"That's a clever beast," said Piggy, jeering, "if it can hide on this island." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

These were all, as far as Nhamo knew, that inhabited her island. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the second day his company was assembled on the top deck and told that they were moving toward Tarawa atoll, where they would go ashore at Betio, a strongly defended island. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She had been bom on Dragonstone nine moons after their flight, while a raging summer storm threatened to rip the island fastness apart. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

That way they might hope to keep the cordon unbroken right across the island. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Archaeologists have discovered on even the tiniest islands evidence of the existence of birds, insects and snails that lived there for countless generations, only to vanish when the first human farmers arrived. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun had been on the bridge with the captain for an hour at that point, watching him pilot the ship through the many islands, avoiding high shelves and sandbars, other ships and countless unseen dangers. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Taking the island was going to require every available man. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But one way or another, this is what the island was called. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Russian drew himself up stiffly and pointed to the clouds that were blowing in toward the island. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

On weekends, during our first year on the island, we were kept inside our cells all day except for a half hour of exercise. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also went to Cuba with a group of Johns Hopkins students to study the island’s arts and culture—a trip I used to try to find my long-lost great-aunt and other family members. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

During the two months she was gone in the Italian islands I walked the streets of the city with my back blind. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The family sugaring place was at the other end of the island. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Late in the afternoon, we would come finally to the end of the journey, the island of Tjome. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uto'pian, ideal, fanciful, chimerical: from "Utopia"—an imaginary island, represented by Sir Thomas More, in a work called "Utopia," as enjoying the greatest perfection in politics laws, and society. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

A wide, fallen log reached over the foaming water, leading from the bank where I was standing to the sandy island. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She looks up from her tea, planting her elbows on the island and leaning toward me. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was hard being told just to wait on those little islands without knowing what was going to happen or when. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The British followed by turning Barbados into a sugar island; then the French found rich soil on Hispaniola all over again. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Did aids come from an island in Lake Victoria? The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat on an island in the stream of retreating men. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again he was in his wounded body on an island prison. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

British colonists’ ships set out directly from New York and New England carrying the food and timber that the islands needed, trading them for sugar, which the merchants brought back up the coast. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Thus, sugar drove more than 900,000 people into slavery, across the Atlantic, to Barbados and Jamaica—and these were just two of the sugar islands. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Little round islands of frozen sap simply waited in the buckets for the next thaw. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Several men made their way to a small island of rocks, just above the canoes, and threw a rope down. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Lilliput is the name of an island from a book called Gulliver’s Travels. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I felt satisfaction be­cause such a geology confirmed that I was right, that this island was a chimera, a play of the mind. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I shook my head, and pointed to the far end of the island, away, away, for I did not trust her. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harris Sinclair, owner of the island, declined any formal investigation of the fire’s origin. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She had assumed it lived in the cave at the other end of the island. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It might work like it’s supposed to and take you where you want to go. But we can’t be sure. The island’s magic is obviously unstable. You must rig up your guidance device to navigate.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“An island called Spirit Island where everyone but you died of the itching sickness—you were the toughest one, the littlest one, and you survived them all.” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Gat has a list of the hundred greatest novels ever written, and he’s pushing his way through whatever he’s been able to find on the island. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

As soon as the men left the island a thunderbolt shattered the ship. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

One time in third grade Nick decided to turn Miss Deaver’s room into a tropical island. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

No sentence is an island; nor is a paragraph, a section, or a chapter. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

At least it was beautiful, with curves and marshy islands and yachts moored along the edges. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

"We're going to spread out in a line across the island-" "-we're going forward from this end-" "-until we find you." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Along with a lot of other Marines, including a bunch of us code talkers, I was now on a tiny Pacific island called Pavavu. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest, children of the island’s slightly more affluent, paid fifty cents a lesson. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Griselda’s smiling, and continues, “Are you from one of the islands?” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

He had gone into the island alone by himself to pray. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abuelo and Abuela saved money and bought a small lunchtime restaurant in a part of town where most Cuban immigrants went when they arrived here from the island. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But maybe my heart was right when it recognized that sad island. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

He was the only boy on the island whose hair never seemed to grow. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Now we’re at a complete standstill on the steep road that leads to the top of the island. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

One member of Parliament told his colleagues of the tortures he had seen in the islands. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Osh sometimes spoke in a language I didn’t know, his voice like music, especially when he prayed, but also when he painted his pictures of the islands and the sea. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“His father’s a good worker, sir. The whole island’s been struggling since the cyclone.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

This was her favorite part of the Academy—the crescent-shaped patch of earth carved out of the edge of the island, facing the mainland. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Discouraged and depressed, he took refuge in a little shack on the island of Pharos. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Eventually, we reached the ocean, and then our island, and then our pond. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She remembers the summer vacation she spent crisscrossing the island with her father, stopping in the plazas and main streets of every town and village from here to Guantanamo. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the room on the kitchen island, under the glare of pendant lights, lay The Gold-Bug. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

A green feather, like the one Harison had picked up on the floating island, for his mother. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Ida was right. He came from one of the islands.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“This island called Culebra. It’s off Puerto Rico.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They rode for a while in silence, a tiny island in the smoky stream of marching men. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

You see, then, he is alive and well, and headed homeward now, no more to be abroad far from his island, his dear wife and son. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t allow herself to look back at the island. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joseph knew it was just a game, but it was fun to imagine themselves on pirate ships or alone on desert islands. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Forgetting everything else, Emily ran and lifted the book from the island. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Worsley had only one compass left, and he lighted a match to check that they were still headed in the right direction: the island itself was lost in the darkness. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Most other large Polynesian islands are volcanoes that rose from the sea, have never formed parts of a continent, and may or may not include areas of raised limestone. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Keep your eyes open,” he said, and bent back to the oars, trying to get the stern steady and the bow pointed to the island. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Until three hundred years ago, no humans had come to these isolated islands, and the birds and reptiles had not learned to run from them. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

My grandmother’s parents left Havana in the 1930s in search of work; at the time Jamaica was an island of relative prosperity amid the worldwide Great Depression. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

An editorial pleaded for the exercise of common sense as Wilson moved to declare war; another celebrated the recent extension of ferry service to the leeward side of the island. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even the shortest ferry ride delivered him to a new island nation, garish and imposing. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Gradually we extended our beachhead on Bougainville, pushing farther into that wet island. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Word had spread across the island that the robot was throwing a party, and everyone wanted to see what the fuss was about. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Kellerman was relatively new to the island, and was determined to set the right tone. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when the Japanese took over their island, our enemies made it into another military fortress. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My husband and I are going on a special cruise. To an island.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

But the island ran true to form and the incredible pool, which clearly was only invaded by the sea at high tide, was so deep at one end as to be dark green. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Along the straight area of beach on the southeastern shore of the island was where our Marines would take their first bite of the meat of that “lamb chop.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the feather of the golden-breasted woodpecker, the bird that gave its name and chattering cry to this island. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Joe wandered off to study the geology of the island, discovering glacial striations etched in the granite. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The Van Gogh home and church community was a small island of Protestantism in the much larger Catholic community of Zundert, and all North Brabant, the province in the southern Netherlands where they lived. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The conch was silent, a gleaming tusk; Ralph's face was dark with breathlessness and the air over the island was full of bird-clamor and echoes ringing. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

One prong of it became the Polynesians, who populated the most remote islands of the Pacific and were the greatest seafarers among Neolithic peoples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Over the stumps and rutted tracks of the island, we saw the enemy militia land in their canoes and gain the isle. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Apparently everybody else on the island had watched Dad’s big interview, and many of them wanted to share their reactions with Mom, who was mortified. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

A huge island stands in the center of the kitchen, stocked with food and drinks. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Henry swings a violent U-turn that takes down a little crepe myrtle tree on the island between lanes, and we’re beached there, spinning our wheels, kicking up leaves and pink flowers. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“If there is a guy on the island, why didn’t you tell us before?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Now that the hyper-rich have achieved a critical mass, property values have zoomed so high that the less- well-off are being forced to leave and the island is becoming nature’s ultimate gated community. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The island Indians, whose estimated population at the time of their “discovery” exceeded a million, were rapidly exterminated on most islands by disease, dispossession, enslavement, warfare, and casual murder. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

We don’t have to leave Insmire to get to the High King’s palace, but we do skirt the edge of two other tiny islands, Insmoor, Isle of Stone, and Insweal, Isle of Woe. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Mummy and I walk across the island to Windemere, a short distance on a wooden walkway. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“We would like for you to stage the pageant right there on the island. Isn’t that something?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

We anchored at Dominico...a very fair island...inhabited by many savage Indians....They are continually in wars, and will eat their enemies when they kill them, or any stranger if they take them. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Her face was like a snow-covered island upon which rain might fall; but it felt no rain; over which clouds might pass their moving shadows, but she felt no shadow. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since returning to the island, he had caught only one fleeting glimpse. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

This was why I had never seen anything but algae on the island. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Soon, he was diving and swooping and darting and soaring around the island. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Yes. I suppose. Ten percent of the island’s Caucasian male population. It—” “And isn’t the percentage even higher, doctor, for males of Japanese descent? A higher percentage of B positives among the island’s Japanese-Americans?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The largest Torres Strait island lies only 10 miles from Australia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But Gupta’s men must indeed have been searching the other side of the island. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Six weeks is a long time, Agent. And it’s a hostile island. They’ll be lucky to last two days,” the Boss answered. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I remembered this weed and dug some where it grew on the far side of the island. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several of the island’s censors would compile a brief news digest from other daily radio bulletins. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We steered clear of the island, and soon it was just a red patch of haze behind us. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

But nothing could have prepared the weaker ones for those long nights, when the temperature plummeted and the wind whipped over the island. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“One did come back. The last boy from our island who won, in fact.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like he lives on a beautiful tropical island, and I can see it and smell the pizza, but no matter how hard I swim I can’t get there. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

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

It was like being on a peaceful island. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Florida Keys are a national marine sanctuary, which means that the islands are supposedly protected by special laws against pollution, poaching, and other man-made damage. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Since nobody on the island had any idea how that would even work, or feel. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“There must be a reason,” Marly said, and stirred the island of marshmallow around and around in her cup. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The island’s pottery, some of it very large, has long been celebrated for its painted and incised representations of animals and plants, which are ornately entan- gled in a profusion that recalls the forest itself. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Several months into his new presidency, John F. Kennedy approved an attempted invasion of the island. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I would soon kill the wild dogs, but there were many small red foxes on the island. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The breaking of the conch and the deaths of Piggy and Simon lay over the island like a vapor. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

On the rest of the island there were no trees and very little cover. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Cane was probably first cultivated by humans on the island some five thousand years or more before the Greeks. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The outside noises of cars pulling up and people yelling “See you tomorrow!” surround me, but I am buffered by earmuffs, an island on the steps. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

In a few moments, the most important Miss Teen Dream Pageant ever will be broadcast live from a remote island. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I am happy to return to my room, my bed, my island. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“But could I still end up going to jail after spending a whole year on some island?” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“Well, there’s a gigantic hole in the middle of it where Central Park used to be. As the island moves across the planet, it acts like a frame, displaying what lies beneath it.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She sits at the island, taking the brochure from my hand. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

A reticulated chrome walkway emerged from the pool’s edge and arched over the water to reach the island. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

As a result, what are now the shallow seas between Asia and the Indonesian islands of Sumatra, Borneo, Java, and Bali became dry land. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He expected ex-slaves from the island to spread into America, preaching freedom and rebellion to the slaves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

They had been sitting at Fries Cove on the island of Santa Cruz and Owen had said how important fresh water was to the old sailing ships. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a coastal farmer, he tells us, whose islands suffered under a nuisance of foxes—so he set up a fox-trap on one of them. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

To have naiads drown her, or to fall victim to a spell protecting a forbidden island? Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t bad skin—a zit here and there and the occasional dry island. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

As the robot looked out at the island, it never even occurred to her that she might not belong there. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

In keeping with the increased openness on the island, we now had our own cinema. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Smoke arose behind us from the island, and with horror, we saw that it issued from the pest-house. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He was trapped on a godforsaken island, alone, and mauled within an inch of his life by a white monster bear. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

But the lonely island was the best It was a town of birds. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

For some time they had been cut off from the world, as if in an invisible island; now they were laid bare again, peril had returned. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

And then a new voice began to be heard from the most profitable, slave-dominated sugar island of all, the very land to which Columbus had brought his first sugar plants. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Come dark, however, the island takes on an offshore atmosphere of relaxed morals. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In the heat of the day, Nhamo sat under the lemon tree at the highest point of the island and made twine. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I assigned this tension to the new environment of the island; any change, even positive, will make an animal tense. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Until it did, we were alone upon the island. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was lovely as ever, the hush of the island. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

For three days she stayed on the island, looking northward from time to time, realigning her compass. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

There was a speck above the island, a figure dropping swiftly beneath a parachute, a figure that hung with dangling limbs. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Mami calls, “Un segundito,” from the kitchen, and in a moment, she comes back in, carrying a birthday cake in the shape of the island, with thirteen candles flaming away on top. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

She pictured a little building, but after crisscrossing the island a few times, she realized there was no such structure. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

At the hilltop, behind two rocks, Spender lay, grinning with exhaustion from the thin atmosphere, great islands of sweat under each arm. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

With her he sailed back to the island and his mother, but in the house where he had lived so long he found no one. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then she stood on a little island of grass, too scared to move another step. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The truth he sought might very well be waiting for him on the ancient island fortress of House Targaryen. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

With that the company said farewell to the island and the mound, and passed over the river, and climbed the further bank. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“But where? She found the best hiding spot on the island all on her own.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Small pieces of fiberboard were impregnated with the two chemicals and were distributed by air over the entire island chain to attract and kill the male flies. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I came here with my friend Bitsy Cohan’s family when we were twelve,” Immie said, gesturing at the island around them. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

To end up on an island with a stupid bear that didn’t have brains enough to run away. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

And so they fled: away from the gym, away from the paths, away from the Institute—into the tangled rock-jungle of sand dunes, ridges, and crags that made up the island’s interior. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

And the volcanic island was still miles away. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

If it weren’t for the fact that the island of MidPass, hundreds of Midfolk, and the spirit of my dead best friend depended on me, I would’ve called it a night. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Man was like those silent letters they’d just learned about in English class, like the s in island or the g in phlegm. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Everywhere we went on the island or on the sea, whether we were fishing or eating or sitting by the fires at night, they were with us. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nearest island was nothing more than a giant rock with the barest scrub of green. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

When the world faded back into view, she noticed more clouds floating south past the island. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Next morning he set out across the island, the otak riding on his shoulder as it had used to. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

There were only a few more yards of stony ground and then the two sides of the island came almost together so that one expected a peak of headland. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“But you didn’t go to an island,” said the Savage, breaking a long silence. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like the whole island was dead. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grytviken was a Norwegian outpost on Stromness Bay, a natural harbor at the base of the island’s rugged alpine cliffs and glaciers. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Or maybe the girls were right and he was some strange fever dream brought on by the island, a prince mirage. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“If the bowl came from that island, you should give it back.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

All around the island the ocean was a deep azure blue, and the colors here were so bright and crisp that Kaede had to squint. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“But this island is deserted. We’ve been here for weeks. I swear, there’s nobody here.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

We mus’ not lose it” I sat there in theshade, running sand through my fingers, wondering where, among all those many islands in the Caribbean, we were. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mountain is a biological island of rain forest in the center of Africa, an isolated world rising above dry plains, fifty miles across, blanketed with trees, bamboo, and alpine moor. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“None of you will leave this island, Mister Brekker. All of you will vanish, and nobody will care.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

If she truly explained her worries about the changing sky, the snake—if she told him that she feared she’d broken the island...that the sky might actually fall, like in the rhyme? Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Fewer than 400 American soldiers had been killed in the actual fighting on the island, while over 2,000 died of yellow fever. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I saw the lush green of Ireland, and the bright blue sea of the Greek islands, and the yellow-gray haze of industrialized Germany. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no way to get his body back to Worcestershire so he's been buried out there, on those rocky islands still being fought over. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

As soon as the rocky coastline of the island came into view, I ordered one of the ropes to wrap around Annabeth’s waist, tying her to the foremast. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The island rocked gently as he moved farther and farther away from it, the chuckling of the water underneath the boat and the wooden creaking of the oarlocks an unrhythmic lullaby. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The palace loomed on the island in front of them. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He came by ferry once a month and taught a half-dozen island youngsters, including Caroline and me, on our piano. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It reduced the island’s cat population by at least two-thirds. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your call, buddy,” Mark had added from the kitchen island, where he had been staring at his laptop. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He told me that he would be leaving the island, and added, “I just want to wish you people good luck.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fortress was on an island—or perhaps it was simply a particularly large ice floe—and Kaede was rowing toward it. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

During the days, he walked the circumference of the island and found nothing of interest—unless you liked beaches and endless sea in every direction. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Far off, it seemed, half veiled in winding cloud, there loomed the island rock. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Out in the distance, the outcrop point of an island was visible. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I remember that on that moonless night in February 1942, they attacked the big Lago oil refinery on Aruba, the sister island west of us. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the Japanese attacked, it had been an American island. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said that we would come upon an island. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“She was hurt, and he was taking her back to the island. He didn’t know the tide would carry him out.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

As more of their loved ones died on faraway islands, many Japanese people saw that nothing was possible but defeat. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The o in Cocina was bright orange while the rest of the letters were outlined in green and black, and behind the letters was the faint shape of an island. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She scanned the water stretching out all around as they approached the islands. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He had come out of nowhere, Mohammed Zeitoun, a sailor’s son from the tiny island of Arwad, and stunned everyone with his strength and endurance. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Henry has got some of Esme’s island music playing and uses his root beer bottle as a microphone to sing to us while he cooks. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

But now the arrows continue on, advancing toward other islands she’s never heard of—Iwo Jima, Okinawa—each flagged with the Rising Sun. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Most of the island’s trees were fairly small; the fig was the main exception. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was something we did together, on Cuttyhunk and the other islands where we sailed sometimes in search of petals we could boil into dyes and mix into paints. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Music, theater, parades, and parties marked the couple’s stay on the island. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Giving me a wide berth, he made for the ridge and disappeared into the interior of the island. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Soon the two of them would grow quiet, near sleep, hearing the waves push against the island’s outer walls, the ceaseless shushing of the sea. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

We would deliver some of it to other people on the island who were too sick or elderly to cook for themselves. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She logged the names of vipers, salamanders, rare frogs, tiny snakes native only to faraway islands. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Twenty long steps took her from one end of the island to the other; fifteen steps took her from side to side. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

So while his words take us from Africa to the sugar islands, even his memoir does not take us to the fields. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Inhabitants of Rennell Island, a traditional Polynesian island that did not become Westernized until the 1930s, told me that Westernization yielded the wonderful side benefit that the island became quiet. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

This antique glass was a gift, supposedly imported from the Republic’s islands of South America. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

If she stuck to the woods that ran up the center of the island, she could be et by a bear or drowned in a swamp. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was one of the few boys on the island whose parents paid Teacher for extra tutoring after school. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“This here’s a story about a boy and his sisters. They take this boat to an island and all kinds of things happen to ’em. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

As mentioned earlier, there is also firm evidence for regular sea trade between some of these islands, such as New Ireland and New Britain. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought: Best of an island is once you get there—you can't go any farther...you've come to the end of things... And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

What remained was the artificial lake and island with its two stone bridges supporting the driveway, and, by the waters edge, a crumbling stuccoed temple. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Those developments were precluded in Polynesia, because no Polynesian island except New Zealand had significant metal deposits. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The formal document assigning the island to Tycho was signed by the King on 23 May. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Tom Paine, for example, claimed that it was simply a matter of common sense that an island could not rule a continent. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He found that Arawaks had fought and killed the men he had left there to colonize their island. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

By the winter of 1857, Wallace had begun to formulate a general theory about the mechanism driving variation in these islands. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

On this island lived phoenixes, unicorns, black apes, and white stags. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They did not adopt pigs, of which there were few or none on the islands, and which they would in any case have been unable to feed without agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

To keep them safe from people who might come to the island to do them harm, the bonobos mustn’t stay too used to us. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The transport carried them to the other side of the island and traveled through a barbed wire fence with No Trespassing signs posted on it. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

That was the first and most successful of the hunger strikes on the island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the first bend in the river, we passed a shallow island made of millions of white pebbles. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Thanks to the miles of sandy beaches, Rio felt like a grand tropical island instead of a major city in South America’s largest country. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The sun had swung over the vertical and the afternoon heat was closing in on the island. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was plastic, a soupy bobbing island of it, bags mostly, soda bottles, laundry detergent containers, all the same bleached gray. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nhamo crossed the island, skirting the clearing where the Portuguese house stood. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I might have to live here until someone visits the island,” Nhamo decided. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The island, coated with such tightiy woven, rubbery vegetation, was an ideal place to relearn how to walk I could fall any which way, it was impossible to hurt myself. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, she feasted on the riches the island provided. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, societies on small Polynesian islands were effectively rather similar to tribal societies with a big-man, except that the position of chief was hereditary. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Bolivia Mar— Bolivia-by-the-Sea—is a little island of Bolivia entirely surrounded by Peru. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I said, MI don’t want to go on that island.” The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I washed up on a tiny island, like a seed riding the tide. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

"This island's more or less a bare rock. We shall make short work of searching it. We'll soon ferret out U. N. Owen, Esq." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

A few days later, bright and early, everyone on the island was roused by shouting. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

According to most accounts, he was born in the sixth century BC on Samos, a Greek island off the coast of Turkey famed lor a temple to Hera and for really good wine. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

She wandered to the tip of the large island and got a surprise. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I filled the basket, the Aleut ship had sailed around the wide kelp bed that encloses our island and be tween our two rocks that guard Coral Cove. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

In spite of everything that had happened, we’d had a good day visiting people on the island and bringing food to those that needed it. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“But still...We’re on an island. There’s water all around us.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Just getting to the island itself was difficult, and added to that were the harsh rituals of the prison, the undoubted indignities of the warders, and the impersonality of the contact. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dropped her bags on the big island and said, “What’s this?” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were the same color as the mist over the Sirens' island. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

There were two sails and it was a ship coming toward the island. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The entire Latin continent was represented, including the thin waist of Central America and all the islands that decorated it like a string of pearls. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Branch-cracking winds and thunder that shook the bowl of the sky would descend on the island, along with torrents of life-giving rain. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

An island inside an island inside an island. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

In another pocket he carried a sketch of the island bridge, which Reynie had spent most of two class periods working on from memory. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Animated frescoes arrange and rearrange into different celestial scenes: the gods and goddesses, an everlasting rose, the kings and queens of old, the islands of Orléans, the heavens. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

There was a round grassless patch in the middle of the lawn, like an island in a green sea, where a thin palm tree stood. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

If the mother tiger escaped and swam to their island, she could kill several people before the rangers could tranquilize her. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

On July 3, 1908, archaeologists excavating the ancient Minoan palace at Phaistos, on the island of Crete, chanced upon one of the most remarkable objects in the history of technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“There are other robots on the island?” said the gosling during one of their talks. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

But now, for the first time, I fully understood why Timothy had so carefully trained me to move around the island, and the reef . The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The raised dirt path that wound around the island was bolstered by bags of sand to prevent any more of the shore from disappearing into the water. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

He lost sight of her for a second or two, then saw her as she crossed the island, highlighted against the darker mass of trees. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The world maybe, but not my island, thought Neel. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was no accident that I was drawn to people who’d been raised on islands. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Even on the island, I attempted to follow my old boxing routine of doing roadwork and muscle-building from Monday through Thursday and then resting for the next three days. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We leave the big island with crowds of office workers going home early for the weekend. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind picked up often, at dusk, on the island. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

From up here, she could see a small wooded island off to the northeast. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Just...we’re just...looking after her. But why did the people in the boat turn away when they got close, if they can’t see the island?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Then he struck the shore and turned south, keeping outside the breakers and inland of the islands, until he found Popham and rowed up the shining waters of the Kennebec. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

When we arrived on the island we’d see cracks in the rock where steam rose up. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Against this column she could just make out Briony beyond the island temple, standing right by the water’s edge. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

There are probably Carib Indians on the island, Captain Newport tells us, but we will give them beads and our soldiers will stand guard at night, and we’ll be safe. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

However, the rocky coasts of Easter, Pitcairn, and the Marquesas, and the steeply dropping ocean bottom and absence of coral reefs around those islands, are much less productive of seafood. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“My friends won’t believe me when I tell them I rode across the island on the back of a bear!” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

They were to look for an island beyond the Eastern Ocean, beyond the impassable wind and mist. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, the decorated Ta-p’en-k’eng pottery on Taiwan gave way to undecorated plain or red pottery, which has also been found at sites in the Philippines and on the Indonesian islands of Celebes and Timor. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, that’s one of my favorites. I’ve always thought that place looked a little like our island. Why don’t you read to us?” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“But it’s not as if they’re confined to the island, is it?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Then there were the fiords and islands of Norway. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Circe had made her sales pitch: if Annabeth stayed on the island, she could have magical training and incredible power. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

After all, none of the children had been off the island in nearly eighty years, and Miss Peregrine couldn’t speak or fly. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Going to an island had seemed like a good idea after being locked up for three months. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He let the story of his first visit to the island become his dance. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

All the boys of the island, except Piggy, Ralph, Simon, and the two tending the pig, were grouped on the turf. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The traders got her cold eye, the missionaries her hard glare, the few other white visitors who chanced onto the island received from Old Tallow no welcome. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The kind that Captain Kidd had buried on islands like Penikese. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Round the very edge of the island, so that the water lapped against the stone, ran high walls strengthened with so many towers that he soon gave up trying to count them. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The arrows converge from three directions on Japan, which is just a bunch of islands itself. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The second blast made me wonder if God Himself was Fixing to blow the island apart. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the rest of the world, most of the present Austronesian realm—Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, and many Pacific islands—was originally occupied by hunter-gatherers lacking pottery, polished stone tools, domestic animals, and crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The baboons ranged far and wide on the island. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The island, although only 8 miles above Conowingo Dam and about half a mile out from the Lancaster County shore, retains its primitive wildness. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

My hypothesis is that had it been a group of girls abandoned on the island instead of boys, it would have gone a lot differently. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Once these facts had been absorbed and lamented, Briony was gently returned to the scene itself, to the events on the lake island. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Where can she go for it on this fishbowl island? How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“I have a sister who told me, and my father finally admitted it, and now that she’s on island—I have to find her.” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

We sail past the Spanish islands of Vieques and Puerto Rico. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

They traveled the length of the island with an air of disregarding it and being set on other business; they were less a progress than a momentous rise and fall or the whole ocean. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The job of our legal committee was to advise our comrades on how to conduct themselves in the island’s administrative court. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the islands of Japan, many people wished the war to end. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, grandchildren, when we finally took that island and began exploring the deserted Japanese positions, we Marines found something that made us feel especially angry. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although our work at the quarry was meant to show us that we were no different from the other prisoners, the authorities still treated us like the lepers who once populated the island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As an adult he lived in England while owning two thousand people on the distant island. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Montag stood with the flame-thrower in his limp hands, great islands of perspiration drenching his armpits, his face smeared with soot. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t know then and I’m still not sure now, but an island is one thing when a man has a boat, quite another when he doesn’t.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Off to the east, there was darkness gathering behind a rocky island. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As for marine resources, most Polynesian islands are surrounded by shallow water and reefs, and many also encompass lagoons. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Fifty yards across at its widest, the lighthouse rocks were technically a tiny island. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

We would then leave in our canoes for the island of Santa Catalina. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Repopulation of course followed from nearby islands, but as a pilot project the test was successful. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was moving steadily towards the island, and Malcolm had to hold himself still because he longed to fling himself to the ground and hide behind anything: a rock, the canoe, the witch. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He was just a teenager when he left the Greek island of Chios, a few miles off the coast of Turkey. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

There was a hymnal, they said, but not a Bible on the island. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an island boy’s face and at the same time mysterious. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The expansion’s remaining thrust began when the Lapita potters sailed far eastward into the Pacific beyond the Solomons, into an island realm that no other humans had reached previously. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Heiress to the island, the fortune, and the expectations. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“Red Rahloo means nothing here. You will only make the old gods angry. They are watching from their island.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It’s an island in the middle of the ocean where people speak English and Spanish and sometimes a mix of both. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

"My uncle Euron has not been seen in the islands for close on two years. He may be dead." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“The island. Johnny and Mirren. The houses and the sound of the ocean. You.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Did each island have a unique tortoise type? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

No word of survivors on the Carolina barrier islands. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

These ripples would grow into waves that would bring moisture onto the islands. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“They should both flow through this town and out to sea where maybe they’ll make it back to the island of their birth.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Mama knew they were taking all the alien men first to an interrogation center right there on the island. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father, like nearly every man on our island, was a waterman. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon enough they got used to their island name, whatever it turned into. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Nothing on that island but birds and birds.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes old copies of the Field come my way, and I am transported from this indifferent island to the realities of an English spring. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Lightning lanced through the sky like a trident, and for a second the entire island was lit up in brilliant blinding light. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I may not leave the island without adult supervision. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She saw herself on an island, sitting by the ocean, sipping a cool drink. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

There were sixteen miles of tunnels on that one small island. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would have to stay on the island until the next dry season. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harder to understand was the islands complete desolation. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Get into trouble. Get out of trouble again. Visit jungles and volcanoes and deserts and islands. And people. I want to meet an awful lot of people.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Humans first reached Flores when the sea level was exceptionally low, and the island was easily accessible from the mainland. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

So hard and resilient that they could last for centuries in the cold salt and sand of islands like ours. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“My granddaddy’s been on that island since he was a baby,” said Lizzie, as quiet as the dark. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

As proof, Meggers pointed to Marajo, an island more than twice the size of New Jersey that sits like a gigantic stopper in the mouth of the Amazon. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Just like she was broken, and the island too. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

But when I looked beyond our life on the islands, he became the moon itself, bent on tugging me back, as if I were made of sea instead of blood. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

When she spotted a small island at the end of a headland, she couldn’t avoid the truth any longer. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman stands at a butcher- block island by the appliances, snipping the ends of a pile of green beans with a pair of scissors. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Our first job was covering up some newly laid pipe and we were on a small hill and could see some of the island, which was wild and lovely. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m hoping to get off this island,” he said. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

As the story went, boys were disappearing all over Kelanna’s island kingdoms, too many to be runaways. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Sergio could see people, hundreds of people, streaming off the island of Manhattan, and they were all white. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Sitting under what seemed an unusual heat, even for this island, Ralph planned his toilet. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

El Tirindaro circles the island on foot and looks across the water. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He told everyone it was like they were living on their own island. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The entire island of Manhattan could have fit inside this cavern—and she couldn’t even see its full extent. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He wanted me to go to the island and find this woman, his old headmistress. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

There had been numerous reports of VC activity on the island, and the Green Berets went out with new South Vietnamese troops on a training exercise. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The lime-green pickup that has taken us around the island lets out one last puff before going completely silent. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

We were met by guards with automatic weapons; the atmosphere was tense but quiet, unlike the boisterous reception I had received on my arrival on the island two years before. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

No single concentration of power could enforce social and intellectual conformity in all the islands. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was angry because Zeus loved Aegina, the maiden for whom the island was named, and whose son, Aeacus, became its king. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there are twenty-three other kids who live on the island because their dads work as guards or cooks or doctors or electricians for the prison like my dad does. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And the island. This is Nhamo’s Island. I am the boss of all baboons.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The land grew marshier, inlets appeared, and soon we traveled over the bridge to the island. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

For a time, on that faraway island, we were just Indians sitting around a fire and eating. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in the background of all the conversations among the visitors to the island was indignation at the despoiling of the roads they had traveled. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I’m in the kitchen on the stool at the end of the island. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“But what if the rescuers are looking for us there and not here? What if. Adina swallowed hard. “What if there’s somebody else on this island with us?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

This idea terrified the English—and not merely because their sugar island of Jamaica was just over a hundred miles across the water from Saint Domingue. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Leaving this island will be the second most painful day of my entire life, the first most painful day being when I woke up to find that my mother had gone. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s impossible to be certain without seeing the eyes,” she said, “but the possibility that you were followed to the island concerns me very much.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Dozens of wooded islands dotted the sea, and white sails cut across the water. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Many of the island animals were already thinking about their winter hibernation. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

They were still half a mile from the island. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The swales and small hills soon hid the officers from us, and us from them, but I felt very anxious about digging up a grave when they were on the island. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Pig bones appeared in Jomon times on offshore islands where pigs do not occur naturally, making one wonder whether Jomon people were starting to experiment with pig domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was a huge bay and ships, islands and sailboats, and the Golden Gate Bridge sticking up out of the fog. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The island was no larger than Dumbledore’s office, an expanse of flat dark stone on which stood nothing but the source of that greenish light, which looked much brighter when viewed close to. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

From where we stood, we could see most of the island except where it dipped into swales or hid behind low hills and boulders. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Astern of us the island coastline faded, and no land showed anywhere, but only sea and heaven, when Zeus Krom'on piled a thunderhead above the ship, while gloom spread on the ocean. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The far end of the island had no springs, and if I moved there I would have no place to hide the canoe which I might need. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no escaping the monsters, not even on this island, no bigger on a map than a grain of sand, protected by mountains of fog and sharp rocks and seething tides. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

"I need to start back to the castle. If you do not come with me, I may lose my way for grief, and all the islands would be poorer." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Grandma’s house was less than a mile away, a canary yellow island to the west. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was a full moon, so the whole island would be illuminated with light except for the most dense corners of the mangrove forest. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Say goodbye to our island,” Emma said, standing and removing her big hat. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

We anchor near the island of Guadeloupe, and Captain Newport takes several men ashore to explore. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Now and again, when we were out in the open water beyond the chain of islands, the sea became very rough, and that was when my mother enjoyed herself most. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was wonderful to have such a choice of places, and it was terrific fun to explore each island before we went swimming off the rocks. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each morning for the next two months, she played with the air currents high above her rocky little island, then streaked to her palo santo on Espanola Island. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Young friends, whose string-and-tin-can phone extended from island to island, had to pay out more and more string, as if letting kites go higher and higher. “ Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I told him about my trips, my adventures around the island at night. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Later, Lombardy fought the notion of Fischer as a player who was totally self-sufficient, an island unto himself. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Sounds like you think whoever it is, he lives right here on the island. Is that what—” “Look,” said Art Moran, halting. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Through the telescope you watch the island constantly. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of that valley was a glittering blue lake, with three small islands like a vacation resort in the Bahamas. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Thelma looked at him out of her dark, handsome, brooding eyes, and she regained the island of safety a woman depends on. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Okamoto: “What about this algae island you say you came upon?” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I felt as if Miles Ferris had stranded me on a remote island. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

United States scientists have had some encouraging early results with the melon fly and the oriental and Mediterranean fruit flies in laboratory tests in Hawaii and field tests on the remote island of Rota. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Each island rose as much as sixty feet above the flood- plain, allowing trees to grow that otherwise could not endure the water. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, the drop in the lake had created a small bay on the far side of the little island. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t understand all he said, but I did gather that he would kill me if he saw me there again!—and that I should leave the island as quickly as possible. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Owen Chase, whose account of the sinking of the whaling ship Essex by a whale inspired Herman Melville, survived eighty-three days at sea with two mates, interrupted by a one-week stay on an inhospitable island. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had time to crouch behind one of the little islands of green that decorated the parking lot. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mostly, the island was a hilly moor of sharp grass and wildflowers stretching from shore to shore like a lumpy quilt. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I own stock in the Reindeer Corporation here on the island,” he said. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now, the island’s resources were nearly tapped out. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Was it because it was so wonderful to discover something on this island that was free—something unproscribed by God, Moses, or the Methodist conference? Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only natives on the island are afraid of us and they stay well hidden. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

It was a convict ship bound for a speck of an island in distant waters. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

A date was set for the island’s disciplinary court, and a magistrate from Cape Town was assigned. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, any measures possible should be taken to keep her from the island in the year immediately after the accident. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The proliferation of many similar languages in the Philippines and Indonesia merely reflects the fact that the islands never underwent a political and cultural unification, as did China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

My debts and rent were paid and my papers in my hieb-pocket; shirtless I left the island in the Markets, and went with Yegey back among the houses of the powerful. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, let’s say Cole is sentenced to some island for a year. What happens after that year if he hasn’t changed? Would he go free to hurt somebody else’s child?” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

In the wake of the Soweto uprising, the authorities had decided that the island would become the exclusive home of South Africa’s “security prisoners.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered, through my confusion, when we should be removed from the island. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Mr. Sloan said, “I agree, it sounds far-fetched, but why else would he be digging up an island? And one in the waters where pirates used to sail?” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Ever since they had stepped onto this island everything had felt so unreal. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“There are a few little islands off the shore here,” Mom says. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

There was a sorcerer in the main town of the island, but he was mad. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The most extreme losses of technology in the Australian region took place on the island of Tasmania, 130 miles off the coast of southeastern Australia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They’d walk across the island, through the quiet green cemetery, past the foundation of the Tripp house, and then around the whole island, hardly talking, hardly needing to. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Everywhere, the ocean was smooth and yellow and it lay against the island as if it were very tired. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s poison oak on this island and I don’t want us to get it. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was an hour each morning, in the dim light of dawn, when all the island animals were safe. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Along the terrace, then down the slope towards the sea—obliquely—to the end of the island where loose rocks went out into the water. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The government of Japan also wanted the island. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It was exactly the same feeling she’d had in the sea, when she’d realized she could no longer see the island. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

For a few hours the cur­rents kept us near the island. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Okinawa still lay ahead of us, and then the other islands of Japan. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

We made several laps around the kitchen island and ended up in the living room, where we collapsed on the couch, laughing so hard that tears streamed from my eyes. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

When the sun sank, darkness dropped on the island like an extinguisher and soon the shelters were full of restlessness, under the remote stars. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

But now the god that shakes the islands, brooding over old threats of his against Odysseus, approached Lord Zeus to learn his will. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one on the island had ever presumed to stare like that at Sir Francis Tyler’s granddaughter. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when our little vessel slipped between two small islands, the channel was so narrow we could almost touch the rocks on either side. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the crew did not reach one of the islands, their chances of survival were very small. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Mary Lou told them everything — about her nights with Tane, how special he was, about his theory that The Corporation had a secret compound on the island. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Was she wondering whether he was one of those illegal immigrants who were overcrowding an already crowded island? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Hotter than ever on this cursed island, isn’t it?” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Benedict is here on the island. He’s not sending us any messages. He can’t be both places at once.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

They stepped out amongst the tide pools and jagged rocks of the island’s tip. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Hana's silk gown boasts hand-painted images of our island and its cypress trees, and her sleeves swing low to the ground. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He had reckoned, during the terrible night, on finding at least some of the tribe holding out against the horrors of the island in the safest place. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He began to talk about buying a farm and drove her up and down island roads where property was for sale. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He patted the palm trunk softly, and, forced at last to believe in the reality of the island, laughed delightedly again and stood on his head. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The hill was a stony island in a sea of green. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Even without the nighttime fights and fireworks, the city’s surfaces shone with glass and metal, the unlikely spindles of party towers casting thin shadows across the island. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

As the island got closer, Jason saw docks bristling with sails. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It looked exactly as if they were heading directly for the island, and as they got closer, Malcolm could hear something that he didn’t like at all. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The shrews are multiplying and are spreading out over the island, some marked individuals having been recovered as much as ten miles from the point of release. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

There were some fearsome monsters called Gorgons who lived on an island and were known far and wide because of their deadly power. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not going to rot here like Grandma. I’m going to get off this island and do something.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole island was blanketed with smoke and dust, but he saw through his binoculars that we’d reached the beaches untouched. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thirty-five thousand of the enemy were on the island, but Admiral Halsey and his staff had what they thought was a good plan. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he awoke, darkness still hid the island. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Everything that makes up this tiny town that’s forty-five minutes from a big city and four hours away from an incredible island. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Ahead of them lay an island—a line of sand so white, it might have been pure table salt. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When we first started going to Nantucket, which is off the tip of Cape Cod, automobiles weren’t allowed on the island, and we’d leave the Pierce Arrow in a garage at New Bedford, Massachusetts. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reef enclosed more than one side of the island, tying perhaps a mile out and parallel to what they now thought of as their beach. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

They would strike camp again and head west over the ice, trying to narrow the gap between themselves and the islands. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

She has heard of women offering themselves to El Li'der, drawn by his power, by his unfathomable eyes, and it is said he has fathered many children on the island. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Come nightfall, we have found ourselves anchored near an island at the mouth of the Piankatank River; and there we come at last to rest. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Funny, just this minute he didn't want much to get away from the island...To go back to the mainland, back to his little house, back to all the troubles and worries. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The littlest of the kingdoms was a steaming volcanic island that smelled of sulfur and ash. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Polynesian seafarers also took canes with them as they sailed from island to island until they reached Hawaii around A.D. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Alvarez had a clear view of the rocky coast, dotted with islands. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In addition, the Chathams are relatively small and remote islands, capable of supporting a total population of only about 2,000 hunter-gatherers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But of course you don’t forget playdates at a mansion that contains a golf course, a pool with an island, and five waterslides. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

For a moment I really tried to play it out in my head, how it would be if I could somehow row one of our boats back to the island again, and go back home. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

His pipe flew out of his mouth and went clattering over the rocks, and the second scream he gave was so shrill and loud that all the seagulls on the island rose up in alarm. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe she was still on the island, after all these years, old as dirt but sustained by a few of her wards, children who’d grown up but never left. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“So what’s so hard about living on some island for a while?” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The njuzu had brought her to this island, and it would be extremely ungrateful not to repay them. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having affairs he must see to before he left Iffish, Vetch went off to other villages of the island with the lad who served him as prentice-sorcerer. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“An isolated island in need of a schoolteacher. I felt—” She was laughing at herself. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And they crowned him king of the island. He was the best king they ever had.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

All week we heard of attacks on churches throughout the island. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a wide-open smile and a slight island lilt in her voice that became more pronounced anytime she was tired or a little drunk. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

"Morpheus has put the entire island of Manhattan to sleep. The invasion has started." The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

"So that settles one point definitely. Someone was alive on the island after Armstrong was dead." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Our besieged island, alone on the edge of Europe. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

We exhausted our eyes scanning the horizon for an island that never came. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Back in Minneapolis, Cole had thought that being alone on an island would give him plenty of time to just sit around. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

After their island sanctuary burned, they were taken prisoner aboard the pirates’ ship. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Some of the men worried that the penguins would all disappear one day, migrating off the island that the men had begun to call Hell-ephan Island. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Australia will colonize the islands to its north and connect by some isthmian umbilicus to Asia. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Some of the PAC men had already been on the island, and saw our arrival as an encroachment on their territory. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was where the island snakes spent their mornings, rolling their tight, smooth bodies in the warmth and hissing pleasantly. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Inhabitants of those islands developed intensive dryland agriculture requiring a heavy input of labor to build terraces, carry out mulching, rotate crops, reduce or eliminate fallow periods, and maintain tree plantations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The four Tuckers and Cruz, a tiny island in a huge sea. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

This palm trunk lay parallel to the beach, so that when Ralph sat he faced the island but to the boys was a darkish figure against the shimmer of the lagoon. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

When he raised it again and looked, the wizard was gone, and the sail of the boat was a white fleck on the waves eastward, heading towards the fat bejeweled islands of the inner seas. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

It ended only when it had run out of targets and almost every habitable Pacific island had been occupied. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Just ninety miles off the coast of Florida, the island nation of Cuba was fast becoming a flash point in the global Cold War. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I was sitting on the sofa in the second bedroom one afternoon, thinking and thinking and thinking, when I realized I was on a Something island. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

A brigantine was moored off the island’s opposite shore, its sails hanging limp and useless. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

An island of asphalt is simply not fit for growing things. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Miss Ohio, what would you say was the toughest part about life on the island?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

It was odd to spend the night alone on our island. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The tunnel dropped underneath the bay for nearly a quarter mile before it rose onto the island. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

A classic illustration of how such diseases occur as epidemics is the history of measles on the isolated Atlantic islands called the Faeroes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And I answered his questions about life on that island. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I’m a prisoner on this island, Gustavo, and I cannot sleep. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the same token I felt disappoint­ment because an island, any island, however strange, would have been very good to come upon. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The feast day of Venus was, of course, especially honored in Cyprus, the island which first received the goddess after she rose from the foam. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within our first three years on the island we were all given long trousers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet she couldn’t bring herself to spend the night on the island. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had lightning eyes, and was not a hero or monster but lived on an island off the coast of Victarea, the hero borough. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The pump was near a mile from the tea water back down the island to the Lockton house, a long journey carrying heavy buckets that stretched my arms into sore ribbons. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

My own window looks to the inside of the island. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The audience screams in delight as each of them remains standing only on islands of rock floating in the lava. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Miss Nebraska, what are the island’s natural resources, please? Report.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Always and forever. The island is safe. You can fall and bump and scrape and even bleed a bit, but you’ll be fine.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

When she set foot on the island, either she would transform into a cloud of dandelion fluff and drift away, or she wouldn’t. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“And we’ll come back to the island after four or five months,” said someone else, “depending on the weather.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I wish I could tie a rope around this island and pull it next to Zimbabwe,” she told Mother. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was nothing else on the island like this. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Drowning in the water or stranded on the island. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been thinking about that book about the boys who crash on the island,” Mary Lou said to Adina one afternoon as they rested on their elbows taking bites from the same papaya. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

A cult of suicides hath grown up by the burial ground upon the east side of the island, a communion of willed starvation. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

There were islands in the Worm where lovers kissed, but in the Plaza of Punishment they peeled the skin off men in strips and left them hanging naked for the flies. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The island’s undergrowth was surpris-ingly thick, and he had to push it aside to keep it from whipping him in the face as he forced through. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

What reason could I have to leave the island? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

They forced all eight of the passengers from the vehicles and ordered them to sit on the curb of the traffic island that split Alameda. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

One day, we all went in our little motor-boat to an island we had never been to before, and for once the ancient half-sister and the manly lover decided to come with us. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You mean, besides the fact that my plane crashed on a hostile island, we haven’t eaten in days, you want me to chug a bug, and you keep calling me New Hampshire?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Laboratory tests revealed that the obsidian they used was brought from deposits on New Britain, an island 250 miles away. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody on the island ever tossed the bones of a bear aside. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

She's always liked to tell lies about the other islands to scare us, and will do anything else she can to make us feel inferior. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Many of the picnickers had eaten to excess and now sat heavy and dulled in the sun, which poured over the scene a clear, clean radiance, a piercing island summer light. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

A well-documented example from Pacific islands is the epidemic that swept over Fiji in 1806, brought by a few European sailors who struggled ashore from the wreck of the ship Argo. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Now will you tell me where we are?” asked Tock as he looked around the desolate island. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Thus, unlike Australia and the Americas, East Asia and most Pacific islands remain occupied by East Asian and Pacific peoples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s just some tips to make our little island welcoming for the tourists.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

She left the island and began the wandering life that she kept up for the next twenty-some-odd years, and stopped only after Reba had a baby. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The militancy of those who were coming to the island put me in this position more and more frequently. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the child was six months old, she asked the mother of the baby’s father to keep it, and left the island for Pennsylvania. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another man clung to a cypress tree on a tiny island. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

There was little to entertain the island youth, so we sang. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it wasn’t the same, still wasn’t at all the same as heading into the open sea where there was not a tourist island waiting. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would starve like the baboon on the little island, unless a predator found her first. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would not suffer this helpless waiting, this sitting trapped on a little island muttering useless spells of lock and ward. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I had gone to sleep and wakened on another island. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cairnholm Is had to be the island Miss Peregrine had mentioned in her letter. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He turned and limped away through the forest toward Jack's end of the island. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Newsome Park and the hundreds of neighborhoods like it around the country became increasingly volatile, desperate islands where housing, schooling, and every other state- supplied service were left to deteriorate. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I therefore kept them on my left hand, as well as the island, which grew smaller and smaller, behind me. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d have muffin batter sitting in the fridge, and would pour it into tins and let you eat as many warm muffins as you wanted, before the rest of the island woke up. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

But on the island, there were only sleeps. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Mom doesn’t speak until we’re finally sitting at the island in the kitchen. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

We considered stopping for a sandwich or a visit to one of the things the islands lacked: a museum, a theater, a library that held ten thousand books. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The distances between islands of the Tongan archipelago, as well as the distances between Tonga and neighboring archipelagoes, were sufficiently modest that a multi-island empire encompassing 40,000 people was eventually established. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Forget the decoys! We need all hands on the island!” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

They found the island deserted, maybe because the seas were too choppy for the tourist boats. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t crazy about cruising around the bay, and setting foot in the boat made me regret the idea of heading out to the island. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I then detailed the poor conditions on the island, reiterating once more that we were political prisoners, not criminals, and expected to be treated as such. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Directly ahead of them, in the middle of the straits, an island had shimmered into existence. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Ishmael understood that an air of disdain, of contempt for the island and its inhabitants, blew from the knot of out-of-town reporters toward the citizens in the gallery. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

This time the Turks claimed a large portion of the island. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile members of the island’s Japanese community pledged their loyalty to the United States. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Cole heard the motor slow and realized that Edwin was guiding the skiff toward a protected bay on the large island ahead. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He must have gotten the message, for he was soon transferred off the island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have an interest in not making you a new set of clothes every other day. I have an interest in your not smelling so bad and walking around my island in smoldering rags.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The day after the fire, they captured a schoolteacher, name of Nathan Hale, up island near the Dove Tavern. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If the waves ever do swallow this island, it will not happen for a very long time,” said Crag. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

While Cole changed, Edwin sat gazing out the window, his thoughts far beyond the bay and the island. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“So why not just radio for help and get us all off this island?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Maybe I was stranded on a tiny, forgotten island in the Caribbean with a madman. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Philippines, with over seven thousand islands but only five hundred lighthouses, was known for its frequency of maritime accidents. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

And if there had been a clock on the island, it would have ticked off exactly three seconds before he lost consciousness and went down hard in the sand. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Feeling obligated, they started paddling the canoe downstream toward the island. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“To ask if I mightn’t go to the islands with you.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

No island lives were lost in the storm of ’42. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Strong, nimble creatures carried Roz up the sea cliffs and across the island. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Turns out it was the night of the massacre when Trujillo had decreed that all black Haitians on our side of the island would be executed by dawn. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Your mother and I are in London, too. After the police couldn’t find you on the island ... anyway, it doesn’t matter, just tell us where you are and we’ll come get you!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

If I heard another aircraft I’d start a fire and then throw bundles of sea grape into it until I was certain a strong signal was going up from the island. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The archaeological record of island after island tells the same sad story. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were a poor folk, fishers and frog-hunters who lived in houses of thatch and woven reeds on floating islands hidden in the deeps of the swamp. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Before them was the Southern Ocean, and they were making for an island only twenty miles long and 100 miles away. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Wed established the American presence on the island and pushed the Japanese back. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I may not leave the island without permission from her. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

In South Carolina, not on a ship, not on an island. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

For five months, heavy bombs dropped on that little island almost every minute. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her hair, she wore a bright purple island flower. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Malcolm looked all around the horizon and saw nothing as clear as an island or a tree or a cliff; but wasn’t that something ahead—a thicker blackness at one point? The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The island takes its name from the Dutch word for seal, hundreds of which once cavorted in the icy Benguela currents that wash the shores. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slipping away, I struck across the island to a sheltered spot, out of the driving gale. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were close enough to the island now to see it was teeming with plant life: trees twice the size of the ship and an understory of bushes and tall grass. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

We started walking together on the path that circles the island, Gat in front and me behind. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The beach was on an island where an evil mad scientist was developing a laser beam that could blast satellites out of the sky. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

It seemed absurd to spend my nights in such cramped quarters with an animal who was becoming roomy in his needs, when I could have an entire island. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Already without family, she was further isolated from her people, for, except for the relative bliss on the island, every other resource was denied her: partnership in marriage, confessional friendship, and communal religion. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under Taylor’s direction, her group of girls found their way back to the damaged beach, which resembled a dorm room after an island- themed kegger gone wrong. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The next week we initiated our first go-slow strike on the island: we would work at less than half the speed we had before to protest the excessive and unfair demands. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some birds, like owls and woodpeckers, would spend the winter nesting and eating the island’s few remaining edibles. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I was examined by a doctor on the island who decided I should go to Cape Town to see a specialist. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no straw to grasp or spin, but soon I was talking about Island of the Blue Dolphins and how it was about a girl alone on an island. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The next morning found me headed up island long before the sun rose. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could still see the baboon from the large island. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many game songs originated in the Georgia Sea Islands, a series of over 100 islands off the coast of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The towns were zipping by faster now, islands of light thicker together, until the whole landscape below was a glittering carpet. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Our first major objective on the island had been to take Mount Suribachi, but the fierce Japanese resistance made it almost impossible. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I ... I know now I was wrong, and I know I can’t go back to the island after what I did. That’s okay.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

When she eventually regained the island, she was so overcome with dizziness, she had to lie half out of the water for a long time until her strength returned. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thinking that freeing an island from U.S. control could be done with passion and intellect. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

They were all shouting there—at the northern tip of the island, where we were mobbed—shouting for transports—the crush was unimaginable. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Haiti occupies the western third of the island of Hispaniola, in the Caribbean, while the more prosperous Dominican Republic, once ruled by Spain, governs the eastern two-thirds. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The Pendor dragon tore free and flew low and lamely to the island, where it hid, crawling into some well or cavern in the ruined town. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

In contrast, many islands with intensive agriculture attained population densities exceeding 120 per square mile. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Renewable resources, subsurface dwellings, artificial islands, and all without there ever being any less green or a sense of overcrowding. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Clay's announcement reflected simple geography: West Berlin floated like a tiny island in the sea of eastern Germany, a region completely controlled by the Soviets. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But gradually, as winter gained a grip on the island, the sightings ended and the fresh tracks disappeared. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

They were safely harbored in the narrow waters, with a long, rocky island to starboard and the sheer white cliffs of the mainland to port. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He gave himself up to them now for the first time on the island; great, shuddering spasms of grief that seemed to wrench his whole body. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

She said they were buried on an island somewhere north of Manhattan. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

We had not seen a schooner sail or heard an airplane since setting foot on the island. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

From Circe he had learned that they must pass the island of the Sirens. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In effect, as a hero who’d come to the island and performed great deeds, he’d become part of the Icelandic sagas. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike the shadowy and dark First World, tiny islands where land beings could walk dotted the vast sheet of water. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The wind gusted in a new direction, blowing from the jumbled saplings on the far side of the island. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew, suddenly, that he didn't want to leave the island. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“I thought the same, lord Captain ... but he knows things. He knew that we made for Slaver’s Bay before any man could tell him, and he knew you would be here, off this island.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It felt like another cyclone had hit the island, turning the soil to water underneath his feet. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had just re-turned from a vacation in Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You mean you think she brought the books here, to the island? Like, when she came in the boat? I never thought about that.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Then, all around her rock island, the kidnappers materialized from the grass. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She had no thoughts of leaving the islands now. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had evolved spontaneously on the island, accessible to everyone. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m saying we should talk about it. Not everyone has private islands. Some people work on them. Some work in factories. Some don’t have work. Some don’t have food.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Storms came early with rain and between the rains fierce winds struck the island and filled the air with sand. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents attended the premiere, sitting cross-legged on one of the padded mats spread like islands across the filthy concrete floor. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

And there again, shrill and inevitable, was the ululation sweeping across the island. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

But even if it wasn’t exactly like Cuba, at least it was an island, and no matter where you went in the world, an island was still an island. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I saw him weeping, weeping on an island. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And why do I know that the Philippines is an archipelagic country consisting of 7,641 islands? The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

It ran across the Mediterranean Sea to the island of Crete and then on to Cyrenaica in North Africa. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Then the long scream as the shell comes flying in, the jhump as it explodes on an outer island. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“M’lord,” said the captain, “we found this man in the Belly o’ the Whale, trying to buy his way off island. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Washing-up day on the island was a simple process, and everyone loved it. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Roz placed the gosling on her flat shoulder, and the two of them set off across the island. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

When they reached the wide, raised path that circled the whole outer rim of the island, Headmaster stopped to catch his breath. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Very nearly what’s going to happen to you young men. I was on the point of being sent to an island.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deep in Canadian woods we met From one bright island flown. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Whatever happens, you have changed here on the island. Both Garvey and I know that, and we’re very proud of you.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She says she remembers meeting it at the dock and following while six men helped my father roll it on a dolly to our house, for there were no trucks or cars on the island. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found only one number for the entire island, so that’s the one I dialed. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He and Bo had never been out here, although the others, had told them a lot about the lagoon and its islands. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Still, those who had lived on the island a long time knew that the storm’s outcome was beyond their control. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Maybe we should have gone the other way—to the other side of that island,” Tiller said. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The island forced us into a narrow channel on the east side of the river, and we floated underneath sycamore trees leaning out over the water in search of more sunlight. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Jamaica is like Cuba; both are Caribbean island nations. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The Regiment does not rest upon this island. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

There was no choice except to turn back toward the island. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, all traffic into the island had been blocked; everyone on the bridge was headed away—headed home. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Why didn’t I see them last time I was on the little island?” she wondered. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

To my dismay, things in the island nation began to change in an unexpected way. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Using the two-bladed paddle I quickly skirted the south part of the island. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

As my grandmother remembered it, their land had been large enough in those days for real grass to grow in a pasture, enough to support one of the few cows in the island’s history. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sugar made the Africans slaves, so sugar must be wiped off the island, now a vast sugar factory to the world. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

There was no chance of rescuing them and building up an outlaw tribe at the other end of the island. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

That man knew how hard the other armed forces had tried to terminate the Marines Corps, even while we did the hardest jobs on those islands. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remove a stack of plates and set them on the island counter that is in full view of the Netbook. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“The queen of the fairies lives on that little island?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He liked this area—it was the only place on Ogygia where he couldn’t see the sea, so he could pretend he wasn’t stuck on an island. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The roof is cold as hell in the nighttime, but in the day there’s a great view of the island and the sea beyond it. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Instead, Franck proposed “a demonstration before the eyes of all the world on some barren island.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

In the morning the island was gone, as was the mass of algae we had been towing. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, right now, it’s the desert island trope that’s sucking me down. Would you help me out of here?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t returned to the island since entering nursing school except for two funerals, my grandmothers and the Captain’s. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nailer stumbled out of the surf and stared up at the island’s foliage above. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

On two sides was the beach; behind, the lagoon; in front, the darkness of the island. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

If every captain was a king aboard his own ship, as was often said, it was small wonder they named the islands the land of ten thousand kings. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She thought about what her husband had said about his investments and about moving to an island. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Most languages of the Bismarck and Solomon islands are Austronesian: Papuan languages are spoken only in isolated pockets on a few islands. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Islands have a long and complex cultural history, but are most known for their rich African-American heritage as white plantation owners left the islands in the 19th century leaving their slaves behind. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He fell in love with the daughter of the King of Chios, and for love of her he cleared the island of wild beasts. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first I clicked on, the Danag, was a Filipino vampire supposedly responsible for planting taro on the islands long ago. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

A windy rain that stirred up the sea and kept us on the island. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

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

It was a real river island, not like the pebble beach we’d paddled past earlier. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The crofter’s village stood between two lakes, the larger dotted with small wooded islands that punched up through the ice like the frozen fists of some drowned giant. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then it floated up over the island and lowered itself onto a small meadow at the foot of the mountain. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She took us to the ocean, to a windswept place of sandy islands off the Georgia coast. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody on the island worked on the Sabbath. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Watson started calling our names, and while I knew most of the kids from around the island, I tried to keep up with the new ones as she said them. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Even from the island, she could see the land rear toward the sky and the tall buildings collapse and crumble as if made of sand. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

From the moment I arrived on the island, I had made it my mission to seek some accommodation with our rivals in the struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was put to live on an island with three grown-up females. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was an almost endless-looking letter, typewritten on several pages of second-sheet yellow paper, and he was having some little trouble keeping it propped up against the two dry islands of his knees. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

They were hoping to hear thwip sounds and that the robot limbs would snap right into place and Roz would return to her old self and life on the island would go back to normal. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then on Circe’s island Hylla had worked hard to be noticed. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Past the fog perpetually surrounding the islands and concealing them from mortals. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And so, on this August morning, he was glad that he was leaving London and going to be for some days on an island off the Devon coast. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Together they climbed up to the center of the island, where the trees were thick and high. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Slowly, I was beginning to know the island. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some scientists toyed with the idea that the spiral nebulae were not distant island universes but rather nearby condensing clouds of interstellar gas, perhaps on their way to make solar systems. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have spent my whole life on this island.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Now shrugging off his rags the wiliest fighter of the islands I leapt and stood on the broad door sill, his own bow in his hand. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Caroline took some with a great deal of giggling about what would happen if anyone found out he had smuggled spirits onto our very dry little island. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only after the first Polynesian settlers had exterminated moas and decimated seal populations on New Zealand, and exterminated or decimated seabirds and land birds on other Polynesian islands, did they intensify their food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The building was to be one of the biggest on the island, made with bricks and wood instead of clay and thatch. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t a soap opera star at all, but a head-and-neck surgeon, though I kept thinking of him as some­one named Armand in some steamy soap set on a tropical island. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was a foolish, desperate move, and now here she was, stuck on an island with only a week’s worth of pills. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

As they plummeted, Jason saw a vast army of monsters spread across the hills - cynocephali, two-headed men, wild centaurs, ogres and others he couldn’t even name - surrounding two tiny islands of demigods. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But the Hornburg still held fast, like an island in the sea. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Sitting at the bar is an old man from the islands. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Jones does not recall the name of the hot island. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The search of the island was practically completed. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Enoch sat watching us from the bow, ready to take his turn, while Emma in a sunhat studied the receding island. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

It did not help his mood any that as he battled to protect the island, he learned of another attack on his beloved Central Park. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It was the highest point on the island. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The island attracted saltwater fish into its subterranean tunnels—how, I don’t know; perhaps fish ate the algae as gluttonously as I did. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

A certain island has a law that forbids anyone from removing its fruit. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Then you ain’t likely to. This is a right small island.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walk down the path to a large, glass-enclosed pool with a rock island at its center. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“The Egadi islands. We’ll open a beach bar, go fishing . . .” He laughs again and then moves his body up over mine and kisses me. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

We live, at least in the summertime, on a private island off the coast of Massachusetts. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The island was covered with greenery as far as she could see—not with ordinary forest plants, but with tomatoes, mealies, and bananas. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the reason seemed to be more strategic: we believed the authorities were attempting to cut off the head of the ANC on the island by removing its leadership. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this respect, the island was Gandhian: it resisted by not resisting. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

What hand, Darwin asked, had guided the creation of such different varieties of finches on those distant volcanic islands or made small armadillos out of giant precursors on the plains of South America? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

My first instinct is to jump out of the car to shout and wave like a deranged island castaway, but before I can give in to the impulse, the plane is gone. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He wondered if there were still deserted islands in the world, like the one on which Robinson Crusoe had been shipwrecked. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

If the inside of Diego’s house was a bed-and-breakfast, the backyard was a tropical island. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Soon they had defeated the Chinese and taken over many other islands in the Pacific Ocean. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing on the bridge the island looked dark, the houses were high against the sky, and the trees were shadows. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The island, which was about nine square miles, had a thick belt of quite dense bush around the edge. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I ran with it to the tip of the island, to my driftwood stump, and sat down to open it, my hands shaking so they made a poor job of it. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like a chain of grey islands, the marks of his hunting dotted the green grass sea. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His appointment indicated one thing: the government believed that discipline on the island was too lax, and that a strong hand was needed to keep us in line. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was Edwin who had built the shelter and made all the preparations on the island where Cole was to stay. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

It was strange knowing that American blood had darkened the surf of this island I was landing on so easily. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now I’m wondering if I should just write the letter, even though you’re dead and most likely buried on that island. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

The island lay just a little further down, shimmering in the water. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“When I was your age, my mother went to another island.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“The whole island will hear. Have you still got that gun?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

When Dad took me to Europe, I knew the Liars were on- island. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t even be here on this island, injured, if it weren’t for other people and their lame ideas. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Since Tom was in pajamas, having been routed from his bed, most of the island knew about Bob’s birth. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Maoris, New Zealand’s first Sapiens colonisers, reached the islands about 800 years ago. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was going to leave the island and I’d never see him again. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The separation of the speakers by migrations had effects on language comparable to the speciation observed by Darwin on various islands of Galapagos. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They married and returned to his island home where there wasn't anything to do—Doña Charito griped in her gutturals—but get one's work done. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Soon enough, the navigators can discern the low moonlit lumps of islands ranged along the horizon. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Of course, one smelt the sea on an island anyway, but this was different. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Evidently, those first Neolithic occupants of Taiwan had watercraft adequate for deep-sea fishing and for regular sea traffic across Taiwan Strait, separating that island from the China coast. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Inside Amity Harbor’s courthouse, opposite the courtroom’s four tall windows, a table had been set up to accommodate the influx of newspapermen to the island. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

This time they went up a hill near the other end of the island. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn't long before I wondered if I could build a crate and ship myself off the island. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Instead they are enormously bloated and fat, and living on a desert island. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

There are millions of people living on the island. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

North of Mount Suribachi, the rest of the island widened out. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the first two years on the island, we were not even permitted to leave our cells for Sunday services. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They often provided money to wives and relatives who would not otherwise have been able to visit us on the island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was fear that lay ahead of him, that lurked hiding from him or waiting for him among the slopes and forests of the island, and straight for it he steered. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

We were close to land, and soon we reached the shores of the beautiful island of Cuba. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Great crowds still waited for transport at the beach, before the rebels should set out in their boats to conquer the island. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Bree was the chief village of the Bree-land, a small inhabited region, like an island in the empty lands round about. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Magdalys pulled the reins toward the islands and Missy growled in response, and then surged in the opposite direction before spinning back around and blasting forward full speed. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She sped to the end of the island and rested on a lava rock. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I find myself standing on one of what seems like a million floating islands, staring down into the most beautiful valley I’ve ever seen. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then all of them reached the opposite bank, dry land, a small island, or neck of land. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if we had been thrown on a desert island together, and lived there in intimacy for the rest of our lives, I should have been Mrs. de Winter. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They took a hemp sack and a bucket and went seeking, working their way across the sand, out along the spit that led to the island. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Even with such help as Sam could give, it was hard work to pass across the current at the southward end of the island and drive the boat eastward towards the far shore. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

After a few anxious minutes, I saw the ship rounding the tip of the island. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Either way, he needed to get off this island. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

"The white people own the island and the black people work it like wage slaves." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Clinging to its rusted hull, just our heads poking out of the water, we stared at the lighthouse and the barren little island that anchored it, but saw no sign of my wayward therapist. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The morning sun lit the island like a painted backdrop from an old Hollywood movie, all greens and golds, pinks and blues. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

A floating blue island in a pink house where I spilled out my guts and then hoped I wasn’t tossed out to sea to wait for my punishment. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The island, which of course was no longer that, was a long mound of smooth grass, like an immense ancient barrow, where rhododendrons and other shrubbery were growing. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

In short, they were lonely men and products of geography—island men who on occasion recognized that they wished to speak but couldn’t. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The barren rock was called “the heaven-built isle,” and from being the most despised it became the most renowned of islands. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plot was that I was to be successfully taken off the island, but killed in a dramatic shootout with security forces at the airport as I tried to leave the country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She points to the very top corner, where golden embroidery outlines our island and its old name—Hana. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

And so it was with all houses that were not, like Wang Lung’s, built upon a hill, and these hills stood up like islands. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

She led them to the wooded island of Naxos, and there, when they had all but caught up with her, she disappeared. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sit at the island and eat my cereal, and it’s like I can’t even get myself to bring the spoon to my mouth because what’s the point? Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

As she was almost past the island, she spied a giant fig tree with long roots snaking down to the water. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first thing he saw was a photograph of himself, taken the summer before on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, where he had gone diving. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

San Francisco always felt like an island to me, surrounded by the mythical East Bay with its restaurants and parks and North Bay with its wealth and its redwoods. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Until that summer, I had kept count of all the moons since the time my brother and I were alone upon the island. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still couldn’t see much of the island—just mist and rocks—but floating in the water were pieces of wood and fiberglass, the wreckage of old ships, even some flotation cushions from airplanes. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

But if I left the island without making sure, I knew I’d regret it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Maybe he caught sight of me once from his cozy spot on that tropical island of his, but he probably just decided it was the sun hitting a wave in a funny way. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Adding to the crisis, he stood by and let Rome take control of the Egyptian island of Cyprus. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

A consultation that would last no more than half an hour in my old Mandela and Tambo office might take a year or more on the island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was not the same Shanti who had arrived on this island. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“We are going away,” I said to him, “away from our island.” Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let us safely off this island with our payment, and I’ll gladly tell you.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The only person left alive on the island was a baby girl. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Marines had captured the Japanese island of Iwo Jima in some of the bloodiest fighting in the history of the American military. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You missed the island. How could you miss the island?” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I could barely make out the island ahead of us—just a dark spot in the mist. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Preacher, I’ll get right to the point of it, us coming out here and all. These shanties”—he waved his hand across the island—“these shanties have all got to come down.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

And in that way, it was one last thing that the island had done to save its peculiar children. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

On calm days the island was enveloped in cold, wet mist, and the offshore ice crowded against the rocky beach. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

From one such island rose a weirwood gnarled and ancient, its bole and branches white as the surrounding snows. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Anyway, my dad said that running “those puppy- whipping lowlifes” out of the islands was worth the legal hassle. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

She watched shadows slowly spread over the island and up the mountainside. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She did not envision a creature the size of an island. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Black Cave was on the south coast of the island, near the place where the canoes were stored. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

They found the bottom, and I pushed toward the island with all that my legs had left. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Stay on your side of the island and mind your business.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

There were islands in the chain that had little more than sheep living on them. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Nailer pointed to the waters off the edge of the island, where the Teeth lay. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Behind him the ululation swept across the island once more and a single voice shouted three times. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“We can fix this if we really work hard,” Shanti said, and the girls felt a renewed sense of hope that they might at last get off the island. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Heiress to the island, the fortune, and the expectations. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Every wave vanished into the island with­out a clash, with only a little frothing and foaming. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were on an island in a sea of trees, and the horizon was veiled. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Had Kennedy ordered an invasion of the island—a strategy many of his advisers were clamoring for—the Soviet commanders on Cuba had orders to launch the weapons, which would have obliterated the base. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

An enemy on an island is an enemy forever, he’d been fond of reminding his son. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

One swing could flatten any man on the island. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“We can pick some up for you on the island, Ryan Dean,” Doc Mom said. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I looked back at the island as the light was fading, not knowing whether or not I would ever see it again. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Though I could find a few choice words to describe what you've done on this island today.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

The island animals had no trouble locating the remains of the dead robots. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The ice was breaking up on it now, with just a few glazed islands of ice remaining in the center and a fringe of hard surface glinting along the banks. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dredges would leave an island at the center of the lagoon, to be called, simply, the Wooded Island. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Of all the kids, Joon was the one who knew the island best. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Based on all the books Jinny had read, it wasn’t what mothers were supposed to do—send their kids away, abandon them to live on an island. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He had been asked to go as captain, supercargo, and part owner on a voyage to Sumatra and the pepper islands. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

On August 10 we reached the sea at the north end of the island. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I was, on that day, in that moment, content to be under the spell of the sea and the islands and the here and now. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The people had been very proud that die little islands of Aruba and Curacao were now among the most important islands in the world; that victory or defeat depended on them. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I see him, yes. This island is small. You live hereabouts you see everybody.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

What happened to those Chamorros and the people on the other islands made me think yet again of what had been done to our Navajo people during the time of the Long Walk. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today she rips her garden gloves from her hands, whips them at the kitchen island, and screams like she can’t stand the very sight of them. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The beetles, at first unrecognized, were finally identified as a common inhabitant of the main islands of Japan. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

There were only two boys on the island who moved or talked like that. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

On the base, from left to right, are Kepler in his study, a map of Brahe’s island of Hven and a printing press. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They open onto a two-lane entranceway with a cement island in the middle. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a museum on the island of Bornholm, full of items. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

At the time, the PAC members on the island refused to believe our claims that the exiled PAC had opened its doors to whites and Indians as members. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You would be immortal on this island,” she said quietly. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Whites remembered their rule on the island; blacks remembered their fight for freedom. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Aerial reconaissance had revealed where the main concentrations of Japanese defenders seemed to be—in the southern part of the island. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time they found the floating island, it had been over six months since they left the Paradise Islands, and they were feeling the effects of starvation. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

We knew that this would alienate both them and the other parties on the island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The exciting new boat made it possible for us to go much farther afield, and every day we would travel far out into the fjord, hunting for a different island. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of them had learned how to speak with animals, or had saved an island from the cold, or had adopted a gosling. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

So by the 1800s, when Europeans began to explore the islands, they saw lush green cane stalks already growing thickly from sea level up into the hills. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The Portuguese, hoping to undercut the Venetians, sought a route to the spice islands by sailing around Africa, and in the end they succeeded. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

That was the tiny island with the black volcanic rocks, a wildlife preserve with beaches. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Chitchat leaped out from the branches and clawed at the robot’s eyes, yelling, “Anyone who shows up on our island and tries to take my friend’s mother away has a big problem which is me!” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was cold there on that sedgy little island, and they shivered, their clothes sodden with mud; only the babies, the little twins, were dry and warm in their basket. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the landscape faded into darkness, the top of this small hill felt like an island in a great ocean of night. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Smallpox was recorded to have appeared on the island of Hispaniola in November or December 1518. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The ocean is made of salt water, and I wonder for a moment if it’s possible that we were actually born of the sea and crawled ourselves onto these islands. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Somehow, the entire island had disappeared, vanished into the mist that wreathed it. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Nhamo worried that something might be tempted to invade from the large island. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think I seen every island in the world,” he said. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ship wandered from island to island—there were about eighteen in all—and Darwin ventured ashore, scrambling through the pumice, collecting birds, plants, and lizards. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The yacht, a sleek luxury model favored by rappers, movie stars, and moguls, powered toward the small island. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The enslaved people on Saint Domingue were not merely fighting against the terrible conditions on the island. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I remember the day the Aleut ship came to our island. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told me only that he had received instructions from Pretoria that I was to be transferred off the island immediately. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now some adults wanted to send Spares to live on the same island. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The island was moving fast, but the Current was a match for it. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

A few weeks after getting to Vietnam, Oshiro was sent on a routine sweep of a small island a few miles off the coast. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

And although they ate the same oats as all the other Cuttyhunk cows, hers gave the best milk on the island, so her butter was the best, too. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Living on a remote island, I was starting to realize, turned people into pack rats. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The longer Nhamo studied the miserable creature, the more certain she was that he was the only member of his troop on the island. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the mockingbirds that were endemic to each island were also three distinct species. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It did not make another low pass over the island. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Stay here? And be cramped into this bit of the island, always on the lookout? How should we get our food? And what about the fire?" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

She knew this was foolish—after all, she hadn’t explored the island—but she was so weak she couldn’t help herself. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another few months and it would be time to leave the island. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

When Isa came downstairs, she saw Oliver, his hair rumpled on one side, sitting slouched on a stool by the kitchen island, staring at an open book. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

But it wasn’t until morning, when we returned to our island, that I understood what he’d taken. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I can see the sea that encircles the island and beyond it, the bright lights of human cities and towns through the ever-present mist. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“It looks like an archipelago: lots of islands clustered together, almost holding hands.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I was ordered to stand near the breastworks overlooking the inlet between island and mainland. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

How can you linger on this island, aimless and shiftless, while your people waste away?’ The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t a single living tree on the island, just cedar skeletons and patches of green-gray shrubs. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

It is the first day of my last week on the island. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

It must always have been God’s day on that low, drowsy island, Edna thought. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Little did I know how many of those tropical islands would become all too familiar to me in the two years that lay ahead. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I run down the stairs and sit at the island. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

On the Docker, the men were clawing their way toward the island in heavy seas. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

A spectral fog enshrouded the island, blanking it from view, and we broke from rowing to watch it fade. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The ring of mist that surrounded the island was looser somehow, so the sunrise blurred rather than creating its usual clear pictures. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Jinny didn’t want to leave the island herself, but for some reason, she didn’t want anyone else to take her place either. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“They’re coming back. That island is going to be full of them,” he said, spitting on my shirt. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Before her lay a pristine pond, a couple of hundred yards across, with a small, verdant island at the center. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

And the land had a certain curve to it at the bottom of the island, like a dinosaur head, bumpy on the right and straight on the left, a swooping majestic bottom. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Anise Fowler moves to a different island, and the pack of hyenas slowly separates, and suddenly I find that I’m sitting at lunch tables where there are other people. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Here, we brought this in from the island.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

During our years on the island we kept up a continuing dialogue about our beliefs and ideas; we debated them, questioned them, and thereby refined them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those chronicles describe how the sun goddess Amaterasu, born from the left eye of the creator god Izanagi, sent her grandson Ninigi to earth on the Japanese island of Kyushu to wed an earthly deity. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

To the north and south, strips of land stretched out like arms enclosing the bay, and sitting in the mouth of the harbor, about a mile out, was an island with a stone fort. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They found the end of the island, quite distinct, and not magicked out of shape or sense. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Then, heaven knows from what quarter of the world, fatality brought in Odysseus to the swineherd’s wood far up the island. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed as if the island were trying to swallow me up. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little island was too small to feed a troop. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Consider the island of Manhattan shrunk to this size: This Manhattan could easily hold nine million viruses. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His afterlife is definitely more impressive and thoughtful than Dad’s—Dad believes in the usual golden-gated island in the sky. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Even though most of us were American-born, it was dangerous having that many Orientals so close to the Long Beach Naval Station, on the opposite end of the island. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I saw you go into that fire on the floating island. I seen you give up rations so the crew could have more. Some folks, knowin’ when they’re gonna kick it, might play it safe. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Just as modern humans walked up to unafraid dodos and island seals and killed them, prehistoric humans presumably walked up to unafraid moas and giant lemurs and killed them too. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to spoil his mood by reminding him that Lice Peeking wasn’t the most reliable human being on the island. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“No. I’m beat. Let’s hold here on the island and cross in the morning. Maybe we can think of some way to deal with the rest of the scavenge by then.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Finally they said they would leave me alone if I kept to my part of the island and never went near their camp. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Every soldier in New York was marching up island to attend the hanging of Thomas Hickey, the man who almost assassinated General George Washington. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the ring was not on the island; he had lost it, it was gone. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Mr. Yacub, when he died on the island at the age of one hundred and fifty-two, had left laws, and rules, for them to follow. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which was on the Indonesian island of Bali, some nine thousand miles away from me. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He now had barely six weeks to prepare for the Candidates tournament to be held on the island of Curaçao, thirty-eight miles off the coast of Venezuela. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It hurt me to know that children had frolicked on this island just days ago. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

They left him finally at Lemnos, then an uninhabited island although once the heroes of the Quest of the Golden Fleece had found plenty of women there. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The icy cold grabbed at his breath and reminded him of his attempt to escape the island. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He walked south across the island alone in the early winter, along townless empty roads. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Dauntless surged forward, shoved by the waves toward the rocky outcrop of the island, and then they were sucking through the shallows and past the island and the Teeth. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t help looking at Mr. Patterson, sitting on his worn cushion beside the two radios, wondering if he was a bit of an island himself. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Animals of the island! You do not have to freeze! Join me in my lodge, where it is safe and warm!” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

They were both of them going to work for Mr. Nitta—he paid better than any berry farmer on the island—for thirty-five cents a flat. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

His white stomach rose from the bubbles like a snowy island. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

There was an island with two trees on the lake and the trees looked like the double sails of a fishing-boat. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Later the island was turned into a leper colony, a lunatic asylum, and a naval base. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gray skies outside matched my mood, and Jennifer knew that my thoughts were far away, somewhere on a tropical island. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

He was, as well, a boy who had matured slowly, and being fat and nearsighted, he was dismissed by most of the island boys. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A chain of El Gallos is going up all over the island with attendants in rooster-red uniforms and registers that announce how much you are spending. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Before the Celts there were other people on this island. One of them was buried here.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

In the islands it was scarce unheard of for a strong, ambitious uncle to dispossess a weak nephew of his rights, and usually murder him in the bargain. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The world’s greatest biological thinkers, having pored over the problem of heredity, had scarcely advanced the field beyond the cryptic musings of two men who had lived on two Greek islands two thousand years earlier. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I said, “Timothy, wouldn’t it be better if we stayed on die raft and found a big island with people on it?” The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not just Cape Cod tan, but tropical island tan. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They may simply have needed extra lime for the island’s roads. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” was all he said, but he turned and strained his eyes to see the island which a greater usurper than even Napoleon now made interesting in his sight. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were in the tiny Church of the Men—a chapel as ancient as Christianity in the islands, though it was scarcely twenty feet square. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, just as I was starting to wonder if we’d need climbing gear to get onto the island, its steep cliffs sloped down to meet us. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“That’s impossible. This island is hidden, cut off from the world by strong magic. Time doesn’t even flow the same here.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A wave surged upward to catch it, and as it did, another wave pushed the rowboat toward the island, making it drift straight to her. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Also the wind blew strong in this place, blowing against the dunes which cover the middle part of the island so that most of the time sand is moving everywhere. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, 2,500 years ago, there was a glorious awakening in Ionia: on Samos and the other nearby Greek colonies that grew up among the islands and inlets of the busy eastern Aegean Sea.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she was still on the island, where could she be hiding? Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

First it was Theodore Thomas, conductor of Chicago’s symphony, who saw the island as the ideal site, the only site, for a music hall worthy of the fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The American arrived in the company of General Steyn, the commissioner of prisons, who rarely made appearances on the island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The players finally appear, scattered at opposite ends of the mass of floating islands. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“As directly as islands, straits, and reefs let us, can’t we?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But leaving the Galapagos Islands, he uncharacteristically had thrown birds from different islands into one bag. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chains were moored to the banks of the islands, but the links soon snapped. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“As an ymbryne, it is my sworn duty to keep those children safe and above all that means keeping them here—in the loop—on this island.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

It was to be a kind of scout, to familiarize ourselves with the island. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I climb over Rufus and I bet he would kill me himself if he caught me leaving our safe island, but I want to introduce him to Dad. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

There were islands in the middle of the water, little floating restaurants where grown-ups could order Turkish coffee while their legs were still in the pool. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

By the time he cleared the bay, the receding current would help wash him away from the island. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The deep mud that sucked at our feet, the swarms of insects, the eruptions of the volcano were like messages of the island’s unhappiness. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it is true that “no man is an island,” the same can be said of works of art. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fastest way off the island was a boat, much as the thought made me tremble. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He'd never keep the merry-go-round secret in this city. But there are lots of islands out there in the lagoon where nobody ever goes.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

You start a fire here, the island goes under, and you get nothing but a watery death.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Similar ecological disasters occurred on almost every one of the thousands of islands that pepper the Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Arctic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

AT THE END of our first two weeks on the island, we were informed that our lawyers, Bram Fischer and Joel Joffe, were going to be visiting the following day. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And each kind was found only on its own island. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rowed up opposite the fisherman’s island where there were boats drawn up and men were mending nets. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

They reached the island after sunset and made camp on the shore with no hesitation at all. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look, there’s a window just above the Institute flag. I’ll bet something important’s up there. It’s the highest window on the island. There’s always something important behind the highest window.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Each of his phrasings was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Even though I was simply a stop on its travels, just as the island was but one stop on mine. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

There was an island in the lake and there were ducks swimming on the water. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Off the southeastern coast of Iceland sits a low barrier island called Papos. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put two plates on the island and try to grab the forks, napkins, and glasses in one hand—she would call it a lazy man’s load. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Summoning up her courage, Shanti sang an Eastern-influenced riff and broke into a rap about living on an island, eating grubs, rescuing pirates, and eating weird berries. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I fell asleep cursing them that planted the city of New York on an island. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mountain-locked valley is more like an island than anything else I know. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are discussing how there are pigs on the island. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was an unusual enough occurrence that even someone from our island who had gone to college fifty years ago was remembered for it. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And America had soldiers and sailors in the Pacific Ocean, in the Philippine Islands, and on the islands of Hawaii. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad’s family owned casinos in Cuba, and had one of the largest ranches on the island. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw the island spinning past my eyes; I was still alongside it. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

This was a matter of coincidence rather than design; the senior ANC leadership on the island, the only four to have served on the National Executive Committee, happened to be Xhosa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There they stayed until spring, when they flew back to their other home, an island hundreds of miles to the north. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

As Maya numbers grew, so did the islands beneath them. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I kept some on the island,” I said in a small voice. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The island’s central river had crested its banks and spilled into the nearby fields and forests. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Now, the Fire Dragon lived on an island of silver rock. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was scared at first, because by then I’d learned in school about how slaves were sometimes dumped off of slave ships before they could even make it to the island. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“The Royal Fleet is fast approaching and is eager for battle and spoils. If you sailed now, you’d likely be captured and sold to the islands.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sneak a peek, looking up at the kids gathered around the cooking island. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

What I’m not in the mood for is sitting at the island, me and Mom on our stools, not talking, not listening to music, not reading. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

They gave burial to the piteous dead, or bore the bodies of voung men from other islands down to the port, thence to be ferried home. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pictured the bird keeper digging up the whole island, one plug at a time, while the terns and the plovers swooped around his head, fearful for their eggs. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

"No, it's not on an island, it used to be on an island, but they filled up the water with dirt and now it joins on to the mainland." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Based on the letter, Abbie had come to the island when she was older. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He seemed no different from Forrest and Immie’s various temporary island friends, but here he was, naked to the waist, doing housework. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The waves chopped briskly as they rushed out to the bay and to the sea beyond, and Turner gave up any notion of trying to make it back to the island. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The island was my home, and I, too, would fight to stay there if I had to. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“She was hurt. I was taking her back to the island.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

It was still light when we were led on deck and we saw the island for the first time. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some wished to leave and go in their canoes to the island called Santa Catalina, which lies far off to the east, but others said that there was little water on that island. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

All countries and islands, afraid for the same reason, refused to receive her and give her a place where her child could be born. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The island of Saint Thomas has been battered. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“We’ve been frantic with worry—the other rangers are on your island right now. We heard rumors about a bounty on her head. Is that true?” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

The island was less than a mile wide, a barren patch of sand and rock distinguished only by the wrecked foundation of an old tower used by the Council of Tides. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The idea was to drive to Usedom, an island in the Baltic, and stay in an old resort once favored by Wilhelm II. I made a point to emphasize that we would have separate rooms. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Why, you poor child! All alone there on that island! Who did come with you, then?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

That spring, D-Day was approaching, and the United States was still fighting, island by island, for the Pacific. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

For a variant of gross-beaked finch to appear on a Galápagos island by natural selection, two seemingly contradictory facts had to be simultaneously true. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

All afternoon, the natives come back and forth to our ships in their canoes, bringing sweet-smelling fruits and other food from their island, which sits, green and lush, nearby. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Even though we mourned when other people on the island lost family and friends and property, the deepest part of me trusted that Gran would protect us. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s an island off the coast of Africa,” I reply. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Most of the bears had never seen mountains, apart from the cliffs on their own island of Svalbard, and fell silent as they looked up at the giant ramparts, still so far off. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

On the far side of the waterway, the bright orange mesh fence barricaded the islands of the reserve. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

The island, he insisted, was perfect for the hunting camp exhibit of his Boone and Crockett Club. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Henry was a bit of a leader this afternoon, because the other two were Percival and Johnny, the smallest boys on the island. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I stared back at the menacing detective and remembered what it had been like growing up here in the Dakota—a gated island on an island. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

A metal island on wheels stands in the middle of the room. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Why would he want to live anywhere but the island? Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

The name of the island was changed to Aegina in honor of the maiden, and her son Aeacus was the grandfather of Achilles, who was called sometimes Aeacides, descendant of Aeacus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rontu’s prints did not matter because the Aleuts knew that there were dogs on the island. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though I had left the island eight years before, my memories of prison were still fresh and untinged by nostalgia. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That month, I had another homecoming: I returned to Robben Island in order to persuade twenty-five MK political prisoners to accept the government’s offer of amnesty and leave the island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black sailors working ships running all through the islands were carrying the word. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Then we were coasting the noble island of the god, where grazed those cattle with wide brows, and bounteous flocks of Helios, lord of noon, who rides high heaven. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The patterns on the snakes’ skins were perfect, repeating endlessly in coils and stripes and ovals and diamonds, in all the colors of the island. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“But if we’re staying, let’s find what we can in there. There’s food. Plenty of other stuff. We’ll camp on the island and bring her over tomorrow.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

These perky, upright birds had been lost from the ice islands of Antarctica hundreds of thousands of years ago and, unable to swim back, had adjusted to the tropical heat. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Either way, she was stranded on a tiny island in the middle of a pond full of creatures who wanted to drown her. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He talks about American history, If the American farmer, with flintlock and musket, could wrest from the English a continent, surely we, warriors ever, can recover our island. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“She must think one of us took part in the deception. Someone had a secret pact with Mr. Benedict to help get the others on the island.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The most isolated people on Earth in recent history were the Aboriginal Tasmanians, living without oceangoing watercraft on an island 100 miles from Australia, itself the most isolated continent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And he was bound to go for the most vulnerable—a spindly girl, stumbling about in the dark in an unfamiliar place, bravely searching around the island temple for her brothers. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Cole strained at the cuffs even though he had agreed to wear them until he was freed on the island to begin his banish- ment. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“I hate you!” she screamed at the big island. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood for a long time watching the fires, wondering if I should move to another part of the island, perhaps to the cave where the wild dogs had lived. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The island slowly dwindled until it disappeared in a glimmer of light. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

All this political reading made me think the island was ripe for an all-out race riot and political revolution just like the Haiti Graham Greene had written about in The Comedians. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

And with the change in the weather, a change had come in the mood of the prisoners on the island. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

In appearance and genes those islands’ inhabitants are similar to South Chinese, and even more similar to tropical Southeast Asians, especially those of the Malay Peninsula. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

"While we're waiting we can have a good time on this island." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The first place is Lilliput, an island where all the people are less than six inches tall. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

There, just shy of the city, the Uzumark broadened into a delta and was sliced into ribbons by boulders and small islands before simply vanishing. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I could feel it getting warmer as we got closer to the island. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bleak season came upon the island—a rotting monsoon or a parched summer—and fruit supplies dwindled drastically. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Dragging my backpack behind me, I stumbled up the island to the sandy part under the bridge, out of the rain and away from the eyes of drivers. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He sees a stone bridge, scattered islands the size of rooms, gracious gray and white homes with pleasant views. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

These islands are strung together much like beads on a necklace. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

They once stormed the island, I knew, long ago. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tide is out, almost to the inner islands, and a lone man is digging clams. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the single, notable exception of the meerkats, there was not the least foreign matter on the island, organic or inorganic. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The ominous clouds had moved closer to the island, and a strong wind came up, blowing sand and promising rain. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The Maya heartland, in other words, was a network of artificially habitable terrestrial islands. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Mary Lou, I’ve just survived a plane crash, and now I’m stuck on a hostile island with no food and no way off. Trust me, you’re not going to make me feel any worse.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Sunday was the only day the men did not get up before dawn, and therefore Saturday night was the only night anyone of the island would consider spending in a frivolous manner. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything went to the soldiers, pilots, and sailors who were defending our island. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her phone was nearly out of battery and she didn’t know if she could call a cab from this part of the island. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I sat on this very rock, looked out at the island, and thought I would always be alone. But I was wrong.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“On the other side of that hill,” which rose up as if even the island itself had meant to keep the sick in their own, lonely place. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“I don’t expect he’s stupid enough to come back to the islands, but I’ve seen plenty of stranger and stupider things in my time.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe someone who didn’t know about the reward would find her first, but Neel knew how fast gossip spread on the island. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

What Command didn’t know was how deep the enemy had dug into the island. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fear of the sea that was always there, simmering beneath the surface of their island lives, would boil up in their hearts again. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

What were those Austronesian pot makers doing on islets adjacent to bigger islands? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

This ritual has been done in secret since the first slaves worked the sugarcane fields on this island. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He basically turned a blind eye to what was happening on the island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I smiled, mostly because Nebraska was no match for an island at sea, but also because she said Nebraska with a Nee at the beginning and it sounded funny. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

For us, the island had become the locus of the struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a mystery why the skiff had washed up on our little island and not on Cuttyhunk where most treasure and flotsam came to rest. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Back in June, the two of them had been living together in a house Immie rented on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Badenhorst attempted to turn back the clock to the way the island was in the early 1960s. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could see him going over her campsite on the little island. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was just an ordinary morning on the island. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

For the men of the island, except for the preacher and the occasional male teacher, the Bay was an all-consuming passion. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The island was only an island because the sea was there, all around. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Did they still have uncharted islands in the world? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When the daily tourist boats arrived around ten o’clock, she flew back to her island, leaving the sea lions, Darwin finches, marine iguanas—all the original residents—to entertain the people. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

It sold the best ice cream on the island. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the way there they put in at the island of Naxos and what happened then is differently reported. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would be taken to an uninhabited island, Lolue, where I could watch vervet monkeys. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was nothing to tell Jinny where the island lay, nothing to mark it. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The skiff was barely seaworthy, but it had survived the trip to the island, even through the wild currents that wrecked much bigger boats. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Cadence Sinclair Eastman was present on the island at the time of the fire but did not notice it until it was well under way. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think it’s safe for her on this island. She doesn’t understand stuff. It’s dangerous.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Similar epidemics marked the histories of Tonga, Hawaii, and other Pacific islands. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“And did you find yourself here on this little island?” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The river-god went to the island but Zeus drove him away with his thunderbolt. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were stories in the press about the inhuman conditions on the island, about how we were being assaulted and tortured. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The animals at the bottom of the water, whoever was there, all came up to the top of the water and went to the island, this earth we are on today. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know any Robinsons, but then I didn’t know all the people on the island. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Could anything be so wonderful as the firm wet sand of the island? Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

In the island humidity, Nicole’s hair had gone rogue; the new growth was tight. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Caroline was sure to leave the island, so the house would be mine after my grandmother and my parents died. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I scoped across the water and remembered again that we lived on an actual island. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“The gate to the land of the dead is on this island,” said the boatman. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

You see, those poor dead creatures returned to the earth, their bodies nourished the soil, and they helped create the most dazzling spring bloom the island had ever known. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I began to think of all the things on the island. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bloomberg was now sitting under the piano, on an island of sunshine, rather picturesquely washing his face. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I would have thought Trudy had more money than most people on the island,” the Captain said. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides getting off the island, it was the only other thing I wanted. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He took it for a hill looming above a wooded island, or some colossal rock overgrown with moss and fems and hidden by the fog. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I liked thinking of our island as a woman whose body was a garden of flowers, whose feet were caressed by waves, a land whose sky was never cloudy. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“See there? All that old wood in the heather? The last of what grew here. This island was all trees, once.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Jinny would have to show her everything—the beach that stretched on forever, wrapping around to the other side of the island. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Nobody who's ever visited this island has lived to tell the tale. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s little time for explanation, Sticky. I can get you to the mainland, but we must make our way to the other side of the island, and it will be slow going.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Last of all, beyond the islands, there was the landing at their first day’s destination. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to train for a landing on yet another island. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt like a secret, this fact that once there had been wolves on the island. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

When he reached the island, that would all come to a screeching stop. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“Oh my, you thought it was an island because of its name.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Once I skated across the lake to intercept him, but he vanished before I got to the island in the middle. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

It is early morning on a Caribbean island, and African slaves—hundreds of them— are being sent out to the fields to pull weeds and burn the high, dry grass. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I can tell you exactly what day I came upon the tree: it was the day before I left the island. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not just looking for birds. I’m an eco-warrior. This island used to belong to my people before The Corporation pushed them out and took it over.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She harvested all her plants from the little island—leaves, seeds, and roots—leaving nothing to replant in the rainy season. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She came floating on an island of bananas in a halo of light, as lovely as the Virgin Mary. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, she knew about the constellations of the night sky, but the book hadn’t said anything about the mist around the island that made the shapes the children saw at sunrise and sunset. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“So, do you go to school on the island?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I had dinner at my island and at Fourth Hour striking on the gongs of Remmy Tower I was at the Palace ready for supper. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s not enough room on this island for both you and your attitude.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Contributing to these differences among Polynesian societies were at least six sets of environmental variables among Polynesian islands: island climate, geological type, marine resources, area, terrain fragmentation, and isolation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally the locals would discuss the Japanese and some fighting on the outer islands of Alaska, but even that seemed far away—not nearly as scary as Hazel’s problem. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later she had hitched him to the wagon and was driving toward the little island. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time Cole paused to catch his breath, he found himself outside the bay, angling toward the next island, maybe a mile away. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The island is known for snorkeling, and a small American expat community exists there. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But instead of this a narrow ledge of rock, a few yards wide and perhaps fifteen long, continued the island out into the sea. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

It's hard to believe this place is an island. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I have heard,” said Nathan, “that labour is required of you not here, but in the island of Ceylon.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Best landing place on the island,” Major General Turnage said, nodding his head. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the bed seemed to be floating on a dark sea with little sunlit islands that resolved into the crooked lamps when he focused on them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Although our house was one of the smaller of the forty or so houses on the island, for several years we owned the only piano. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Morosina had stayed on the island to look after the dogs. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Their only hope of survival was to swim miles away to a small island that they hoped was not covered with Japanese soldiers. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“We might need you for locks, and if things go bad on the island, I don’t want to be stranded. I doubt you can pass yourselves off as members of the Menagerie.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In the atmospheric disturbances that followed Lord Asriel’s escape from his exile on Svalbard, she and her companions were blown far from the island and many miles out over the frozen sea. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’re old, and the island is buffeted by winds off the sea. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

There were also scorpions on most Caribbean islands, and they were deadly. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to folk legend, an Armenian princess lived on the island. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“He dug holes all over the island and even in the cottages,” I said. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Hermes knew where they lived, and leaving the happy land the two flew back across Ocean and over the sea to the Terrible Sisters’ island. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was on that slender riotous island which extends itself due east of New York and where there are, among other natural curiosities, two unusual formations of land. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Starting from the sandy southern point, the island grew wider and greener and hillier until it finally jutted up into the rocky cone of the mountain. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I rather dwelt on this part of the forecast, while our good ship made time, bound outward down the wind for the strange island of Seirenes. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take a clear plastic box and lid out of the cupboard and hand it across the island to her. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

The island seemed deserted; the snowy ground was scrubbed clean by the wind. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Below them small towns passed by like lit-up islands in a dark sea of prairie. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“We’ll get a boat from Izmir to the Greek islands. Greece accepts Syrians.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was like Genie was suddenly on an island too. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The island had come under repeated assault, prompting a resurfacing of Olmsted’s old anger about the compulsion of clients to tinker with his landscapes. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

By two o’clock on the first afternoon of the trial, snow had covered all the island roads. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Jinny wondered, whenever she walked between the carefully placed shells, what books there had been before she came to the island. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“So much was promised to us when we left our island,” he said softly as he looked at the painting. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Seriously, I saw this show once where these people were stranded on an island and there were these other people who were sort of crazy-slash-bad and there was this polar bear creature running around.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“But you heard the ranger—they’ve been looking for a way to get him off our island. Sounds like he can’t risk breaking any more laws.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed to the edge of the island. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“They got guys on an island out in the middle of the Pacific that can never go home again.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surrounded on all sides by the Red Army and by units of the KGB, West Berlin floated like an island in a hostile, turbulent sea. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The slaves called up to us, “That the island?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

It seemed the coolest, most magical place on the island. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time on the island, Piggy himself removed his one glass, knelt down and focused the sun on tinder. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Tasmania and those three smaller islands thus illustrate in extreme form a conclusion of broad potential significance for world history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Me, Jay, Mama, and Doc were in the front, and behind us stood other people from the island. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

High over this end of the island, the shattered rocks lifted up their stacks and chimneys. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

One week before she moved to San Francisco, Jule was drunk on the island of Culebra. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They had made another abortive search of the island. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

She didn’t often resort to such a typical island expression. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was still watching the island through her binoculars. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

If Orpheus had not been there the Argonauts, too, would have left their bones on the Sirens’ island. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were buying the island back at the same bargain rate. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Uncle Basil’s pickup truck is parked illegally—halfway onto an island, having demolished a row of ficus. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I won’t fight to keep the island, Crow. It doesn’t belong to me. But I’ll fight to stay on it. This,” he said, nodding at the bundle, “you can hand over quite easily.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“That’s where the first cabin was, and that’s where I dragged myself to after trying to swim away from the island. The tide pushed me back to shore. I slept there in the hot ashes.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Apart from hearing that the queen was powerful, she had heard only that to set foot on her island meant certain death. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Some had piles of pink-grained stones gathered from around the island placed carefully at the foot of each cross. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Not very impressive compared to Gibraltar, but in front of the island, jutting from waves about a hundred yards offshore, were two white Grecian columns as tall as the Argo's masts. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We had to get off the island fast, but what else could we use? The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He normally came to the island on biannual inspections. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

From Cancún, she’d make her way eventually to the island of Culebra in Puerto Rico, where there were loads of Americans who never showed their passports to anyone. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The yanquis, rumors go, have ringed the island with nuclear poison, hoping to starve the people and incite a counterrevolution. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe girls need an island to find themselves. Maybe they need a place where no one’s watching them so they can be who they really are.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

They are confined to aborigines of the island of Taiwan, lying only 90 miles from the South China mainland. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

We had won a host of small battles that added up to a change in the atmosphere of the island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sea was printed in blue, with pink islands like La Gonave. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And pass through it did: in the lee of the island, considerably diminished, waves .270 emerged and went on their way. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“They’d just arrived in London after being rescued from the burning island...” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

On many of the sugar islands, Africans created similar dances in which people spin, jump, and seem to menace each other, then, just on the beat, click sticks and twirl away. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I thought everyone on this island knew my name.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plan was to shoot west until they hit a string of islands a trapper had shown him, and then bow northeast until the swamp dried up. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

At last, he sees the island, overgrown with willows and reeds. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Now there was dry land all the way to the little island, except for the final, deep channel. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cole talked about his rehabilitation after being rescued, and about returning to the island. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Underwater surveys of the area northeast of the island clearly show remnants of the tower toppled in that direction, with more than two thousand of its blocks Uttering the harbor bed. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Then she turned around, away from the island, to stare at the sea, and she watched the waves roll in, watched the sun glint on the endless vista. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

In addition, we should not imagine that relations between Muralug Islanders and Cape York Aborigines were an uninterrupted love feast at which Aborigines eagerly sopped up culture from island teachers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Far down the island the skyscrapers rose tall and mysterious in the thin, pastel haze. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Neel studied them closely; it wasn’t often that rangers came to their island. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

My parents in their graves on that sad little island. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Granddad knows. The littles. The staff. Every single person on the island knows but Johnny, apparently.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The women of my island were not supposed to love the water. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its shore could not be called a beach, there being neither sand nor pebbles, and there was no pounding of surf either, since the waves that fell upon the island simply vanished into its porosity. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

We later learned that Mrs. Suzman had taken up our case in Parliament, and within a few weeks of her visit, Suitcase was transferred off the island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oscar says that Swan is a new station that broadcasts important bulletins by exiles who want to liberate the island. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

When Celia’s parents divorced, they dispersed their children among relatives throughout the island. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m as fast as can be,” he announced, running around the island twice in no time at all, “and I’m as slow as can be,” he complained, waving good-by to a snail. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The next two days on Cape Torokina were spent setting up our base and strengthening our position while small parties tried to follow the trails that led farther into the island. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few European observers before Holmberg had remarked upon the earthworks’ existence, though some doubted that the causeways and forest islands were of human origin. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

At sixteen now, she took a lover from one of the island families and managed to keep direct light from ever hitting her stomach. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Right in front of her, out of the fog, the island materialized—-an acre of pine trees, boulders, and snow with a black sand beach: If the island had a name, she didn’t know it. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Flocking birds, especially the seabirds nesting on the slopes of offshore islands in Newfoundland, are similarly attached, connected, synchronized. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

By turning back to the island I would not have nearly so far to travel. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Light poles are like palm trees, bus stop benches like hammocks, and corner stores like island bungalows. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Math certainly came in handy when you drew that map of the island, didn’t it? Think you might study any harder now?” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

At sea they picked up Swan broadcasts from a little island south of Cuba as well as Radio Rebelde in Cuba and Radio Rumbos from Venezuela. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gosling was much better at understanding natural things like islands and forests and parents. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Lizzie, who had felt the bashing just beneath her, raised her head.“You missed the island” “Yes.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The ship now drifting under the island lee, Telemakhos’ companions took in sail and mast, unshipped the oars and rowed ashore. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus, within a modest time span, enormously diverse island environments were settled by colonists all of whom stemmed from the same founding population. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The storm turned out to be a cloudburst, and an island where we were going to spend the night was flooded. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other dangles a porcelain teacup full of Belle-rose tea, an anesthetic drink steeped from the roses that grow on our island. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The shifting of the island grew worse as the fire crept closer. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I smelled the island before I saw it. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are no natives coming to us in canoes as they did in the Caribbean islands. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The white man in the book, Gulliver, roved from peril to peril, each new island a new predicament to solve before he could return home. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Our ship is around the back of the island. You and Grover—” “No way,” they said at the same time. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

There were seven or eight people on the island who possessed the right to give names. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The thought of being alone on the island while so many suns rose from the sea and went slowly back into the sea filled my heart with loneliness. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the moment Winnie learned we had been brought to the island, she had been trying to arrange a visit. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stacked bigger and bigger branches on the flames as they grew, until a basketball-sized fire snapped and glowed on my little island. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

What they knew—all they knew—was the island itself, years of running on the beach, singing by the fire, plucking fruit from the trees and fish from the nets. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

So many drowned men, the Drowned God will be strong there, Victarion had thought when he chose the island for the three parts of his fleet to join up again. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

If you haven’t been keeping the tree suspended in memory, the word islands, which is ringing in your mind’s ear just before you type the verb, will contaminate the number you give the verb. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It would take a whole day to reach the islands in the middle of the lake, and another day to get to the far shore. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

At some point, I realized I was in unfamiliar waters, closer to the continent than the islands. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

She was home, on this island in sight of nothing. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

There was still quite a distance between the boat and the island. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nailer absorbed this, studying how the island used to be connected before the sea rose and isolated it, comparing his memories of Bright Sands Beach mapped against this paper version from long ago. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

We pretend that we are on a small tropical island that has no hotels, just little huts that stand in the water and come with butlers. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. I guess so. It’s just an island, you know?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Now she was all alone on a tiny island. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her howl was so loud that animals heard it clear across the island. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Lettie might have been new to our school and to the island, but that didn't make what she said any easier to take. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

By 1954, after some preliminary field trials on Florida islands, Dr. Knipling was ready for a full- scale test of his theory. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Two harbors flanked a causeway connecting the island of Pharos to the mainland. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

He landed next to Tock and the terrified Humbug on the tiny island, which now looked completely different. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel sank into her mother’s arms, into the darkness, as oil filled her lungs and the island collapsed into the bay. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

We stop on the island of Mona just long enough to get fresh water and for a group of gentlemen to go hunting. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

They left Murano—the glassmakers’ island—behind them and cruised on, deeper into the maze of islands and grassy islets. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She saw the island appear through the mist, as though it had been waiting for her all along. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

More LSTs were coming down the Slot between the islands to Bougainville bringing troops, ammo, and fuel. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deen had been the one to spot the small green boat, appearing through mist that wreathed the island, cutting through the whitecapped waves. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The converse phenomenon—the loosening of the island—was faster, more dramatic, and the reasons for it more evident. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the first few years on the island, the High Organ also acted as a representative committee for all the political prisoners in our section. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By 10,000 years ago there was not a single mammoth to be found in the world, except on a few remote Arctic islands, most conspicuously Wrangel. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ships traveled from Cuba and Puerto Rico—islands in the Caribbean. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

They had been sentenced to years on the island for criminal witches. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

But then, shortly after I turned eleven, I was the only one on the islands to come down with influenza. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Soon, he would travel by yacht to The Corporation’s private island, away from prying government eyes. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

And then, one night, the first storm of the summer struck the island and startled everybody from their dreams. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Mama? The other goslings said that we have to leave the island soon, and we won’t return for months and months. Is that true?” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He shot toward the island in the distance, but he was still falling much too fast. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

During the early years, airplanes were not permitted to fly over the island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Snow filled the world, falling deeper and deeper, changing the island. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Just then, twenty, thirty gulls rose from somewhere on the island coast and turned to face the sea breeze, screeching like broken promises. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The beach, I now believed, was about forty yards wide in most places, stretching all the way around the island. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Marc didn’t go onto the island with the chimps’ food. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

A note is left on the island in the kitchen: “We’re off!” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

That memory would unwind into the last day when they had sat together, oiling their rifles in the jungle of some nameless Pacific island. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

They ignored the garden island and anyhow, to be on the safe side, Nhamo had planted everything out of reach. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1835, the ship left Lima, on the coast of Peru, and headed toward a lonely spray of charred volcanic islands west of Ecuador—the Galápagos. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The people of those little islands had nowhere to get away. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

To help me keep awake, I imagined myself being stranded on an island and seeking help. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Papa died almost two years ago, while they were sailing home from a trip to the Caribbean islands. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

There is a nice village at Pallanza and you can row out to the islands where the fishermen live and there is a restaurant on the biggest island. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“And where he is and who he’s with and if he ever thinks about us back here on the island.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Nhamo shaded her eyes and looked across to the little island. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Variation has been maintained by occasional contact between different islands of speakers, and perhaps also by random mutations. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Will they let us land on the Greek islands?” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

There were two or three varieties, but each subtype was markedly distinct, and each was endemic to one particular island. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Like Tonga, Hawaii became a political entity encompassing several populous islands, but one confined to a single archipelago because of its extreme isolation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Find two known points—he’ll choose the cathedral spire and the outer island of Le Petit Be—then calculate the location of the third and unknown point. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Hours before, he had moved past the islands, felt more than saw them in the darkness, and headed into the open sea. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a brush island ahead and the current moved toward the shore. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The English then set out to conquer more sugar islands, starting with Jamaica, which they took from Spain in 1665. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Before them was a grassy slope that descended all the way to the dark, choppy waves that surrounded the island. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The village, in which we Bradshaws lived for more than two hundred years, covers barely a third of our island’s length. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The large island of Madagascar, about 250 miles east of the African mainland, offers a famous example. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hired others to cut down rare sundari trees that grew on the uninhabited islands of the reserve. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

He drank what water he had left in the sealskin pouch, and steered around the westernmost headland until he came into a wide strait between it and a second island lying to the west. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The other said that to change anything in the sugar islands would invite slave revolts, help France’s rivals, and thus hurt the nation. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I’d just shown Georgia Boy the map that pictured the island and he was right. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

People is driving down, circling round the little island a grass at the end with they windows down. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He’d come away with eighteen fish and had furthermore set his net in the dark beside a large and labyrinthine kelp island. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He told me how wonderful it would be to return to the United States; how many things I had missed while we were on the island. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was in Culpeper, Virginia, washing clothes in a hotel, when she learned that there was a colony of Negro farmers on an island off the coast of Virginia. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama is sitting on the island, and Daddy’s in front of her with one arm around her waist. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

“Long Island. It’s this island. And ... it’s long. Oh, let’s just start.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The midmost stood somewhat forward from the others and sundered from them, an island in the waters, about which the flowing River flung pale shimmering arms. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She smeared mud and tree sap to camouflage her face and arms till she seemed an outgrowth of the island. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Off the starboard side, now about a hundred yards away, was a small, uninhabited island no more than five acres. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I found abruptly that we were upon the little island, buffeted with warmth. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

But one day, even his tattoos would rot away—the images of horned whales, beautiful women, disappearing islands—and nothing would be left of him but the whispered legends of things he’d done. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Today the island’s elite is diversified enough to support a synagogue where membership has reached 250 families and where the yarmulke worn during services is Nantucket red and decorated with miniature whales. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Supplies for the club’s first recipe are piled on the island: a brown bag labeled zebra basmati rice, a bucket full of onions and potatoes, a bunch of wilting cilantro, and a few bright tomatoes. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The object of this game is to be the first to safely reach the volcano crater on the island at the far side of the sea.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

People found it difficult to leave their artificial islands. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Forgetting everything else, Emily ran and lifted the book from the island. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

A manhunt was in progress at the beach and an army of men scoured the whole island, including the black-gum swamp at the northern end. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oceania comprises the Americas, the Atlantic islands including the British Isles, Australasia, and the southern portion of Africa. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s a big island. Just...find your own place. Leave me alone.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Then, slowly, I remembered how I’d come to be part of this: my grandfather; the island; the children. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Even if I went on some remote island where there wasn’t any other people besides me. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

‘If anyone asks, you took us around the island and showed us the sights. You dropped us at the docks in Pylos. You never saw any giant warship.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

This would be perfect for an evening on an island. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Frightful left the penguins and blue-footed boobies to their caves and niches and rounded the island, looking for shelter. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

About fighting for the island if he had to. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Now he had a choice to make: should he risk the straits, or take the Iron Fleet around the island? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As I made my way through the noisy, crowded, dirty streets, I remembered what Osh had said about New Bedford making me dissatisfied with our island. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

He placed an economic embargo on Cuba, one that prevented any US citizen or company from doing business on the island. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t dare use up her stores from the njuzu island until she was certain she could replace them. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered how it had felt to stand outside the Penikese hospital and learn that some of the lepers had been from islands like Cape Verde and Tobago. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

After the customary period of quarantine, they were permitted to leave the island, and Jewish welfare workers helped them settle in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Despite his taunts to Kaz, by the time they were halfway to the island, Matthias’ feet had gone almost completely numb, and he was keenly aware of the guard towers high above the moat. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

"All the same you need an army-for hunting. Hunting pigs-" "Yes. There are pigs on the island." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

There, back beyond our island, a ship under full sail had come to grief in the storm. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

It slowed to a moderate clip once they reached the island’s shore. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was simply not done on our island. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kaz had sworn he could get her off this island, but Kaz’s first plan had gone to pieces—maybe this one would, too. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“You are three men of sin, whom destiny has belched up ’pon this island,” Cymbeline crowed, rolling her eyes at the disturbance. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

A nearly extinct breed of giant snake particular to the island leapt onto the sand, blocking the path. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Even greater was the thought of the deserted island I would return to, of living there alone and forgotten. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, they must have belonged to one of the other flocks on the island, because nobody in my flock is missing.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The sound was coming from the East River side of the island, to the north. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could leave the island, if I wished. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Afterward, they walked together, silent, around to the tip of the island and into the deserted house that had been Lizzie’s home. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Food and water were stored in canoes and these were hidden on the rocks at the south end of the island. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would come ashore where we lived, just by our tiny island. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

When it was stormy, the huge fangs of the breakers gnawed at the rocky islands. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t see any island on this map. Don’t see any loops.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

All there was to do on those islands was drill and swim, play cards and eat fish, complain and sleep. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

This island place ought to be rather good fun—if the weather lasted. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“For years now, I haven’t been able to leave this island, even after my kin departed. I think...” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

We already knew where we were going, so I didn’t need to say a word as we collected the shovel and sacks and began, single file, across the island. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“There,” he finally said, pointing at the water tower that served the residents of St. Catherine’s Island, the first and the largest of the sea islands separating Ravenel from the mainland. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had dropped out of the island school at twelve to follow the water. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1959, a rebel force led by Fidel Castro had overthrown the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, an authoritarian leader supported by the United States and by the many American companies doing business on the island. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The ’tween deck seems dark after all those sunlit days on the island. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I sat on a log and looked around at our little island camp. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

When he took the pack, she made as if to embrace him, there in front of her own father and his priestly uncle and half the island. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He walks to the kitchen island to get a closer look at the clues he missed while he slept last night. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

My family still spoke it sometimes, to each other and to other people on the island who knew the language. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

But for me, at age seven, the island was a country as foreign as India or Arabia would have been. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nhamo considered the line of rocks between her and the large island. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to spoil his mood by reminding him that Lice Peeking wasn’t the most reliable human being on the island. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

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

She turned the boat with one oar, and with the smooth movements of one who knew how, she began to row slowly back to the island. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The unit I was in was sent back to the little islands of Kwajalein and Eniwetok to the east of Guam. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I probably shouldn’t feel like I’ve been voted off some island. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The girls had lost track of how long they had been on the island. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Now, I’m real sorry to tell you this, but I’ve rigged the island to blow. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

It was dusk, and the little island was all shadow, when she saw a man. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Guess what? The date of this next entry is the day we arrived on the island.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I did a happy dance around the kitchen island, but froze when I heard my phone chirp. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Nobody strands himself on an island unless he’s finished with the mainland. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The chorus of wild voices grew louder and louder, shaking the robot’s body, rattling the ship, booming across the island and up into the clouds, and then their voices gradually died down to silence. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Exploring the shore revealed one extraordinary thing: the algae, and therefore the island itself, varied in height and density depending on the weather. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

When ancestral Polynesians spread into the Pacific around 3,200 years ago, they encountered islands differing greatly in their environments. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

This morning was fair with little wind, yet it was the season of the year when storms could be looked for, so I understood why the Russian wished to move onto our island. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the one hand, islands near one another might become combined into a single political unit. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Fog lay over the sea, washing against the island in gray waves. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if the island couldn’t quite let us go, either. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

A wooded hilltop rose out of the water, a little island all on its own, brightly lit by the low-lying moon. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Still, the island suited me well enough, and I never lacked for women. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

For most of human history those islands lay far beyond the reach of watercraft. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They were crazy if they thought he was going to spend a whole year of his life like some animal, trapped on a remote Alaskan island. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

It did not seem just that these boisterous, immature young men should show up after all the work was done and be allowed to take possession of the most desirable tent on the island. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

But the volcano was not the only hot thing on that island. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet they were unable to venture into the open sea, and none reached America, Australia, or remote islands such as Madagascar, New Zealand and Hawaii. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They reached the island and climbed up through trees and kudzu vines and bushes, making good time, even with Nailer’s bad shoulder. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Ophie washed her hands in the nearby sink and returned to the center island to help Cook with the rolls. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

As we approached the island, jagged rocks loomed out of the fog. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“A downy fountain sprite, found only on the island of Rod,” Maddox said. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“This island is covered with Devil’s Club. Don’t grab it or hundreds of tiny thistles will infect your hands and make them swell up like sausages.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Had the island run out of gas in the few hours I’d been gone? Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Nor, I fear, was his father, Elvan, both of whom died on that island. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Two days later, Turner didn’t need Willis to tell him what was happening on the island. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The slavers brought him to an island off the Georgia coast and hid him there till he got bought for Mr. Bubba Tate; that’s how he ended up in Cold Sassy. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“No Xi will ever set foot on this island,” Fin said. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

There were two such places on the island—one on the headland and the other less than a league to the west. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood and scanned the island—bleach-white dunes, blankets of grass, and boulders encrusted with salt like frosting. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

"At any rate there's no zoo on the island. He'll have a bit of trouble getting over that." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The island, he said, is rapidly dividing into two types of people: “the haves and the have-mores.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

After a moment, she decided to stick out her own little hand alongside the other two, as though this was the way people greeted each other on the island. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He followed her mentally as she left the reserve, swam across the wide waterway, reached the island’s shore, climbed up the bank, crossed the path, disappeared through the trees, and padded beside a twisting creek. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

The travelers got into the boats one more time, to paddle from the island to the other side of the Nile. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smoke filled the air, and the hot breeze from the island brought the scent of the napalm to us. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most Polynesian islands originally supported big flightless birds that had evolved in the absence of predators, New Zealand’s moas and Hawaii’s flightless geese being the best-known examples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And what could be better and more in line with the Miss Teen Dream mission statement than having them find that we have tamed and beautified this island? Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He was again the scrawny bag of bones she remembered from the little island. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she was finished, she sat back and smiled at the beautiful green island. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The island became dotted with lodges that all glowed warmly through those long winter nights. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

They had Worsley’s compass and an outline map of South Georgia that showed the coastline in detail and a complete blank in the interior of the island. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

As young men came to the island, we realized that they knew very little about the history of the ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath their gaze, we have dug a trench to divide our peninsula from the island, that our encampment may be more agreeably defended. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The island was already disappearing into the rain, the skeletons of trees smoking against the sky. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Besides, ever since his time on the island of Ogygia, he had become fond of camping out. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He would go out to wander the island’s trails in the early morning, at a slow pace. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

As you can imagine, convincing my parents to let me spend part of my summer on a tiny island off the coast of Wales was no easy task. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Maddie gasped at the river’s inadvertent loveliness, and all at once she found herself spilling childish tears, not just for her own besieged island, but for all of Europe. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Many of them had traveled miles from the interior of South Carolina in order to reach the Union headquarters on the island. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was hoping you would feel different when we came back to the island, is all.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The next year he returned to the island with seventeen ships and a thousand men. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Understandable. But it is kind of romantic. Like the island version of Walden Pond.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

If it cost this much to take just one small island, invading the big islands of Japan would be too terrible to imagine. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were on the far side of the island, the side opposite the bridge. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

A biologically sound zoo enclosure—whether cage, pit, moated island, corral, terrarium, aviary or aquarium—is just another territory, peculiar only in its size and in its proximity to human territory. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The islands were too small for awe, and a longship smaller still. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I shouldn’t have made you meet with my dad. I was just worried about your sister is all. But now that she’s safely off the island...” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shortly after their arrival on the island, the commanding officer came to me and asked me as a favor to address the young men. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thought of leaving the island had not crossed my mind once since I had arrived. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She stopped and wondered whether she had the courage to keep on to the bridge, cross it, and leave it to go down the steep bank to the island temple. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The mammoths of Wrangel continued to prosper for a few more millennia, then suddenly disappeared about 4,000 years ago, just when the first humans reached the island. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had never gone into details about what had happened on the island on the lake: The events that had taken place after he and Dumbledore had returned to Hogwarts had eclipsed it so thoroughly. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“We hear you’ve become very comfortable on our island,” said Nettle. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She staggered through the reeds to the island ahead and flattened on the ground. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The dust and smoke moved like a river among islands of debris—pieces of wall and roof, even an iron stove standing upright, as though it had been delivered by wagon. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

If Papa were trying to avoid arrest, he wouldn’t have gone near that island. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which is fitting, because the small islands here remind me of emeralds in the rough. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

As often happened on the island, we had learned significant political news before our own guards. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He terrorized the seas around the poor island, pillaging coastal cities and extorting others, attacking traders and supply ships bringing aid to a kingdom that hadn’t had a king in generations. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Until it started moving away from the island. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I try to make this building like an island for all of us washed-ashore refugees. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

True, our island wasn’t very big, but I couldn’t imagine hiding it anywhere else. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“I don't want to live on an island! I want to stay here, in the city. Do you think I want to go on a wobbly boat every day? Yuk!” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course,” she said, sitting down on the stool at the kitchen island. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the town a drawbridge crossed the river, connecting Ravenel with the three sea islands that separated the town from the Atlantic Ocean. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was advised that he had no avocation, he left the island, came to America to study the then budding field of psychiatry. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t even blame Calypso, the girl he’d left alone on that island. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Hence the area of the political unit varied not only with an island’s area but also with its fragmentation and isolation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The problem was what else lived on the large island. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

None but a few extremely remote islands escaped man’s notice until the modern age, and these islands kept their fauna intact. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

That there had been wolves on the island, wolves! Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Andrew was not a member of the High Organ and had not been in the forefront of the island leadership, although we considered the possibility that the authorities did not know this. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grounds contained a swimming pool and polo fields and a golf course and five lakes with islands. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

My eyes closed and the moon drew me west, away from the island of my melancholy. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

His half-finished house stood by the tamarind tree, the only trace left of the big man from the city who had tried to take over their island. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

November 21 the Putnam sailed, “bound for Sumatra and the pepper islands, God willing”—Captain Bowditch commanding. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trees were carnivorous too, but at a much lower level of acidity, safe enough to stay in for the night while the rest of the island seethed. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The elephant birds and the giant lemurs, along with most of the other large animals of Madagascar, suddenly vanished about 1,500 years ago—precisely when the first humans set foot on the island. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Sunday evening, April 7,1765, a swarm of Rhode Island men, their faces blackened, boarded the Polly and stripped the ship of its cargo: barrel after barrel of molasses from the sugar islands. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

We skimmed across the sea as the island shrank to a dot and then disappeared. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it was to look at the islands dappled across the horizon; other times to talk about the jetty and how boats might have used it in days gone by. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

In the course of that expansion, Austronesians came to occupy all habitable areas of those islands, from the seacoast to the interior, and from the lowlands to the mountains. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was an hour before dark when we got out to the islands called the Cowpens. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

We having marched and delivered fine shew of arms throughout the northwestern quadrant of the island, we returned to our point of disembarkation and commenced our breakfast. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He had hung it to dry and waited for me to arrive on the island so he could give it to me. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Her intention was to spend November and December shuttling between the Italian islands, in some off-season rental, completely alone. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wished that out there, on that island, there really was something that could turn the small and weak into the big and strong. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

So it was no surprise that at the sight of the island, the crew raced to prepare for landing. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The bridge led to nothing more than an artificial island in an artificial lake. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Dicey was hypnotized by the molten silver of the cloudy islands and not until the veil of fuzzy gray blew across it again did she begin their march of the day. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Etheringtons mostly humored him, it seemed to Ishmael—for them he was a colorful island character, part of the charm of the place. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

His wife, too, came from old island people—the Varigs, Art remembered, hay farmers and shake cutters with a few stump acres on Cattle Point—and her father had passed away not so long ago. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Up there, for once, were clouds, great bulging towers that sprouted away over the island, grey and cream and copper-colored. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Apart from its wrong-headedness, Neville’s speech was entirely contrary to the climate of cooperation between organizations we were trying to create on the island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Specialization increased on larger, more densely populated islands, reaching a peak on Samoa, the Societies, and especially Tonga and Hawaii. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But for it I might have lived for years—why, for the rest of my life—on that island. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“A whole pack of foxes, maybe,” said Pitchfork doubtfully, “if the island’s even got that many.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The wide beds of kelp which surround our island on three sides come close to the shore and spread out to sea for a distance of a league. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If the ocean keeps rising the island will be swallowed up by the waves and I don’t even know how to swim!” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Agents turn to aim a spotlight straight at the island. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps a Braavosi ship? One hears of purple sails as far away as Asshai and the islands of the Jade Sea.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

For fifty cents you can escape Manhattan by boat, crossing the waters of the harbor and bay past all the famous islands, Governor’s, Liberty, Ellis. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

"They're all dead," said Piggy, "an' this is an island. Nobody don't know we're here. Your dad don't know, nobody don t know." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

What troubled me the most was the way they treated the native people of the islands they conquered. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could establish a defensible perimeter, build a new airfield, then gradually work our way out to neutralize the whole island. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks to the thick bushes and the swamps and muddy banks that bordered the creeks, only small bodies could wiggle into the dry nooks and crannies of the island. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

From the islands round about and, of course, from Ithaca, men came swarming to Odysseus’ house to woo his wife. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pairing up, they spread across the island in search of provisions. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I was something completely different, an artist on an island, the only one brave enough to tell the truth. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“When the redcoats invaded,” he started, “we raced up the island to the fort. Figured we’d hold there for months, then drive them from the city come spring when our forces would be stronger.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kate wanted to know why Mr. Benedict hadn’t told them he had a twin on the island, to which Reynie replied that he probably hadn’t known himself. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond the wharf was the sea and the rocky islands where gulls nested. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had said they lived hundreds of miles to the south on a different island. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He considered it a given that he would come back and free her from this island. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Then out past the island of Formosa, looking like a giant, well- fertilized gardenia leaf, and across the Pacific, over Hawaii, and now time for California once again. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was just the sea’s waves battering the island, but Hazel didn’t think so. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

But thanks to tree-blindness, it’s common to slip up and type The bridge to the islands are crowded. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Skimming the wave-crests he reached at last the lovely island which had become for Odysseus a hateful prison. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Omakayas was glad of the boring time she’d spent over the summer pressing fistfuls of gumbo clay, taken from the center of the island, into those places where the dried mud had crumbled. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

When the Haitians defeated the French armies, Napoleon lost control of the world’s most productive sugar islands and with it his dream of great sugar profits. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The island’s censors would black out the offending passages in ink, but they later changed this when they realized we could wash away the ink and see what was underneath. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surviving on this island would have been a piece of cake had he wanted to stay, especially with supplies. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Roz wandered the island, covered in dirt and green growing things, and everywhere she went, she heard unfriendly words. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Cole’s pulse quickened as the island drifted into view. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I didn’t wait for an answer, but started in on an island lullaby that Momma had loved. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the young ANC members who came to the island had no idea that the organization had even been in existence in the 1920s and 1930s. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ask my mom if I can take a pirogue and do a circuit of the island. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

My bed is my island; my bed is my prison; my bed is my home. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“They say we must leave the island,” Fishtail went on. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

We were both looking out at the seal tank, but it contained no seals, just an unoccupied island with rocky outcroppings made of plastic. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Acre-size patches of bobbing vegetation, the famous “floating islands” of the Amazon, drift by. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

When three cubs were born ten weeks ago, rangers visited all fifty or so of the inhabited islands to share the good news. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

Otherwise he was liable to go from one troublesome island to the next, never recognizing where he was, until the world ran out. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

In France, revolutionaries were turning against their own nobles but remained uncertain about what this meant for enslaved Africans on their sugar islands. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

"And another thing. We shan't dream so much down here. This is near the end of the island." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Even she could jump from rock to rock to the little island now. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was certain she could check it if she could find the same roots and herbs here on the island that had grown in Maryland. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They just got ’em up, about half the island. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Just hot in the midday sun, anxious to be out of my shoes, eager to be on the islands again. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

They exchanged soft noises of recognition, then swooped over the island, chased each other, ate well, and started home. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The flood rises high enough to cover low river islands in knee-deep water, leaving their trees to stand out like miracles in mid-channel. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And me and Mong and Rondell were hiding out watching the ocean to make sure nobody came floating up in a raft to try and invade our island. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The first thing you would notice about our island, I think, is the wind. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So after I joined you on the island, I searched every night under cover of darkness. Even then I was lucky—I only found the entrance the night before I was captured.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The island was quiet, but a dog barked in the distance as they jogged along the path, single file. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

They Would talk of heroes who had defended the island, of armies and saints who had stopped there. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I dial his number, press Speaker, and place the phone on the kitchen island. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

At last they came to the end of the black mere, and they crossed it, perilously, crawling or hopping from one treacherous island tussock to another. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Vivi isn’t the only faerie from our islands to sneak across the sea and into the human world with some regularity, although most don mortal guises to mess with people. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He’s standing at the island in the spot where I called him to say I wouldn’t be at practice the other day. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Soon, I found myself at a secluded area north of the Court of Honor, a wooded island carved from the lakeside, lush with gardens, dense foliage, and manmade streams. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

If he ran a line just south of the channel islands and rocks, there was nothing until the Philippines, nothing until Japan but ocean, and that was where Owen wanted to be. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But we found him about a hundred yards from the mosque, sitting in the half-full parking lot, on an island of grass. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a fancy litde guardhouse on the island, like something the kings and queens in history would have built to keep out the serfs, or the Vandals, or whoever. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“On the opposite side of this island, over those hills, you’ll find a river. In the middle of that river lives the old god Achelous.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

My mom’s most recent success had been to get a forested island set aside as a bonobo preserve. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She’d assumed that the island where she had died hadn’t been completely destroyed, or possibly had risen again when Alcyoneus woke. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The boat came nearer, the searchlight sweeping to left and right, almost on course to hit the island, but at the last minute it turned a little to starboard and moved past. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

"You agree. But you see what it involves? Rogers swore that there was no one but ourselves and he and his wife on the island." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

If she could help him leave this island, that was totally fine by him. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

However Richard Parker took possession of the island, the bow and the tarpaulin remained my territory. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He hoped it would snow recklessly and bring to the island the impossible winter purity, so rare and precious, he remembered fondly from his youth. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

For a moment he thought she’d drowned the girl, but then he saw a flash of pale clothing on the rocks at the base of the island. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Bahamas, Belize, and the islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon sold them millions of gallons of liquor. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Bodies floated in the moat, islands for the crows. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Palm trees cropped up in the newsreels, and tropical islands. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Lord Voldemort would not want to kill the person who reached this island.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“All life is one; no man is an island,’ as Shakespeare said in olden times.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Maya screamed, chasing a giggling Grace around the island. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

There were islands in the swamp—follow them to the continent of freedom. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Small seal colonies were starting to form on some of the islands around Nantucket and Cape Cod. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he remembered the nightmare that had woken him, and how he had tried to steady himself by mapping the island in his head. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought I’d be off this island by now,” she grumbled. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were the men who had spread the name of Salem so far and wide that natives of some distant islands thought Salem was a country—near the United States—and probably bigger. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seldom had I felt such warmth from my island neighbors. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took the Island Explorer, the free bus that makes a continuous loop of the island, and got off at the closest stop to Vivian’s, about a ten-minute walk. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Who locks his door when he’s the only one living on an island?” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

David came upon a page that began: Brought Susan aboard for sail out to islands. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That is seriously amazing. Can you tell us what you did to help us survive on this island?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

But they did believe that what they’d learned from the other island invasions had prepared them for anything our enemies could dish out. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing on a floating island nearby is Max. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

‘No idea where we’ll go or what problems await beyond this island. Many questions and no tidy answers?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Sugar lords like Beckford wanted to make sure American colonists would buy only from their islands, and would not be able to look for cheaper sugar elsewhere. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I have some clean clothes in the hospital, but there’s nothing else I need so much as to be off this island before he comes back.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

To start with details, I saw that the whole island was covered with the algae, not just its edges. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

For half an hour on the river’s island, everyone lies stone still. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

His name was Van Rensburg and he had been flown to the island on twenty-four hours’ notice after the assassination. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had saved the man’s life, she said, when his ship was wrecked near the island, and cared for him ever since. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each star system is an island in space, quarantined from its neighbors by the light-years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once we started working, I got some sense of what life was like for other prisoners on the island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nevertheless, island civilians must do whatever they can independent of naval and military aid to safeguard their homes and businesses against sabotage or bombing.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She had no more bad dreams, but the presence of the grave had spoiled the island for her. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The horse sped north across Puget Sound, zooming past islands and fishing boats and very surprised pods of whales. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

As she made her way down the path, past the cabins, and then along the beach in the direction of the bone tree, Jinny stopped to look back at her island. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She remembered mist all around, the island gone. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The pirates bent over their paddles, rowing in rhythm until they were a safe distance from the island. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

In that moment, Roz finally realized that she was on an island. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

There was another thing about the sound of the waterfall: it seemed to be coming from within the body of the island, deep under the earth. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The French killed nearly 150,000 Haitians in their attempt to take back control of the island. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I’m walking around to the windy west side of the island now, craning my neck back to hear what she says. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The old king of Liccaro hid his treasure on another island?” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe sleeping on the fairy’s island meant you never needed to sleep again. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

As for his own practicality, Caesar was a capable navigator when it came to finding islands. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I decided to circle the island to find them. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I do not know. I do not remember being built. My very first memory is waking up on the northern shore of this island.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

There’s no table, just a big wooden island in the middle with two stools: one for me and one for her. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

So she turned and floated some more, hoping for a thought, an instinct, or best of all, a glimpse of the island through the mist. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The water crashed against the foot of the island. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Then, there were indications she was misreading the actual size of the islands. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Word spread, and soon it felt like nearly every kid on the island was volunteering. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they must be in the middle of the island. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The chief danger that threatened them, he said, was that they might do some injury to the oxen of the Sun when they reached the island where they lived. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several small islands tucked up inside great banks of coral that made navigation dangerous was what I finally decided on. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within a few millennia that single ancestral Polynesian society had spawned on those diverse islands a range of diverse daughter societies, from hunter-gatherer tribes to proto-empires. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

To make things worse, the island where Derek Mays was poaching was deep in Everglades National Park, which is totally protected. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z