It was blue velvet and had my initials, CBS, in gold letters. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The letters are so bright and shiny, they feel like they’re yelling. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Grabbing my sketchbook, I flip to a blank page and write words, bearing down so hard the letters cut into the page. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

My cousins are people I don’t really think of until I get an occasional photo or formal letters like this. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Half a year later, Victor did put Scipio's name on his door, although he put it in slightly smaller letters. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Besides the letters he'd written, he left a package for the New York Herald that contained his book, The Truth, with his suggestion that the newspaper print it. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Yet in the end, when all of those separate and idiosyncratic chains were completed, half of those letters ended up in the hands of Jacobs, Jones, and Brown. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The words are big and little, some typed and some written in Angel’s bubble letters, and in all colors. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t all that different from hers and James’s secret code, but somehow using symbols instead of letters made it seem more foreign and intimidating. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

We got your daughter, he printed slowly in big round letters. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Apart from a string of repeated questions which remained unanswered, Emily’s letters were mostly about the evacuees. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

My mother climbed behind the wheel and tossed a few letters into my lap, then turned her back The car purred into life. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The Empire raids, jails, and kills for such “crimes,” but teaching a six-year-old her letters isn't evil—not in the minds of my people, the Scholar people. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, Anthony was charged the full amount, and the paper stopped publishing Stanton’s letters and articles. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Jefferson then apologized in return, claiming that he received over twelve hundred letters a year, all of which required responses, so it was difficult for him to match the Adams pace. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Several people sent letters that recommended constructing a small building outside Garfield's window and filling it with ice. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Tulips, I thought, staring at the jumble of letters before me. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

In response I received a half dozen deranged, anti-Semitic letters, some calling me the Antichrist. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Greek letters move across the undersides of his eyelids: isosceles triangles, betas, sine curves. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Colour expresses something in itself,” he writes to Theo in big letters, underlined. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The results were love letters that dripped with longing and by their high tone made Abra very uneasy. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was like learning a new language, except there were nearly two hundred unfamiliar letters, and you had to invent your own words a lot of the time. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As originally taped, Jones took long pauses between letters, because the idea was to insert other elements between the letters. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In large black letters on the spongy surface, she had written the words NIPPER’S BALL. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Day after day, they spent long hours at their desks, going over worksheets of jumbled letters. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Some of her customers fall behind in their payments and they need threatening letters. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

His teachers were always writing letters to my mother, telling her what a pleasure it was having a boy like Allie in their class. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I have read your letters to poor Lucy, and know how good you are and how your husband suffer; so I pray you, if it may be, enlighten him not, lest it may harm. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

In this way the Greeks avoided repeated letters. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“They will put a machine in the marketplace instead. The machine will write the letters well enough, but the words the machine writes will have no elegance and no heart.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he’d tucked in another magazine article, as he had a few letters back. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Between letters there was a lot of “Did I remember to tell you...?” or “Did I read the part about...?” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sent me dozens of letters and poems. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In my living room, I have grocery sacks full of letters and birthday cards. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time in years, Henry wrote letters to the kids’ grandparents in San Antonio. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

In almost all cases, you can use who instead of whom in conversation or in informal writing, like personal letters and casual memos. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scattered throughout the text of the Almanac were a series of marked letters. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Quisling filled in letters of the message like a game of Hangman. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She stumbled over some of the Hebrew; in places the text was so old, the letters were worn away, and in others she couldn’t remember where the vowels were supposed to go. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The thick, uneven letters looked like they were weeping. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“A code is similar: It’s a way to conceal a message. But a code can be more expansive, with word or phrase substitutions rather than individual letters.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

For example, a cryptogram that looked like a random string of letters might turn out to have more “V”s in it than anything else. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I had a check due from Mr. Miltenberger, and I hoped there were some letters. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Inside were snapshots, old letters, precious buttons, worry beads. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Scores of letters were sent to the White House and the Justice Department demanding his arrest; many of them stated it was long overdue. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I took my time and drew wide lines across it and between each line I printed out the bumper-sticker saying in big block letters. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Letting go of the letters was easier than getting close to Momma, but so far, she’d kept her promise. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

To my surprise, I see no virtual letters, colors, or numbers anywhere in the house. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her fingers trace the letters on the screen. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Laertes was now studying in France, and I pored over maps of Europe, marking the cities described in the letters he sometimes wrote to me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

In the exchange of letters there grew a closeness neither of them could have imagined. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dad writes with these perfectly even block letters. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was written elegantly with shaded letters, and it was well and carefully drawn and witnessed by the cook. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“For Gogol Ganguli,” it says on the front endpaper in his father’s tranquil hand, in red ballpoint ink, the letters rising gradually, optimistically, on the diagonal toward the upper right-hand corner of the page. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I flatten the sheet against the table and read the rickety letters. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

There really was someone after her—after these letters, this information. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sign hanging out in front said, SAI FONG—CHINESE NOVELTIES, and printed underneath, in smaller letters, was “also do hand laundry.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

What would my pen pals say if I told them that I am standing at a detention center because I went to open my postbox for their letters? Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

He was in constant touch with his future predecessor and received long weekly letters of guidance from him. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water looks odd under the beam, a colorless broth littered with a variety of objects: a bright orange; a man’s fedora with a brim of excrement; bits of paper like torn letters. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

That was the day I learned that my brother, my beautiful, brilliant older brother, couldn’t make sense of words and letters the way that I could. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The letters must have been painted during the Belgian occupation over fifty years ago. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

On the ceiling in the dormitory bedrooms, he wrote the alphabet together with key words, whose accents were a reminder of the code for the various letters. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Augustus asked while we leaned over the vitrines reading Otto’s letters and the gutting replies that no, no one had seen his children after the liberation. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Dozens of letters and telegrams poured into the White House with ideas for cooling the room during the hot Washington summer. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

They came home to find him at the dining table, bent over loose sheets of paper, writing letters to newspapers and magazines. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Bulletin boards with white trim and gold letters. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Emily played around with rearranging the letters, thinking maybe it was an anagram. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Harry had received two letters from Sirius since he had been back at Privet Drive. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

There turned out to be one hundred and twelve of these notched letters scattered throughout the book. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Yet Geyer knew, again from their letters, that the children had remained in Indianapolis for at least another week. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Vincent says they will have to have patience with each other, and keep writing letters, until they can see each other again. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He continued to write letters to the board. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Without another word he went inside and put the letters under the pillow in the room he’d slept in. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tyrion laid the letters on the table beside his porridge, twin parchments tightly rolled and sealed with wax at both ends. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Three months later they received in a large envelope twenty-nine letters and more than fifty pictures that he had accumulated during the leisure of the high seas. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I immediately made a data table of all the letters and their corresponding values. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

He wished he could dip the quill into the inkpot and inscribe letters and draw pictures such as Brother Luke had done. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

And he whistled happy as a robin as he went to his own room, and he sat up for an hour more writin’ letters and tearin’ ’em up and writin’ again. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mostly it looked like a collection of notes or letters, some folded like the one she and James got caught passing in Mr. Quisling’s class. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She went to the board and broke Miguel’s string of letters into words. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I ran a toe over the carved letters. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He sat under the flame tree and wrote in small careful letters on the sides of old newspapers, on some paper Kainene had done supply calculations on, on the back of an old calendar. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Ms. Hussey gave him all the ideas about attribution that went into the thief’s letters. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

At the time we were only permitted paper and pencil to write letters. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soup is orangey-red and has a flavor, but the letters themselves taste like nothing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The second was to help users memorize the alphabet by placing the letters in a fixed sequence and giving them easy-to-remember names. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then we stand the letters up in the bottom of each cupcake mold and cover them with batter. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t stop thinking about the letters—the one my dad and Aunt Susie had found as kids, from this “other woman,” and the one I’d found a month ago, from Miss Peregrine. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The nurse raised her eyes to me as her pen slid through the letters. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“People have been getting their acceptance letters into Prism,” I blurt out. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Whoever wrote that gross thing on her geography book had written on her history book, too. suck me off it said in ugly blue letters. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I can make out only the first two letters before the remaining letters get lost in curves that look like a sales chart for a business that is rising and failing regularly. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The gravestones are few and recent: blockish oblongs of granite polished to a Presbyterian gloss, the letters cut plainly and without any attempt at prettiness. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He'd sent his wishes for her recovery in two of his many letters to the president, all of which were intercepted by White House staff before reaching Garfield. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Her letters described her secluded, melancholy life, and she referred to her husband with blind sympathy, as a fine, discreet, considerate man. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my box were three letters, two branded with the logos of colleges, and one from Justin, my best friend back in the Bronx. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“I never signed Washington Irving’s name to any letters,” Milo declared. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“But she said the letters were cryptic and arrived with markings.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He forgave this punctuation only in his mother’s letters where a row of five indicated a jolly good joke. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was a worn square of paper with a date written on it in big letters. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The note was a garbled mixture of letters, but Emily recognized it immediately as their secret code. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

At times he already feels like an artist and has even begun to sign some of his works—just his first name, “Vincent,” often in bright red letters. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Sucking in another deep breath, Lon trained his attention on the letters. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Theresa took it and studied the title, printed in tall orange letters with black shading. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath it there is a single lock of raven hair glued onto the page and surrounded by symbols and letters. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Before she could ask further about posting them, Diana took the letters from her hand. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

She set fire to them page by page in the ashtray, but new letters came almost every day. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I learned all the letters from that book, so that by the time I went to regular school I could already read a little. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She traces the line of the letters on the headstone with a small finger. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She pulled out a small disk of bronze the size of a tea saucer, etched with delicate letters and illustrations. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

For now, only one thick book, as thick as a brick, rests with its golden letters turned out to face the room: A. P. Brown’s Collection of North American Birds. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Since the death of her parents she had not had contact with anyone in town or received letters or messages, nor had she been heard to speak of any relatives. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

As the class goes over cursive letters, I work on my assignment. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I wrote Winnie two letters about a particularly beautiful tomato plant, how I coaxed it from a tender seedling to a robust plant that produced deep red fruit. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both the priest and his assistant were IN, the board informed me in gold letters, which I could plainly see. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then I started putting down any word that came to mind that had some of the bigger letters in it. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

There were the tall, loopy letters of Immie’s signature, her typical phrases, and her favorite words. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The inside of the band is stamped with the letters EJR. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I think Pa didn’t want me to be afraid of my uncle or his letters. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Some of them talk about how you should find an older person you can trust. They say it in some of those Dear Teen Me letters, too. They say it gives you strength and confidence.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Day or night, my father s courage never seemed to waver, despite receiving threatening letters as well as warnings from concerned friends. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The letters were messy, but he could make them out when he got close enough. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

One of the letters dated 1952 had a postal code on it that didn’t exist until twenty years later. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The good news was for the first time, he had pointed to the letters himself. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The letters were darker, as if the writer had been pressing down on the paper too hard. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

In his letters, he used lots of exclamation points, except instead of a dot at the bottom, he drew tiny bubbles. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“We can write letters for our Language Arts class. However, I think we should be careful that we tell the truth.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

The pattern of those letters can help you break the cipher. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He spent the time writing poems and letters, which could never be posted, or telling his companions about the princess, whose nickname in her family aide was Piggy. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her letters always ended the same way: Miss U, luv U, wouldn’t want 2 B U! Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I couldn't bring myself to talk about the letters. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I spent last night reading every Miss Myrna article from the previous five years, but I haven’t had time to sort through the unanswered letters yet. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Then I made up sentences that used at least as many letters as there are digits in this ciphertext. Beware the ninja monkey. He likes banana bread and drives a station wagon.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

PS I was talking to Gregory, our mailman, yesterday about how I write you letters sometimes because I miss you. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“And did he teach you to read, too? So he could send you love letters?” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He received honors and lavish reviews; he received angry reviews and nasty letters. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

One operative he met in Canada gave Booth letters of introduction vouching for the actor’s devotion to the Confederacy and requesting aid for him. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Teacher’s writing on the board, but the letters don’t make sense. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

And I did and in it I found an engraved document containing a short message in letters of gold. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Painted on the bow in red letters was the name MI AMOR. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the screen, in bold yellow letters, it said, Missing Child Alert. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

When I met the big men to whom my letters were addressed I would put on my best manner. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had to look for Mo’s trail among the printed letters in Inkheart. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I can think of something else you could do with these. How many, oh, five-letter words, say, could you make using at least three of these twelve letters in each word? Ever done that?” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The kind of person who wouldn’t mind receiving letters from a kid. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

But Malpighi’s greatest contribution to science was made as a result of work he carried out in Bologna in 1660 and 1661, and reported in two letters that were published in 1661. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

And both men regarded the letters they were writing to each other as the capstone to that final project. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

We brought all of the letters and boxes into the living room and spread out the tablecloth. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she found it, behind the radiator in Sweetness’ room, it was full of uncanceled letters. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. What if the typos themselves were part of a second word, too—made up of only the corrected letters that you wrote. That’s never happened?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Her name, “Cynthia,” was printed in black letters on the front of the shirt, and the letter C, for Cavalettes, was printed on the back. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath that, in smaller letters, it said, “Protected Wilderness Preserve.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“When you have mastered the circles,” she said, “your arm will be ready for the letters.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perry looked through old letters, photographs, clippings, and selected from them those mementos he meant to take with him. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything else—the paper, the metal letters, and the mess the police made—would have to wait until we woke up. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the next few months, a series of increasingly unpleasant and accusatory letters from Berkeley arrived in Pocock’s mailbox. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

At least that's what I imagine letters like this usually say. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“They wrote boring in giant letters. I don’t know how long you’ve been lying there, but if you burned...or tanned...or whatever...” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

He also could not seem to rule out the possibility for himself Over the course of many letters back and forth across the ocean, the two friends discussed God and design. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until this point all Geyer knew about the children’s stay in Indianapolis was what he had read in the letters from the tin box. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The letters were printed in thick, black felt pen, and underlined again and again. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“Yep. There’s a combination lock—the kind with four wheels of random letters.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Phillips was an amiable man and was, judging by his letters, highly articulate, but he preferred not to speak. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

One time when he was forced by strategic circumstances to abandon a stronghold to the forces of Colonel Aureliano Buendía, he left two letters for him. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Here are the first letters of all the titles.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The house lights went down; fiery letters stood out solid and as though self-supported in the darkness. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. What if the typos themselves were part of a second word, too—made up of only the corrected letters that you wrote. That’s never happened?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I was nine years old when the letters made my parents, who are rocks, cry. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the longest morning of my life, I printed out all the letters I’d written, signed them and started delivering them face to face, like a man, like a soldier. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in two days’ time they dropped down the Yukon bank from the Barracks, loaded with letters for the outside. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

He also said "tea" and "eat" are made of the same letters anyway, so pretending to eat was pretty much the same as pretending to drink. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Dirty brown boxes all tied up, with big black letters in the middle and little pictures all in the corner. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

A crowd of teenagers in front of the White House, wearing homemade T-shirts that all say the same thing in crooked Sharpie letters, a phrase he recognizes from one of his own emails: HISTORY, HUH? Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been experimenting with making letters out of different kinds of dough. I stand the letters up in the cupcake batter and carefully cover them with more batter.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately for them, a fold of the map crossed Baja California over a small coastal town named Tomatan, printed in small letters. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

As a distraction, I told her about my unanswered letters. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

There were more letters to my house from school. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

After I had finished jotting down the letters in Yiddish, my left hand kept moving, but it was only to repeat the question in Russian. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I want to reach for the girl behind these letters and give her a hug. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

All through the war, Clay had read all Loretta’s letters aloud to X, however intimate they were—in fact, the more intimate, the better. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“We’re following up our emails with formal letters to organize the Granger parents. The letters inform parents that we’ve requested a meeting with the board to discuss ways to make the school a safer space.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The magician scans the office, a stack of letters in one hand, a black velvet cape lined with shockingly white silk cascading behind him, expecting a paper-wrapped box or crate. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

How many letters are in your whole name? The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

If I write in big letters, I won’t have to say much. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The magician closes the door behind him, dropping the stack of letters on the desk next to the teacup as he looks at the girl. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

To end up with twenty-six letters to match the alphabet, they skipped any that were repeated. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I look at the letters, and I wave my hand around in front of my face. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stroked the binding, passed her hand over the curved spine, and traced the letters on the jacket with her forefinger. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

If Grandma told my parents now, the letters would end, and I’d definitely get in trouble for lying. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He was writing his love letters, I told myself, but it didn't look like love. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They even confiscated letters that William had written, some dating back to the Riverbank years. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

On the big day, a dozen of our tall and not-so-tall young ladies presented themselves in their soberest hats, clutching letters of reference in their cleanest white gloves. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I would think about those hundred letters laid across my bedroom floor. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ironically, we can only know what they were saying to each other while together from the letters they wrote when apart. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It is distinctly his room, even without the huge banner that says, in red block letters, Lou Is Back. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She wanted more letters stacking up in Postal Box Number 898 that said, “Nothing is the same without you” and “Please come home soon.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had few tools other than his wits, his notebook, a handful of photographs, and the children’s letters. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Then I am glad Eulalie sometimes caught me and Lally, and taught us our letters. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The letters burned across the small screen and faded. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

After a while Bill went to write some letters and Cohn went over to the barber-shop. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Maybe my thumb slipped and I pushed the wrong letters. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Therefore, the only hope I had was faith in God and my letters to Him. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Even his script is neat: up and down perfectly, with really small round loopy letters. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The letters that swept over the Internet were adding up in the thousands. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

X, as she signed herself before she learned her letters. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

His small but childish handwriting straggled up and down the page, shedding first its capital letters and finally even its full stops: April 4th, 1984. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He didn’t tell us where he was in his letters. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We only got letters from one person, and the envelopes were always the brightest, deepest, and most entirely pink thing ever created. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Yossarian was busy expurgating all but romance words from the letters when the chaplain sat down in a chair between the beds and asked him how he was feeling. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Now they squinted at the blurred letters and painfully repeated out loud: What patience Mercy had! The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Frank helped his father with a collection of letters that he wanted to publish, and with an autobiography that Charles was preparing for his children and grandchildren. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Milgram found that most of the letters reached the stockbroker in five or six steps. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before going to bed for the night, I wrote letters to my four just expelled students, reinstating them. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The abbey intervened with letters and pleas; Mendel was accepted. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

My mother, for her part, kept every one of these letters, binding them carefully in neat bundles with green tape, but this was her own secret. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their mother belonged to a Women’s Communications Club—women of different backgrounds writing letters to editors and sharing optimistic ideas. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know of any ways for the dead to send letters back. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

He turned around and wrote in big huge block letters that spread all the way across the chalkboard: MR. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

As Frodo did so, he now saw fine lines, finer than the finest pen-strokes, running along the ring, outside and inside: lines of fire that seemed to form the letters of a flowing script. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She was aware herself, that, parting under any other circumstances, they certainly should have corresponded more, and that her intelligence would not have rested, as it now almost wholly did, on Isabella’s letters. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Over each one hovers its name in gold letters, along with its starting bid price. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Liam took the letters back from him, and reached back to draw me forward again. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The second time I looked at the letters, they began to look a little more like Yiddish, and by the third glance, they resolved into an alphabet I could understand. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“No letters, no newspapers; anything might be happening.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I checked my e-mail, reading the backlog of letters from my mother, getting snippier as they progressed to the present. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Hopefully this letter finds you, although none of my other letters have been answered’ I love you, my darling daughter; and the news I share is grim. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I’ve shown Minerva all his letters and she smiles and says they are “sweet, boyish letters.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because it seemed like it should be a good thing, that I didn’t have that long-word-x reading disorder, that my brain didn’t mix up letters and numbers on the page. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike a substitution cipher, it doesn’t replace any of the letters in the original message. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It had been slow at first, one line at a time, until seeing the letters and understanding the most common words had become easier and easier. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Above the bar, on a dusty plate-glass window, were the faded letters, DR. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the house in Privet Drive would be so full of letters when they got back that he’d be able to steal one somehow. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“Do they? I guess it depends on what is considered helping. And whether those three letters even exist.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I am sure. If I write letters as well as read them, I shall earn even more.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the FBI questioned the women who supposedly had sent the letters, the women knew nothing about them. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“And I’m proud that I did. Those letters are insincere and dishonest Their only purpose is to bring glory to Colonel Cathcart.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I was about to tell him about the letters on his T-shirt, but Kat elbowed me, which means ‘Shut up’. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

His daughter Barbara was reproaching him for writing ridiculous letters to the newspapers. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because the letters contained an admission of guilt, he felt he couldn’t send them until the case was resolved. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I imagine that when I open my eyes again all the letters are black, the color of the type they are printed in, and nothing more. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The first one says Greetings from California in big, bold letters. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

A list of names followed and, at the bottom of the page, printed in tiny letters upside down, the famous personalities they corresponded to. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In addition, the machine encrypted six letters of the alphabet with one cipher, then used an entirely different cipher for the other twenty. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Write them I would, but would they get my letters? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I've received over four thousand letters and balloons. I'm still opening them." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She wrote slowly and neatly, knowing that Dustfinger found it easier to read capital letters. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I thought back to all my letters where I asked Papa to be careful. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Mother traded what she could for stamps to mail letters to Papa. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I can’t feature it, when it’s too dangerous now for them even to continue writing letters. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the long letters he wrote to Antonapoulos accumulated in his pockets until he would destroy them. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He knows letters have been written on his behalf, asking for clemency. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The curls of iron around the letters do remind him of pumpkin vines. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He stared at the face of the sphere—seven rings, each one covered with tiny Greek letters, numbers, and zodiac signs. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He did not want our parents to think that those letters of ours were censored in this way, and therefore he never allowed us to correct a spelling mistake in the letter itself. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

James stood in front of the class and held up his vertical strip of paper with letters on it: Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The shape of the letters on my father's gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man with curly black hair. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

At the centre of the cloth is a single Arabic word, intricately woven, four letters: an alif, two lams and a ha. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Without saying anything, April put the letters down in front of her. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I try something else—what if Metias wanted me to put together the individual letters that are either missing from each word or in the word when they aren’t supposed to be there? Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Would I still recognize myself in those letters? Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

In her letters home, she complained about the work, the food, and the mice. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Didn’t I realize that he and several other faculty members had already written letters on my behalf to various schools? Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

James says most people only get letters from home about once a month. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

And I’m looking for ghost girls at church while my hand falls off from writing so many letters. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I ask Jacob as his fingers scan the letters, right to left. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“You need to learn your letters before you can write. You need to learn the fingerings on the strings before you play and sing.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Seventy-six percent of all fixations were on the letters. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had taken her several tries to get the letters of her name to resemble the sample letters in the book, and even then she wasn’t sure if she’d written Mira or Mara. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“The first thing the word code makes me think of is letters. Letters in the alphabet. Maybe the Maze is trying to spell something.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

We eventually wrote separate letters to our respective organizations in the general section advocating the idea of unity. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hosts read letters and birthday wishes from people across the country, including President Theodore Roosevelt, who offered his “hearty good wishes for the continuation of her useful and honorable life.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Also clothing, aspirin, antibiotics, hand lotion, thick cotton diapers, batteries for our radio, and long letters. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other day, when Sister asked if I was still writing these letters, I tried to play it off—I tried to be like, Sometimes. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The letters crackled with a sense of possibility. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I wanted to ask her immediately about the magic in the letters, but that would be rude and so I was quiet. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He read books to find new ideas for his classes, visited with colleagues, kept up with old students, wrote letters to distant friends. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there below these giant white letters are column after column, line after line, that say Before I die I want to . All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Of the letters she got about the problem, 92% said that she was wrong and lots of these were from mathematicians and scientists. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mother wrote letters to Papa, even though she had no idea where to send them. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Her mailbox filled with letters from suffrage sympathizers who objected to picketing during the war. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

His towering image stood tall against the cement wall, arms crossed over his chest, his name written in bubbly letters across the front of his favorite hoodie. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Slowly, I line up the leftover letters and try to form words with them. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Why did he...and all of a sudden I remember the letters. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

The Vanderbeeker kids took turns sliding their letters of apology under the door. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Well, there are a lot of letters that I’ve always seen backward. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The minute they saw me they rushed toward me, jumping up and down with jubilation: “The mailman gave us two letters for you,” they cried. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Or maybe your dad will haul it off to West Virginia, where I bet they’ll rip every one of those letters down and toss them in a furnace.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

How he had copied the group of letters out on a piece of brown paper; copied, as illiterate people do, every curlicue, arch, and bend in the letters, and presented it to the midwife. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The letters told her to call the 800 number and set up a payment schedule. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“These letters are Greek,” Leo said in surprise. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And I was busy at school, driven by the desire to make mine the magic of letters and numbers. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had sixteen letters to deliver from E. J. Plum, Attorney-at- Law. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her letters to him include phrases like sacred resolve, proud accomplishments, and unparalleled in history. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Since the new letters were never posted, I told him the truth about my life in Mum Olga’s household. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Soon, Speed stopped opening the letters and let them pile up in the backroom of her store until they stacked thirty envelopes high. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The words were not foreign and the letters hooked into one another in ways that ought to have made perfect sense. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Things of Ma’s. I don’t mean old clothes and letters and ragged quilts like you sent over. I mean—” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

T. “Look,” Thomas said, pointing down the line of stacks they’d formed, confused, but happy that the letters were so obvious. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I’ll bet I got fifty letters some days from white people. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I would go into the cupboard in his bedroom and look at the other letters and see who they were from and what they said. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

That I’ve been keeping it in my art chest, reading these letters by myself in the dark. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Darnell made his letters tall and lean slightly to the right, like I did. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

In those burned letters Martha had never mentioned the war, except to say, Jimmy, take care of yourself. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t be surprised if she had thrown out the other twenty-one letters, or if these were the only ones she had bought. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he kept out of sight behind the inkwell as he watched her open her mail box, which was about a quarter of an inch wide, and pull out her letters. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

And I couldn’t make my letters come out right to save my life. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Since the launch of the HeLa production factory at Tuskegee, Gey had been writing a steady stream of letters to other scientists, trying to restrict the way they used Henrietta’s cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He kept her photo on his footlocker and wrote her love letters several times a week. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t read Abuelo’s letters in a few days, I told her. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Father was pretty sure they would be comforted by the letters we had written during the last two months, for they were full of our successes among the demons, and especially about our new friends. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

For how to make plural forms of single letters, like y, see pages 27-28. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Davos shuffled through the letters slowly, reading each one over several times, wondering whether he should change a word here or add one there. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As one of our assignments, the class had to write letters inviting Zlata to come to Long Beach. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Meg stayed at home, lest she should infect the Kings, and kept house, feeling very anxious and a little guilty when she wrote letters in which no mention was made of Beth’s illness. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The vast majority of letters concerned misplaced apostrophes, of course, in potato’s and lemon’s. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

I sit on the bed, knowing I will never write those letters. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I pull out a book and open it, but the letters squiggle and dance. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Because I know the letters are going to Saint Augustine’s. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He pointed at her book, where she'd written How Soon Is Now? in tall green letters. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

In fact, all through my childhood I got letters once a week from my dad when he was doing time. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I slid the whole box of letters across the table to her. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I just didn’t want to be propped in the window, watching for the mailman the way Big Ma used to wait on letters from Uncle Darnell. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The merchant passed on to him the writing of important letters and orders, and grew accustomed to conferring with him about all important affairs. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a charity group that answered my mom’s letters and found Karen’s family—who had the kids our age, who were being home-schooled. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

That stench burned Meggie’s eyes so that the letters blurred, but she must go on reading while the eerie creature grew taller and taller. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

After dinner I read the newspaper, while Mala sat at the kitchen table, working on a cardigan for herself with more of the bright blue wool, or writing letters home. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Aside from a little food, the couple had taken nothing that belonged to the house, and furthermore, both parties had left letters. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I take the letters and back out of the room to avoid any surprise attacks. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

That summer, on his last day in the Brookline office, he wrote three letters to George Vanderbilt, each saying pretty much the same thing. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Before that, she and I had constantly written letters to each other. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Lon was supposed to be working on his letters, though he’d memorized the alphabet before the end of his first week, and now found these exercises dull. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Could the rest of the letters spell out Martin? Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Over these months they will get to know each other intimately, writing seventy-eight letters back and forth. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In letters that were passionate and practical by turns, they did whatever they could to elide the miles between them. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The letters MS—for Mississippi, her grandmother’s home state—were engraved on the outside of the bracelet. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Black and red letters and crazy eyes inside the Os. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

That’s when the letters came, and Henry reading them all, without jealousy, with that complete abnegant transference, metamorphosis into the body which was to become his sister’s lover. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dozens of letters with checks and money in them. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, a full minute later, almost as though the very letters were hesitating, came Ema’s response: it’s mine. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“It couldn’t mean anything else! Your name has eight letters in it. So has ‘am that is.’ Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

They have to mark the neutral bit “IRELAND” in big letters made of whitewashed stones, hoping the Germans won’t drop bombs there thinking it’s the UK side of the northern border. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

But 1 said, “No, son, I want to see all the letters. I want to put them together.' Mr. Henry said, “So, that’s what we did and by the second day, Mr. Dawson was set. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then he wrote that Sakubva, the town where I was sending his letters, was a high-density suburb and filled with poor people and crime, like LA. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The band was always getting letters from Japanese teenagers begging them to come play, and offering up their homes as crash pads. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Kyle and his teammates had played the escape game, one of their biggest clues came from writing down the first letters of all the books printed on the backs of their library cards. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Only the big red letters at the top of the page, spelling out the name of the school. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The brand wasn’t like American brands, which were initials or letters or even numbers; it looked like a big butterfly with its wings outstretched, or two loops of rope tied together in the center. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I also recruited into service the worn-out alphabet blocks my mother had used years earlier to teach us our letters. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I began getting letters from Karen Kelly after our visit. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Extra duties, like breaking the open code in the Doll Woman letters in 1944, made her working days even longer. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The letters looked like clothes hung out to dry on a line and they looked more like musical notation than writing. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

A few weeks later I took copies of my matric certificate and letters of recommendation from my principal and teachers and went for an interview at the Barclays Bank’s headquarters in Johannesburg. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I almost laugh remembering how I used to wish all the letters would just be black. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

And why did so many English words have sneaky letters that made no sounds? I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Although the two women exchanged letters, it took eight years for them to follow through on the promise they had made in London to hold a women’s rights convention. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

There were five city quarters, designated by the Greek letters alpha through epsilon. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

I try to make you real by writing these letters, but who knows if you’re even listening. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to think about you being a murderer, not when you’ve been so nice to me in these letters. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

When we got to steps of the library, the official program began, and I received a handful of official awards and proclamations from various city officials as well as artwork and letters from local artists. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Daddy’s voice is in my head but it’s not making me stop reaching for the letters in the bottom of the box. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Scientists who’ve gone ahead with research involving the breast- cancer genes without Myriad’s permission have found themselves on the receiving end of cease-and-desist letters and threats of litigation. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The distance from her firstborn was one of my grandmother's many scarlet letters. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Kaira wouldn’t have been surprised if El Genius had actually written the letters, to scare her into staying confined to her hotel room. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I tried to keep my eyes on the big painted letters. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The capsule’s name, Freedom 7, is written in big block letters on its side. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

"Very well. Go get your bags and return here in thirty minutes. My secretary will give you some letters addressed to several friends of the school. One of them will do something for you." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the left-hand corner are some Arabic letters. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Eight letters a day at an anna each,” I said. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The more places I represented Mr. Muhammad on television and radio, and at colleges and elsewhere, the more letters came from people who had heard me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they were letters, they couldn’t have been more different from the fluid and beautiful alphabet of Weep, which Great Ellen had taught them to read and write. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Our American relatives wrote letters and sent packages to us, packages filled with food donated by other friends from Narewka now living in the United States. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I drew on a piece of paper with Maisie, teaching her letters, the hot-water-bottle weight and warmth of her on my lap, her sticky fingers in my hair. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Guys were leaving cigarettes, alcohol. And sometimes they’d write letters; this pint is for you, I was thinking about you.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“In what kind of letters?” inquired Mo. “Is Basta going to scratch them into the paper with his knife?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“That’s so strange, don’t you think? I wonder if someone destroyed his notebooks or letters?” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I did not see the letters from the universities? The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

"I wish it had been every day. Sometimes I had to wait weeks between letters." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Do my thoughts trade places like letters, on the sly? Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Assuming the mantle of a preacher, he signed his letters “Rev. W. K. Hale.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But not one of those twenty-nine men came home on leave and there were still no letters. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

His letters were drenched with lonesome longing for his girl. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Often I have to write threatening letters to neighbors and friends of my mother and I worry they might discover me. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

A small village spreads out before her—ALTAMIRA, say the rippling letters on the corrugated tin roof of the first house. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Charlie’s learning her letters, and she wrote a bunch of them on her paper. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

She had expressed her feelings clearly to her daughter and asked her not to write to the boy or accept his letters in the future. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I gave him all the letters I had written to Andrius. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

His letters always smelled like prison—like bleached floors and the vague hint of sour milk. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The writing on it was faded and water-stained, but I could just barely make out three letters: A, V, a water-stained space and then an N. “Check out that box up there,” I told Connor. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Starting in the upper left corner, she would have read down the first line of letters, then up the next line of letters. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It makes your letters a great puzzle to read. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Even if you never reply to these letters, I’II keep writing them. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

It's only half full because I've been writing in small letters. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My other cards have the word printed small at the top, but the tall block letters of RULE, fill the card. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

My sisters and I chanted the mantra even as we learned our letters and numbers. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Those that had pen and paper wrote their last letters to their families and pressed them on me and begged me, if I survived, to see them delivered. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

As the cameras clicked away, Mr. Finkle presented me with a sweatshirt with the word finkle in huge letters on it. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

They were covered in drawings, which wasn’t unusual for her, but these symbols I recognized: Greek letters, pictures from camp beads, sketches of monsters and faces of gods. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

While hunched over the magazine, looking for more letters to cut out, a pair of leather-sandaled feet suddenly appeared. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Then he started talking about let a equal acceleration and let t equal time and suddenly he was scribbling letters and numbers and equals signs all over the blackboard and my mind went dead. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He saw his name written in tiny cursive letters—your own name always stands out—and hidden in the chorus of a Smiths song. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The next day at work I called my former principals at Tembisa and Alexandra Secondary School and requested letters of recommendation. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hurried back to Erickson’s Hotel, asked for a cup of tea to take to my room, and wrote letters until supper at six. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Under my eyelids I started to see the letters. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

A few nights later, after a riveting afternoon answering Miss Myrna letters, Stuart and I sit in the relaxing room. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Zero wrote the letters as Stanley said them. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

On the desk, there was a sign with white letters that said MRS. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, I’ve received lots of letters from people in prison before. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The sight of it printed in capital letters on the crinkly page upsets him viscerally. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

For he had been much impressed by the graceful letters of Mrs Helena Kingshaw, by their honesty and lightness of tone, and by her voice over the telephone, later. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Some of them were letters written in Hindi. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“You want me to put up a sign that shows Ruby in a zoo with the word home on it in giant letters?” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Their new lives—the frustrating job interviews, the bills that arrive with red warning letters on the outside—are consequences of a decision made at age eighteen. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Photographs of streets and houses, folded copies of blueprints, letters, deeds, contracts, and more. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It indicates the plurals of letters: How many f’s are there in Fulham? Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

Once I was in the Tang peoples town, I would deposit our money with the district association and pick up letters. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only things I want are my lucky penny and the packet of letters secured in my pocket. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I'm rereading one of Amma's replies to my letters when I hear a tapping on the front door. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He looked at the paper a hundred times and practiced drawing the letters in the dirt with a stick, over and over again. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I needed to know was, where did she put all of the letters? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Lord Dunmore’s letters to General Howe, which very fortunately fell into my hands, and were enclosed by me to Congress, will let you pretty fully into his diabolical schemes. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She glanced briefly at the kids in the bed to be sure they were sound asleep, and then she allowed herself to read the whispery words, faded letters in a neat hand. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I mean, all the letters were returned, her phone’s disconnected, she’s never tried to find any of you, not even Joaquin. What if she just wants to stay gone?” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Printed upon the banner, in letters large enough to be read from the mainland, was the word LIVE—an acronym, obviously, for the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Paint was peeling off the letters on the window: Good Salvation Soup Kitchen. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The note was a garbled mixture of letters, but Emily recognized it immediately as their secret code. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

‘This is getting too psychological for me. I’m going to write some letters.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

No matter what Stamey was doing—standing in chow lines, cleaning his equipment, writing letters home—he was always singing. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

At the top of the stairs is another door, with a frosted window on which the word “Office” is written in black letters. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I was worried, so I asked Gregory the mailman if he’d given you my letters. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The very thought of my contacts gave me a feeling of sophistication, of worldliness, which, as I fingered the seven important letters in my pocket, made me feel light and expansive. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Theo has been too busy to notice the absence of letters from his brother. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When he answered his letters, he never talked about being in Kiev. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

As a child I’d read those letters as an act of worship; now I read them with different eyes, not the eyes of a critic, but also not the eyes of a disciple. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

"Truly. I'm to assist Maester Aemon with the library and the birds. He needs someone who can read and write letters." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

This was written in clean block letters, perfectly formed, the way a kindergarten teacher would print. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had been the letters from her brother in Delhi that she had never let me see. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Best to head home and worry about unpleasant letters later. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

They’re white, with big maroon letters that say root for rosa on the front and team rosa on the back. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Hamilton had nearly perfect pitch for Washington’s language, having begun his public career drafting letters and memoranda for Washington’s signature as a staff officer during the war. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The same two syllables, the same eight letters that I had been hearing all year, and suddenly the sound struck my ear with a ping of pure silver. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Daniels says I have something called dyslexia, which makes it hard to read letters. That’s why I’ve been staying after school, so he can help me.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

They began posing for posterity, writing letters to us as much as to one another, especially toward the end of their respective careers. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“And from what I hear, they’s a lot a time to write a lot a letters in jail.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Straight on the panicked horse galloped, past the milestone lodged in the earth at the roadside, heedless of the letters graven in the stone: “Redwall Abbey, fifteen miles.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I thought they would read their letters out loud, but they took them and ran back to their room. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He struck out the last two digits and letters. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He also wore a small crown and a robe with the letters of the alphabet beautifully embroidered all over it. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Fred passed under the neon letters over the store entrance like he was crossing a finish line. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I remember sitting on the dining room floor, writing letters to God in my Indian Head tablet. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tobias presses the screen a few more times, typing in letters that make no sense to me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

He was worried now--there was a quality of nervous despair in Daisy's letters. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Marjory added and subtracted the letters as quickly as she could. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

She was laid out in the parlor beside the box of letters. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It always took him a few moments to find his way out of that other world, the labyrinth of printed letters. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

In iron-on letters the shirt reads Go to Sadie Hawkins with me...She spins a baton between her fingers, waiting for the crowd to settle. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She wrote everything out on the whiteboard, in thick, capital letters. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

"We allocated one hundred grams for luxury items. There are some handwritten letters from Mark's family, a note from the President, and a USB drive filled with music from all ages." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was three o’clock in the morning when he dropped the letters in the post office at King City and mounted and turned his horse south toward the unproductive hills of the old Hamilton place. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In his letters, he talked about learning more than just the care of the horses: the other soldiers taught him how to use a sword and a bow, how to ride, how to drill. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, young women across the nation were sending Marina thousands of desperate letters begging her to help them go to war. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Half a mile down the road, Dicey saw the mailbox, dented, rusted, its post awry; llerma was all that remained of sloppily painted black letters. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had seen it written once, on the fly-leaf of a book, the letters thin and slanting, curiously pointed, the tail of the M very definite, very long. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Phone book. I called every name. His cousins, his business partners, people I’d never heard of. He’d written to everyone. Every single person. Some let me see their letters. Others didn’t.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Thinking of her letters made me feel like there was something winding up inside me, and that pink envelope wound it one notch tighter. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“Don’t know whether I told you your letters meant a lot to me.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

One group of illiterate migrant workers began asking me to read and write letters to and from the wives and children back in the tribal reserves. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I nodded, hoping the handkerchief had passed across hundreds of miles already, ahead of the letters. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Knowing a bit of grammar also gives a writer an entree into the world of letters. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Liyana could make out letters in Arabic by now—ones that looked like chimneys or fluted edges, but she couldn’t really make out words yet. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Returning, the others wave, go back to writing letters home, relaxing, hanging out. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

As the war flung her family apart, Elizebeth spent hours writing letters to hold them together. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Who else but me is ever going to read these letters? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

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

She really hadn’t responded to most of my letters, and Mama said Ivette had become the leader of the Jovenes Rebeldes group in addition to recruiting new kids for the brigades. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I pick it up to wipe the table and there I see the letters HWH across the top of a card. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Galileo remained close to the girls both geographically and emotionally, and often visited the convent; surviving letters between Galileo and Maria Celeste give a close insight into his later life. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Have you tried writing all the letters on a separate page, in the order they show up in the book?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It says Well Researched and Very Interesting and Excellent but at the bottom she also writes, Why are there capital letters in the middle of your sentences? Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I start to pick through her letters again, looking for the next one she wrote. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mom gave it to me, and on the last page, in big block letters and his messy guy’s handwriting, he wrote Sometimes plans change. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

And exactly zero percent of the preschoolers read the letters from left to right. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

So if I don't write as many letters as you do, don't be upset. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Magdalys glanced over; Mapper was making the V and C signs over and over on his chest, mouthing out the letters, and wiggling his eyebrows like a fool. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“You must surely have gotten letters,” said Billy. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if you zoomed in on one of those letters, the notches stood out as plain as day. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

King Pellinore dosed his eyes tight, extended his arms in both directions, and announced in capital letters, “Whoso Pulleth Out This Sword of this Stone and Anvil, is Right- wise King Born of All England.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

There's a sign above them with letters big enough that I can read from where I stand: TICKETS. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Famous people. Smart people. It just means your eyes mix up letters and numbers sometimes, and it would explain why you sometimes have trouble reading.” Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

There were many letters from both Jenny and Ross Milton that summer, letters that brought hope and comfort to the family at home. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

We kept it on the same shelf with Caitlin's letters and used it to listen to music on holidays and weekends. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The letters were printed big and bold, but were not very well formed. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several people who wrote letters recounted how they sniffed out the hoax. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

And why were there five sets of two letters, evenly spaced, and then one letter at the bottom? Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She and Evan were putting together a lemonade stand in the driveway when the mailman walked up and handed Jessie a bundle of letters. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Beneath it, you write your keyword, followed by the remaining letters of the alphabet in order. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Add r to make plurals of individual letters easier to read. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The letters all came from the English alphabet, but the Mounties suspected the plaintext was in Chinese, probably in Cantonese dialect. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“No notes to pass. No letters. I’m not delivering any messages.” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t tell you much about where I am—the censors turn most letters into Swiss cheese as it is—but I hope I can come back someday. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was a large black volume entitled The Walking Dead in tarnished silver letters. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

His letters were certainly warm enough, filled with his worries about us and his longing to be back home. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was clutching a magazine to her chest; large letters on the front announced that there was a pair of free Spectrespecs inside. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Apollo himself inscribed the petals—some say with Hyacinth’s initial, and others with the two letters of the Greek word that means “Alas”; either way, a memorial of the god’s great sorrow. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

That means that one of these letters should have gotten to you. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Like Madam had carved her letters into my soul, burned the mark into my skin. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neglecting the new shipments delivered to the storage room, she began hounding us for recipes, for vermicelli pudding and papaya stew, and inscribed them in crooked letters in the pages of her inventory ledger. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“How many letters you must have occasion to write in the course of a year! Letters of business, too! How odious I should think them!” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

I marked an X in the box next to the letters ANC and then slipped my folded ballot paper into a simple wooden box; I had cast the first vote of my life. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The letters were black with rage— at the Indian who dared to speak up and question the ethics of Englishmen. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The letters A, C, and T convey very little meaning by themselves, but can be combined in ways to produce substantially different messages. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I pull forward one of my two blank cards and write in big block letters an unbendable, sharp-cornered David-word: RULE. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a long table, also heaped with old books and papers, the proprietor was writing tireless prose in purple letters, somewhat outlandish, and on the loose pages of a school notebook. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The rest was quite easy to read, the tall yellow letters the same color as the scrub bucket. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He used to write her letters every day, when he still had the strength, long letters in an old- fashioned script with flourishes and curlicues. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In second grade, my dad got a D in penmanship, which is how you make your letters. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Try as I might, I could never form my letters like hers.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Above the entrance in big letters were the words “Science Center.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Charles and Emma had gotten to know each other through letters and visits, but like any couple, they would only really get to know each other by living together. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The arrival of letters was the grand object of every morning’s impatience. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

I was surprised to find out that I’d tested into the fluent class, since my Spanish sounded like it had been put in a blender and pulsed into a mess of sounds and letters. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“And then you can work through the other common letters—s? t? r? We could always look it up, the use of all letters in order.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The mail has come, and almost every man has a few letters and papers. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The names of the guys who got letters from family, girlfriends, kid brothers. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Thursday, Trey and I both wore black T-shirts with white letters: black brother. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Next to the letters is a picture of clouds, rain, sun, plants, roots, and soil, with red arrows pointing from one thing to another, like symbols on a treasure map. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carefully, Tanin gathered up the five letters, shuffling them into place between her hands, and approached the mirror. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

"You use it to write angry letters to airport authorities." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She felt like she’d been dropped onto the page, among the letters, or like the book had somehow drawn the Current to them, as if it were all preordained. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He drove to Las Vegas, sold his junk-heap car, packed his collection of maps, old letters, manuscripts, and books, and bought a ticket for a Greyhound bus. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She clawed his arm down and clutched the letters to herself as if they were her baby he'd plucked from her breast. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

"Instead of twenty-six letters. There are really fifty-two." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

In the eighth century B.C. the Greeks became the first people to indicate all vowels systematically by the same types of letters used for consonants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

This mix of letters and pictographs caused some grief for earlier interpreters. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I definitely didn’t make the connection between the letters in his suitcases and the envelopes in Grandma’s dresser, even if I should have. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“And I assume you know about the threatening letters your parents received at their work assignments.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“The post office just closed down. It could take until Christmas before they can deliver letters.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside were about fifty badges, all of different colors, but all bearing the same letters: S.RE.W. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I happily picked up three more letters—all vowels. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I stare at the letters and watch them dance and move on the bright white page. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know,” it scrawled in huge letters. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The letters were upside down to me from where I sat, but Lucy was more opposite to them, so she leant over and read:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“It’s kind of like the letters on the page flutter like butterflies.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Harper taught us tricks to remember which letters go with which lines and spaces. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I turn it over to see the name Detective Shawna Stevens in bold, black letters. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

With a mournful melody, it tells of a rabbi teaching the Hebrew alphabet to his young students, just the way I was learning those letters in heder. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

But Maria kept frowning at me and then she pulled out a little pad from her desk and wrote down four letters I couldn’t see but figured spelled J-O-E-Y. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to believe we barely knew each other when I first arrived, after only exchanging occasional gifts and letters over the years. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

But Geyer knew from the girls’ letters that they had remained in Cincinnati an additional night. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The man who had leaked the explosive letters was Benjamin Franklin, who would become one of America’s most important secret agents. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The vibes must have worked, because there are three letters from him. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

It was wrong to open people’s letters, but it was right, it was essential, for her to know everything. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Even Mo didn’t see him, far away as he was, somewhere in the sand and the wind as his eyes made their way through the labyrinth of letters. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The written alphabet that was developed for Maskoke in the 1800s uses letters that look like those in the English alphabet, but some represent different sounds. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The letters, apparently, had been distributed all over the neighborhood and pasted on the walls of the mosque near our school. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The only place it could get out was through the letters of his tattoo. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“It is too much a matter of fact, but here it is.—What two letters of the alphabet are there, that express perfection?” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

There was a floor-to-ceiling window beside the front door, painted with letters that spelled out the doctor’s name and business hours in reverse. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I remember so well loving Addison’s use of capital letters for nouns. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He showed me how each word is a little package of letters. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Surely, it had to be one of those letters that my father and aunt had found as kids, that made them think their father was a liar and a cheat. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

When Mrs. Davis knew she wasn’t going to live much longer, she stocked up on presents and wrote long letters about her life. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

And what they termed ‘ ‘the true knowledge of the black man’ ’ that was possessed by the followers of The Honorable Elijah Muhammad was given shape for me in their lengthy letters, sometimes containing printed literature. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The letters on the poster look like black beetles marching across the wall. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

There will be no crazed calls and tormented letters and drive-bys. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Sam began writing us letters every once in a while—every two or three months especially after he heard that Father was dead. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In one of his rare curt letters, Lord Balon had written of his youngest brother going down in a storm, and turning holy when he washed up safe on shore. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

While the rest of us were worrying over getting our printing to match exactly the example shown on the blackboard, Esther got praise for any kind of mark that resembled the letters. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Over time, his letters grew shorter and less frequent. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

On July 6, nearly finishing her research, she made a handwritten note in a hybrid of script and cursive, letters smaller and neater and more right-leaning than in her diary. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Her first letters had made me feel elated; some subsequent ones made me squirm. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Raised letters of the word “Friendship” hung above a blue and yellow bouquet of flowers and were repeated inside above a verse. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a badge of some kind with a big star in the middle and letters circling all the way ’round the outside edge. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

I better find her and at least send her the letters. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

All those endless letters, those sticks and circles and zigzags, filling up books and magazines, billboards and candy wrappers. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The jersey which he held up, was electric blue, with gold letters across the front, DEFENDERS. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Almost literally. That’s why I haven’t been able to write, Harry; sending letters to you would have been something of a giveaway.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to the bankers first for letters, and then to Castle Hill. The view is so lovely, and I like to feed the peacocks. Have you ever been there?” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered how many urgent letters Rebecca used to write, and who they were written to. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

All the officer patients in the ward were forced to censor letters written by all the enlisted-men patients, who were kept in residence in wards of their own. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Sigma is one of the letters of the Greek alphabet which is used frequently in mathematics to indicate the sum of various parts. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed there were two letters awaiting me: one was a regular letter from George Toley; the other was a thick, yellow package from Princeton University. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I believe in second chances. You’ve responded to my call for recruits. You have the proper credentials and letters of recommendation. Do you pledge to follow my orders and serve the legion?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Grover’s crisp card lay in his hand that morning; the raised letters shone. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I had it engraved,” she says, and when he turns the flask over he sees the letters NG. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

With tiny strokes of her pinkie finger, she traced the letters in the grime of the windowpane, mouthing the sounds as she wrote. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He was allowed to write three letters a week, but he had written to no one. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Kent Ford, Dickinson State University I am sure you will receive many letters from high school and college students. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the only bag in Mother’s house I could find large enough to carry the Miss Myrna letters. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But his letters were making me realize that there had always been a piece of me missing, like a chunk of my heart. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I think of the letters in the box under the bed. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

I will always cherish the memory of the graduation ceremony in 2011, when the university presented me with an honorary doctorate of humane letters. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

For the next year, he sends no letters home, and he writes no letters to Theo. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Well, he had plans for the soft G. He could have spelled it with a J, right? Except that J is one of the six letters he totally threw away.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Then the boys were issued debit cards—thick black cards with their names printed in silver letters. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even though the shades were up, the door was unlocked, and a neon sign buzzed “OPEN” in big red letters, there was nobody here. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

On one side of it, printed by some clever method in jet-black letters, was the invitation itself—from Mr. Wonka. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Looking closer, I ran my fingers over the black iron letters sitting along the top of the gate. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I reported at the time stated and Mr. Ratchett put me wise to the situation. He showed me a couple of letters he’d got.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The words surprise quiz today are written in huge letters. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

My mother says anyone that writes such letters should be boiled in oil and have his fingernails pulled out by blind people. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I hide my face, retracing each letter of my name on the top of my page until the letters are dark. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The solution was six letters long, and Pigpen was six letters. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Our first names would be printed in black letters on the front of the shirts, and the letter C for Cavalettes would be printed on the back. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She prayed to God for the letters to stop, and wished her husband was still alive to deal with Cofield. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“If the Total Fertility Rate in industrialized countries had remained at or below 2.1—” Luke saw that reading this book would be like puzzling out the letters Dad got from the Government. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

A lot of kids brought letters from older demigods in the outside world, adults who were veterans of the camp. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“You know, I made this playlist with songs Marcus sent me in his letters,” I told Mom. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Pe Pierre has a box full of books that he uses to teach the letters and the words. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sympathetic professors wrote letters; exceptions of various sorts were made in my case. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

At the top of the page, the headline was printed in real big letters. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He wrote letters begging her to reconsider his proposal. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Reading these letters at the end of an exhausting day, Briony felt a dreamy nostalgia, a vague yearning for a long-lost life. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

All the women liked to keep track of what the other aviation regiments were doing, so they wrote letters to friends they’d made while they were training at Engels. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

No numbers or letters or symbols printed around either one or hidden inside. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

That frightful word of six letters, in the middle of the placard, large and black. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

And I still recall the moments, rewind the movie in my head, and remember all of you, read your letters. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

A white cardboard sign on a table in the back of the cafeteria beckoned them, its crisply stenciled black letters spelling out the lunchroom hierarchy: colored computers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

And then the letters just keep coming and coming. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I want to talk to you, and not just in these letters. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

When I had all the letters, he drew a railway. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was grateful, but knew the authorities had not granted permission out of altruism: they were reading our letters, hoping to glean some information that would assist their case against Winnie. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to dictate my own thrilling letters. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Davos could decipher maps and charts as well as any, but letters and other writings were beyond his powers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

These are the ones that repeatedly turn up in style guides, pet-peeve lists, newspaper language columns, irate letters to the editor, and inventories of common errors in student papers. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He dipped the brush into the paint and carefully painted, in brown paint, on the surface of the paperweight, the letters... The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

After peace was declared, however, William dared to put a short, simple cipher at the end of one of his letters. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

For monotonous months I had circled the mail on the hall table like a buzzard, poking through endless boring letters and bills before turning away each day in blank disappointment. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Read the letters from home along with singing the new verses of the song. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

A tall sloping R, with the letters de W interlaced. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Syllabic” Linear B had many logograms, and “logographic” Egyptian hieroglyphs included many syllabic signs as well as a virtual alphabet of individual letters for each consonant. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the letters are newer than others. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

That night I wrote five letters to God, telling Him about my anger and lack of faith. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She signed the letters Love, but it wasn’t love, and all the fine lines and technicalities did not matter. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The letters, the tiny loop at the stop of the cursive s. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Then there were no letters, but that was natural; he was at sea. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“If I’d read the letters, I would have had a different speech to give to him.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The letters came in the mail to his home and lay untouched on the vestibule table until he returned from school. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t written those letters in the Latin alphabet. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

All these features made the forms, names, and sequence of Semitic alphabet letters easy to remember. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was obvious from the letters he had received from them that the Kansas troubles'1'1 would have to be settled with guns. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The window is entirely dark except for the outlines of block letters, shining, brilliant words that hang between myself and whatever is on the other side of the glass. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

That the letters the lovers wrote are in the archives of the War Museum. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Everything is letters now—now that the court is empty, and the world split, and nobody left but the Lord Protector.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

That issue, though, is really secondary to the simple fact that the kids weren’t watching the letters because they were watching Oscar. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I had hoped the kids’ letters would get some action,” Jon said. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

She pulled out the letters and two small boxes and thrust them at me along with the portrait. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hallways and doors crafted from pages of books and bits of blueprints, pieces of wallpaper and fragments of letters. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It said will you be mine? in white letters. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

On other occasions I waited apprehensively while my mother read onion-paper letters airmailed from Mexico with news of a relative’s illness or death. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eleanor tried to get everything into a neat stack, all the report cards and school pictures and letters from pen pals. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Too many responses—some true, some not—are colliding in his head and breaking up into floating letters he can’t seem to wrangle back into words that make sense. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

The Commandments were written on the tarred wall in great white letters that could be read thirty yards away. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

I was particularly impressed with this young woman because those white male typists had only used two slow-moving fingers to peck out their letters. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He writes the letters of the alphabet and says their names and has me repeat. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Your letters have provided me such entertainment and enlightenment that I have shared them with Mr. George Miltenberger, editor of the Arlington News. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

When a spectator from Moscow asked for an autograph, Bobby signed it using the Russian Cyrillic alphabet, needing to change only a few letters. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

What kind of message will it be, thought Meggie, when you can scarcely write two letters together? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But letters from school—the kind that are written on real paper and sent in a real envelope, with a stamp and everything—those are even worse. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

She herself arranged for them to put the letters in a box sealed with pitch and told them to place it in her grave in a way best to protect it from the dampness. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He had claimed we were a team, yet never bothered to open my letters, didn’t care what I had to say. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Beatrice and I don’t correspond unless there's a major event in the family. Writing letters is a waste of time,” said Maxim. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“But about Billy, it’s not his imagination. Other people see letters and numbers in color. I do, in fact.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

There, running vertically down the side of her palm, was her phone number written in neat block letters in dark blue pen. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

There must have been hundreds—perhaps thousands—of books, their titles embossed in shiny letters. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“More than ever, I guess. She writes to him a lot; he sets great store by her letters.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he turned so that Bridge could see the word crew in big block letters across the back of his black T-shirt. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“When Jon Wood showed us a peregrine falcon that had been electrocuted on utility poles, we wrote letters to the company.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Ignore the English letters—I’m just showing you how to use the mouse to click and drag. The basics.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Glinting on the boat’s prow was a laurel wreath design with the letters SPQR. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Even he couldn't have translated French letters to Arabic numerals that quickly. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

But then, squinting, I could make out shapes on them—faces, bodies—and that’s when I realized they weren’t letters at all, but photographs. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The letters come home folded neatly inside official-looking envelopes that my sister proudly hands over to my mother. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

She let her finger run along the lines, over the rough, sandy paper, while her eyes followed the letters to another, colder place, in another time, to a house without locked doors and black-jacketed thugs. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It has “MOM” painted in huge letters on one side. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I brought you down here to write a few letters for me, not fight with me.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

My family’s letters while I was in prison had included a description of the Muslim home routine, but to truly appreciate it, one had to be a part of the routine. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m glad that Mr. Lemoncello read my several letters and launched these Library Olympics,” Marjory told a reporter from her hometown newspaper. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

But it was track, in which he earned four varsity letters, tied the school half-mile record, and set its mile record of 5:06, that was his true forte. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Halfway along the hall was a semicircular table against the wall, and on it was a polished wooden stand, like a toast rack, for holding letters. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Now that she knew her letters, the word murder hooked her heart. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Since I brought up the topic of astrology, Gardner’s examples of the first letters of the names of the months and the planets are particularly appropriate. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I exhaled with relief and wrote down the name Susan Thomas in big, bold letters in my journal. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

This rumor was soon replaced by letters brought by people whose lives the rebels had spared during their massacre in Sumbuya. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The first thing I stuck in was this diary, and then curlers, handkerchiefs, schoolbooks, a comb and some old letters. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He had reports to read, letters to write. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I’ve figured out that if I look at the first two letters and the last two letters of a word, I can sometimes figure it out from the rest of the sentence. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

There would be a great pile of letters waiting for him in the hall, and mine amongst them, scribbled on the boat. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Martin Gardner, the mathematics writer, illustrates the distinction between general and specific occurrences by means of a spinner with the twenty-six letters of the alphabet on it. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he would get letters from people in his unit or from the doctors and nurses who had worked on him after he was wounded. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

How can a bar mitzvah be the right path for this kid who grew up going to church, hunting Easter eggs, and writing letters to Santa? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Corkhill presented Guiteau’s letters addressed to the American people, written before the assassination, in which he explained his plan and motive for killing the president. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Amongst the letters and cards there is a plain grey envelope. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The top part was already taking shape—a row of neat block letters, carefully drawn to look like newspaper type. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Another is painted in red, white, and blue stripes with La Casita written across the side, and a third has Kebab Express in green block letters. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Despite my many letters, I have heard nothing from you. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I’d cut and folded squares of fabric for the quilting class and tried to push away the thought of leaving, the box of letters under my bed, and Momma in general. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

He checked that the knife was strapped to his belt, and Lyra put on her little rucksack with the alethiometer and the letters from Will’s father. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bouk-man,” Guy struggled with the letters of the slave revolutionary’s name as he looked over his son’s shoulders. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

At first, they wrote infrequent letters, but as cybercafes opened, cell phones spread, and Facebook flourished, they communicated more often. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Mr. Gromme reported that calls and letters about dead and dying birds had been increasing steadily during the years since spraying began in Wisconsin. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Max’s papers say “Jude” in big black letters right over his picture. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“The cookies are in the shapes of letters. You have to see how many words you can spell.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Mr. Bolkestein, the Cabinet Minister, speaking on the Dutch broadcast from London, said that after the war a collection would be made of diaries and letters dealing with the war. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I touch the small packet of letters tucked in the pocket of my dress. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I just don't mention that they're not my old letters and schoolwork. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I need to know why my letters aren’t getting to you, though. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The way he said these words, I knew they had capital letters. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

His letters to Laurens are almost as romantic as his letters to his wife. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“He’s looking for someone up in the hospital who’s been signing Washington Irving’s name to the letters he’s been censoring.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I picture her at the kitchen table, coffee in one hand, holotack in the other, punching in letters. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Booth is in the office, gathering a bundle of letters, when stage carpenter James J. Gifford bounds into the room. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

But I could hear and see that her parents are very fond of letters. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Then everything went amiss when he discovered that his memorabilia had been auctioned off; it was as if he’d lost not just old letters and score sheets, but a part of his inner being. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

All the letters that represent zeros are in italics, so if someone knows what I’ve done, they could decode this. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The smell of a newly sharpened pencil the soft hush of it moving finally one day into letters. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

She was not there, so I sat down and wrote some letters. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Dropping the iron I fished the anonymous note from beneath the pile and held it by a corner, so that the slanting sun shone through the page and outlined the scrawling letters. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember wanting to take the torn pieces of newspaper out of the garbage, put all of the letters back together to make words again. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

After nearly 17 years in London, he returned home to Philadelphia on May 5, 1775, in the wake of the scandal over the Hutchinson letters. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was almost jogging as he scribbled his stubby capital letters. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

When I met Golomb, he took out a thick three-ring binder filled with the mountain of letters he had received over the years from satisfied customers. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Of a teacher, explaining the sounds of letters. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

If you do write, pray do not address the letters to me or mark them to show that you are the correspondent. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I hated that my mom knew about the letters. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Barbarossa is a little too fond of opening other people's letters and I would prefer to conduct this transaction without his interference. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She dictated letters to me, advis-ing them both that we were on our way. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those letters that when poorly welded and a little warped, looked more like Perdition. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I do mention that my parents always review my letters to Carla before I send them off. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

When the driver of the truck began unloading huge white bags at the gate, I sounded out the letters until I could read the red-and-blue print. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the way, Bill gives me A’s on my report cards and letters to my parents. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

When the letters mentioned “family,” they referred to either the Japanese fleet or other agents, depending on context. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I don't want to have to think about secret rooms or letters written in code or the fact that we were down to having only one parent, and now she's gone, too. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Next to each one was a word written in big blocky letters. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Instead, she wrote articles and letters to the editor of various newspapers, collected signatures on women’s rights petitions, and began her career as a public speaker at events closer to home. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Neville Longbottom had been sent letters from all the witches and wizards in his family, all giving him different advice on what to choose. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

"If you would pardon, me for a time, I will seek out the captain and see if he has letters for us." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There are two letters from Madoc, but they just seem to be about which knights will be at the coronation and in what pattern around the central dais. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The letters kept on rearranging themselves in the most confusing patterns. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adams instructed his beloved Abigail to start saving all his letters even before the outbreak of the war for independence. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

But ’stead of tying the letters up and putting them back in the box, I spread them out on Daddy’s bed and just look. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

It’s really convenient that suicide has seven letters, I think. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t the same privacy on the phone as in their letters, but at least they could make a few jokes. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Anger flashed through me as I imagined a bunch of unopened letters from Marcus sitting in a landfill somewhere, covered in trash. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I dipped the pen and carefully wrote the letters “D D” as if they were initials. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I had to forget about him and his letters. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I just try to make grammatical sense with the remaining letters. Anyway, it's just a trick.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The letters did not end up going across the placemat in a straight line. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I see you on the front step, waiting and longing for my letters. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Back home in New York and safely out of range of Ernest’s ebullience, Weaver outlined his doubts in letters to both Sproul and Lawrence. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

My letters might be getting stuck somewhere the mailman can’t reach them. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

More than a thousand letters were mailed out to American Legion posts and other civic and fraternal organizations. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

After trying many different ways of matching up her colored letters, she finally found something that worked. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Not the letters. Please don’t bring that up again. I’ll let you know if I have a change of mind.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Who even this gigantic white boy, wit’ his sorry, trashy self say is talking proper and dressing good as a prince and doing jus’ fine, and writing us letters in his own hand! The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

It showed the Empire State Building, and etched in tiny Greek letters, spiraling around the image, were the names of all the heroes who had died defending Olympus. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The marquee didn’t have screens with electronic letters—instead, it had black letters that had to be stuck to the sign. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Stopping by the grave, he read REX in faded letters on the cross. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You will wear the letters out with all the folding and unfolding.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Harry could see three letters addressed in green ink. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

There were six thousand letters to date and only nine of them abusive. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had nothing to do with France itself, with wearing hats or writing tortured letters from a sidewalk cafe. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He made space for it on the messy table surface, pushing aside the collapsed pile of unopened letters and packages. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Our letters were like a yearlong conver-sation, answering questions back and forth, continuing face-to- face at Christmas or between summer school sessions. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He had been kind to me from the first, perhaps because of the letters which the school superintendent had sent to him when I arrived. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

A long-haired dude in a scruffy shirt hiding behind cutouts of the letters “P” and “B.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

His eyes had passed it over two or three times before he saw what was written in tiny letters on top of the panel. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fans her hand above the page to avoid smudging the letters. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He reached over and pulled the letters out of Hercules’s hand and pressed them against his own chest. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

In English, the letters stayed separate from each other, so it was easy to tell them apart. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, it was possible there might be a deaf-mute at the asylum who could read his letters and then explain them to his friend. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It’s not like everyone else hasn't had their letters for months. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

When Army officials wrote directly to the Friedmans, the letters never reached them. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She could not be certain that anything was private anymore, not even her love letters from William. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Then I take a deep breath and look at the letters. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Probably the suspense is killing me, but I will just have to wait a few years till he works out the final answer, tune in for the next thrilling installment, he writes, in block letters. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

As late as 1897, letters from the South often arrived with the words “All mail fumigated with formaldehyde” written on them. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The sphere was constructed from five concentric rings, each inscribed with zodiac symbols—the bull, the scorpion, et cetera—and seemingly random numbers and letters. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Anthony wrote hundreds of letters of invitation to prospective members, and almost single-handedly raised the money, hired the hall, and organized the speakers for the group’s first meeting. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

First a C is distinguishable, followed by more letters. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Eventually you get to Paul writing letters to the Ephesians and it loses the plot, but the Old Testament and the Gospels? Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Ella’s family came up from the Deep South, and she makes it sound like that, like it comes with capital letters. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked up to him and wrote detailed letters from the institute, sharing all of my thoughts on art and philosophy. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She wondered if perhaps there were more letters hidden and waiting. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She thought that the I was before the E, but after she sewed the letters on, it looked a little wrong. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Albert here just gave Shay a whole bunch of letters that are the same forward and backward. If she wasn’t spitting-nails mad, trying to hurt people, she probably would’ve figured it out.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

She could hear her word—any word at all—and the letters wrote themselves in the air. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

By this time he was receiving letters from Mrs. Cadaver, and I knew that he was answering her letters. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“These are his varsity letters. This is his cigarette case from when he used to smoke. Here’s his Purple Heart.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The possibility of letters en route made for endless conversation. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the letters contained only a few words or a single question like, "Do you have friends?" Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

One of the letters was doubled up, I remembered, so I scratched that out and wrote “Carrevagio.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I reread their letters, and what I see, apart from this chorus about Allah and the Nation of Islam, is the same old story. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Divide into groups and read Eli Landers letters from different years comparing changes in attitude for a confederate soldier over time from the beginning of the war to the end of the war. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He flipped past more pages stacked with strange letters until he found a drawing of one of these life stages. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Petra stood in front of it, admiring the elaborate Gothic letters. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Above the top of tl\\c poster were tall red letters: YOU CAN’T WIN! Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was practically shouting the word “white” before I’d even seen the letters on the card. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

His letters didn't have a return address because he was living with his parents—and he hadn't yet told them he had a wife. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

But now, by this third meeting, she was drinking in the precious letters so speedily that Kit knew she must soon find a primer as well. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He recognized Robb's hand, but the letters seemed to blur and run as he tried to read them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

At the beginning, I had faithfully answered those letters each weekend. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus we can hold in mind just a few of the letters from an arbitrary sequence like MDPHDRSVPCEOIHOP. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I hoped to read of Hamlet’s longing for me in his letters, but they were nothing like sonnets of love. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Amaka s letters are often quite as long, and she never fails to write, in every single one, how everybody is growing fat, how Chima “outfats” his clothes in a month. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He held it close to his face and squinted at the letters. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

After Stanley taught Zero the final six letters of the alphabet, he taught him to write his name. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Justin and I exchanged dozens of letters after I left the Bronx for Pennsylvania. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

"Mark you. Brett's had affairs with men before. She tells me all about everything. She gave me this chap Cohn's letters to read. I wouldn't read them." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Originally, it referred to distinctive ways of writing—the shape of the letters as well as the choice of words. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

From there the black branches stretch onto the subsequent pages, tying together lines that form letters and symbols, each page almost completely covered in ink. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Du Bois took the letters and tucked them away in his briefcase. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He published a short memoir of Vincent soon after his death, and he published the letters that Vincent had written to him. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

‘I cannot read the fiery letters,’ said Frodo in a quavering voice. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Greenery enveloped the stage front, and in the center, for no particular reason, were large red cardboard letters: MCHS. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

"You wouldn't read any letters, darling. You wouldn't read mine." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The truth is that I did write to Lio after I found his letters. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nailer stared at the map, at the letters that made up Bright Sands Beach, and was surprised that he could actually make out words. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The little paragraphs between the pictures ended before the letters had a chance to get cocky and wiggle about. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

They made tables of how often other letters appeared in the message, then compared this with the distribution of letters in normal English. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I signed petitions and wrote letters to United States senators. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The method used to assign numbers to letters was not specified, however, and so it’s not entirely clear to whom the number refers. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Returning to Florida for his father’s funeral, he rummaged through the BlueBird Inn, discovering old books and letters. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

And letters poured into his house by the million from children begging him to pay them a visit. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sort of,” I reply, not sure exactly, since I’ve never seen letters the way other people have. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

No celebrating acceptance letters or crying over rejection ones. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I face out toward the big barn they have as a garage, and I write it in imaginary letters twenty feet high. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Above that, on a dustier window, in even more faded letters, DONATELLI'S GYM. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

My heart sunked when I saw what was writ ’cross the front in proper letters: MRS. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I never realized how many metal letters Cecile had in the drawers and kitchen cabinets. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They seemed to relish delivering letters in tatters. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also there were some bills and old letters and things tied up with a putrid ribbon and then—sort of funny—this little pamphlet caught my eye. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

We each are going to choose one of our favorite journal entries and combine them into a classroom book like the letters they’d previously sent to Zlata. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“But I can sing and I can read a little to while away the time for your lordship,” he offered, “and I can pen letters for you.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

He nods and I scribble the letters, leaning forward, rushing across the top of the card. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few cadets, eleven-year-olds with yellow stripes on their sleeves, linger on the steps outside an academy, the old and worn Walt Disney Concert Hall letters almost completely faded. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She bought me another cake studded with icing flowers and adorned with my name in green letters. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Just like last time. You guys know the drill. We need to write down the first letters of every title.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

But why hadn’t she responded to any of my letters? Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Dozens of people, chosen at random from a large Midwestern city, send out letters independently. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I learned my letters quickly,” I tell her. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

To keep warm, they crouched around the blaze and laughed, and Timothy saw the little letters leap like frightened animals when the flames touched and engulfed them. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two letters from Pasadena that week brought the news that Pauling was still way off base. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I go to the sofa and open the notebook, see all them letters and articles from past times. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

When we weren’t writing letters or attending classes, each of us went pretty much his own way. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

There were some letters, an official one, and some others. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

And everyone else won’t have fancy poster boards with foam letters that make my flimsy piece of newsprint that the teacher gave me look like gray toilet paper. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

When Lawrence and Teller arrived back at Livermore, they were greeted by letters bearing his congratulations. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Apparently she has a relative in America. She gets letters from him. He’s in Pennsylvania.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I stopped reading and writing letters for migrant workers, but still helped them in other ways. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had no idea where to send the letters. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She gathered them together, dated them as best she could, and in 1914, two years after her second husband died, she published a collection of Vincent’s letters to Theo, in Dutch. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But they stopped when they saw Marina and Militsa, and asked permission to mail bundles of letters their companions had given them. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

And there is a whole subgenre of ancestor research—sons and daughters flying to New York clutching scrapbooks, tracking down letters of indenture, photographs, birth certificates. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I took the letters back from her, folded them, and put them in the pocket of my skirt. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

All the letters that represent zeros are in italics, so if someone knows what I’ve done, they could decode this. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Scrawled across the paper in thick black letters were five words: She’s the last one. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Someone had warned me about “the system” that made letters to loved ones disappear mysteriously if a black person who went overseas got “naughty.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m noting the present tense. Letters being letters.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also told him about these letters of mine to the editor that have been printed in The New Democracy and Man and Masses and Now! A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But at the same time, he’d been sweet to me in his letters and had interesting things to say. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The next day, he sent letters and appointed about two dozen men to diplomatic positions. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Did you read the screed that told of his crime? “I don’t know my letters, sir.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The only double letters are the twin I’s inside. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had not even opened her Powerhouse bar or her potato chips, and now she traced the letters on the candy wrappers with her fingers. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

No wonder the papers write every evening in big, fat letters: “Keep Prices Down!” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The father shook the letters in her face. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I caught myself wishing for someone to show the letters to, someone who could give me a proper reflection of my importance. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Titid says we must learn all the letters so that we will give the right message to the right man. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I saw many letters by his hand regarding the finances of the College.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

If Matt thought he’d been bored before, it was nothing compared to writing the same letters, coloring the same pictures, and counting the same wretched beads and flowers all over again. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suppose I give you four cards labeled with the letters A and D and the numerals 3 and 6. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The inked dragon curled around his right forearm, its tail encircling the letters KAT branded into his skin. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It says Congratulations in big curly letters, and at the very top is the address of Studio TV-15 on West 58th Street. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

From that time on, this was how she ended every one of her letters to Robbie in France, right through to the last, which arrived just before the order came to fall back on Dunkirk. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Botanists chose sides and wrote caustic letters about each other. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Without really thinking about the logistics, I foolishly suggested that we write letters to Zlata and invite her to our class. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Finding herself unable to read more than individual letters, she fetched Muriel. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Then in each corner with the largest letters of all, made with green and outlined in red, she wrote her initials—M.K. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I was furious when I found out that Gay and my mother had been writing letters behind my back. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Vanessa, I’ve written you letters for years explaining, begging for your forgiveness over and over again. I didn’t mean for things to turn out this way.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“But I’m not authorized to censor letters either. Am I?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It takes me time to total the number of words on the page and the number of letters in the words. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was more like the letters printed on cans of food or along the sides of pencils. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I liked the curves of the Cyrillic letters, their unexpected sounds. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It might be easier to make out the words if we’re looking at just the found letters together on one page.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He pockets an application for a student American Express card, grateful that his first credit card will not say Gogol in raised letters at the bottom. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even among those agitated enough to write letters, only about a quarter said the program had scared them to any degree. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I made him point at the children, then at the door, and the letters G-O appeared in smoke above his fingertips. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Maybe I've been wrong about the secretaries, I thought; maybe they destroyed the letters. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those who were keeping journals or writing letters home began to confide in them about nervousness as they had before the Olympic trials at Princeton. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She signed the letter: Beoov, Ivette But it was the three words, written in large letters at the very bottom of the page, that sent a chill down my spine. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

It's got to be especially strange since it sounds like you never got my other letters. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I worried that she had searched my trunk, where my tokens and letters from Hamlet were hidden. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I was also bringing my picture of Marcus, and at the last second, I stuffed his letters in between pages of my journal too. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

She wrote to Obinze about the books she read, careful, sumptuous letters that opened, between them, a new intimacy; she had begun, finally, to grasp the power books had over him. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Old letters and schoolwork,” I say, which is true. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The first two letters of the name Pluto are the initials of Percival Lowell. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frank, George, and Horace had children, and these three sons also continued in their fathers footsteps: Frank was a botanist and edited his fathers letters and published the Autobiography. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The team penciled those guesses in, looked at other frequent letters, and made more guesses. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She brought home a bundle of letters and passes with her. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She told us how, long ago, paper was scarce so women cut up old letters and newspaper articles to make patterns, then stuffed the paper between the quilt layers for extra insulation. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I liked to imagine him reading the letters in there by himself, in his recliner with his cigarettes and crystal ashtray. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Instead, there were letters from every grade-one student, all reading: “Dear Robert, We love you very much and we hope you will be better soon.” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

On his black T-shirt was a dead white pig with flies buzzing around it and the words OFF THE PIG in white letters. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sit in the back and write three different letters to Tats. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The letters Mother wrote back, painstakingly, late at night, when she’d saved up enough money for a stamp, contained plenty of news of Matthew and Mark, but never once had mentioned Luke’s name. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But your father, he wrote nice letters, poems, stuff like that.” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

If we thought the food was lousy or if we hated a certain master or if we had been thrashed for something we did not do, we never dared to say so in our letters. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first was that every statement had to have at least two words in which the first letters were switched. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But as Gallup’s method showed, you don't actually need letters to make it work. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“The evildoers can no longer harm you. But stop reading and writing letters for strangers, you hear?” she warned me as we were about to leave. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was preparing letters and lectures about the flying saucers, the negligibility of death, and the true nature of time. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Farmer traced a dark, wrinkled finger across the letters stamped into the aluminum. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Shut up in the bathroom, she would release herself from the torment of a hopeless passion by writing feverish letters, which she finally hid in the bottom of her trunk. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The alphabet was divided into five rows of five letters each—A through E in the first row, F through J in the second row, and so on. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I remember how we screamed into our phones the day we got our acceptance letters. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

A tall white guy sits in one of our kitchen chairs facing away from me—DETECTIVE written in big yellow letters across the back of his dark blue jacket. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

On the morning after Ted Lavender died, First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross crouched at the bottom of his foxhole and burned Martha’s letters. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe we can buy food or send letters.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

They heard the click of the mail slot and flop of letters on the doormat. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

"You write two letters, you get two letters," he said. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The letters seemed to dance on the pages. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Mom nods encouragingly to him when he gets through an entire page without flipping words or letters around. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I hope your lack of letters isn’t tied to you being in a fine temper. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“You were upset. Are the letters bothering you?” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Father has forbidden him to keep up the practice and Margot has stopped correcting the letters, but I think it won’t be long before he starts up again. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Lettie might get teary one time at the thought of all those unopened letters, and another she might smile at his fishing advice for Jinx. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

While some remain single letters, content with their onetime replies, others evolve into longer exchanges, collections of ongoing conversations. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In the book, she would be kissed by a wandering prince; and then the happy ending would sprawl across the pages, in scroll-wreathed letters, with purple and yellow banners. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, so it does. Do you see that each letter is one step’s width? Hmmm. Seven letters for seven steps. Surely that must be some kind of a hint?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

When I’m finished, the man recording it taps out my last sentences on his screen, the glass lighting up with letters where his fingers touch it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The letters were right, he was certain of it. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure which “it” he meant—Momma’s letters and now her interference, him acting like a spoiled baby and not opening my gift, or Nan and our next move. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

In case there was any question, across the front of the plastic in big, black letters, it was labeled “Boxer Shorts. Size X-Small.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

But despite many telegrams and letters sent to him, Gary refused to bargain. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“If only these old eyes of mine could make out the letters,” Hannah regretted. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Doesn’t mean I don’t find myself tracing the letters of Arthur’s name on the magnet I bought myself to match the one he has with my name. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Eleanor stared at the lid and struggled to make the letters into words—but she couldn't get past the familiar spill of lowercase letters. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

And yet, she felt curiously guilty as she slid the supple black leather over her hands, as if she had crept into his rooms without his permission, read his letters, lain down in his bed. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Where they write letters home about wonderful food and mythical trees? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Her letters also kept her family up-to-date about what was happening on the home front. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But the more letters you wrote to me, and the more of yourself you gave, the more daunting my task became. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere short of the clouds, it exploded into four red letters that sizzled the daytime sky. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Those letters spelled out my name, and none of you know what that feels like—it’s so familiar.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Telegrams and letters from both famous dignitaries and ordinary citizens flooded the White House with heartfelt wishes for Garfield's recovery. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I have been fortunate enough to receive letters with such information, to have rêveurs share with me writings from journals or thoughts scribbled on scraps of paper. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He peeked at my letters and threw his hands into the air. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

There were occasional errands to run or letters to Xerox, but for the most part all I did was sit at my desk and mentally redecorate the house. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

In the peripherals of my vision, the Hebrew letters on signs seemed to change, distorting into an alphabet I had never learned. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The name Professor R. J. Lupin was stamped across one corner in peeling letters. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Fernanda, writing letters to her children, was not aware of the unchecked destructive attack. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

But today, my third day being twelve, I whisper to Andrew: “I’ll help. At lunch, I’ll show you why numbers and letters mean.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Yet few of the two thousand letters mention a person hysterical enough to escape the Martians by leaving his or her home. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know when we’d get to talk on the phone again, but we agreed to keep writing letters. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Finally, I went to the mirror and gave myself an admiring smile as I spread the letters upon the dresser like a hand of high trump cards. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s an earnest, dark-haired boy with a deceptively innocent look to his wide blue eyes, and his fiancee’s name, AELIA, tattooed in block letters on his bicep. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I could have combed his letters for clues about her. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Each of you will carry a ,chest of letters, and you will deliver one to every port and holdfast and fishing village. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In the moonlight, the letters seemed to glow. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Twenty-four letters reached the stockbroker at his home in Sharon, and of those, sixteen were given to him by the same person, a clothing merchant Milgram calls Mr. Jacobs. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many months had passed since the children had written their letters, however. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Except for some letters that little Willy didn’t bother to read. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go fishing by myself, mostly so I’ll have something to put in my letters to him. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Here are excerpts from three of Ruess’s letters: I have been thinking more and more that I shall always be a lone wanderer of the wilderness. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The disappointed class, who had been planning the angry letters they would write to the newspaper, had to agree. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Come. It will be a while before we close the gap. As long as you’re below- decks, you might as well make use of the time. Back to your letters, then.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Soon afterward Burnham dispatched letters to all his department heads, including Olmsted. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I looked forward to receiving Martin’s letters more than going roller skating on Friday nights or to the mall on the weekends. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Dressed more casually than Whitby, he had his sleeves rolled back to expose a green inked dragon curling up his right forearm, its tail encircling the letters KAT burnt into his flesh. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it was more reliable—though much slower—to use letters or human messengers instead. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Every few nights he sat under his one lightbulb and wrote long letters to Joyce. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Mostly Madam slept late, wrote letters, and picked out melodies on a badly tuned spinet. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those people I wrote and read letters for seemed as innocent as Jesus Christ and his mother, Mary. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thrust the letters upon him, that were such a treasure to me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

On the shiny barrel, the letters USA had been clearly etched. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I felt gratitude for all the people on my team who’d given everything to the work, sorting through handwritten letters, fact-checking my speeches, hopping cross-country flights to prepare for our events. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“And I’m only playing ball if you spot me a few letters. You have M, O, and N.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tact is for people too dumb to be sarcastic, it announced in huge white letters. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Just before winter vacation, Bridge watched as the letters from the Talentine committee were distributed in homeroom. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

There are things that you can’t do— like writing letters to a part of yourself. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

By a routine that was not even secret, all letters were opened in transit. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“A code is similar: It’s a way to conceal a message. But a code can be more expansive, with word or phrase substitutions rather than individual letters.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I type in the password for today, a string of thirty-five jumbled letters, numbers, and symbols. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Get somebody who makes her living by writing to write some very persuasive letters.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I sat there writing letters all morning, and I was exhausted by lunchtime. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

At summer camp, when the other girls in my cabin were practicing choreography for “It’s a Hard Knock Life,” I was writing letters to Maddy. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Hu can write for me and he can read your letters to me. You can tell me all about your grandmother and how you feed the chickens and how happy you are.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The disillusioned Fernanda tried to obtain more precise information, but the unknown correspondents did not answer her letters any more. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I matched the letters Father had typed to each of the envelopes he was addressing. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“You should write letters to your mother,” she says, “and one day—if you do meet her again—you can decide whether you would like to give these letters to her or not.” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I demand that you write letters to all other owners of Vermeer paintings. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The letters glimmered gold, then faded, and she imagined a fairy-tale life in which she and Lazlo worked magic out of a striped market tent and kissed when there were no customers. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“This is like one of Emily Dickinson’s letters to the world,” June said the next Sunday afternoon. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They were not love letters, but Lieutenant Cross was hoping, so he kept them folded in plastic at the bottom of his rucksack. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were many fewer of the former, again suggesting that the hieroglyphs were mainly letters and syllables. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among the letters lambasting McCandless, virtually all those I received mentioned his misidentification of the caribou as proof that he didn’t know the first thing about surviving in the back- country. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hungry Joe unpacked his bags and rewrote the happy letters home. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

There was no need to grab the sign with a lot of letters, since it would be just the two of us coloring. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wrote at least seven thousand letters and received as many. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the fall, at Zollverein, she received two letters announcing his death. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“You know how you cross out the incorrect letter and write the correct one above it? Have those corrected letters ever spelled out words?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I finish folding up the letters and tie the ribbon. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

She made me so ashamed that for months I hung little wagging comma-tails all over the letters to my grandmother. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know I shouldn’t snoop, but curiosity quickly overrides my conscience as it often does—snoop-control issues—and I’m bending down and randomly perusing some of the papers on the floor: mostly old letters. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Me tore the envelope open, wetting the paper, and pulled out a folded poster that said in large letters: LECTURE! A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

David, who was always my pal, ceremoniously plucked a few letters from his collection and then set down his letters and spelled “S-P-E-R-M.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It all depends on how well you can connect Arabic letters into words and how many passages from the Quran, or surahs, you can recite from memory. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I read the e-mail six times before the letters form words and the words form sentences that I can understand, but, even then, the meaning of all the words taken together eludes me. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her letters must have made William more acutely aware of all he was missing. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I gave her the portrait of the yellow-haired man and the letters that I had stuffed in my pocket as we fled. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what happened after they’d first met, because I hadn’t read any other letters. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It was a small maroon motor truck with the name in gilt letters on the sides and the man making preparations to wash it wasn’t Frank, the nice young man with rosy cheeks. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her daughter-in-law would later remember her letters fondly—and also her knitting, Anna moving the needles fast and furiously to the end of her life. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She had lied to Momma in her letters. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was going to wait for the postman on the corner of Privet Drive and get the letters for number four first. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The owls circled the tables, looking for the people to whom their letters and packages were addressed. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, they said they would send letters and photos for the first year.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He had made transparencies of the letters from Dr. Barnes and put them on the overhead projector so the whole class could see them while he explained what was happening. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

In case you all aint noticed, the first three letters of the word funeral spells FUN. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“But he doesn’t write her any letters so she has to dream about him,” Vonetta added. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Grandma paused, and then said, “How about you give him my address instead. You can read his letters at my house. But I’ll read each of them first, to make sure they’re okay.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

As I put the letters back on the table, I noticed that day’s newspaper lying off to the side. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She was looking at the seven letters in my first name and wondering how to pronounce it. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Margot, the Annex’s Dutch teacher, has been correcting these letters for him. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He writes her letters and sends her photographs of artwork for her scrapbook. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Wednesday, my white T-shirt read in black letters:white brother. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

And then, I remember them in the pocket of the lining, Lio’s letters! In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kelly didn’t even look up from drawing her bubble letters on a note to Stacy as she asked, “So is he going to come to class?” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I figured that if these letters really aren’t getting through to you, maybe he can give you a message in person. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Do the letters upset you?” the therapist asked Gay. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Like mice, military censors had nibbled at Milton’s letters before Desdemona got to digest them. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They wrote letters to Congress and the mayor’s office demanding recognition of Henrietta’s contribution to science. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He emphasizes how much her letters mean to him. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Be careful, Elena. Sending letters may endanger the people back home,” said Mrs. Rimas. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Think of how much more interesting my letters to you will be! Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Xuma presided over the era of delegations, deputations, letters, and telegrams. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe there was an army rule that men about to go overseas couldn’t write letters. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure I shall. Get on with your peach and don’t talk with your mouth full. I’ve got a lot of letters to write after dinner.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She said “real” like it had a million letters in it. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The attorney offered letters written by Guiteau that demonstrated his erratic and often irrational behavior, starting from childhood. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Washington spent the day at home in a small, stuffy office seeing visitors, writing letters, and worrying. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Friday, I wore a white T-shirt with black letters: race is not a color. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Our letters are like flocks of doves, released from under our hats. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Speedily more join the heap, papers, magazines, letters. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“See how these letters are straight up and down, plodding across the page? And at the end of each word, the last letter trails off like it’s giving out its dying breath.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Do you mind sending your letters to her house instead? From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

She traced the letters with her eyes as longingly as if they were a path with Mo waiting for her at the end of it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I just put a whole bunch of letters together that even I know make no sense. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I turn page after quiet page, but I’ve stopped seeing the letters, stopped understanding the words. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

More than anything, he wanted Martha to love him as he loved her, but the letters were mostly chatty, elusive on the matter of love. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You can teach me ten letters a day," suggested Zero. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

As he’d thought, they were letters, written on airmail paper in black ink. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A’s and e’s and l’s are tricky, because they could be lots of different letters,” Emma explained weakly, pointing to her own scribblings. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She actually said the letters B-T-W, which I wanted to point out required more syllables than just saying “by the way,” but she was clearly locked into something. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The words were written in big block letters in a hurried hand: “Avoid the pass.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lacey prepares a grocery list for each of us, written in small letters on the backs of receipts she found in her purse. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

There was not a sound to be heard but Mo’s voice bringing the letters and words on the page to life. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The doctor turned, looking around the room; he touched one finger gingerly to the letters on the wall and moved Theodora’s yellow shirt with his foot. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The ground floor of the hotel was a maze of public rooms, all of them named in gold letters on the doors. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

The letters were brief and poorly written, but they offered small bright glimpses into the daily lives of the children and the state of near-captivity in which Holmes held them. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It was a little hard to tell that it was an ET sweatshirt, though, since both the letters and the sweatshirt were the exact same shade of purple. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He sat down beside me, and said in his smoothest voice as he opened two letters:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The first time I came over I asked Soojin what the letters meant, and she explained that they spelled her name, which meant “treasure.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Then Mami addresses the envelope, and I see her write the words “Havana, Cuba” in big letters. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

From about eight o’clock, he would work in his study for an hour and a half, when he would take a break to listen to Emma read letters or a novel. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each night before she blew out the last candle, she would labor over the page, picking out letters and sometimes even words that were familiar to her. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stuck the portrait and letters in my pocket, and balanced Ruth’s doll on top of the boxes in my arms. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m figuring that my parents threw the letters away because they think you might be a bad influence on me. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I scrambled to gather the letters, my face flushing, but it was too late. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I scramble the letters over and over again in my head, trying to come up with various combinations of words. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

For a little while in the morning he had to censor letters, but he was free after that to spend the rest of each day lying around idly with a dear consdence. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I have therefore avoided historical opinions and gone back primarily to the words of the men themselves, their letters and other documents. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She folded the letters, sealed them with Diana’s wax, and addressed them. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered, for the first time, if he was receiving all my letters. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The upside-down red letters were peeled and faded, but Stanley could still read the name: Mary Lou. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Then one day I thought I would set myself up as a reader of letters such as there are in most villages, and surely also in cities? Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to talk but couldn’t, so I tried to trace letters on my hand, thinking I could spell out a question. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A few days later, there were two letters on the kitchen table from the housing office. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was like a hide-and-seek game with letters. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

While Celia knows Mr. Barris quite well, having met with him several times and exchanged dozens of letters, he does an impressive job of pretending they are mere acquaintances. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I wrote Brian long letters describing the sweet life in New York City. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the letters he wrote from America to her while she was still in Haiti, he never talked to her about love. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

None of us could read English, but I learned later that those curving marks that twisted like worms were the letters of the man’s name: Mr. Reamer. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most people wrote and received no more than a handful of letters a month and seldom felt compelled to reply immediately. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I opened to an illustration in which he was burning my letters. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

I held tight to my satchel that held the cigar box of mementos and letters. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

But she saved the letters in unsealed envelopes, waiting for a couple of dollar bills to send along. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

They exchanged letters for years, each offering the other support and encouragement. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He loved to shape words with a pen on paper and he formed the letters with as much care as if the paper had been a plate of silver. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Malvonne looked at the clock on the mantel, figuring out how much time she had to talk to Joe and get her letters mailed before leaving for work. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“SC, mi hija. It happened a couple of weeks ago. Didn’t you get my letters?” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Perhaps I haunted her as she haunted me; she looked down on me from the gallery as Mrs. Danvers had said, she sat beside me when I wrote my letters at her desk. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

By all the letters of the alphabet, Elinor, she told herself, there’s a great actress lost in you! Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Clara did her part as well, praising the elegance of his handwriting when Ana showed her his letters, and Lady Isobel could find no fault with his country house — or his considerable fortune. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Think about chain letters. If one person sends a letter to ten people and then each of the ten people sends letters to ten more—you get it?’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“He is a mute, but we have been teaching him his letters. He learns quickly.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And Vincent barely mentions it in his letters to Theo, even though he often does write about the mill, and their walk to it. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Hurd believed he knew the answer: a few memories and an education so inadequate they might have difficulty reading their names in “big boxcar letters.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picked the pencil out of his palm and was glad it had been sharpened to a stub so he couldn't see my name in gold letters inscribed on the side. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Do you know what Dear Teen Me letters are?” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them—by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Hence Onofre had written a thousand love letters for a thousand lovers, and he had also read those love letters to the persons who received them. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was merely being prudent,” Lord Fredrick replied, in his merry, thoughtless way, “in case we find another twenty-three grubby children wandering in the forest. Twenty-six letters in the alphabet, what!” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

He said his heart goes out to the families and thanked them for their letters and statements. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

What I couldn't stand was this shrinking everything into letters and numbers. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

They learned to write their new address: 18434 Winslow Road Up, those two little letters ensuring that their mail ended up in their apartment, and not with Mr. Yang downstairs. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But the early letters and leaks out of Monticello indicated that he was in fact disposed to agree and consider a bipartisan political alliance grounded in the personal trust of the once-great collaboration. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Obinze, who anchored her through that summer of waiting—his steady voice over the phone, his long letters in blue airmail envelopes—and who understood, as summer was ending, the new gnawing in her stomach. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Underneath the sixth act, was an announcement in large letters. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

What are the differences between letters of the alphabet and music pitch names? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I roll the brown page into her typewriter, click the carriage over and begin hunting down letters with one finger. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sent letters to my mother detailing her hardships: no washing machine, no car, no television, a backyard full of boulders and goats. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Who are you writing letters to?” she asked, and it still wasn’t too late. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

My sisters have to sit and have their school, and I have to color and learn my letters. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought back to that first box Connor and I had found in the storage room and the letters on it: A, V, N. Connor had been right all along. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Decoded, the letters revealed a German plot that centered on India. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Then below are periodicals, papers, and letters all jammed in together with drawings and rough sketches. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The news of these deaths never gets lost in the mail as other letters do. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Evan never bothered to look at the mail, but Jessie was always entering contests and expecting to win, so she flipped through the letters right away. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

About 1,400 letters sent to Welles and The Mercury Theatre survive in library archives. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The note comes back again, this time written in pencil-grinding capital letters. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their peeling, faded gold letters spelled words in languages Harry couldn’t understand. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

At first, I thought Dubai was so far away he couldn't send letters from there. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Even then, I’d get weird phone calls in the middle of the night, strange letters delivered in the mail. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In letters to Look’s editors, people wrote, I want to cancel my subscription to your magazine at once. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then she took both letters and went looking for Caroline. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

—Why don’t you try to write one of those letters and bring it next time that you come, okay? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I will translate these Latin letters for you, if you will first give me your cake,” I would offer, and he would gladly consent. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Fabyan was reading their mail before they did, and he destroyed any letters he didn’t want them to see. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Inside the box was a stack of letters neatly tied together with string, a few pens, a watch that didn’t work, and a folded envelope. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I turn to the next napkin page, where the letters vary in size. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The final letters are blurred out from the juice I spilled on it. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Their only way of keeping in touch was by writing letters. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The Patriot forgers had also closed the letters with perfect copies of the governor’s royal seal. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

"We kept a trunk of some such things. Photographs, letters, school certificates. But nobody came for them." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

All the letters stay the same, but they are moved around—transposed—into the wrong places. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Next moment, thirty or forty letters came pelting out of the fireplace like bullets. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

She had always thought the letters were MS. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was her custom to read your letters aloud to us and crow over them, thinking it a feather in her cap to be writing to royalty, such as yourself. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

No wonder that letters addressed to people here had never received an answer: as well despatch epistles to a vault in a church aisle. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

If the spinner is spun one hundred times and the letters recorded, the probability that the word cat or warm will appear is very small, but the probability of some word’s appearing is high. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

While on it, he and Terryl wrote a few letters to each other. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I watched him read his letters, saw him frown at one, smile at another, dismiss the next. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Also,” said Sierra, “‘Dumpster’ and ‘red stump’ are spelled with the same letters.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Just the shaky letters of an amateur scribe. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I also intended to donate to the archives my dozen long letters from old, Mr. Nettle. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The lady who sewed those letters several days ago tsked over the task. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Thereafter, to learn the Zhaganashimowin letters and sounds became a source of amusement, for the evenings were still long. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

How many letters did they lose a day? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a mailwoman, her satchel of letters hanging at her side. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

She also destroyed the address books with her friends’ phone numbers, her most treasured love letters and even her photographs of Miguel. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up one of the shakily written letters. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

That was why his writing was nothing like the writing on his other letters. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Dear Lucy, I saw your mother the other day and she told me that you’d written me several letters to apologize for how things had ended between us. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

There were twelve names, and twelve letters in each name. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The letters furnished evidence of a vast public identity writing made possible. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Honey, look at those letters you put down. There’s a word right in those letters.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

In large block letters, John Benally printed the word ANT on the blackboard. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

In large scrawled letters on the blank side of a cardboard beer coaster, it’s written. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Finding the right letters, the right type, the right size. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes sank through an alphabet soup of letters to the long word in the middle of the page. bababadalgharaghtakammmarronnkonnbronntonnerronnttionnthunntrovarrhoun awnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk! The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Not even a line—a pair of letters and a zero, lost in the code. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She also did needlework, played patience and whist, played the piano, and wrote many letters. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although he did not date them, the order in which he had written the letters was obvious. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think that’s going to happen if I read a few—twenty-seven—letters.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Arabic words, the letters were always joined, and a letter might look different depending on what came before or after it. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later I receive a box of his personal effects—his wristwatch, letters I wrote to him, some clothes. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She had, with a strenuous loyalty, kept in touch through the years: calling and writing letters and sending books and shapeless trousers she called slacks. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Some of the angriest letters—and by far the most disturbing to read—came from relatives of the deceased. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

She wrote the letters in a fury, burning herself with sealing wax, her hand was shaking so. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You will not write again to this boy or accept his letters,” she said sternly from the doorway. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

My friend Jennifer had eight letters in her name, and Elizabeth Brewster had nine in hers, and yet their names weren’t “too hard.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

In letters, and on a visit home in early June 1884, he tries to persuade Vincent to paint with lighter, brighter colors. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She read constantly and offered, in letters to Etty mostly, her literary criticism. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have more than most people. There’s a whole box of your mom’s letters waiting for you back in Drake. She knows you can’t have mail, but she still writes every couple of days anyway.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

To write our names on the map in giant swooping letters. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

When he is near enough to read parts of the gown, he realizes that they are love letters, inscribed in handwritten text. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Because nothing like the full-blooded machinery of a modern political party system existed, Adams conveyed his tentative scheme for a bipartisan initiative informally through letters and conversations sure to be picked up by the press. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Mam taught me all my letters years ago, in Ireland, then taught me how to spell. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s mostly hot pinkish purple because that’s the color of the d, but the colors of the other letters add a gold tinge to it. Oh, and it’s also kind of grainy.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Melissa said, “I think we should all write letters to the paper and say the story wasn’t true and that there is, or was, only one mouse here.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Emily played around with rearranging the letters, thinking maybe it was an anagram. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

For all the letters I post to her regularly, Momma hasn't written me in over ten months. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Well, the thing is,” I begin, knowing there is no turning back now, “I wasn’t lying. Numbers really do have colors for me. So do letters and sounds.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I know because it was printed on one of the side benches in black letters. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Two more weeks of school visits, and several hundred more letters were sent to Mr. Lon Herbert. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Because after you died, it’s not like you were choosing to ignore my letters. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

On the back of each ticket, printed in bold letters, were the words This ticket may not be resold. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Why don’t we use capital letters for all nouns any more? Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

He read letters from people who appreciated what he did and from others who wanted to let him know he was an idiot. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Week after week my threatening letters grow sharper and sharper. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Her letters had grown much cooler; she was pulling away from him. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had cassettes and letters written by my father, his words crunched between the lines of aging sheets of ruled loose-leaf paper. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

In the half hour before lights-out, after cocoa, the girls would be in and out of each other’s rooms, sitting on their beds writing letters home, or to sweethearts. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He pinched the name tag and ran his finger under the letters. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Theresa turned it over and saw in large, wobbly letters: LOVE, MONA. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked why, but what I really wanted to know was why I started writing letters after Dad died. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Werner remembers how Jutta would write her letters in a flurry and scribble The Professor, France on the envelope and drop them into the mailbox in the square. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She must have gotten all of April’s letters, but she didn’t even mention the question that April asked in every one. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle was an inscription carved in letters even older than Greek, a language of magic. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“A cipher,” he underlined the word, “is when you substitute individual letters with other letters, numbers, or symbols.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Over the doorway hung a big purple banner with the gold letters spqr embroidered inside a laurel wreath. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The solution was six letters long, and Pigpen was six letters. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to have anything left unsaid, which I guess is the why I started writing these letters in the first place. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“East Shoal High School” was spelled along its top in green letters. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Perhaps Salvador could think of a way to send letters from the United States to Dorotea secretly. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I knew that I could not possibly answer all the letters—there were over forty—and I had to select a dozen or so to write to. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stare at the unopened letters piling up on the mantel. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

In the letters, which Lupita read aloud to her mother, she boasted how rich she and her husband were. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Braden Duvall Parks, I wrote, feeling every loop and turn of the letters, and wishing, somehow, that I could detach myself from my name. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Samuel had a great black book on an available shelf and it had gold letters on the cover—Dr. Gunn's Family Medicine. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And she said, “Why didn’t you write to me, Christopher? I wrote you all those letters. I kept thinking something dreadful had happened, or you’d moved away and I’d never find out where you were.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

News of the British reaction to the “Boston Tea Party” spread as “express riders” carried letters to and from Committees of Correspondence. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

There has also been a frequent reverse problem, of devising letters to represent “new” sounds present in the borrowing language but absent in the lending language. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Richard was still not sure which he hated more at the time, being forced to write letters home or having the letter-writing session monitored. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Since they’re for homecoming, they’re made in school colors and the ribbons usually have glitter letters that spell out different things, like you and your boyfriend’s names or your school mascot. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

At first he was impatient, but as the letters became words, and the words thoughts, he became both eager and suspicious, as though I were holding something back from him. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her hand moved in conjunction with her eyes, in unknown ways, just as it had that day in the bookstore when she’d transcribed her name in Bengali letters. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“A cipher,” he underlined the word, “is when you substitute individual letters with other letters, numbers, or symbols.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She wrote impassioned letters to the editor; she signed petitions to end the draft. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her letters came from all over the world, where she had storytelling projects. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I wondered if Papa had trouble seeing letters the right way like Amil. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Mark each line or space with large letters for each note. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The R dwarfed the other letters, the tail of it ran down into the cambric, away from the laced edge. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I was just learning my letters and figured I knew just about every word ever invented, but that word I’d never seen. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

I kept my voice level as I called out the first of the letters he pointed to, but I wouldn’t write it down until he blinked. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took two letters from her apron pocket. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“As I’m sure you’re aware, five of us received letters. The mayor asked us all to destroy them.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But I, who wished to read the book of the world and the book of my own nature, did presume to despise the letters and signs. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps through these letters we might share our secrets. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

June’s college boyfriend, who broke up with her when he moved to California but is still the only person whose letters come to her directly. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I turn and look up, and the wide white face says in red letters, I was here. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

On Monday morning, the day after Easter Sunday, Emma received the letters from the weekend, which told a very different story from the telegram. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Words devolve into letters, letters into unintelligible bumps. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Tally opened it up and saw a scrawl of letters. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It is, once again, the sequence that carries the message: the words act, tac, and cat, for instance, arise from the same letters, yet signal vastly different meanings. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“We sent out thirty-eight letters. Nobody had any bread they wanted to lay on our stellar organization.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could not imagine turning the republic of letters into a vast law court. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He sketched the letters of the name in large floral script, as if seeking to dispatch the cumbersome duty of addressing the card as quickly as possible, before advancing to the message itself. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

My grandmother wrote her sister letters over the years, but as in every good tragic story, her sister never received them. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

But the fact is, the letters I have had from you over the years, and in particular the last It tter, have tended to suggest that you are - how might one put it? - rather unhappy. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I ask, wishing that the letters would just stand still for me and wait to be read. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I drew closer to look at the letters formed by her pen. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon I can close my eyes and type the letters without looking at the keys. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Just to be safe, though, I’m going to find somewhere else to mail my letters from now on. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

And in his dream, Coyotito was reading from a book as large as a house, with letters as big as dogs, and the words galloped and played on the book. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never told you I was up half the night with a dictionary looking up words to go with the letters in Daddy. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if Marcus didn’t sound as nice on the phone as he did in his letters? From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Lines divide the map into smaller squares, with letters along the top and numbers down the side to form a grid. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“He didn’t know you worked. He said you never mentioned anything about that in your letters.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

After an intense lobbying campaign, which included letters, petitions, and more picketing, Carvie Oldham agreed to meet with tenants to hear their grievances—an important first. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to tell him to drop me, to take the letters in Liam’s jacket and run. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Since most letters were written on both sides of a single piece of paper, the material on the other side would also be excised. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the bills have big red letters on them, the amounts underlined in black. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

But plenty of other letters kept pouring in, proof that Elizebeth was becoming a celebrity. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The letters were too small and thin to read from a distance. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

The Hub is marked by an American flag fluttering fifty feet up in the air, and large black plastic letters above the door: MOBIUS. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

What I find most interesting reading through the letters: I can't figure out what I was trying to accomplish. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He was fond of books and taught his wife her letters. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

How all those letters were still sitting in my suitcase, never to be mailed. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I shift the words around, trying to form a sentence that makes sense, and when that fails, I move the letters around to see if each one might be an anagram for something else. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

There were gangs, whose slogans and names were painted in bold letters on the sides of buildings or on sidewalks. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Jethro took the letters after the others had finished reading them and kept them in his room, where he could read and reread them to himself. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kenzi's name, though only five letters, was longer than he was. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Shortly after his arrest police discovered a tin box, marked “Property of H. H. Holmes,” containing various documents and a dozen letters from the girls. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It was around noon when Cabot found Alma’s house, and only knew it to be so from her maiden name stuck to the mailbox in tiny black and gold letters. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

More recently, the extreme fundamentalist right has noted that each word in the name Ronald Wilson Reagan has six letters. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frackas, on the other hand, was in big letters and had its own category, since they donated the new chairs in the auditorium. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

So I point to good, then go to the alphabet strip and then jab at the letters E and R. Good-er. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The promises he got from various doctors and dignitaries, whether they were kept or not, were a testimony to his charm and persistence, and would be followed up with Farmer’s calls, letters, and emails. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

And then, when she had finished, she began her letters, five, six, seven perhaps to be answered, all written in that same curious, slanting hand I knew so well. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I rolled up my sleeve, baring the letters I had scratched into my forearm. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Dear Professor I dont know if youre getting these letters or if the radio station will forward this or is there even a radio station'? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They employed it to write syllables or letters constituting grammatical endings. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I ran my finger over his elongated letters in my name. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I walked past houses that had letters “G R,” George Rex, carved into the front door, property stolen in the name of the King. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, the letters are kind of big for cupcakes, so it can only be three-letter words. Spell whatever you want.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

He could have sent letters to the heads of the Jewish communities in those cities. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

One of our jobs of our second class of Navajo code talkers was to assign more Navajo words to the letters of the English alphabet that are used most often. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reader board out front, where the letters used to say “Ask About Our Early-Bird Specials,” now read “Welcome to Olympia Village.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“He's sent me eight or nine letters. Oh, and these.” I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“How could you possibly have missed any? Did you circle the wrong letters by accident?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Some letters—both his and hers—were confiscated for some timid expression of affection. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

As she did, the screen changed color, and some small letters and figures appeared on it. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The words in her books are so small, I have to squint to see the letters. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Money, though not as scarce as at Trotter’s, was hardly in the supply hinted at in the letters to W.E. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

I dutifully started pointing to the letters, but Bran brushed my pencil aside and pointed to the letters himself. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since we had received our admission letters, we had worried about being in the same class as those three. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the top of the page, in pale curly letters, were the words Abigail Ellis. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The following day, Mr. Lawson writes “Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol” in capital letters on the board, draws a box around it, then writes the dates of the author’s birth and death in parentheses. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Near the ring, someone had carved the word “Rats” in jagged letters. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

European newspapers, letters from earlier immigrants, and advertisements from steamship companies were filled with accounts of tables groaning with food in a country where everyone could get rich. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“Well, we talk about words, but it’s not the same as other teachers. Like we never use paper. Ever. He has me write letters in blue or pink sand. Or sometimes in shaving cream.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

You will see by his letters what pains he is taking to invite a reinforcement, at all events, there, and to transplant the war to the Southern Colonies. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

She seemed very ordinary, wearing black pants and a button-down white shirt with a logo on the breast—WICKED spelled in blue capital letters. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Prisoners who were leaving would smuggle out letters in their clothes or baggage. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched the hands move slowly past the letters, paged Sonny every few minutes, and waited for the phone to ring. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I write her a dozen letters that I rip up after finishing, and prepare a dozen post-balloons that I don't have the courage to send. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

They had no official uniforms, but wore helmets of various kinds from army surplus stores, motorcycle shops and hard-hat construction sites, each bearing a small silver decal with “Sheriff’s posse” spelled out in black letters. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

After one student hopelessly said, “Zlata survived her war, but I’m afraid I may not survive mine,” I was convinced that Zlata must read their letters. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Well, I wasn’t gonna stay no place where I couldn’t get nowhere or make something of myself, an’ where they stole your letters, I ast her if she stole it, too, an’ she says no. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was in such good spirits that he was even willing to respond to letters from Fabyan. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

People from the conlang community sent letters in their invented languages using beautiful calligraphy. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Her handwritten letters are freed from torn envelopes. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Although the letters of his name couldn’t be said without showing teeth, I got the feeling he didn’t mean to smile. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He sat all day in his marketplace stall hoping to make a few rupees by writing letters for those who did not know how to write their own. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I made so many mistakes that I was forced to melt down the error-filled slugs and retype them with excruciating slowness, digging my teeth into my inner cheek until the letters became Yiddish once more. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

In the letters I write to Dutchy I try not to dwell on my sickness, the constant queasy feeling that the doctor tells me means the baby is thriving inside me. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

While I attacked the blueberry sour strings, she ran her hand through my hair and demanded to know everything I hadn’t put in my letters. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“He even cuts out little letters and glues them to the paper.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

During the days that followed letters were written, affidavits were drawn up and sworn to, conferences were held, but nothing came of it all. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I sat in bed, trying to make my letters look decent, I heard John Worth go into the lean-to chatting up a storm. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Most letters he didn’t read at alL On those he didn’t read at all he wrote his own name. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Consequently his letters had a certain ambiguous dignity calculated to catch at the imagination of a very special sort of reader. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Annie pointed down to the base of one of the walls, and there, beneath a big red word that spelled out someday, in interlocking letters, was a painting of two overlapping black circles. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The book had a fine leather cover with its title in gold letters. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I told him about my letters to you every Christmas and Easter, and about how much it would have meant to us if he had gone to see you after I left. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first time he’d said her name since they admitted to reading my letters. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“We don’t know where Ralph is,” was Miss K’s comment, “and perhaps we should wait to write our letters until after the investigation. After all, there may be more mice in the school.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Her bubble letters were a lot better than mine. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Now I was on the brink of learning all of the letters and how to put them together to form words. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sefia turned to the crate and dug her fingernail into the letters, pulling up splinters and flicking them into the sea. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He kept writing her letters months after he stopped sending them. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

When I did write back, my letters were short. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

He read and reread her letters, three, four, five times. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He always wrote his letters at the store. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The letters weren’t reflective and the sign had been fastened to a wooden post. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

At the bottom of the last page he saw pencilled in a faint set of letters and figures. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Swiftly, they worked out that the letters were written in two different book ciphers. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Brianna is the best at bubble letters, so she writes, “We support the troops,” and Kelly J. helps her color the American flag with hearts where the stars should go. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

On the way to the train station Claudia mailed two letters. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know how you cross out the incorrect letter and write the correct one above it? Have those corrected letters ever spelled out words?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Fine,” I said, but the word came out tight, like the letters had been squeezed together. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

When her mother carried the steaming cup upstairs, Abra opened the incinerator end of the gas stove, put in the letters, and lighted them. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I said they were business letters, Life. Business letters.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, I stack the Miss Myrna letters in a neat pile. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“It’s algebra. The letters stand in for numbers.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

My mother also had the letters that she wrote back to him, telling him how much she loved him and how she hoped that they would be together soon. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Michael wrote down three letters on a small scrap of paper. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the years that I stayed in the Norfolk Prison Colony, never did any official directly say anything to me about those letters, although, of course, they all passed through the prison censorship. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some would-be adviser puts a logo on some fancy stationery and sends out 32,000 letters to potential investors in a stock index. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can hardly count the letters I’ve received saying that my journey through Central High School inspired the letter writers to stand up for their rights. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In 1623, when the First Folio was printed, every page had to be set up for the press by hand, using tiny metal letters called movable type. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Liyana begged Poppy to pass by their new post office box often to see if she had received any letters from home. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Miss K promised personally to deliver the letters to the paper during lunch period. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

My letters to the authors, inquiring the source of their information, like the letter to the hospital from which Gey’s paper emanated, remain unanswered. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

His letters to the War Department, printed simultaneously in the newspapers, began to have a sharp effect in decisions on the army. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She picked a magnifying glass from the floor and studied the letters. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

So we added seventeen more Navajo words for A, E, I, O, U, D, H, L, N, R, S, and T. The most commonly used of those letters got more than one new word. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I also decided to finally ask her how she decorated her letters. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Above the door, the outline of the faded letters spelling Seed Vault have been removed. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Now that Jenny was with him, Shad’s letters were addressed to Jethro. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fernanda did not understand why she would write occasional letters to Meme and even send her gifts and on the other hand did not even want to hear about José Arcadio. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Matt spent the morning copying letters and coloring in pictures. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the fall of 1927 Marian Anderson sailed for England, armed with letters of introduction and with $1,500 in savings, enough to last for several months. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

There are a few lines of writing in block letters right below the doodle of the apartment building that I noticed the other day. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Her eyes went from the copy to the chart as her fingers groped for the letters. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are books and articles. I could have Tono at the museum show you the letters and diaries.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You probably memorized the colored letters when you were a baby,” she says. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

It was stained with red paint and contained a single word printed in enormous letters: Djakarta. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The students gave me a standing ovation, All day long I met with small groups, and later I received letters, and what I heard over and over was this: “You told us the truth.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mother offered one piece to the grouchy woman in exchange for mailing letters and picking up sundries and news when she went to the village. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He did not like anyone to breathe too close to him, shake his hand, ask him personal questions, ask to borrow books, or write him letters. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

April Fool’s Day is when most seniors get their acceptance or rejection letters from college. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Tacked on his door was a wooden plaque, neatly painted in red block letters. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

One of the letters was addressed to Dr. Samuel A. Mudd. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both messages will have the same number of letters, but the second one will be unreadable. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Do you see those names?'' he asked, pointing up at the chiseled letters listing people no longer alive. “There's a family behind every name—a mother or father, brothers and sisters, perhaps a wife. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

When I find them, I rub my hand over the letters. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

His long strip of letters was the only submission for the week. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Send back emails that are badly punctuated; return letters; picket Harrods. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

He did not see ideas, but shapes that became letters that he sounded out into words he then had to look up. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

In letters, Gey and some of his colleagues began referring to the cells as his “precious babies.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

While I was working on my letters, my cell started buzzing like crazy. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rows of letters on the computer keyboard had looked like a toy to him, and he’d reached one finger up and tapped the space bar, over and over again. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Quisling accepted the bouquet of strips, extending one to look at the letters written on it. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

At first, the letters Marco receives from Isobel arrive frequently, but as the circus travels to far-flung cities and countries, weeks and sometimes months stretch wordlessly between each missive. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

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

The letters are tall enough to be read from some ways off, though people still walk right up to it to read it. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She said nobody acknowledged the letters but still it was important to her that she do something. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t know the money for my fare is growing in the post office and she’d die if she knew what I was earning from writing threatening letters. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Earlier, I had just written letters in the sand. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zero walked around to the back of the boat and pointed to the upside-down letters. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The Lady Walda wrote from the Twins almost every day, but all the letters were the same. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Le Cirque des Rêves is printed in shimmering silver letters on the black side. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I always get headaches from looking at the brightness of dark letters on white pages for too long. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

You can even make a multiplication square or a square with letters. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aurora knew the letter A before she even turned two, thanks to Easy Cheese letters. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The next napkin is written in a spiral, in tiny letters. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Man alive! How many letters do you need? It’s right under your nose!” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

It was mixed with the vegetables and the noodles like letters. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She has saved her dead parents’ letters on the top shelf of her closet, in a large white purse she used to carry in the seventies until the strap broke. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And then, as it bubbled through the nib, it came a little thick, so that the name Rebecca stood out black and strong, the tall and sloping R dwarfing the other letters. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Gogol picks up a pencil, grips it tightly, and forms the letters of the only word he has learned thus far to write from memory, getting the “L” backward due to nerves. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Quisling accepted the bouquet of strips, extending one to look at the letters written on it. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

To everyone’s surprise, the workers, half of whom were women, fired back their own letters to the editor, stressing the class division between them and those blacks who criticized the union movement. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Quite often, even in bad spells, Hangman'll let me say whatever I want, even words beginning with dangerous letters. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Because making dots and dashes with rocks is a lot easier than making letters. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d started to receive fan letters and requests for photos, autographs, even some selected game scores to autograph and inscribe—not just from the United States but from different corners of the globe. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Anya would suggest they send more letters tonight so she could ask how far away Papa was. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Carefully, she cut out letters spelling the Beiderman’s name from the green felt; then she threaded her needle and sewed the letters onto the rectangular red piece. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

A total of 241 signs or letters was neatly divided by etched vertical lines into groups of several signs, possibly constituting words. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He intended, he said, to devote the rest of his life to learning the remaining twenty-two letters of the alphabet. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Then he said, “Listen. I want you to take something in your rucksack for me, in case we can’t come back here. It’s only letters. You can read them if you want.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wrote brief, untroubled letters to her once a week, sometimes twice. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“You can buy her off to mail your letters.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Put your letters on the counter. We’ll ask Daddy to mail them tomorrow.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the sitting room she shook Aron’s letters out of Volume II of the Memoirs, folded them tightly, and, raising her skirt, tucked them under the elastic which held up her panties. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’m staring at letters and photographs from a woman who potentially could have answered that question. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Far more annoying were the letters from parents of missing daughters and the private detectives who had begun showing up at his door. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

A small man, with his arms full of letters and messages, pushed through the crowd and offered them to Milo. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Reading over his books and letters made her feel closer to him. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When you work for and by yourself on commission and the government is sending you registered letters, you need to get creative about your income stream.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is my maa and baap and my brothers and our cow, which we had to sell so I could marry you. This is our marketplace, where my baap has a stall to write letters.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Because these names were long, and because they used uncommon letters and combinations like F and MB, they stood out. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Or are you suggesting you’d rather exchange passionate letters by candlelight? Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He answered the letters they sent to him with his messenger hawk, Germogen. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I was fascinated by the black letters that formed on the paper and made my name. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first one said “What We Want” in green letters. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harris and Watkins wrote letters to editors complaining they’d been quoted out of context, their story sensationalized to “distort, misrepresent and terrify.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I unzipped my backpack and dug around for the card that said THE DEFENDERS, COACH, in black block letters. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Terman wrote his recruits letters of recommendation for jobs and graduate school applications. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He knows important people have written letters on his behalf, people like his attorney and his senior district Hitler Youth leader and even Hugo, asking for clemency. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Some inherited letters or signs may simply be dropped, when the sounds that those letters represent in the lending language do not exist in the borrowing language. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

We spent a lot of time trying to get letters to Sam. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

While abroad, Malcolm X wrote letters and postcards to almost everyone he knew well. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she explained to Wallace, the letters were written in what was called “open code.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In 1896, an indentured worker in British Guiana who called himself Bechu began publishing a series of letters to the local newspaper, revealing the conditions on the sugar plantations—or “estates,” as they were called. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Our identity had been reduced to three letters: I DP. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I know that someday I’ll be a rich Yank and send home hundreds of dollars and my family will never have to worry about threatening letters again. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The nuns would praise student papers for being neat—the handwritten letters easy for others to read; they promised that my writing style would improve as I read more and more. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah—Thank You for Coming. Written over and over, in a spiral. And the letters are green and red?” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, and although he himself did not seem to notice it, those letters of recuperation and stimulation were slowly changing into pastoral letters of disenchantment. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

On it was my name written in large black letters. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Now it’s a cosmetic fairground: silver trim, gold pillars, marquee lights, brand-name letters the size of a human head. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

All the letters contained brochures about the school, an application form and a personal letter from the tennis coach. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered how much longer Emma had continued writing to my grandfather without receiving a reply, and what he’d done with her letters. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Tucking my legs up, I balance my note- book on my knees and write, in slow, careful letters. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Kainene received the three letters Olanna had written since the war started, she had said nothing except that she received them. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mollie refused to learn any but the six letters which spelt her own name. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Soon hundreds of letters, telegrams, and cards poured in. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He piled research material, hate pamphlets, news clippings, letters and other items on my bed for me to study at night. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cinder's girlfriend—a gray-haired, lipsticked, cigarette-smoking mail woman named Miss Fran—would always come by his store to deliver letters and bills, always catching him in the middle of his jokester routines. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

As one source of the signs themselves, Sequoyah practiced copying the letters from an English spelling book given to him by a schoolteacher. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Sis is three letters; sushi is five,” she said. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

She reached into the bag and pulled out three yellow T-shirts with sparkling black letters spelling out BRAINIACS. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

We have enough documents, letters and memoirs to prove that World War Two was not caused by food shortages or demographic pressures. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in the snail-mail era, people usually only wrote letters when they had something important to relate. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing those letters, that big, fat money prize, I felt like I’d been falling into some deep, hopeless black hole, and the universe looked at me and said, Not yet, Natalie. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They came after much planning, many letters written to and from, to make sure and know how and how much and where. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wrote “piano savings” in big letters on the outside of it. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He took up the letters on the table and stamped them carefully, and then turning to me, said:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Well, I think that’s what happened to Melody. She said to herself, ‘If I have to go over those letters one more time, I'll just scream.’ Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

They write well enough to communicate ‘news’ to relatives in letters. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could just make out the name along the prow in moss- covered letters: CSS Birmingham. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Looking down each column, you will see letters that come from the same cipher alphabet. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Her letters were all sent to the same address in Indianola, Washington. The postcards, too.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s — oh how ridiculous —” She thrust the letter at Harry, who saw that it was not handwritten, but composed from pasted letters that seemed to have been cut out of the Daily Prophet. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It had been some time since I wrote out letters. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the first letters of congratulations came from Lawrence. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The postmaster angrily shuffled through the letters from the T box Trask.” and tossed out a long envelope. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the afternoon we worked at the dining table typing letters and stuffing them into envelopes. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

She rarely responded directly but sent hugs and kisses in Mami’s letters. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The major argument running through the letters throughout 1813–1814 concerned their different definitions of social equality and the role of elites in leading and governing the American republic. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Would they pin scarlet letters on his chest? Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I protested that I could not pay for the clothes, but Lady Seymour simply pointed to the portrait of the yellow-haired man, her husband, on the mantel and his letters stacked next to it. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was unaware of the fact that Brown and his assistants kept referring to her in the letters that they sent to the Boston Abolitionists who were helping to finance his project. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes see letters dancing backward across whatever page they're printed on. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her father reports that no letters have been delivered or collected in three days. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In 1942, in the middle of World War II, some strange letters came to the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Instead of using pictures to represent numbers as the Egyptians did, the Greeks used letters. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I get a lot of letters from kids—any age from about five years old and up—telling me they want to work with animals when they grow up. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“And what did he say? Who has his letters?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Garner helped in her own way, teaching her slaves their letters so they could receive the word of God with their own eyes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She wrote her name on the board in big block letters. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

McDermott Elementary School, printed in the upper left corner in fat red letters. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Nixon wrote personal letters to the parents of the four dead protestors. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

At the top, as high as Gandalf could reach, was an arch of interlacing letters in an Elvish character. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Imagine the letters from our own mother— Coming to get you soon— are ones we're writing to them. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The letters are big and puffy and white, and they remind me of squished marshmallows. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

And glad of it Dear God, Now that I know Albert hiding Nettie’s letters, I know exactly where they is. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he communicated his true feelings to his closest colleagues through a series of confessional letters. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I know from memory the colors of the individual letters in his name, but I can’t visualize them together to know what the word would really look like. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

As the distance opened up between them, they understood how far they had run ahead of themselves in their letters. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

There was printing on them, in red letters. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother has been tearing up the letters from the youngest grandson of her father’s third wife. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I glance over to the cartoon drawing of us, the red bubble letters jumping out at me. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

When we returned home, I gave them each two pieces of candy and I began my letters. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

For quite a while, Francie had been spelling out letters, sounding them and then putting the sounds together to mean a word. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Actually, most alphabets consist of only about 20 or 30 letters, and most languages have more phonemes than their alphabets have letters. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

With each of his letters I fell more in love with him. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

She stared at the lovely letters she had made for a moment before slapping down her open palm in the middle of them and rubbing them all away. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

On the back of the jackets were stamped the letters FBI. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s the truth. Your love letters could get them killed. And what of the war?” asked the bald man. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The letters we exchange are filled with hope and longing and a vague sense of the importance of the mission of the American troops. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Later, her letters alarmed him so much that he cabled her to say she should leave Riverbank right away. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I received letters from women I'd never met thanking me for helping her. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Our aunt and our great-grandma should be rocking on this porch together. Not sending poison pen letters back and forth through you.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Then the letters at pop up in the lower right-hand corner and Crummy sounds the letters out — “at. ” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was written in large letters on the big wooden sign in front of the mission school. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then we opened up Jane Eyre and picked out words that pretty much looked impossible but we figured them out because of what we were learning about letters and their sounds working together. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Not only does he write letters to his Charlotte, he’s also carrying on a chatty correspondence with various other people. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

There are even a few in cheerleaders’ outfits, little pleated skirts, outsized letters across the chest. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had no chance to arrange the letters in any order except the way we had learned them in kindergarten—alphabetically. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our Miss Maestas came in and told us the war was over, and she was happy, but the little kids just went on writing the magic letters in their tablets. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Words had started swimming off the page, circling my head, the letters doing one-eighties as if they were riding skateboards. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He’s got a boatload of colleges writing him letters, asking him to consider their university. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

But her letters were the greatest deception of all. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was magic in the letters, and I had been eager to learn the secret. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Angelina wrote a series of letters about women’s role in society that were published in the Liberator, an abolitionist newspaper. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

With a slow smile he said, “If you don’t treat my letters like a lesson and send them back with red marks.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I reckon Yule May had to sew them letters. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I remembered Kat staring at me after I’d asked her about why letters in photos appear the right way round and not back to front. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Keep the theme of your letters within the scope of her understanding. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was thrilled at being able to recite arithmetic tables, and the letters of the alphabet forward and backward. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The suffragists received letters of complaint, as well as the occasional expression of gratitude, sometimes with a donation enclosed. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

In addition, the earliest forms of the Semitic letters appear in many cases to have been pictures of those same objects. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Minnie filled her letters with news of her fast-intensifying romance and expressed wonder that such a handsome man had chosen her to be his wife. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The letters were all the same he said, more or less. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What two letters!—express perfection! I am sure I do not know.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

It had the prison warden’s name—G. Patterson—on the door in black letters, and beside the door, a miniature traffic light. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he really was Washington Irving, and perhaps he really had been signing Washington Irving’s name to those letters he knew nothing about. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Carefully I tucked the letters and the check back in the lunch basket. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I quickly discovered that Ralph Waldo Emerson had indeed written lots of letters that had been published. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Finally, when I flip through her old planner for the second time, I find a folded receipt with some numbers and letters circled. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Neither of them will ever see my letters, probably, but it’s the writing I need, the pouring out. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d been raised on letters, sustenance arriving in the form of wispy airmail envelopes from his mom in Indonesia. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A little ways down the line, other guys run a roller over the raised part, the letters and numbers, turning them white. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don't want to forget any letters, so I scrape them into the dirt with a rod. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look for the perfect spot on the underside of the chest and I carve in big letters on his chest just like Devon did for me: SCOUT. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks to the Sons’ propaganda network, the content of the letters was revealed in newspapers throughout the Colonies. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stare at the Arabic letters on the page, imagining them as musical notes in my piano book. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

An apostrophe can show where letters have been dropped in a shortened word or phrase. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had all written letters that Mother planned to mail to her “contact,” a distant relative who lived in the countryside. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Under the windows was a huge oaken table where the lord wrote his letters. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I started again marking off the letters one at a time. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

How are other people able to read letters that move? Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Prisons were usually named after places; their buildings, after letters of the alphabet. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The White House received thousands of letters and telegrams from every part of the nation. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

No, letters of that type would be a waste of time. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I have no photographs or letters or even books from that former life, only the Irish cross from my gram. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

My chest feels clogged as I watch them unfold her letters, skim their fingers down the pages of loopy cursive. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Staring at those letters, I thought I could forgive my father. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He took a slurp of his coffee from a white mug that said in black letters, Virginia is for lovers, hearts replacing all the Vs. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Maybe I needed to tell him the things I couldn’t tell you, give him all the letters that were supposed to be for your eyes. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the letters are blurred in juice and ink mixed from the spill. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It was bad when the letters came every day. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

One of the letters of introduction she had brought from New York was addressed to him. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had a crew they called the Heartbreak Kidz, not a gang but a play gang, a set of initials to write down in jagged letters: HBK. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I think of all my letters, all those memories and clever anecdotes, gone into the ether. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The letters were as clumsy as though written with a left hand. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lady Isobel folded the letters and put them in the desk drawer. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Friends who had previously expressed no interest in torture began sending letters composed to resemble Chinese take-out menus and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I run the letters through my mind several more times, to make sure my assumption is correct. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

It took him a while to carve all the letters in the wood and the day it was finished he showed it to me. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

After she traveled to New York to get additional case details, she was able to say still more about the letters. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He was shorter than Minnie’s letters had led Anna to expect, and not as handsome, but there was something about him that even Minnie’s glowing letters had not captured. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

While they’d been able to connect Dickinson to the letters, they weren’t sure how to interpret them. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The cracks got so large that one of the letters outside fell off and could not be put back up. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a time she carried these letters in her book bag, to her classes, thickening her agenda. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

During the five weeks after the broadcast, the FCC received more than six hundred letters, postcards, and telegrams. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I have to admit, I didn’t think I would ever see this day. I was sure the letters had been lost, or the city had decided to treat them like a hoax.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

That last one nets me a bonus for using all seven letters. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

A one-woman publicity machine, she sent out indignant press releases, as well as letters to the government demanding a public accounting. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It had a super trendy exterior, she noted in surprise, the shiny silver letters glinting in the fading sunlight. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She paused, her gaze straying to the four sealed letters she’d already prepared: one for each of the Masters, to inform them of the events of the previous night, and of her failure. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The letters I and N were clumsily traced on it, and it looked as if the hand that set them down had found the task very difficult. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She painted them very plain, with great big block letters and a picture of a clock. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

‘We have to find out what words have those letters in the middle.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I have written you these letters instead. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“No, this is serious. We don’t read each other’s letters!” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I want you to know that I never received any of your letters, but of course I forgive you for everything. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The letters were waiting when I returned, seven of them, addressed to men with impressive names. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try to rob the words of their weight by concentrating on the letters. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Blessed Love! Am I wicked to be glad you are missing me? But if I hadn’t come away, I couldn’t have known you’d write me such darling letters, could I?” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I shook myself and untied the packet holding two letters and the Wolf Point Herald. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

What they have in common are the trinkets from their homelands swaying from the rearview mirror, the strings of beads, shells, the brass letters, the blurry snapshots of their small children, the night-worn eyes. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I had to live out the rest of my years sending letters to a Mexican prison, I could handle it. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

So eight years later, I left again, but this time while I was away, I wrote Ynez letters. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Each of these letters had a tiny, nearly invisible “notch” cut into its outline. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

We can be reasonably sure that Abigail was speaking for her husband as well as herself in this brief volley of letters. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

They rushed to him, caressed him, and quickly ended their letters. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought of several justifications for his letters, for he always felt a great need to write to his friend when he was bewildered or sad. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Oh just some business letters,” Mr. Heron said casually. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jutta sends letters that the school censor blacks out almost completely. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z