsia into their apartment after school. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

We’d agreed that this is the best setup for video chatting with Dad as he sometimes starts asking about Mom’s buying habits if he glimpses anything new in the apartment. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

If you want a day alone, you will obviously have to get out of the apartment. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

So we applied to get an apartment in the Red Hook Housing Projects in Brooklyn. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we were too little for school, Sal and I went to day care together at a lady’s apartment down the block. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

She taught me to make challah, but Bubbe says the kitchen in her New York apartment is too cramped for showing me more complicated recipes. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Pesza also spent the night at her factory, which meant my mother and I were alone in our apartment. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

At 158th Street the cab stopped at one slice in a long white cake of apartment houses. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Then I pause to look around the apartment. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Luke grabbed his shoes and the heavy-duty garbage bags he’d kept stashed behind the couch, and checked on the boys one last time before he quietly stepped outside onto the walkway of their apartment. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Usually Toby showed up at his apartment, rubbing at his stomach or arm like he’d run through a patch of poison ivy. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Given her size and her difficulty with stairs, she seems the wrong person to live in the apartment next to the phone, but nobody asked me. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Years later, when the three of us came on Memorial Day for the summer-long stay with my father, he had the houselady prepare the apartment above the garage for us. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm working hard in my acting classes, and I also spend a lot of time reading scripts and monologues alone in my apartment. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Right? 2ND JUROR: That’s right. 8TH JUROR: Second, the woman in the apartment across the street. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The women are talking about the Jongs’ China trip, then they move toward a room in the back of the apartment. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sets his fingers atop the roof of the apartment house in which he kneels. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

To her surprise, finding herself once again in the gloomy three-room apartment, Ashima misses the hustle-bustle of the hospital, and Patty, and the Jell-O and ice cream brought at regular intervals to her side. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

My apartment building, and everything else in my neighborhood, gets smaller and smaller as we continue to rise. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

My only memory of her is early in the morning in her apartment in London—she’s smiling and reaching out to take my box of KittyBix. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It was a large apartment house with lots of halls and I couldn’t find my way to the staircase. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

And in these apartments there’s been nobody there to fight the kipple.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

First, I go to my apartment to take a quick shower and change my clothes, so Nora doesn’t see paint splatter on me. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

From there, a team of friends, many of them students, helped arrange a series of hiding spots at apartments around town. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Bill made money enough in that apartment speakeasy to open up a Creole restaurant famous in Harlem. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He came back when I realized you weren’t at Nora’s apartment,” Mom says. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The night rages on in one continuous loop of laughter and dancing and questions and excitement until I'm brought to the Belle apartments right after the midnight star rises. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I reply with news about my job, my apartment, and the weather. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The apartment door opens, and Mom comes in. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Mom’s holding a box cutter and leaning over one of the billion boxes piled up around the apartment. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He held a cardboard box with both hands; when he entered the apartment he did not set it down. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

He worked late at night in a small room we’d converted to a study at the rear of our apartment—a crowded, book-strewn bunker I referred to lovingly as the Hole. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He crossed the street and started down a block he hardly ever walked on, a block of low apartment buildings, a store-front church, a delicatessen, a pawn shop, and on the corner, a bar. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you know of any apartments that might be open?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I knocked at the apartment right behind mine. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The inside of our apartment was a riot of voices and bumped elbows. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“It probably won’t work outside your apartment, because the magnetic field of the bed gets smaller the farther you get from it, but still.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But her dad never offered to let her stay at his apartment, and she never asked. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Again, she would have shown up at the apartment door by now with a search warrant if she knew about it. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I run up to my apartment to find Pa sitting on our balcony observing the excitement below. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Christmas trees and menorahs were displayed in the windows of many apartments. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He unlocked the outside door, and then the door to their apartment. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The apartment complexes were within walking distance of the main shopping center, so residents could get their food without hitching a ride or taking a train or bus. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

In the early morning light, a lone figure churned through the water of the swimming pool outside a Los Angeles apartment complex. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Deborah took the children and everything they owned, then hid at her father’s house until she could find her own apartment. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Ross met them near the back door of the apartment house. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk out of Madrina’s apartment with my head in a shimmery pink fog. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The Zeitouns have lived in seven apartments and houses since the storm. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Never move to a small apartment in Flushing, Queens, in August. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The mailbox at one of his apartments read “R. D. James.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She headed straight for Hans’s apartment to confront him. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Morningside Avenue, where our new apartment was located, was wide and beautiful. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

One minute after I graduate from high school I’ll be in my own apartment, me and Mike. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Once we were in the apartment, Celia tried to call Mayor, but she only got his voice mail. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

In the evenings at our apartment, he rehearsed for every outcome, immersing himself in hypotheticals the rest of us found bizarre. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They were all truly equal in the eyes of God and man, and his apartment at least had the advantage of not requiring anyone to walk up ten flights of stairs. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I remember her coming back to one of our many apartments, with a group of other women, part of her ever-changing circle of friends. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I need be on my block, in my apartment, and in my bedroom with my sisters. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She thinks of her husband’s apartment in Cleveland, which she had helped him setde into one weekend when she visited. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Alba helped decorate the new apartment, hanging curtains and political posters everywhere she could and even suggesting that she might move in with him, but on this point Miguel was unyielding. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Martin tells me that sometimes he'd turn off the security alarm in their penthouse apartment, walk along the hall to the elevator, and sneak down to the garage in the middle of the night. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Will you have him at your little apartment, Nell, and offer him to drink from your cup of stars?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

She'd lent it to him last night so he could make it back to his apartment as quickly as possible; he swore he knew a route that soldiers didn't often patrol. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He stood like that, calmly, and stared at our apartment door. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

At our gang’s first meeting in the apartment, we discussed how we were going to work. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before he could answer, the apartment door flew open and a man in his underwear was yelling down to Luke. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Forrest said Imogen could have been abducted from outside the apartment, but the police officers reminded him about the bread box. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

"Turn, dear," said Flora Baumbach, the dressmaker, who lived and worked in a smaller apartment on the second floor. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fire was lit in an apartment upstairs, and there I carried our books, and arranged it for the future schoolroom. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

My plan had been to add a weekend job, which I have been tentatively offered at a Rainbow supermarket near the apartment where I originally stayed, at close to $8 an hour. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But, in fact, I had only been in the Kleins’ apartment one time since they drove away that day with my parents. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

And then she started pointing to the walls and doors of the apartment. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a little overwhelming how different James’s apartment felt from Emily’s, which was nearly identical in layout but nothing else. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Inside there was an apartment of many rooms furnished with chairs carved out of polished tree trunks, with cushions of rose and gold and green silk. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Decades later, as I talked with Rogers in his Brooklyn apartment, we agreed, only half joking, that the spinning cab was probably no accident. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Gerald's crazy enough to come into our apartment, but only when he knows Baba and Ma are out. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There are soldiers inside the apartment, turning over chairs, ransacking drawers. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

My husband was working late, as he did most nights, and the apartment was silent except for the click of my heels on the polished wood floor. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The rooms had all been converted into one-room efficiency apartments, and each unit had been modified to meet the very specific needs of a full-time gunter. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Jacob was caught while "clearing" a dead drop, in the form of a matchbook hidden behind a radiator, in the hallway of an apartment building. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But entering a dark and empty apartment made his heart race. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tonight she invited me over to her apartment. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Sam’s right. We told you not to leave the apartments.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

It smells delicious and makes me a little less insecure about our apartment smelling like food. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

As we entered the apartment, I smelled smoke, acrid and choking. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maids had to carry her away to her apartment. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Living in the rear basement apartment, right behind Reginald and me, was one of Harlem’s most successful narcotics dealers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

His parents seldom spoke to each other for long, even though Mr. Miller had moved from his city apartment to be closer to the Byrds’ home. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Maybe, though, given the incipient incontinence induced by the flush-out regimen, it’s just as well I have no apartments to see. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Normally, you had to drag him out of the apartment to talk. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

With clothes so dated, these three New York teenagers would probably have a poster of me on their apartment walls, as a model of what not to wear. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

By nine A.M. , an estimated six thousand persons thronged the nearby blocks, behind police barriers, and faces were in every window of the apartment buildings across the street; some stood shivering on fire escapes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

When people could not find or afford apartments, they sought rooms in private homes and boardinghouses, where typically the rent included meals. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Now, what would you say if some person asks who lives in your apartment?” asks Danuta. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Because the apartment is located right on top of the steakhouse, I can hear the noisy player piano in the bar every night as I fall asleep. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Our apartment is suddenly so silent, so empty. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex raced into the apartment and hugged his sister hard—until she began coughing. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The Augarten proves a thorny place to search, full of narrow streets and tall apartment houses. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

If he goes looking for us at the apartment, there will be no one there to hide him. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He followed the girl into one of the buildings and into a first-floor apartment. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between our apartment building and the park entrance are two more buildings, so we stand in front of them for ten minutes to talk to the residents coming in and out. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

One time when I was growing up in San Francisco, she looked at the way our new apartment sat too steeply on the hill. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our apartment is built like a train, narrow in the front with rooms extending out to the back. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not want to go out, but she did not want to be with him in the intimacy of her apartment; she still felt too raw. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

After a quick snack of crackers and peanut butter, Fadi grabbed his camera and left the apartment. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I want to run out of our apartment screaming and never come back. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“And what if someone asks to come up to your apartment, just to see? What would you tell them, then, Hela?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Mama and Papa were waiting at the bottom of the apartment stairs by the kitchen when the kids came back to the apartment. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The three of us sit on the top step to our apartment building, Dad in the middle. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“And I want this apartment cleared out. Spotless.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

That's enough for today, he thought, knowing it wasn't, and he slowed down again and started trudging back to the apartment. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I invited them to come to your apartment.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“He came to your door in 1945? To your apartment door in Amity Harbor?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I was down to a day and a half a week when Valencia called a mover to cart a load of furniture to an apartment she'd rented for one of the deadbeats. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

His family lived in commodious apartments over the store, having an entrance on the side within the porte cochère. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

Padre Leo gave up the two-bedroom priest’s apartment attached to the church so that female migrants would have a place to sleep. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Muhammad sets up his laptop so that we’re sitting on the couch with the window behind us, the rest of the apartment strategically hidden from view. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Twilight has faded to a blue-gray evening by the time I arrive in front of the crumbling Hunts Point, Bronx, apartment complex I call home. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t matter whether they tracked us to the second apartment or assumed we went directly underground. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

This is how it happened: I saw them coming over here and I heard Johnny say, “Let’s go to this vacant apartment on the fourteenth floor.” Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She let go of the outer door and fled down the hallway that led into the apartment. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Why would they know of an empty apartment? The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

While Marcus lay trembling with fear and guilt, and Julius in chains tracked Boots into the hot, dry hinterland, Aurelia was in her mother’s private apartment, where she had been summoned. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

But when my father unlocked the door to our apartment, my mother walked in and then went to the back, into the bedroom. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wasn't long after Cinder started to forget things that Cynthia and her mother moved down the hall into her grandfather's two-bedroom apartment. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

So that Bobby wouldn’t think he was being psychoanalyzed, Fine avoided bringing the boy into his analysis room at first, instead inviting him to the home wing of the apartment. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Now it was just the two of us, and I walked Abuela to her apartment. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

"These handmade candles are both practical and romantic," she said, peddling her wares from apartment door to apartment door to frightened tenants at seven in the morning. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked to my apartment and I showed them my room. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

My parents rented an apartment on the second floor, while Robbie and Terry lived on the first. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She ushers the attendants into the apartment's dressing salon. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Wings grown stiff from disuse and dull in the bulb light of an apartment with no view to speak of. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s no reason for you and Biddy to carry your food to your apartment. Please join me for breakfast.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She used to play it with Jamie in the hallway of their apartment. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

We enter the apartment, and Rabiya points to the sides of the sofa, which are an ugly shade of beige instead of the navy blue velvet fabric that covers the rest of it. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Toby laughed at the cartoons and joked with the boys, just like every other time he’d been at the apartment. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Mateo pushed me!” a girl’s voice whines from inside Carlos’s apartment. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He pointed across the street to a black, looming empty apartment building. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Vincent is painting scenes from their neighborhood—parks, street scenes, almost all of them within a short walk of the apartment. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

About how, since we only had an apartment, he'd spent all his spare time working at the local community garden, and how it had been named after him. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

They seem to have forgotten that I'm in the apartment. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Well, don’t play baby lotto again, okay? We only have so many apartments in this complex.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Early in the morning, he’d drive from the apartment she was renting in Georgetown to work at the Pentagon. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She reached out and yanked Flora over the threshold of 267 and into the apartment. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Most well-to-do families live in apartments or houses above the ground floor. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father’s apartment is on the second floor. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

With his first bite of cheese croissant his eyes would light up and he would announce that the Vanderbeekers could stay in their apartment forever. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The apartments in the housing project had only one door. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and her mother and two little sisters had rented the little semibasement apartment next' to where Mr. Bodler, the janitor, lived. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was bedridden after breaking her hip, and the only person coming in or out of her apartment was a nurse who stopped by for one hour each day. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“And I wish our apartment had a view of the park instead of the street.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

As Chloe and I walked them around the hologram battlements, Mr. Reilly stepped over to the dolly and carted off the kid’s new toy or appliance or whatever to apartment 723. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Hunt relaxed when he saw the lights go out in Fielding’s apartment. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Hana opens the doors of the Belle apartments to peek out. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

But going gave him an excuse to leave the apartment, so he wouldn’t have to spend the whole day stuck with his sisters and nothing to do. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Four guys from my neighborhood were chilling in the living room of an apartment; one of the guys had just bought a gun off the streets. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She looked like she wanted to argue, decided against it, and stepped inside her apartment. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I can see row after row of apartments, each floor cluttered with laundry hanging out to dry on the balcony. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

All day long, people had been coming in and out of our apartment, bringing us food and juice and talking about how sorry they were and how big I was getting. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

I will never see his apartment, eat his mother’s cooking, meet his friends from school. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Luke looked at the door one more time before he walked out of the apartment. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He reached Fornatee at his apartment; Fornatee had missed the bus and was now stretched out on the sofa, watching television. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I opened the gate to our apartment complex and walked Abuela to her unit on the first floor. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He installed me at once, no arguments, in an apartment of his house. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dad just turned up his collar and walked out of the apartment. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Caputo was still pacing and coughing, giving us the evil eye and warning us that if we crossed into the no-go zone of the penthouse suite, he would have us removed from the apartment. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

“This whole time, I thought the Taliban was the enemy of America. But didn’t the Afghani family we set up the apartment for have to escape and come here because of them?” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, the father stuck his head out of the door to his apartment upon hearing the screen open. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I’ll bring you some ice cream,” he said, framed in the doorway of their apartment. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the hall all three of them took their hats from the coat rack, pulled their canes from the cane holder, bowed silently, and left the apartment. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

This apartment was also in a better neighborhood. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

His pride in his work spilled over into our home, where he was clearly the king of the castle, even if the castle was just a modest apartment. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The following day, Anthony was on the train to New York City to attend the private funeral held in Stanton’s apartment. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was even there in the months I’d like to forget when there was no apartment and all our stuff was in the back of a car. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Never buy a car or get a job or have my own apartment. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

That first night in the apartment, Fadi lay on the living room floor, cocooned in a bedroll made up of old blankets from the Salvation Army. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“When I look out of the windows in that apartment building, what do I see?” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They appeared to receive an order via their radio earpieces, then used a key card to open the door of a tiny one-room apartment. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The ringing went on unendingly, a lonely sound in the empty apartment. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The zombies had just marched into the hero’s house and eaten his mother when they arrived at the apartment house complex. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We cut through an empty park and past some teetering apartment buildings that at least offered us shade from the blazing sun. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Just as I’m stepping out of the bathroom, the front door of our apartment kabooms as it opens. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I volunteered to go with him, and we walked down to the apartment. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

While inspecting a fifth apartment, a plane flew overhead, and he immediately vetoed it as being “too noisy.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

What would it be like to have not only your own apartment but an entire building in which you could do whatever you wanted? Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The four of us are in the living room of our one-bedroom apartment. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

After he had picked me up in the park, bruised and battered, Presto took me back to his apartment. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The apartment was silent when I opened my eyes. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

His belongings were still in his apartment in Reykjavik, but who could prove whether a hair taken from a hairbrush really came from Bobby? Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, red velvet fills their apartment, spilling over two fat sofas and two big armchairs, the kind that look like they would be fun to jump on. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lay in bed with the flu, while the February winds howled around the apartment house. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

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

“I’m not allowed to talk to anyone. I’m only allowed to leave our apartment to walk Ziggy. Until school on Monday.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Through an apartment window, I see an emergency report and pictures of our faces flashing. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He passed Mrs. Castillos apartment on the eleventh floor, heard her brushing her teeth. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Papa said the apartments here cost too much,” Hyacinth added. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Who the woman was calling to remains a mystery, because after searching the apartment, we find she was alone. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Their apartment was by the stairs going up to the third floor. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I need a job and an apartment, but to get a job I need an address and a phone number and to get an apartment it helps to have evidence of stable employment. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I choose an apartment two-thirds of the way down the block. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Usually, when I’m exhausted from walking, I go back to the apartment and drop off into a deep sleep, but tonight instead of going up to my own place I went to the diner. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Bri had spent the morning in the apartment without being able to use the electric heater or the electric blanket, stuck in the sleeping bag. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The kitchen was in a rundown apartment in a clapboard house near the river, the kind with three stories and a rickety outside back staircase. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since Dennis and I lived in a room in somebody’s apartment, to use the phone you had to sit in the woman’s living room. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It makes a brrring sound on my end, and I know it sounds kind of like a phone ringing in the apartment. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

If her own girls could not—or would not—accommodate a customer, she would send me to another place, usually an apartment somewhere else in Harlem, where the requested “specialty” was done. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, Angela thought, hurrying her sister out of the door and back to their apartment, Turtle's crutch is her braid. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad shouted into the apartment, “What did you do, Mayor?” before I heard the door click shut. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The day after the renter and I dug up Dad’s grave, I went to Mr. Black’s apartment. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Last fall a big raccoon got into our apartment through an open window. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

After the meeting, everyone went back to their apartments. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Even though he is so sick, they decide to go through with the move to the bigger apartment. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He was short and unassuming, about five foot six and 150 pounds, and he lived at 1157 Wheeler, on the second floor of one of the street’s narrow apartment houses. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Instead, I walked through the cold air to Aaron and Rocco’s apartment. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She invited James over to hang out, and as they walked up her stairwell, her apartment tilled with skateboard thunder and Matthew chanting Flush lyrics. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Especially since we have a second-floor apartment and a balcony with big railings that he could fall through. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The apartment was filled with delicious smells—garlic and tomatoes and milky melted cheese. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Since 1993, we moved into a better apartment in The Wells. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They decide to walk to the restaurant, thirty blocks north of their apartment, four blocks west. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“They still have a piano in their apartment, and Mr. Hollins says you can use it to practice.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

A fourth apartment at first looked ideal, but Bobby detected something “wrong with the air.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I told them I’d rather walk, thanks, and backed out of the apartment, smiling, practically delirious, my face burning under the collective gaze of cool, curious solicitude. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The next morning they tried Julia’s apartment, but no one answered. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

We were probably going to have to leave our apartment. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“That doesn’t make sense. We know other crabby people who leave their apartments.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Briefly I was cheered—my God, how silly I had been—but then I remembered the way Henry’s apartment had looked, the suitcases by the door. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Upstairs the apartment is hot and stuffy even with the windows open. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

It was her apartment, her name on the lease for the first time since she had been a young teacher. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I limped slowly back toward the apartment, coat pulled tight around my neck, trying to smooth away the fear from my face before I had to see Helena. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was a hot night, remember? 8TH JUROR: The voice came from another apartment. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

You seem like a cool guy who doesn’t deserve to die so you should come over to my apartment. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Returning home one afternoon from her hospital shift, Regina was approached in front of her apartment house at 560 Lincoln Place by two sunglassed men, conservatively dressed. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She had butted their way out of the Tenderloin district into a spacious uptown apartment promised to another family by sitting out the landlord, haunting his doorway. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The apartment windows are uniformly dark; whether unlit or blacked out, he cannot tell. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

His eyes landed on a billboard atop an apartment building. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

"You are in the north wing of the palace. The Belle apartments face the morning star, the eye of the Goddess of Beauty," Ivy says. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The apartment was strewn with books, magazines, and piles of clothing and had the smell of fresh oranges: Bobby would buy them and other fruits and vegetables by the bagful. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

My white shepherd puppy, Ollie, was asleep on our apartment’s cool marble floor. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

This must have been an apartment once, for a student, a young single person with a job. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

A gas jet embedded in one wall would be controlled from his closet, as would other gas jets installed in apartments throughout the building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They raced up the stairs to James’s apartment and kicked off their shoes. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Harlem’s numbers industry hummed every morning and into the early afternoon, with the runners jotting down people’s bets on slips of paper in apartment house hallways, bars, barbershops, stores, on the sidewalks. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The presence of the county jail supplies the first quality, while the so- called Sheriff’s Residence, a pleasant apartment separated from the jail proper by steel doors and a short corridor, accounts for the second. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wasn't he the one who supervised the biggest transformation that had ever happened at the apartment building? Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

James’s apartment was layered with objects and smells and noises. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

After I ate, I took the back stairs down one flight to Mrs. Hauser’s apartment, which is right under ours. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

His drinking buddy has taken Lourdes’s clothes back to her apartment. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I had put on some clothes, though horror shook all my limbs; I issued from my apartment. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“And a good person. He wants to help out with apartment setups.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

When Emily walked in the front room of their apartment, she was kind of surprised to see Matthew sprawled on the couch, waiting for her. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“They need to fix our apartment, and I thought I could help.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

She is leaning over the apartment’s kitchen, and she looks at Ben. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

There was always somebody at home, with six people in the five-room apartment. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Just a couple of days ago, I’d been standing in front of my apartment, looking in despair at a bright yellow eviction notice. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The warm, smoky smells in the apartment are a big, wide hug. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Maybe we should take all the stuff to one of the upstairs apartments,” she said. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

And yes, I’m aware of what can happen when you’re alone in an apartment with your very cute boyfriend. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Yes, after decades in America, now that she's old, Ranee has become friends with a young man who lives in the apartment next to hers. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Our apartment on Euclid Avenue was about nine miles south of the Chicago Loop, which with its glittering skyscrapers and crowded sidewalks felt otherworldly to me. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She’s been spending lots of time inside, inside classrooms and auditoriums, inside the little office in the new apartment she and Olivia share. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She had been a squatter for almost fifteen years, and the city had finally decided to sell the apartments to her and the other squatters for one dollar apiece. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the apartment, we pushed through a curtain made from strands of beer-can pull tabs linked together. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Their honeymoon would be a brief trip to the Bahamas, after which Caroline would move into Eric’s apartment. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad found a room in a boardinghouse a few blocks from Lori’s apartment. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He crossed the street and rang the doorbell of another apartment building. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like peering into an empty apartment the day after you’ve been evicted. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

When we’re back at our apartment, I don’t know what to do with myself. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

As if to tear my heart into even more pieces, I was assigned to clean out the apartment building where I had lived with my parents. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

She glanced back at Luke before hurrying through the door of her apartment. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

But then one day Popcorn was found stabbed to death on the roof of his apartment building. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Carmen practically flew up the narrow staircase that led to their apartment. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Afterward, after the yelling, the apartment took on a sinister hue. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I was allowed to spend two weeks with him there on the wind-swept plain, mostly waiting in the strange vacancy of a cold apartment, trying to compose cordial things to say to the other wives. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reading those words in his Manhattan apartment, David Lilienthal found them repellent. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But yesterday I found a faded quilt in a pile of giveaways in our apartment building's laundry room. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I told him about the glass I had seen lying broken in the fireplace at the twins’ apartment. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

When she was back working in the factory or cleaning apartments, she gave me money for lunch. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I smile too and continue counting until we are back at our brick apartment building. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

It is tempting to retreat to my small, private apartment. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Years of nongrowing, from being a seventeen-year-old, smooth-faced idealist hunched over a book in his Harlem apartment, to becoming a smooth-faced veteran of twenty hunched over a beer in a post exchange. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

October 11—When I came into my apartment this morning, I found Alice there, asleep on the couch. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

It is one of the town’s two “apartment houses,” the second being a ramshackle mansion known, because a good part of the local school’s faculty lives there, as the Teacherage. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The second important thing that fall was the arrival of a package at the door of Nick’s apartment one day—a large, heavy package. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Rule 3: If you hear any noises outside of the apartment, whether in the hallway or on the street, do NOT try to see what it is. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Ms. Rubin dropped by the apartment one afternoon with all my locker stuff: my textbooks, my loose-leaf book, and all the assignments I would need to make up. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I heard Danny’s capped shoes in the apartment hallway outside the study. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I learned stitches sitting in our apartment on Elizabeth Street, helping Mam when she took in extra work darning and mending and the occasional full dress from a bolt of cloth. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

We drove past the house where Dusty had grown up, the trailer Dusty and my mother had rented, and the apartment where Tommy died. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Don’t knock so loud unless the apartment is on fire. I am not hard of hearing.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I didn’t trust Regina and Rosa not to ransack the apartment while we were gone. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Certainly not with his mom in the same apartment.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

We took the blueprint of our apartment from the hallway closet and taped it to the inside of the front door, with an orange and a green marker we separated Something from Nothing. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks to Amara, I can walk around the apartment, I can eat at the dining table, and I can finally go to the bathroom by myself. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Because of the sheets of wood veneer her father has tacked over its windows, their apartment is stuffy and hot. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Her forays out of the apartment, while her husband is at work, are limited to the university within which they live, and to the historic district that flanks the campus on one edge. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He entered Pris’s former apartment, unplugged the TV set, and detached the antenna. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I’d tried to make a home for myself here, tried to turn the apartment into the sort of place where the person I wanted to be would live. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She’d been away long enough, and there was a good chance that Will was lost in the apartment walls by now. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

If I was told to vacate my apartment by next week, I wouldn't ask around or consult the real estate listings. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Live music floated out of an upstairs apartment, and there was a burst of laughter. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look,” Jule said, “we’ve had a misunderstanding about Immie, and I’m glad you came over. Let’s just go somewhere neutral and talk it out. My apartment is not the best place.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The moment the first dropcop had entered my apartment, an incendiary device had detonated inside my computer. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Every day I watched the German soldiers in their field-gray uniforms who guarded a petroleum tank across the street from our apartment. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The walk from Dr. Minerva’s office to our apartment is a short one, but loaded with mocking stores. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

But this other office offers only a photocopied list of affordable apartments, which is updated weekly and is already out of date. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

After rummaging through bags and boxes, and yanking open kitchen cabinets and drawers, she sighed to the ceiling separating her apartment from James’s. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Even if it’s not in our old apartment, but out somewhere, like a coffee shop. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The apartments weren’t designed for that many, but that was what Harlem was about, working people doing the best they could. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Also, the only thing in the whole apartment that was out of place. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

In addition to his New York home, he had an apartment in London, and one in Rome. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s just remember that I’m the one who’s letting you stay in my apartment,” Crystal says, glaring at my mom. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“The first time I was alone in your apartment, I looked in your address book to see if you’d written me in. I think we’d known each other two weeks.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

So after dinner she went up to Mrs. Hall's apartment to see April. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our apartment was in the American building; there were so many teams from the United States that we had an entire tower to ourselves. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She’s a widow who lives in the senior citizen apartment complex a quick bike ride away from our house. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

The following week my sister Jack called Mommy from her apartment in Harlem. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I met him in his apartment, listened to him intently, observed him minutely, for I knew that I was facing one of the leaders of World Communism. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They creep into apartments at night. They booby-trap kitchen cupboards, toilet bowls, brassieres. Go to open your panty drawer, and you get your fingers blown off.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In fact, most of my friends lived in apartments like we did, so no one even had a backyard. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“It feels like a sparsely furnished apartment,” Emily said, dumping her bin next to his. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Back at her apartment that afternoon, Emily wrote a note for the bucket. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

When I passed by their apartments and saw them sitting together in a circle, hunched over their work, speaking a language I didn’t understand, I felt a sharp pang. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

In Phnom Penh, while Pa took us girls to the swimming pool on Sundays, Kim could usually be found in the movie theater across the street from our apartment. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Farmer family residence was an apartment of three small rooms, borrowed from an old friend from Duke. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Ascending the darkened stairs, he returned to his own apartment. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

In our tenement there were families who spilled in and out of each other’s apartments, sharing child care and stews. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I don’t care. I walked into someone’s apartment. In the middle of the night. That’s breaking and entering!” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

On the street level were shops; above the shops were the apartments where people lived. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

What was he thinking, giving some stranger at the fence my address and telling him there are Jews in my apartment? The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The miniature intersection of rue de Mirbel and rue Monge, for example, just a block from their apartment, is nothing like the real intersection. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was a small house, a lot like our apartment except for two extra rooms: a small dining room and a small alcove off the living room. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

In truth, he couldn’t shake visions of Toby sitting in Annie’s apartment. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

After what seemed like forever, we got into their apartment. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I went through my own apartment without turning on the lights. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I was thinking that my mom’s apartment wouldn’t allow dogs, especially dogs bigger than the apartment, but I said, “Yeah. Of course I will.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

For her, Pedro moved out of his neighborhood into a downtown apartment, thereby, without intending to do so, ascending to the middle class to which he had never aspired. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked it that way, and four years after I moved into his apartment, we got married. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In my excitement, I kept missing the button with my hook, but I eventually got it and rushed out of the apartment and downstairs. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The mistress used to be kept in a minor house or apartment of her own, and now they’ve amalgamated things. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cops found the apartment loaded with evidence—fur coats, some jewelry, other small stuff—plus the tools of our trade. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We don’t have an apartment. You quit your job at the warehouse. And I could have made everything better for us.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Grandpa Izzy's high-rise retirement condominium was three towns north of Dad's swinging singles apartment complex. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

To my empty grave of an apartment building. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I’m off the couch and opening the apartment door before Nana gets up. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I heard some of the apartments weren’t completely finished, but my accommodations were perfectly comfortable. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I was crying because it was my first day of school and I didn't know anyone except a boy who lived in the apartment below me and liked to pull my hair. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Even if we sold everything in our apartment, we’d probably only scrape together five hundred dollars. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Howard Koch listened to the show in his apartment. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Or this apartment before which a white man stood, dressed in a brilliant uniform? Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

But as they near his apartment, he leans toward the plexiglass and says to the driver, in Bengali, “It’s that one, up on the right.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He suddenly realized he was on the familiar block of low apartment buildings, a store-front church, a delicatessen, a pawn shop, and on the corner, a bar. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not leaving the safety of my apartment that easily. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Beiderman will have a real estate broker start showing the apartment to prospective renters beginning tomorrow. He strongly suggests that we not be in the apartment when it is shown.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I patted my pockets and emptied out my stuff— Riptide, a Kleenex, my apartment key. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t you hear? They searched every apartment and shop on Na Bramie Square.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Do you even see people going into his apartment? You said, ‘People in, suitcases out.’ Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It’s true that Regina Fischer left the apartment to go on a long peace march, met a man, got married, and settled in England. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

For this very reason, I was not one bit sad to say goodbye to our current apartment with its orangish carpet, watermarked ceiling, and faint smells left by previous owners. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Simón shares an apartment with housemates he met on a job. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“We’re going to be living with Fuchsia and her mom in their apartment.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Before I came here I locked up the apartment. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Before I left the apartment to log a double shift at BJ’s I tapped out an email to Nicole: Sorry I was an idiot. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

During one of these walks he passed a demolished apartment building. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But in the end Janis found a place for them, a garden apartment nearby. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe he wanted to know what the plan was—like, were we going to stay inside and not go wandering around the apartment complex. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She certainly wasn’t passing out her phone number in case I ever needed to call my brother at her apartment. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

He described Celia’s apartment and his trips into the mountains with Tam Lin. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turns away, partially closing her apartment door. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Julia’s apartment is a lot nicer than ours, but I’m pretty sure there’s no phone in the closet. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Finally we came to Gatsby's own apartment, a bedroom and a bath and an Adam study, where we sat down and drank a glass of some Chartreuse he took from a cupboard in the wall. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

There was a call box to ring individual apartments to ask someone to unlock the door for you. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Clearly, someone has radioed for Shaan, because he’s standing there at the door to Henry’s apartments in an impeccable gray peacoat, dry and unmoved under a black umbrella. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I burst through the door to our apartment building and raced up the stairs and pounded on the big metal door to our rooftop hideaway. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I’m finally inside the apartment, I curl up on the couch and rest my arm on Ollie’s back. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

They lived in a small apartment and had just gotten a very large puppy. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He says someone is living in our apartment now. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ricky has a surprise planned for me,” Doreen told Annie, taking her hand and leading her inside the apartment like they were a couple of friends rushing to gossip in the bathroom. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He stared absentmindedly at a window washer on a platform dangling outside an apartment building. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Still in the lobby of Mrs. de Vries's apartment, I assume, where I left it before Ollie and I took our positions at the butcher's. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

When she saw the mess on the floor inside my apartment she didn’t say anything about it. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

On that first visit, we were escorted to the Queen’s private apartment and shown into a sitting room where she and Prince Philip stood waiting to receive us. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

"Commander, take the queen and her children into custody. Do them no harm, but escort them back to the royal apartments and keep them there, under guard." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Pattie and I ride the bus at the end of the day back to the apartment and Dell is waiting for us in the living room. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I stopped trying and stood there in our apartment’s kitchen, glaring at him, crossing my arms over my chest. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

They raced through their morning rituals, and left the apartment by seven-thirty. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“What? That it’s a garbage can, not an apartment?” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

If you can’t put up the two months’ rent you need to secure an apartment, you end up paying through the nose for a room by the week. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the first apartment he has to himself, after an evolving chain of roommates all through college and graduate school. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

That’s when he told me that he didn’t like the idea of my being alone in the apartment. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even Shorty, whose apartment I now again shared, wasn’t prepared for how I lived and thought—like a predatory animal. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The apartment is in a humble part of town where the poorer students live. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'm going back to my apartment in case he turns up there," Auntie Seema says. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

This apartment isn’t home for either of us, but we’re home to each other, and that’s what makes every wall fall away so I only focus on him. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

It’s bigger than the apartment I live in. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Our apartment is tense and silent, as if everything is holding its breath. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Eventually we pull up to a two-story apartment complex with a fountain in the courtyard. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She leads him up the steps to an apartment on the third floor. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But then I have turned away, come back to my San Francisco apartment to closet myself in the silence I both need and fear. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Sen’s apartment was warm, sometimes too warm; the radiators continuously hissed like a pressure cooker. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Sen told Eliot she didn’t feel right leaving him alone in the apartment, but Eliot knew she wanted him sitting beside her because she was afraid. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mom said, “Honey,” and I said, “Oui and she said, “Did you give a copy of our apartment key to the mailman?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t answer her immediately and she cursed “Goddamnit!” under her breath and ran out the back door toward the apartment. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little girls from apartment 2C are sitting on the front steps when we arrive. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I almost liked how cramped and lightless it was, so unlike our windy, too bright apartment. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other welder moved a few feet farther down and began to cut a hole right through the wall of my apartment. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She picked me up an hour later and I watched, perplexed, as she drove right past the hospital a few blocks from my apartment. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

For fifteen minutes, they ransacked the apartment, taking whatever the first band had left. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“You can stay with us as long as you want, and you can give us advice on the arrangement of our new apartment.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Occasionally he sat in his apartment and wept in order to empty himself of self-pity and remorse. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Muhammad stayed back to clean up at the mosque and Mom’s not home, so I let myself into an empty apartment. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Auntie Seema took my mother back to her apartment that day because she looked so scared. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“You live in our apartment building, no? The Redwood Apartments?” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Since I never left my apartment, it was easy for the program to keep track of everything I ate. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

On the day before, we had moved from our apartment in Los Angeles to a house of our own a few miles away in Altadena. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I don't think I can stand this prison of an apartment much longer. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I sleep that night on their sofa, and by the next night, I’m back in the apartment, warming my fingers and soaking my cold, sore feet. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I took a cab back up to my apartment and I smoked it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Empty apartment. Cute boyfriend wearing cute work clothes.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

We lived once again in married student housing, a plywood apartment complex set among pine trees, and the singular topic of conversation among our young neighbors was the inadequacy of these rattletrap tenements. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Manya was forever muttering about the streaks of black tar that clung to my shoes and sneakers and rubbed off on the floor of the apartment. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

It was a doorman building, very different from the apartments I was used to in North River Heights. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“I suppose,” he began, flexing one hand, then the other, “I suppose you can go back to the barn, if you want. Were not using it. But we have an apartment.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

She used to teach music lessons from our apartment, and Chopin would stream out the windows. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

So far, every time Mom or Dad have cooked something, even if they open the small window in the kitchen, the food smell is all over the apartment for hours later. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

She finds out that Dell's apartment has two bedrooms. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

So now I know Auntie Ying’s daughter, Lena, told her about my being evicted from my apartment on lower Russian Hill. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She started into her apartment and then pulled him back. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Everywhere she looked, she saw bright colors: on the drab, gray concrete apartments, on the tin- roofed, open-fronted stores, in the muddy water flowing in the gutters. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

"A friend. He didn't know our apartment number." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

But we always end up back at his apartment, under or on top of the Mexican blanket. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

His only hope now, he reasoned, was to get enough money from Louie to fix the whole apartment. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“A simple apartment. Not much furniture, but nice and clean.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

And maybe there’s a new airiness to your thoughts on the morning you decide to pull out every window in your apartment so you can spray the glass and wipe down the sills. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Maybe Mr. DiAngelo had it, over at that apartment in Virginia. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Factories making cameras, computers, watches, umbrellas, and T-shirts stand cheek by jowl with densely packed blocks of apartment buildings and fields of banana and mango trees, sugarcane, papaya, and pineapple destined for the export market. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I just realized tonight that my own place is starting to resemble her apartment—a mess. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

All I remember is that as she began to spank me, Matt Gordon turned and walked out of the apartment. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The drug trade ran so rampant and gang warfare was so ubiquitous in that part of Brooklyn that most people would take to the safety of their apartment at nightfall. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then to homes or apartments that were within one hundred feet of the riverbank. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

When we walked into the empty apartment, which had nothing in it but dim ceiling lights and worn beige carpets, I didn’t believe that we’d be done by noon. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Following the piece, they invited themselves to my apartment and I welcomed them, hoping that somebody still had some drugs. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Her face is somber, strained like when we hear shots outside our apartment window. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Every time I left our apartment to go searching for the lock, I became a little lighter, because I was getting closer to Dad. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The next day I was brushing my hair in front of the dresser in the bedroom of our railroad-style apartment. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

In early March 1941, we piled our belongings onto a wagon we'd scrounged for the move and said good-bye to our apartment, the last tie to our once promising life in the big city. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

She’s the same person who ran to your apartment when she was eleven with a filthy kitten shoved down the front of her coat, begging you to take it. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The kitchen was in the back of this apartment, a separate room. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

After dropping their school stuff off at their apartments, grabbing snacks, and getting permission to go downtown, Emily and James found themselves riding the bus to the financial district. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“What has happened to the Timekeeper? How did you know about his apartment here in the station and the tunnels in the walls? Where is he?” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

I listen for footsteps above me, though the fact is that I have never heard a single sound from Mr. X’s apartment. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She even slept at our apartment one night—on the sofa—after a late dinner I’d made. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tam Lin had energy to spare, and he didn’t nearly use it up guarding Celia’s apartment. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

That electric cord looped out our window, seven stories above the sidewalks, and right into the window of the Jenkinses’ apartment next door. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The Ryans moved her to a little studio apartment they owned, a quiet walk-up just off West End Avenue. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He resolved to remain binocular and specified to Doc Daneeka that his eye patch be transparent so that he could continue pitching horseshoes, kidnaping Italian laborers and renting apartments with unimpaired vision. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Now I see I was right in thinking it came from this apartment.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The next morning, after a good night’s sleep by all, Theo writes again: he decides they will rent that bigger apartment. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He had never been quite sure about Major de Coverley, either, who, when he was not away renting apartments or kidnaping foreign laborers, had nothing more pressing to do than pitch horseshoes. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She would have the entire staircase—no, the entire apartment—stripped bare and redone. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The apartment smells musty, but it looks tidy. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

The newlyweds, Crow and Otis Amber, moved into the apartment above the Good Salvation Soup Kitchen. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

TV\\«*rjcla>j, December f Harvey had outdone himself, Alex thought as he carried the sled into his old basement apartment. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Diana lived in Park Slope, a trendy neighborhood of cafes and shops, but I could barely leave the apartment. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the summer, Lori found us an apartment in a neighborhood we could afford—the South Bronx. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The next day when I got home from work, our apartment was still a mess. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“He has lost another job and was kicked out of his apartment by his landlord,” Nali said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

At a public access terminal in a Miami library, she found a cheap apartment and paid the deposit electronically. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a carpeted hall and I moved down with pounding heart as a dog set up a terrific din within the top apartment. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whether there were rules about first-year students living in apartments. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

In her last letter, his mom was worried that they might be evicted from their apartment because of the smell of burning sneakers. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I hoped to see the age of thirty, and it seemed like being the first white person to show up at Zakariyya’s apartment asking questions about his mother might interfere with that. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

For Thula, though, it was yet another disappointment, not much of an improvement over Boulder City, her parents’ basement, or the apartment over the tire shop. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I’m just waiting until my parents go to bed so I can slink out of the apartment. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She was on the stairs of her mother’s apartment building in New Orleans, face-to-face with her father, Pluto. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Bursting into her own apartment in triumph, Shirley found her mother still working on the accounts for the Señora and her father mixing paint. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

One directs me to a throwaway apartment directory available in boxes on the sidewalk, but its offerings all include hot tubs and on-site gyms and go for over $1,000 a month. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Enrique is struggling financially Fed up with the cramped conditions in his mother’s apartment and their constant fights, yearning for some scrap of privacy, he has moved out and rented a bedroom in a trailer. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

They will share everything from their innermost thoughts to their opinions about apartments and furniture. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He wraps himself in a blanket, lies down on the floor of his apartment, and closes his eyes. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

If Lynn was contagious, we would get sick just from living in the same apartment. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

After a few hours of lying around and joking and making funny sounds she’ll get up and drift off to the other end of the apartment. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have my own tiny apartment, if you can believe that. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pull him into the apartment, and he nearly falls, stumbling as I get the door shut and locked behind him. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She knew before she heard the stomping from inside the third-floor apartment and the barrage of clicks and bangs from locks being disengaged. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

As we move farther and farther away from the city, the high-rise apartments disappear and thatched-roof huts take their place. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Sunday after we went skating, Arturo asked to borrow the Toros' radio and we took it home with us after eating lunch at their apartment. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

This apartment could use a few worms, Theresa thought. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we returned to our stable, we gave the demon girl our one good chair—an old stool that Father had found in a vacated apartment and which we had stripped of paint and repainted. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jimmy swiftly drove the four blocks back to his apartment. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

When they returned from Hunt, they stayed for two days on Adnan’s floor in Baton Rouge, then moved into the studio apartment of their rental unit on Tita Street, on New Orleans’ West Bank. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I went to a secret Hebrew school in a rabbi's darkened apartment. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Instead, they were crammed in a tiny apartment that smelled of burning rubber and foot odor. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes the little apartment we lived in would be so hot you couldn’t sleep for days.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hung the bag on a doorknob and cleaned the apartment all afternoon. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“She lived in an apartment, and her husband died suddenly. She couldn’t handle the dog on her own. Bless her heart.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The apartment was very still: clink of glasses, ruffle of cards. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the Gestapo searched Hans’s apartment and found evidence to implicate the others. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Yesterday—on the third day of the new year—Scythe Faraday had come to her apartment and had given a year’s immunity to her father and brother. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She let herself out of the apartment and hobbled to the back door of the house, lifted her hand to knock, hesitated. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Inside, the apartment was filled with smoke that smelled like an acrid palmetto brushfire. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

But it felt far away from our old apartment. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She went to morning day camp and stayed in the apartment with her grandmother, mostly. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

But the greatest complaint was always that they could not leave this apartment, which was too big for their present means, since it was impossible to imagine how Gregor might be moved. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

She began to think about looking for an apartment. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marcus was saving up to be able to rent his own apartment. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Dressed and ready to go, he left his apartment and ascended to the roof where his battered used hovercar lay parked. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

She slid the metal bars back in place when we were through, and we made our way quietly down the dark stairs of our apartment building. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

But this stupid wasp chooses the one closed window in the whole apartment. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

A group from my sponsoring church met me outside the terminal and drove me to an apartment I would share with other Lost Boys. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was when I started going back to Grandpa and Uncle Stanley’s apartment for a weekly bath, though when I was there, I made sure to give Uncle Stanley a wide berth. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I had gotten us into the lobby, Sal went straight to his apartment and closed the door on me. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

There is exactly one furnished studio apartment listed for the entire Twin Cities area, and they’re not answering the phone on the weekend. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I feel like an apartment complex with too many residents. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

"I want to get one for the apartment. They're nice to have--a dog." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

But then he looks around the apartment for reassurance, reminding himself of the life they’ve set up together and share. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bill shot a glance in Kathy’s direction as they entered the small apartment. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

My wife and I were living in an apartment in Kansas City. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, we have a big apartment that houses everyone comfortably. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But once the dishes had been washed, I disappeared into homework, often taking my books downstairs to the encyclopedia nook off the stairwell next to Robbie and Terry’s apartment for privacy and quiet. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Kelly let her uncle into the small apartment. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

By then Eliot understood that when Mrs. Sen said home, she meant India, not the apartment where she sat chopping vegetables. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Evan tells Gogol that it’s an apartment worth seeing, a Tribeca loft that happens to be designed by one of the partners at the firm. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

At one o’clock in the morning, Manning left the apartment with six stacks of paper, tied together with string. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She almost invariably wore it throughout the apartment during the day. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

I hear Daddy at the door, stepping into the apartment. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

How sometimes when Moms falls asleep in front of the TV we’ll sneak out of the apartment and walk around the neighborhood, looking into other people’s windows, watching them sleep. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I thought maybe it was something else for the apartment. But then I saw your handwriting.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

They were then looking for nim any moment Edna hastened upstairs by a private stairway that led from the rear of the store to the apartments above. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

He worked long shifts each day at Roy Dack’s auto shop, trying to save enough to get his family back into an apartment. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

They looked at their new room—a little apartment in itself with a small sink and stove—shut the door, and didn’t speak to us. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He spent the night in the barbershop on the first floor, directly below their apartment. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I dreaded the moment I would hear his key in the lock of our apartment door. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Traveling south through the Black Belt, the streetcars passed by quiet streets where the Respectables lived in sturdy brick and stone structures mixed with a healthy sprinkling of frame houses and a few apartment buildings. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There’s no doorman and no elevator, but there’s a big empty stairwell leading to an empty apartment. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

No one else in the apartment was awake. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once I’m inside the apartment, I fall over onto the couch and bury my head in the pillows. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

And as she passed him she did not speak to him, but she whispered only to Cuckoo, faintly, “Where is my apartment?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

They learned to write their new address: 18434 Winslow Road Up, those two little letters ensuring that their mail ended up in their apartment, and not with Mr. Yang downstairs. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In our last apartment, pre-Lenny, the countertop was rotting around the edges, so you’d realize halfway through washing dishes that water had been pooling downstream into the carpeting. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

It was coming from the shower wall, which means it was coming from the apartment next door. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Wen Zhou, our subject, his face fleshy like a boy’s, sat quietly for us in his tiny, orderly studio apartment in Morningside Heights. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they offered her the keys to an apartment in the back of their house, she almost cried at the kindness. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The Diamants new apartment would be only a few blocks away, inside a designated area behind the train station. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

They lived in the apartment right above them. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

“Well, we live in Manhattan. In an apartment.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

But in an apartment building, it’s like twenty families. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Fd lived in a tiny apartment or a school dorm my whole life. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Luma called again, raising her arm in the air and pointing in the direction of the apartment complexes north of the field. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Her husband, upstairs in their apartment, was dying of cancer. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

When Tanisha walks through the door of her apartment, her mother will be there waiting for her. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Then we looked at all the empty rooms of the apartment, locked the bedroom door, and put a chair underneath that one, too. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, they didn't take the abuse beyond their slaps and abruptly left our apartment. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I went to the apartment and fell across the bed in my clothes. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dad, are you serious? The apartment is closer to school than our house was. Is. Whatever.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Then a ride in the back of someone’s truck, a Gulf sign on the highway, someone’s apartment? The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

When April got back to the apartment, there was a' letter waiting for her. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if she were unwrapping a big present, Dorothy Vaughan pulled it up, making the apartment hers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Mom’s footsteps echoed through our tiny apartment, and then soft knocking sounded on my door. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She waved back, but hurried into her apartment. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

"It's the west side, Max. I bet Seventy-Fourth Street continues on the other side of the park. That must be where Auntie Seema's apartment is!" The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The twins had an apartment off campus, and were from somewhere down south. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Our apartment is busy with Mama finishing up Janae's Welcome Back dinner. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

When Selena had rung her apartment bell, the girls were admitted—or rather, the door was drawn in and left ajar—by a colored maid with whom Selena didn’t seem to be on speaking terms. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Eventually everything within the building would merge, would be faceless and identical, mere pudding-like kipple piled to the ceiling of each apartment. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Andrea wrote that her father was happy in his apartment and maybe this was for the best, after all. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The landlord called our new home a railroad apartment: each room leading to the next, like railway cars. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

In Papi’s desk drawer he found a directory of all the apartments, a deck of cards, and two envelopes. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Follow me,” she said, and she walked into the apartment. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

There were two girls in the apartment, and I wondered if they were dopers too. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

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

I stood on the balcony and scanned the apartments, wondering if Maribel was inside one of them. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The apartment that Fenoglio rented to tourists was only two streets away from his own house. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I went through Dan’s apartment—upstairs, I mean. Out onto his fire escape and down a flight into your bedroom. That’s how I left you that note under your pillow the first night.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

If she wanted, she could see right into their apartment, into their lives. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

He slipped out of the apartment, leaving the door ajar so it would seem the dog had worked it open. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’re just about at the fourth floor when I see Ms. Fulton coming out of her apartment with her shopping cart, and my chest gets tight. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

His apartment house was not far from a beach, he explained, and he would transfer to someone's permit there after I went back north. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

She thought of James’s apartment and all the photos and trinkets. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

His family was way behind on rent and facing eviction from their apartment. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Landing on the roof of Henry’s forty-story apartment house in Westminster, they went straight down to the dining- hall. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was not allowed to play soccer, do homework, or leave the apartment until the cooking was done. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Once I was inside, though, I had this sudden fear that I wasn’t alone in the apartment. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

The following night, another bomb was thrown onto the Harrisons’ roof from the vacant apartment next door. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

If I were Gestapo, I think, I’d have a man in some of these apartments, watching the fence, unseen from above. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He remembered hearing a story about a boa constrictor that had crawled through the plumbing and popped out of a bathtub drain in a New York City apartment. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Late, late that night I left Danny at his home and returned alone to the apartment. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

They gathered at bars and apartments, discussing details of the campaign, mocking the silliness of the news stories. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Safer’s plan is that I will watch the lobbycam in my apartment while he breaks into Mr. X’s apartment right above me. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

On weekdays, their parents left their apartments soon after dawn for their long commutes to work. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The dirt strip in front of our apartment has wild dandelions. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

He lived alone in this deteriorating, blind building of a thousand uninhabited apartments, which like all its counterparts, fell, day by day, into greater entropic ruin. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The train will take me to Auntie Seema's apartment in New York City, a place my mother refused to go out of fear. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He exited the store and circled around back, taking a shortcut to get back to the apartment complex. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He was in apartment 4D neatly writing in his patriotic notebook information gathered on the next heir. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt strange unlocking the door to the basement apartment. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Luke pulled the garbage bags off his legs as he climbed the stairs, dropping them in a sweaty pile in front of the apartment’s door. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

With all those decaying apartment complexes in town, Clarkston had a surplus of cheap housing. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

School was unbearable for Gerald and Angel, and when they got home, the small apartment was hot and miserable. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

This walk, from the courthouse steps to Charles’s apartment in North Hampden, was not an inconsiderable one. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

As bad as our apartment was, my Fourth Aunt’s apartment was even worse. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the dark, with only the television on, the apartment looked like an aquarium. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The telephone rang in their apartment again and Rafik raced up the stairs to get it. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Once they finished emptying out my apartment, custodial bots would scour and disinfect it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Taking Poppy with her, Lina went out of the shop and climbed the stairs to their apartment. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, go get an apartment, then,” I snap. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

"My statues are still packed in my trunk, Anu. I didn't set them up when I moved into your apartment." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I’ve just been sitting in my apartment. Giving myself the creeps.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A camera crew from the tabloid television program Hard Copy ambushed her outside her apartment. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth's well-honed espionage skills kicked in immediately: She managed to conceal Jacob's true identity from the policemen who investigated his death, and she gathered and burned all his many papers in her apartment's fireplace. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the kind with a keypad and a little camera that lets the people in their apartments see who’s in the lobby before deciding whether to let them in. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

But it was wonderful to have him there, to know he was back in his room again and out of the hospital, and to know that the dark silence was finally gone from the apartment. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The police had seized my computers, but fortunately not until two hours after the kill call, according to our building super, who had to let them into the apartment. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Finally, he thought that one apartment had “possibilities,” but his two friends quickly tried to talk him out of buying it because it was right above a tawdry sex shop. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The apartment Jesse had put a deposit on wasn’t available; they had to take a smaller one. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he came home from school, it was usually to an empty apartment. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I walk inside the apartments, impatient with standing outside. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

In order to get the haircuts, though, we had to go back to Black's apartment. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Following light refreshment, we were asked to form a queue leading back through the passage to the newly appointed philo- sophical apartments. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I head down to our apartment and walk past the kitchen, where the table is set for dinner. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

One of those fancy apartments with about three or four bedrooms in case we had more kids. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Mame wants you to sell some things and get us some food. There’s no way to buy in the ghetto, and there are eight other families in our apartment. We’ve already used what we brought.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

When I open the front door, a small tan dog sprints into the apartment and down the hallway, like it knows exactly where it’s going. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

We can’t see the parrots from our apartment, but when I’m walking to Yum Li’s with Dad, I realize that I can see the nest a little bit from the street. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

We lived in a basement apartment in Brooklyn, which I doubt you remember, down the street from Uncle Ben and his wife, your aunt Janai. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She will not have abandoned us, she would never leave her people, he was telling himself, when he heard the prince’s death rattle coming from the queen’s apartments. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then he returned to his apartment to finish the job of cleaning up the litter left from the kickoff rally. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day the madam told me to stay at my apartment the next morning. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

A few weeks later, I had stood on my porch, waving, as Mrs. Bowman’s son drove her away to her new apartment attached to his house. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ask Nora when it’s time to head to Rebecca and Noah’s apartment for our interview. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Then the three of us go back over to Mae’s apartment. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The apartment was on the third floor, and we climbed the stairs quickly. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Driving to Daisy’s apartment complex, I kept forgetting why I was stopped at a stoplight, and then I’d let off Harold’s brake only to look up and notice, oh, right. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Still, I kept thinking she might stop by during the daytime, key in to the apartment, peek inside. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tall businesses of downtown Oakland morphed first into blocks of condos and apartment buildings, then into the quaint, small-town feel of Piedmont. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The idea of him visiting my apartment before he goes home for good just became a thousand times more intimidating. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

After the war was over, everyone would return to the beautiful apartment in Gdynia. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

She and two other girls from my college had rented a big apartment from four Harvard law students, and I'd been planning to move in with them when my writing course began. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

All I had to do was to get to my new apartment, set up my rig, and log back into the OASIS. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Someone drew a picture of the apartment building with the Hideout underneath it, looking like the tunnels prairie dogs burrow in. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Once in his apartment, he pulled off his shoes and staggered on to the balcony to feed his tortoises. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He talks about them all the time and wants to be just like them, with their cool apartments in the upper air and their devices for hovering. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“So maybe I’ll see you tomorrow,” she said, in front of her apartment building. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Hummed so that girls in his apartment building sometimes put their babies up on top of the machines and let the vibrations lull them into sleep. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

In order to commute more efficiendy between their opulent Connecticut manor and an art-filled apartment on Central Park West staffed with uniformed servants, she and her husband bought a helicopter and learned to fly it. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

We are standing outside the door of the apartment. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

It was through this "auntie"—a woman with loose connections to our family back in Calcutta—that Baba found the apartment. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’m his only friend and that’s because he lives down the hall from us on the sixth floor of our apartment building. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Even though Christmas was only two weeks away, Monique had not bothered with a tree or with lights or decorations of any sort for the apartment. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d seen enough cat fights in the alleys around my apartment in New York. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I had even ran up to his apartment the day before, after seeing him hanging with Frito and his crew in front of St. Nick. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“We can do what we did the last time—tell our parents we’re at different people’s apartments.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

She went back inside their apartment without answering, leaving the door open for me. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a pleasant little apartment, and his daughter was getting an excellent education. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was suspended by two jointed robotic arms anchored to my apartment’s walls and ceiling. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“We sent away a man who came to look at our apartment,” Isa said in a whisper. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

When Mandela Ziaty walked into his apartment after getting kicked off the Fugees, he walked past his mother, Beatrice, without saying a word and went upstairs to his room. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

My sister, Robin, and I were playing cerealball in the living room of our apartment. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It lay in wait for him, out here, the force which he had felt busily penetrating his specific apartment. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Aunt Kay running up the stairs to her own apartment and me running behind her. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

He walked a bit farther to his apartment building, opened the door, and retrieved his wallet—probably to produce identification. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Trees pop up along the sidewalks and the run-down apartments turn into houses with nice cars parked in front and fresh-painted trim around the windows. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Light is beginning to shine into the apartment. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Nico and I were sitting on the couch in my mom’s apartment on the Upper East Side. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

With his sister now married and his mother off on a peace march from San Francisco to Moscow, the Brooklyn apartment was all his—deliciously so, he felt. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as they enter the apartment, he pulls away and runs to the corner of the kitchen, behind the door and stands with his forehead pressed against the tile wall, trembling and moaning. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

But as he stood in the apartment, he couldn’t think of a single thing he wanted to bring. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Collins’s apartment was stocked with hundreds of chess books, chess paintings and statues, and furniture and draperies decorated with chess figures; it was a virtual chess museum. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was flanked by three- and four-story apartment buildings, the first floors of which contained stores where you could buy anything. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I hurried home and came into the apartment just as my father was beginning to dial the phone. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

One week later, Alma asked her grandmother if Nico could move into the guest bedroom for a few weeks until he found a new apartment. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“I need to hop off,” said Jake when the bus was two stops away from his apartment building. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

With the help of friends I rearranged my small apartment to accommodate a grown-up baby, and warily crept each morning from a mattress to my coffee maker and hotplate on the kitchen floor. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even then, St. Louis was a big city, but before too long the buildings were lower, mostly the back sides of factories and then lots of slumlike apartments. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember leaving Malloy's house, running down the block, busting into our apartment all gassed up, excited to show Jazz what I learned. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

When I got to the apartment I had no name to put to the face I’d seen in the drugstore, and her face wasn’t on my mind right then. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But to identify it positively from the apartment downstairs .. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he stood gaping at them, the lights in the living room of his apartment plunged out. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

At first he thought he should leave the apartment and search everywhere for new bodies, but then he knew what the flashlight really meant. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He finally settled on an apartment in Gardar Sverrisson’s building on Espergerdi Street, in a residential section on the east side of Reykjavik, too far to walk downtown, but accessible by two buses. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

We held a party at our apartment and everybody brought champagne. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

We promised, and he went into his apartment building. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

When they reached April’s apartment, Mrs, Hall met them at the door. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

His “apartment” is a sprawling warren of twenty-two rooms on the northwest side of the palace closest to the Orangery. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

As soon as I’m at the door to the neighbor lady’s apartment, I hear the birds, and it only gets louder once I get inside. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“I can’t even have a little peace in my own apartment.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

"There's only one apartment left, but you'll love it. It was meant for you." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

So when Terryl was nearing the end of elementary school they moved to a three- bedroom apartment in Whittier, another tough city, and they lived in the rough part of it. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She entered the first-floor hallway, crept along the walls on tiptoe, and looped the end of Franz’s leash to the doorknob that led to their apartment. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He was sweaty, tired, and hungry by the time he unlocked the door to the apartment. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The Glasses had a fifth-story apartment, a story higher than the school building, and at this hour the sun was shining over the school roof and through the Glasses’ naked living-room windows. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“As soon as I have a better apartment and a job.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I go into our new apartment’s tiny kitchen to fill my reusable water bottle. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

When they finished their noodles, the young man said his family’s apartment was just around the corner, but that he was embarrassed to greet his parents wearing threadbare clothes. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I learned that my mom had gone into Abuela’s apartment and found her lying peacefully in bed, but when she didn’t respond, my mom knew something was wrong. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Invite her in,” my father said at almost the same moment that Teresa squeezed past me and into our apartment. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The king’s apartments were buried in the very heart of the pyramid, on the sixteenth and seventeenth levels. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She inherited the apartment from her uncle Steven, who loved her and lived alone and died of AIDS. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Max and Danuta have a long talk in the empty living room of the Diamant apartment, and when they come back, Max says that he asked me for one night. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Slightly more than a year after astronaut testing, Nichols was found dead in her apartment. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Startled by loud banging on her apartment door, she struck the wrong typewriter key. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

All kinds of families—small ones, large ones, all colors—without an apartment or house. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I think there’s a vacant apartment in my building,” Rick said. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I walked into my apartment to find my mom putting away some groceries in the kitchen. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

We went to his apartment, which he shared with another family. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Ned had little doubt that he was bound straight for the royal apartments, to whisper at the queen. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

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

When I’m pretty sure he must be back in his apartment, I run down to the lobby and outside. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The doors to our flat and the Immerglicks’ apartment were still open. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

We don’t talk much after what happened the first Christmas we spent in apartment 404. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

On either side were run-down buildings that reminded me of our apartment. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Back to the apartment. We’ve got one more day there and then my mom’s borrowing someone’s truck so we can move our stuff to Michael’s lovely place.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

She looked around and tried to recall the way to her apartment, then set out haltingly along the sidewalk. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Tony was now full-time in the streets, splitting his time between his father’s and girlfriend’s apartments in the Murphy Homes Projects. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Uncle Frank stepped out of the apartment and called to Carmen. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Since the Internet was disconnected, Mama and Papa had gone to the library to use the computer to look up apartment listings. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

With reporters camped outside my door, I can't really go anywhere, so I find a hardware store that delivers, and decide to paint my apartment. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Although, if everyone thought he was dead, they wouldn't bother to watch the apartment. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Will he come running out of the apartment? Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Not letting go until they were in the parking lot of the apartment. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The town itself had a weather-beaten look to it, with closed stores, rusted-out cars, and worn apartment complexes lining the road, but it was still beautiful. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It looked surprisingly like the balloon that had crashed into their apartment wall only one week ago. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Jon’s apartment over the luggage store is long and narrow and smells of acrylic and used socks, and has only two rooms plus the bathroom. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He also eats the gall bladders of bears when he can get them at the Chinese apothecary shop near his apartment. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I remember watching other Catholics, girls in their Communion dresses and boys in their spit-shined shoes, walking down the street below our apartment, their mothers pushing prams and fathers strolling along beside. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Women of Lelia’s shape would approach the door, buzz an apartment, look around, slip inside. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1982 he moved his family from an apartment to a house in the most elite section of town, the Country Club Estates. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You were right. I’m sorry I doubted you. This is fun, much better than being inside the apartment, listening to my mother complain about how lazy I am.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

So the next day, instead of going straight home after school, when I got to our building, I walked to her apartment. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

For months we’d been moving as much of our furniture and apparel out of the apartment as we could. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He languished for three weeks at Massachusetts General Hospital, then returned with a huge cast on his leg to the apartment he shared with Ophelia. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The thought of Ollie barking at soldiers breaking into my apartment, scared and alone, brings a lump to my throat. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

In that small apartment there never was enough room for all of us to sit down for a meal. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

We dance, swaying back and forth to the noise of people moving in and out of the apartments. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She could get work in a heartbeat, and when she had a salary, we could move into a little apartment in town. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He took his hand off Luke’s chest and let him into the apartment. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

These days, I notice, she likes to hum her songs, prefers this, when once she would only sing pristine notes, ring them out like clarions around the apartment. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It smelled uncannily like Aru’s apartment in the museum: musty fabric, chai, lavender candles, and old books. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

They’d been raking leaves all day, and he was too tired to walk the two miles up the road to his apartment complex. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

She decides to send a card to each of them, shifting the respective name to the top of the card: to her husband’s apartment in Cleveland, to Gogol in New York, adding Maxine’s name, too. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The lights in all residential buildings have gone off, just as Metias had said they would, and nothing but oil lamps light the apartment. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

But the Wexler apartment was exactly where the bomber planned to set the next bomb. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she went to see the rental, Lita was offering the living room of an apartment as a bedroom. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“We have so much to be thankful for. We have this wonderful apartment, and we have food and the church and each other.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

More and more, she longed to exchange the chaos of the downstairs apartment for the quiet of her own. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

We just have to make sure to be back in the apartment well before our parents return. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Despite the lack of furniture, the apartment did not feel empty. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Today we may be living in high-rise apartments with over-stuffed refrigerators, but our DNA still thinks we are in the savannah. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Helena kicks the ball, bouncing it against the blank brick wall of an apartment building. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

My own family would be living in the same cheap apartment building as the other Japanese who worked at the hatchery. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Our arms and armor are back in our apartments,” said Gerris Drinkwater. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Slowly they started saving money, bit by bit, to pay for a rental deposit on an apartment. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Oppenheimer and Tatlock went inside, had dinner and drinks, then drove to her apartment, and entered together. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d never had the nerve to go see her, but today, for some reason, maybe because he didn’t want to go back to an empty apartment, he went inside. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Now I see families from Mexico and Cambodia and countries I don't know, twelve people sometimes in one apartment. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rich city folks, he’d say, lived in fancy apartments, but their air was so polluted they couldn’t even see the stars. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

As quickly and as quietly as I could, I slipped back into the apartment. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

That means I can’t go to the apartment and ask questions. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The apartment was blue with smoke, through which the broad expanse of white linoleum was arctic, surreal. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Nan and I lived in the same apartment in Pleasant View, Tennessee—right outside Nashville—for nearly two whole years. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“You don’t think the people in the apartments will blame Papi, do you?” she asked. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Coverage continues from the courtyard behind the apartment where we took shelter. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

One night, across the street from their apartment, Bernard was brutally assaulted and beaten by two white men. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she hadn’t written the note, she could have gotten back to the building, taken the elevator up to twelve, and been in their apartment before the electricity went out. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I haven’t been up in my grandfather’s apartment for a while now. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

He had that look of calm resolve on his face, the look he'd gotten when the dog had to be put down and when fire took our apartment in North Town. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t live at home with her parents, but in a bachelorette apartment in one of the new high-rise buildings on Avenue Road, north of St. Clair. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I came back to the apartment after a full day of running back and forth in the markets, and the best I’d been able to get for our money was kasha. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

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

“Maybe you guys can carry this up to the apartment for me.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He lifted the mattress from the upper bunk bed, and pulled out the two envelopes that held keys for apartment 1 IF and apartment 14J. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

In the late evening, my father, David, and Pesza returned to our apartment with scraps of bread in their pockets. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Come to my apartment on your way home from after-school. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Plus, she was spending more time at her dad's apartment, which was close to her old friends. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He got home to find his sisters up and prowling around the apartment. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I had arrived in Chicago two years ago, but I had only lived in my apartment for the last ten months. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was like a big ugly apartment building had fallen out of the sky and landed in the basin. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

She sounded sort of like Mr. Johnson in apartment 4Q who’d had some kind of operation and talked through a hole in his neck. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He stared absentmindedly at a window washer on a platform dangling outside an apartment building. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She met me at the apartment just about as Shorty went off to work. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Together, the giants picked up a fake mountain as big as Percy’s New York apartment and hurled it at the demigods. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We were back at the Panther apartment, alone, except for the guards in the hall. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

My stupid key sticks in the lock, and it takes me three tries to get the apartment door open. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

With that, he dopped out of the apartment and down the hall, Tyson calling after him, “Pony! Don't go!” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

As Daisy and I drove toward her apartment in Harold’s warm embrace, she wouldn’t shut up about the crush she was certain I had. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

One was located in the apartment directly above him. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“And what does he want us to do? Live in the woods and starve? We have food here, and shelter, and the ghetto must be nearly empty now. We’d probably have an apartment to ourselves.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Judging from the layout, the second floor space had probably been designed as an in-law apartment meant for one or two people, but four of us found a way to fit inside. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Found it missing in the early morning after I went knocking on your apartment door. You said you were up on the roof last night, right? Do you know anything about this?” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

That was when I realized that he must live in the apartment over the garage, the one with dead plants on the fire escape and bedsheets hanging over the windows. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

He lived in the apartment building at the end of the block, and let me tell you, living in a brownstone and living in an apartment building are very different. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And so Gogol goes sightseeing, alone, while Moushumi is off at her conference, or as she sits at the table in the apartment and puts the final touches on her paper. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It isn’t as scary as staying here,” he said. the next morning, a Sunday, was the last day in their apartment. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bedraggled figure slowly made his way up the front steps of our building and appeared at our apartment door. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“I want to spruce up our apartment, make it feel more like home. But on a tiny budget. I have a list of ideas.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“We had a terrible mishap with the apartment.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

One was that Diallo might be the lookout for a “push-in” robber—that is, a burglar who pretends to be a visitor and pushes his way into people’s apartments. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Max stays at the apartment because it’s too close to curfew to make it safely back to the fence. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I sneak down to Madrina’s apartment, where the door is unlocked and it’s completely empty, but her scent still lingers in the air—cigar and sage smoke, Florida water, incense, and cheap perfume. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Mami chatted about New York, my cousins, movies, and tall apartment buildings. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“But I guess home isn’t this apartment. It’s wherever you are.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Fred and Cha-Cha, the second audition winner, rode with Jenny and Abby to an apartment in Brooklyn that the Washington! producers had rented for their canine cast. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Works as cleaning woman in Sunset Towers, lives in maid's apartment on fourth floor. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment, combining Rice Krispies and Planters peanuts and chopped red onion in a bowl. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She walks through her apartment inspecting things, picking up the same framed photographs of her family. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

With my dollars bills in hand and Madrina’s skirt still around my waist, I race up the stairs, past my apartment, and quietly slip up to the roof. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Rémy deposits me in my apartments and takes his nightly seat outside the door. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Today I turn the apartment upside down looking for my key. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

At the apartment, I stretch out on the. bed and think about how Dad used to lie right here when he was a kid. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

On the Upper East Side an apartment facing the East River would be priceless, but this is Spanish Harlem, where most rents are subsidized by Section Eight. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

It feels like a vacuum has sucked the air out of our apartment. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time he arrived at the apartment, her clothes were gone, and her make-up and her bathroom things. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Search warrant in hand, the cops were sure to be on their way to my apartment, my laptops. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

He was free to hang around her apartment if he cared to, but there was no certainty that she would be there. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

We told her mom we were going over to my apartment, and I promised, as I always did, that I wouldn’t leave Maribel’s side the whole thirty-step journey from her unit to mine. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

One morning she returns with objects in her hands, pretty rocks and twigs and big oak leaves, and she sits down silently at the small table in our garage apartment to construct a little house. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I start looking around the apartment for stuff. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

They also said that it’s lucky our house sold so fast, and we found an affordable apartment in our same town. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Even though Disney World was only a two hours' drive from his apartment, Dad had decided that it might be more fun if we stayed overnight at one of Disney's theme hotels. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Could I tie a towel to your knees and would you come over and mop my apartment?” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The apartments might be bigger and cheaper in other places, but one could never count on their old circle of friends making the long trip to attend a birthday party. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Different, somehow. I’m sitting right here, and it’s just like I’m sitting in my apartment in New York. I don’t know—I feel funny.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Though I had saved almost no money, I decided to rent an apartment. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

They built a series of apartment complexes—mostly two-story buildings arranged around big parking lots. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I'm feeling like this is about the best day I’ve had in a long while till I walk into the apartment. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

The core of the core lives in Pyongyang in large apartments or single-family homes in gated neighborhoods. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Diallo was followed to his apartment building by four white police officers—members of the elite Street Crime Unit—who viewed him as suspicious and wanted to interrogate him. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

We were barely even allowed to rent this apartment. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

After a short vacation at the end of the season, Luma had just a month to find the Fugees a new home field within walking distance of the apartment complexes where her players lived. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The following day I left my small apartment near the museum and took a train to Tilsit. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Do you remember that girl who was hitting me over die head with that shoe in that apartment in Rome, when we were both naked?” he asked with a look of cunning expectation. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

My body felt heavy as I walked to my apartment. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The rule was that if I wanted to see Maribel, it had to be at either her apartment or mine—no going outside, no taking a walk, no nothing. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

She always goes with him to his apartment. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She grabbed her violin from the console next to the front entrance, jerked the door open, and took the stairs two at a time up to the Beiderman’s apartment. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

After living there almost every day of my life, I saw our apartment as if it were the first time. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Abuela would never have let it get so hot in her apartment. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Above her, the apartment door opened, and Pluto stepped inside. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He had a nice apartment with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking Lake Michigan. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The sharp sound of their radios echoed in the parking lot and in the darkened stairwells of the apartment complex. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

This is how he convinced me to let him move into our apartment. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The door to the building with Fuchsia’s apartment is only partway closed, and I push through it and head up the rickety stairs. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The apartment was cluttered with little porcelain figures, decorative plates, and ashtrays from various nightclubs. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

At that moment, Pearl came up into the apartment. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Without waiting for Oliver to respond, Angie grabbed one of the two handles of the cookie basket and together they lugged it to Angie’s apartment. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

My mother made me take Sam a couple of doors down to watch TV at the Muramotos’ apartment. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about how close I was to my old apartment. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Finally he leads me down a short flight of stairs, and I realize we’re in what must be his and Willem’s apartment. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

When Luke opened his apartment door, the lights were on, and at first he thought that had to be a good sign. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She was cooking coconut rice, her apartment thick with spices, a bottle of cheap merlot on her counter, and Nina Simone playing loudly on her CD. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Before leaving her apartment he’d tossed the magazine in the garbage, along with the ends of the three cigarettes he always smoked in the course of his visits. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

And once it got dark enough outside, and quiet enough on the block, he made a dash into his apartment. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He started the long, slow run down the highway toward his apartment. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

We skirted the yellow circles around the bottoms of the streetlights, running past the steps of shops and apartment buildings. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

When I reached the side stairs to the apartment I heard the door slam hard above. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually, we went to her apartment after school, and her mom gave us cookies, the vanilla sandwich kind with chocolate in the middle. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Now we sit on the steps that swing around the basement apartment where Earl lives. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

So we left the museum and went back to my apartment. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He leads me to the apartment where he lives with his grandma. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

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

Then I go up to the attic and cut down one of the ropes for the laundry, bring it into the apartment, and tie it to the heater in Mr. and Mrs. Diamant’s empty bedroom. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She hangs everything out on the clotheslines behind the apartment house and we can watch the clothes dance in wind and sun. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

June 8—What drives me out of the apartment to prowl through the city? Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He had helped himself and along the way had also helped Vera’s family by giving her pregnant niece and her husband a nice apartment. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Jimmy entered the apartment and sat down on the sofa. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He still lives in New York, rents the apartment on Amsterdam Avenue. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not a great apartment— on the top floor with rats running through it—but she’s done her best to make it a home. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far down the road, apartment buildings framed a view of the bay with Alcatraz island smack dab in the middle. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I remembered the time a rat had died inside our apartment wall in New York in the middle of the summer. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

In the middle of March he starts moving into the new apartment, at 8 Cite Pigalle, on the third floor to the left. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Dell had assumed they lived in a house or at least a real apartment. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

That day when I left him alone in his apartment, he told me what the poet Rumi had said. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Carlos gets a couple of towels, and we do our best to dry off the dogs before dropping them off to their apartments. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Had he broken into my apartment or the secret room below the castle? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She wished she had told Ginika about the tennis coach, taken the train to Ginika’s apartment on that day, but now it was too late, her self-loathing had hardened inside her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

We saw the tall buildings in the distance before we got to them, long rows of huge white apartment towers against a brilliant blue sky. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

So he chooses three colorful, bright pieces for the exhibition: two of them are landscapes from near their apartment in Montmartre. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Miss Trixie’s apartment was decorated with scraps, with junk, with bits of metal, with cardboard boxes. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aurelia was in the habit of visiting her in her small apartment at the back of the palace, so the nurse suspected nothing when her “dear little precious” came knocking. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

She thought of James’s apartment and all the photos and trinkets. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They left the apartment unlocked, with a cheerful note of welcome. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

When she got upstairs to her apartment, Cynthia dropped her bag on the couch and beelined to her grandfather's room. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The two girlfriends climb the stairs, led straight to the right place more by the stride piano pouring over the door saddle than their recollection of the apartment number. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I know where I am going, she thought; I told her about my mother so that’s all right; I will find a little house, or maybe an apartment like hers. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

When I look over strips of green grass lining the river, at church steeples and into the cream-and-copper halls of apartment buildings, I’m strong. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to stop by Nora's apartment to talk to her on Sunday, but I’ve already forgotten what number it is. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

We moved into an apartment, and I slept on a sofa that miraculously transformed itself at night into a large comfortable bed. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother had not been to my apartment in months. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then at last and every day, from our Manhattan apartment, she would take day trips to any part of New York City, which she loved and thought she would never leave. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tiberinus pointed to a set of stone steps on the side of the building—the sort that would have led to a basement apartment if this place were in Manhattan. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Upstairs in my apartment again, I sat listening for the sound of the back door. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The apartment opened directly into a large, messy room. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

When Constantin asked if I would like to come up to his apartment to hear some balalaika records I smiled to myself. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Exactly one month before the Egypt Game began in the Professor’s backyard she had come, very reluctantly, to live in the shabby splendor of an old California-Spanish apartment house called the Casa Rosada. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked for my job back at the cafe and the boss lady allowed me to return; again I served breakfast, washed dishes, carted trays of food up into the apartments. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched the stream of cabs going down Fifth Avenue, and thought about my mom’s apartment, only a litde ways uptown from where we sat. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I have this pins-and-needles feeling in my legs, like it’s me who’s forcing open the door of a stranger’s apartment, walking in, looking, touching. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And basically he had nowhere to live because Mom had got evicted from her apartment, so they were squatting in 3833—four of them in one bedroom. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The master suite in the residence was bigger than the entirety of the upstairs apartment my family had shared when I was growing up on Euclid Avenue. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Anger fills the corners of our apartment like a bad smell. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

For about a week, we stayed in a borrowed apartment belonging to family friends and made trips every day to the ocean, to swim and laze about in the sun. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Well, I better get going. I have a rehearsal right after I see the apartment, and I’m already running late,” he said, looking at his watch. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Long after Thomas has escorted me back to my apartment and left, and long after midnight has passed, I sit awake at my computer and study Metias’s crime report. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She glanced in the window of the Small Items shop, where Doon’s father was reaching for something on a shelf, and then she dashed up the stairs and knocked on the door of Doon’s apartment. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Leaving Helena alone to hide a Jew in our apartment is probably the worst thing I’ve ever done. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Chavez was working the floor buffer machine in the lobby of a Manhattan apartment building. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are lights on in my neighbors’ apartments. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I’m in our first apartment, in the bedroom. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Fugees offered a welcome opportunity to get out of the apartment. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

At Francis’s apartment I found him dressed except for his shoes, lying on his bed. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Aunt Pearl's hands were clenched and her eyes were wide when he bounded into the apartment. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except for Cinnamon’s blue and yellow plywood apartment in one corner, it might have belonged to any high school girl. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure there’s already a lamp at Fuchsia’s apartment.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“You mean who do I live with in my great-uncle Milton’s apartment?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“We’re spending the day going through the apartments, taking everything we can barter or use and bringing it all down here.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

When he heard that I was looking for a roommate to share an apartment, he suggested I move in with him. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She and her mother sat in the park near their apartment, having a picnic breakfast. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The Mancinis have this kind of strange house like an apartment. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

And Mom—Mom!—walks right up to me, stumbling over herself, simultaneously surveying Aunt Heidi’s tiny apartment. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Went down to the Wilco to steal some candy bars, doughnuts, whatever they could get their hands on, to eat on the curb outside of Luke’s apartment. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

At that meeting Collins had invited Bobby to come to the apartment, and two weeks after, the boy appeared. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They were here to cut open my apartment and pull me out of it, like a chunk of Spam being removed from a can. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

But I still hadn’t let him come down to our apartment to inspect it. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The boys got a break from school, and since few had anywhere to go, they passed the time in one another’s apartments, playing video games and hanging out. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Toby looked at Annie’s apartment but didn’t say anything at first. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Maybe they knew where Alex lived and maybe they didn’t, but it was unlikely they knew which apartment the Morales family had taken over. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

A few minutes earlier, we’d been on a busy road, driving through four-way intersections, past strip malls and fast-food restaurants, but as we neared the apartment building, all of that had given way. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

That night they share a cab back to his apartment. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then he and Julie tidied and cleaned the apartment until it was as close to immaculate as could be managed under the circumstances. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Zakariyya’s apartment was a small studio with a sliver of a kitchen where Deborah and the boys had been watching us from a window. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Muffled voices echoed down the hallway as Fadi came up the stairs to the family’s apartment. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Since arriving in the United States with his mother, Beatrice, and older brothers, Mandela and Darlington, Jeremiah had been cooped up in his family’s Clarkston apartment on strict orders from his mother. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

We huddle together against the far wall of the bedroom, and it reminds me of the cellar of the apartment building, when Izio held my hand where his mother couldn’t see. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

When she knocked at Mademoiselle Reisz’s door one afternoon there was no response; so unlocking the door, as usual, she entered and found the apartment deserted, as she had expected. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked around quickly to confirm the apartment was empty, then went into the kitchen and opened the refrigerator. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“There is a reason, you know, Stefania, that I looked for you at your old apartment.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Beiderman,” Mama continued, her voice going up an octave, “you realize that the apartment is not going to look its best if you show it now, right?” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He had brought the magazine specially to her apartment, for she did not own an atlas, or any other books with maps in them. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I went to our apartment and then my room and shut the door. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Well, he has a key to his apartment, but not to ours. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

He threw open the apartment’s back door and tossed Fred out into the alley. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I’ve stopped drawing the furniture at the apartment; I fill the bathtub with cool water and get into it, but I no longer read in there. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I change the illusion to my apartment and have the audience glide through like one of those virtual house tours on the internet. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Then I sit back in my chair, looking wildly around our apartment. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Oh, no. I lived in Kraków. But I visited in the summer, with my grandmama’s sister. She lived in this apartment. But she’s gone now. To some camp somewhere. She married a Jew.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Together, in our cramped apartment on the South Side of Chicago, they helped me see the value in our story, in my story, in the larger story of our country. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Elites have relatively large apartments and access to rice. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The apartment smelled the way it did because Stanley's fa-ther was trying to invent a way to recycle old sneakers. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

When she got to the top, Hazel thought she heard two voices inside the apartment. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

When I step into the apartment building, Emilika pokes her head out of her door. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The center of this tight-knit community was Ismail’s apartment, flat 13, Kholvad House, four rooms in a residential building in the center of the city. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a Senate office and an apartment in a shabby building on Capitol Hill, a little one-bedroom that was already cluttered with books and papers, his Hole away from home. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Then, with a heavy heart, I climbed the steps to our apartment. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The insides of your apartment are spread out for everybody to see and touch. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

My father and I ate without talking, while Manya hovered over us like a protective bear, and afterwards my father went into his study and I walked slowly through the apartment. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The school wasn’t any bigger than our little apartment building. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Luma spent the evening and most of the next day in her apartment. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

My great-uncle Milton’s apartment has two bedrooms, and I guess it’s considered big for New York. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

After two weeks, Kathy and Zeitoun were still in the studio apartment, and the kids were ready to return to New Orleans. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

After all, the apartments the refugees lived in were a world away from the houses across town. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

If he imagined being in Celia’s apartment hard enough, it might actually happen. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a final night in his apartment, Gordievsky set out on the last and most perilous leg of his exfiltration plan. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Something about them reminds me of the pigeons that perch on the railing of the fire escape outside our apartment. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

He lived alone, in a nondescript apartment near his lab in London, and in a spare, white modernist cottage that he had built for himself in Brighton. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

After a thirty-minute ride, the caseworker pulled into the Willow Ridge apartment complex. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

And the woman, a very elegant artist type with blond hair, had supposedly painted the apartment in terrible red and green colors. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grabbing her coat and her mother, Jo ran to her uncle’s apartment. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

As we pulled away from my apartment complex, I craned my neck to look through the transport’s tinted rear windows, up at the building where I’d lived for the past year. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Let’s talk about tomorrow then. After school, I’ll drop off my stuff and pick up Ziggy as usual. Then should I meet you at Carlos’s apartment so we can get the other dogs?” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The apartment door crashed open, and Baba barged in, wild-eyed and waving the fire extinguisher, with Mama beside him. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

People were clogging the streets around the White House, spilling out of restaurants, hotels, and apartment buildings, filling the night air with celebratory shouts. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We’d have a new apartment with pale cream carpets that never got dirty and modern wallpaper with no flowers. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Once in the apartment, I thank Pattie for everything she did today. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

His bedchamber was a small cell off the queen’s apartments, originally slave quarters; his furnishings consisted of a bed, a chamber pot, a wardrobe for his clothing, even a chair should he want to sit. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Up in those big five-story apartment buildings and the narrow wooden houses in between people knock on each Other’s doors to see if anything is needed or can be had. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the palace could be sad, did that mean her apartment missed her? Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“The world is a big place,” he said, “but so is the inside of an apartment! So’s this!” he said, pointing at his head. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

Eddie, the super of the apartment building, looked at me with a twinge of sympathy. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

A house is better than an apartment, ’cause it means you have more money. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She was best friends with a boy who lived in the apartment below. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“When we go to college, we’re not going to live in a dormitory. We’re going to live on the very top floor of a tall apartment building. I’ll be in graduate school.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

They’re more like cottages sharing walls than apartments, two stories with steep, peaked roofs made of tin. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The sidewalk is flush with the curb, and Diallo’s apartment building is flush with the sidewalk, separated by just a four-step stoop. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

After I graduate, I’ll get a job and my own apartment here too. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“You are never at your apartment, Gogol. In the middle of the night I have called and you are not there.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He lives in an apartment building now, but when my grandmother was alive, they lived in a house. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Ever since I was little, I imagined myself living in an apartment in the middle of Manhattan, writing late into the night. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In the two weeks since we’d been in the apartment, many of the neighbors—mostly the women—had stopped by to introduce themselves. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

It didn’t bother me that the apartment was in a rough neighborhood; we’d always lived in rough neighborhoods. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I know we are middle-class because of our apartment and the possessions we have. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s not coming back until Monday, and Dad’s not back until Monday either, so I’ll be spending my seventeenth birthday alone in Uncle Milton’s apartment. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

So he wandered around the apartment all day, in and out of rooms, talking to himself, just like a kid in diapers. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the door to the apartment flew open, and two large, tough, brawny M.P.s with icy eyes and firm, sinewy, unsmiling jaws entered quickly, strode across the room, and arrested Yossarian. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The apartment consisted, as far as I could see, of two rooms. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“We can’t afford to rent an apartment right now. The rebuild is going to cost a fortune, and insurance only covers so much.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I could go get the VCR from the apartment,” Luke said, continuing to ignore him. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I walk back to the main street of town and set up my “office” at the pay phone near the pier, from which I secure invitations to view a few more apartments, forget the shares. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat back down and started to cry in the lobby of an apartment building in Corona. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Listen, kid, when you grow up and get your own apartment in New York City, you can get all the bathrooms you want.” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

She reached the door to their apartment and slammed the door behind her. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I checked the halls on all five floors of the apartment house. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

After ducking down in the taxi so Mom wouldn’t see me, I hated myself—hated my antiques, my clothes, and my apartment. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I notice a big box filled with stuff from around the apartment. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I inhaled the sweet scent of milk rice that wafted through our apartment. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

His hands numb, he guided the hovercar up into the sky and headed for his apartment and Iran. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“And how did you get into the apartment?” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

He was persistent and at one point came to Bubeh’s apartment and knocked on the door and stood in the hallway saying, “Come out, Ruth. I know you’re home. Come on out.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Take the plant,” he said to her, on the last day she saw him, when she was packing the clothes she kept in his apartment. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then they took a bus to our apartment in Rwanda. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The apartment is barely heated, minuscule, at the top of six steep flights of stairs, with a bathroom the size of a phone booth. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Their apartment is a middle unit in a triplex. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“We both know your schedule isn’t the reason she’s not staying with you. Or is Danielle no longer living at your apartment?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When his mother had said more or less the same thing, the first time his parents had visited the apartment, he’d argued with her, hotly defending the merits of his spartan, solitary existence. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a very nice man from Mexico living in your old apartment. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Fine’s office was located in a huge apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not a mansion but it’s nicer than my family’s apartment. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

The stoops along 145th always looked more or less the same, cracked steps with people either standing on them or sitting on them because life got too depressing in their apartments. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

We signed the lease, then got friends and family to help us pack up and move into a two-bedroom apartment, two buildings down on the same block as the burned-out building. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

She got an apartment in Charles Village, a one-bedroom with old wood floors, although she might as well have been living with Curt; most of her clothes were in his walk-in closet lined with mirrors. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In the 1980s white people began to leave the apartments in Clarkston. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

You are technically free, but as a result of your arrest and period of incarceration, you lose your job, your apartment, your furniture, and your car. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

When his brother returned from the medical home, still wearing leg braces from the polio, the two of them shared a rollaway bed in the kitchen of their apartment, and Eva would kiss them good-night. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I walked with Sam over to our former apartment to watch TV with Mrs. Muramoto. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later, the Vanderbeeker apartment buzzed with kids and parents going in and out of bedrooms and bathrooms and up and down the stairs. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The stores and apartments Maxie and I walked past had seen sad times, and looked as if they’d taken much of the sadness upon themselves. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

At the front door of our apartment, my suitcases are ready. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

No one had lived in this apartment for years; the ruin had become almost complete. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The following Saturday, Mia found herself in the lobby of Pauline’s apartment, an envelope of photos clutched in her hand. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There were no streetlights, but the street was lit by the lights from the apartments and from a motel down the way, the sign flashing on and off, on and off. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Anyone could have come into the apartment and carted away everything in it, except for the computer, and Jesse wouldn’t have noticed or perhaps cared that much. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The carpet is shaggy, beige, and covers everything in the apartment like dead grass. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The next morning, I put on Mrs. Diamants old coat, the one she’d lent me when mine got shredded, and peeked out the door of the echoing apartment. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The shoe that had been stolen from our apartment. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

There were crazy people in the apartment complexes in Clarkston—maybe she was one of those. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

That first morning in their apartment outside Clarkston, Generose sleepily told her boys to get their things and get ready to leave again. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

When you enter the apartment complex, it feels like entering the courtyard of a dead king and his decaying cement kingdom. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

A small park near her apartment is a gang hangout. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Our humble apartment—and, with it, all my worries—is replaced by blackness and silence. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He wouldn't talk there—took me back to his apartment. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a friend, a guy in Queens, who was going over for the war and she was going to stay in his apartment until he got back. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Hi,” I said, meeting him in front of the apartment as he turned to lock the door. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Soon word spread to the parking lots and apartment complexes around town. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

They would find an apartment for rent: usually a studio, sometimes an efficiency, whatever they could afford and wherever they could go month to month, for Mia did not like to be tied down. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She would take me into her apartment and talk to me, but her words had no effect. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they start running around the apartment, pulling down the balloons and competing to see who can pop more of them. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

The Belle apartments whirr with activity as palace guards swarm the halls, and post-balloons whiz in and out. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z