Bleary-eyed and confused, I followed her to the kitchen. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“No...I need a cup of tea. Let’s go in the kitchen.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

We sat around the kitchen table, drinking hot apple cider, eating homemade cookies fresh out of the oven, and playing hearts. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

As it turns out, when Martín was truly mad—yeah, everything I’d seen up to that point was him being cheery—he liked to blast death metal in the kitchen. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He went directly to the kitchen and there he stopped for the first time at the end of a trip that had begun on the other side of the world. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

"Heard some yattering in the kitchen today about you and them Freys." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He’d laid the same one on his old man countless times, despite knowing it would mean the belt or the replacement power cord for the dryer that hung purposefully in their trailer’s kitchen. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

As he was eating the second, his mom wandered in the kitchen. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I took my empty cup of genmaicha to the kitchen and washed and dried it by hand. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I waited for the shower to turn on and then came down the back stairs and out the kitchen door. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“You could have told me—” She stopped, marched across the kitchen, took Brandon’s chin, and tilted his face up. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I remembered poor Ms. Castellan in her kitchen, waiting for her son to come home. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

For, finally, as a last resort, Louise sent Mig to the kitchen, where Cook had a reputation for dealing effectively with difficult help. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Richard had kindly offered to let them sleep in the servants’ quarters off the kitchen, but Mama still refused, which was a relief to Ophie. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The kitchen came first, with an open cabinet where dishes were stacked in perilous towers without the least regard for their varying dimensions. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the kitchen, the screams and shouts continue. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The trip to the kitchen and back could not have taken more than two minutes, yet in that time I tramped through swampy cemeteries, climbed over dusty gravestones and eluded litters of night-black cats. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She kept thinking of Mia’s smile that day in the kitchen, the capability she saw there to delight in mischief, in breaking the rules. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Yellow light shines like a line beneath my bedroom door, and I hear some murmurs and whispers that don’t belong to the TV, voices coming from the kitchen. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I didn’t mind not having to wash dishes or mop the kitchen floor. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lee went to the kitchen and rattled dishes. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later, I sit in the hot kitchen, bored, smoking a cigarette, something I can’t seem to stop doing lately. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

My mother leads me into the kitchen with the plantain and asks me if I’m hungry. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But I heard the music, and I had seen balloons and the cake she baked through the open door into the kitchen. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, only the heavy wood mortar was left behind. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Greek would be lazily unpacking a case of peaches or melons, or perhaps looking at the funny paper in the kitchen behind the store where he cooked. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I grab two bags and head to the kitchen. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The grocery boy reported that the kitchen looked like a pigsty, and the general opinion in the village was that the new people weren't servants at all. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He took the bowls from her hands at the kitchen door and he set them upon the table in the middle room and called loudly, “Eat, my uncle and my brothers.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Then he left the parsonage and sprinted to Mrs. Cobb’s house, where Lizzie would be waiting and dripping inside the kitchen—Mrs. Cobb had started to leave the back door open for her. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Everyone stands in pairs in Poplar Springs Middle School’s kitchen classroom, where I’ll be taking FACS—Family and Consumer Science—later this year. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Kya? I thought this was already paid,” comes Baba’s angry voice from the kitchen. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The “rain room” was the chamber off the kitchens they’d designated for Feral’s cloud summoning. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The mother is clapping a lot to get the kids to come to the kitchen. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Now Rita and Tendai Fired up the old coal stove in the kitchen, cut grubs out of the guavas and boiled the squash. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’m fairly certain that if I walked into the kitchen stark-naked and squawking like a chicken, I still wouldn’t get a word out of them. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

When I opened the kitchen door to the house, Tilly practically mowed me down she wanted out so bad. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

They were going to a communal kitchen for supper for all. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

While we talked and waited for the souffle to complete its magic rise, the smell of baking chocolate seeped out of the kitchen and filled the house. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

But instead, he takes another big bite of his apple, turns, and leaves the kitchen. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I broke the world’s record for throwing on sweats and busting back to the kitchen. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Then he walked into the farm kitchen, and kissed his mother on the cheek, and helped himself to a cottage loaf and a large pat of fresh-churned butter. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mac rubbed his eyes and paced back and forth in the kitchen. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

I look at the hook where I sometimes but not always remember to hang my jacket, and the kitchen chair where my mother sets her handbag. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I took the tray away to the kitchen, and the glass with it. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

They rose and left the chamber, making their way to the kitchen. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

There’s quiet when there should be pots rattling in the kitchen. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Matthew crossed to the kitchen and opened cupboards by the sink until he found a glass. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I finally take Dain’s advice and get some moss from the kitchens, wash the wound, and rewrap it with my makeshift button brace. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

From the kitchen ceiling the electric fan spins continuously, carrying these familiar aromas all around our house-—even into our bathroom. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was sitting in the kitchen the next morning eating cereal and looking off into the distance, counting the number of girls in the front yard wanting my autograph. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before he left, Dad sat down with me at Gramma’s kitchen table. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

When I next ventured down to my lab, I discovered Mom had taken back her kitchen hardware. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ophie hated the tremor that had entered Cook’s voice, the way her eyes darted around the kitchen as Richard walked across the tiles in his fine shoes, the heels clacking with each step. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

That night, Henry walked into the kitchen like nothing had happened. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Secondly, Aunt Gina loves to send stuff back to the kitchen until it’s “right,” and I wouldn’t be surprised if they spit in our food. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I hurry out, go the other way, through the kitchen and up the back stairs. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she walked into the kitchen, we were setting the table. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I think she liked being in this kitchen, mothering and praying over this big machine and these blocks of backward letters. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Momma, Joey and Grandma Sands were sitting at the little, skinny kitchen table yakking. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took us another hour to clean up the kitchen the way Grandma wanted to leave it. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, we had an aluminum tub you could fit into if you pulled your legs up against your chest. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I made my way to the kitchen to check if Daddy was in there having his coffee. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The scene was inevitable: One Saturday morning I entered the kitchen where my parents were talking in Spanish. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re not looking through their things, are you?” her mother called from the kitchen. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I headed toward the kitchen, but then something made me turn around; your guess is as good as mine. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

For my family, this not only meant they would have convenient lodging, but they would also have access to a kitchen and laundry machines. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Zaragoza made her way around in the tight little kitchen to sit between me and Inés. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Dad asked me, catching me serenading Teddy as I pushed him around the kitchen in his stroller in a vain attempt to get him to nap. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She imagines him extending his thick neck to look into the house, the coat on the rack, the crumbs of bread on the kitchen table. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“You were naked in Mrs. Cobb’s kitchen,” Turner’s father said, slowly and quietly. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I’m following Momma out of the kitchen, asking her to talk to the teachers and make this thing right again. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, while Molly cleans out cabinets and Jack tightens the latches on the screen door, they discuss what Sarah and her family might want to do on the island. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She came through a door on the side of the kitchen, rolling a yellow mop bucket. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

As her mother answered the door, Carla stayed behind in the kitchen, listening with a racing heart to her mother's explanation. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She watched from beneath Henry’s kitchen table as her mother and Wash sat drinking Ovaltine. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mia ran down to the side door, and Pearl heard a murmur of voices and crying, and then her mother came into the kitchen followed by a young Chinese woman, who was sobbing. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He looked in the kitchen trash and found the three Ziploc bags, inside out and sticky with lemonade. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

But then it hadn’t, and anyway he loved the dog fennel and the silver poplars and the hedge of lilacs on the south that separated Jenny’s well-drained kitchen garden from the dooryard. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she goes back to the kitchen and returns with a bowl I know is full of piping-hot pimento cheese grits, and a platter of thick Black Forest bacon. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen she went immediately to her cupboard and took down a small bag of coffee. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thereafter, at teatime, I would go to the small kitchen in the office and take my tea there in solitude. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go into the kitchen for a soda. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Blore was busy on the handle of the chopper and the flour sifter from the kitchen. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Mrs. disappeared into the kitchen and then returned with the telephone receiver, its long, coily cord stretching into the living room. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

My grandfather and I are in the kitchen the next day after school, and he’s complaining about my mother’s cooking. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Diego tosses his backpack on the couch, points at me and goes in the kitchen to make his own pieces of bread. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Sitting up, I see my brother throw his bag on the floor and head to the kitchen. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

They carried armloads of dead limbs up the back stairs through the kitchen and into the diningroom and broke them to length and stuffed the fireplace full. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

My mother sewed in the kitchen with the other slaves. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Desdemona had found Lefty on our kitchen floor, lying next to his overturned coffee cup. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We quickly learned that whenever we ventured into the kitchen, we needed to wrap our hands in the driest socks or rags we could find. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen Grandma was all by herself, stirring the boiling syrup in the big brass kettle. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stands, thumps Sneaky on the head, and walks out of the kitchen with her food. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I walk through the kitchen and grab the keys, then circle back to the front door, where Connor has extracted himself from Mrs. Baransky to give Mom a goodbye hug and kiss. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I thought of our warm kitchen at home in Tilsit, the soft ring of the lids trembling on their pots, and my sister’s laughter echoing throughout the house. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She stared at me until I followed Lily out of the kitchen. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Then he went to the kitchen and sat and waited for Count Olaf. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

He poured wine and gathered some food from the kitchen, which he bit into and arranged on the plates. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She motions past the kitchen to the far end of the trailer. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Hour after hour, in Aibileen’s kitchen, she reads her writing and I type, the details thickening, the babies’ faces sliding into focus. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“How is she?” he asks before he goes in the kitchen. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Downstairs the knot of impatience would be tightening in the kitchen, while the minutes she was planning to spend alone with her brother were running out. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he had an idea, and he ran back into the kitchen and looked over the hearth. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then came a moment when his mother was out of the kitchen. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

After sweeping I went into the kitchen, sat on the stool, and watched Kazi stir and chop. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Early one morning, about two weeks later, the doorway of the kitchen was suddenly darkened by the unexpected shadow of Mr. Derby. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, on Easter Saturday, a dour day, the first quiet Easter Saturday in Ifemelu’s life, her mother ran out of the kitchen and said, “I saw an angel!” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Joseph knew that, even though he was wearing a nineteenth- century velvet suit, had a broken watch on his wrist, and had just eaten a huge meal in an ancient kitchen. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

My mom pushes through the kitchen doors, wiping her hands on her apron. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he carried Robin down into the kitchen, where he could be warm on a wet day. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Rooms were heated—in the Korean way—by a coal fire in the kitchen with flues running under the bedroom floor. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Plus, now it was a story Willy’d bring up at the kitchen table if he wanted to get out of what I told him he needed to do. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Then she pushes open the trapdoor and climbs into the kitchen. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

We stood by the cash register until Abby’s dad exited the kitchen wearing a stained apron and a backward baseball cap. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The man sitting across from me at an oilcloth-covered kitchen table was eighty-three. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

"Hanneke, would you get us some more biscuits from the kitchen?" Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

My dad enters the kitchen, which is good. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

But the solvent spread on the linoleum, licking, eating, under the kitchen door, while the voices took it up in chorus: “Fire, fire, fire!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Were there menials, I wondered, whom I should never know, never see, waiting behind kitchen doors for the gift of our breakfast? Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They were standing alone at the Burrow’s kitchen sink, peeling a mountain of sprouts for Mrs. Weasley. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I woke up nearly every day to her standing in the kitchen, Preacher Green playing on the radio that sat on the kitchen table. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It’s the less desirable bedroom, because it is close to the kitchen and the living room, where people are awake and talking, and sometimes there is music on the radio. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

And then she had thought, looking about the kitchen: “Lord, wouldn’t it be a blessing if he didn’t never come back no more.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Ain’t nobody worried about them bammas. Smelling like they Momma’s kitchen grease. Don’t look like they had a proper shower in days.” Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Maybe Ariana would even let me film my audition video in the shop’s kitchen. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Then at six o’clock she heard Bill go to the kitchen and fix his breakfast. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She admired the fish extravagantly, rewarded the fisherman with a purse of silver, and sent the pike to her kitchens. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It’s empty, a dim night-light’s left on; it has the calm of empty kitchens at night. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk into what has become such a familiar spot to me, the middle of Aibileen’s kitchen. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Park was going to take her keys, then sneak back out the kitchen door, the door farthest from his parents' room. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I smelled hot coffee brewing in the kitchen, and bacon. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

I will sleep in alleys and stables, wash dishes for kitchen scraps, beg pennies to buy pens. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He ate at odd hours, muddied from head to toe, and he did so in a corner in the kitchen, barely answering the occasional questions asked by Santa Sofía de la Piedad. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Then O-lan crept out and she took a great iron knife she had in the kitchen and she cut a great gash in the beast’s neck, and thus she severed its life. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I asked him as we entered the tiny kitchen. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Later in the afternoon we were sitting at the kitchen table, talking. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

"My neighbor and I were having tea. You don't have anywhere to be, do you? You can wait in the kitchen until we’re finished." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He paused, letting the drama grow in the silence of the kitchen. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Matilda, who was perched on a tall stool at the kitchen table, ate her bread and jam slowly. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mum and Dad must've called a weird cease-fire while we'd been in the kitchen 'cause after the washing up they sat at the table and seemed to be talking normally about the day and stuff. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Toby and Pete ran outside to find the crate, and Mrs. Monroe went to the kitchen to get him some milk and lettuce. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

My brothers were pleading with my mother to take their pet chicks with them, and my cousin’s wife was in the kitchen crying. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When I came out of the kitchen I saw that he had not gone back to the bedroom. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Us convincing June’s mom to share her super-secret recipe for cinnamon apple pie and then getting into a flour fight in the kitchen. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He knocked on the door, and when the homeowner opened it, George walked inside without being invited and roamed around until he found the kitchen table, where he sat down. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, some of the animals were disturbed when they heard that the pigs not only took their meals in the kitchen and used the drawing-room as a recreation room, but also slept in the beds. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

I saw her through my kitchen window last week. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

She gathered up my money and headed back to the kitchen. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“They creep into apartments at night. They booby-trap kitchen cupboards, toilet bowls, brassieres. Go to open your panty drawer, and you get your fingers blown off.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Raggedy Ann dolls and dollhouses, little aluminum dishes to play kitchen. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

His mother worked in the kitchen, checking in on him periodically, her lap stained with turmeric. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She ran through the kitchen, ignoring Mama’s and Cook’s yelps of surprise and shouted censure, grabbed the saltshaker off the prep table, and climbed the stairs, her short legs pumping hard up the grand staircase. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

For a second I considered bolting into the kitchen to try to figure out why I was losing it in front of my mom’s goddaughter. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

As my parents and the FOB sat talking at the kitchen table, I dropped two dishes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We managed to get into the cabin without disturbing the lioness, and Anyango and Thomas bolted themselves into the little wooden kitchen hut for the night. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I took another breath, slower than the first, and tried not to think on the newly sharpened knives on the kitchen steps. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was ensconced in my covers and had just unwrapped the first Peanut Butter Cup I’d pilfered from the kitchen when I heard the doorbell ring. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, we could hear it all the way from the kitchen: shouting; and a coffee cup breaking; swear words in both English and Greek; feet stomping out of the house. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Let me show you around,” Ronan says, running into the kitchen. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I could imagine them now, talking excitedly, laughing in the little kitchen. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

My mother was in the kitchen, unpacking groceries. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It was the maid’s room off the kitchen, and it was tiny, with one narrow window and a bathroom that doubled as a closet. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Whether Bill and Hazel and Etta sat with the boarders or ate in the kitchen depended on how much food there was. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Later that evening, I stood by the entrance of the kitchen after supper. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I covered my mouth and nose with my hands and ran through the burning study and down the flaming hallway into the kitchen. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

When we got home from Little Rock, Dad was still gone and the kitchen light was the only thing we could see from the driveway. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

All around me there were big black boots going stamp stamp stamp and I dodged around them and ran and ran and ran, twisting and turning, and dodging and swerving across the kitchen floor. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“And besides,” Baba continues as Mustafa walks into the kitchen, “my brother memorized the Quran when we were young and hasn’t forgotten a letter. He can help the kids prepare for the competition.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Grandma goes to the kitchen and soon we have bread and sausages and tea. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“You’re late,” Mom said when I made it back to the kitchen. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

She stopped jumping and looked around the kitchen. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

When I met Mom in the kitchen she inspected me up and down, made me change from sneakers to loafers, and then we walked up the street a quarter mile to Dr. Mertz’s home office. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Through the nights she stood like a field general over the kitchen counter, hands perched on those jutting hipbones, smoking with agitation, assessing points of entry and encampment and escape. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

George didn’t want to be standing near the bathroom when Scott came out, so she went down to the kitchen. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Leaning out the kitchen window, Shirley and her parents watched the crescent moon drift through the clouds. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I don’t mean Roger the kitchen boy. I mean children such as yourself. Nobly born children. Would you like to have some companions of that sort?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Gerald and Angel stood at the kitchen sink together, the sunlight of a November day filtering weakly through the small window. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You okay with the other two conditions?” he asked, trailing her to the kitchen. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He got up and rummaged through the kitchen to take inventory. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

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

She was very cold and deliberate, and moved about the kitchen with a furious concentration on her tasks, scarcely looking at him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

It was coming from the kitchen, clicking and clacking over the shushing sound of rain. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

"There are a dozen Headmistress's jugs and glasses in the kitchen," Miss Honey said. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually he turns and goes into the kitchen. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Mama reached over Hyacinth’s head and clicked the door closed, then shuffled back to the kitchen to cook dinner while Hyacinth watched out the window until she couldn’t see Mr. Jones anymore. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

In the eat-in area of the kitchen, I spent over an hour constructing an elaborate obstacle course and placed Sir Fig Newton’s food dish at the end. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She sashayed out of the kitchen, and a moment later, I heard her in her bedroom, humming “One Fine Day” by the Chiffons along with the radio and sweeping the floor. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Both reached their kitchens at the same moment. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The kitchen was in a state of spotless order and cleanliness. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He looked around and saw the gleaming kitchen and the table set for two and detected the scent of the nest. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Our moms sat in the kitchen drinking coffee, like they often do now. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

He then began to take imaginary jump shots against the kitchen wall. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sure did wish we had gotten out of that kitchen as soon as we put the deliveries away. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you take him to your house?” you’d said while it lurched around on your kitchen floor. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The lino extended past the stairs to a door with a frosted-glass window which probably opened onto the kitchen out the back. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then Emma took my arm and yanked me away—down another hall—into a kitchen—out the back door—into an ash-dusted garden—down an alley where the others were running in a loose group. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Flinging open the kitchen door, I rushed into the backyard, past the workers in the sugarcane fields, past the tractors, their noise blurring into the distance. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

"They can call it whatever they want to call it. I have a perfectly good pot in the kitchen and some beans that are fresh enough for anyone." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Daisy and Tom were sitting opposite each other at the kitchen table with a plate of cold fried chicken between them and two bottles of ale. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t back down, and can’t back away—her back is to the kitchen counter. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

They set it in a corner of the spacious kitchen. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

A serving girl hissed at me to go back to the kitchen. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat at the kitchen table with her coffee. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

There were four rooms from front to back, one leading into the other: the living room facing Varet Street, then our bedroom, then Tata’s room, then the kitchen. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The next morning I found Dad in the kitchen, dumping flour into a glue-like substance I assumed was supposed to be pancake batter. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

With Rus at her side, she entered the kitchen. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

When I was ten, Daddy tried to install one in the tin kitchen ceiling without asking Constantine. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Francis had drifted into the kitchen; we could hear him opening and shutting cabinets. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

It's heavy, and as I move to the stairs with it, Alicia gets to her feet, and I follow her up to the kitchen. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood in the middle of the kitchen, the statue of Adonis again, staring abstractedly out the back windows. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He had walked into what looked like an old-fashioned, three-room flat, complete with bathroom and kitchen. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Dad’s white shirt walking out of the kitchen? Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When day broke, Jon walked to the kitchens as he did every dawn. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And if there's anyone who'd simply take it in their stride, who'd just clean up the mess and get on with things, it's the two guys sitting downstairs at the kitchen table drinking their beer. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Empedocles performed his experiment with a household implement people had used for centuries, the so-called clepsydra or “water thief,” which was used as a kitchen ladle. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the food had arrived, when we were eating and I was calmer, the kitchen began to blur around me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Its tail dangled down so far, it looked like one of the flypaper strips that hung from her kitchen ceiling. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to keep my face neutral as I walked down the hallway through the living room and to the kitchen, all backward. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

On the kitchen table was a thermos, a teacup, the white leatherette Bible, and the car keys. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would walk downstairs and pretend that he was going to the kitchen to drink water and stand close to the living room door for a while, listening. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He accompanied me to the kitchen, the room farthest from the bedroom where Vera must have been sleeping. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Rita is in here, standing at the kitchen table, which has a top of chipped white enamel. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, around three in the afternoon, I was ironing a shirt in the kitchen when there was another knock at the door. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

There were screams from the dining room and Uncle Vernon burst into the kitchen to find Harry, rigid with shock, covered from head to foot in Aunt Petunia’s pudding. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Twig’s mother floated into the kitchen as I sat down across from Twig. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Amari figured she was waiting for her opportunity to work there instead of in the kitchen with the slaves. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shame made the kitchen stink worse than greens. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She must be thinking the same thing because she turns on the spot, grabs a trash bag from the kitchen, and disappears into her bedroom. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

He speaks to her when his family is asleep, quietly in the empty kitchen, charging the calls to his telephone at school. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I remember coming into the kitchen one time and seeing Sookie and Mom sharing a whole pie, laughing about something I didn’t know anything about. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Mom told me not to move, got a white plastic kitchen garbage bag, made me step onto it, and then took my sneakers off of me as I stepped off of the bag. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t matter if trust-fund money is running out; if credit card bills go unpaid on the kitchen counter. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Afterward, shaking, I pull my knickers up and flee, the door knocking behind me as I run across the yard and up the three steps to the kitchen. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was square, like a kitchen floor tile, but bigger and two inches deep, like a cereal box. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Everybody was laughing, over by the kitchen door. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll see you soon, then,” she said, and headed back into the kitchen as I stood alone with my mind blown. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

She sat us down at the kitchen table and insisted on feeding us her special blue chocolate-chip cookies while we caught her up on the quest. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I could hardly believe that she would take such a risk for a mere pot, but going back for it gave her one more moment to survey her kitchen and what had been our home. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

That night Helmuth sits at the kitchen table, feeling dark, chewing on his pencil. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

So I turn on the lights in the kitchen, and the two bedrooms, and even the bathroom. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I walk down the hallway, my fingers lightly following the wall, my eyes fixed on a tiny light coming from the kitchen. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

At home two women friends of my mother’s sat with her in the kitchen. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Under shellfire he wouldn’t bring his kitchen up near enough, so that our soup-carriers had to go much farther than those of the other companies. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was Tuesday, so both sad irons were heating on the stove and I’d covered the kitchen table with a clean blanket. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

We walked down the hallway to the kitchen, and she stopped in front of the wall of photographs. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Nobody wants to be left in the kitchen when it gets dark. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

As I retyped it on the kitchen table, Mamá came over and sat next to me. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

He has us stand at attention in the kitchen. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Then go to the kitchen and help my wife.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Mami is standing by the kitchen window, chopping lettuce and talking with her brothers on the phone. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

If he really did see a book from home, it’s more valuable to me than all of the diamonds and emeralds and rubies scattered on los Viejos’ kitchen floor. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I picture us at the kitchen table, me drinking hot chocolate, about to go to sleep, and him drinking coffee, about to go to work. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I’m signed up to work in the kitchen, or help Miss Lavinia dress, or anything, for a year, and Isannah is thrown in for nothing—because she is so young and has a delicate stomach. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Be quick about it,” the old woman says when I appear in the kitchen to resume my duties. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

So I hushed and Caddy got up and we went into the kitchen and turned the light on and Caddy took the kitchen soap and washed her mouth at the sink, hard. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which makes me cackle at the kitchen table. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The kitchen’s fully stocked with coffee again—I guess Dad stepped up and bought some. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Supper done and my grandmother has transformed the kitchen into a beauty shop. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Finn stood in the middle of the kitchen, staring at Mom. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I threw on my clothes and went downstairs to the kitchen, where hot chocolate and buttered toast waited for me on the counter. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The commercials with smiling families in their bright, gleaming kitchens, wiping spilled juice with paper towels. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

His mother had asked him one day when they were sitting in the kitchen. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Music and voices poured out of the kitchen, pulling them in. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

My mom is in her room unpacking and Natalie’s sitting on the kitchen floor, running her hands through her button box. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I said it, he acted like he might go straight to the kitchen and stab something. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought I heard mice in the kitchen. I’m afraid there will be white of egg on the boys’ pillows. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Michael Kittredge, who began his candle-making business at age sixteen in his mother’s kitchen and says he was raised in a “lower-class to lower-middle-class” home, holds attitudes typical of many of the newcomers. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The kitchen door stood open and he crossed the porch and stood in the doorway. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

‘Jazz makes me itch,” she says with a frown as Dad’s music explodes into the kitchen. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“She works hard in the kitchen. She taught herself by watching videos and getting cookbooks from the library.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He stared at us all sitting at the kitchen table, blinking as if he were seeing a vision. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I went into the kitchen and filled an empty orange-juice jug with water. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She had asked for water and Odenigbo opened the bedroom door to go to the kitchen and nearly tripped on Ugwu, curled on a mat right outside their door. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was a table, too, of course, a kitchen tucked into a corner and a bench to sit on. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

As Harry’s birthday dinner would have stretched the Burrow’s kitchen to breaking point even before the arrival of Charlie, Lupin, Tonks, and Hagrid, several tables were placed end to end in the garden. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Two nights later, Mutti is clinking dinner dishes in the kitchen sink as Hugo dresses. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Bull ordered his son to dress on the double, to meet him at a muster formation in the kitchen, or be put on report. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Valerie took the lump with her and started down the ladder to the kitchen. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

What really happened is that Tom had to half carry me out of the house, me crying and shouting all the way, while poor Clara cowered in the kitchen. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s two doughnuts in the kitchen for you,” she said. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom was at the kitchen table in front of her beach painting, which she had finally finished. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was fumbling in his pockets for something, listening to me as I told him everything that had happened since I walked into the kitchen. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Joseph found his uncle in an ancient kitchen, tossing a few pieces of charcoal into an iron stove. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

When we get inside, she heads straight for the kitchen. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Fern was the baby I saw coming out of Cecile on the kitchen floor. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Lena, could you see who it is?” called my father from the kitchen. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, she and Doc had to get up earlier and cook, then clean up the kitchen before going off to work. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Back in the kitchen, he found Mr. Richard reading the sheets of paper he had left on the countertop. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mother pats me on the shoulder and swishes out through the kitchen door. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

In spite of that, before the father went into the kitchen, he came into the room and with a single bow, cap in hand, made a tour of the table. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

The third day she came in when the kitchen was full of other women and again asked Olanna for soup. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He reminded me of the big wooden nutcracker Louisa puts out on her kitchen table at Christmastime. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Some of it was meant to keep the camp itself running: cleaning the barracks, the guards’ houses, the hospital, the kitchen. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I arrived in my neighbor’s kitchen, my backpack slung over my shoulder, ready to test my theory that music could fix Dad’s mood. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Finally after a few days, the kitchen phone rang while me and Bertha were out on the porch eating egg salad sandwiches for lunch. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Fred and George rounded off the evening with a display of Filibuster fireworks; they filled the kitchen with red and blue stars that bounced from ceiling to wall for at least half an hour. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I asked, and set the bleach and poison on the kitchen table. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Daddy not only had a fire in the kitchen but in the living room too. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Grandma said all of this before she actually got to the kitchen. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She sat down at the counter in her kitchen and picked up. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then she flounced over to the dog, kissed it with ecstasy and swept into the kitchen, implying that a dozen chefs awaited her orders there. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“You should train him better. He shouldn’t eat people’s food from the kitchen table.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I went to the kitchen and came back with water, a soapy dishrag, and a towel. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I toss it in the kitchen trash because I know neither of my parents will care. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Brickz follows the piece of bologna I dangle in front of him all the way to his spot in the kitchen. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

At the sound of running water, I glance into the kitchen. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

When I walk into the kitchen, my aunt is at the table sipping chai, and my mom is at the stove cooking. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I walked to the bathroom and kitchen and dining room on tiptoe. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I saw the dining room where First Families ate their meals and popped my head into the tidy kitchen, where a culinary staff was already at work on dinner. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I did my homework at the wobbly kitchen table. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The last thing he wanted now was for Mama to colonize his kitchen or use Olanna’s favorite saucepan for her strong-smelling soup. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He would drink a pot of coffee by the kitchen stove and a deep uneasiness would come in him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I crept down the stairs, through the kitchen. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s comfortable enough, but it isn’t a place you want to be, so instead I linger in the living room or at the kitchen table, ill at ease and powerless. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

And with a cold look at Margaret—who smiled in return—I went into the kitchen and put the pot of violets on the table. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boys weren’t allowed in the kitchen, but she made an exception for me, saying, “You need to know how to cook something for your palampo life.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

There’s no phone, but Scoob does make an unexpected discovery in the hidden space behind the kitchen TV: rubber-banded piles—four of them—of crudely stacked green paper rectangles. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

She went waltzing out the kitchen and had the nerve to stick out her tongue at me. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Making his way into the kitchen, he got down dusty, long unused plates and bowls and glasses; he began washing them in the sink, running the rusty hot water until it cleared at last. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

But when he tries to leave the kitchen, only place he can go is the “parlor,” and there’s no getting out of the parlor. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The kitchen turned into a cannery and all the girls helped. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I want to make him uncomfortable, to rip him from where he is and put him in his kitchen at one a.m. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Downstairs, he found enough food in Basta’s kitchen to quell the hunger that had been gnawing like a worm at the walls of his stomach. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

"Bingo! When you came to the kitchen you said you were invisible, and you are. But what does that mean? You know the Stealth Bomber? The Air Force calls that plane invisible. Well, is it?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A gaunt, ragged figure stood on the step, and as she shrank back a man pushed his way through the door and halted on the kitchen threshold. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I went to the kitchen and washed the lettuce. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, while he washed his face and combed back his hair, his mother addressed him irritably. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t follow Mother to the kitchen. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I heard them talking about it, in the kitchen. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

We got to work cutting up the fruit in the kitchen. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother’s voice called from the kitchen, “Children, you let him alone.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He opened a tin for Moxie and left her to eat in the kitchen. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought about going to the kitchen and getting some food, but she couldn’t bear the thought of the extra movements, so she went to her room to lie down on her bed. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

There was jazz music coming from the kitchen. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

As he’d guessed, Pearl was out with Trip that afternoon, and learned the news only when she came home some hours later to find Bebe—quiet now—still at the kitchen table. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I went back to the kitchen and cooked the dinner. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

My father poked his head into the kitchen. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead I just sat at the kitchen table and looked around at all the things that I was used to, that now suddenly seemed so strange. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

If I worked in the kitchen I could pretend none of this was happening. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The reply from the kitchen came after a long pause. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

She’s at the sink in the kitchen, my apron around her middle, washing the dishes in water she’s warmed on the stove. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Exasperated, he had gone to the kitchen door. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go in the kitchen where Doctor Tate’s washing his hands. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We have the same rectangular bedrooms, the same pull-chain light in the hallway, the same weirdshaped kitchen with the same unpredictable ovens, theirs right below ours. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Then I sit in the kitchen with the black-and-white notebook in front of me. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

A bird is on the sill of the kitchen window, tilting its head as though listening to something. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

They were in an old kitchen with peeling sea-green wallpaper, a school-bus-yellow fridge buzzing as loud as a Laundromat washer. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

When the children came downstairs, their grandmother was waiting in the kitchen. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two newspapers are spread wide open on the kitchen table. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I could still hear Mrs. Baylor in the kitchen, cooking my dinner. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Though Ash looked out the kitchen window every few minutes on the morning Kaisa said she would come, part of her did not believe it would actually happen. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malcolm came into the kitchen just as the old lady was putting a lamb stew to simmer on the range. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The bathroom door was closed, which meant he had only a moment before his mother would be back in the kitchen. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’s sitting at the kitchen table, looking out at the storm, a beer bottle between his hands. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They’re making too much noise to hear from the kitchen,” Lyra whispered back. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Hannah left it on the kitchen table a minute, and the kittens got at it. I’m very sorry, Amy,” added Beth, who was still a patroness of cats. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not in this kitchen, but in the kitchen in Brooklyn. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a single, illusory moment of bliss, I’m there in that kitchen, my kitchen, in my home, with my parents. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I walked like Howard around the kitchen table. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

She took me up and we went to the kitchen. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It consisted of a kitchen and dining car, a sleeping car and two local coaches. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rushed into the shiny white kitchen and escaped to the back porch. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He had already stepped past the threshold and climbed onto the raised veranda, a few feet from the kitchen. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

At least his family was in the kitchen, so nobody was watching them. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Yet all I could do was sigh heavily when I saw the inside of Cecile’s kitchen. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is no indoor kitchen, so all the cooking is done outside under a straw roof awning. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went through the dining room and into the kitchen, opened the icebox and looked in. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The acrid smell of burning cotton fills the kitchen. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Downstairs in the kitchen, the fireplace is big enough to stand in. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

My parents are hidden behind the kitchen wall, voices chattering, dishes clattering. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Harry and Ron edged out of the kitchen, and they, Hermione, and Ginny set off along the narrow hallway and up the rickety staircase that zigzagged through the house to the upper stories. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

When I asked my mother if she knew where my jacket was, she put her hands on the back of a kitchen chair and held on hard. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Jose tells me to wait in the kitchen, but I peek out and listen. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Upstairs, she threw her coat on a kitchen chair, filled the spaghetti pot with water, and put it on to boil. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

He slammed the door, then went into the kitchen and slammed as much as he could in there. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Writing at the kitchen table feels like a luxury. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m making a trip to the store this morning,” he says when he finds me in the kitchen. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

She reached down, patted Chester on his head and walked into the kitchen. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

“If this is the kitchen, right, just inside this wall, ’cause of the chimneys—well, you know in the priory? The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I pocketed the whistle and opened the sack on the kitchen table. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I stepped into the kitchen house to get a banana, knowing there would likely be nothing more to overhear. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The family lets Amélie do most of the talking when the Nazis occupy their kitchen—she appears to have a head full of feathers but utterly charms the visitors with her fluent Alsatian German. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Food will stay in the dining room and the kitchen.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Velia asked as she got up and went to peer through the open door into the darkened kitchen. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

And then Penelope had Ophie’s hand in hers and was pulling her through the kitchen to the hallway, and onward to new adventures. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He set his CD on the kitchen table and considered the possibilities for dinner. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Grandpop came stepping out into the kitchen like a man risen from the dead. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

At night I read from my fairy book, or we chatted by the kitchen fire. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, the whole kitchen smelled wonderful, and the chicken tasted surprisingly good. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I stalked out of the kitchen and down the back hallway, Charlie close on my heels. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Somebody finally acknowledges the cloud hanging over the kitchen, which for some reason is like acknowledging me. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

She was standing by the kitchen entrance, her prepubescent body stiff with hostility. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Before going to mass, she went into the kitchen to prepare breakfast for the family. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she leaves through the side door of the kitchen, I know it’s just the two of us, two Korean men at opposite ends of a stately Victorian house. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hated the too-strong aroma of her soup that filled the kitchen; the first thing he would do after she left was wash all the curtains because that smell would soak into them. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

As much as he longs to see her, he cannot picture her at the kitchen table on Pemberton Road, in her jeans and her bulky sweater, politely eating his mother’s food. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The inn was really no more than a large stone cottage with a room over the big kitchen, a loft above the stable, and tables in the hall good for sleeping on or under. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was back in the kitchen I started opening cupboards looking for the drinking glasses. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“It is what we use now; we don’t even smell the kerosene in the kitchen anymore. Do you know how much a cooldng-gas cylinder costs? It is outrageous!” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

One morning, after George had his crop planted, I sat down with him at his kitchen table and we talked about the problem. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Big Ma might have been embarrassed—I wasn’t sure—and fled into the kitchen. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The next morning we were herded back to our own yard, into our house, where Mami was propped up on pillows nursing our new baby sister, and Papi, in the kitchen, installed a kerosene cookstove. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Sit them right in the middle of the kitchen table. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

The thoughts often came to her as she sat alone in the kitchen waiting for her mother to come home in the evenings. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama went over there one morning and found Loma sitting at the kitchen table writing in a tablet. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“There’s some in the kitchen,” Charles said, yawning and running a hand through his hair. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Returning to the kitchen, I pulled a sheet of paper from my notebook and tore it into pieces. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

One afternoon she heard someone moving around in the kitchen. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mom seemed to shake herself and looked down at Finn as if she was seeing him—really seeing him—for the first time since he’d walked into the kitchen. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Without a word they both hopped out and set to work, Joe scavenging bigger logs that burned well in his shop’s heater, Nancy gathering smaller branches that would fit easily into the kitchen stove. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She follows me to the kitchen and sits at the table. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

An hour or so after the cops leave, Dad's on his way back to work, and I'm in the kitchen after lunch with Mom, and the phone rings. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

With their sharpest kitchen knife, she whittled the pencils into points. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

On Saturday, I went to the kitchen to get breakfast and was surprised to see a few of my baking supplies set up on the island. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Like Lita’s kitchen and the earthy smell of soaking husks and green chile. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I thoroughly checked the family rooms: living room, hallways, library, and kitchen. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

One night, while hanging out in the kitchen, she asked Sharon how she found a guy like Karim who was not caught up in the streets. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

At four in the morning, hunched over the kitchen table, he made lists. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she turned away, looking out of the kitchen window. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

When the deputy rang our doorbell, she told us to stay in the kitchen while she went to talk with him. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

One day in A-block, I found my first example: an electric heating element, maybe eight inches wide, such as you’d find on the surface of a kitchen range. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matthew crossed to the kitchen and opened cupboards by the sink until he found a glass. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

While the men talked in heated whispers in the kitchen, Stella and Dr. Hawkins’s son, Anthony, sat outside on the front steps. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I got up and went to the kitchen and brought back a glass of milk. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was in the process of lowering the newspaper, to ask Ron’s and Hermione’s opinions, when a deafening crack echoed around the kitchen. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But mostly, I learned to just stay in the kitchen. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

At lunch, in the twinkling noon light, she found what looked to be a faint heart traced into the grime of the kitchen window. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The women congregated in the kitchen, preparing food, while the men sat in the living room, conversing in low tones. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Stooped and half-blind, but still energetic, the old woman came and went between the kitchen and the dining room, bearing the enormous platters with the utmost solemnity. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I threw the keys on the kitchen counter. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

After we clear, after Grandma is done in the kitchen, I ask again. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Past that was the kitchen with its sink, stove, and a brown table that sagged in the middle. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I shouted as I plopped my book bag down on the kitchen floor and waved the letter in the air. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Stop bothering Toby,” Luke said, pretending to be mad as he went to the kitchen. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Instead, the three of them filed into the kitchen, Finn keeping his eyes on the ground as Petey stripped off the white coveralls. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

A mouse, ” said Cook, “a mouse in my kitchen. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

I look back at my grandfather in the kitchen. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“That will be all right with me. Go to the house and get your things. Then come back to the kitchen. I have money in the cash register.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I lean close to the wall and peek into the kitchen. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

We sit around my puzzle at the kitchen table. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Pap liked to tell Bible stories, often to me, dramatizing them as he sat in our small kitchen. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

There’s a false sense of security when you turn on a shiny chrome tap in your own kitchen. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He pointed toward the kitchen like he couldn’t bear to look at his mother, much less say her name. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

First, I don’t understand why she thinks it’s so scandalous to be in other people’s kitchens. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

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

Mrs. Dudley turned to regard him briefly and went into the kitchen with an empty dish. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mother and I shuffled around the shared kitchen making a beef and potato casserole, which we brought into the room on trays. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Just then the “babe” walks out of the kitchen, with Zack trailing right behind her. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

She realized she must be sitting beneath the kitchen floor. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually she went to the kitchen and returned to the living room with the blade, an eggplant, and some newspapers. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I bite my nails, trying to remember all the things I wanted to buy, but the dreams are lost in the roar of gunfight on TV and clanking dishes in the kitchen. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

They bought two beds, fitted out the bare kitchen, and settled in. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Richard made to head out of the kitchen, and when Mama followed, the man gave her a smile. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I swept the kitchen floor, made a pile, and Mong set down the dustpan. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Hatsue sat in the dark of the kitchen, where she waited for seventy-five minutes uneasily; it was raining outside, a windy night, and the car was gone from the garage. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ben and Mary Anne were talking at the kitchen table. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since he often eats at the soup kitchen, he sketches people there, too. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

"I mention it only because it might come in useful when you're climbing about in the kitchen," my grandmother said. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

At least when she was home in Soweto, I could picture her cooking in the kitchen or reading in the lounge, I could imagine her waking up in the house I knew so well. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here I watch Mama in her kitchen, preparing the evening meal. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

They’d miss her for sure, leaving their kitchen a mess without her running it. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“The trouble is,” said Justin, “it’s Mr. Ages who puts it in Dragon’s dinner bowl, inside the farm kitchen. With his leg broken, he can’t move fast enough.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He walked across the kitchen and put his glass in the sink. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The cook stirred in his lean-to behind the kitchen, groping for his clothes and putting on his clodhopper shoes. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He sat us all down at the very small table in our kitchen. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

And then the cops and firemen are coming in the kitchen and saying things I can’t understand and spreading out and kneeling by Diego. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She drops her backpack with a thud at the foot of the stairs and hurries into the kitchen. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“We can go around the back and see if the kitchen door is open. There's a kitchen garden, from—from whenever in history they had kitchen gardens,” said Paolo. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They followed him up the steps to a kitchen, where he poured three mugs of tea, then led them into a small sitting room. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He nearly killed the schoolmaster’s cat, which had found him at liberty in the kitchen and tried to torment him. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Virgil was so overjoyed at the stillness of his usually bustling house that he didn’t even glance at the kitchen table as he opened the refrigerator. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Wang Lung said nothing, but he went out and took the basket into the kitchen and the woman followed him there. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Our school was closed for the funeral, and my father and I sat in the kitchen all that day and listened to the radio. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I only listened with one ear because of a larger drama unfolding in our kitchen. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She washed her clothes, pulled them on still wet and drippy, and ran for the kitchen to dry a bit before the fire. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Father! Are you trying to kill us all?” my mother yelled from a kitchen window. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked, going out to the kitchen again without waiting for an answer. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I opened my math workbook at the kitchen table. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Come back around six,” I said, shooing her out of the kitchen. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Mother walked out of the kitchen and came to a sudden halt, staring at Petey’s jar in disbelief. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“I forgot to tell you about that earlier,” Mom said as she padded back into the kitchen, already changed into a nightgown and slippers. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Dismay scrambled for my lap, bobbling the kitchen table on his back. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I heard some muffled voices, and Brad seemed upset, but I didn’t think it was any of my business, so I went back to the kitchen. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

After Ugwu served the food, he stood by the kitchen door, watching as Master took a first forkful of rice and stew, took another, and then called out, “Excellent, my good man.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I found her in the kitchen, washing up the supper dishes. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She lighted a candle from the lamp and went unsteadily down the dark hall to the kitchen. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It looks sickening to me now, so unappealing that I wonder if I'm going to empty the contents of my stomach right here in the kitchen. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She folded her arms and glared out the kitchen window. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The new bosslady in the kitchen was named Sarah, a black-haired gal with a baby in her belly. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She made a quick run to the kitchen and brought out a covered dish. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The kitchen was a big room, and it was warm. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

But it was still loud, and in between each snore Genie could hear a familiar clicking coming up through the floor, from the kitchen. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Cari rolled her eyes and tossed herself into one of the other kitchen chairs. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

That night after supper, me and that cockroach stare each other down across the kitchen floor. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Now, with only one day to go until his ninth birthday, Gerald was almost as confident in the kitchen as Aunt Queen, and more important, she trusted him to handle any situation there. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m surprised to realize that I don’t hate cooking as much as I used to, at least when I’m in the kitchen with a friend. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Underwood brought out an extra chair from the kitchen. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

As the mighty battle came to its climax, Gerald crawled up on a chair and stood on the kitchen table, waving his arms triumphantly. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doreen came flying out of the kitchen, the cord of the phone snapping the receiver out of her hands. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He smelled like their kitchen and her mother and her siblings and himself all mixed together. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He rapped loudly on Matthew’s door before entering the kitchen. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Once inside their rooms, Dallas and Florida each pried up a loose floorboard and deposited their takings from the kitchen: one nearly whole piece of bread and one raw potato each. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as I entered the kitchen, Martín threw an apron at me. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The cafetorium has a kitchen at the near end and a stage at the for end. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the day I left, Mama was up early, sitting at the place at the kitchen table where she always sat, the ashtray in front of her already half filled with partially smoked butts. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

She sobbed so hard, she ran from the kitchen, and in a moment we heard her bedroom door slam. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother had been kneading dough that morning, and she paused in her work to look out the kitchen window at the Wood. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt very weak and sick by the time I burst into my mother’s kitchen. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

An hour later, Desdemona found him lying on the kitchen floor. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I could hear Shannon and Mary in the kitchen. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I figure my grandmother must be getting ready to cook something, so I move over to the kitchen and stand in the doorway. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

When the parade is done, it’s time to get creative in the kitchen. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I liked it, because everything that was put in the cart had a future in our kitchen, and I greeted most of the food with anticipation. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He sat at the kitchen table and lit a cigarette. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I thump all Five strings and Scare my cat Negrito, Who jumps from The couch and onto The windowsill In the kitchen. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never going to have a real kitchen and a real fridge. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He and Lyra stayed with the wolves for a while, and then moved to Oxford to work in the kitchens of Jordan College. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Mom came home around four o’clock from her summer job, Dad came out of his lab in the basement, I helped in the kitchen and we had a proper sit-down meal. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

I was running down the hotel’s stairs, out through the kitchens, out back past the Dumpsters and through the parking lot. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The palm divides the kitchen from the living room, which has a sleek black couch and a small Japanese maple in the corner. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I come back inside and sit on the couch while Dad goes into the kitchen. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The light from the kitchen window casts a dull glow for about five feet, and then it’s dark. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Sara reminded me that I’m goofy and I love trying new things, especially in the kitchen. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Do we have a soft drink to offer our guest? Did you bring out the soup from the freezer? Lets go to the kitchen,” his mother said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The kitchen faucet makes the most bizarre sounds. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I rose up on tiptoe to look out of the kitchen window, but I couldn’t see the car. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He looked to Ben, who generally wielded the knives in the kitchen. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I went in--after making every possible noise in the kitchen short of pushing over the stove--but I don't believe they heard a sound. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

She picked up my plate and glass and walked them to the kitchen sink. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I slap out the kitchen and stomp on up our stairs. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Dad turned around and he had flour spilled all down the front of his shirt, and I snorted, because I didn’t think Dad in the kitchen would ever stop being ridiculous. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The houses were three stories tall and exactly alike, with square, smiling courtyards hidden behind their front gates, and small kitchen courtyards in the back. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or would they, knowing—since Justin must have told them—that she had not come out of the kitchen? Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I also saw something shocking — right in front of me, at the kitchen table, my dad was slumped over a pile of papers with his head cradled in his hands. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a Saturday and Olanna was making banana fritters with Ugwu in the kitchen, and when the doorbell rang she knew right away that a message had come from Mama. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

If I ever let a rodent into our kitchen, Mama would pitch a fit! Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Even the kitchen counters and top of the refrigerator were covered. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The entire ground floor, except for the kitchen to one side, was lined with shelves, and the shelves were filled with volumes of every sort. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Each night he washed the one plate he used and wiped it dry and set it back in its place on top of the stack of dishes Thula had left behind in a kitchen cabinet. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Halinka carried her fairy bread to the back door of the kitchen, which stood open to the unfenced yard and wildflowers. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She went into the kitchen and opened the fridge. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

They stopped at the end of the kitchen and paused, and then crossed the floor again. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She’s rocking her signature Brooklyn loves Haiti T-shirt and pink velour sweatpants, even though it’ll be hot as hell in that kitchen. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He hung his suit jackets on the backs of the kitchen chairs and kept very little in the fridge. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Obinze’s mother, her beautiful face, her air of sophistication, her wearing a white apron in the kitchen, was not like any other mother Ifemelu knew. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

At home, the twins play with Legos as I do math homework at the kitchen table. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She came to the kitchen door and set the suitcase down. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

While she drank a glass of water from the kitchen tap, the kiss continued, binding the couple into their solitude. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She often sat at the kitchen table in the evening, brooding, “What have I done? What was I thinking?” staring off into space, holding a cup of cold, untouched coffee. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d hold the bowl, but move my feet so she would have to follow me around the kitchen. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Over the next several years, they spent many enjoyable hours in the kitchen together. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Ben, stirring something in the kitchen, and Joon, mending a net with some prairie grass on a rock. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Marbles after the funeral, Peach Pie,” Aunt Goldie said as she left the kitchen, pushing Peach in front of her. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He left her standing in the middle of the kitchen floor, exactly as he had found her. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

When Adam finally got up from the ground and moved, bent over, into the kitchen, he found a basin of hot water standing ready for him and a clean towel beside it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Feeling vaguely angry, Conor got up and went into the kitchen. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

And I got up once to take Tilly outside and stood for a long time in my mother’s butterfly garden outside the back kitchen door. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

She was probably in the kitchen, eating breakfast and watching cartoons. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

When I came out of the kitchen, he motioned for me to sit down beside him. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I was glad to be able to get out to the kitchen because it makes me sad to watch my mother brush her hair. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Eight kids, sprinting from the fire circle or the outdoor kitchen, emerging from their cabins, racing for the bell and the tall boy ringing it by the water’s edge. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“You were talking to her when I came back in the kitchen,” his mother said. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Today I woke up thinking about Kazi and followed the smells of breakfast into the kitchen. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He stepped out of the kitchen and into the courtyard before Chuck could offer to join him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She does not bathe, does not warm herself by the kitchen fire, ceases to ask if she can go outdoors. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She let herself in boldly at the kitchen door of the strange farm. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I am lying on a table in an overlit kitchen where all the appliances are sparkling white. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

When we have this conversation I am in the kitchen in Oklahoma, where they make fun of kids with hairy arms and bubble butts. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

One shrill ring was all it took to get me into the kitchen. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I jumped up and took her plate to the kitchen, scraped off the offending oysters, and brought it back, smiling as broadly as I could manage. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This chore being completed, I was sent upstairs with Bono to set out new candles in the bedroom sconces; and thereafter, set to shucking sweetcorn in the kitchen. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, Jean’s baking pans, and the bowls in which she mixed dough, were set out, ready for her wonderful breads to be made. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

When I got home, I found Mother in the kitchen, going through the mail. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He does a round through the parlor and dining room, and then downstairs to the kitchens to make certain everything is in order. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t you say that you wanted to work in the kitchen this year?” she asked. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Each morning the thirty men working in the kitchen prepared three hundred dozen eggs, twenty-five hundred pancakes, five hundred pounds of bacon and sausage, and 180 gallons of coffee. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I’d been in a professional kitchen with my best friends, Jasmine and Maya, as we baked and decorated chocolate fudge cupcakes. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“You absolutely would not believe what Bob did now,” she said as she threw her hat down on the kitchen table. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She picked her coffee up and started to leave the kitchen. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Now she’d have to print flyers for them with her kitchen printer “from now until forever.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Fetching water, sweeping, helping in the kitchen, tending the annealing furnace in the shop were the unskilled work the boys did. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Toddling Callie, wobbling Mona; they seemed to be always emerging from under the kitchen table — Callie on a mysterious errand, Mona forever chasing that sister gone around the corner. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Edel made us all pack a tiny satchel full of stolen bread and cheese from the kitchen. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She examined the questions—they were good ones—and hardly noticed when the children had come out of the kitchen and taken places at the table on the side opposite her. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I held him in my arms and thought about how I was going to break the news to his wife, who was boiling him some water in the kitchen. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The French doors are flung open, light streaming into the kitchen. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Play quietly,” said Mrs. Bramble, “and if the manager appears, you’d better go out to our cottage. Or perhaps you could show Brad around. He might like to see the kitchen.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Rushing out of our hut, Chou, Geak, and I meet Pa and Kim at the communal kitchen to receive our ration. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took the curving back stairs to the downstairs kitchen, where casseroles lined the counters. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Make a fire in the kitchen and dry your things,” I said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

T. P. went and looked in the kitchen door. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother came in from the kitchen to say, “Stop asking so many silly questions, Phillip. I told you not to do that” Father looked at her strangely. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walks into the kitchen and sits down beside his brother at the breakfast table. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

I changed and waited for him in the kitchen. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Shush your mouth, boy, and get back into that kitchen.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Dimple were home, Mamma would be bustling around, cleaning the kitchen while Dimple sat at the counter nearby and drank her tea. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Imagine being stuck in the kitchen, no matter how interesting it was! Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

After dinner, Eric and Caroline did the dishes in the kitchen while Ma and I sat in front of the television. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I gather the kitchen dishes, put them in the sink, and wipe the table and countertops with some lemon-smelling spray stuff. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

He had even gone to the kitchen in the back where Antonapoulos made the candies. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Breakfast at that early hour seemed odd, and even Hannah’s familiar face looked unnatural as she flew about her kitchen with her nightcap on. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry saw Mrs. Weasley glance at the clock in the washing basket as they left the kitchen. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

They look you in the eye, level and measuring, they sit at the kitchen table and the air around lights up with their lucidity. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

With them was the prisoner from the last camp whom Moniek had kicked out of the kitchen. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

I trail behind Pattie down a narrow path to the kitchen. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Lee went to the kitchen and brought back a big cardboard box. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They set up tables in the kitchen and served roast beef—the Jaaxes did not like turkey. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watch the open kitchen door and do not say anything. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Open the kitchen cabinet where the peanut butter was kept and you were face to fossil face with an extinct fox. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Bewildered, wondering what on earth he was supposed to have done this time, Harry got up and followed Uncle Vernon out of the kitchen and into the next room. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She sits at the kitchen table talking to herself, What am 1 going to do? till it’s late and Dad rolls up the stairs singing Roddy McCorley. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Back in the kitchen, I stood on a chair and hung them from an iron hook in the center ceiling beam. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed rude not to drink it, so I sat opposite him at his kitchen table, my face set in my most professional smile, mouthing reassurance and unnecessary directions for the child’s care. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear her in the kitchen, breaking the eggs into the bowl, and I realize now that I can sit up I could be helping her. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Out of the kitchen and out the front door. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I was making myself a snack in the kitchen, but due to the fact that I was vertically challenged, I couldn't reach a dish in one of our cabinets. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

On her way out she hid the jelly jar under the lowest part of the kitchen steps. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Deb and I were really little, we draped blankets over chairs while our moms sipped tea in the kitchen. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Hrothgar had had sleeping chambers built for the most important ones, far away from the smoke and bustle of the kitchens, with great curved couches comfortably heaped with skins. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew Nan opened hers because I’d seen the check on the kitchen counter. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

My mom is sitting at the kitchen table, still in her scrubs and with her blond hair piled high on top of her head, watching the news on her portable TV. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I ask Safer while we carry two wooden stools from the kitchen. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Well, right now,” Grace said, “he’s in the kitchen.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

She also instructed the kitchen to bake plum cakes, and the scent of fruit and cinnamon was already wafting through the house. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

I refuse to look at Peck, who’s leaning against the kitchen counter. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then they drink a cup of coffee together in the kitchen: hot, strong, as much sugar as she wants. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I hurry myself into the kitchen, socks sliding on the tiles, and yank open the fridge to grab the milk. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“You got it!” she hollers as she heads to the kitchen. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I found him one Sunday morning in the kitchen on his hands and knees, his head inside a cabinet. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

‘This here the first reunion us is all had in many a year. Highboy, you get a chair from the kitchen. Father, here Buddy and Hamilton.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He goes to the kitchen and pulls the table to the wall for his climb to the loft. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

There were two kitchen chairs by the table, but Cecilia, who leaned with her back to the sink, did not invite Briony to sit down. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Bridge couldn’t see it, but she sensed it from the kitchen with perfect clarity. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

She heard Mollie’s sweet high voice in the kitchen, reading a morning text from the Bible, and Una’s full cold throaty correction. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I touched a lot of things in her kitchen, because it made me feel OK for some reason. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I stashed the magazine under my pillow and went to the kitchen. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“Split kindling and lay a fire in the kitchen stove.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I say as I step into the kitchen. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

He didn’t speak till we reached the kitchen and he pulled the Martha White grits from the pantry. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tell my mom I can finish up in the kitchen. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

We went to bed early, with metal pot lids and knives and things from the kitchen to protect ourselves with, because we couldn’t think of anything else. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They showed things like coffee pots, microwave ovens, and kitchen sinks. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he blundered again at the door a moment later, again invisible and blind within and beyond his wooden avatar, Dilsey opened the door and guided him across the kitchen with a firm hand. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside our small kitchen window that faces the river, the sun begins to make its entrance onto our side of town. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

M. Yoshoto looked at me as if he weren’t quite sure how I’d got into his kitchen in the first place, but nodded, and I walked quickly down the hall to my room. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I think she’s about to sneak upstairs, which she’s started to do again, but then I hear her on the kitchen telephone asking for Miss Hilly. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

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

He stopped in the bedroom for his bathrobe, shawl, and slippers and went back to the kitchen. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I ignored him and focused instead on the shouting coming from the kitchen radio. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The boy took the fish, and for the next hour the three of us sat around the kitchen table eating pickled herring and crackers and sugar cookies and milk. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I apologize to him profusely as I write my note and leave it on the kitchen table. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

And second, he knew that the men were downstairs, opening the kitchen door. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Naomi checked the clock in the kitchen and then went back to dusting. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Supporting herself with one hand on the table, she moved away from the kitchen area so that Cecilia could fill the kettle. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They crept quietly into the kitchen, Genie finally daring to let his guard down, when he jumped a mile. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

To end a twelve-year friendship like this, while she sat in my kitchen with a wedding invitation in her hand. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

A steady supply of ill and injured is deposited in our kitchen before my mother, who has long since stopped charging for her services. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Mom and Dad came home at ten-thirty, I met them in the kitchen and told them I was feeling better, even though I wasn’t really. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

My own apartment was, I believe, originally designed as a one-bedroom flat with a dining room, kitchen, living room, and nursery. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Her kitchen has a shiny polished black iron range with a fire glowing in the grate. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

How he wished then that they could sit in the kitchen nook, where they would at least be confined! Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the rest of the day she remained in the kitchen, unable to watch the miscellaneous horde of yard sale scavengers pick over her personal possessions. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Friday mornings he usually cleaned the kitchen and bathrooms, then watered the lawn. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Roberto and I were doing our homework at the kitchen table when we heard the dogs barking. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I start to see how the kitchen is kind of like a laboratory. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Daddy was drinking a cup of coffee in the kitchen. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

We ate on the verandah, although it was almost as hot as the kitchen. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Alex said nothing as Jack unlocked the door and let them in, but while she went into the kitchen to make some tea, he quickly looked around the house. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

El brushed her off, and I waited a few beats before sitting down at the kitchen table. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Besides, the boys would not go in the kitchen because they were terrified of Betty whom they had seen on the stairs grimly carrying red rubber sheets toward their room. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I learned most of what I knew about Coalwood history and my parents’ early years at the kitchen table after the supper dishes were cleared. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I hustled back into the kitchen and braked a few inches before slamming into my dad towering in the middle of the room. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Heading to the kitchen, I poke my head into my bedroom and spy Keav shoving clothes into a brown plastic bag. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she walks slowly through the rooms it irks her that there are dirty dishes stacked in the kitchen, that the bed has not been made. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Downstairs, Yoyo found her father setting up a brand new electric typewriter on the kitchen table. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The week after I arrived, I walked into the kitchen to find only Mama sitting there. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She dumped them outside the kitchen hut and fetched a pot of water. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could barely connect the anxious person hunched down every week in front of us to the funny woman who, under the inspiration of wine, launched into comedy routines in our kitchen. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I stepped inside, dropped my bag, and sank into a seat at the kitchen table. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then I go to the refrigerator, find something to eat, and stare at the cold stub of her cigar on the kitchen table. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

How long was she in the kitchen before she walked in? A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Gripping my wooden bowl and spoon, I run with my family to the communal kitchen. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She got up from the kitchen table and poured herself a glass of wine. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The next morning, there they were, like magic—right on the kitchen counter. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

He stands and walks me through the kitchen to the front. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know how fine Cecile’s poetry was, but I had seen her writing poems in the kitchen and sometimes on the walls or on cereal boxes. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had a vision of the celestially white kitchens of Ladies' Day stretching into infinity. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I was just fixing to get up off the back steps and go gather the eggs when Campbell Junior started squalling in the kitchen. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Was the place as shabby as the kitchen indicated? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other than scrubbing the kitchen tile and keeping a hard shine on the wooden floors, the work was not hard. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the woman in green—Scythe Rand—emerged from the kitchen, bringing with her a man Easley’s wife had recently hired. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

All I can think of is the emaciated bodies of the children on our kitchen table as my mother prescribes what the parents can’t give. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

On Saturday morning, I walked into the kitchen, itching to bake something. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I walked, into the kitchen to find Mama slicing a loaf of bread. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I walked quietly back to the kitchen and put on water for tea. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

At her kitchen computer command post, she tracks the girls’ reports and test scores on school Web pages. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

But when he gets into an argument with a customer over pickles, Ron tells him to go back to the kitchen. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

At that moment I heard a crash and the kitchen door swung open, and there was a demon girl about my age lying on her stomach. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

On my way through the kitchen, I stop and write a short note: Mom—gone to Alicia’s. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have to bang on the wall with my fist when I walk into her office or kick a chair across the kitchen before she even notices someone’s joined her in the room. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Library is a place you borrow books,” Mama said, sweeping the dirt out the kitchen door. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

He would grab me as I started to leave the kitchen. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We danced around the kitchen and sang along with the songs on the playlist while we waited for Dad to come back from the store. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

They finished washing up the windows quicker than they ever had before and took the bucket of wash water down to the kitchen to empty out. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

After a lot of very polite and very boring questions and answers about Amish life one of the Amish girls led us the rest of the way down the hall into a huge kitchen. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no sugarcoating the fact that Dad’s skills in the kitchen were the equivalent of mine at keeping a clean room. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She sweeps the kitchen floor and the floor of Italy upstairs. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I watch him stride down the street and he throws a few sky punches, which I take as a sign of approval, like he’s happy for me, so I return to the kitchen. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luckily, I’m in the kitchen and pick it up. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“That’s its name,” Jam said, her voice unexpected in the kitchen’s air. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She and Ron had followed Harry and Dobby to the end of the kitchen. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

But once when Adam was quite small he wandered silently into the kitchen. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I went into the kitchen to make a phone call. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Martel gets up without a word and disappears into what must be the kitchen. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They went on down through the kitchen and into the scullery, and found the wooden box where they’d left it. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I look around me—the kitchen is clean, quiet, and the refrigerator is filled with food and water. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

At the top, I eased the door open and stood on the threshold, peering down the dark hall, first toward the kitchen and then toward the front of the house. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Plumes of grey smoke snaked up from the rebuilt kitchens and reroofed barracks keep. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As I pull it free, the blade slices the air, dividing the kitchen into slivers. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Abby and I both stared at her, swinging a spoon like it was a sword and staring out the kitchen window. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

We stand on the side of the room, near the spread of liquor bottles on the kitchen counter. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, when Bill got into mischief in the kitchen, Chew Wong scolded him, picked him up, and threatened to put him in the oven. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

We both stood there, breathing hard, staring at the wash of rice grains that had tumbled out of the canister and spread to almost every corner of the kitchen. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Oh, you’d be into it. The keys are right here. We could go tomorrow,” Immie said, and patted the bag that sat on the kitchen counter. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I could have spoken up, “I want to sit on the low stool in Big Mama’s kitchen with my lap full of lilacs and listen to Big Papa play his violin for me alone.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Violet and Klaus spent several minutes opening and shutting Count Olaf’s kitchen cupboards, but there weren’t any cookbooks to be found. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

I could go down to the kitchen then, say I’m afraid, sit with Rita and Cora around the kitchen table, they would permit my fear because it’s one they share, they’d let me in. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Macy and I mostly goofed off, but it was fun hanging out in the kitchen with Mom and Dad, even when they got silly and danced around to the music. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Here are some magazines, and scissors and paste. Now how’s that? I’m going down to the kitchen and fix you a tray. Then I’ll be up and read to you.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alone in the kitchen, I fix myself a frozen waffle and eat it looking out the window. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

He races around the couch and I dart in the kitchen, scoop the steak knife off the table he’s just used to butter his bread. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I took the cup that I had prepared for her back to the kitchen, brushing past my grandmother, who was grinning at me in the doorway. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pictured her sister, Annie, standing at the kitchen window, the baby on her hip, the longing stealing over her face like a ghost hand, the muted cries later in the shower. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

When I got back to the kitchen, I showed her the envelope. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Charlie's mother followed his voice to the kitchen, where she let him know that she and Charlie were home playing cards. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

At the house, the kitchen light was still on. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Most days at their restaurant, he had worn a simple shirt and slacks with an apron and spent all day in the kitchen. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He half dragged, half walked her back to the kitchen. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The iron weight looked like something borrowed from Sarah’s kitchen—a heavy little hooked thing I’d once seen her hang meat on to roast. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mom was sitting on a stool at the high counter that separates the kitchen from the rest of the great room. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Neville sat at the kitchen table, his long legs stretched out in front of him, a cup of steaming coffee in his hand. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

She moves away from the sink and walks to the kitchen table for another suck of dirty plates, into my line of vision. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was pretty much my mom’s sous chef growing up, which is just a fancy way of saying I was her kitchen assistant. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He sat up in bed and read seven chapters of The Winning of Barbara Worth, and when it was daylight he went down to the silent kitchen and made a pot of coffee. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Mom walked back into the kitchen, she smiled in a sad and tired-looking way. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

One morning, I ventured downstairs and he had made his way into the kitchen and was sitting at the table, with his foot on a chair. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Bill was sitting at the small kitchen table, holding a bedsheet to his arm, which was bleeding profusely. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

If the caretaker had looked more closely, in fact, he would have seen that the kitchen counters were somewhat shinier than they should have been in an empty house. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Paul is in the kitchen, talking to our mother about his work schedule for the weekend. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

She was doubled over beneath the weight of a sheaf of hawthorn for the kitchen hearth, barefoot, her head bowed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My aunt uses a cane to get from the living room to a narrow archway leading to the kitchen. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Straight from Sophie,” he said, placing a heavy quart bottle of milk on the kitchen table. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Beneath the table at dinner, in the kitchen the moment it was empty. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Book in hand I rounded the corner to the bathroom off the kitchen. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

When I went back into the inn the woman was down in the kitchen, and I asked her to get coffee for us, and that we wanted a lunch. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

After everybody left, my mother joined me in the kitchen. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mom, they gave me this letter for you,” I said, placing the sheet of paper on the kitchen counter. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Daddy and Seven are talking before we get to the kitchen. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Course he hadn’t, but he said he’d come across another purse in the kitchen. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bobbette yelled from the kitchen, where she sat watching a soap opera. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I led her to the back bedroom and then started to mop the kitchen floor. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

He stood in the shadow of the kitchen, his expression flat. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Abby sat with Nan at the kitchen table while a lady old enough to be personal friends with Betsy Ross, sewer of the first US flag, hobbled around the kitchen. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Then they went downstairs to the kitchen where they were fed. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was standing at the head of the stairs, in the door leading to the kitchen. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s been in the kitchen since Sunday, preparing everything.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she got up and went into the kitchen, leaving Francis and me to one of the more torturous silences I have ever experienced. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I take the package into the kitchen and set it on the counter. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The night before, while my parents were watching TV, I snuck into the kitchen to make snacks. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

For the first few days of his life, Wilbur was allowed to live in a box near the stove in the kitchen. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

From the kitchen came the sound of Louis snoring. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

On one side of the courtyard is an open-air kitchen. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Izzy pulled her sister by the arm into the living room and Serena, familiar with Richardson family dynamics, retreated to the kitchen to give them some privacy. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Feeling defeated, Ash went back into the kitchen, where she saw the cracked mirror on the table. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, it was extremely pleasant to laze in Mrs. Horsepool-Worthingham’s kitchen after a vigorous day’s work. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

One day, after a delicious meal prepared by Mr. Swart, I went into the kitchen to wash the dishes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kitchen filled with a smelly chemical steam, but after a few hours there was a layer of brown crystals in the bottom of the pan. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

When I finally emerge, both of the Larsen parents are in the kitchen while Martin is setting the table in the dining room. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen she made noises with doors, faucets, and pans. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the kitchen took the real hit. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Before their departure Antonapoulos always opened a paper sack he kept hidden during the day on one of the kitchen shelves. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

And there we both were in the kitchen every morning, looking goopy. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The discussions over the school budget sounded much like a couple talking around their kitchen table with a stack of bills, no hope of paying them and nothing but bad options. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Police?” she asked me doubtfully as she entered the kitchen. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kathy would return home and discover to his dismay that the only room in which he could be alone was his kitchen. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stopped at the bathroom to wring the water out of my sock, and then grabbed my apron from the closet in the kitchen. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes, Ma rushes into the kitchen and begins to toss aluminum bowls, plates, spoons, forks, and knives into a big pot. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The figure of him becomes visible in the kitchen, but this time he comes out the front door with the radio in one hand and a bottle in the other. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Thank you,” she said, and retreated to the kitchen. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Now I hear him moving around in the kitchen, pots being pulled from cabinets, the sound of a bottle of seltzer being opened. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The sound of Mama’s voice in our sun-drenched Harlem kitchen was like a special kind of music, meant for only me. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

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

On his first day of work, Lefty came into the kitchen modeling his new overalls. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“We're having workmen in anyway, so why not make a proper job of it? The kitchen's getting embarrassing.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

In a distant kitchen, because of the heat of the day, someone was preparing a cold lunch. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I smell lunch cooking on the gas burners in the kitchens, I’m hungry and fed up and already dreading the long afternoon ahead. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The masked demons you speak of in your dreams of the white kitchen threaten to undo all that we’ve worked for,” the captain says, “and our journey will be for naught.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“I think Mama’s in the kitchen,” I answered. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I had just finished deviling eggs in the upstairs kitchen. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

All the sounds build—Mom and Sue stacking plates in the kitchen, the scooting closer of chairs, the scrunching up of paper. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

She opens the kitchen window and throws out a scrub brush and a big bar of brown soap like the one they used on Finn the Horse. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I muck up my mother’s kitchen floor and pots, cooking the gesso, and ruin panel after panel before I can work out how to paint it on for a smooth working surface. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mama went to the stove and took out her big iron skillet with a folded-up kitchen towel and her oven glove. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They squawked with excitement and flew at the nearest food trucks, diving through the service windows and raiding the kitchens. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The family map had hung in every kitchen since they’d made it. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He judged it to be about the same rate as the faucet in his kitchen sink at home and that made him think of his mother. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

A sound of a quarrel came from the back room, which was probably the kitchen—a deep voice and a lighter male voice yammering back and forth. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a note saying so on the kitchen table. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My bed is the couch in the living room, so when Dad comes in to fix his breakfast, I pull on my jeans and go out to sit across from him in the kitchen. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

They lit cigarettes in the evenings as they sat in the kitchen, talking through their workdays. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I was in the kitchen making our after-school snack when the doorbell rang. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I heard you shouting at her in the kitchen.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

I want to look in her eyes and see what she know, but Miss Leefolt stay in the kitchen most a the day trying to make a cake. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I go to the kitchen to try the tap myself—as if I might have the magic touch. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I smiled finally and then went to the kitchen for my favorite snack: a banana dipped in melted chocolate chips. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took them both out to the kitchen and poured the half-full glass down the sink. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

But she knew he would miss his grandchildren and their games of hide-and-seek in his kitchen cupboard. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“See? I told you he’s okay” I walk through to the kitchen with Marv behind me. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I followed her across the room to the kitchen where she turned the brass faucet handle with her wrist and let the water run over her hands. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Along the western edge of this courtyard, extending from the back of the kitchen, ran a white, translucent tunnel, something like the tubes that conduct football teams onto the field. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Your boss hasn’t come for you,” she assures me as she whirls around the kitchen. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She jumps out of the way and runs for the kitchen. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Through the swinging half door that leads into the kitchen, I overhear snippets of conversation from the dining room. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When she approached the kitchen, one of us would whisk Ruth down to the cellar. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I get up, turn on the lights, make myself some hot milk, sit at the kitchen table, shivering with cold. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She would serve his food, a plate on a tray taken to him in his study or in front of the TV in the kitchen. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

There was fresh bread on the kitchen table, but it took a piece of time to find the crock of jam. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She left me alone, but I could hear her and Tata giggling in the kitchen. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He’d stand us all in front of the kitchen counter and ask, “Whose week was it to do the dishes?” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mother comes into the kitchen and before she says Good morning or asks How did you sleep? she starts fussing at Father. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When she came back to the kitchen, she had a gun. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I get to the shack and bang open the door, expecting to see Sandy in the kitchen, fixing himself something he caught—but the stove is off, and the pan is empty on the counter. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

After he left, I sat at the old square oak table in one of the three unmatching chairs and examined his small kitchen, with its dark paneled walls, bright yellow cabinets, and white linoleum floor. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I slip into my sneakers as I approach the back kitchen door, stepping cautiously around wooden planks, hammers, nails, and one very scary-looking chain saw. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I woke up before dawn and was in the kitchen making coffee at five. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I followed him into the kitchen, and he poured me a cup of coffee and sat me down. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Valley and Seven noticed a trail of rice leading to a door in the kitchen at the same time and ran toward it. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

At noon, Mother removes the vibrating cap from my head, washes the goo from my hair while I lean back in the kitchen sink. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She’s pacing the length of the kitchen, hands scraping against her hairline. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

When I could stand it no more, I snuck out of the kitchen and tiptoed down the hall. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s good Dad can get us these again,” said Ron appreciatively, stretching luxuriously as the car moved smoothly away from the Burrow, Bill and Fleur waving from the kitchen window. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Will’s mom sat down at the kitchen table with her son. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

If perhaps it was a secret hour in which men rose like giants from dragon’s teeth and, while the women slept, clustered in their kitchens. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a delicious buttery smell coming from the kitchen. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

He arranges the spices in alphabetical order, on a special shelf in the kitchen. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Arturo set it on the kitchen table and tuned it to a station playing nothing but the Beatles, which had been his favorite band since he was a boy. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

To walk up to his front door, to go inside, to sit in his kitchen, on his terrace, where they sat, where I watched them? The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leads us to the kitchen, where there’s a box of bottled water. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

On descending, I found the kitchen on the brink of pandemonium, and in general, an extremely tense atmosphere amongst all levels of staff. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

When I step inside, I feel certain that my mother will be in the kitchen. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

As Gardenia clanked dishes in the kitchen, her brother-in-law asked Bobbette what she did for a living. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I heard Mom speaking to her in the kitchen. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had to know someone besides himself was standing in the kitchen, and, just as obviously, he didn’t care. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small hallway leading to the kitchen splits Ma and Pa’s bedroom from the room my three sisters and I share. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watch them scrawl it in thick black marker, right on our own kitchen counter. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It’s the beginning of winter break, otherwise known as The Return of Brian, and the off-the-hook smell wafting out of the kitchen has brain-commanded me out of my chair and down the hallway. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He could clean up the kitchen and surprise Mother. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Now she’s circling around the kitchen table, brushing a crumb here, straightening an already straight chair. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

She would work in the garden and kitchen—she would work day and night to make them like her! A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it is not raining, Joon and I play in the alley behind the restaurant, next to the open door of the kitchen. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Hitting the deer would be about as easy for Dad as standing at our kitchen window with a target pistol and picking off the finches and cardinals at our window bird feeder. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

There was a machine in the kitchen which could extract the juice of two hundred oranges in half an hour, if a little button was pressed two hundred times by a butler's thumb. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

They walked into the kitchen he remembered and didn’t remember. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then, retreating to the house, he popped open a tallboy and slumped at the kitchen table, watching Nancy mop the floor. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They made it to the kitchen and grabbed a quick breakfast, taking two empty seats at the big table inside. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Daddy insisted that the kitchen be clean and ready for his use in the morning. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He had taught me which plants made which colors and how to mix them to make more, and I loved being his assistant in both the kitchen and the field. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I look up at him, hoping I can school my expression to be as blank and pleasant and dreamy as that of the mortals in the kitchens. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I could still hear footsteps pounding, children screaming and dogs barking, so I quickly hauled my sister onto the bed, seeing that she was resolved not to return to the kitchen. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was not terribly ambitious in the kitchen. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

You start scanning for it, walking room to room: kitchen, living room— That’s when you hear the toilet flush in the hall bathroom. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Back in the kitchen, Becky took a large silver tray off a high shelf in the pantry. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'd put the script aside and was sitting at my desk painting the kitchen scene from Anne of Green Gables in my diorama. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

It was late in the summer and we were all seated around the kitchen table making our plans to go to El Puerto for the harvest when my mother with strange premonition remembered Narciso. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

All five of them had gone to the kitchen. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The fragrant steam was more exotic than anything from the Merritts’ kitchen. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I’d stood there in my shiny white kitchen while my lungs collapsed into black holes and my brain exploded. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

There was a huge sugar maple in front of what must be the parlor door, and another at the porch, which, from the presence of churns and cooling pans, must lead into the kitchen. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I glared at her and walked to the kitchen to get a snack. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The smell followed her around the kitchen like it was on a leash, a combination of allspice, fresh earth, and rotten leaves. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Count Olaf paused, still holding the wailing Sunny up in the air, as members of his theater troupe walked into the kitchen. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

I hurry to the kitchen and drop my plate of cake in front of David. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moms was washing some collard greens in the sink and Pops was sitting at the kitchen table reading the newspaper. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

But first I need to swipe a bowl from the kitchen. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Jimmy and Bo were standing in the kitchen, bleary-eyed but pulsing with energy. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

When Mo left her to go and get their bags from the camper van Meggie went into the kitchen, but Dustfinger wasn't there either. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Even though it had been closed for the winter, they could take sleeping bags, using only the living room and kitchen which could be warmed by the Quebec heater. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the soup cooked, I swept the kitchen floor clean of the broken crockery. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My own memory of Shawn begins in the kitchen, perhaps two months after the second accident. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I slipped out of the kitchen before Mom could stick a paintbrush in my hand. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Two days later, I sit in my parents’ kitchen, waiting for dusk to fall. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The hands on her kitchen clock were just as useless to her as her own two hands. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Since he was a young boy, James could be placated by a treat from Alice’s kitchen, the sugar apple that cut short a fit or tantrum. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“The kitchen scales must be way off,” he said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I could go out the front door and around the long way to the laboratory in back, or cut through the kitchen and face more revulsion and more explanations on the way. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Amaranta was so scandalized with the plebeian invasion that she went back to eating in the kitchen as in olden days. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I slide into the kitchen on my socks. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Schools not going to start until at least September fifteenth!” she yelled at me from the kitchen. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Mrs. Chavez started to clear the table, I carried my plate into the kitchen. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The wall between our kitchen and the living room was not thick, and we could hear murmuring voices. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex knew he shouldn’t have been, but he was startled at how beautiful the kitchen was. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He was a large, red-haired, red-faced man who came out of the kitchen holding a spatula in one hand. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

We drew up the plans on the kitchen table, then hammered the frames together and laid the keel last night. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

But of course this didn’t happen, and at last, Pearl snuck the cordless phone from the kitchen counter, ducked outside by the garage, where it was quieter, and called Moody. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I remember when I was a little girl, on Sunday afternoons my father and I would sit at the kitchen table playing chess. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Years ago Daisy had walked like that around the kitchen, silent and occupied. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

As I wandered about the kitchen I suddenly smelled feces and urine. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I strolled into the kitchen, dropped a raw egg into a teacup of raw hamburger, mixed it up and ate it. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Milkman put his head back and let the laughter fill the kitchen. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Paul called after me as I stomped out of the kitchen. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

I waited until they had all passed me by, then I dashed on towards the kitchen door. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Good morning, Kyle,” his mom said when he hit the kitchen. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Mamá said, looking all around at the brightly painted kitchen, the colorful floor, and the cupboard with plastic flowers. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

They just needed to get Finn out of the kitchen so they could ask. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She crossed the kitchen and sat down on the cushioned oak chair next to Adelaide. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

So now the kitchen has a real cookies-and-milk kind of vibe, and usually it’s an awesome place to hang. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

How could you cook in that kitchen with the memory of what happened there? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The boys were ordered to load a wagon with all the kitchen supplies. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Through the kitchen window I spotted her on the telephone, and it didn’t take me long to realize she was probably calling Bunny because faintly I heard her squeal, “Oh cheeze- us!” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen he sat down at the table and drank the hot coffee Charles put in front of him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Luke let the kitchen door slam behind him and didn’t care. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

So he ran down to the kitchen while I nervously kept watch from above. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Jude opened the back door and walked into the kitchen. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then she walked to a little pantry off the kitchen and came back with a plate of small brown cookies. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I follow Mitch to the kitchen where his mom is tallying up receipts on one of those old calculators with the receipt paper. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Not with my mother sitting in the kitchen waiting. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I take extra care not to touch anything in the kitchen, afraid of the noise, afraid of what could happen. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Ma met Genie in the kitchen entranceway, hugged him tight. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Moody went into the kitchen to get a soda, with Izzy trailing after him. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She is a skinny brown woman in the black uniform of the kitchen help. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

From the kitchen the odor of the bursting juices of roasting turkey began to fill the house. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He found himself in a big square kitchen, an old-fashioned place with white china on a wooden dresser, and a scrubbed pine table, and a hearth where a black kettle stood cold. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I loosened my tie and hung my jacket on the back of one of the kitchen chairs. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The first floor belongs to Madame Manec: clean, navigable, full of visitors who come through the kitchen door to trade in small-town scandal. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Kimberly asked, leading the way into a kitchen of shiny chrome and granite and affluent empty space. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The church had been decorated, with sparse flowers from kitchen gardens and hedgerows, and with streamers of colored crepe paper. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gul Khan’s wife was in the kitchen, which could be seen from the dining area through a long rectangular window. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Then she plucked something black off the kitchen counter. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It was running down the corridor into the kitchen!" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Anna goes across into the kitchen and changes the child’s nappy on the table. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two cardboard boxes of stuff are stacked by the kitchen, two mattresses lie on the ground by the window, and an ancient TV and old, mustard-yellow couch take up the rest of the space. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The kids we had seen in the kitchen had set up a table full of what looked like slow cookers and were making runs between the office building and the fire to replenish them. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The next morning there were no ants in the kitchen, none in the pantry, the granary, the stable, the chicken coops, the pastures. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sweet-sour smell of cherry pie filled the kitchen where the four of them sat around the table without appetite for food or speech. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

I stop at the swing door between the dining room and the kitchen. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

We go into the basement of this ramshackle combination motel and boardinghouse, where Earl indicates a closed door—the kitchen, he says—but we can’t go in now, because a guy is sleeping there. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mornings, Mrs. Richardson sailed into the kitchen in high-heeled pumps, car keys and stainless-steel travel mug in hand, saying, “Pearl, so nice to see you again.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I followed Amaka back to the kitchen and watched her slice and fry the plantains. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’d gone inside quietly, had stopped in the kitchen doorway when I saw her. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“That chair cost twelve hundred dollars now, but I got it for eight dollars back then,” he yelled from the kitchen. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Our investigation of the kitchen being done, we determined to enter the house. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes he came back out and sat down in the kitchen with me. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sat where they found space, on kitchen counters, in the foyer, even under the stairwell. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

My mom stood in the kitchen, a soapy pot in her hand, and looked at me, baffled. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I sat in the kitchen with August, June, and Rosaleen while the night spread out around the house. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kitchen door and shutters were closed, and so was the pantry. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He touches his fingers to her bare arms, cool in spite of the warmth of the kitchen. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then there was no sound in the kitchen save the simmering murmur of the kettle and the clock. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lee, his pigtailed Chinese cook, had made a special trip to Pajaro to buy the pots and kettles and pans, kegs, jars, copper, and glass for his kitchen. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He pressed his back against the wall separating the kitchen from the dining room, and stood still. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Teapot, for example, went into the kitchen and asked his mother for some sugar-butter-bread. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

When Wash went into the kitchen to see about some milk, his mother came out of the parlor with her arms crossed. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

This was how, a week into her new duties, Mia came to be in the Richardson kitchen when Izzy wandered downstairs at nine thirty in the morning. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Harry shuffled miserably off into the kitchen and by the time he got back, the mail had arrived, right into Uncle Vernon’s lap. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Ever since the first night I had slept at the Courters’, they had expected me to help in the kitchen. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Suddenly our kitchen went from one pot on the stove to three or sometimes four huge cauldrons of steaming food cooking all hours of the day. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

My mother flapped her hand as she went into the kitchen. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Whereupon, Chester and his sixteen purple mice went into the kitchen for dinner. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

He did not want either of them to come into the kitchen now. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I returned the woman said: “Your breakfast is in the kitchen.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Penelope had brought three tin cups from the kitchen and poured each full of milk to wash down the cakes. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“Nothing,” I said, “you just looked pretty,” and I might have said something else had Charles—dripping wet—not burst through the kitchen door, Francis hard at his heels. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Daniel was gone when Julie stepped into the kitchen and nervously glanced around. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was empty: no kitchen table, no chairs, no nothing. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kitchen door was shut, but nearby, along the wall, there was a hole above the drain where a brick had been left out. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He carries the radio gingerly to the kitchen table. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Our kitchen is the best room in the house. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Sitting in the rocker in the kitchen, looking out at the water, Molly feels oddly at peace. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He found his way into the kitchen and tiptoed past a stretch of gleaming silver surfaces and an oversize fridge. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

When we weren’t in the kitchen, we were in my room watching the parades and bowl games and tapes. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

I run back inside the burning apartment and straight toward the orange glow of the kitchen. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

After a few seconds, the quiet started to feel awkward, so I turned and headed to the kitchen. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I tucked the jar under my arm and went through the kitchen. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She supervised while the last of the food was transferred from the iron kettles into great china basins, which the cook and the boy carried from the kitchen to some other part of the house. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Them telling my moms what happened as she stood with the phone cupped to her ear in the kitchen, crying but at the same time looking sort of relieved, too. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I came downstairs at 8:05, sat down on a kitchen stool, and looked at my reflection in the patio door until 8:15. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

On the oil stove in the kitchen Antonapoulos cooked all of their meals. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

We convene in the kitchen to talk “strategy” for the remaining ten minutes before we face the two teams from the other mosques. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Then he heard his mother call out the kitchen window: “Luke! Inside. Now.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m just getting a snack,” I say, and let myself into Lolo and Abuela’s kitchen. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Someone was demonstrating something that did something in the kitchen, and replaced a dozen other kitchen utensils, none of which Shadow possessed. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

When he didn’t hear anything else, he put his book aside and decided to search the kitchen to see if he could find where his mom was hiding the double chocolate pecan cookies. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She dropped the spatula she’d been holding and stepped away from the bags and boxes to grab her purse off the kitchen table. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They sit in our living room, the twins dozing like puppies on my favorite blanket near the TV This time, there is no whispering in the kitchen. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She jumped up and put the room to order, danced down the stairs, balancing the tray high on one hand, and skipped into the kitchen. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Desdemona asked as soon as she was alone with her cousin in the kitchen. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Then she and Mom would drink coffee in the kitchen and exchange knowing smiles that seemed to say: Men are such boys. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat down in a kitchen chair and poured myself a large orange juice and vodka. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I could tell she was in her kitchen. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

After I clean the kitchen, I go in the formal living room. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

When I look at her and ask, “What happened?” she shifts her eyes to the kitchen, where Ollie Mae is cooking. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She went to the kitchen and he went to his room. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sure she meant to give it to Charlie before he left for the store but forgot because of their little incident in the kitchen. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He even rearranged the shelves of the kitchen downstairs and removed the gaily colored crêpe streamers from the electric fans. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It sniffed the air and scratched the kitchen door. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn slowly from the kitchen counter, hoping that Daddy will notice the new me. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

One day, they were talking to each other at the kitchen table and they were talking about me and that’s the expression they used. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

He was simply in the kitchen, cleaning the floor with a mop and a bucket. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“About this Saturday . . . ,” he began, walking across the kitchen and turning on the faucet. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He spent the rest of the day thinking and scribbling questions in between running down to the kitchen for snacks. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Miss Love was washing a kitchen window that looked clean to me already. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The pie baking was only about half done, but his mother was not in the kitchen. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I woke, the room was dark, and I heard the radio going again in the kitchen. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The three of them were in the kitchen. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Each morning I made my puja at the kitchen shrine, careful to present an offering of fruit or a few scattered flower petals. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

This was their front room, and behind was the big kitchen where Antonapoulos had cooked all their meals. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She moved into the kitchen, with all of us following after her. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I went into the kitchen, my parents were eating breakfast together and talking about bills. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

When she is not in the kitchen cooking, she is out in the greenhouse getting it in order. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I emerge from the kitchen with my head high, as though it’s attached to a golden string, the platter of mousse balanced on one upturned palm. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was in the kitchen getting a soda from the refrigerator when he came up from behind and kissed me. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

But after my parents went to bed, I stayed at the kitchen table. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

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

She was messing around with yeast in the kitchen. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, I fix myself a PB and J while they talk in the living room. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

When the segment on the cockroach-eating baby begins, I go into the kitchen for a glass of water. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Maybe because Dad strolled into the kitchen right then. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I put my suitcase upstairs, filled my flask with boiling water in the kitchen, and headed off to work. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Anne disappeared into the kitchen to plan supper. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s clear when I walk into the kitchen that I’ve done something to displease her. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The explosion from the bomb in our trashcan knocked down the walls of our kitchen, but luckily no one was hurt. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They take their order to go, and Amanda hangs back for a little too long to check out Bo as he walks to the kitchen. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Closer at hand, a pan clattered in the kitchen. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Heading for the hallway, I remember what I came into the kitchen to ask. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the bags were gathered on the kitchen floor, I started pulling groceries onto the kitchen table—half a watermelon, a coffee cake, milk, and ground beef. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Whatever she wanted to say next, she swallowed, and instead reached down, grabbed my empty cup, and went back into the kitchen. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

One fat lordling haunted the kitchens, Hot Pie told her, always looking for a morsel. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Finally she went back in the kitchen and took Ralph out of his highchair and put a clean dress on him and wiped off his face. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I didn’t come downstairs and find him with his forehead slammed against the kitchen table, drool oozing from his mouth like slime, which is definitely what I was expecting. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

When the car pulls into the driveway, Molly hears the crunch of gravel from the kitchen, at the opposite end of the house. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

But Uhmma, I beg, following her down the hall to the kitchen. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

When I look to the window, he’s resting his head on the kitchen table, sleeping. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“I was saving the trash to warm the kitchen in the morning.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Samuel sat down in a kitchen chair and crossed his legs and looked at her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Every section in camp has its own toilets, kitchens and food center,” Mohammad says. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“All right, I’m off,” Mr. Weasley said, and he stuffed the parchment with his notes on it into his pocket and dashed out of the kitchen again. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I remember coming home that night and finding Hassan in the kitchen, listening to the radio. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

His wife stepped in from the kitchen, greasing a muffin tin. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lupita stared gravely at him, then looked about her at the busy, noisy kitchen. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

He rested his head against the kitchen cabinet. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing you could have done anything about, child,” Cook called across the kitchen. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

First, there’s the usual getting up, getting showered, and getting dressed, in the kitchen, I can hear my parents talking loudly in a language I don’t know. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I was already heading to the kitchen when he declined, and now I pause, unsure, in the middle of the room. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t picture it, this godlike creature sitting in my father’s shabby kitchen chair. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The next morning I was sitting in Miss Love’s kitchen, eating hot apple pie and cheese and hoping she wouldn’t pick a fuss with me like she had with everybody else. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He had never been in the slaughterhouse before, so he wasn’t sure where the kitchen was. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grampa pushed away from the table and went into the living room, and I headed out the kitchen door for Naomi’s house. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Gage and Osha arrived from the kitchens, spotted with flour from making the morning bread. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

For months, we didn’t talk much as we worked side by side in the kitchen. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Within that mighty bulwark, the kitchens and stables and yards sheltered safe from wind and wave. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She kisses both of us on the cheek, sits down on the kitchen stool, and gets to work on her magical caption. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Jay tiptoed away from his corner, and I met him behind the big kitchen table. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The lights are mostly turned off, and kids are packed tightly into a long hallway that spills into the kitchen at the back of the house. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I go to the kitchen and pace the floor. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

And so it was that the litter box landed up in the nook off the kitchen, where the love seat used to be. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m here to party, not drink pop in the kitchen.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Without a word, Molly turns and heads back to the kitchen, where she speed-dials Jack. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Luke was just finishing the last of the kitchen floor when he heard the toilet flushing upstairs. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

We settle down at the kitchen counter to eat and make lists of how to break into the lab. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

One day, months into his job, after they delivered a new fridge to an address in Kensington, Nigel said, about the elderly man who had come into the kitchen, “He’s a real gent, he is.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Like she’s the next actor in a scene of a play, Anastasia bustles into the kitchen not a minute after Dad leaves. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Mother walked straight out of the room, out the backdoor toward the kitchen. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stumbled backwards down the kitchen steps and lay sprawled in the wet mud. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was used as a kitchen and relaxation room, where the Company could read or gossip or play Mah- Jongg, the game with tiles that is something like the demons’ card game of gin rummy. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I come in the kitchen ready to tell her how many days we have left, but Miss Celia’s staring at that tree, hating it with her eyes the same way she hates the stove. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The four families shared a common kitchen, which had a single bare lightbulb. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Trey couldn’t reach into all of the kitchen cabinets, but he always made sure I ate. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Beloved hopped off his stool to help her with the box, and jam gave a shy wave from across the kitchen as Redemption hugged his aunt. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He walked to the back and peered through the window at the abandoned kitchen. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They crossed the kitchen and still the old man did not look up. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kitchen staff clearly wants to please me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I tried to rush to your aid, but ended up sprawled on the kitchen floor. Your grandfather reached your side before I did, and he is no athlete.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

But the night before the hunt, after she had banked the kitchen fire and finished washing the supper dishes, she opened the kitchen door and sat down on the doorstep. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unsure, Palmer stared back—and the hurricane swirled into the kitchen, Mutto screaming and laughing around the table, Beans waving the muskrat like a tomahawk. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Come on, let’s go have us a talk in the kitchen.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

When I heard that Negroes were dirty I remembered Mrs. Cooper’s shining kitchen. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your baseball coach is in the kitchen with Mommy and Daddy,” she says, walking out. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Mrs Helena Kingshaw sat down abruptly on the kitchen chair, a little moaning noise came from her lips. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The thunder’s booming and I’m at my kitchen table sweating. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

And she tossed the book next to me on the couch and went back to the kitchen. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

There’d be a huge kitchen so I could bake whenever I wanted and you and June would be there right beside me. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Weasley took a piece of buttered toast from a stack on the kitchen table, put it into the fire tongs, and transferred it into Mr. Diggory’s mouth. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She threw down the dishtowel; before she could leave the kitchen Henry stuck his head in the door and said, “Hey.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The smell of cooking food is often a calming one, and the kitchen grew cozy as the sauce simmered, a culinary term which means “cooked over low heat.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Bep and Miep went grocery shopping with our ration coupons, Father worked on our blackout screens, we scrubbed the kitchen floor, and were once again busy from sunup to sundown. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Papa had closed the kitchen door and hadn’t let anybody go in there. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

In the cramped kitchen at the back of Tigris’s shop, I fill the sink with hot water and suds. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I looked away from the sheet and noticed one of Mom’s partially eaten casseroles on the kitchen table along with an open bag of Thin Mints I had helped Miss Volker package up. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

There hadn’t been a sound from upstairs when Dilsey came in and sent Bed and Luster on to the kitchen and said supper was ready. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the left pocket was a kitchen knife, the same knife that Miggery Sow had used to cut off the tail of a certain mouse. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Seven smiled at the message as she walked into the kitchen, where her mother, Fox, was putting the celebration cake in the fridge to cool. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, being soaped head to toe by her mother, Nel ventured an observation. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, Grandma is actually letting her cook in her kitchen. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Auntie An-mei heaves herself up from the table and moves slowly to the kitchen to prepare the food. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Versh took me up and we went on around the kitchen. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I washed up my dishes, tidied the kitchen, and found myself with idle hands. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go into our new apartment’s tiny kitchen to fill my reusable water bottle. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

After a while Dilsey emerged, again in the faded calico dress, and went to the kitchen. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

They walked back inside the warm house, and Ophie put their coats and boots away while Aunt Rose busied around the kitchen. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go! Father Olufemi thinks the intruder went into the kitchens!” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Lily's and my room and bath and our parents' room and bath were on the main level—as well as the living room, dining room, and kitchen. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I dashed up the stairs as quickly as I could and went into the kitchen. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Mother said hell would freeze over before she surrendered her kitchen to an owl, then marched in and began slamming pots to make breakfast. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The bathroom is festooned with stockings and underpants; hair rollers perch on the kitchen counter like bristly caterpillars, dishes cake in the sink. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, Dad is on the computer in the kitchen. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

She got her old baby doll in the kitchen, the one she call Claudia, with the painted-on hair and the eyes that close. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I watch her in the kitchen as she works on getting Hector’s formula ready. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Mom stands alone in our tiny kitchen, trying to cook dinner. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

And she would tell Loomis and her cousin Sissyretta and all her friends who did yard work or cooked in white kitchens or took in washing or nursed white children. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Smoke obscured the vision and cinders drifted into the house, into our beds, into our kitchen, into our food; and a tarlike smell was always in the air. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, Mom, fabulous Mom, has made the cinnamon rolls. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

That night my cousins and I slept by the kitchen fire. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could see right into old parlors and kitchens, and imagined the people who had lived in them the day their world changed. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Well,” she said to Carl now, folding her arms in the kitchen doorway, where she knew she would have the last word. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

My mom walked to the kitchen and took a glass out of the cupboard. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

She kicked off her sheets and headed to the bathroom, but the murmur of her parents’ voices pulled her down the hallway toward the kitchen. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, she was sitting at the kitchen table, reading the newspaper. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

But it was too hot, so I spread newspapers out over the kitchen table and got the bucket of wooden mallets from the cabinet above the refrigerator. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Together they hurried to the kitchen in their nightclothes. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I pushed my mop to the edge of the kitchen to see better. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

One morning in September, when he had finished his breakfast, Jody’s mother called him into the kitchen. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dropped the crutches and sank to the chair at the kitchen table. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Ugwu did not shut the kitchen door, so that he could stand by it and listen, but he might as well have closed it because Olanna’s raised voice was audible enough. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Eberhardt folded the paper and tossed it on the kitchen counter. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lee withdrew and this time closed the kitchen door. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Marisol and the twins spend more time at school with extracurricular activities, and Mama cooks way too much food, since our kitchen is much bigger now. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

On the last night of his spying he saw her empty a bucket of kitchen scraps not fifty yards from where he crouched. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She jerked around to look into the kitchen. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

The two of them go into the kitchen. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

When I closed the door to my room for possibly the last time and walked into the kitchen, I saw my mother telling Atal again that we couldn’t take the chicks. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“On holidays, in here. Mostly in the kitchen.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

She directs us to sit on a bright yellow overstuffed couch before disappearing into the kitchen. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Calder opened his mouth when the 5:38 train went by, rattling the windows, making the floorboards bounce, and filling the kitchen with the whoosh-whoosh of passing steel. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Dad pokes his head out of the kitchen. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“You are a freaking idiot,” Moody said, when they had intercepted Izzy in the foyer and safely barricaded her in the kitchen. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mother returns to her reading, and I open a kitchen cupboard and survey its contents. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Hazel looked down at her feet, poised in perfect third position, and then undid them and followed her mom into the kitchen. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Dinner’s almost ready,” Kathy answered as she came from the kitchen. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kitchen was warm, but I felt cold. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I head straight for the kitchen, avoiding eye contact and her arms, which are opening for a hug. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But the kitchen also contained things that weren’t mentioned in the game’s text description of this room. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The Doorman has walked into the kitchen as I go out to get Marv. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Still, his dad’s been in the Residence for three days without incident, and one day Alex catches him in the kitchens with two of the cooks, laughing and dumping peppers into a pot. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Next to a box of shells, Grandpa Dowdel’s old double-barreled Winchester Model 21 was on the kitchen table, along with a greasy rig, like Grandma meant to clean it. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to run down the hill from the barn and through the kitchen door that banged behind me and see my mother and my father sitting at the table peeling apples. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He ushered me all the way to the back of the restaurant and into a small room behind the kitchen. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He bopped Mutto again with the muskrat carcass, chased him once around the table and out of the kitchen. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

If only her father would come through the kitchen door. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

George darted into the kitchen and came running back with a dish of applesauce. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

I grabbed a towel from the bathroom, wrapped it around myself like a cape, and flopped into a chair at the kitchen table, thinking about what Officer Parrelli had said. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

How could my aunt just leave me here in the kitchen—is this how you treat family in America? American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He says next thing I’ll be sitting in the kitchen knitting socks. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She dragged herself to the kitchen and made grating noises. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“What’s that bottle of champagne doing in the kitchen?” she mumbled. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He appeared in the kitchen doorway, breathless and with several books under his arm. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Willie gazed nervously around the room—at the books on the kitchen table, the sink, the cot against the wall, and at his father. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The young Kelly children ate greedily in the kitchen. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

His mother had stopped smiling the way she used to; she'd become nervous and jumpy, and now, he thought, she's on the kitchen floor, dead. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, you know how Mom complains about the way Daddy looks for stuff? Like in the kitchen cabinet—he never moves anything, never looks behind the cans and jars and boxes of pasta.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

When we can't find my sister, we know she is under the kitchen table, a book in her hand, a glass of milk and a small bowl of peanuts beside her. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Lee came in from the kitchen and put a damp towel in his hands, and Adam sponged his eyes and handed it back. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

My mom takes an extra copy of the paperwork she had to fill out, and the first thing she does when we get to Crystal’s apartment is to put it down on the kitchen table. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

We entered a spacious kitchen, lit not by rush lights but by actual candles. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed Dad’s hand and dragged him to the kitchen. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Apparently not responsibility-free, he thought, then headed back into the kitchen to the sound of his mother chuckling to herself. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She was still talking about the baby on Monday, and when Mia arrived in the kitchen that afternoon, Lexie was delighted to have a fresh audience. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She rearranged the furniture to better accommodate the growing belly of the expectant lady, and rearranged the kitchen supplies so she wouldn’t have to reach as far. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I watched as Josephine took an order from a table and then followed her back to the kitchen. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Russell lurched backward into the kitchen table with his half; Piper lurched backward in the opposite direction, and with nothing to stop him, sailed right through the cellar doorway and down the cellar steps. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She closed the door and almost fainted when she saw the older boy standing there in the kitchen, swaying slightly. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

For Thanksgiving, Titi Magda always tells the family to show up at two knowing we won’t get there until four, which is the actual time the kitchen will be ready. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The women tell us we must be starving and they go into the kitchen. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

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

Within five minutes, he was back in the kitchen, his robes on the right way now, dragging a comb through his hair. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Even now there’s a pot of lavender in the kitchen. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The lace curtain flapped in the kitchen window. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Grampa said nothing when I left the table and headed for the kitchen. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

She devoted herself to the kitchen after that, preparing meals that she spooned into plastic containers and the tins usually reserved for Christmas cookies. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I sat across from Dante’s parents at their kitchen table. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Holding Edward by the ears, Lolly marched into the kitchen and shoved him face-down in the garbage can. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Her other parents stood in the kitchen doorway as she walked down the corridor, smiling identical smiles, and waving slowly. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Delivery comes, and once Maxine has brought the box into the kitchen, we all reach in to grab a slice. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

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

They were whispering, but I was only in the kitchen so I could hear every word. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, I took two onions and sliced them thin and began to fry them on the stove. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

George pulled out her vocabulary assignment and began to work at the table while Mom went to the kitchen to start making dinner. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

This particular ritual of my parents’ was actually a thing I loved; I’d spent many nights sitting at the kitchen table with my parents, moved to tears by a particularly powerful line of verse. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Jazz clanged pots and dishes around in the kitchen. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I grabbed my phone from my purse on the kitchen counter and checked my recent calls. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

However, having applied unavailingly at a third door, which led into a “utility room,” and a fourth, the door to the kitchen, she rejoined her father, who said, “Maybe they’re asleep.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Malloy goes into the kitchen, motioning for me to follow her. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When she woke, she came bleary-eyed into the kitchen, then into the living room, where Mrs. Delaney sat in a pool of lamplight rocking a sleeping Pearl. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Our host beamed and disappeared back into the kitchen, and I heard a cabinet squeak open and the tinkling sound of glasses being set up. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mom, Dad, and Laleh were still asleep after our long journey through the space-time continuum, but I found the kitchen, and a door leading out to the backyard. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Even many years later, seeing a Kroger’s McIntosh in our suburban kitchen, she would hold it up to ridicule, saying, “This is nothing. This we fed to goats.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Kids with kitchen duty appeared bearing trays of food, all covered with gleaming silver tops so that you couldn’t see what was inside, sparking wild speculation about what might be for dinner. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Once he locates one, he sits down at the table in the kitchen to write a note to his parents. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

That evening Grandma and I had a quiet supper at the kitchen table, under the ceiling light and the flypaper strips. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I throw on some shorts and a T-shirt and walk to the kitchen. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

She had pushed the chest of drawers half the distance to the kitchen. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day I go to Cuddledown and look under the kitchen sink. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Already cooking smells were drifting from the kitchen. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The carpet, the wallpaper, the kitchen table and countertops—everything was the same as it was in the slides I’d seen of my mother’s childhood. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I made swords out of branches, sharpening the tips with a steak knife stolen from the kitchen. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Uncle Son goes straight to the kitchen, where the back door opens into an alley. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I left him sitting at the kitchen table, staring down at the white cloth. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The third officer had come through from the kitchen and was rifling inside a box of Chaim’s clothes that hadn’t made it to the front bedroom. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Two weeks later, Alba organized an outing for the children from the soup kitchen. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kitchen yielded no lemon cakes, but they did find half of a cold strawberry pie, and that was almost as good. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The kitchen was empty and dark, save for a faint blue hazy light that seeped through a window from the winter sky. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when he looks at her doing her homework at the kitchen table, he thinks she belongs to someone else. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Lorena has just come out from the kitchen with a tray to collect the empty coffee cups. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

You could tell from the piles of luggage, the boxes containing radios and kitchen appliances, the sacks full of things like disposable diapers. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

In the weeks that followed she helped her mother in the kitchen and offered to help more than was needed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then she turned and began to walk away, head down, toward the path past the kitchen. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

My mother went to the kitchen and returned with a plate of oranges sliced into wedges. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, the flower of southern womanhood,” the crippled man at the kitchen end of the counter sighed. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I get up, and turn back to her as I stand on the threshold between the kitchen and the dining room. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Mango follows me in the kitchen door, but I lose him to the food dish. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Cheese and fruit were set on platters and a large copper pot was hung to simmer in the kitchen. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

This room was chill, because it seldom had a fire; it was silent, because remote from the nursery and kitchen; solemn, because it was known to be so seldom entered. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

She grabs them, bends to take a bottle of water from the case under the kitchen table, and strides to the dining room. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Inside, the floor plan is a circle: a sunny living room on the right leads into the kitchen in the back, which connects to a dining room and back to the foyer. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The next morning, I waited in my room for Ali to clear the breakfast table in the kitchen. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

On the contrary, something new—something loathsome and servile—had infected me, along with the kitchen odors that I could still sniff on my bra when I finally undressed at night. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When we were sitting at your kitchen table the other day, you asked me when I knew. That’s when...that’s when I knew for sure.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

I heard John rummaging through the closets in the kitchen and a banging of bottles. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mary Anne left the kitchen, her head arched proudly, yet somehow her departure had the look of retreat, of irredeemable loss. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stumbled into the kitchen and headed straight for the coatrack. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

He even waits around in their kitchen while she changes her clothes before they head over to Essential Baking Company. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I scuttle to the kitchen through the dining room and busy myself ladling things into bowls and serving plates. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He grins back at me from across the kitchen. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Instead, I woke up to Dad sitting at the kitchen table alone. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She threw up her hands and rushed into the kitchen. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

They had washed their hands and faces and scrubbed them well with soap, at the wash-basin on the bench in the kitchen. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I finish, I rush to the kitchen, only to find a scene so melodramatic that for a second I think I have walked out of Ousting, the videotape, and into an entirely different movie. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when Emma reached the kitchen, she found Finn already sitting at the table, digging French toast slices out of the dish where Mom had been keeping them warm. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He shakes himself awake now, looks at the half-moon, and says, “I left my keys on your kitchen table.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I enter the kitchen to find them both sweating from the heat of the blazing hearth. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Turn off TV,” she called from the kitchen five minutes later. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that moment there was a diversion in the form of a small, red-headed figure in a long nightdress, who appeared in the kitchen, gave a small squeal, and ran out again. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

She saw him from the kitchen window that afternoon gathering early windfall apples and dropping them in a burlap bag. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Abbey stumbled into the kitchen looking as if she’d gotten maybe two hours of sleep. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Mother was overwhelmed with holiday orders, so I passed my days on Buck’s Peak just as I had as a child: in the kitchen, making homeopathics. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I found myself in the RV’s tiny kitchen. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“The girls look hungry. Why don’t you take them to the kitchen?” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shout to Tessie in the kitchen, who shouts to Milton in the den, who shouts to Desdemona in the guest house. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I remember sitting in the kitchen with El the summer before freshman year, decorating our new matching day planners when I ran upstairs for more markers. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The bed is still made, and she just lies there with her arms out and her feet together, like the Jesus on the cross that hangs over their kitchen doorway. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Once he went out to the kitchen and came back with two apples; he offered one to me, but I didn’t want it, so he ate them both. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She seems to want to stay and watch me taste it but she hurries back to her work in the open kitchen preparing the bahn-chahn, the savory half dishes of vegetables and fish. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thermometer by Miss Celia’s kitchen window sinks down from seventy-nine to sixty to fifty-five in less than an hour. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She did a little dance all the way back to the kitchen. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

One evening she sits at the kitchen table while her great-uncle reads aloud. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Frankie had to wait until he had the kitchen to himself and the door closed. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she sat on a chair at the kitchen table, her head in her hands, and I knew I had made her sad and I wanted to go back to my room. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom gave me a look as I crossed the kitchen. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

On a china plate on the kitchen table was a spool of black cotton, and a long silver needle, and, beside them, two large black buttons. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Connor pushes through the kitchen doors, wiping his hands on his apron as he goes. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

My mom leaves the couch and takes maybe ten short steps into the kitchen and opens two small doors that I thought were cabinets. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I hand Andrecito back his dump truck, whisper thanks, then collect our dishes, letting their clatter fill the silence, and head toward the kitchen without a word. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She drags a damp rag along the back of the kitchen countertop. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Drew, Marcus, and Todd sat at a round wooden table in the kitchen, Solo cups in hand. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

His rented house has one room where he eats and sleeps, one kitchen, and—unbelievable—one bathroom inside. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Inside the kitchen the small bodies squirmed on the hard benches, and eyes strayed from the primers to gaze through the door at the forbidden sunshine. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Skeeter still waiting on me in the kitchen when I come back in. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

There are ironed linens on the kitchen table, a vase of wilting violets. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I poked at the logs in the kitchen hearth, trying to summon back the bees so they would chase out the thoughts invading my brainpan. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I described every room in our house in detail, even the pattern on the spoons in the kitchen drawer. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Her head slammed against the doorframe as he finally dragged her body onto the kitchen’s linoleum floor. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She walked in and looked around at my tiny living room and the attached kitchen. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Now I'm lost in space again, like that first trip down to the kitchen at breakfast this morning. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

David leans his long, spindly body against the kitchen counter and pokes at toaster parts, like he’s got nothing better to do. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Mom leads Sue into the kitchen, the two of them chattering. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“How are you feeling these days?” she yells from the kitchen. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

When we arrive, we find Leo hiding under the kitchen sink, shivering in terror. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He put his arm around me and steered me into the kitchen. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She watched from the kitchen window as they walked down the driveway to the bottom of the hill to wait for the school bus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A kitchen staffer stuck her head out over the conveyor belt and called: “Trays!” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Use of poisons in the kitchen is made both attractive and easy. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Back in our kitchen, we start singing, but before we even get through “birthday,” Theresa puts her hand up like a policeman and yells, “Wait! We forgot Annie.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, as an afterthought, ‘Beer ... Hi, kitchen,’ he yelled, in the arrogant way Johnny noticed the young officers always called for service. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, the phone was still on the floor. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He headed downstairs toward the kitchen, which he kept visiting because he was sure that was where Kreacher was most likely to reappear. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Outside of the kitchens, she is the only woman at the school. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, she hacked at a chunk of ham with a knife and brutalized an onion. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Polly changed quickly into the stiff black uniform, inwardly praying that perhaps this would be the start of her move up to the main house and out of the kitchen with the slaves. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It smelled like Jess’s kitchen when her grandma was visiting from Mexico. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Two days before the scheduled burial, I started packing everything in the kitchen. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

We slipped out of the kitchen and retraced our steps back to the multipurpose room. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

She looked at her mother, who stood blank-faced in the kitchen doorway, then walked over to take the money. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

That morning, Daddy had moved the cot into the kitchen, next to her bathroom. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

After I swallowed, I heard a noise coming from below the kitchen floor, like metal scraping concrete. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He groped his way through the kitchen, down the hall, and to the front door, afraid to light a lamp, afraid to make a sound. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

And I can’t tell you what my father said to Joseph, since he sent me to the kitchen to get going on homework. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

For most of the weekend I sat at the kitchen table and did my homework. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stepped over them to go to my pallet near the kitchen door and lay down fully dressed. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the kitchen counter the clunky old landline message machine blinked. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I wanted to this morning in the kitchen when she told Claire to stop encouraging me. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Mama collapsed on a kitchen stool and took a long drink of water. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Three people sat eating breakfast in the kitchen. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

When we walked in, Nan was at our small kitchen table with Miss Esther, deep in conversation. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Jaja came out of the kitchen then and stood staring at Papa. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

And the Wart looked round the busy kitchen, which was coloured by the flames tiff it looked like hell, with sorrowful affection. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood there in the middle of the kitchen and cried until I could hardly breathe. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I knew where they put corpses in the mortuary was different, yet I imagined Papa- Nnukwu s body being folded into a home refrigerator, the kind in our kitchen. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the kitchen turned to look at Anya being carried inside. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The kitchen was where Ralph spent his free time too, learning to cook. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Rileys’ cook had heard the whole thing; she just kept on working in the kitchen and watched Betty Jo and her lather. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was better they wait for the war to end, rather than have their wedding in this house with its sullen rooms and moldy kitchen. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I got up and crept downstairs to the kitchen. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

All Dell really knew with certainty was that now someone was steaming mounds of spinach in a kitchen that had never under his watch seen a vegetable in its raw form. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I set my backpack on the floor, cross back across the frozen kitchen, and press PLAY. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

It was fun to watch as he slowly began trusting me in the kitchen. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I helped Rosaleen some in the kitchen, but mostly I was free to lie around and write in my notebook. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama walks to the small kitchen area and grabs the few pots, pans, and bowls that we have. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“Furniture. Your backyard. Your kitchen. The street. What should I see?” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Then the tears start welling up and I bury my face into Jaimito’s hair and go into the kitchen so that they won’t see me cry. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came back when he had left the hamper and stopped by the kitchen hearth. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I got home, my mom was in the kitchen warming up some tamales for dinner. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

She went into the kitchen and came back after a moment with a small package which she held out to Kit shamefacedly. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

A medium-sized room had been divided to make a narrow strip of a kitchen and, presumably, a bedroom next door. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“This is not optional,” she says, marching us all into the kitchen. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Hello! Hello!” he said, gliding into the kitchen, tall and tanned and tactical. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was by this time half-past five, and the sun was on the point of rising; but I found the kitchen still dark and silent. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

She let the curtain fall back in place and walked to the kitchen, wiping her hands on the dish towel slung over her shoulder. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

That window has the same view as my kitchen window: trees and the Square and the tops of houses. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kitchen was spinning; strange flecks of pink and yellow drifted before my eyes. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Knives that are not in the kitchen are bad knives. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Then she picked up the kitchen shears that her stepmother had left on the table and clipped away the uneven ends of her hair. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He baked biscuits and gave them away; when his mother, tired of the mess, booted him from her kitchen, he resumed baking in a neighbor’s house. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

If you say anything to your brothers she might say who do you think you’re talking to in my kitchen? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“You will clean the kitchen and prepare the dinner, girl, then you will take yourself to the house of Lady Seymour and do what she requires of you.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Hanako and her father arrived at the restaurant each morning, Hanako would heat up the grill and turn on the steam table in the kitchen while Papa made coffee. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He tells her about how he and Sonia occupied the kitchen on Pemberton Road for a day, stuffing a turkey and rolling out dough for pies, things his mother did not particularly like to do. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her parents burst from the kitchen, racing down the hallway toward them. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The ugly ones and Sarah with her big belly were to stay in the kitchen to assist the cook, and wash up. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The kitchen scraps are gone, and we'll have no begging after dark." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Can I go in your kitchen for a minute? I think I know something that may help.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Mom had any house-showing appointments, she must have canceled them, because when I finally came downstairs for breakfast, she was standing in the kitchen in flannel pajamas. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Dad must have heard me crying because he came through the swinging door from the kitchen and was standing in the living room. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I feel a pang of remorse about yesterday, the awful things I yelled at her as Peeta and Haymitch dragged me from the kitchen. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I also got us a bit of food from the kitchen staff. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I crept under the kitchen window and then down the garden in the far shrubbery till I got to a water butt. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Scoob rushes to the kitchen to check his personal pantry shelf. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

He turns without looking back at me or waiting for a reaction and walks through the kitchen into the backyard. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

We all sit around the kitchen table, but it’s the quietest dinner in Carter family history. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

My grandfather explodes into the kitchen, shouting, “They closed my email account!” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

When Louie walked into his house, Louise threw her arms around him, inspected him for injuries, led him to the kitchen, and gave him a cookie. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Nothing could be worse than the living and dining rooms, yet the kitchen was. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sunlight poured into the kitchen through the door and windows. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead she dispatched Jhiqui to the kitchens for a planter of flatbread, olives, figs, and cheese. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She hurries out and downstairs to the kitchen. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“I was just trying to help my own brother,” said George, shaking his head as he carried the sauce back to the kitchen. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

She rummaged through the kitchen cutlery while he broke six eggs into a bowl and whisked them with a fork. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'd find the biggest bowl in our kitchen and fill it up. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

We stepped into the kitchen, a large spacious room. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

To be helpful, her husband smoked in the shared kitchen next door. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I told her about the bulletin board as I followed her to the kitchen and watched as she fixed herself a drink. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The quilt ladies were still working as I marched by real quick down to the kitchen. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since single-handedly remodeling our kitchen, Dad has had delusions of plumbing grandeur. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Men are not even allowed in the kitchen. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Captain Underpants was still out on the pile of mail in the kitchen, and that book did make sense. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

When I returned to the kitchen she was on the phone with Mr. Spizz. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Even though what I really want to do is tell Miss Celia to pull herself together and go in the kitchen and eat proper. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I returned to the kitchen, stopping short to eavesdrop. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The last thing I want to be is friendly right now, stuck in this hot kitchen with a bunch of rude kids making Mama nervous. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The porcelain in the kitchen sink was discolored but the brass fixtures were shining brightly. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No!” he said loudly, his voice ringing through the kitchen. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad led us into the kitchen and sat at the round table. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Berthe Erica Crow, please rise and go to the kitchen for the refreshments. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went through the basement, pausing to look at the roaring furnace, and then went to the kitchen door and stepped in softly. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“When you stripped this house of all the valuables you could find,” Harry began again, “you took a bunch of stuff from the kitchen cupboard. There was a locket there.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Minya’s “soldiers” were everywhere, armed with knives and other kitchen tools. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Smart Mole,” said Sam, and dashed through the kitchen door. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

She’s sitting at the kitchen table wearing her work clothes and checking a camera lens. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen he found his parents and Grandpa Nyles having coffee and talking in English. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

She gave it to Mama, who passed it on to Papa, who then came stalking into the kitchen, stiff-backed, glaring scornfully at Granny. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

She takes the cake from me and puts it in the kitchen. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Mother and Lily are framed in light at the kitchen table. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

We walked through the tiny living room into the miniature kitchen and upstairs into my fathers pint-sized bedroom and on into my pocket-sized bedroom and into the wee bathroom. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Got that right,” Grandpop said, coming from a door just off from the living room—which was just off from the kitchen—glass in hand. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She smiles, tired lines fanning out from her eyes in a way that seems like we are sitting at her kitchen counter and not three years and three thousand miles from who we were. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

She looks at me for an extra second before disappearing into the kitchen. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“The Body in the Library,” she read, “and A Brief History of Time. Don’t bring ’em in the kitchen, though. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

They went into the farmer’s kitchen, and sat by the wide fire-place. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Tats called three times on the home line, while you were sleeping,” Mom says when I enter the kitchen. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Left it sitting right there on the kitchen table next to our empty cereal bowls. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I turned and walked slowly across the darkened kitchen, then pulled back the beaded curtain covering the doorway to the cab. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Kazi would stop what he was doing and get his prayer mat that he kept rolled up in the corner of the kitchen. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A lady answered the phone, “Police, state your emergency,” and I saw my face in the window over the kitchen sink and no words came out of my mouth. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was standing at the kitchen counter straining herbs, along with half a dozen other women. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“They can hear me snap a carrot all the way from the kitchen.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally she was gone and Janie hurried to her kitchen to put on supper and found Tea Cake sitting in there with his head between his hands. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

She went back into the kitchen where Portia was sitting at the table with her hands up to her face. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Her cousin laid hold of her one night when she passed alone through the court from the kitchen. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He sits me down at the kitchen table. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

She took the tray back down to the kitchen, where she poured herself a cup of tea from Ana’s untouched pot, and very deliberately cracked the egg on the countertop, watching the shell splinter. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shrugged his shoulders, picked up the tank, and carried it to the kitchen. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She wheeled a large bicycle into the little room behind the kitchen and came out to her supper. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was his mother calling from the kitchen. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She didn’t like this boy bringing the vacant lot into her kitchen, and she didn’t like how it fit his mouth. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He let his coat and cap fall to the kitchen floor. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baba walks into the kitchen, wearing his bathrobe. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

"No one will ever see me! Moving about in a big Castle will be child's play compared with going into a crowded kitchen full of cooks and waiters!" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

They stand in the kitchen with the curtains drawn. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

While he was there, my sister had been seen standing at the kitchen door, and had exchanged Good Night with a farm-labourer going home. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

I beat Sneaky to the kitchen, and when I get there, I see a stack of pancakes on the table—golden brown, not burnt and lumpy like the ones Mama makes at Smoky Inn. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Jinny started for the metal food safe in the outdoor kitchen. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Abby motioned me over to an empty booth by the kitchen. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

She yawns, scratches her head, rubs her left shoulder, rolls her neck, and disappears into another room right next to the kitchen. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Suddenly she lifted her head and began to look all around the kitchen. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

At night and on weekends, there were often lively discussions around her kitchen table, sometimes with friends—mostly Jewish intellectuals. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Right away Momma finds another reason to head to the kitchen. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

I put the coffee urn in the church kitchen, which was filled with ladies doing dishes in the cavernous metal sinks, everybody full of food and laughing about nothing. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Grandpa Sorenson shuffled into the kitchen wearing boxers, socks, and an undershirt stained with brown mustard. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I was ushered into the house by Major Marais and found a spacious lounge, next to a large kitchen, with an even larger bedroom at the back of the house. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three of them in his kitchen meant that Lovey didn’t know about the railroad, and they hadn’t mentioned the shopkeeper’s name at any point. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Do you raid the kitchens of all your guests?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He drew in his breath and went on writing: I went with her through the doorway and across a backyard into a basement kitchen. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Their grandmother sat in the same chair in the kitchen. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Especially when she’s standing in your kitchen in her underpants and a shirt, yawning. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The first time I visited Soojin after school, I hadn’t realized that there were two refrigerators in the kitchen. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Once I finally made it out to the kitchen, my mother—who had taken the day off—was sitting at the table in her robe, sipping coffee, staring at the television. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She and all four girls were in the kitchen. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first Saturday morning that I could remember, Malcolm wasn’t in the kitchen whipping up something green and stinking to infuse our brains with oxygen and steep our bodies in trace minerals. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Tam stands and they clear the table, taking the dishes into their kitchen and leaving me and Viola sitting there by ourselves. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

I would lie in bed beside him or sit at the kitchen table, running my eyes over him like hands. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They had stores of food and even a kitchen. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I throw on any clean clothing I get my hands on, then grab my phone and zoom down to the kitchen, where I’m surprised to see Dad’s made us pancakes. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

She avoids looking at me and takes our plates and goes to the kitchen. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Your mama and daddy called. They made it back home safely. And it’s a good thing they left early, missed this here storm,” Grandma said when Genie and Ernie came into the kitchen. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I grab my helmet, walking backward toward the kitchen, taking in all the Plutos. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

We’re in the hallway behind the kitchen by the time I finish the story. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He has only one room too, and a little kitchen with no window. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I wait until they disappear into the kitchen before darting into the hall. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, they returned to the basement kitchen, where Kreacher served them all stew and treacle tart. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She hung around for a while, making small talk, until the phone rang in the kitchen. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Instead, he doesn’t have to wonder on that thought too long, because it is about an hour until the release, and Byrd is cooking something in the kitchen. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

There were a pair of young girls chatting in the kitchen doorway, avoiding their work. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then she’d pin the chain somewhere — her bed, the pillow, a chair back, the oven mitt in the kitchen — so she wouldn’t lose them. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He gets up from the couch and goes into the kitchen. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

They looked about the kitchen for a couple moments, and then stepped into the bedroom. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her puffy blue robe, eyes red rimmed, Linda leaned against a kitchen counter waiting for coffee water to boil. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He chops all de wood he think Ah wants and den he totes it inside de kitchen for me. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I headed to the kitchen, not sure what I was going to want once I got there. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

On the left side of the truck is a kitchen. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He moved to the center of the kitchen, to surround himself with as much space as possible. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tears filled his eyes and he ran out of the kitchen door, letting it slam behind him. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lay still listening until I heard him opening and closing doors in the kitchen. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I staggered to the kitchen and put it down, then came back into the room. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it would not take long to reassemble it in the kitchen; I knew exactly where I wanted it to stand. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“And I don’t want her standing in the cold kitchen doing the dishes, either. It’s bad for her.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Junie-ah, let’s take a break and raid the kitchen for some sweets! ” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

When they returned to the kitchen, Ben asked, “No luck?” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Hot Pie ate even better; he was where he belonged, in the kitchens, a round stone building with a domed roof that was a world unto itself. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I usually finish my schoolwork fast and sneak into the kitchen, when Dadi thinks I’m still working, to help Kazi prepare dinner. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She crept into the kitchen, took an apple, and ate it in just a few bites. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

She looks peaceful in the kitchen of this house in her spotless apron, everything clean and polished around her, flowers bobbing in the garden beyond, birds chirping away, music from Radio Eireann on the wireless. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

At age ten he worked as a dishwasher in the track kitchen. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He threw down his bag and leaped at Reggie, got him in some crazy sleeper hold and pulled him to the kitchen floor. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

They won’t talk about the bad things in front of my sisters, but me I can listen all the livelong day while I’m getting me a banana in the kitchen house and peeling it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He bent low from the waist and whispered in her ear, ‘Chef sends his apologies, Your Majesty, and he says he has no more eggs in the kitchen.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are balconies, gabled roofs, a large kitchen, four bathrooms, two sitting rooms. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The next morning, as we sat in my kitchen, I promised Lucas we wouldn’t talk about the Ada situation. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Haul him out!” the policeman by the kitchen window shouted back as he left his station for the bedroom. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He might eat that, even on the porch, because he knows it’s his. Maybe tonight I could go in through the attic and down to the kitchen...” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You couldn’t keep your mouth shut, could you, Hermione?” said Ron angrily as the kitchen door slammed shut behind them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

At the same time that she was there, in Ari-Eil’s kitchen, she was entering other houses, watching other faces. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I go into the kitchen to get a hat. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She got up and went to the kitchen and poured us a couple of Scotches, and came back and sat down and I tried to tell her what had happened to me. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What are you scanning around for? Nobody’s here to protect you. You might be the favorite out there, but in this kitchen, you’re mine!” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

They had come to the kitchen, and Mrs. Dudley, turning away from the sink, watched them silently. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

We were putting out seedlings in her kitchen garden, and I nearly planted two tomatoes in the same hole together as she told me the story. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“She wasn’t in the kitchen when we went back through. She probably went to bed. She was well scared.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

At night we slept in a loft beneath the eaves, where on cold nights the smoke from the kitchen fires rose and hovered beneath the rafters, warming us. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Ma prods me in the back with her cane, so I walk out of the kitchen ahead of her and into the dark hallway. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

If something went wrong and the Amoses woke up I didn’t want them rushing down to the kitchen to get the gun. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

She gave a little nod, like she’d checked something off a list, and went back to the kitchen. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He is feeding himself with his right hand while his left gently touches a slim bamboo stick lying on the kitchen table. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There's some murmured conversation, and then Anu comes into the kitchen. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I walk into the kitchen, Grammy's cleaning and our stove has been pulled away from the wall. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

While I steeped the tea, Dad pulled down a pair of cups for us and set them on the kitchen table. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He brought the box to the kitchen table, sat with pen and paper, all those stupid prep books. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

All thirteen share one bathroom, and the established pecking order means the Peraltas rarely get to use the kitchen. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

If I got finished early in the honey house, I went to the kitchen and watched May and Rosaleen cook, but really I was there to listen to June play the cello. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my memory of this story’s telling—in our kitchen in Isfahan—the man finished his tale and popped another cream puff into his mouth. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

For once I didn’t care that she wouldn’t let us in the kitchen where her papers hung like wings. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Straight ahead are the stairs and what looks like a hallway to the kitchen. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He heard the soft but firm tread of Peggy as she walked across the kitchen floor. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

For him there was the back door, and the dark stairs, and the kitchen or the basement. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He’d painted the kitchen walls the same dark olive green as the outside, and lined them with power strips and fly swatters. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Fatima reddened and hurried to the back of the kitchen. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I looked around as if I expected to see a street sign in the kitchen. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kitchen light fades, and again I’m sinking. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I went into the kitchen and watched my mom as she cleaned out her cabinets. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

He was right, it was fast, a gray blur across the kitchen floor... Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t have a mask and I could smell, so when I reached the kitchen, I got ready to take a deep breath before I walked in. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“We,” said Mother firmly, walking back into the kitchen, “are going to that meeting. I was president of the Forest Park PTA, and I have a few things I want to say.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kitchen was small but had everything one needed to make a hearty meal. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I gathered the dishes to take to the kitchen. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I watched him move around the dim, dawn-lit kitchen in his bare feet. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Some song about how “Jesus will” plays on my mom’s phone in the kitchen, and she hums along, not knowing that Jesus will have to perform a miracle when it comes to Aunt Pooh. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I waited until six in the morning, then I found Mother in the kitchen. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Maya sat between Grace and Joaquin at the kitchen table as Jessica fluttered around them, getting sodas out of the refrigerator, setting them down along with paper napkins. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

From where I stood, I could see four empties lined up next to the sink in the kitchen. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

His mom would not allow their guests in the kitchen. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I put down my backpack and went into the kitchen to fill the teakettle. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

My uncle and his old stereo and his army of battered CDs lined up on the kitchen counter, two stacks of cooking pots as bookends. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Hands on her hips, she made sure that what belonged in the living room ended up in the living room, what belonged in the kitchen, in the kitchen. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Childish curiosity finally overcame the fear, and I hopped out of bed and tiptoed to the kitchen window. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

We moved into a tiny, dingy two-room den in whose kitchen a wall bed fitted snugly into a corner near the stove. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sits in that kitchen every night, and no matter what the voices on the radio say, the words are always the same. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The house was dark, but there was a light on in the kitchen. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

‘My mother played on the floor of this kitchen. My grandfather was but a young man when he built this house, and I, a grandson, have better right to it doubtless than an elder brother.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She smacked the knife on the kitchen counter and jumped right up in By’s face. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A wife,” Mother said, staring at Nelson in the kitchen house exactly as I had seen her stare at the cobra that once turned up in there. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m to the kitchen and back in three seconds. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“Of course not. We can bring stools from the kitchen.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The voices in the kitchen are louder and angrier than ever. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’m in the kitchen, pouring milk into my bowl of cereal. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She got up from underneath the kitchen table. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He’d say, Is this what the men of Ireland fought and died for that my own son is sitting there at the kitchen table reading the freemason paper? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Before I could stop her, Lissa pushed open the kitchen door and ran out into the hall. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I waved her in and took the box to the kitchen table. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Sherlock’s bed was moved from the kitchen into the family room, and at first it was hard because he wouldn’t leave my stump alone. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

And they did as soon as they got home, trooping into the Richardson kitchen, where Mia had just finished dressing a chicken for dinner. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He called to Palmer’s father, who was in the kitchen planting candles in the cake. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The second Mom went back into the kitchen, the boys pounced on Jess with their news: Their dad was heading up to his fishing cabin early tomorrow morning. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Shorty’s in the kitchen; from the clatter and clink, it sounds like he’s setting the table for dinner. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

We sat at the kitchen table and stared at the clock, until I went and got a deck of cards. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was in the kitchen with Mom when I came out into the hall after worshiping the toilet bowl again. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t pry it open without a tool, so I look back to his makeshift kitchen and find a teaspoon, still sticky, and insert its handle into the crack. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She wrote the number down and put it and the cash on the kitchen counter. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I happened to be walking past the kitchen yesterday when I heard you calling to someone named William.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

They walked as softly as possible down the stairs and past the wide triangle of light that lay on the floor in front of the kitchen door. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Dewey got home, Marie was in the kitchen preparing supper. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cecile was right there, guarding whatever she was hiding in her kitchen. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s in a bag on the kitchen table.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clutching them in my hands, I glided past the Daughters as they finished up the dishes in the kitchen. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turns away from me and I slide down the wall onto the kitchen floor. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mom had left him a note on the kitchen table. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were probably going to eat at one of the soup kitchens that plied their wares in the Cow’s Guts. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Hey there, Butterfly,” he says, casting a tired smile across the midnight kitchen. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“We both need a little breather,” August said, and she plodded toward the kitchen. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite her size, she walked noiselessly, and they followed her to the kitchen. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Señor Rodrigo waved his hand and Salvador went out to the kitchen. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

This was, consequently, his fourth trip to the kitchen in an hour. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I touched the end of the harpoon, and it was sharper than the old kitchen knives we had back home in Queens—not that they were being used much. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went over to the kitchen area and began poking around on the shelves. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I get the irresistible urge to flee, but as I take a step backward, Daddy comes out of the kitchen. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Trotter moved to the kitchen table and started chopping the carrots on a tiny round board. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

The house had no electricity or running water, and the kitchen that stood apart from the house was made entirely of zinc. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Malcolm steps to the center of the room, his hunched back to the kitchen. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She spends the rest of the afternoon in the kitchen. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

There were always fresh cookies in the kitchen when Eleanor got home from school. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Going downstairs, he smelled the pot of coffee perking in the kitchen. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was the only one in the kitchen with Ma Charles but I couldn’t believe she meant me. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Alice came to the doorway and peered out, looking for them, and then she heard the uneven footsteps approaching and went back to the kitchen. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Usually he went to his room to read before lunch, but he had not come upstairs today; he had been in the kitchen the whole time, with Mama and Sisi. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I forgot to put in the NutraSweet. Would you mind getting it for me from the kitchen, love?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Sasha and her friends had taken a shine to cable cooking shows and sometimes commandeered the residence kitchen to decorate cookies or whip up elaborate, multicourse meals for themselves. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Seal sat on a kitchen chair and watched us with yellow eyes. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

They had one room, with a hot plate and an icebox for a kitchen. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Their grandmother led them through the kitchen and into a dim hallway. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stand in the kitchen doorway, watching him, trying to force the words out. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He jumped in line as we strode down the hall, through the lemon-scented kitchen, and into the damp laundry room. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“I saw them make it, okay? I peeked into the kitchen when you weren’t looking.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

When she got home, her mom was standing in the kitchen. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Babulya was awake and tracing her withered fingers along the plants in the kitchen when Anya opened the door and walked in. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Lynn and I would peek at him as he sat at the kitchen table, thinking. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The bananas were raw, so we boiled them by adding wood to a fire that was in one of the outdoor kitchens. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They entered the kitchen where mean Mr. O’Doyle sat in the only chair next to a small dining table. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry, I’m calling the superintendent’s office about this,” she says, and goes toward the kitchen. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

He moves the black-and-white one to the kitchen. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He grabs hold of the kitchen table and continues his verbal lashing. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And then, without waiting for an answer, she took a saucer and spooned some soup into it and set it on the kitchen floor. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

"Your place is in the stable. Stay out of the kitchen." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I put on my sneakers and bypass Kate in the kitchen. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I tried to remember the smell of her blue waffles in the kitchen. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I heard a drawer thrown open in the kitchen and the clink of silverware. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Standing hungrily and silently in a corner of the kitchen, we would watch her go from the stove to the sink, from the cabinet to the table. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He glanced toward the kitchen, which the flames were consuming with glee, and headed across the living room toward Angel’s bedroom. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z