“You go on in de house and set down,” she says. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every other coven held meetings four times a year to discuss secret coven things in their grand houses. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

With so little housing for so many people, landlords could charge whatever came into their heads. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Did you see that savage’s expression when I lit up his house?” one man asks the other. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The woman will come with us to the new house and take care of you. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once in the house, I sat at the foot of the stairs and unzipped Fred’s backpack, the smell of cinnamon gum leaking into the air. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

That she couldn’t have us here messing up her peace of mind and that she couldn’t work with us in her house. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew he was sore because the DiAngelos bought his grandfather’s farm, tore down the old house, and built a mansion up there on the bluff. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

My brother and I were giggling and chasing each other around the house as silly five- and three-year-olds do. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

For the rest of the afternoon, I mope around the house, until Mami sends me over to help Chucha move in. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

His house is on part of the land that Uncle Drum sold to the developers. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Dad tried to do everything he could to help Mom and the rest of us around the house, like getting up early each day to make breakfast for everyone. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He didn’t come here often—none of the children had much to do with the rental house—but he knew where it was. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

More important than the crab houses, however, are the boats, tied along the docks. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The vacation grew longer and the meetings in the school- house continued. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He might see through the ruse and refuse to leave the house. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

What worried me was the thought that I actually belonged in Valencia's house, that of all the homes in New York, my place was here with the Barefoot Contessa. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Weekdays, now, Molly doesn’t wait for Jack to take her to Vivian’s house. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The houses in the neighborhood had a miserable look. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Seven rubbed her eyes, put on her house slippers, and ran downstairs. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I brought him home and decided that except for letting him go outside for the bathroom, I would keep him in the house. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The team of five boys and five girls was housed in various homes throughout the township: there wasn’t enough sponsorship money to pay for hotel accommodations. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which of these houses hold the parents who hurt their own kids? Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

When Emmett and George bought the property, his house didn't even exist. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Travis leaned on the glass counter that housed Mr. Burson’s tiny museum of early editions of Faulkner, O’Connor, Welty, and McCarthy. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

His parents were going to cause the destruction of the house as soon as they could. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

In a downpour, he dropped her off in front of her house. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

ON a hot Saturday in late September, the cotton fields chopped and empty, Daddy carries a new RCA color television set into the house. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Anyway, Twig and I rode in through the big gate to her house and tossed our bikes on the lawn. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know if Diego was joking about the dress code, but I would have worn clown shoes and a tutu to get out of my house. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Nhamo looked forward to school because it got her out of the house. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her grief and loneliness, the burden of being both mother and father, she relegated to the privacy of their house on Mimosa Crescent. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

When these old men died, the coffee houses would suffer and finally close. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Behind him is a white house with Christmas decorations, even though it’s only November. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It is the house where his father lives. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He guarded the house and regions beyond and became a great hero, the Hound of Ulster itself. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It wasn't unusual—our house always came alive with protest paraphernalia in the weeks before a demonstration, but I had never really paid attention to it before. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

All cats, for example, from the smallest house kitten to the most ferocious lion, share a common feline ancestor who lived about 25 million years ago. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Calmly Roy pulled up his trousers, then strolled around to the front of the house and waited for Dana to come hurtling out the door in a fury. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite a clear and pressing need, subsidized housing wasn’t considered, primarily because it ran counter to the economic interests of slumlords who held powerful positions in and out of government. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

For days afterward, the skeleton of the McCulloms’ burned-out town house continued to hiss and cave in on itself, dying far more slowly than its young occupants had. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Now THERE’S something you don’t hear every day at our house. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having got the address from the school records, Miss Honey set out to walk from her own home to the Wormwood's house shortly after nine. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I folded inside myself, wishing I could go back to the dusty road in front of our house and grab Raymond off the bike before Jenny rode away with him. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

We stopped briefly at my house so that I could call my father at work. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

On Monday morning, July 13,1 was walking back to the honey house after breakfast when I noticed a strange black Ford parked in the driveway. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the shell houses on both sides of the river, boys finished rigging their shells. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She said that Bianca was inviting us to Ice’s house to a party. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Tired, irritable, he walked down Fifteenth Street, glancing up as he passed one of his other houses, its silhouette melting in the light that trembled between dusk and twilight. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

This was the night of September third, 1940, and in a little while a bomb was going to fall from the sky and blow a giant hole in the house. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

But then there was a scream at the other end of the house: “Mana!” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

As I leave my house to walk to the bus stop, I have a serious talk with myself. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He used to pick them up from their mom's house, then drop them off at his mom's house, while he went off and did whatever it was that he did on the weekend. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Then she’ll open the door and a rectangle of misty morning light will shine into our house’s musty darkness. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the upside, Dad said, the house had cost only a thousand dollars, and the owner had waived the down payment. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It looks like she may not be going back to her house.” Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were seeing less and less of each other, despite the fact that we were in the same house. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He’d practice his singing around the house sometimes, singing “do re mi fa sol,” and all that. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fat candle glowed on a parlor windowsill of a house on a corner, set there to guide someone home. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tub was the newest feature in the tiny shotgun house and Milkman sank gratefully into the steaming water. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lee, once he had given up his brackish bookish dream, made a new kind of place for himself in the house beside Reynaud’s Bakery. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I glanced back at my parents’ bedroom, holding my breath, but the house was silent. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The two girls returned with clean faces and hands, and Teenie handed them each an outfit worn by the house serving maids. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where her house once stood was an empty hole, like a giant grave waiting to be filled. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When she walked back into the house, the living room was dark, but the TV was on. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Instead, he walked solemnly back up to the house and spoke to his wife. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Two men were housed in the iron cage next to City Hall. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stooped under Dad’s arm where it rested against the door frame and walked into the house. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The hysterical feeling grows as I walk round the side of the house, down the little passageway. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

So her not appearing at our house didn’t mean yes or no about what she had seen. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I went straight into the house, rummaged through my things, found an old mitten, and went back out and tied it to the pump handle. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

But now the garden was dead and the house was gloomy. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

A strip of bright flowers lay in front of the house, blooming against the cold. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The big snowflakes still crowded behind him like the gauzy curtains in the woman’s house. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was Cataure, Visitación’s brother, who had left the house fleeing from the insomnia plague and of whom there had never been any news. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was too close to the road or maybe we’d turned a little wild and couldn’t live in a normal house anymore. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like his older son, he needed a wife to make the new house a home, and like his son he found just what he was looking for in the other LaFollette twin. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The summer of 1958 came, and with it, floating ships of clouds that lazily drifted by, docking sometimes in the afternoon to produce a shower to loosen the dust off the houses and the cars. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was a nice big house, one of those older ones with the large porches, in a nice neighborhood and the grounds was big. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet it wasn’t the darkness, or the strange sounds, or the unfamiliar house that was keeping me up. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He dreams of a house in Travis County, doors locked, unwilling to let him in again. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The house seemed as dark and closed up as Jack was. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Of course he looks as they pass two important landmarks: Daniel Berrios’s house with its huge front porch, and the exit ramp that he will take to the Delaware Valley Raptor Sanctuary this Friday. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But there’s no money in the house, not even for bread in the morning. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

That would be one of the seven houses we’d get our parents. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The decon team brought thirty-nine Sunbeam electric frying pans to the monkey house. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the dark these majestic houses feel creepy, hidden away in all the trees and tucked behind alcoves. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He then stormed back into the house and flung all windows open. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What’re you talking about? Why wouldn’t your family leave the house?” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

The seriousness of what had happened was that if word of their daughter’s powers reached beyond the walls of the house and the priest began his own investigation, all their neighbors would find out. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The inhabitants of number twelve were never seen by anybody in the surrounding houses, and nor was number twelve itself. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He had his easel set up, and he was painting a picture of her house. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I think they’re in Arnold’s house now holding him prisoner. No, I know they’re in there because I saw them and I don’t know what to do.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

They burned our house, and yet he kept on doing the same thing, pushing his agenda, talking his big talk. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hustled my stride behind her heels clacking against the pavement toward the house. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I was at her house almost as much as I was at my own. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Miss Peregrine reached for a photo album she’d brought from the house and began to flip through it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Most of it was done, except for under each window of the house. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

After a moment she said, “I’m gonna take you to my house. It’s freezing out here. We gotta get out of these wet clothes and talk to my folks. They’ll know what to do.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“For her and her two small children, there was not a bed nor a chair nor food in the house,” the investigator said. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In the town there were more guns, there were some new hospitals, you met British men and sometimes women, on the street, and a few more houses had been hit by shell fire. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I slip out of my seat and find myself in front of Kalinda’s house, shouting her name. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I followed him into the house and Mom was already in his bedroom, already crying again as she talked to a half-asleep Aunt Julia. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Our neighbor’s house, the massive Tudor, is dark and quiet. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I made good money at Sidley but was pragmatic enough to take a bird in the hand when it came to housing. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Viola worked in electronics, and she and her husband, Frank, had bought a house in Queens. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I contemplated calling his house, but his parents were friends with my parents, so that wouldn’t work. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

One of them was Oliver Valentine, come back to help others escape the meeting house. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

They tore through the house to the front door and down the steps. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The yellow house was sparsely furnished, but to Lupita, it seemed very fine. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Then he’d go back to the house on the hill to tend the animals or repair the fences or study the ocean through the telescope. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He woke in terror, and sent the werelight flaming through the air, lighting every corner of the little house till he saw no shadow anywhere. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I was grateful to spend the days outside the house with her. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I felt so hopeful about the future of my valley that I planted a mango seed outside our house. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I explained what was going on with the dogcatchers and asked if I could keep Termite in the house. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see the top of a girl’s head standing in front of the house—Donna. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Get out of my house and go back on the streets where you belong.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

On rainy nights he could be seen prowling about the house with an umbrella, waiting for a light in Amaranta’s bedroom. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It is hot in this city, and sometimes at night when I come back to Aunt Victorias house I am tired and wishful for the silver poplars to set under. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys went back to the town and found a house whose owners had just fled, leaving everything behind. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the men kept moving around, living in one house and going on to another when the roof began to leak. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The combination of colors gave the house a raw, jittery feeling. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I stand out there shivering for a second while she talks to her mom, saying, "I'm gonna have dinner at Will Grayson's house. . . . Yes, his dad is here. . . .They're doctors. . . . Yeah. . . . Okay, love you." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

I make a second attempt on Tuesday but don’t manage to leave the house, reading an awful book as an excuse. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Dad live in a really nice house now that he’s back, and I mean ridiculously nice—the kind of house you see on TV shows about movie stars. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The paint was peeling a little, but the little house had shingles on the roof and curtains in the window. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

During the day, the place was busy with workers, builders, and painters who were repairing the main house and extending the outbuildings. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She liked to run down the long dirt road of the village, stopping into the dark doorways, waving to the people who lived inside each house. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Dashing out through the rain, Sam entered the mill house and picked up a box he had made with boards Bando had cut for his furniture and discarded. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Finally he got up and went into the main house to dust the furniture, something mild and mindless that would keep him occupied. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Neighbors had flocked to our house in tears when they heard the news. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“You can go now, and don’t you let me catch you doing this again. As long as I’m working in this house, this room is off-limits. You got that?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

And she did him a courtesy and walked back to the house. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I turned ten that spring, but birthdays were not a big deal around our house. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It changed the atmosphere in the house to something festive. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

The fifth floor housed the weapons and detention cells. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The doors of the house, wide open from dawn until bedtime, were closed during siesta time under the pretext that the sun heated up the bedrooms and in the end they were closed for good. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Certainly not with a mere child, not with me—the only child in the house. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

"So you grew up in that house alone with your aunt," Matilda said. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

It made me feel like we’ve all lived here in this house our whole lives and nothing was wrong at all. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There was enough room, and he was welcome to have the house. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I remember the crisp smell of frozen earth as I approached the house and the feel of ice and gravel crunching beneath my boots. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Royal relatives, ministers, and titled courtiers from high houses and merchant houses crowd the table. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Sleepy, darkened clusters of houses had given way to empty stretches of wilderness that had become winding streets, and then they were trudging up, up, up a long hill. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

A few days after school started, a check for a thousand dollars arrived in the mail at our house. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Milkman put on his jacket and left the house. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

All my cousins would gather in the courtyard between my house and Geoffrey’s house to kick the soccer ball—made from plastic shopping bags we called jumbos, which we then bound in twine. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

He regularly wore black broadcloth when he went out of the house. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

At night, he couldn’t sleep on account of the pain, and he would wake up at three o’clock in the morning, and get out of bed, and rummage around the house, looking for something. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a stir of movement in the fish house, and he appeared at the door, still clutching his dried fish. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

About a quarter of the money went directly for housing, eliminating any chance that it could be paid to a broker. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The man could have me jailed for breaking into his house—or he could shoot me for breaking in. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Ray ran to a ladder propped against the house and started climbing. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Straight down from the blue house Mong’s dad used to take him to every summer, just the two of them. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He could hear the bell resound through the whole house. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Our house was often full of relatives from Shangla who came to Mingora when they needed to go to the doctor or do some shopping. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

If we didn't sell our house, the bank would put it in foreclosure. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The cigarette butts that Yolanda found in the Coke cans could have been put in while Vivian was outside the house, or they could have been put there by someone else. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had filled their meticulously restored Victorian house with them. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

It was a small house, shingled with gray asphalt. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not here, not in Henry’s house, but in the woods with Wash, with the twins. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

For three days everybody hunted all over the house for Margalo without finding so much as a feather. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

She went back to the house, carrying the rabbit. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally I got the little lady to her brown house at the edge of town. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is the family just a few blocks over, the one with the bigger house and newer car. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

At one thirty, after a half hour, Lee hears a large group of horsemen galloping up to the house. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Grace wondered why everything in Maya’s house felt so cold all the time. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Gabriel tossed the bag into the large green trash can resting against the right side of the house, then yanked it into rolling position and made his way with it down the long, rocky driveway. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

When he disappears back into the house, I really, really want to drive away. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Late in the evening we will sometimes pull into the dirt parking lot of a clapboard praise house and listen to old, dark Gullah hymns rising out the windows. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was cold and damp as I walked up the steps to Morrie’s house. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, let's see, the new housing development on Maple Terrace. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he grabbed his backpack and ran, disappearing around the back of the house. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Not I. The utmost I hope is, to save money enough out of my earnings to set up a school some day in a little house rented by myself.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The houses seemed to be moving in on them, watching them, as if they knew who they were. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually they would change the house’s title into Sister Betty’s name, he said, or maybe into the name of their oldest daughter, Attallah. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Howard’s house was spacious and tastefully decorated and the food was something other than fried chicken and collard greens. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

There are big new houses springing up all around this area, but since we live in a different part of town, I’m not here enough to really notice the changes as they happen. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

In fact, I thought myself very lucky when I found a room in a two-story house on Jesus Green, a superb location less than ten minutes’ walk from the lab. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“Dear Lord! Yes, I can smell it, too. Is it a rat? Did something die? It’s definitely in the house.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The shopkeeper lives in a two-story house outside town, with weavings and wall hangings that remind me of home. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was almost zero in the house and she did not hurry to get up. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we got back to the pink house in the woods, it smelled sweet again, because Betty Allen was baking another one of her seventeen cakes. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun had painted and repainted probably every room in the house, and the owners showed no signs of stopping. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

In that somber house that held four Virgin Marys, where death sighed in every comer and candles sputtered, die gardenia smell and canary-yellow dress emphasized the funeral atmosphere surrounding them. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

We passed houses which I knew well by daylight but couldn’t recollect in the swarthy gloom. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Once I visit old country. I pay man to do for house. But he was bad. He steal rent. Now can never go back again.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The ladybug’s shell split, turning into wings as the house came unmoored; neck straining, Grover was dragging it behind him. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we reach the second kid’s house, he runs inside without saying good-bye. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

It’s creepy being in a place with so many empty houses. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“Last night,” Kenny said, “and my mother has already told me thirty-seven times to make myself useful, stay out of trouble and stop dribbling the ball in the house.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She cast wide through the air the same way she felt through the house, but it all came up empty. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The first time I saw this afternoon parade, I was surprised to recognize several men from the group that gathers at our house every night to talk about getting rid of El Jefe. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Through the windshield I saw the mark of these ghettos—the abundance of beauty shops, churches, liquor stores, and crumbling housing—and I felt the old fear. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I walk back toward my house, smelling the vomit on the front of my snowsuit, tasting it in my nose and throat. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“If you want to search my house, you’ll have to get past me. And I’ll tell you something else for free. If you set a foot over that doorsill, I’ll wring your red neck.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

But then, I reminded myself, I had too, in effect, under house arrest for the last two months. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The October days are lovely and I want to sit outside looking up the lane at the way the sun slants along the wall opposite our house. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She roused them and walked quietly into the house. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Duntz says, “How long now had you been in the house?” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Always at least two of us per house, sometimes three or four. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Starting tomorrow, I want you to work in the house,” he said. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

One screen has the words Helmet Cam written at the top and shows agents in gray suits raiding a haunted house. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“When I get big,” she decided, “I’ll always have a new baby in the house.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chase and Mattie had worn a path next to my house, which was on their way home from school. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“No, but I’ve already gotten a tour. I can show you around if you want. You’ve never been in a house this big before?” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

They put the animals’ heads in front of their houses in calabash bowls, to keep away the kibaazu, they said. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She opened the windows to air the house. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Aureliano did not notice the new thing except when the house became full of people. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

So when Frank awoke one night in August and saw something very odd up at the old house, he merely assumed that the boys had gone one step further in their attempts to punish him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Not a house between here and there,” Styx added. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Across the water he could see other fine mercher houses, tall and slender, the tidy gables of their rooftops making a dark silhouette against the night sky, their gardens and boathouses lit by glowing lanterns. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Doc must have noticed, because he said, “I already told you both why we had to paint the house blue, and showed you how to lay graveyard dirt to deter spirits.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The visor also housed two built-in stereo voice microphones to pick up everything I said. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

They burned houses that night, killed one man, and took five prisoners. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

They knew that to get anywhere, they needed to work with the powerhouses in the city who held the keys to jobs, housing, and social services. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A twelve-year-old kid calls the police and says he’s running a huge business and somebody has taken over the house of his stockbroker? Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

It seemed to Stella that every single person from her side of Bumblebee was trying to save the Spencers’ house. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Dr. King walking not six blocks from here, leading a rally for affordable housing. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

"Park . . ." she said, looking nervously down the street to her house. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

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

He made a habit of prattling at the top of his lungs through Sunday dinners at our house. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a strange sensation, paddling over the man’s yard; the usual barrier that would prevent one from guiding a vehicle up to the house was gone. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

At home my mom was forever making me do chores—wash the dishes, sweep the house—but when she tried to do that in Tzaneen, the women wouldn’t allow it. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Mother lets us keep him on the condition we never bring him in the house. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were three other women in the little house. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Liyana, too, had been trying to memorize at least one small detail about each house on their street. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was in the papers this morning: Police have opened an investigation into the death of a child after they found human remains buried in the garden of a house near Holkham, north Norfolk. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have searched around the house, into the hills?” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had taken Luke a while to figure it out—he certainly hadn’t dared ask anyone else in his family—but he thought maybe the people were thinking about buying the houses. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

When we got outside the house, though, Father stopped. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t perfect—it was garishly decorated—but it had the right number of rooms and a decent yard that they would be able to see when they sat in the back of the house. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dashed through the house and up to the bathroom. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

But as it happened, the house had held, and now they were moving on. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The war had been here too; blackened orchards and the scorched shells of broken houses testified to that. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They were old houses, too, the kind you think should stand forever. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Judith invited her into her house and the three of them huddled close to the oil stove. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I hugged her and ran back to the house. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said it wasn’t good for a big gal like me to be in her house, seeing as she had a husband. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marie-Laure listens to the house timbers creak and the gulls cry and the gentle roar breaking against the window. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

After a while, the boys in the camp helped us build a small house. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The firemen had managed to keep the fire from spreading to the houses around the Soldanos’. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Let him laugh and I see a cellar your father does not remember and a house he does not remember and I hear in his present laughter his laughter as a child. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

And there, on the road in front of her house, she saw a small stranger calling out quietly. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The house was all shut up, curtains pulled tight, letters and papers hanging from the black metal mailbox. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“This needs to be recorded, and they can send someone to guard the house.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

All twenty-one Thetans slept in an attic dormitory that was kept perpetually dim and hushed so that house members could sleep undisturbed at any time of day. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

There the trees ended abruptly, bringing the house into view across a vast front lawn. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

We were to be in our houses and off the streets by 9:00 p.m. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were those who said, “It is better to live alone than to marry a woman who has been slave in a great house.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Tom could be heard about the house, clattering in the kitchen, and up and down the stairs, and singing here and there outside. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Older generations of pretties lived out in the suburbs, hidden by the hills, in rows of big houses separated by strips of private garden for their littlies to play in. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

People in public housing have nothing to do. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were three flights to climb to Miss Pat’s house. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They found a house—a one-story white one with a slanting roof and late chrysanthemums growing in the yard. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were walking along a winding path on one of the many hills in San Francisco, bordered on one side by green grass and on the other by squat houses, a road, and parked cars. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She didn’t look up, didn’t pause, just said, “Oh, yes, Deborah Fontanel. She stayed out there in the honey house. She was the sweetest thing.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

This house is protected, the landlord told my mother. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

They overpowered the alliance’s main fighting force on August 20, 1794, at what is known today as Fallen Timbers, and for three days after the victory, laid waste to Indigenous houses and fields. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

And then my own pencil moving late into the evening: In big fine houses lived the whites in little old shacks lived the blacks but the blacks were smart in fear they took no part. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The Randall brothers had emerged from the great house and were among them. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Now could I see black smoke above the ranks before me, rushing through the brown and red air; our advance guard had torched the last houses on the islet. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She drew a little nearer to him and said in a whisper, “I believe, if one should ask me, that they are feeling a pinch this year in that house.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Get the heads of all the noble houses out of their pyramids on some pretext, Daario had said. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It’s not our house and we don’t feel free in it the way we did in Roden Lane, up in Italy or down in Ireland. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

As I drew up to it, I was encouraged further to glimpse a Bentley through the open doors of a garage attached to the main house. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

While Dorothy walked several blocks each morning from the Lucys’ house to the bus, the women at the dormitory enjoyed special bus service. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Nhamo had encountered mirrors in the Portuguese trader’s house, but this was not a reflection. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If I can't have a lock on my room, I'm going to move out. I don't trust the people living in this house,” I say. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

A tidy bit of a house on the heath where she lives alone with her cat. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

When in a monkey house, do as the monkey workers do. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day Mr. Lapham called to him and led him to a bench under the old willow behind the coal house. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You said we were moving into a new house!” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The house filled with the gentle murmur of voices, guests raising wineglasses to their lips. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But now she treated the house as if it were a hotel. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I waited for ten minutes and tried to creatively visualize the tree house. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

We went by O’Dell’s house, picked up two shovels and a pick, and kept going down past Cape Coalwood to where the road turned back up into the mountains. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tendai stayed perfectly still as the woman locked the door of the den and went back to the main part of the house. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I bought my ticket, then went hurriedly to the corner of the block in which the movie house stood. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they had drifted back to their own empty house, the little children fell asleep almost at once. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Expenditures on public housing have fallen since the 1980s, and the expansion of public rental subsidies came to a halt in the mid-1990s. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got locked in once for a few hours, the panel becoming stuck somehow, and we heard his wails all the way from the kitchen in the big house. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wooden houses and small brick buildings lined the river and rose in uneven stacks on both hillsides. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She leaned out the window of her best girlfriend’s house because the shouts were not part of what she was dreaming. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Listens for footsteps, but the house is quiet. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

How he was found by a woman who already had two sons killed and didn’t want anyone else to die, so she took him back to her house. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I have to get back to the house. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, we’re the ones with the swimming pool. Everybody wants to come to our house. Everybody. No one wants to go to your house. Don’t you know that?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He liked to lie in the sun in front of the house and I let him, but I did not go so often as in the past. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night the gutters overflowed; water sheeted over the front of the house. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Is there a Muslim girl sitting in her house right now who has to leave her home and go to a new country that’s not even called India? The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He took my backpack and slung it over his shoulder and walked me toward his house. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Some day the Dean would probably live entirely encased in a house of glass and be happy as a sandpiper. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then she’d probably want to burn a couple dozen candles and make me dance around them, and we all know that would end up with the cute firefighters storming our house again. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

When he got back ashore, he walked up to a reporter at the shell house, buttonholed him, and rendered a startling verdict: “Tom Bolles has a fine rough-water boat,” he said quietly but forcefully. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Vines of bougainvillea fully in bloom, burgundy and white like the colors of our house. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

As soon as I stepped inside the house after school, I knew something was wrong. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I promptly ran to Izzy's house, which was just across the street, and shared the momentous news. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She stripped down to her underwear on the porch, so as not to get the inside of the house muddy. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Someone must have stopped by her house to bring her fresh clothes. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man is not a man until he has a house of his own. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he grabbed his coat and slipped out the back door, on the far side of the house. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

As we wound south through the canyon toward Julia’s house, the sun dipped down and the shadows of the mountains stretched their cloaks across the snaking roadway. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was temporary housing because they were building a new dormitory. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could not be more than half an hour from the house, and there was still no hint of dawn. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The grandfather put Junsoo down and knocked on the door to a large house compound. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“You were out in Holcomb, Kansas. In the home of Mr. Herbert W. Clutter. And before you left that house you killed all the people in it.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before long, he was thumping around the house, thin as a string bean, swallowing buckets of food to regain the weight he’d lost. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Hale frequently came by Mollie’s house to collect Ernest, and not long after Anna’s burial Hale showed up to pay his respects to Mollie and her mother. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

We passed Rosie’s house and at the clothes line right at the edge of the cliff there was a young girl hanging out brightly colored garments. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its frantic pace slowed and it trotted to a halt beyond the house, sides heaving. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Many tenants moved willingly, for they found they would have more space and cleaner housing in Meadowlands. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I see your wounds are healed up now. So you can start doing your share of the work in this house—” The girl was nodding quickly. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I pull back the curtains and this little slice of Detroit opens up to me—an empty paved road and small houses with only a narrow space separating one from the other. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want you up in this house talking about ‘slaves,’” she says. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

His house had never seemed so enormous to me as it did that night when we hunted through the great rooms for cigarettes. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Louise will send other things, once the house sells. But I wanted you each to have something now.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Everyone thinks chemistry and alchemy are so similar, but they’re really not. They’re not even related. They just happen to live in the same house.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The house was given over to the dog, rooms redecorated to suit her fancy. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He says quietly, We will pay rent for now and try to save slowly for our own house. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“You still planning on coming to my house this weekend?” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The images changed...revealing her mom standing at the doorstop of a house Aru had never seen. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Claudette left her house on the first day of high school determined to put her mind on her studies. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Visitors to our house doubtlessly noticed it when they entered the door—saw it immediately as the sign we were Catholics. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kitchen in Redemption’s house was yellow and enormous, with a long farm table on one end and a large stove system along another wall, green-tiled counters stretching everywhere. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I knew our teacher wasn’t talking about a cold house or the army. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

My mother was a stranger to me when she first arrived at my uncle’s house in Ningpo. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It appears you now have a lawn mower,” my father said, smiling, as he walked back into the house. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

He wondered whether the witch would be old and iron-toothed and travel in a house on chicken legs, or whether she would be thin and sharp-nosed and carry a broomstick. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He followed her into the great hall itself, and his mind went back how quickly over the years past when he had stood there waiting to wed a slave of the house. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Instead, she asked that a wreath of violets be hung on the front door of her house. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The way Mr. Bender warned me about the white house at the end of my street? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Once he gave the all clear, they sprinted to the next house and started again. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t make a habit of sleeping naked in your grandmother’s house, though.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He lived with his father, who held the whole house on his back, and his mother, whose eyes registered nothing when they looked at him. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

And then he did run from the house and he could hear her laughing as he went. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I think of that counselor telling me I was the house in the woods with no doors or windows. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I thought it was going to be only me and Phoebe and Mary Lou going, but by the time we left the house, we had accumulated Tommy and Dougie as well. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

We sort of played them by ear, as Mr. Galanter might have said, deciding during the afternoon whether we would spend the evening walking, or in my house or his, or alone. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

There would be an open house at the ranch a few days before we departed for Brazil. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

There was very little to sit on inside the house. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The very first Saturday after the Fair they made a leaf house on the hill, with a red room and a yellow room and piles of leaves for chairs and davenports and tables. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

After moving here in 2001 and choking on traffic, she made a rule: “Wherever I’m going has to be within one mile of the house,” she said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

This before my mother died, in our first, modest house. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did y’all hear me? I said we got babies in the house.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He waited on the porch until I was ready to go to Phoebe’s, and then he walked me to her house. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

In the grassless section in front of the house, a baby is crawling on top of a dog with black matted fur, and a boy of about six is poking a stick in the dirt. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

‘Then in the name of the king, go and find some old man of less lore and more wisdom who keeps some in his house!’ cried Gandalf. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I looked back at the house and noticed that the basement light was now off. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The Willikers were their nearest neighbors, with a house three miles down the road. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“We do not take big trees down to build our houses.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

What sorts of excuses people had used on that first morning to get the doctor and the locksmith out of the house Gregor was completely unable to ascertain. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing among the stumps, there were more houses than Laura could count. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Question to remember: Why would a house with a room upstairs not have a bathroom upstairs? As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

While groans, fiendish gurglings and backfires were emitting from the barn, the house itself would be organized confusion, as the family carried out its preparations in accordance with prearranged plans. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, at day’s end, I went to the attic with the other house servants and lay down to wait until they were asleep. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She won’t never let me live in her princess house no more. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

What actually happened is this: the boy stayed home, had another fight with this father, stabbed him to death with the knife at ten minutes after twelve and fled from the house. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house shied away from the presence, timbers creaking as it settled into its foundation. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

That promise kept me moving even with Alexander staring holes into my head on the way to their house. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Had the priest felt insulted and left the house in disgust? Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

She explained that the lights had gone out in her house the night before, and that she’d fallen. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Mama, what if...well...what if the Klan decides to burn down our house? Or...do something worse?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The clean, orderly room of the tahara house was gone, replaced by an endless abyss. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

On the next Saturday morning, Russell, Piper, and Maniac set out for Finsterwald’s house, about seven blocks away. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think you can see the back of the houses from the path. But I’m not sure,” I said, again my pulse racing. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was like having a tame grizzly bear in your house. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lakeview Trail was one of those half-and-half subdivisions—half pretty new houses like Downing Heights, half run-down hovels with crumbling sidewalks, like mine. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He could have guided himself by the smell if the smell had not been all over the house, so devious and at the same time so definite, as it had always been on his skin. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Sissy threw Katie into another spasm of giggles by mumbling from the closet that the tenants had a nerve raising such a racket when there was a sick woman in the house. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The houses were “better,” though not by a lot. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I followed him back into the room that housed the dogs. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The damp logs in the fireplace make the house smoky and give off a tepid heat. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

There was the mortgage on the house in Auburn, which she never seemed to be able to pay off, no matter how hard she worked, and she wanted to make another trip to Maryland. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the watch of Mr. Bird and Mr. Onion, they marched into springtime fields so full of purple flowers they looked like carpets in the house of God. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

As always, Durham presented itself as a model of tolerance and racial goodwill in housing, but a Duke sociology student found real estate agents there performed the same tricks used across the country. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

When I told Bertha I was going to his house the next day, she was tickled pink. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

A boy who looks like Jack Allen walks out of a house boat. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

If all had ignited, my house would have exploded also. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Lillian had not been amused and she restricted Mary Anne to the house for two weeks. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They swarmed into the house, furiously cleaning the kitchen, preparing meals, and taking phone calls with the efficiency born of experience and instinct. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Long days of solitude in Celia’s house had taught him how to be quiet, and any attention from Willum or Rosa could result in pain. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had stayed away, he explained, out of consideration for the illness in the house. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Our house has been silent for a long time and I understand that my mother is not coming back, but I don’t want to think about what happened, so I do as my father instructed. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We listened to the lady of the house as she entertained us with her life’s story feeling delightfully blessed. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

But the bottle is empty, and it is his own house, after all. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Near the temple we found a house set in the middle of a sprawling garden. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

As they walked up toward the house Jody noticed again that Gitano’s body was as straight as that of a young man. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joseph Hooper had spent that part of his childhood before school, and between terms, in this house, and he did not like it, he had unhappy memories of Warings. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Aware that he and Desdemona were a burden to my parents, Lefty was extremely helpful around the house, doing repairs, assisting with the cleaning, running errands. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I could hear the sour histling of the cicadas in the trees around the house, the crickets in the field. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I see fire in the main house, fire in my cabin, fire in...No, Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“This massive old oak tree that’s more home to you than your house but not as much as this is.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She found a job in a florist’s shop, leaving Lefty and Desdemona to assume the mortgage on the house. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Whenever World Wrestling Federation with Hulk Hogan came on, or The A-Team with Mr. T, people would cram into his living room and gather around his house, trying to watch through his window. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The people coming home from work had filled the street for a while; now they thinned out, melted away into houses, out of sight. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hello, young man,” was all the general said, leaning with both hands on his cane, looking at Sohrab the way one might study a bizarre decorative item at someone’s house. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it is worse: people in the houses turn the migrants in. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Though we lived on the edge of what was termed an upper-middle-class neighborhood—Eden Prairie, Minnesota—our house was small, a “fixer-upper” when my folks bought it four years ago. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

Though he knew his own parents locked up at night—when they didn't forget—the doors at his house had always been open for him. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The phones ring, one in every room in the house, ding-dong caroling bells. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Ophie’s slow pace through the house gave her time to study her surroundings a bit more than she had earlier that morning. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Inside the small house, a large cupboard dominated the single room. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

But they knew that in a town there were many houses, and a store full of candy and calico and other wonderful things—powder, and shot, and salt, and store sugar. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then the houses were suddenly left behind, and steep hills with the night already settling among their folds lined the road instead. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was maybe a day later, I came into Room 20 at the top of the house, where Mr. George had his poetry class. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The big house on the corner soon came to resemble a labyrinth. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gallery is in a fancy part of Paris, close to the stock exchange and the opera house. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In a dream, he sees a bright crystalline night with the canals all frozen and the lanterns of the miners’ houses burning and the farmers skating between the fields. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

What would happen if he didn't take her to her uncle's house? Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Meggie scratched its ears and chin and stroked its back as she looked down the road that went around a sharp bend as it left the village and disappeared from sight beyond the houses. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Already the dreary wallpaper on the lower floors was gone, and Odile was busy making curtains appropriate for a house large enough to have a bathroom. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Mornings, Mami left the house while it was still dark for the subway ride into Manhattan. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The coldest place in our house is the downstairs bog. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Once I got back to my house I waited for Teddy. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I try to focus on how crunchy and greasy-good those are, and think of how tonight I’ll be sleeping in a new room in a new house. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“I practically grew up in this house,” he said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

In the big house on the comer, Blanca, Alba, and the servants were sitting in front of the television, sipping tea and eating toast. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a great kettle of soap boiling over a fire just behind the house, and all day long Judith and her mother took turns stirring it with a long stick. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The boy was looking around the house, at the walls and floors and kotatsu, then said bitterly, “It’s warm here.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The only way I’d ever find out what was up in Kilanga, nowadays, was if it passed by the door of our kitchen house. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned onto the gravel drive and pulled the truck in alongside the house. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She grew up in town, in a yellow house with a white picket fence lined with purple irises. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She gave me the pail, which I filled with water and carried to the house. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house was gone, a smoking ruin left in its wake. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Did they think if I was taken to Germany, they’d have the house to themselves? The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

More and more he caught himself speaking aloud when the house was empty. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

All I saw was the picture of me and Olga, in front of Mamá Jacinta’s house with her arm around my neck. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I glance out my window at the mini-mansion across the street, and I spot Darius stepping closer to the wide window on the second floor of his house. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Mercedes came home for Christmas, and other relatives gathered at the Chavez house. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

In the evenings, lacking anything better to do, I used to head east and stare into the windows of the handsome, single-family town houses, wondering what went on in those well-appointed rooms. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The morning of our last day at school, a two-man camera crew appeared at our house. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A big burst of thunder and lightning that trampled over the roof of the house. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Along with some other cousins and neighbors, we split into teams of five, then hunted one another in the maize rows and across the dirt courtyard that separated our house from Geoffrey’s. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

And since I had been in the kitchen both times there were blasts near our house, I stayed as far from that room as possible. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He listed more positives: “Home, & someone to take care of house—Charms of music & female chit-chat.—These things good for one’s health.—but—” There it was again—“terrible loss of time.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could leave the house with a fresh confidence. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I moved into the house, stopping abruptly in the entryway when I saw a three-foot hole in the linoleum that plunged to the basement. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

After an adjustment, Beto carried the radio into the house to see if it would turn on. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever she lived with us in America, she would scramble to put on her head scarf if a male relative entered the house. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He moved quietly through the papyrus to sneak back into the house. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said: “You better skin out for that house, you little scamp!” Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were all skillful craftsmen, the men of their houses, peace-loving people. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She was putting in a house on the beach. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He heard the sound of Mr Hooper's car, driving up to the house. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

A return to clay and plaster followed, and ghostly casts of her acquaintances haunted corners of the house, or tumbled off closet shelves onto people’s heads. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only problem is that the entire Puente tribe practically lives at his house. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He wish a boy. I tell him, ‘You just want to see you own face on more people around our house.”’ The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The house was very quiet because the kids were four houses down the road, driving their grandparents crazy. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Mr. Shears didn’t want to live in the same house as Mrs. Shears anymore so he probably hated her and he might have come back and killed her dog to make her sad. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Pa appreciates how helpful he is around the house. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Yeah?” he says, glancing back at my house. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

She had already discovered, to her horror, that the bathroom was a privy outside the house, and it had no light for night visits. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the field was the road that led back to the house. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The Lepellier house was not far out of town, I was told. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the bed at night she planned about how she was an orphan and lived with Mister Singer—just the two of them in a foreign house where in the winter it would snow. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The truth is that Herr Ribbentrop was, throughout the thirties, a well- regarded figure, even a glamorous one, in the very best houses. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

At about four o’clock Thursday afternoon Codman and Burnham drove to Root’s house. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

We had no house, no money, no work. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had never wanted them to come here, to his house. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I had a couple of sleepovers at Auggie’s house, and Auggie tried a sleepover at my place once, though that didn’t work out. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

And I feel bad, because I know I’m going to leave him here in this house by himself, same way my ma left the two of us. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mutto rang the doorbell—which he did whenever he approached a house, even his own—and inside could be heard a two-note chime. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The street began to clear, and after watching the car fade into the distance, Mary headed back inside her house. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She killed a teacup house cat yesterday by slowing its heart. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Those big rats poured out of there like a house afire! Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“That’s my parents’ house,” he said one day, pointing to a sliver of roof visible over a hill. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I step onto the balcony, and there he is, Antonio, across the street from my house, with a boom box at his feet. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a drowsy Sunday afternoon, a man in a long dark coat hesitated in front of a house on a tree-lined street. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She pictured him puffing up the stairs, squeezing through the door, looking dis-approvingly at the clutter in their house, recoiling from Poppy’s sticky hands—no, it wouldn’t do. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The difficulty lay not in finding vacant rooms—for there were whole houses vacant—but rather vacant rooms in houses where owners were present still to let out their property. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Ugly black ballerina flats because Ma don't want me "looking fast in the house of the Lord." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Could we hang out at your house? Mine is crazy today,” Kristi says. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think about his bedroom even though the door is shut and his bike leaning against the back of the house and his chest in the corner of the living room. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom grabbed her shuttle and ran for the porch, only to slip, both feet flying over her head, her pink ruffled matching house slippers sent sailing. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Also I had to help my dad quite a lot around the house. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smelling like a cesspool, I staggered into the house and took pieces of rags, doused them in water and wiped myself, but the stench remained. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a sunny day and the postman made a second trip to our house to deliver the postcard he’d forgotten. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along the main thoroughfare, the houses were built right at the edge of the road, as if huddling for warmth during the cold Polish winters, and hoping for company in summer. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He tied the canoe to the back porch and climbed up into the house. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Hubbard Lake is a pretty good drive from my house, but I still owned a car then. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house he had planned to spend a night in, that of his friend Admetus, a king in Thessaly, was a place of deep mourning when he came to it although he did not know. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How many of those houses are connected by a secret tunnel?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Tonight, even though the coach ran us ragged at practice, I heard Webb sprinting past the house. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Grandma took me straight to her house after picking me up. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I was looking at a tenement house to our right and it just seemed to shudder and then collapse. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is how it’s going to happen. When we get to the house, if the tracker is not there, I will walk her to the door. Then she has fifteen minutes.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The second is her sitting on a wooden stool weaving a Persian rug in the dark on a giant loom hidden deep in the cellar of their house. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Instead he falls back and rolls into a corner of the bounce house and gets stuck. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“I don’t live here, you know. Sometime, maybe, they’ll let you visit my house—you’d love it. I have a dog and a tortoise and a parakeet. The parakeet talks, but it doesn’t mean anything.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his dream the sea would sweep the lagoon away too, swallowing everything—the houses, the bridges, the churches, the palaces, and the people who had built so boldly on its surface. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Brandon waits about two and a half seconds before he gets up and follows her to another room in the house. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

There was a mild mystery in the house. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She has electric light in the house and her own lavatory in the backyard. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It makes the stone houses drip and the wattle and daub houses look soggy. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I tried stopping by the Van de Kamp house once, early on, but Mrs. Van de Kamp made it clear that she didn't want to see me, and honestly I couldn't blame her. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The coachman brought the carriage straight to the front of the house and assisted his passenger brusquely to the ground. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Finally, with the pretext that it was cooler in his concubine's house, he transferred the small office in which he handled his business. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Soon after Byrd started to care for the property, Aunt Nancy came to live in the house. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

For instance, I once had occasion to ask him if a certain gentleman expected at the house was likely to be accompanied by his wife. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“When I saw I still had a few minutes before my shoot, I decided to run by the house with Grace for a quick hello.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Lights went out in house and hamlet as they came, and doors were shut, and folk that were afield cried in terror and ran wild like hunted deer. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Go on in the house. Use the bathroom.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I did not want to wake up in the morning, as I had so often in the past, feeling hungry and knowing that there was no food in the house. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bull went into the kitchen, listening for the sounds of the house springing to life. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if this is the ’wrong •window, the wrong house? Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember it as a mighty house with turrets on its roof and with majestic lawns and terraces all around it. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Christoffel wasn't here, I could go through the house to see if she left me a note somewhere, explaining more. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I’ve never been to a psychic's house before, but I guess I expected something different, like a big glowing sign that said palm reading or fortunes here. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Last to go are girls like me, too old to be turned into ladies, too young to be serious help around the house, not much use in the field. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

In the partying the night Duvalier left, some-body leaned too hard against our house, and a wall fell in. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bricks of the chimney, which collapsed in a charred heap, provide a point of reference for the rest of the house. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He never allowed any shooting near the house for fear the quail might go away. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t we use the game to build a house of cards?” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

She scrambles upstairs, stumbling, shouting, “Uncle! Uncle!” the whole house turning scarlet in her mind, roof turning to smoke, flames chewing through walls. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But right now, he just wanted to go back to Lily’s house and sweep her away. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He will never leave the house without collar and tie. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Today is Tuesday,” Call said as we started for the house. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting at his parents’ house watching all the news about himself on TV? All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

When I got back home later in the afternoon, the house was empty except for Erma, who never set foot outside. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes’ walk beyond her house, there was a tree. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she really wanted to yell, me and Jay could hear her across the fields even if she was still inside the house. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

This had become his uniform since he had decided to take some time off from fixing up houses—stripping floors, dry wall, the whole nine. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, when they arrived, the big man with the big voice said “Welcome to the house of God” to Clayton, his mother, and all the visitors. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

First she was in prison working in the laundry and dying fast Then us got her move to the mayor’s house. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Van Helsing and I tried to make inquiry at the back of the house; but the mews was deserted and no one had seen him depart. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

She wanted it to crash through Ketterdam’s pleasure houses, lifting roofs and tearing doors off their hinges. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“It was just around the corner from my mom’s house. I used to walk there after school . . . ,” I said, my voice trailing off. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He had many trees in the ground behind his house, and he was very proud of these. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t left the house at all that day, or the day before. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She rings the doorbell a dozen times, alternating with a series of loud knocks, though she can hear the bell echoing within the house. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

There were twelve monkey rooms in the monkey house, and they were designated by the letters A through L. Two of the monkeys that arrived on October 4 were dead in their crates. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went behind the house and punched the mango tree until Mohamed took me away from it. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Out on the water I saw rowboats and pedal boats and sailboats, and fishing boats like this one, with a long bow and small house in the middle. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clothes never dried: tweed and woolen coats housed living things, sometimes sprouted mysterious vegetations. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The sim was low to the west, and the houses cast long dark shadows. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Across the valley, set on the opposite hillside, was a handsome manor house surrounded by a wide expanse of velvety green lawn. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The breezeway had been added to the house after the cellar was dug, and built out over this secret, earth-bottomed crevice. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Negra hated the church, couldn’t wait to leave her parents’ house and rip up her Pentecostal roots. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Our house hasn’t lost its Nana-ness though, with its permanent odor of potpourri, flowered wallpaper, and hints of pink in almost every room. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Carefully, cautiously, Arm walked through the dark house that was General Matsika’s mind. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

All day Singer worked over his bench in the back of the jewelry store, and then at night he returned to the house alone. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

And the closer I get to her house, the more nervous I feel. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being in Dari’s house, you could tell they were proud of being Indian. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

As we came up the path, I could see the flash of white fabric on the porch of our house—Mama was outside. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She turns the little house over in her fingers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Last night. After I saw you and your mom. He was at Charlie Valentine’s house, sneaking around the yard,” Finn continued. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The house looked deserted, dark and silent, even the honey-colored stone had the feeling of something abandoned. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Wojtkiewicz house was a neatly built log cabin with four small rooms. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jam turned and looked at his house rising behind her. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they pulled into a driveway and went into one of the houses, usually trailing a woman who appeared to be talking nonstop. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

He looked back at the house, where he could see the light from inside spilling out his front door. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

He ate slowly, watching the tiny yellow light that belonged to the Virgin and listening for far-off noises from the rest of the house. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You remember that tree on the hill behind our house?” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The house seems even quieter with the party in full swing outside, and Joaquin stands and looks at Birdie. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Back to your mom’s house. She made me the best breakfast this morning after the time we had together last night. Her maple syrup tasted just as good as she did.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

And—this the point I was cornin’ to—when I went back in the house a big sty come on my eye. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I want this house to be a happy place for you. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

And it's pretty hard not to, since it's right behind my house. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

After ten minutes, as the conversation was ending, the agent told K., “Let me say one last thing. My client is willing to sell this house for a lot less than you might think.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

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

If Good Boys and True was judged worthy, the trip to Nebraska would occur after graduation, during “beach week,” when Truman’s seniors traditionally cram into houses in the tacky Jersey Shore town of Wildwood. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Dalgard now knew that he had to move fast to contain the outbreak before the virus spread through the monkey house. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, there is pernil roasting in the oven the delicious smell filling the house and Maria says, You should just eat a little bit. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

There was a little sign above the door that said the poet Edna Saint Vincent Millay once lived in the house, and that it was the narrowest house in New York. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Furball stirred slightly when Matt laid the bag down in the pump house, but he didn’t bark. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When there’s a baby in the house, time stretches and contracts, abiding by none of the regular rules. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“My mom says you guys sold your house.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He looked above the tip of the island, hoping he might at least see the smoke rising from Lizzie’s house, but he couldn’t make it out at all. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

He looked up at me shocked ’cause I’d never asked to play a game with nobody in the house, much less a counselor. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

But all too soon Dustfinger told her to turn off along a minor road leading away from the coast, away from the sea and the brightly colored houses, and into the dark. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

We walk in silence for a minute, almost at Martin’s house. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“He likes to keep watch over the house in case anybody needs a bed to sleep in.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

It was a narrow and dirty lane, its houses joined one to another to form a continuous wall on either hand, like the sides of a canyon. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Apparently Hari knew them all by their first names; they’d all been to his house for dinner just a few months before the contest began. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

What if somebody had heard her leave the house? Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

When I arrived at her house, she gave me a long hug. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Heavily, Jonathan turned and went back inside the house. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Joe Mondragon and Jimmy Ortega drove over to Bloom’s house early, loaded Orangutan and Sunflower into a trailer, and dropped them off in a pen at the rodeo grounds. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she took out the money she had accumulated over long years of hard labor, made some arrangements with her customers, and undertook the enlargement of the house. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Turner figured that sneaking through a minister’s house wasn’t exactly something fit for a minister’s son, but the scriptures never said, “Thou shalt not sneak,” and that was good enough. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Carl lived with his mother, my aunt Tracy, but she was at bingo down to the church, so we had their house to ourselves. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

That is because I am tied to old ways, which I learned in a hard house. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“On festival days the poor came to our house to be fed,” Boori Ma said. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

A house that, until a few minutes ago, Axel believed was his—his and Byrd’s, and Frank’s. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was ten o’clock and the house was silent, as it had been since the game. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned the page to see the exterior of a two-story house. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He spit the shells into the snow below the trail and tried to see into the distance below the mesa, over the edge of the steep trail where her house was. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Now when he couldn’t carpenter any more he had put a sign at the front of the house reading ‘Clocks and Watches Repaired Cheap.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I have twenty-three minutes until the housing department closes. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The mist hung like blindness around the house. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I run back to the bounce house and dive in, feeling lighter than I have in weeks as I jump. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The episode where someone’s sister gets pregnant and throws up all the time and grows out of her clothes and eats all the grapes and chocolate chip cookies in the house. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

People would see me working hard at their neighbor’s and then stop and tell me to come to their house next day when I was done. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When his grandfather pulls up to my house, Boy21 says, “Thanks for eating cupcakes with me, Earthling.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She waited a while, then she went to the house and around it to the cellar door, moving close to the wall, and looked into the door. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every second Etienne’s house grows colder; every second it feels as if her father slips farther away. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“She doesn’t need an education to run a house.” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When his wife died, in 1937, every single inmate is said to have filed out through gates past her casket in the warden’s house and then back into prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of the cobbled square in Monaco, and the house with the narrow window. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

When she opened her bedroom door, Tía Rosa’s cackle echoed through the house. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Her sons and daughters mumbled and disappeared— into the bathroom, the basement, the various hiding places they had dug throughout the house. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For the miter saw. I brought a generator, too, so we can get power to these tools. Given any thought yet to electricity for your house?” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Clara’s retinue was gradually pushed into the back rooms of the house, and an invisible border arose between the parts of the house occupied by Esteban Trueba and those occupied by his wife. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I recounted stories from our childhood and described our house, room by room. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

After the sun had fallen beneath the rooftops, we arrived at the Collbran house in time to see the body of the last Collbran taken out to the death cart. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the houses and such are out and about, outskirts like, farms, meant to be farms, some still are, some stand empty, some stand worse than empty. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

There was a time when my mom desperately wanted one of these houses. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, I’m going to help you walk to the house.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Jinjoo went to the end of the empty block and sat down in a grassy spot, hidden from the house. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

As they moved toward school, the houses became bolder, sprouting second stories that stood uneasily in their rickety wooden frames. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Most folks come to the house, not the barn.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He’s supposed to go to play practice at noon, but as soon as he leaves his house, he calls his director and tells him he has a bad flu bug—hopefully the twenty-four-hour kind. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

She never came over this early, and never to the main house either. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was a Georgian house, not unlike the Mount, in a small village called Down, about sixteen miles from London Bridge. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went to the side of the run-down house and pretended to get a reading from the electric meter. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

A group of us would leave school together every afternoon, each kid peeling off and going their separate way when we reached their house. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

No doubt Raulito was picking up all the tension in the house. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The inside of the house is cool after the heat of the sun. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Beyond that tower, through a guava orchard Tía Mimi had planted, lived my grandparents, in a great big house we went to for Sunday dinners whenever they were home. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I took my library books to her house. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five minutes later Luke’s arm was gashed to the bone and he was running toward the house, blood spurting. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Well, at least I knew that Easton was a few miles to the north, and that the road that ran past the Weylin house would take me to it. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Though I knew that we did not own the house, I thought that the least my father could do was to fix it; after all, we lived in it. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a house where there was little money and little food, your power was derived from who you could order around. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was expecting you to shriek and refuse to leave the house, but you just shrugged and put on more lipstick. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He gave the price of twenty oxen for her, kept her as kindly in his house as his own wife, though, for the sake of peace, he never touched her. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two men went through each house, to make certain nothing was missed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

By the entrance, in an old white house, was the office, which was really a general store. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

"I don't want to stay with Dayee anymore. I want to live at Khaleh's house with you guys," I told my dad, now through my own tears. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

For several days, they stayed in the house. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You driving me crazy hanging around this house twenty-five hours a day. Get. Go chop down that poor mimosa tree you hate so much,” I say, because Mister Johnny never did chop that thing down. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Inside, soldiers were making a mess of the house. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I ran through the dog run toward the back of the house, calling, “Here, Yeller! Here, Yeller! Get ’em, boy! Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

They did not even look at her but busily carried things from Old Qian’s house to the truck waiting at the door. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

His name is Finn the Horse and we all love him but the stable man from the coal yard doesn’t take proper care of the stable and the stink travels to our house. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Unless she has moved in the past few minutes, she will be high in the house, close to the transmitter. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Memory of her crossing the lawn toward the house in the early morning in a thin rose gown that clung to her breasts. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

My two brothers fell to the floor laughing, while I ran around the house crying for Ma, zooming from room to room, my circuits blown. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas was more than happy to get away from the house, and headed back toward the tree. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

We came upon a street that was a scene out of the infernal regions, each house afire, a lane where demonic citizens might walk, capes black, bonnets bulging, baskets filled with mewling roots. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Visibly pleased, Fiona showed them the bundles she had brought from the house. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went to his mother’s house for comforting. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perilee waved me inside her warm house—a real house, with two doors, a bedroom, and a parlor. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“What made you go to that house?” she said. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“I was worried. I saw the Eagle run out of hees house. He was wearing pajamas. He sure looked mad.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I don’t like the idea of leaving the house,” he said. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The policemen brought them back to the house, two of them carrying Mom inside. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad finally shelled out for central air-conditioning, now that he worked at home, and it was too easy to stay inside and comfortable rather than go and help Charlie wire the tree house. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

In the pristine houses of the High District, bottles that had waited for three years were opened and the new order was toasted. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The British have confined all American officers to their lodging houses today.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Radio say his family run out the house when they heard the shots. Say he bloody, stumbling round, all the kids with blood all over em...” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

As they came up to the house, Sammy called to them from up among the leaves of the big tree. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I cried out and woke the house up. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It was as if my sister had never driven to Mrs. Baylor's house in search of him. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He thinks if he can choke the flames while they’re young, he can prevent a wildfire, maybe save the house. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They arrived at jfk International Airport and were driven by truck down the eastern seaboard of the United States to the Reston monkey house. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That fall Harry Rantz abruptly returned from Canada, bought a lot in Spokane, and began to construct a new house, trying to piece his life back together. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They sent word to city hall and then went to another and another and another house. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Alec took off for the next house and Mark was just stepping out to do the same when a horrific screech stopped him cold. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“This is war. Even our churches are making the sacrifice, delivering their bells to be recast as cannon. Surely you do not rate your home above the houses of God?” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then, how could this man have built her a house, then a castle, then brought her here? Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

So it was perhaps understandable that during Dr. Muller’s house calls we failed to mention the troubling anomaly of Lefty’s multiple strokes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was a safe place for his cot, inside the little one-roomed house where Hugo and I lived. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’d never seen a house as beautiful as Grandma and Grandpa’s home, with its gleaming floors, big eat-in kitchen, and a wide stairway up to the second floor. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Inside the house, they sanded and polished the scratches out of the furniture. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Here we is with two in the house and one being built and they still ain’t no place for this man to do his business. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The houses and the holes of Shire-hobbits were often large, and inhabited by large families. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He had a house big enough to fit fourteen of The Dumps into. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Even as I spoke, there was a great crash from the front of the house: the door being broken in. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

He begins walking around the house, looking it over in a new light: the Stonehenge walls, the Klimt tilework, the open rooms. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He took a right turn down a residential street and pulled up next to a single-story brown shingle house with overgrown rosebushes out front. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Our house's fence shields me from view, but through the cracks I can see the soldiers waiting out side the door. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

If I asked Dad, he’d say, “You live in this house, boy?” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I surge through the streets to my house, racing the tears before they have a chance to fall. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Finally I saw another face peering under the edge of the house; it was my father’s. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

All day he would go with his bag from house to house and on all things he would talk to them. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Near midnight, after all the lights in the houses facing the park were extinguished and Fiona had long gone home, Martin brought food. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Cathy gets up early to clean the house every Saturday, no matter what. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sees him solve the puzzle of the little house. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The mud-brick walls of the house became even thinner. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Soon, we pull up in front of a big house with a yawning front lawn of grass that, even in the dark, you can tell is neatly clipped. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

This was what it felt like to know that this enormous house was hers, to never worry about money or survival, to feel loved by Gil and Patti. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

To anyone peering through the windows, it used to look as if there were only two occupants in the house on the hill. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It was coming from directly above the house. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Across the Central Plaza, she caught a glimpse, in the Dwelling area, of the small house where she had grown up. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

His next assignment was working chemistry boot camp at Velma T.’s house to make up for blowing out the chemistry room windows during science class. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

It had been overlooked at the time when the house was first occupied. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The houses are huge but close together, and most residents are home. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re just in the house, you know. And there’s plenty on the table. It’s a good day, coming to an end, but even though it’s dinnertime, the sun never goes down.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Would it trouble you terribly if I put my hand on your shoulder and allowed you to guide me back to Great-Aunt Tootie’s house? The world is a treacherous place when you can’t see.’ Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

“I really hope you’re the one who ordered the nude model, because the last house I went to let me strip down to my underwear before telling me they weren’t.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The ambience is meant to encourage customers to feel comfortable and to spend money; it is not at all like the tiny house in Zundert, not even the fine front room. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Hermione twisted in midair and the thundering of the collapsing house rang in Harry’s ears as she dragged him once more into darkness. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Don’t go too far from the trailer,” he said “There’s no telling who might be hanging out in the woods. And stay away from the old house.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

She cleaned every corner, the way she never cleaned her own house. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“You concealed the fact that at the time of the Armstrong tragedy you were actually living in the house. You told me that you had never been in America.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she turns around and yells into the quiet house, “Mom! Lucy’s grandma wants to talk to you.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“The house is perfect, Angie. Honestly, it always is,” she says. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Or, if the parents are still asleep, the tiptoe out of the house. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He told us he didn’t want anyone to see us go into the house. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It amazes me that in this small house, somehow, like a puzzle, everyone actually fits in. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

That night, Dicey was awakened by thunder roaring about the house. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

They drove new cars, vacationed at summer houses more commodious than C.P.’s tiny frame house, and kept fine stables of horses instead of a chain-link kennel with a couple of dogs inside. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The house shook and rattled, but as Dad’s music filled the air, Barry started to feel safe. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mom had a collection of turquoise and silver Indian jewelry that she kept at Grandma’s house so Dad wouldn’t pawn it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I felt almost as cold in the house; while we had the coal stove, we had no coal. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I reckon it’s lucky a house can’t speak. If it could, Ashton Place could tell all manner a’ secrets.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

So I ran back to the house, and very quietly got some wilted lettuce and an apple. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Go sit at the island,” she says as we get into the house. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Mom seemed to look away from the abandoned houses, but she always brightened up when she spotted a bird’s nest full of baby birds who were chirping for lunch. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In the 1920s, some 80 percent of black Durham residents lived in substandard housing, a figure that remained unchanged in the Hayti area four decades later. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

On the fifth block from our house is Green Acres. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

All the houses along the street were dark now, their curtains closed. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She led me into the house and gave me a cup of hot cocoa with lots of sugar in it. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Danny’s brother, Levi, was forever poking at his food when he sat at the kitchen table, or walking ghostlike around the house, picking his nose. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I search through the house, but he’s doing a good job hiding. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Lolo comes out of the house, buttoning his shirt. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“What, no? Of course not. I just need to clean the house.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I was Violet, walking down the stairs in her house. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And still, on this Sunday, the heat turned apartments and houses throughout the city into gigantic ovens. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Eventually, when I get tired of playing, I’ll go to my room and laze around for hours on my zebra-print comforter, flipping through gymnastics magazines as the delicious aroma of dinner fills the house. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

There were trees around it and the farm buildings were built against the house. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

She parked in front of her grandfather’s house, near the thatch fence. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“And if such an enchantment exists, then the ownership of the house is most likely to pass to the eldest of Sirius’s living relatives, which would mean his cousin, Bellatrix Lestrange.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The New London oil camp houses seemed naked and homely by comparison. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the walls of the fort, small houses with roofs of thatch dotted the landscape, huddled close together as if for protection. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandpa is buried in the small cemetery on the hill about a half-mile past our house, snuggled right up next to Grams, who died when I was three. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

When she picked up the jar again, I said, “Did you grow up in this house?” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, of course. We got the whole summer, Z,” she says, smiling and staring at the house across the street. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

As they walked to Grandfather Mandelbaum’s house, Jack noticed everything—all the tiny shops and all the Jewish people dressed in black and speaking Yiddish. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I called Mr. Keller, I asked, “Can you help me build my house?” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The inside of the house was a real surprise, nothing like a place some slaves was living in for ten years. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

While Reverend Griffin carried the spitting clams into the house, Lizzie took Turner’s hand that held his bat on the knob, and they walked back down to the shore. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Near the steps they slowed down, moved cautiously around the house, for there was a certain fearsomeness about visitors too. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Could you come to the house? Not now, my . . . there are people here. This evening?” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imagine the room in the Committee safe house. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She shakes the little house, though she knows it will not give itself away. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The phone rings and rings in the cavernous house, several receivers in different rooms trilling in different keys. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Hannon says we’re lucky today because some houses get more than one and he doesn’t have to be climbing on and off that float destroying his legs. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

But then the Doctorita intrudes on my fantasy, barging into my dream house and flipping off the stereo. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was so tall its head was higher than the upstairs windows of the houses. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad was still in the house, so I leaned over Brian and shouted at the top of my voice. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I decided to walk from my house to hers. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We don’t talk again until I pull into the driveway of our house. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was Bull, of all people, standing in front of the house. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

She pinwheeled her arms and jumped up and down, stopping only as they vanished inside their house. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He tries to linger in her car, asking her a complicated question right as they approach his house, or pretending to lose something under the seat. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I thought you weren’t supposed to leave the house.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“Around my house if a giant cockroach turns up someone will either tame it for a pet or cook it for dinner.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa put me on him the first thing and made me gallop him in the clearing around the house. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

But at Grandma’s house it seemed to be business as usual. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

As we got to going faster, a grand cloud of dust rose behind us and folks ran out of their houses to watch us go by. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Inside the house, it might have felt like old times, but outside I could see everything that was wrong. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the front door of Mrs. Wheeler’s house opened. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My house is tall and the shingles are gray because of the salt from the sea. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

I smiled as I walked to the house. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He waves vaguely at one of the waiters and as the clock in the hall begins to chime a low, heavy sound that reverberates throughout the house twelve times, the first course is brought out. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The inside of the train was swanky as what my imaginings had told me the inside of the Tanners’ plantation house was like. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

The heat from the burning barn, shed, and fence was so hot that the O’Learys’ house, forty feet away, began to smolder. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

For months afterward, Lady Isobel did not allow her to leave the house unaccompanied; she could not even go to the market without Beatrice keeping a hawk eye on her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finn saw a crumbling porch first; then a weedy, overgrown yard; and then the tall fences blocking off the houses on either side. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He went to stand by the window—the one that faced her house, even though it was a block away and she wasn't home—holding the base of the car phone against his stomach. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Trotter started for his house as I fished my key out of my jeans pocket. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know where they have to be. You’ve hidden them in the passageway between the houses, haven’t you? They are behind that door.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Jennifer's mother hauled two grocery bags out of the car and went into the house, ignoring them. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

A newscaster was standing in front of the monkey house, and he was talking about people dying in Africa. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This child has lived in a fever house for days, weeks maybe. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her house is small, but it’s only her and her mom. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

What chance did he have of walking around Brunswick and finding a house with a baby, and that baby would be Jupiter? Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Like I was wearing one of those prisoner leg bracelet thingies that’d send a signal to Mom and Dad the second I got within a quarter mile of his house. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The Neighborhood Terror Threat Level drops as I pan with Dad’s binoculars from the forest and street on the front side of our house to the bluff and ocean in the back. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The Mormonts of Bear Island were an old house, proud and honorable, but their lands were cold and distant and poor. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I thought of that corner in Monaco which I had passed a day or two ago, and where a crooked house leant to a cobbled square. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

We sat in the car for almost two hours as everybody got a chance to go in the house and get their favorite records. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yessum. He must have gone hack into his house for one too many things, ’cuz the house fell on top of him while he was getting it.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dad, are you serious? The apartment is closer to school than our house was. Is. Whatever.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Then he went into the house and got his mom and she came out. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Soon the bus is rolling into a place where there are big houses, motor cars, horses pulling carts, people on bicycles and hundreds walking. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

We went into the house, and Granddaddy put the hummingbird’s nest in a tiny glass box and gave it to me. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Apa still says that someday we will buy a house of our own. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The potato bin was near empty, and Ruth asked to play in it as if it was a little house. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I hadn’t seen her with my own eyes, I would swear the house had been abandoned for years. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

It was waking the streets, and the houses, and crying at the windows. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“I worked twenty years and bought this house myself,” she went on. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It has two small low windows on the second floor, and the clapboard is slightly wider than the boards on houses today. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

An older man in a white apron stands waving a spatula on the lawn of the house with the turquoise door. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The shebeens were unlawful bars in the back of someone’s house. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I didn't mean to get your hopes up. Drinking a cup of tea is nice, but it’s still going to take time for her to fully recover and be up and running the house again.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“But, Eb, if you can’t come up to the house, what did you come for?” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

At its zenith, Monte Alban housed seventeen thousand people and was by a considerable margin the biggest and most powerful population center in Mesoamerica. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There was only one reason he could give for why he needed to leave the house now. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

We listen for anyone approaching but the only sounds in the barren countryside are a lark, high overhead, and the soft breeze whispering past the walls of the little house. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He walked slowly up the wooden staircase, smelling the smell of this house again. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

On the north side of the river, tidy neighborhoods of small frame houses now perched on neat squares of lawn. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

You couldn’t see any other house from there; the property was surrounded by forest. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Hailsham was going to close any day and there were plans to sell the house and grounds to a hotel chain. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bath at Kyle’s house was so loud it sounded like Niagara Falls. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Back in the old days, when we always had food in the house, I would whine if we were out of my favorite stuff. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

We stayed in the mess and misery of the house only as long as we had to, trading our wet clothes for dry, finding our shoes, trying not to look at anything else. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“I knew your mom her whole life. She was born in that house, just like you were,” Mr. Patterson said, pointing at my house again. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

We pulled the buzzer for the guy to stop the contraption at the primate house, and John had to help Mr. Pignati get off. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Aside from the public part of the house, the only other luxury was the privy in a shed attached to the house; the Van Goghs didn’t have to walk outside to use the bathroom. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I know what kind of foods you prefer, I know what color is your favorite, I know you like simple things. The house was an error, the castle was an error.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

By the third day after the fire, the Lockton house was packed tighter than a barrel of salt cod and smelled worse. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

By then, you should have this letter and can hopefully make plans to be at your grandma’s house. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

To get to work, scientists struggled through the mud to the half-finished Tech Area, which housed labs and offices and was surrounded by another fence, nine feet high, with barbed wire strung along the top. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house settled into itself with a sad sigh and waited for the long and inevitable ruin to come. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“He would have thrown you out of the house,” Danny said grimly. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The primary therapist had been hired by Nicole’s mother and paid for by Nicole’s father at nine hundred dollars an hour, which is what it costs to have a psychiatrist make house calls. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

My parents are trying to turn it into this big awesome thing, and so now our house is like this gay utopia. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Mr. Choi, the village leader, and a few of the elders sat with Doha’s father on the elevated porch at the other end of the L-shaped house. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Then she ran down the hall and I heard her bedroom door slam and the house got very, very quiet—as if it was holding its breath till the next thing happened. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Backdrop to the Kilanga pageant, rising up behind the houses, a tall wall of elephant grass obscures our view of anything but the distance. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Felicia bought the maximum amount allowed, eight gallons, and spent two Sundays painting the house with borrowed brushes and ladders. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ah had to sorta pass by de house on de way back and seen her good. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Now it’s one of the ritzy neighborhoods of Miami, with huge Spanish colonial houses and avenues of shade trees. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The General sent a message on the limo’s computer to seal the gates of his house. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He felt their presence all about the house, pervading the air with the shades and echoes of still vibrant emotions. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The scent of their flowers filled the house. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he left the cart by the side of the road and crept around to the back of the house. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Clothes mostly, but also picture albums and scrapbooks I remember Nana displaying on bookshelves in her old house. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

With the weather windy and grey, and so many people sharing a small house, tempers were flaring. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Then there was quiet, broken only by heavy, deliberate footfalls that trudged their way dutifully around the house, accompanied by the jangling of keys. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“He got his shirt back,” Frank calls, but Emmett’s already inside the house. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

When they got to Sissy’s house, they found her rosy with excitement. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved my grandparents dearly, but there wasn’t much to do at their house. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

These databases are then used by police and prosecutors, as well as by employers and housing officials—an electronic record that will haunt many for life. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I drift along, and just before the turnoff to my parents’ house, I spot Papito at the edge of a field, by the road, fixing the fence. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He just crawled up under the house and died,” she said. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Always many people in my house when I was young. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to embarrass anyone by saying that all the grown folks were sitting all over the house sobbing their eyes out, so I said, “They’re around.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“The magic I evoked fifteen years ago means that Harry has powerful protection while he can still call this house ‘home.’ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I walked into the house like nothing had happened. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Wrapping my arms around my waist against the cold, I cross the street to the house belonging to Mrs. Veenstra and stand on the steps, my back facing Mrs. Janssen's home. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Even in the fading light I could tell the house was a disaster; it looked like it’d been ransacked by thieves. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She had bled considerably on a rug, while Dad tried to fashion a tourniquet and roared inquiries about whether there was a doctor in the house. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scoob knows Dad’s not entirely serious, but it does get his wheels turning: how much harder must it be for Dad to look at the house right now? Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Every outlet was unplugged from every socket and the house stayed dark, except for the lit candle in a few rooms, including ours. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Out on the porch, Genie was surprised to discover that it was actually hotter inside the house than outside. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I drove to his house, arriving there in midafternoon. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Windblown drifts buttressed the house—something moved on the second floor—a hand holding back the edge of a drape. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

To Jo’s lively fancy, this fine house seemed a kind of enchanted palace, full of splendors and delights which no one enjoyed. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I had come over with Pa to deliver our condolences personally I had seen what I thought was the same picture as the one that sat on the china cabinet in Ma Charles’s house. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

By luck I have not dusted the house recently. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Frost formed on the windowpanes and whitened the roofs of houses. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

But ten seconds later Billy ran from the house to the barn, where Mr. Fitzgibbon was working. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I swallow the tire iron that’s rising up in my throat at the thought of Miss Hilly hanging around this house. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The minute we walked into the house I knew there was something wrong with him. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Which one of those queer little boxlike houses did they call home? The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

There he was, coming into the house with that crazy Cletus Underwood, who had fished his old suitcase from the bushes beside the Chevy and was holding it up against his chest. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Come noon, we arrived at the Rappahannock and walked along the road by its banks until we came to a house where the grounds were not full of activity. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“He is a friend of a business acquaintance of your father’s. He’s a Pashtun, from Kandahar originally, but he lives in Kabul, in the Deh-Mazang district, in a two-story house that he owns.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

One morning, I went to Dante’s house and showed him all the pictures of my brother. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

West End — East End — they had poured from their houses onto the cool, damp sidewalks, and if they gave the worms any notice, it was only when they squashed one underfoot. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought back to the van he had seen outside his house on the day of the funeral. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

She walked up the cellar steps with it, heading to the kitchen, inside the house. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Whenever my parents argue, Haley always starts doing backflips, handsprings, and cartwheels because she knows how much they hate it when she does gymnastics in the house and she thinks it will distract them. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

He did not look at me, he went on reading his paper, contented, comfortable, having assumed his way of living, the master of his house. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Aron came dashing around the house, carrying a cardboard box intricately tied with string in fancy bow knots. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It had the multimillion-dollar sports complex, physics lab, arts center, and global studies buildings to prove it, not to mention the two-hundred-year-old red brick mansions and halls housing all the other classrooms and offices. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

On the way to my house, we decided to stop by Ozzie’s to see if our crew was around. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

For my father: no smoking in the house. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Anya halted the onion cart in front of the house, and once the crunching of the wheels on dirt faded, she heard her mother’s voice from inside the house. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

A German shepherd came stalking around the corner of the house, and the older boy caught him by the collar and held him. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You wouldn’t have thought I had any friends in Capricorn’s house!” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Our houses would boast huge picture windows, and palm trees would grow in our front yards. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

If it had really been New Year’s, she would have had to shut herself up in her own house. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I let the warmth of the house wrap around me. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

There was someone on the porch of one of the houses, a person down on all fours, banging on something. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She had found them friendly and intelligent, and a group of them were coming that night to move the house to a place where it would be safe from the plow. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was a house that just didn’t know when to stop. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He was sitting in the shade of the house, painting a picture of storm clouds and a small boat beneath. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

As Father and I crossed the lonely field and made for our house I couldn’t help but think about that earlier night and the welcome feast, all the tastes and sounds of it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fired again, but he had disappeared from sight, and I guessed from the motion of the brush that he had headed downhill, back toward the house. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I wrote a short story about an old man who lived all by himself in a house down the block. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know what kind of talk goes on among them as they horse around in the locker room, sneak cigarettes behind the field house. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel stared out of the window and watched the houses shrink and thought of villains and snow globes and what it would be like to be trapped inside. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Is there any money in the house, Baby?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Man, there sure are a lot of house. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Before driving away, we saw Jeffrey’s mom standing at the front door to his house, waiting for him—and she wasn’t wearing pajamas. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

“For those of you who don’t know, five of the houses that were tented for bugs have been robbed of jewelry, watches, and other valuables.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s behind the house, madam; it’s terrible muddy back there. Your gown will be ruined.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Near the churchyard, and in the middle of a garden, stood a well-built though small house, which I had no doubt was the parsonage. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

She followed Turner into the main house, her feet squeaking on the dark, polished wood of the floor. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

It continued driving the fire through the heart of Chicago, devouring churches, banks, publishing houses and printers, breweries, grain elevators, lumberyards, and department stores as if they were constructed of brittle hay. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was glad noise, songs, snarls, and joy, and Corky decided he did not need to patrol the yard from the windows in the house as much as he had. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“I can’t think about this right now. After seeing the house again, salvaging pretty much nothing...We don’t even know what we’re eating for dinner.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Golly and Britain make panicked eye contact and then look at me as Coop trots over from his house. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

I wished we lived in one of those houses, with their large rooms and lamps instead of bare bulbs hanging from the ceiling. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

In front of the house, there was an iron water pump. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

There was talk of applying for a permit to move to decent matchbox houses the government was building for blacks in Tembisa. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joon lacks the can so hard it bounces off the wall of the house and lands behind him. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Over the protests of his wife, who was alarmed at such a dangerous invention, at one point he was ready to set the house on fire. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I imagine they are bits that fell away with the last earthquake and were never repaired, but still, the house looks to be well cared for. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“My dad hangs around my house too much,” he said. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

All the afternoon the house was very quiet and still, as though it were thinking its own thoughts, or dreaming perhaps. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Grandma and I woke up the next morning to a bunch of neighbors on the front lawn taking pictures of our house. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad paced around the house with a drink permanently in his hand and a cigarette permanently in his mouth. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

It was my own house and I guess that I could have gone right in. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared at the map, and at the large black X marking their house. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What were you doing in that house? Who are you?” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“The eyas is on the roof of the mill house. I put her out in the open where a peregrine’s aerie should be.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The only thing missing from the house is a lawn and a tree. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those were lawless days and it was not safe to leave your house—or even to go to sleep in it—unless you were certain that it was impregnable. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The houses there are old, close together, with frumpy little front gardens and pointed roofs and moldering wooden scrollwork around the porches. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was deathly quiet among the houses of Capricorn's village, and everything that went on seemed to be done in secret. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Louie was housed in a cottage with several other athletes, including Owens. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

We moved house, put it about she was ill, and my mother looked after her, and tried to keep her calm and happy. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“That’s when I recognized you. I saw you before. At that steak house. You were with that queer.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The quilts Jethro had taken from Nancy’s house had made the long night more comfortable; he had washed himself in the creek and looked refreshed. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Making something right in at least one tiny corner of the vast house of wrongs—I learned this from Anatole, or maybe from myself, the odd combination of my two parents. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I fled my house and went to school. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just off the shore of the island, a house was set on a raft, bobbing up and down in the gentleness of the surf. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Kyle had gone to his mom’s house in California, so I didn’t really have anything to do outside. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He counted two houses and nearly missed the third, so high and unbridled were the dark bushes in front of it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the spring they appear around the corner of the house in their baggy gardening pants, smudged with mud, to see me off. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In our neighbourhood there was a large compound that housed migrant workers from the tribal reserves. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had grown up among piles of books, but even she couldn't imagine there were books behind all the windows of this huge house. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He had never enough of her, and he went back to his house in the dawn, dazed and unsatisfied. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Since Lemos had little money, she went next door to her landlord’s house and asked for the twelve dollars she had given him for that month’s rent. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

What he should do, he thought, is stop at Sally’s house and impress her with this new time-telling trick of his. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their houses were three blocks away from the U. School, and three houses away from each other. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

And they immediately started to draw up plans for building the house. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

If, say, you were somewhere you shouldn’t be in the main house or the grounds, and you heard a guardian coming, you could often hide somewhere. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We can’t have a house if I don’t have a place to put it. If I’m going to save my land, I have to get doing,” I say. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I position myself at the end of the hall where I met with my parents yesterday and again today—around three, without Sarah this time; she was at a friend’s house. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

It had been a long time since Emily had been in a friend’s house. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The house was fringed with palm trees, magnificent gardens, and concealed but nonetheless imposing outbuildings in which the family indulged its various hobbies. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

It hits the roof of a house, bounces off a tree, and swishes into a hoop. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I watch through the hibiscus hedge as workmen carry boxes into the Garcías’ house. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

It took her another half an hour to find her mother’s spare keys to the Winslow house in the catchall drawer in the kitchen. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They ran between matching red-brick houses and past women hanging fresh laundry, following me as their mothers smiled and waved too. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She figured out the cubic area of the whole house. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“We just don’t want any more accidents,” she said, and pointed toward the bus in front of the house. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes!” said he, facing round, after doggedly preceding me a few steps towards the house. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

I found out when I woke up in a cold house. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

That tree house looked to be as alone as I could get. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He gave Alec a curt nod and stepped up to the porch and entered the house, sweeping his weapon left and right as he searched the room. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Granddaddy says that houses this old sometimes tend to stretch. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Frank’s father had bought a house in a fairly exclusive neighborhood on Long Island, which is next to New York City. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Any minute now Mr. Alacran would stride out of the house and shout, Take this creature away! The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll have to live in a plastic gingerbread house the rest of my life, fighting my giant goldfish friend and waiting for feeding time. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

After about fifty yards, we come to a small wooden house—a shack, really—unpainted, with a sagging front porch piled with junk. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Stuart stood uncertainly for a moment in the street in front of the house. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

In a moment she will hear the beeps of the security system, the garage door opening, car doors closing, her children’s voices in the house. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were in downtown Helenwood, about a mile from their ruined house, at the Calliope Inn. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He finally turned and scuttled out the door, heading for the next house. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

This place is as familiar to her now as a living room in the house of a life she never bargained for. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in the unlikely event that a lad wasn’t quite in the mood, he would be ushered into the house theater to be inspired by an exotic blue movie. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She found a house where she would get rent free in return for keeping it clean. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leaped up the beach, through the brush line toward his brush house, and it did not occur to him to take one of the canoes of his neighbors. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Plus the Gran warded Seven’s house and put extra protections on Beefy’s room. He’ll be safe.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

After being forced back by the fire earlier, he went north and circled all the way around it until he located his sister-in-law’s house on Des Plaines Street. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Yet I edged cautiously toward the steps of the house, holding myself ready to run if they should prove to be more violent than they appeared. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Richard Stuart’s house was the next stop on their journey. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembers that when he and Moushumi were first dating they’d spent an entire afternoon, in a bar, drawing a plan of the ideal house. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“At Jasper’s mom’s house? Mom and Dad told us about it a while ago.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There was a gray house on the corner whose owners were indifferent to their dog’s feral displays, and a line of cottages where the wives stared out of the windows with flinty expressions. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later, on the way out the door, Jaimito is still asking me questions about oysters, when Nino Carlitos looks me over from head to toe, and says, “Virginia stays in the house.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Palmer, with no time to think, heard himself say, “Let’s go to your house!” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

"The Fashion Minister sent a hundred dresses. I advised him that I'd like for you to match the house, so he used the teahouse colors as inspiration." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Babulya’s garden grew close to the house and had a good, solid fence around it to keep the goats out. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t go away—not even when I’m out of the woods and crossing the street to Kaori’s house. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Not that anyone here knows that, except Tanisha, and she found out by accident when she came to my house to study once and saw a couple of drawings hanging in my room. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least the house and field had not been burned, and there were no corpses about. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And I said, “I don’t go into other people’s houses.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And I realized that the biggest part of the empty in the house was my sister being gone. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I imagine him sitting in the dark house where we all used to live together. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

As she heads into the house, she turns to Mom and says softly, “Miz Melody here has always had a special place in my heart.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

While in Johannesburg, her house in Brandfort and the clinic behind it were firebombed and destroyed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They bombed his house and threatened his life by mail and telephone. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“It’s a graveyard. It’s got one of them little houses where they bury people.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He put her up on the horse and they returned to the house. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stella wondered what they thought of their house, then decided she didn’t care. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Soon they weren't even sure in which direction the boat lay or even the house they'd seen from the wall. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He emerged at the house, where he sat down near the entrance to the tent. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

No sooner had the glass cleared his forehead than Bucky practically dove into the house, landing with a thud in the middle of our floor. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Downstairs they were sure the house was falling down around their heads. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Second, that conglomeration of half-nailed boards could hardly be called a tree house. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

As he dashes from house to house, ringing doorbells, his happiness reminds me of a bubbling pot of delicious lemon curd, cooking on the stovetop. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

It was so plain and austere, very different from most West Side houses, with their gaudy furniture and show-off decorations. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Following his gaze, he turned around to find half a dozen fellows from the shell house standing in a semicircle, holding their dirty plates out to him, grins smeared across their faces. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Just as Aibileen opens the front door to go back in the house, she glances back my way. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

While they continued to Mollie’s house, Anna leaned toward the driver. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The next day, the day before school started, I went to Audrey’s house. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Okay, so my house is small and kind of cluttered because my grandparents refuse to throw anything away,” she says. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Your dad found you passed out behind an abandoned house near your practice park,” Scoob says. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Papa had already given me a paper with the phone number to our house, which I knew by heart, and the phone number to his job. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stopped in front of the school house. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“His house wasn’t wiped out, but they can’t stay in it right now. The roof is messed up. And they think he broke his arm.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The front door of the old Victorian mansion was boarded up, and there was a mailbox just a few yards away from me, at the end of the walkway leading to the house. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s her way of caring without leaving the house.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Her family ran a paladar, which was a restaurant inside someone’s house. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know as I want them in the house.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Wes nodded at Tony, and they left the house without another word. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

It seemed a thousand people could live in that one house. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Soldiers visiting a house never bring good news. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

As with housing, blacks kept a laundry list of grievances over unfair white business practices. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

When she blinked, she saw that she was standing on the large driveway of a sprawling white house. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Soon as I shut off the motor in front of their house, Miss Love spoke up in an excited whisper. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

June told me that the next time I go over to her house, she’ll show me a horror movie. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Why did you think she was on her way to Auggie’s house?” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

But then she gets that worried look on her face as we approach her house. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Tony smiled and rushed off to his own house, probably to stuff down food and get back outside. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

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

But Tomas had swum in blue rivers on Earth, with strangers passing on the road, and eaten in strange houses with strange people, and his weapon had always been his smile. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's Friday night and the weekend ahead is already calling us to the candy lady's house, my hand in Daddy's. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I check the house phone’s voicemail, but the school hasn’t called. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

If our house had been shaking, protected as it was in the middle of the village, imagine the Captain’s, hanging there alone so near the water. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A minute later she steps back into the house. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He turned and started walking toward the next house, scanning the area for potential enemies. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Trotter’s eyelids flapped on her face like shutters on a vacant house. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Kevin was in the main house somewhere, probably not even aware of what was happening. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She turned and walked up the sagging steps to the little blue house, her head held high. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Now I can bend and shape pieces of iron I find around the ruins of the Gribley house and barn. Eventually I’ll forge them into shovels, ladles, and even nails.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She paced on her terrace, back and forth beneath the moon, while down in the city her moths went from house to house like bees from flower to flower. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

These powerful men managed to keep all federal housing assistance programs out of Durham for a decade and a half. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I thought it was one of those advertisements for painting your house or cleaning your carpets. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Tea Cake and Janie were some distance from the house before they struck serious water. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

She did not want to spend her life with leeches covering her legs, she did not want her back to bend out of shape, and yet she never wanted to leave this house. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

After insisting her parents leave the house, she guided the group out of the city and into the empty prairie where their possessions had been left. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Everything in this house is an antique, including me,” Mother Fletcher said as she took another plate from the cabinet. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Take him and Quentin down to the house and let them play with Luster, where Frony can watch them, T. P., and go and help your paw. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in his dream, Coyotito was reading from a book as large as a house, with letters as big as dogs, and the words galloped and played on the book. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were waiting to spy on them back there behind the chicken house when they came. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I spot her, a teenage girl in a simple white shirt and blue skirt, pacing back and forth on the street, watching our house, waiting patiently. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Portia’s house was dark except for the checkered moonlight on the floor. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Merrill Bobbs, the man who sold fishing bait by the river, had somehow rolled a huge barrel of drinking water all the way from his house and was struggling to right it. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“He might come and bum the house and the ‘family.’ Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two of the five bedrooms have slanted roofs, and it’s the only house on the island with a full attic. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

We pretend there’s such a thing as a private conversation in this house, but I have always been able to hear everything from the hall outside my bedroom. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Still, I was so relieved to get his letter that I ran into the house shouting, “Mom, Martin is alive! He’s alive!” I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

This meant we had to hire a photographer to come to our house, take the photo, develop it, and bring it back later. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

We moved to a new house to give me a fresh start. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Before we left the house, my parents packed a picnic basket for us. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She presses inward, and the house slides up and out. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I buckled down to a solid-geometry problem, until I heard a screech of tires that seemed to begin opposite the service station all the way past our house. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A cannonball came down, smashing a house just a few yards from where Nate stood. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

He must remember the way the house smelled when you were in it, the sound of your voice filling the air, the sight of you painting your pictures. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Now I thought about how hard it must be to clean a whole house, dress up, and cook dinner when taking care of a newborn that needed constant attention. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“My friends and I toilet-papered a teacher’s house a couple of years ago.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I knew that the reason he did not cry out loud was because he was the nwoke in the house, the man Aunty Ifeoma had by her side. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

It would take near the whole day to wash, hang the clothes out on the line, and iron them, but I loved the way the house smelled clean with wood polish and soap. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Was one of the ghosts in the house stealing her breath? Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

You might look at our house sitting in the middle and wonder why it looks like somebody emptied a dustpan over it. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Patrolmen from the new Chicago police precinct house on Wentworth walked past Holmes’s building each day. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

We lived in a little Conch house on Curry Lane. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, he’d be tracking that mud into the house for sure. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She imagines him extending his thick neck to look into the house, the coat on the rack, the crumbs of bread on the kitchen table. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He usually said all this to the TV, but our house isn’t that big and his voice is pretty loud so you can always hear him. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Lillian had already gotten up and was putting on her robe and house shoes in preparation for the impending predawn ritual at the tree. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls now remind her of the house when they’d first moved in, bare except for the photograph of her husband, which will be the last thing she will remove. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lying in his California King-size bed in his suite in his gigantic house, I realize the truth. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He would merely pick up a ball of clay and stalk off with it toward the house. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“The island. Johnny and Mirren. The houses and the sound of the ocean. You.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

When I ask a teammate why the rule against cursing in houses, she says that owners have been known to leave tape recorders going while we work. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had lived in a small, unheated stone house. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t spring—that was still weeks away, and the trees surrounding the house were still deeply asleep. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I went over to June’s house again yesterday. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Strolling and gawking at the houses and whistling a happy little dorky tune like some Sneezy or Snoozy or whatever their names are. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

They take a house that’s on the other side of Water Island’s brown hill. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

On a shining glittering fiery day in the eighth moon, which is the last end of summer, she came to his house. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

When I came to my house, I walked past it. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

I wonder what it’s like to live in a town like that and if Boy21 had a big house out in California, but I don’t ask him. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her house was pretty nice, except it had too many stairs. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

There’s an odd stillness, like the house is quieter than it should be. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

They had decided to start a fire next to Capricorn's house, so that it would not spread to the hills so fast but would threaten the only thing Capricorn cared about: his treasure chambers. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She sent us off to school and tried to maintain her crazy house as usual, ranting about this and that, but the fire was gone. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had stayed to themselves pretty much through the spring, settling into Mrs. Cobb’s house. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Soon she felt much better and went hopping around the house, examining everything with the greatest care and interest. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

What if a family with just one kid moved in behind them, and he sneaked into their house and pretended to be their second child? Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

I know Alyssa is capable, and I don’t worry that she can maintain things here in the house after my parents and I leave, but I do worry about Jacqui. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Durham’s tight housing market, combined with Oldham’s well-known dictatorial style, gave teeth to the threat. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Kathy told him about Rob’s hope that he could check on the house. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

By midsummer Singer had visitors more often than any other person in the house. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She was used to seeing their transparent silhouettes gliding down the hallways of her parents’ house, making noise in the wardrobes and appearing in people’s dreams to predict calamities or lottery prizes. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We rode down Route 127 to Folly Cove, passing a mile of granite curbing and houses built with granite blocks. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Icicles hung from the collapsed roof of the fire-mined building that had housed Black Muslim Mosque Number 7. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carol invites me to her house after school, where she shows me her cupboard with all her clothes hanging in it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She heard the thunder boom and the wind rage around the house. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

A month later, we moved into the Camden Village town houses right off the Camden exit on Highway 85 South. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to live in the same house forever, work the same job, and never claim any space for myself, but I did want the year-to-year, decade-to-decade steadiness they had. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Well, what’s the deal with that yellow house back in the woods?” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He sets for us the goal of houses for everyone and cheers us on, exhorting us to push ahead. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“In that case”—Mother sighed—“kindly refrain from acquiring any more houses for the time being, my little landlord.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Our three flat-top houses are exact pink triplets, and they sit side by side here on Sixth Street. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

"I saw guys in baseball caps circling the house," Howard recalled. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Though it was not Monday, some woman had spread out a washing on the bushes and stumps by her house. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d never had sausages before but if that was what was making the house smell so good I was going to love it. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

In time the Mrs. Morrisons found unassailable reasons for not going to the little house by the bakery. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Werfel said, “My house is surrounded by soldiers. Eight or nine. On the lookout. They’re waiting for us to come back. They know it was you. Whatever it was you did.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

This person, so Dewey imagined, approached the house on foot, probably around midnight. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roy seized the opportunity to retrieve a cardboard shoe box from his room and slip quietly out the back door of the house. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wildflowers grew in the fallen houses; where the corpses of goblin families had fallen, there were mushroom clumps. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He spends a good deal of time at their house and becomes interested in one of their daughters, Caroline. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They wondered how many other eyes were in Count Olaf’s house, and whether, for the rest of their lives, they would always feel as though Count Olaf were watching them even when he wasn’t nearby. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Ever since I’d set foot in the pink house, some part of me had kept believing that my mother had been here. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

That August, nearly a year after buying the houses, Greenberg’s lawyer asked the city to extend his client's deadline for making repairs, citing insufficient manpower to get the job done. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

From the back of a yellow house, two girls emerge, playing geisha. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Those who bought houses and hoarded money as protection and the means to purchase it. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Listen, I could’ve told Bob I was taking you back to my house to have wild sex, and he wouldn’t have said a thing.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Aunt Loma spent most of that morning at our house, fussing about Miss Love and jerking the baby around like it was all his fault that his grandpa had disgraced the family. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

When Will’s dad was home, he wanted to do as many chores and repairs around the house as he could. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Soon she had a better room in the house, her own private rickshaw, a house for her elderly parents, a sum for buying blessings at temples. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they reached the square outside the church, Meggie thought the two men were taking them to Capricorn's house again, but they passed it on their left and went straight to the big church door. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

By seven o’clock, Melita and her parents stood on the crowded Wilhelmstrasse, the wide street that led past the President’s Palace and the Chancellery, the building that housed important government offices. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Wemmick’s house was a little wooden cottage in the midst of plots of garden, and the top of it was cut out and painted like a battery mounted with guns. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

They all saw her in her starched blouse, with her ring of keys at her waist and her old maid’s bun, exactly as they had always seen her in the house. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then we left the house with Mum and Aunt Gloria walking behind us, talking up a storm. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around the little house, in the Big Woods, there were little sounds of falling snow, and from the eaves there was the drip, drip of the melting icicles. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

No Jew in our situation would dare leave the house with a suitcase full of clothes. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Ice on the house on Palmas Street, ice on the tamarind tree, ice coating the ships on the dock and the sparrows in midflight. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before we left my aunt’s house, she put two boxes in the trunk of the car. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

When the thunder and lightning began, people confused it with Japanese bombs and would not leave their houses. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bonuses are free for everything else, like extra saving, big vacations, and major repairs on the house.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was the same tone, the same piercing depth, that I heard sometimes in Abba when mourners danced past our house, holding the photograph of a dead family member, shouting. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon she spent a tedious hour assisting Ana in dressing for dinner, and that evening the house was full of ladies in rich satin gowns and gentlemen wearing plush velvet and shining boots. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had still never been to Styx’s house, not really. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

That was when the car picked up speed, racing toward our house, tires screeching. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Once or twice, they broke into the old house for a dare. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Below him in the Victorian house, the falcon fan club was peering through the spotting scope in Molly’s room. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

So I gave him all of the milk; two of the eggs I left in the hen house, thinking I would pick them up when I left and carry them back in my hand. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

But this house and this life were what she had, and there was no point in perpetually grasping for something other. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I say this frequently, while I’m boiling diapers in the kitchen house and having my imaginary arguments with an absent Rachel. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had a small peach tree in a tiny patch on one side of the house and on the other side my grandmother had a driveway. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know yet. But my mom’s up in DC this weekend, meaning the house and car are mine. So you’re spending the night in Suso territory.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I did not know at the time how familiar the address — house number 802, Brandfort — would one day become to me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Elise tripped on the way out of the house holding Aaron, but he was bundled up pretty tight. Could you check on him, though?” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He had a sickening mental picture of a barn full of ponies, a roadster for Anne, motorcycles, a swimming pool, and, ultimately, the poor house or a debtors’ prison, if they still had such things. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was he who persuaded her to sell her house and come to Tampa with him. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

They wouldn’t tell us who, but the house had been huge, behind stone walls and an iron gate. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

A dog growled and barked, snarled and leaped angrily up against the fencing on the right side of the house. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

They cared about education, about jobs, about decent housing—about equal access to these things. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Staring at the house in the full heat of summer, it was scarcely credible that the world had so swiftly fallen into confusion. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Inside the oleander square there was nothing, no house, no building, nothing but the straight road going across and ending at the stream. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I found Dad sitting in a chair in the family room—better called the “be-alone room” in our house. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

The houses around her were all taller than Widow Medvedeva’s house. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He turned abruptly, and ran into the house for help, and the screen door banged after him. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am serious. We’ll arrange everything. A limo will pick you up at your house and take you to the airport.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I missed Grandpa Ted, but Lolo and Lola comforted me with their stories and hugs, and with the dishes they cooked that made their house smell so good. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I should tell you that there was no shade around this side of the house, so things were getting sort of desperate in the Thirsty Department. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

This is the only plant in Grace’s house, and we aren’t allowed to touch it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a sound of trampling boots below, inside the house and outside. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

A few hypocrites devised such evasive games as “playing house” or “doctor.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We lived on the first floor of a three-story brownstone house that stood on a quiet street just off busy Lee Avenue. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Their house stood on the lower slope of Catoctin Mountain, overlooking the town, above a sea of apple orchards. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lurched a little, looked down at the blood on his clothes and up at Pilate, and licking his lips, backed all the way to the side of the house under Pilate’s gaze. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hoisted it up by its peaked roof and took it into the house, up the stairs to my room, and shut the door. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

I dived into one absurd thing after another, and here I am in the pink house. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It overlooked Baby Kochamma’s ornamental garden, the gravel driveway looped around it, sloping down towards the bottom of the slight hill that the house stood on. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was the son of small farmers, neither rich nor poor, who had lived on one landhold and in one stone house for many hundreds of years. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Reporters and distraught fans phoned his house all night long. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took my hand and led me into the house. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

You could buy a house with almost no money down. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How about you and me go back to your house and watch a movie?” she said. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“And when something is all you know, it’s easy to stand it. There is one other thing she knows: Her life could be much harder. Viola is ‘house’ instead of ‘field.’ The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Beside the bar what looked like a radio dial would, upon being turned, make the lighting throughout the house as mellow or as bright as the mood demanded. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t remember how we got to the Gamma Alpha Psi house, but I’m sure if I drive around enough, I might find it. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I was in charge of the younger kids, having been told to stay in the yard and out of the house until Doña Ana, our next-door neighbor, came to get us. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I scrutinize the house, but there’s nothing to see. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found an unlabeled video link at the bottom of her dossier, and when I selected it, a live vidfeed of a small suburban house appeared on my display. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“The company’s given you a good job, a house, and a decent life, Dubonnet,” he was saying, “and all you want to do is tear it down.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He said they could go see the falls just as good from her house as from the hotel, and a whole lot cheaper. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He went to do yard work at the big houses where he had gathered weeds behind his father. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Davis said he needed to stop by the house, and I was going to wait for him outside, but Daisy shoved me forward so hard I found myself walking alongside him. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

What really happened is that Tom had to half carry me out of the house, me crying and shouting all the way, while poor Clara cowered in the kitchen. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are houses I’ve driven by for years, and I didn’t know they had panic rooms until the owners listed the house to sell.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She revealed that after the body was found, she’d obtained a set of Anna’s keys and had gone, with Anna’s sister Rita Smith, to Anna’s house. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I found myself walking in front of Dante’s house. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

One evening Esther took me to her house and made me dinner. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Strides were made in private housing, with a black real estate agent given access for the first time to multilisting services. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

They were from Joey’s street, the street where all of the houses had been tented. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a useless precaution because if he had wanted to, Aureliano could have escaped and even returned to the house without being seen. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The house had been closed up since early this morning when we left for the funeral. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Leastwise, if I live with her, I finally be the smartest person in the house. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Two men living alone and they’ve got this in their house.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When she walked out in the rich parts of town every house had a radio. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Dad moved out of our house last summer. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t say it’s present only in churches. It could be right here in this house, for instance. As a matter of fact, I believe it is,” I said, a smile on my face. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house was filled with a suitable silence. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Turned over a new leaf, Preacher Kane turned over a new leaf so there's no booze for anybody on Christmas Eve, even in our own house where a man is his castle." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I gotta go home and tell my mama about what I seen. I live right down there. In that yellow house. That’s my mama on the porch. You see her? She’s waving at you.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

When my parents left for work, instead of Grandma coming over, I went to Trevor’s house to hang out until it was time for us to head to Davis Square for our “movie.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

For some reason my irreverent description of Auntie Braxton’s house triggered Call. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because he was sitting there when the half grown boy came around the corner of the house whistling and saw him. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you show me the rest of the house?” he says. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

By rights I am as American as anyone, as graced and flawed and righteous as any of these people chanting for fire in the heart of his house. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only then did we notice that the gentleman in whose house we were staying was nowhere to be found — he had slipped out and gone to work. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Johnson waved a hand at me as he walked toward the house with an armful of newspapers. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Shirley looks through my paintings of the rendering sails, the discharge facility, Heather’s Bucket of Broth, my house in all seasons. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When my car gets close to him, the little colored boy turns and scats behind a house a few down from Aibileen’s. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Sean announced as he walked into Erin’s house ahead of me. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Only three blocks from Giti’s house, a stray rocket struck the girls. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I make it my business to acquaint myself with where objects properly belong in a house. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The reality was decaying, dingy cities, where underfed people shuffled to and fro in leaky shoes, in patched-up nineteenth-century houses that smelt always of cabbage and bad lavatories. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Um. Still here, Scarlett. Sorry. Not the sort of thing you expect to hear. It’s an old house, I mean, you expect things to happen a long time ago. But not...well, what happened?” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“How many people live in this house?” he asked. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He carried her to Alice’s tree house to recover out of sight of the birds of prey. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

She went door to door throughout her neighborhood, telling people about how Operation Breakthrough had helped her force the powerful Henry M. Michaux to repair her house. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you want to make him sick, with the house full of company.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The General bought more than I needed in the house. There was nowhere to put this one,” Aunty Uju said, a general statement made to nobody in particular, a way of shrugging off thanks. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Mom still lives in the small house we all used to share. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I learned to look for little children playing outside a large, fine house. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

They are also subject to legalized discrimination in employment, housing, education, public benefits, and jury service, just as their parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents once were. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It does, however, indicate that when a real-estate agent labels a house “well maintained,” she may be subtly encouraging a buyer to bid low. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

They had heard from Laurie where we were to be, and came to ask us to their house, but Uncle won’t go, so we shall return the call, and see them as we can. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman who’d been screaming ran into the house, carrying the baby. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wait for me,” he said, and he went into the house and dropped his books. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Where have you been? We have to leave the house soon, so hurry, go and eat your lunch!” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to risk them sending you back on a technicality, even for a few weeks, but there’s no reason Grace can’t come to our house.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

She was the motor that drove the magic universe that was the rear section of the big house on the corner, where Alba spent her first seven years in complete freedom. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not surprised, coming to your house like that. How is your mother?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She was almost as diligent as when she had the whole weight of the house on her shoulders. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I had brought a thermometer from the house to take his temperature, but I decided that could wait until morning. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He went back in and, still wearing his coat and hat, wandered through the rooms of the cold house. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

But, like so much in Baltimore, even this beautiful house was bloodstained. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“We can look at some houses before you go to it.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

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

“Have you ever visited the pleasure houses of Lys?” the dwarf inquired. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Our house could feel lonely because my mother was busy with her life and my father was busy with his. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t you promise burglars would never break into our house because there’s nothing here to steal?” whispered Meggie. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

These patches of disorder make no difference — it is a house too spectacular to suffer distraction, forgiving of oversight and mess. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

That night the house was full of light and noise, with people dressed as soldiers and queens and dancers and chieftains. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ship’s power came from the engine room on the second and lowest deck, which also housed sickbay, storage, and the stables. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Returning to her family’s house in Baton Rouge, she found her mother there. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I needed to get out of that house. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then back up the shore and to the south end of the island, where shingled one-and two-room houses clamped themselves to the rocks like oysters, glad to be there and not needing anyone’s say-so. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I had a look around the tree house, figuring what I’d haul up with me next time. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He wore a business suit for his work, but his house was no better than theirs. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I’d woken up, and the scene had vanished, leaving me in a strange, dark, quiet house. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Would she think he’d been banned from the house long enough? It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Matt leaped from the car and sprinted to the other side of the house, the laughter of his family following him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was discovered missing at 5:35 a.m. when the police raided his house in connection with a corruption investigation. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

We strode silently, the two of us, through the house to Ben’s room upstairs. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

We put her there because it was the warmest spot in the house. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“We made it. Everybody out,” Dad said, and by the time all the car doors had opened and Dad had popped the trunk, a light outside the house flickered on. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The house was before them, overgrown with honeysuckle, dark-windowed, looking abandoned. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I’ll have no more texts read at me in my own house!” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Babou stopped in front of the house, but the cloud of smoke kept going, enveloping the minivan in a black shroud before dissipating into a thin trail of intermittent puffs. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Tuesday, June 11,1935 This last week, things have been better at my house. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And leave them smelling bread baking in an empty house? You don’t seem to understand,” he said. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I returned every day to look at its smear on the side of the house,” I said. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as the earth warmed, the birchbark house always took shape under Nokomis’s swift hands. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“That house,” said the Corporal carefully, “is that where you found the boy?” The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

The man they wanted was all the way at the top of the hill, in a huge house of timber and plaster whose upper stories loomed over the narrow street. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Ray went to live at Master Moon’s house. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Mary shuddered every time she left the house and was plotting her escape from Cherry Hill almost as soon as she got there. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“If you know of anyone who will care for her, then you should take her there. This has become the house of last resort.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the car, Hassan said, “Okay, now all we have to do is go to my house, pick up some clothes, and miraculously convince my parents to let me go on a road trip.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Daniel’s mom drives Daniel out to Axel’s house, away from the downtown, where they live, away from their busy street and their large house and all of those sisters. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Young, be sure to ask your mom if she can make it to lunch at our house next Saturday. She can’t be working every weekend.” A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I saw the drooping neckline of the Baltimore Orioles sweatshirt we had bought from the Goodwill store and that he wore around the house, the field of dark stubble along his jaw. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

It houses some 684 inmates, more than the entire population of many prisons. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the house looms cold and empty and dark. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

But we were also permitted to leave the house and go to parties and sleepovers. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

When asked what issue was most important to them, four of the five neighborhood councils organized by Operation Breakthrough that summer responded “housing.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was not a pretty farm near the house—never had been. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were sitting with his grandmother on the elevated wooden porch that framed the outside of their house. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

An important part of that last step took place right here on the farm, in an open-air shed out behind the Salatins’ house. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She lived by herself in the old slave quarters out past Granddaddy’s laboratory, and though it had once housed a dozen or so slaves, it was the perfect size for one person. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Maybe by someone from that other house? Or by the ‘criminal’ those boys were talking about?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

They’ve been wound up for hours, dashing around the house, thrilled to be awake so late. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was often embarrassed to bring his friends around the house, because he didn't have a "typical" mom. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The Ivanov house came into sight just as the dull thud of horse hooves and the sharp crunch of wooden wheels over the dirt of the road rose behind them. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I talked a blue streak to keep from turning tail and running back to our safe house. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

When I checked the window, T. Ray was coming out of the orchard toward the house, fists balled, head plowed forward like a bull wanting to gore something. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ek, who had grown to the size of a respectable town house, laughed. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

For his voice asking Mami to forgive him, or for his footsteps outside the house. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She looked down the quiet street, where no cars were parked, where all the houses were the same and had the same closed and empty faces. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matilda's parents owned quite a nice house with three bedrooms upstairs, while on the ground floor there was a dining-room and a living-room and a kitchen. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

All the world was frozen, the distant trees, the telephone lines, the grass in the yards of the downriver houses, the ground itself. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Until the day came when a black man in a suit and with a funny accent decided to call it his little dream house. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She leads me through the house to her bedroom, talking. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She said protesters stood outside the house of the police officer who got off. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

It was too painful, going back to that house, but Otis said she must, to collect her due. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fenoglio braced an arm against the door frame and looked at the house opposite as if he feared it might collapse at any moment. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Every time we left the house, people came out on the road and blessed us. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was next to the house, just a few yards from Storch. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d like to live in a fine house. But not if it means I have to be an example. Not if it means I can’t choose my own friends.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“We can just watch one at my house,” Davis said. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The house was empty and quiet; everyone had gone to church. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Gearing up for the basketball season, I would go on these epic runs all around town, and I—okay, I admit it—I’d run by her house more than once. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Near the northeast cacao groves, I saw the Ford parked in front of a small, yellow house. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was super early, like around six thirty in the morning, when we left the house and piled into Uncle Tony's SUV. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

On the left was a man in a suit and a woman wearing a long dress and pearls standing next to a three-story house. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Where you will. I do not know the house.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

My aunt ushered us out of that coal shed towards the big house. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

My brother, it seemed, had finally overcome enough of his panic to warn my mother, but not before more than half the house had been destroyed. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could see the cornfield from the house, and the thing he feared most of all, now, was being found by Hooper. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

But he was also weak with hunger, and as he wandered the streets, he began searching for an empty house where he could eat and rest. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I ate and slept, but hardly spoke to the other girls in my room or to the boys who slept in another part of the house. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The only difference was that Papa-Nnukwu’s house had a verandah, which was bounded by rusty metal bars. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“And you must wear your shoes. This is a house, not a barn.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the thing that Wang Lung had done did not quickly come out, for he said nothing at all, and why should he, being master in his own house? The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

When Sula first visited the Wright house, Helene’s curdled scorn turned to butter. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The sheriff never violated the quarantine by venturing into town, but he apparently did venture from his house once in a while. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She also took to walking around the house in her stocking feet, trying to catch me unawares as I scrubbed or dusted or polished, often with Ruth at my side. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He started walking back toward my house, and when the silence was almost too much to bear, Diego said, “You know that painting you like?” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

In this uncomfortable position, he imagined returning to the house and finding it consumed by a violent column of orange flames, reaching skywards like a snapping, hissing monster. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Early Sunday, a car carrying three men and a woman drove up to Wright’s house. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I’m planning to build my house come autumn. We have marked some good white oak for the clapboards.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Her fingerprints were over everything in the Westing house, including the corpse. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark and Alec moved from house to house, searching them from top to bottom. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I remember this ability of my mother’s, because now she is visiting my husband and me in the house we just bought in Woodside. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now she’s looking for a new job as a nurse, and works a lot of overtime to pay off student loans—and because we’re saving up to move out of Lola’s house. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear bowed in reply, and she turned back to the house. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

When we walked away from her house and started to climb the hill with the goat in tow, we dared to turn around and look back at it. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Every year around Thanksgiving, he went hunting in West Virginia, where he and some buddies rented a house for the opening of the deer season. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our house on North Third Street had been looted. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Mercedes came to a roundabout with a fountain at the center, swept around it, and continued up toward a fantastic sprawling house. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

When we left, we threw kerosene on the thatched-roof houses, lit them with matches, and fired a couple of RPGs into the walls. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

There were pigeons out in the square, and the houses were a yellow, sun-baked color, and I did not want to leave the café. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“No. With me. At my house,” he said. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

She was radiant as she watched our father and uncle carry boxes into our new house. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I loved the view from the house and kept looking toward the city. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

While Abby seemed nice enough, it turned out we had different taste in extracurricular activities, and houses too. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

If anything broke down or needed fixing, he’d sigh and talk about the house like it was some old soul he’d been knowing over the years. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

My mother is much happier when she has a house full of guests and extra chairs around the dinner table. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They have flash pictures of him leaving a downtown precinct house after his bail is posted. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe I would have pressed the button when the sluggers abducted me from Diego’s house if they’d given me the chance. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She also looked after C.P.’s elderly mother, who lived with them in their tiny house. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why I just admitted out loud how completely unfit I am for a house party. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I think about the house in my school reader, white, with a picket fence and a lawn, and window curtains. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, it was wonderful. Dad and Stepmother Dearest dragged me and Remy to the house in the Bahamas for ‘family bonding.’” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

She had hoped that when I finished high school I would get a job and help her keep the house together. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not long after, Jeanne was crouching in the underbrush, at the edge of the little yard behind her house. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

In the tumult of the last moment, the sad drunkards who carried them out of the house got the coffins mixed up and buried them in the wrong graves. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I got the prescription filled, returned to the house and took the tablets. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the things in her grandparents’ house—all the things they didn’t even own—were old. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

We were hardly talking then, sitting down to our evening meal like boarders in a rooming house, reciting the usual, drawn- out exchanges of familiar news, bits of the day. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

For my part, I’d go down to the fence between our two houses and yell, “Cassandra!” as loud as I could, a human megaphone. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, we could hear it all the way from the kitchen: shouting; and a coffee cup breaking; swear words in both English and Greek; feet stomping out of the house. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I put the rake behind the Store and came through the back of the house to find Grandmother on the front porch in her big, wide white apron. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘This apartment that we’ve lived in for nine years, because you think your ship is going to come sailing in any day now, is your house?” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He stands in the middle of strangers who could be as hostile as the marauders that raided Kelton’s house. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

A Wise Woman told him for whom the house had been made ready:— Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But here, there isn’t even a slice of happiness big enough to fill up all these empty houses, and broken buildings, and wide roads that lead to nowhere and everywhere. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

That night the house, which was used as a meeting place and recreation center by Russian immigrants, was filled with more than two hundred men and boys attending night school. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I got up to go into the house, but it wasn’t there. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

If he had handled it right, maybe she would have stayed in the house, nursed her baby, learned how to dress and talk to folks. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because he walked Delilah on Fridays, he had a key to our house, but he never liked to use it if he thought someone might be home. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It housed an ancient castle as well as the Tombs—where Twelve Towns criminals went to receive punishment. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

She fumbled with the house key, balancing her book bag on one knee while she turned the key to the right, but the door was already unlocked, and pushed open easily. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I jump up off the couch like I plan on running again, running right through town and straight to Sandy’s house. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Fifty feet in front of the house the Americans were standing in a semicircle, guns to their shoulders, aiming at the doorway. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

He agrees with the Nation of Islam on some stuff, but he can’t get over the fact that they may have killed Malcolm X. “Pig in my house,” Daddy grumbles and sits next to me. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Then he storms over to Blanca’s house, banging on her door. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like a collection of matching houses, built with maroon-colored bricks. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I lived in north London, in Finsbury Park, in a house occupied entirely by penniless Bengali bachelors like myself, at least a dozen and sometimes more, all struggling to educate and establish ourselves abroad. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

But whenever she left the house, Lawrence stopped being good. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

We were alone in the house now, just me and my mom and whatever future we were now meant to have. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I think quick and say, “Can Mr. Allen drop Russ off at Erin’s house around seven twenty?” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until we reach a room at the back of the house that we have to go up a small flight of stairs to enter. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The poor girl then had only her grandmother’s house to go to. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

In fact I had him the longest of all my animals, for he came back to England with me and lived in Bournemouth for many years, with the run of house and garden. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Shusgis? house was a whole island, housing over a hundred employees, domestic servants, clerks, technical advisers, and so on, but no relatives, no kinfolk. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was a full day’s work to be done before noon, when the deadly heat drove everyone back into our big shuttered house and we lay down in the dim high-ceilinged rooms like sweating victims. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

"But if there is no will, Miss Honey, then surely the house goes automatically to you. You are the next of kin." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I am nervous as a cat seeing that book in her house. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I knew this day would come, and yet the news siphoned the oxygen from our already claustrophobic house. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I thought the house would be right there when I got off the bus, but, boy, was I wrong. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

They built row houses and single ones with big yards and vegetable gardens. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I met people who owned entire collections of houses and spent more on one restaurant meal than my family had paid for 93 Little Hobart Street. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Odd, she thought sleepily, that the house should be so dreadful and yet in many respects so physically comfortable—the soft bed, the pleasant lawn, the good fire, the cooking of Mrs. Dudley. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the gift shop, Gogol buys a postcard of the house and a ballpoint pen disguised as a quill. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Had they done so, they would have lost their jobs and housing. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the four would open his or her eyes, and from there the movements were brisk, the house quickly growing loud. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

After carefully loading the box in the car, the three of them made their way to the Smiths’ house. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Just then, we hear a cry from the back of the house. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I’ve never seen them up close, they didn’t live at that house when I lived down the road. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She’s the house manager. Has been since I was born. She’s like what we have now instead of a parent, kinda.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

From the upper pasture to the house is a distance of a mile—rocky terrain with steep, unforgiving hills, which Grandpa could not have managed in his condition. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And as he did so Carl’s sons came around the corner of the house running—a boy of three or four, Art guessed, followed by another of about six, who limped. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“No, no. Wait, I want to see what she’s up to. Why’s she in the marsh behind our house in the middle of the night?” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Some of the guys I worked with have still not found anything. A couple of guys lost their houses.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The house surrounds me with the familiar noises of a big room holding a family I love. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The bonds that linked him to José Arcadio were so strong that he would accompany him in his asthmatic insomnia, without speaking, strolling through the house with him in the darkness. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was for safekeeping, people said, in case Deborah’s house ever caught fire. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

If this was reversed, she’d insist I have respect for the rest of the people in the house. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Straight in front, on the other side of the farmyard, close to the house, stood the dog kennel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure seems strange having Shiloh in the house that night, after trying so hard to keep him secret. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was probably crying alarm from one end of the house to the other. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could walk into one or another room in this house and get a hot fur coat, a good camera, fine perfume, a gun, anything ffom hot women to hot cars, even hot ice. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think it’s because he had to wander from house to house here,” said Rita. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” said Mrs. Popper, “but if you keep them outside the house, they might run away.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

I have always thought a man should own a house near the place he was bom, where he might find a restfulness that eludes him elsewhere. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents left for work shortly thereafter, and I usually had the house to myself for at least thirty glorious minutes before I began my hike to the panopticon. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The tenement was a long passageway of ruined houses, all exactly the same: small, impoverished dwellings built of cement, each with a single door and two windows. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanna tell Mrs. Fisher there’s no way I’m writing about “my favorite room in my house” when I have no house. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“Eugenia, you know there is no chewing gum in this house.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She sneaks out of the house while I’m in my shower. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

A house with a swimming pool was not fit for the Saedis. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Michael wakes and lets out a loud cry, the Hannons are banging on the wall next door, Mam is telling Dad he’s a disgrace and why doesn’t he get out of the house altogether. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Otherwise, some of us will be living in the past and some in the future. In the very same house! Can’t have that. Very bad.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I decide to start with the studio because that’s the one room in Gram’s house that no one’s been in much since she died. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He said, “He won’t eat anything,” and ran out of the house. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though the general mood in our house had lifted, I was still grounded, which meant that I hadn’t seen Maribel since Christmas. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Get a taxi. Somebody at your house can pay the driver when you get there.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Even if we have to give up the house and move down in mill town,’ their Mama said. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun emptied all of the buckets in the house, put them under the holes in the roof again, and got ready for bed. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

A white car zooms around the corner and comes to a screeching stop right in front of the house. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

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

This was a house that was built for a big family. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Friday is payday and Mam is out of the bed early, cleaning the house and singing. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Evacuate now! The federals have entered Nsukka! We are evacuating now! Right now! I am going to all the houses still occupied. Evacuate now!” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I lived then in a small brick house in Manhattan, and, being for the moment solvent, employed a Negro. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because I had turned nine, I could walk alone to Mrs. Hinton’s house for my music lesson on Tuesday afternoons. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We’d just passed the fire alarm on the corner of Frances and Fleming Streets when a towheaded kid in overalls, with no shirt on underneath, waved to us from the front step of his house. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Faye shook her head, trying to find words: “Fm not ashamed. I run a nice house. If I didn’t somebody else might run a bad house. I don’t do anybody any harm. I’m not ashamed.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

These structures were mixed in among buildings that dated back to the American Revolution, most notably Paul Revere’s house, a dwelling that was already almost one hundred years old when Revere made it his home. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

We caucused among ourselves and lobbied all the residents of the house, and within weeks elected our own House Committee, defeating the upperclassmen. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Instead of chocolate creams in a heart-shaped box. Instead of a big house and a great big car. Instead of long trips . . .” “Porter.” “. . . in a clean white boat.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was fat and it was hard for him to get a job because he use to paint pepuls houses and he got very slow going up and down the ladder. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

As he walked up to his house, he again lamented that he forgot to bring his cell phone. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I shouted, jumping to my feet and charging down the steps in front of my house. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

On a Sunday near the end of that summer, Elizabeth dressed him in his best clothes and took him to Florence’s house. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The house was filling with people and the hours passed in a dreadful streaky blur of relatives, neighbors, crying children, covered dishes, blocked driveways, ringing telephones, bright lights, strange faces, awkward conversations. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“She was here last night, standing in the street right opposite the house.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m excited to be spending the night at your house,” said Louisiana. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

All she knew was that the celestial weapons were housed somewhere inside this place. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

By the end of autumn they had stacks of pinon higher than the house, and that was the only heat they used. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d climb the fence behind the house and steal into Lalao’s grapefruit grove to fill our faces with the bittersweet pulp while juice dribbled down our chins and our fingers got sticky. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I wonder what else she sees in people’s houses, and if other men look at her the way Dr. Scheinberg does. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“She’s come this far, and we can’t waste all this driving. Besides, we have to take your cousin back to her own house in Los Angeles. We have to drive to Los Angeles anyway.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bunk house was a long, rectangular building. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stand, watching as he takes something out of his pocket, winds his arm back, and then lobs whatever it is into the air over the house between us. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I just hear the mower in the front of the house. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But in the new silence I felt that silence had fallen within the house too. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I passed several houses filled with Christmas carols: “joy to the World” and “I Saw Three Ships” and “The First Noel.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having passed many hours deliberately not thinking about Robbie Turner, she was outraged that he should be back in the house, once again without his socks. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The boat weaves in and out between countless tiny islands, some with small brightly painted wooden houses on them, but many with not a house or a tree on the bare rocks. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He might be watching the house at night. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I sprint across our grass to the edge of the lawn closest to Olly’s house. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

At her house, Margot’s family lashes out at her about the idea, too. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

There was my father kneeling by the bed, still wearing the orange jail- house jumpsuit. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Between us was a room with trees in it—inside the house—for doves to perch on. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It took Colton and two of his brothers to unload it and carry it into our house. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The only other thing that Joey said was, “Do you need a ride to my house tonight? You and Kerri?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Warren has his back to the house, and while he checks his phone, I look back up at the window. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She still doesn’t speak, cringing every time Rolf stomps through the house in his shiny boots. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

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

I got ready for bed and then I went to my room in the front of the house, where nobody ever went but me. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I had been home to 1976, to this house, and it hadn’t felt that homelike. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

They all laughed when they heard her, not only in the bedroom but all through the house, where Aureliano Segundo’s rowdy friends were gathered. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Throughout the cartoon, the female dog is called a hoochie and a ho, and they even kick her out of the dog house in the last illustration. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He reached for Naomi’s hand, and the three of them walked to the back door of the house. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I am back in the house, in my own room. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Who could go to bed in those little houses on a hot day in July? Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The pond lay to the south of the house. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arranged all in a row were several of these animal bushes—fantastic creatures as tall as the house, standing guard against the woods—including a winged griffin, a rearing centaur, and a mermaid. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

But Babulya was heading right for the path down to their house, and Anya didn’t want the fools to wonder where the old lady was going. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The morning sunlight was already filtering through the cracks of the shutters, but it was as silent in the big house as if even the books on the shelves were sleeping. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The huntress stood with her back to the house, gazing out at the meadow. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reminded her where she had come out of the house and given me my meat and drink, and she said, “I don’t remember.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

He had prowled for garbage in the alleys behind the houses, but the older children had already been there. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And she could get ready at Park's house; his mom would love that. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Farther up on the green stood a tall brown Victorian house, quiet in the sunlight, all covered with scrolls and rococo, its windows made of blue and pink and yellow and green colored glass. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

She refused to kill the flies that always filled the house; she said they were nature’s food for the birds and lizards. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I reloaded my gun and called Old Yeller back from the house. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

We bounced around from house to house, usually opting for the more affordable and less desirable parts of town. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

When we pulled UP in front of the house on North Third Street, I could not believe we were actually going to live there. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

We watched Noah Gershom get out of the car and start walking up the brick path to the house. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody liked it better now that we went shouting through the house, playing hide-and-go-seek, and sliding down the banisters. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We left it at my bubbe’s house in New Haven. She lives right by Yale, which is hopefully, hopefully my future school. Fingers crossed.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

If the look of the first house suggested that you’d better pass it by, so did the look of the wood, but for quite a different reason. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The strange thing was we didn’t go straight to Shanon’s house. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I notice that Mr. James Ito leaves his sandals outside of the house. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Past the com and potato fields, my house comes into view, looking small and weak against the mountains towering behind it. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A minute later, this brown sticky mess was flowing through every street in the village, oozing under the doors of houses and into people’s shops and gardens. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

And some of the rules we followed in our house were because of where Abu and Mommy came from, which was where they didn’t want any of their kids to end up. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Orlando West was a dusty, spartan area of boxy municipal houses that would later become part of Greater Soweto, Soweto being an acronym for South-Western Townships. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We found him sitting in a hammock on the verandah of a cement house that faced the forest. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

This was not comforting news to the governor or the forty-six other men crowded into the state house. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Jean de Satigny observed her walk off under the eaves of the house and in the shadow of the trees; he was going to follow her, but then he thought better of it. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, if it’s to his house, ask him to bring you back here right away.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

After I finished, I booked it back to the house. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

But it was coming from the house behind Charlie’s, on Robert Street. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The house liked the warm predictability of the lives lived inside him. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

His brother-in-law goes to Ma’s house and tells her and Wil. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I avoided the two old women as if they were afflicted with the plague and their house a haunted graveyard. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond the security gate were neighborhoods of beautiful houses from every time period in history, Roman villas and medieval castles and Victorian mansions. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The house was square, with a narrow, covered engawa wrapped around it. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

At first I look at every building we pass, wondering what it once housed, and then they start to blend together for me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

At that a window slammed, and a crowd of hobbits with lanterns poured out of the house on the left. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

This room was on the back of the house. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She loved geese, and there were always six or more grazing on the grass near the house. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sefia took out her key—her father always locked the house—but the heavy wooden door on its well-oiled hinges swung silently open at her touch. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Reluctantly, the developer sold his houses to Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scattered here and there, his houses stretched up beyond him like squat ghosts with hooded eyes. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The back of the house rested up against the rocks, and the pilings that held it up in front went straight down into the water. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Mr. Loomis watched; at last, having seen that the dog could not get away, he turned and went back into the house. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

We hop off our bikes and approach the house. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Mariam would see them when she passed by, always dressed in their fatigues, squatting by the front door of Tariq’s house, playing cards and smoking, their Kalashnikovs leaning against the wall. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She is scared of her own house and her own room. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

We’re on Carnation where most of the houses are abandoned and half the streetlights are busted. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

When she moved from public housing to a three-bedroom home in a suburban area in the Northwood section of town, she was trying to create more distance between her and the city’s imploding center. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Hector’s spear gave him a mortal wound and his soul fled from his body down to the house of Hades. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, working earlier than we usually did, we even worked houses that we hadn’t cased. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean, who lives in houses anymore? It’s Brooklyn...,” she says. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Several streets of row houses were closest to the school, then behind them the streets widened some and there were individual houses, like the kind we lived in. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Whatever was her own in the house, everything which she had acquired aside from her husband’s bounty, she caused to be transported to the other house, supplying simple and meager deficiencies from her own resources. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lot of parents came to the house then to pick up their kids, and a lot of the girls were crying and throwing up. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He seems to be drawing little comfort from being in God’s house. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

On Sunday I thought they would go to church, but no, they held a special service in the pink house, and people came to them. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fina tells me to come to her house, and Dad drives me into town, which is crowded since it’s Saturday. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

And she answered, “Just fine,” and wished, for a fleeting moment, that she could stay with them forever in that sunny, untidy little house by the pond. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as though the tenants had vanished, leaving the houses silent with all windows shaded, refugees from a rising flood. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house is a shrine to the War Between the States and I wonder what it must’ve been like for Stuart, growing up in a home where you can’t touch anything. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

‘I have come across many pictures of the President in various houses near where you live and I remember hearing the name Mason mentioned,’ said Doctor Copeland. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She began buying single, unmixed oils—eucalyptus and helichrysum, sandalwood and ravensara—and the house, which for years had smelled of earthy bark and bitter leaves, suddenly smelled of lavender and chamomile. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In fact, the presence of a crack house was not so stunning alongside what I had seen during a day on another plum job, construction. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked into the house, having said nothing about Tree-ear’s food. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t tell if the grunt was a good thing or if it was the sound that came right before she kicked me out of her house. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Life had established itself in the monkey house. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood once more and again in his high flat house without sides to it and without a roof with his soulless sword standing upright in his hand. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

They left the dunes and came along the cliff, and then seeing the smoke from the fire which I kept burning, they followed it, and at last reached my house. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kainene sounded casual enough, but there was a new wariness in her eyes, the same wariness she had when she told him, months ago, that she wanted to buy an uncompleted house in Orlu. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Byrd house sat on a neat lawn separated by a white picket fence from the field grass on either side of the property. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had the “P” volume from Encyclopedia Britannica that somebody had left behind in our house in Iowa when we moved in. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

On November 2, 1962, an encrypted message arrived at the secure communications center deep inside the newly constructed CIA headquarters on an enormous campus in Langley, Virginia, housing thousands of employees. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you notice the generator house on the side of the gate?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Surrounded by stony fields, the house had a good flat roof they’d be able to read their books on, if they spread out blankets. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Almost faster than I would’ve believed, I heard the phone in my house ringing. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It stood near the smoking ruins of Montag's house and the men brought his discarded flame-thrower to it and put it down under the muzzle of the Hound. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kind you let in your house because he was not dangerous, because you had seen him with children, bought his products and never heard a scrap of gossip about him doing wrong. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nick slams his foot back into the ball, sending it flying toward the house. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Vinnie slammed his sketch pad closed and proceeded to disappear into the darkened rooms of the house with a girl from the audience. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They do not go outside—we have activities in our house that keep them occupied. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the left, large white houses with long columns and graceful verandas ruled the approach to the river with mute elegance. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as he graduated from law school he was going to sue the city of Dearborn for housing discrimination. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“And then he ran off and left us to hide in that house like refugees while he galavanted around America, playing hero!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Your obedience speaks well for you. Come back tomorrow night prepared to leave. Meet me at Goodwife Peregrine’s house. I’ll ask her to give you some things to protect you on your way.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

She felt a glow everywhere, a happiness that was like suddenly running out of the cold into a warm, bright house. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. K’s house has a bright purple door with a line sawed through the middle, a Dutch door for keeping farm animals out, or kids in. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

She imagined the two of them living out their days in a tree house on the island or setting sail through the Caribbean. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

And when Father came out of the house he looked at me for a long time and then he punched the fence and made a hole in it and went away. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Billington junior, a nice lad, met me at the station, and brought me to his father’s house, where they had decided that I must stay the night. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

How often do you find yourself on a train that’s having a blackout with an eighteen-year-old kid and his Lego house as he’s on his way to the cemetery to visit his mother’s headstone? They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Back at the monkey house, the situation had become unbearable for the remaining workers. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her house servant knocks, then enters the room with a tea tray. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Picking a lock to rob someone’s house was the only way my knees had ever been bent before. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shutters hung crooked from the boarded windows; some had fallen off and leaned against the house. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I didn’t tell Olly what I was up to, just that there was a present waiting for him at a used book-store close to his house. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The younger of the two men hoisted the stretcher and began walking backward toward the main house. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The second floor, essentially an attic, was even narrower than the first, the house tapering under a slanted roof. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Our house was odd because the gingerbread houses stood in their own brown-brick solidarity, and our house stood apart, made from brick, stone, and siding. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

It didn’t happen often; for the most part, except when his mother was looking for tenants, the house mostly ran itself. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We did find a house right away, recently vacated by a teacher’s family who’ve left for Angola. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice, and peace. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

After ravaging the lawn for about an hour, one of us had the presence of mind to ask him, “Whose house is this?” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

There isn’t much to clean in the house. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I think of all the things I've done since I left my house. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He was not long in Kamaswami’s house, when he was already taking a part in his master’s business. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hoses Capricorn’s men had used to save their master’s house lay like huge snakes in the pools of water. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I could see a few houses and barns scattered about, surrounded by golden fields, or pale green pieces of pasture with dots of white sheep. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Everything in this house seems to have a place. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

T. P. took Quentin up and we went down to T. P.’s house. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was hard to see much in the dawn light—the sun was rising behind the house—but with the curtained windows glowing, it looked warm and cozy. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

His mother said one Sunday that they were going to the house of God, and Clayton was anxious to see him. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

I replay it over and over in my head while I continue on my way to Mr. Bender’s house. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

She had also just moved into the house with us, making it eight of us in our small row home. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Help Seven with this situation at his momma’s house, and let him know he can always come home. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

They said in the village that whenever Capricorn had a house set on fire Basta took away a brick or stone, even though he feared fire at other times, and clearly that story was true. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The dormitory housed other returning homeless as well. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

As I left the house, the screen door slammed itself shut behind me and I yelled, “I’ll be back soon. I promise.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

It just went on automatically around me as if it could have been anyone’s house, but now suddenly I was a part of what went on. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d gotten to the edge of the village, past the chief’s house, where we were supposed to make a point of Tata Ndu seeing us together, which we both forgot about. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was for cooking, heating the house, heating water for baths. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The kitchen in our house was at least three times bigger. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

At Hampden, the house chairpeople were who you complained to if your storm windows didn’t work or someone was playing their stereo too loud. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The first house only is important; the first house, the road, and the wood. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had spent most of her time in Pittsburgh moving between Daffodil Manor, Aunt Rose’s house, and the African Methodist Episcopal Church on Sundays, since that was the one that Aunt Rose had favored. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

What they did in their houses I do not know, for they employed servants to do the work; but they stayed mostly indoors, or if they went out at all they went veiled in bourkas. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stable was finer than any house in the neighborhood and the yard was the prettiest in Williamsburg. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except I had to keep listening really hard all the time so I would hear his van when he pulled up outside the house so he wouldn’t catch me being a detective. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The main dirt road that passed through Kabati was rutted with holes and puddles where ducks liked to bathe during the day, and in the backyards of the houses birds nested in mango trees. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But Palmer noticed that no one, not even Beans, bent down to pet it as it ambled past the four of them and disappeared around the front of the house. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Then from now on you do all the ironing around the house.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“You mean Mother didn’t mind this being your first house job?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

One by one, the houses emptied and the streets filled with people carrying bundles. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they neared the town of Easton, they began to pass shopping centers and development houses, little, low one-story ranchers with sprigs of new grass and one or two puny trees. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How else can you explain these houses, the iron deer, the pianos, the music?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I drove up anyway and when I opened the door to the house he was sitting alone in the kitchen, the kettle on the stove madly whistling away. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

After that evening my longing to see it again was even greater than my fear of burglars, a dark rat-infested house or police raids. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Instead, a little white house with a miniature patch of green grass in front of it. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

She would make sure to build a locker under her house too, in case he needed to hide in it. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But he was a good architect; Quentin knew the house, twelve miles from Jefferson, in its grove of cedar and oak, seventy-five years after it was finished. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z