He spends his first months learning all about English art. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It's hard to tell one month from another that time of year. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some months earlier, I had begun a halting study of the French language. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He was transferred to the Medical Clinic, where, after an illness of two and one half months, he died. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

There was a big boy Dicey knew in Provincetown who ran away from home and he just kept on coming to school and nobody knew, not for months. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not talking for a couple months doesn’t make that go away. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

That vendor probably didn’t know what day it was or what month or even what year. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Approximately once a month there are not-quite regularly scheduled Midnight Dinners that are most often referred to by the guests as Circus Dinners. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Do say yes. It would be the only good thing that’s happened to me in months!” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

When she was six months old, Mädchen was hit by a car and killed. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He shut his left eye and pretended to look through the viewfinder of his father’s old camera, which Habib had given to Fadi for his eleventh birthday, a few months before. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“Not once in a blue moon, or a month of Sundays.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The next week, “In three months and three weeks, you’ll be in New York.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Others in the building say she had rented space for one month. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

What I do remember is that I noticed Tommy was wearing the light blue polo shirt he’d got in the Sales the previous month—the one he was so proud of. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I haven’t heard from her for a while, so she must have at least a fortnight to a month’s worth of abuse to level at me. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

These occasional meetings went on for a month or so. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t stink. You said you weren’t going to take a bath for a month.” Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within six months, Anorak’s Quest became a national bestseller. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

While we idled the months away, exerting our efforts to watch over a city of embers and stones, Boston is fallen to the rebels. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“No warning, just suddenly gone. Sometimes for a span. Sometimes for months.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Papers are scattered everywhere; my books and pencils have been emptied out of my schoolbag; even the diary I stashed away months ago on a shelf in the closet has been hurled near the door. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

A shudder racked my body, and I tried to think about my new life in New York City, where I had been for over a month. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Will’s dad had sometimes been home for only five or six nights a month anyway. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

More and more stories of Shiloh came through to the county as Illinois boys who had been wounded in the battle began pouring into Cairo, Illinois, during the months of May and June. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cannot convince you to not feel guilty if you forget the anniversary of my death, or if you realize days or weeks or months have gone by without thinking about me. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Nonetheless, the local Indians, numerous and well armed, killed eleven colonists and drove the rest back home within months. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She and Dorothea hastily preserved caterpillars and reptiles in brandy and packed up live cocoons and lizard eggs in the hope these might hatch during the months at sea. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In a small inscription preserved from the final months of Cleopatra’s life, her subjects humbly, proudly, and affectionately called her the mother of kings, queen of kings, and kind young goddess. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Dad’s business trips to Europe sometimes kept him away from home for months, but then he was on the go and in a different environment. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the candlelight was gone, and the village of Wall was six months' hard travel from here. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then she put the forms and the photocopy in a manila envelope addressed to the agency and mailed them off, fully expecting to hear nothing for weeks or months, or possibly ever. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

"Did you hear your Auntie Tara's new film opens next month, Shanti?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Nine months later she bore him a son. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had now been with him every moment of the day and night for two months, but I had not seen him. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

One month later, it wouldn’t be the Tkatchev that would put me out of contention for the USA women’s junior team by just one spot—it would be that dang Amanar. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Red Cross parcels come on the last Friday of the month, and there’ll be a meeting of the escape committee at nineteen hundred hours this evening. I think that’s about all you need to know.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Those ugly memories wove through his thoughts during the first months like bad threads through a carpet. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Maybe in a few months, after things settle down a bit? Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was several months before I found out that Sarah Collins, Addie’s sister, had also been in that restroom. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The sting of it would stay with me for months, even as plenty of my colleagues at Sidley confessed that they, too, hadn’t passed the bar exam the first time. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The travel agency is why he hasn’t come with me on this trip: the months before Christmas are a hectic time in the travel business. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

This has to stop for I have to go back to the office and report to Sir Vincent Nash that the McCourts are a month behind. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

And it's only been four months since then, which is not long to wait for someday. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Maya had eaten a lot of lunches alone those first few months. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Dobby has known it for months, sir. Harry Potter must not put himself in peril. He is too important, sir!” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

A month later, Congress had another chance to take up the bill. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Sadly, two months after the Lincoln assassination, Seward’s wife died. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It became clear as November went by that the United Nations vote on the Partition Plan would take place sometime at the end of the month. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Among my explorations during these months, there was one more, final venture into Catholicism. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

For certain diseases, like malaria or hookworm, new cases appear any month of any year in an affected area. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Selma’s black teenagers had been marching, protesting and submitting to arrests for months. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I baked the cinnamon apple pie that June and I made last month. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Naw, I’m going to stay here and torment my sister. I just have a couple of more months to do that.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Granny Tipper died of heart failure eight months before summer fifteen on Beechwood. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

It was the move back to New York, nine years later, three months after my mother died, that threw me, and threw me terribly. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

One day, when she was eleven months old, just before she began to walk, a woman stole her out of a supermarket cart. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

X-Ray would be out to get him for the next sixteen months. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Six months behind the Soviet Union, the United States had also entered World War II. The two huge nations, so different from each other, were allied against Germany. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It came with the discharge papers when I moved in six months ago. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Even though we'd known each other only a couple of months, even though it was kind of impractical, we were in love. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

What occurs under the public gaze with so much pomp and ceremony is often the conclusion, or mere ratification, of what has taken place over weeks or months within the walls of such houses. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Each month I watch for blood, fearfully, for when it comes it means failure. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of people are going to see this at the end of the month. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Why not center them on holidays, like birthdays, Easter, Christmas, even . . . Mother’s Day. There’s probably something every month.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

But the effect of the last couple of months hangs over the building like a bad smell. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Once moved in, it seemed he didn’t go outside for months. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who knew what opportunities might present themselves in the next two months? The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He took The Heart of the Matter down and began to read the first chapter, suddenly nostalgic for his teenage years when his mother would reread it every few months. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Some day this oil will go and there will be no more fat checks every few months from the Great White Father,” a chief of the Osage said in 1928. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It had lasted just six months, yet during that time its gatekeepers recorded 27.5 million visits, this when the country’s total population was 65 million. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“I did. But they told me the school quit buying their gas three months ago. Said the school probably switched to bleed-off gas.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

For two months, merchants from cold northern Europe came to trade with businessmen from warm Italy. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“The notes say a Nightbeast emerges exactly six months from the beginning of its hibernation period, and it prefers to do so on the waning moon,” said Valley. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

In the same poem, she told him that she was “wishing and waiting and counting the months till you come back to me.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

His mother hoarded the little he earned, and after several months, she was able to rent a room for the three of them. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the month I spent my lunch hours working on English with Mr. Lema, my best friend at school. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

August was in the dry season of Bas-Congo, and normally we’d go months without a drop, but it was like the weather had decided to join in the political upheaval. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The other seniors were surprised when we started dating a couple of months ago. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A few short months ago, I’d seen it as a magic carpet, carrying me to my dreams. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Six months' worth of tears begin to pour out, and I slide into a pew to weep. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I told you you’d get tired waiting. It’ll be five months more before you can even see a sign, and it’ll be at least eight months more before she throws the colt, about next January.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

After five months had gone by, the Canadians said: “It is utterly impossible to agree to a stipulation for the surrender of fugitive slaves.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d seen it in his cigar box just a few months ago. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Throughout the entire month of that battle—from the middle of December to the middle of January—I did not see Danny once. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

"Your leg's broken in two places. You'll be stuck in a cast for months." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

None were more than eighteen months apart in age, all blond and freckled and sunburned, and who could tell one from the other? Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t earn enough working in Kilvin’s shop to pay back Devi at the end of the month, let alone make enough for tuition too. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The following month, as Lavoisier and his wife were making tardy plans to slip away to Scotland, Lavoisier was arrested. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

There are only four of us, but using this ancient means of transport, months of trash leaves the building. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I flash back to fourth grade, when I changed schools five times in less than four months ’cause we kept moving while Mom and Sam looked for work. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Within six months he has the keys to the Ratliffs’ house, a set of which Maxine presents to him on a silver Tiffany chain. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They don’t look at all like the pictures of them I’ve carried around in my head for the past four months, shifting pictures in which only a few features stand out. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He is forty, and has already lain ten months in the hospital with a severe abdominal wound. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Over the last two months the roads had become so bad that people had stopped complaining. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Those early months at the Cottages had been a strange time in our friendship. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The commission sentenced Alfons to restriction to his town limits for a period of two years, six months’ expulsion from college, and one month of hard labor. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She'd been living in the cabin about three months when she was awakened one morning by someone kicking open the cabin door. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Today the water looks considerably lower than it looks in the photographs McCandless took twelve months ago, but to try to ford the river here, in thundering midsummer flood, is nevertheless unthinkable. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

With two jobs, things were already tight at the end of each month. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the warm months, morning began with a quick wash in unheated well water. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My first encounter with Wayne, who plays the role of the coach in Good Boys, takes place a month before rehearsals begin. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then the Old Lord answered without opening any wider the crack through which he pursed his lips, “Now curse him, that dog left me many months ago and he is not here.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The girl never did see the ghost but she was fond of Henri and it was five months before the cramped cabin and the lack of a toilet drove her out. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went to all of them, even as a freshman—even junior prom, when she was four and a half months pregnant. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

More players were born in January than in any other month, and by an overwhelming margin. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He wrote fewer than a hundred words over the month that followed. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew he could get lost within his thoughts too easily, and he wondered if he should talk to his therapist about it next month. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I was surprised when he showed up again the next week because he usually came only every few months. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Not the next day or the next month or the next year. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

His heart relented, weakened by months of dissipation. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

His gorgeous pink rag of a suit made a bright spot of color against the white steps and I thought of the night when I first came to his ancestral home three months before. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“How did they know it was her, after two months, how could they tell?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “A shackle on the wrist the first day is an outrage; after weeks or months, it belongs to one, and one would feel nakedness without it.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

About a month later, my mom found out anyway. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

That first week we began the work that would occupy us for the next few months. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though I had not seen him for months, it was only then that I felt Mr. Pirzada’s absence. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

And so the months passed in this empty, dreaming way. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

All this takes a long time, and it was nine months before I was finished with the T-6 and ready to try jets. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything has gone without a scrape for months, and I’m sure something will happen now. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day, months into his job, after they delivered a new fridge to an address in Kensington, Nigel said, about the elderly man who had come into the kitchen, “He’s a real gent, he is.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“His wife died a month ago, and his business has been a wreck since. Now that he’s visiting you, can we expect a turnaround?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Southside died a month later after having suffered with advanced lung cancer, his long-held view that doctors were untrustworthy having kept him from any sort of timely intervention. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It may take her a month to get back to her family in Bulungu. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a baby finishes his 12th month, we all say that the child is one year old; he has finished his first 12 months of life. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I didn't even meet Needles until about three months after I met Noodles, which I thought was weird. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

It has been five months and twenty-one days now. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

We took turns, splitting into groups, Hunting and Homestead, switching off every three months. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“Mark my words: This war won’t last more than six months.” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I just started this month. This girl in my gym class, Ruby, she said—well—it’s stupid—but she said I should come talk to you.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Next month it’s our turn to hand over our radio to the authorities. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

But I would come again, in just a few months, under my own power. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Even so, they’d all been a little sick those first few months. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It moved me to see him so nakedly affected by his long months of suffering. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thirty months ago you put your arms around me and wished me well, told me to come back and work whenever I wanted to. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

In the summer of 1988, about six months before the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan, I finished my first novel, a father-son story set in Kabul, written mostly with the typewriter the general had given me. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It had been a month since we had spent a whole afternoon together. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We think Silverweed is one of the best poets we’ve had for many months,” said Cowslip. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cas looked out the window as her mother pulled into the student parking lot that had looked so far away from the second-story classroom window more than a month ago. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Nine months later, back home, I took the Foreign Service exam and, a year after that, started working for the State Department. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"Don't you think we should go . . . ?" "Isn't it, though? She was in a state for months . . ." her expression flickered, became indeterminate. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In eighteen months, Diaz has had to bury eight of them, nearly all mutilated by the trains. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“No, indeed! He’s amazing! No reason at all to keep him here another month.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been working on this one for a couple months now. I thought maybe you could add to it if you wanted.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

If there was anybody who didn’t know what month it was, the school windows would tell him. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

It’s very difficult to get goats like that, so people look for months to find them. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

She seven months pregnant and love eating chocolate. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Just for the month. Spending money is a full-time job.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

In photographs taken when he arrived a month earlier, he had looked merely sick. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The first time I met Holly’s mom, I was seven years old, and Holly and I had only known each other for a few months. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Clearly, the proprietor of the Secret Garden has not read or watched the news in the last nine months. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Then they had enhanced the beds and made them deep and soft with more boughs, there was enough firewood for a month, and they had made birch-bark containers to hold extra hazelnuts and berries. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Provided his code of honor hadn’t changed in the last ten months, blackmailing, corporate sabotage, and racketeering would still be fair game. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Fifty pesos due at the middle and end of the month until I’m back.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the months before the riot the bells rang often at our mess hall, sending out the calls for public meetings. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Programs scheduled to culminate in two years became outmoded in six months, and crowds of men gathered for them in one place were dispersed to twenty others. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Board of Education decision by enrolling at an all-white high school in Arkansas, enduring many months of cruelty and abuse in the name of a higher principle. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The breakup had happened months ago, but I didn’t blame Margo for failing to pay attention to the world of lower-caste romance. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Since she got that cold last month she just can’t seem to get right. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

They returned from their honeymoon three months later. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond the gate, oversized silver mailboxes, spacious enough to hold a month’s worth of mail, stand in a row. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“That seems to be the question of the month. Maybe it’s what’s going on with you.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I’ve been begging him to let me, since I’m turning twelve in five months, but he hears too many stories about air-bag disasters from the trauma team he works with at the hospital. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

It ain’t no fun waiting once a month for that little check that the government gives you, and then you try to get a job and you can’t. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though the Wave came out only once a month, I worked on it every day. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“He put me to sleep for two months!” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I would hear inmates utter these exact words several times more in the upcoming months at Sing Sing, a threat disguised as advice. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father liked to drink, and he liked women, so the story goes that his every-month visit home became every six months. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

How sad would it be to finally exist if I was just gonna die a few short months later? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He follows Buttercup day to day, month to month, as she learns all the ways of curtsying and tea pouring and how to address visiting nabobs and like that. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He kept me one full month to hear the tale of Troy, the ships and the return of the Akhaians, all which I told him point by point in order. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would, however, complicate her marriage with Howard, in which time spent apart was already measured in weeks or months rather than days. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yeah. My prep team was all upset a few months ago, I think, because they couldn’t get hold of that,” I say casually. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. At the end of the month. I’ve found a better paradise.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And just like every other morning over the past month, Sir Fig Newton inhaled the entire bowl in thirty seconds flat, then followed with a frozen pause and a low rumbling, “Urp.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Maybe I’d better check on you first. Are you the Brian Robeson who survived alone in the Canadian woods for two months?” The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Rent a safety deposit box,” he said, “then deposit in it one whole fresh salmon and go away for six months.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Mum had to go back to England after four months to manage things at home, the Africans wanted, in turn, to help me. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Otherwise you are alone, hidden away in your concrete box, week after week, month after month. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A month after joining the United States Navy, Milton found himself stationed at Coronado naval base in San Diego. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But over the month of practice, my time was maybe a half second faster than his. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

After six months, he drops out of school. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

How many kids missed their older brothers or sisters for months at a time? Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He said he’d bill me at the end of the month. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Then she whispered, “The trader’s back in Cambridge again. He’s got the big front room at the tavern. Less than two months and he’s back again. He didn’t used to come so often.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was three or four months after they were married. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

When she went to the doctor for an appointment, a month earlier, the doctor told her that she had a serious illness and that she had about three months to live, if not less. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“James says most people only get letters from home about once a month.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

My grass be kind a spotty and I still got a big yellow mark where Treelore’s pickup sat for three months after the accident. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Bobby’s first apartment, a furnished sublet he rented for six months, had been ideal: It was downtown, had a bit of a view and a terrace, and he could walk quickly to stores and restaurants. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

After many months they agreed to a dowry. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Six months ago, in September, Shukumar was at an academic conference in Baltimore when Shoba went into labor, three weeks before her due date. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

And in his final months, they came back to him, hundreds of them, from Boston, New York, California, London, and Switzerland; from corporate offices and inner city school programs. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was well known that the list hadn’t changed in over a month. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere during the ruckus of the last few months, he’d found a muddy pair of women’s pants and spread them out to lie on, like a beach blanket. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I haven’t done homework in two months, it’s true, but I always do my reading for Ms. Smith. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Moving every six to nine months had made me an expert at doing new things. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I’m thirteen going on fourteen and it’s June, the last month of school forever. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

When I asked her to marry me we’d been together for only three months, the entire time she had been in the city since moving from El Paso. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ordinary Owsla—sentries—were not too hard to find, but officers were another matter and he had lost three in less than a month. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Encrypted with machines, these ciphers were so complex that it could take months or even years to figure out how a single type of machine worked. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Well, it’s just...it’s been a really eventful couple of months. Your mom, finding Grace and Joaquin. Maybe you want to wait until things settle down a bit before you go on another adventure.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She was one of a batch of probationers—there was a new intake every few months—and she had no identity beyond her badge. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He paid the super $50 a month for any changes and names. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And some small gnarled place inside me hated her for her weakness, for her neglect, for the months she had put us through. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Not one ship had come into Boston for five months except British ships. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean. You were lying to me. For months.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Everett spent months preparing—researching the battle in journalistic detail, which amid the fog of war was no mean task, then polishing and memorizing his speech. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Six months is a long time for a family to tolerate itself without any outside distractions. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly worried about losing his position at Los Alamos, he decided to tell Colonel Pash about the time, six months earlier, that his friend Haakon Chevalier had approached him about sharing information with the Soviets. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead it had stood for that month and a half as a vivid advertisement of the fair’s incomplete condition. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He lived on the sofa in the front room for two months. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In Maryland a month later, Booth again encountered Mudd at church. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moreover, less than three months after my arrival in Copenhagen I was asked to propose plans for the following year. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The official announcement—the fourth in less than two years—was considered true for almost six months because nothing further was heard of him. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

A few months of this and I’d forget how to use sarcasm. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

But after eighteen years of Gogol, two months of Nikhil feel scant, inconsequential. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Marina had seriously injured her legs during her wilderness adventure after the Rodina crashed, and it took her several months to recover. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

These heavy things she dragged by herself, even though I know for a fact that two months ago she couldn’t have moved them. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somebody had found a cache of coffee beans about two months earlier, and they had sent to Saigon for a coffee grinder. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Edson departed as well, worn out by the previous two months of providing care. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

My grandfather got a tumor that ate away his lungs, and my grandma followed him a few months later. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“In a few months your body will heal, but time won’t heal your mind as easily. Helping others can help heal your wounds of the spirit.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

My uncle claims I’ve grown up in the months since he has been gone. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Those jokes finally stopped four months later when one of those twenty-nine men suddenly reappeared at Fort Defiance. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then it dawned on him: the way he had felt back then, for a few days, was probably how Annabeth had felt for the six months he had been missing with amnesia. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The Japanese area became San Francisco’s Harlem in a matter of months. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now Mom got paid about seven hundred dollars a month, and the first time I saw her gray-green pay check, with its detachable stub and automated signatures, I thought our troubles were over. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It would be a few months before Farmer encountered Jon Carroll, the army captain, in the central plateau, and I got my first glimpse of the American doctor and his thoughts. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

They hoped to have it finalized in a month or two, Mrs. McCullough told Mrs. Richardson as she handed her a mimosa. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The fact that Cold Sassy put up with that for a month or more shows how much they respected my father. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The fingerprints on the ID tag are the same prints found just last month at a crime scene finked to Day, prints that don’t match any civilian the Republic has on record. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“We all bonded from this experience,” J. explained as the four of them shared a bag of cashews a few months later. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam had been planned for months. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The officers were pursuing a Decker who was signing up for Bangers, the challenge for online feeds that has had a heartbreaking amount of daily hits and downloads the past four months. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It took days or weeks, maybe even months, to get a reply. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got a few issues of the Chicago Defender every month or so from his cousin Lewis, who sometimes worked as a porter on trains from Chicago to Dallas and was something of a radical. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The suitcase had been sitting in Scoob’s closet for a month. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

I expected to hear that we were going to be out of school for a month or two, or maybe even six. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three months later, when Dad dropped me off in a lonely corner of Vancouver Island, I wasn’t so sure. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can tell by the way they present it that they’ve spent months, maybe years, working it out and are really proud of it. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Everything in the last three months since her release had been magical. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I was hanging in that block of ice suspended over the River Lethe for six months, and we didn’t even get any media attention.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

That was all that the town was to know about him for almost a month. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

After months of travel, Kelvin fears he has only one choice: to go back to Honduras, get his mother’s phone number, and attempt the journey all over again. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

After they were divorced, Rahel worked for a few months as a waitress in an Indian restaurant in New York. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The paleness crept up on her slowly. It took many months for it to cover her completely. At least, the parts other people could see.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He’d been out of the Academy only a few months, it turned out, but had already been assigned several times to the State Shop. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found them during his first six months at the White House, before June graduated and Nora transferred, when he was alone, with nothing better to do than these little investigative projects around the grounds. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

At the time, a transatlantic sailing voyage might take anywhere from one to two months. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Six months after Merriam was born a new crisis hit the family. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emily hadn’t said a word about the pictures since the afternoon Bridge had helped her take them almost a month before. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Only a few months earlier, that might not have been the case. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

She came once a week for the first month. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I thought for a moment that the tenor of her voice sounded like mine in those many months of our trouble, clipped, almost dead. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Accustomed as they were to months of careful courtship, they were not likely to be won over with a smile and a handshake, either. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I think you are bluffing—you have been prisoner for months and I myself killed you less than a day ago, so I doubt that you have much might left in your arm.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It happened no more than a handful of times each year, though more often in the summer months. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A month later we hooked up in Boston, at a fancy restaurant with cloth napkins and good wine, which Farmer seemed to thoroughly enjoy. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I have observed, Mrs. Elton, in the course of my life, that if things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

He assembled fifty buckets of human urine, which he kept for months in his cellar. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

They bought one ad, opposite the contents page of the New Yorker magazine, and in the space of a month sales doubled to 60,000. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And some of the university men, who were unused to such a hard life, were so demoralized by the events of the last months that they seemed ready to break down. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

One day when the guard told me that I’d been in for five months, I believed it, but I didn’t understand it. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Birds were zooming in and out of the hedges singing and squawking and probably wondering what we were doing here since the wild world had been mostly theirs for months now. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was so well that Elizebeth left him on his own for three months while she traveled in Europe. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

And so it was that in less than a month's time, I had a drum but no drumsticks. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“School has been in session for more than a month,” she says. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“But it’s the truth. Each week, each month there’s a crisis.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had been with our new family for two months when, one day, our adoption social worker called Mama with a problem. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

No more ragged blue jeans and hand-me-down flannel shirts for him—he had a whole suitcase in the trunk full of the same kind of fancy Baron clothes he’d laughed at all those months ago. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

It marked the beginning of the end and made everything else seem rapid, the months rushing past, time hurtling forward. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Several months ago he had argued before her court, bumbling to the point of incompetence. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared at the image a few more seconds, just long enough to curse myself for not making the connection on my own, months ago. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

A few months earlier, she had stumbled going up the stairs and almost fell on Paganini and squashed him, and Laney did not want that to happen again. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Then we would use the Agena’s fuel and rocket power to boost us into a higher orbit, where we would find the second Agena, which had been in orbit for four months. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She worked there for three months, hoeing, fishing, plowing, planting, and helping out at the stills. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

After months in the KGB prison, including seventy days in solitary confinement, Powers learned that the Soviet government intended to put him on trial for espionage. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The next time Maria visited—and she’d have to come to Steven and Emilia’s wedding in two months—Matt would hit her between the eyes with this evidence. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

After being an apprentice for nearly three months, Citra couldn’t deny that she wanted to be chosen by Scythe Faraday to receive the ring. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

It was to me a painful meeting, for it brought back all poor dear Lucy’s hopes of only a few months ago. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

What was left in the oilskin sack would be enough to buy Denna a half-harp, pay off my debt to Devi, and still have enough left over so that we could live comfortably for months. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In a matter of months, however, Albus’s own fame had begun to eclipse that of his father. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

If God made each minute last six months I'd be middle-aged by breakfast and dead by the time I got on the school bus. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

You may remember there was a bit of a brawl some months back, during the mud march? The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within a few months after joining the club, Bobby, together with Lombardy and Gore, dominated the weekly speed tournaments, which limited players to ten seconds a move. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

We figure we can get there in nine months. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The method of enumerating the months and the years has changed much more over the intervening centuries than have the astrological niceties. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For three months,” she said, scribbling on the notepad, “with the insulin shots, weekly blood-sugar testing, and prescription food, plus the four hundred forty dollars already sitting on the credit card from his initial tests...” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“I have been for the last couple months or so—last guys got transferred, I moved up.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

A few months ago the Russians stormed the village and reportedly committed vicious acts of brutality. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He had tuberculosis of the lungs, and he measured his temperature four times a day and had an X-ray once a month. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

For now, most of the leaves are still green, but in a couple of months, they’ll be amber and orange and gold. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I think about how easy I thought it would be, three months ago, to get a dozen maids to talk to me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Her hair, short and blond at the beach just months ago, was darker—and long enough for a ponytail, which swung behind her head as she ran up to me. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The chicken came home to roost about a month later. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a few months earlier, Allen had been in a desperate firefight along with two white guys from his platoon. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“If she was interested I’d be able to find her more than once in a month of searching.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In four months, he would have the fame he had long sought. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Who am I to believe? A Re’lar of three years, or an E’lir of two months? A scriv in my employ, or an unfamiliar student found guilty of Reckless Use of Sympathy?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

This can be a thing that takes several months and many songs. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a while she’d given my hair a permanent every few months, but something about the permanent solution made my hair fall out. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

This ritual continued for months, until the shoes formed a huge pile surrounding the santo, and trickles of miniature footwear were spreading out underneath the pews. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Richardson would ask herself this question over and over, before Michael’s call and for weeks—and months—after. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They’ve given him math and language workbooks that he’s ignored, and when he returns, a month or two later, they praise him for keeping up with things. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’s been telling me he’s sorry for nearly nine months. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

As a result, in a few months the affection for their factions was wiped out from their hearts, and all of this affection turned towards the Duke. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Twitter may launch the feature as soon as next month. Facebook may need a little more time.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It covered the high rocks—dry for more than three months of high tides—all the way from Small Point up past Harpswell. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I had waited nearly two months for my teacher to receive the books. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The fire ate the flesh on Hugo’s face and hands, and the stench remained on Palmas Street for many months. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Failed after three months, as mine had done. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It had been months since I dug into the story of Robinson Crusoe. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the months after 9/11, a whole series of questions arose as to whether to retaliate, how to retaliate, and who to retaliate against. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

A few months later they were able to remain in houses, where they were found resting on treated walls. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

My mother and father and I had walked here but not for many months. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sitting here looking at your rankings. Did you know you’re only one result away from qualifying for the Junior Olympics next month?” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

More to the point, I am wondering what the two-job way of life would do to a person after a few months with zero days off. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The post brought many letters in reaction to the book— two hundred in the first six months after publication. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re telling me you guys have been a couple for two months, and what? You didn’t think to mention it?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“The one in question only arrived last month. It, and the two that have just arrived, were to be the last we needed. There’s no perceptible wear.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Only a few months ago, she and Curt had gone to England for the Glastonbury Festival, and later spent two days in London. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She found several other small streams—they had been much larger, but the rainy season was already two months past. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sure. My wife and I write them a rent check every month.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I revised my request; I just wanted to become invisible for a month or two. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You sold your life for twenty-three dollars a month.” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I crept away from the Weylin house, moving through the darkness with even less confidence than I had felt when I fled to Alice’s house months before. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Only a month before, my ancient half-sister, who was twelve years older than me, had actually had appendicitis, and for several days before her operation I was able to observe her behaviour at close quarters. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Young Day was what the Lacks family called a sneak baby: a man named Johnny Coleman had passed through town; nine months later Day arrived. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

After three months of housework, she asked Stewart, her temporary master, if she could work in the woods with the men. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house—well, she apologizes for it, though three bedrooms in a freestanding building for $825 a month doesn’t seem so bad to me at the moment. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since starting in the car business more than a decade ago, Golomb has sold, on average, about twenty cars a month, which is more than double what the average car salesman sells. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Yup, it looks like your form was turned in about a month ago, and that it was all filled out correctly.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Was it possible that she had been waiting for them all these long months? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

"The baby was born exactly nine months and ten days after the wedding." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I probably hadn’t said that word—Dad—in over five months. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

As Ariadne led him to the massage tent, Rowan thought, In eight months I am going to die. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Ten months to finish proving up. And don’t forget the final fees.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

So how could Reggie have been expected to know twenty-six months earlier? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Dinner passes the same way it has for months, stretches of silence broken by his mother’s attempts at polite conversation and Caroline’s occasional sighs. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A month or so later, I received a four-page letter from Martin. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The pounds began to melt off, and after a few months, I was in near-perfect health. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

For the first month or so, Helda would shuttle back and forth between all-night diners, drinking coffee to stay awake. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

My London showing earlier in the season had been disappointing, but the last six months of training had made a difference. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The tension that had taken months to abate was suddenly at full force. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few months later I saw another movie. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

The hospital was no more than a few months old and a few feet high when people began attempting to stake their claims. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

It just was last month that the Preacher snucked up on me whilst I was out in the Atlas Clearing chunking rocks. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

And though there was a bit of fresh snow toward the end of the month, Lyddie knew it for the sham winter it was. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Her weight gain over the past three and a half months had allowed for her monthly cycles to return after near-starvation in Endovier had made them vanish. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

For more than a month, my town was lost, and I knew it not. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“With Raleigh starting his own business and tax season not for six months... things are real tight for us right now.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“In the fifties, when my father was ranching, it was two or three years old. Now we get there at fourteen to sixteen months.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Her brother, Gordon, revealed that he had lived with the Mosses for eighteen months now and liked this home better than the others. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

We drove to California near the end of die month. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Nearly every month in 1919 included events that would resonate beyond that one year, bringing changes that echo into our own time. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

In Afghanistan, yelda is the first night of the month of Jadi, the first night of winter, and the longest night of the year. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Knowing that the gaze was only going to intensify as we moved into the last six or so months of the campaign, we agreed, finally, that I needed real help. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

After a few months at Birkenau, we were told Auschwitz needed workers. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Some would hold out for months, I was told, expecting a face-to-face conversation with every candidate before finally committing to one. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

One second, barely nudged at the wrong angle, and it’s like all my months of physical therapy and recovery and carefulness have been erased. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

For the next three months—in Ephrata in August and September and Sioux City in October—they practically lived in it. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

I kick up the woven mat of leaves at my feet and release months and years of decay and send beetles scurrying for cover. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

He told me he was from a small town in Germany, but had been in South Africa a couple months, working for a German company. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The busboy and the Mexican who intervened were paid several thousand dollars and the owners promised to promote a current Mexican employee to waiter within a month. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

It started with a period—it might have been a month, maybe longer—when the pranks went on pretty steadily, but Tommy failed to lose his temper. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

For his entire five years and ten months, the only time Fig hadn’t greeted me was when he’d been hiding under my bed because of lightning flashes and growling thunder. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He’d disappeared from my life a month or so back, but before that, surfer boy had been making a real effort to be there for me, after school, once, even twice a week. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“When can I leave the Empire? In a month? A year? Cain!” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He was in the hospital for some months after she passed, going in and out of comas, and they didn’t know if he was going to make it or not. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know you will! See you next month.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“We stood outside in the cold and dark. It had been months and months. They were going to plead and then they weren’t,” Leila reflects. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Melissa never seemed to have enough milk for two babies, so we were not surprised when the weak one died at the age of ten months. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Couple months later, ’bout October, I think it was.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I grudged the months I had spent with her, employed by her, taking her money, trotting in her wake like a shadow, drab and dumb. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“They asked me a month ago, but it’s my decision.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Oh my god, this is that lame channel my mom sent me a link to a few months ago in an attempt to rally me into taking my treatments seriously. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

After several months, Hitler conceded that the British air force was superior to Germany’s, making an invasion of Britain impossible at this time. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

To the relief of many Americans, including the Coast Guard, Prohibition had been repealed a few months before. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But since I am strong, it was only after three months of being at the camp when Met Bong told me she had some “good news.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s simply called HeLa, the code name given to the world’s first immortal human cells—her cells, cut from her cervix just months before she died. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The next time Cora’s grandmother was sold was after a month in the pest house on Sullivan’s Island, once the physicians certified her and the rest of the Nanny's cargo clear of illness. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“My mom’s cleaning out her room. Again. It’s happened in small spurts in the last few months. But I think she’s serious this time.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It was April 12.1 remembered because it was Easter and the day after my twelfth birthday, just two months earlier. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

One day every month, I’d lock up in a room and assemble my material and pictures for a printer that I found. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The growing season—that is, the months with temperatures and day lengths suitable for plant growth—is shortest at high latitudes and longest toward the equator. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had not flown in the month he had been home and he felt this abstinence in his mouth and bones. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two and a half months of stress had worn them out. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He got the largest office building in the world completed within eight months. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Fourth of July was at least two months gone; Halloween was more than a month away. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Chattana had more canals than streets, and in a few months, when monsoon season hit, it would have hardly any streets at all. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“I’ve gone a whole year without being abducted before, but January twenty-ninth is barely a month from now, so you’d think they’d want to give me plenty of opportunities to push the button.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

That is the last thing Felicia remembers for many months. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hattie, I can get it for next to nothing. At the end of the month, when the county takes it back.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

His practice was to implant the little microbiology stations in the Antarctic soil and return about a month later to retrieve them. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the last week before summer and I was making the transition from weeks away from home to a month. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mabel and Jacob, their months in Los Angeles, months full of doing and seeing and going. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A few months later, determined to make up for his poor showing, Bobby mailed in his registration to play in the U.S. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

"That I don’t know,” I say, "but whichever way is is there’s war all the same and every month more countries coming in.” All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are only three months left of her old life, though she has no idea. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He bought the car entirely on credit, with payments of $75 a month. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was all worse than he had ever dreamed: to have drifted all those months in white smoke, only to wake up again in the prison camp. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the first Saturday of December—the month that Lucas was coming home—I waited for Lil outside the library after the deliveries. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was a compliment that allowed the two men to coexist and even to collaborate on romantic matters in the months ahead. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has a faint goatee trying hard to express itself, but it’s six months short of becoming a reality. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Brother Apunda is getting older, and he needs help overseeing temple maintenance, especially with the Bonding coming up in two months...” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

A month later, after the first big waves of deaths, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a five-step list of symptoms to help parents identify whether their kid was at risk for IAAN. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The sensational legal battle that followed utterly consumed him until, several months later, all the charges were finally dropped. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A few months ago, he and his friends were involved in a plot to get rid of our dictator.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

During the last two months of school, everyone buzzes about the mysterious actress who brought the whole village—even rich foreigners—to tears. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had performed Farien the Fair a dozen times in the last month, and it had filled my young mind with intrigue and assassination. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Naomi bit her lip, exhausted all over again by the complicated dance she was going to have to do during the coming weeks and months. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Over the next month, her fever rose and subsided several times. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Even a whole month later, Anise still looked bowled over by how everything had turned out, like Kalinda and I had taken turns spitting in her face. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Wiggles Stern-Douglass was going to challenge me to a handball match later this month. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“As you say, no one could’ve. But I have to confess, I'm glad you two had at least a few months of happiness together.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Maisie was eighteen months old, but her weight was like a bundle of rags. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

On the thirteenth of that month Farmer Cotton found Frodo lying on his bed; he was clutching a white gem that hung on a chain about his neck and he seemed half in a dream. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

She had not seen Bran for several months and thought he was looking good and told him so. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She can make us legal in one month.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

They want things to be just so, day after day, month after month. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

In two months, it will be ablaze with purplish pink blossoms. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The farmer gave me his pay for that month—ten dollars—and turned us out of the house. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

One morning, after a month of G working at the place, we were hanging out on the wall, and G came out in his slippers and his socks. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Surprisingly, however, a random sample of 747 death notices published in Salt Lake City, Utah, newspapers during 1977 indicated that 46 percent of the decedents surveyed died within the three- month period following their birthdays. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was he going to spend months—maybe a year—with men who acted as though they had never seen him before? Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not saying he was depressed or anything these past few months, but compared to how he is right now, it’s hard to say he’s been happy. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The ride is Lincoln’s way of giving Grant his moment in the sun after so many months of hardship. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then our little house comes into view, and right away I see that what I been afraid of these last few months has finally happened. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re the second person in a month to ask me about that.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But something was missing, and he wasn’t ashamed to admit that the only way to remember what it was like was to pull out that worn video every month or so. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few months before their arrival in Massachusetts, a child had disappeared while playing in his yard and was never found; for a long time afterward there were posters in the supermarket. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

For three months, we live our lives this way in Bat Deng. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Four years next month. They hardly pay enough for it to be worth it, though. Talk about nasty.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

We ranged in age from three months to his eighty-nine years. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

All I know is, this baby’s already bigger than the others when they came out, and I’m only six months. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Once when the tuna were running he made enough in a month to buy an almost-brand-new pickup truck. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“This is where you’ll be staying for the next few months,” he says as we turn a corner. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Morrison murder remained the focus of everyone's attention for months. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Then one afternoon, about eight months later, we got home from school to a familiar but unexpected face. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I know the exact day she would have turned four months.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered if autumn would come upon us two months before her time. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was the month of Susmy and the first great snows were falling those days and nights. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

For several months during his childhood there had been confused street fighting in London itself, some of which he remembered vividly. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I’m a month away from starting my junior year of high school, and I just found out my father only has four months to live. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

I was only a month into the semester, but even so I knew a scholarship was comically out of reach. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When the 60 Minutes piece aired months later, local officials were quick to discredit it. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They were replaced every two years, although they began to fall apart within a month or two. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

A 1993 survey found that 13 percent of jockeys suffered concussions over a period of just four months. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spent a month getting to know each other again, and I discovered that I had a brother and a stepsister. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

How they punished me for the first time in three months, since Khalid passed away. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“Last month, the American Derby was held here, did you know that?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“You don't really do things on your own. I'm worried you're going to spend the next few months hiding out in your room not talking to anyone. Plus, you know, your mom.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I had been in Tarbean for two months when I first thought to try my hand at begging Hillside. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

All you can hope for is to have the market to yourself for a few months to establish your brand. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It had begun a month or two previously, in April or in May. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

They’d run out of tissues months ago, and toilet paper was too precious to waste. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Before I moved to Calypso,” Diego said, “I spent one year, ten months, and twenty-three days in prison.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Just over a month till the big game,” he says. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“I was on it for a couple months.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Spreading south at a mere one mile per month, those pioneers would have reached the southern tip of South America only 700 years after crossing the Canadian border. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Immediately all the past miserable months fell away from him as he stood breathing the hot, well-remembered odor of molten gold and hearing the chiming of a little hammer. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I had only joined a few months ago, at the beginning of the spring semester, but I was really into it. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

A minute later, Richard came in and said, “Didn’t I leave that extra pair of work shoes here a few months ago? I know they were in the closet, but I can’t find them anywhere.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Then I set down to look over my finances cause two things done happen: the bus gone up to fifteen cents a ride and my rent gone up to twenty-nine dollars a month. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He went directly to his mother’s bedroom, where Aureliano had boiled mercury for four months in his grandfather's grandfather’s water pipe to conserve the body according to Melquíades’ formula. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

"And it seemed an interesting challenge, so I agreed to try. Unfortunately, I had a lot of other work on, so it was eight months before I could get to it." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He calculated when I'd last had my period, when I'd probably ovulated, whether a certain night was a safe time of the month. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I had written that nearly two months ago, the night we were taken. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

A month later, McNamara headed to Boston for a scheduled visit to Harvard University. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Another month went by without incident, and then Billy wrote a letter to the Ilium News Leader, which the paper published. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But once a month he discarded a small stack of comic books, sometimes as many as fifteen and at times even twice that number. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

And so for the first few months, four- year-old Gogol plays on an uneven, dirt-covered yard littered with stones and sticks, soiling his sneakers, leaving footprints in his path. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But it meant another six months on death row for Walter, and he couldn't see anything encouraging about that. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

For the next five months, until the virtual end of the Emergency, we conducted our own defense. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few months after the press conference, Teller, wounded at being shunned by former friends and colleagues over his continued bellyaching, finally attempted to set the record straight in an article for Science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Katie told him in her new crisp hard way that it was janitor or no home, as it was harder and harder each month to get the rent money together. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mom had bought her two fish, with a gorgeous aquarium to house them in, and they'd both died within months. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Celia watches, dispirited, as her neighbors file out of the auditorium, already merrily expectant for next month’s “love motel” case. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was Sunday, a month after the accident, and everyone had gathered in the living room. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She was around for a few months, and as she had appeared, out of limbo, so she disappeared into nothingness. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When two months had passed without a single reply to the advertisement, Haldar and his wife felt vindicated. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Burger had recently spent seventeen months in a concentration camp. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

It has fourteen rooms, most of which are shuttered during the winter months. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He thinks of his parents then, living apart for the final months of his father’s life. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Three and a half months ago when you were...gone. Like you always are.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone said, “Brother, why don’t we feed these boys? That one lodes like he ain’t et in two or three months.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Stalingrad, the Russian city that has been under attack for three months, still hasn’t fallen into German hands. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Early in 2000, I tagged along with Farmer on what he called “a light month for travel.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

There was the mailbox where their bill from the light company came each month. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

As the months at Manzanar turned to years, it became a world unto itself, with its own logic and familiar ways. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He only served ten months in the county jail. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“I made a friend a few months ago,” I said, nervously sliding my hand between the bars. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The World Power Conference and the International Management Conference were going to meet in eight months in England and Czechoslovakia, respectively. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the satellite stayed in orbit for more than five months after that—a lonely and most certainly dead dog circling and circling overhead while the earth traveled about 240 million miles through space. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

But still, they were just toys, and usually some of the plastic keys would give out in a few months. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

First in May 1920, and then again two months later, he boldly and unequivocally predicted that a serious Communist revolt was about to take place throughout the country. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

They spent an agonizing two months apart, writing each other letters to stay in touch. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I will hear scholarship news in the next few months. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t look at ice cream for the next month. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

For three months, he been saying he wants to be Charles’s teacher, show him mysteries. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

All in all, the sisters spent almost eight months in jail. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Xhalal was reunited with Qendrim, his wife, and his daughter, and together they lived in the camp for three months, awaiting placement by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

My last visit had been over four months ago—for Gran’s birthday in January—and the house had been as spotless then as it was now. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Over the past two months he had learned that no one had his back anymore. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

If a patron ordered a sauceboat, he would get a fine one—perhaps a month after it had been promised. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would later give an interview to a local paper, estimating that during the six or so months he campaigned for Congress, he spent less than four full days at home with me and Malia. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

While it was a very difficult experience for me to be at odds with my family for all those months, I’m glad I went off on my own to figure things out for myself. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Once we were on the road, Dad and Mom got in a big fight over how many months she’d been pregnant. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Over the last few months, Leo had learned to interpret this machine language. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They didn’t even get out of the rental car; they had to hurry back to the airport to catch their flight to Boston, where I lived for the few unfrozen months out of the year. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Every few months Fadi would accompany his mother and Noor to a carefully chosen location arranged by a bookseller whose renowned shop had been raided and shut down. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Ellie didn’t seem the least bit interested in helping me solve the mystery, though it was the kind of thing that she might have been into just a few months before. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He had been in the squadron less than a month and was noticeably unnerved by being thrust into competition so early in his tenure with the squadron. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, nine months later, Rosa Parks was embraced by a community ready for action. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Eden turns ten in two months, which means that in two months he'll have to take the Trial. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

A sign said the shop would be closing for winter at the end of the month. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

A few months after she had her baby, she moved back to Reno to stay with friends there. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was in Abnegation and wasn’t allowed to look into mirrors, I used to think that a lot could change in a person’s appearance in three months. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I could feel the electricity coursing through the air like I was coming alive for the first time in months, and I loved it. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Imagine: A month ago these guys ignored him except to tease him; now they snuck into his house and climbed into bed with him. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Within a month, we were receiving The Economist and reading the news we hungered for. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My friends and I had carried her on our backs to and from school for three months when she had broken her leg two years ago. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lord, in six months my ears have heard what they hadn’t known about in twenty-four years. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But only once, almost eight months after he had left, did he write to Úrsula. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Gogol savors each mouthful, aware that for the next eight months nothing will taste quite the same. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She wore each style for three months, even four months, until her scalp itched unbearably and the braids sprouted fuzzily from a bed of new growth. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

This would be my home for the next six months. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He also sent me $30.00 a month while in Korea war while he was there from beginning until the end and was dischard in Seattle, Wash. Honorable as far as I know. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He also has two daughters whom he has not seen in nine months. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Four of the men went to prison for six months for knowingly destroying or mutilating their cards. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Eight months later he hanged himself In August of 1978 his mother sent me a brief note explaining what had happened. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This photograph was taken six months ago, in Cuba,” Mrs. Jones was saying. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Almost a month later, Sputnik II went into space carrying a passenger—a dog. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

“That averages out to almost one combat mission every two months. And I’ll bet your total doesn’t include the time you bombed us.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

And yet, at the same time, he was strangely calm—in the moment that his marriage was effectively severed he was on solid ground with her for the first time in months. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now they only dance on New Year’s Eve, when we all stay up late and eat our twelve grapes, one for each month of the new year. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

In the center of the ceiling, affixed with yellowed tape, is January 1959, the first month of the revolution. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was surprised at this announcement, which Bunny had made at the beginning of December, especially since the two of them had been out of sorts for over a month, Henry in particular. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, Mrs. Cooper had been trying to register for months. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I felt even more the weight of hours, days, weeks, and months of work. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Several months after I met Angelo he appeared again, this time, strangely enough, on my car radio. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

And at the end of the month the frogs stopped coming, leaving the scholar with the white silk and silver ingots. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He owes Monticelli a great deal, he says, and also Gauguin, “with whom I worked for a few months in Arles.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“That one will be this month, June! When is the full moon due in June, Constance?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

On October 13, after two more months of legal wrangling, the Crown suddenly announced the withdrawal of the indictment altogether. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time the police arrested thirty-five protesters, who were sentenced to between six days and six months, depending on whether they had been arrested previously. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She’s too old for you, his mother said, when actually Tubs himself was six months older. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The State Bank of Sequim was still afloat but would fail within months. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Near the end of Jeffrey’s first month of treatment, there was a big dance at school — the first one of my eighth-grade year, which is supposed to be some sort of big deal. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though the bodega had not done well that month Mr. Rodriguez broke out the wine. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having been in the block just a few months, Smith said, “That’s the first time I really understood where I was.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got tens, sometimes hundreds of thousands of unique visitors a month. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Now he knew that she had been through the worst of it months before when first the two sisters had come to the Lytes’. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’ll be warm through the winter months and then we can go downstairs in the springtime if there is any sign of a dryness in the walls or the floor. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Lon Teter arrived in the final month to serve as, in effect, production foreman—getting an immense and complicated body of work checked, formatted, and into the paper on time. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

It has nothing to do with astrology, nor is there anything magical about the first three months of the year. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Grandma says, “There is some nerve damage in the leg and that will need time to heal. It will be months before he is one hundred percent. But they said his spirits are good.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I was only a month and a half away from thirteen. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The first day of the month of Zip, for example, was usually called the “installation” or “seating” of Zip. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The last surgery I had was eight months ago, and I probably won’t have to have any more for another couple of years. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

She had last braided her hair three months ago. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Once, when I was little, I yelled at her for smashing a dugout I’d constructed out of cardboard and my mom didn’t speak to me for a month. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

They will spend a couple of months there before boarding the truck for Poky Feeders. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He closed the door very carefully behind them and found the garden brilliantly lit by the clearest full moon there’d been for months. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“She told you. She told you a month ago that you were just going to toy with me.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I have lived with the family for a month now, and the longer I am with them, the more my hatred grows. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guest was a very attractive young lady, then only a few months divorced, whom Bobby had been seeing a lot of and whom I’d met on several occasions. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Month after month, Enrique asks the same question: “Would you be my girlfriend?” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“You give me your dessert for two months, and you can name him,” she said. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I glanced at the month of September and picked the spot where I would put the first cross mark, if I completed the first day. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What happened was, Perry showed up maybe a month later. I met him at the bus station in Kansas City—” “When?” said Church. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two months ago, through no fault of his own, he got a part. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

They burst into our shack waving rifles, just as they had burst into our home ten months before. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I haven’t figured out my paradox yet, but I have a month, so I’m not going to push it. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Today is the first of the month, which means a refilled EBT card, which means: A stocked fridge. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“It’s a badge of honor! New folks are big news here. I’ll be a celebrity for a month.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

They were always half a month or so behind, and talked endlessly to him about paying ahead—after they had a preliminary discussion about what he was doing back so soon anyway. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four months later, Colin's parents sent him to a preschool for gifted children. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

She realized, suddenly, that in all these months she had never asked his name. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was five months ago on my eleventh birthday, and I knew from the screen on Nan’s phone that the call lasted only six minutes and thirteen seconds. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

He never tucked in shirttails, not even in the Army, he said, where he spent a month in the brig for it. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

This would be home for the next several months, until the mountain was climbed. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then, after six months inside the consulate, Shin flew to Seoul, where the South Korean National Intelligence Service took an uncommon interest in him. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Although there was enough food for today, next week, and even next month, they had to worry about next year and the year after that. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not going to have a very good month, are you?” she said sardonically as Crookshanks curled up in her lap. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He included the bombings of black homes and businesses, teargassings, shootings, physical violence—all committed against black people between the months of March and September 1963. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, American troops poured across the bridge, the Remagen beachhead was quickly enlarged and held against German counterattacks—and everyone began to talk of the war ending in two months. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Leigh was four months old when the Air Force sent Jerome to Korea, and during the thirteen months he was gone, I continued to live with my parents. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A few months ago, her company and the school board came up with a new program that lets professionals take a leave of absence for a year to teach in inner-city schools. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

It felt like that the first month after the massacre, like it was too exhausting to exist. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

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

Maya was thirteen months older than Lauren, so she felt responsible. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

When Bobby returned from Europe and collected his months of accumulated mail from Claudia Mokarow, there was an unusual letter waiting for him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It’s been six months and they still can’t even look at each other. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Don’t forget, you’re dining with us on the fourteenth of next month.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

By then, Adam had been watching me practice in the music wing for several months. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every few months, Mom and Sam go on these little trips outta town. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

A few months before, she would never have attempted it, but now she could swim if she miscalculated—and if the crocodile didn’t get her first. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In just a few months, a staff of six black scientists and technicians built a factory at Tuskegee unlike any seen before. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Seven months earlier, on a frosty March afternoon, McCandless had ambled into the office at the Carthage grain elevator and announced that he was ready to go to work. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cheapest rental in Welch was an apartment over a diner on McDowell Street that cost seventy-five dollars a month, which was out of our price range. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Six months after we landed in Brooklyn, I spoke enough English to explain our situation. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then nothing to do but wait for the rain to turn to snow and the mud to ice; not long, for I had spent over a month on my way from Mishnory to Turuf. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Basically, I had to show up at the police station every Tuesday and Thursday for a month to have a computer “chat” with a resident of the Maple Grove Nursing Home somewhere across the state. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sputnik II orbited the earth 2,570 times before it burned up in the atmosphere five months later. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

“When the redcoats invaded,” he started, “we raced up the island to the fort. Figured we’d hold there for months, then drive them from the city come spring when our forces would be stronger.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then a couple of months later when she liked Jason Hatami, we hung out at his dad’s hardware store on the weekends, just in case Jason stopped by. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

It took at least three months before they quit hating to wake up in the morning for school. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A month or so later my mother defied my father and secretly took us to the local Full Gospel Church, where we were baptized. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Underneath in small type was a sub-heading: “Had planned to retire on pension next month.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and Salva worked together for hours and days ... which grew into weeks and months. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Last month,” Nathan continued, “a Spanish priest from this place called Fort Mose came through here, trying to teach my daddy the ‘one true faith.’ Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the next few months, Maria Isabel spends hours at a time silently sitting on a rock in front of her aunt Gloria’s house. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

That winter he found a job teaching at a small community school for twelve dollars a month. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Many times during the summer I had thought of the “long winter months ahead” with some fear. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We did time together for about six months in this one placement, but then our foster mom found out that she was gay so she kicked her out and took her back to the agency.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He tried courting her a few months back before Dedd set him straight. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Minnie hadn't been to the prison in several months and seemed grateful that I had spent some time there. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

My bullet bill this month was going to be huge. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The thirteen-month difference between them had spread them apart like a gulf, growing only wider with each passing month. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

We had started meeting a few months back to discuss issues that came up in the gospel and to do Christ’s work in the bohios and barrios. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And finally, after a month of illness, Vincent is well enough to paint again. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In your anger or your jealousy, or even because you are not yourself after these long strained months, you may believe what she says and what she means. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered Murdock had bought the tickets so he could spend time with his daughter on the one weekend a month he got to see her. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The trial, appeals, and delays would force her to make three open-ended, coast-to-coast trips in under six months. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I walked to the side of the building where the entrance was that month because the front entrance was being renovated. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Some cousin of ours is getting married next month. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was hoping that ability would make its appearance in a month, when she became a bat mitzvah. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Mom had given Ariana one of my cereal cupcakes to try, and she loved them so much, she made it the special flavor for the month of October. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

One unusual aspect was that the suspect already was in custody, arrested seven months earlier for insurance fraud and now incarcerated in Philadelphia’s Moyamensing Prison. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

My mother’s name, my mother’s office, even though she hadn’t been to work in months. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Once the lockout was engaged, you couldn’t disable it for two months. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

In two months—or three—just as soon as he knew enough bookkeeping—he’d leave home and go to live with Mr. Ropes or Mr. Hodges. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

For nine months, she spends night after night patiently listening to drunken men talk about their problems, how they miss their wives and children left behind in Mexico. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Margarita looks too pregnant for only two months since the wedding. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

So do I leave us upon this ship anchored by a smoldering, desolate town, where we have been drifting for more than a month, sickly with the smallpox, which only spreads its infamous depredations. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Christmas was almost a month away, but at Jesse’s house the girls were already obsessed with it. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

On a sprig of hope, I even called about an apartment listing on East 85th Street, a one-bedroom with hot plate for forty-five dollars a month. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Some of them were large cards displaying all twelve months and on those she noticed circles drawn around dates. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the ten months he had tended cattle, it amounted to less than twenty-five cents a day. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

It was only a few months ago that there was finally a pause in the thousands of wars being waged all over the planet. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

With Fermi’s chain-reacting pile still undergoing its difficult gestation, for all they knew this was the only plutonium that would be seen for months, or even years. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But in those long twelve months I found out some things. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

And that was how I got to be part of the Long Island Shakespeare Company’s Holiday Extravaganza, which was opening next month. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Scott hadn’t asked George to play video games in months. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

It was the month of Hathor in the Season of Growing, and the air was cool despite the heat from the hooded furnaces that lined the courtyard. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

He didn't have a lot of care available, so he came to live with me in Montgomery for several months until he recovered. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Two months later, the commission appropriated $15 million for new accelerator construction, much of it destined for Berkeley. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Five a month, when he could be learning the skill that would bring him dozens! The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

A few months earlier, Shani went out to play with one of the neighborhood girls, Lateshia, and came back home with her face covered in blood. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

But after months of fighting, an American bomb dropped near him, and threw a chunk of metal into his pants, hitting him right in the backside. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

My mom said good-bye to her husband of eight years and the love of her young life, neither of them wanting to acknowledge it could be months or years before they'd be reunited in America. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

After five months of self-imposed isolation, this debate was what finally forced him out of the barracks and into circulation again. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For six months and then have an operation?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

A little more than a month later, in August 1989, P. W. Botha went on national television to announce his resignation as state president. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of our hypotheses seemed to be confirmed a few months later when we were joined by Kathy, who had indeed been a member of the High Organ. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For many months she ran from one doctor to another because Raymond’s foot wouldn’t heal. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“You know, some months Esther will give her whole salary to her church, they call it ‘sowing a seed,’ then she will come and ask me to give her three hundred naira for transport.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Over the next month or so, Ophelia saw Farmer whenever she could, both in Mirebalais and Port-au-Prince, and they enjoyed each other’s company. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

One day when she had been attending Sacred Heart about a month, she was followed by a car on her mile walk home from the bus stop. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

This was Selma’s first mass meeting in six months, since the court order banning marches and meetings. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What if I came here each month to your office and the pension were to be handed to me?” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if I had ever cried as much as I had in the past month. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

No, the risk was too great; the whole Group might be put back six or seven months in its conditioning. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

By contrast, in other developed countries around the world, a first-time drug offense would merit no more than six months in jail, if jail time is imposed at all. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The next three months were hot, confusing, and miserable as Amari tried to assimilate into the culture of plantation life. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was stunning news, after three months of hand-wringing and damage control at the highest levels of the KGB. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was my second month of French class, and the teacher was leading us in an exercise designed to promote the use of one, our latest personal pronoun. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

More than that, though, they were hard up against the fact that a few minutes of extreme exertion were about to tell them whether five and a half months of training had been worthwhile. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I been knowing this for maybe a month—maybe six weeks now.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

And a few months earlier, Charles had spent some time with another cousin, Emma, who was just nine months older than he was. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had not come for several months, and things were very different now. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I cannot hold out much hope for him. His tuberculosis is of a new kind that does not respond to medication. Still, with complete rest he may have weeks, perhaps months to live.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Who would have guessed three months ago that quicksilver Anne would have to sit so quietly for hours on end, and what’s more, that she could? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He never went to the same parties as Patrick or anything until a little over a month ago. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

That had been a few months ago, and her hair only just reached her shoulders. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

For months on end, the activity in the courtroom consisted of the driest legal maneuvering imaginable. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After months of ignoring the bloody symptoms of his cancer, Dad finally passed out in the mine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“My meat ration for a month,” I offer him. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He found a girl who knew the alphabet at nineteen months, and another who was reading Dickens and Shakespeare by the time she was four. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It was April and there were just two months left in the school year. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He suffered from cramps in his lower extremities for about three months after. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed so drastic because it had been months since she had acted like that. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Not even four months after James and I started dating, I started feeling an increasing nausea, I knew without a doubt that I was pregnant. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He enrolled in an English- language course in Torrance, but dropped out after three months. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She made me think of my sister, though, because Amanda would have been the same age, only one month younger. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Perhaps you think that far-fetched, Mr Stevens, but then look how far I came with her in a few months. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Now after thirty-four years, the commemorations and interviews and presentations of posthumous honors have almost stopped, so that for months at a time Dedd is able to take up her own life again. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could spend the next four or five months doing nothing but getting ready to start his new life at Iowa. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I had to stay in that awful house for three more months. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The priest frets about me when we meet, but he’s only around once a month, and Joseph himself has never suggested that I ought to turn Catholic or even religious. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a tradition in my family to eat dinner together on the first Sunday of the month,” Maxine tells me. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

All these months apart, and we’ve fallen back into normal like it’s nothing. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“You do realize that these people are going to be our classmates in five months, right?” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

No one’s spoken in this room for three months. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t spoken to my brother in months—after what happened with Audrey, it had seemed pointless to confide in my siblings. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Hussey kept his toothbrush, and Shackleton ordered him to keep the banjo, because they would need the comfort of music in the hard months ahead. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Next month and next year were other times. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

But Werner has crossed the edge of the field, where he steps on a trigger land mine set there by his own army three months before, and disappears in a fountain of earth. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He was already farther from his home than he’d been in many months. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

When he was one and a half, he’d refused to eat anything but porridge for months on end. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“My mother-in-law asked me to find a weaver for her, and obviously she and I will have to waste many months training this girl.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He went in for a checkup and the doctor told him he had two months to live. He died two months later.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Leroy must’ve been thinking just like me, three or four months might as well have been three or four years! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The events of the last two months should teach them something about the darkness in the hearts of the hakujin and the more general darkness that was part of living. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

One month after her arrival, at the mouth of the ghost tunnel, Cora remained certain of her decision. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He had moved his young family to Durham in 1927, when C.P. was only a few months old, from a small town nearby when the mill there had closed. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The cop who stopped me a few months back is my reminder: I am now a threat to every white family in town. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It would be months more before I gathered the courage to return online. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Throughout these months, the senator had learned that not even his own record as a supporter of the coup was any guarantee against terror. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Army Eighth Air Force had bombed the harbor a few months prior. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

In the coming months, Mother called me by many names. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t sign up to go out with you forever when you’re dead. It’s been a couple of months. Okay? A couple of months.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

That meant the middle day of the month. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Only then, forced at six months to confront his destiny, does he begin to cry. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Like I just let months of tired out of me. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

His ear had been throbbing for about two months, and it was just one of several ailments that had come up during the course of the season. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I was hoping to read them. Still, I suppose I could wait six months.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

But then the three months were up, and just before the flag fell on the immigration clock, Bobby would scoot off to the Philippines. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps this month . . . perhaps this winter ... or next spring. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

We've been in the land of the free for four months and Ma continues to forbid me from going out alone. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And I had a kind of vision of Chrissie and Rodney, back at the Cottages, in the months leading up to this moment, probing and prodding this subject between them. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was having one of those days and it turned into the longest month of my life. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It was almost four months ago that the door was sealed shut between Hilly and me, a door made of ice so thick it would take a hundred Mississippi summers to melt it. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He rode, on average, fewer than two winners a month. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lori pointed out that the last few months hadn’t gone so well. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

After not hearing from Will for months, she gets a text: Thinking of you today. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Apparently there was a guy from Lake Valley a few months ago, but...Aaron’s a total enigma, but I know he likes you. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He’d called this place home for only the last four months. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

They’d been separated for about a month and he was staying at a hotel. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

A few months later, Sarah published An Epistle to the Clergy of the Southern States. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

That same month, our Post and Telecommunications Corporation, or PTC, fired more than six hundred people, causing the other workers to go on strike. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He returned home for a few months in 1779, just long enough to draft almost single-handedly the Massachusetts Constitution. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

In our seventeen months in Kilanga, thirty-one children died, including Ruth May. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

After months of solitary confinement, they seem like a crowd. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

How has your life been the last six months? The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

One morning, a month after returning home from Amsterdam, I drove over to his house. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

One time Papá told us how he had joined the Cristero Revolt in 1926, when he was sixteen, and had been wounded in the knee and thrown in jail for six months. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

These are suitable food for the smallest salmon, the fry only a few months old. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Robin smoothed her hand over Ivy’s wild hair that her mom hadn’t braided in months. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I had arranged to receive six months of training in Addis Ababa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We knew a lot more than when we went in. We had been there eight months.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

For months, he would resist Berkeley’s blandishments to leave Yale, despite the obvious benefits associated with writing his own ticket. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

A hundred and fifty-seven dollars after three months of working. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Every six months he catches them again and breaks their bones afresh, and every time is going to be the successful one. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

—Does he seem like he’s bouncing back from that accident he was in a few months back? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And as the weeks and months went by, she became her old self again. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Dr. Wells says that a three months’ Pregnancy Substitute now will make all the difference to my health for the next three or four years.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was also like that last month when our favorite restaurant changed its menu and they no longer made my favorite dish the way I liked it. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“That’ll be true even if we spend another three months preparing,” said Harry. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Every few months, we did a new show, and two years after we opened our doors, we were getting regular crowds for every one. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

"One last important thing. In addition to Ivy, our past favorite who will be here for a month to help the favorite transition..." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

In Gogol’s opinion, eight months in Calcutta is practically like moving there, a possibility that, until now, has never even remotely crossed his mind. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

We’ve been in New York City already over a month and a half. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Both were part of the Mercury Theatre on the Air team that created the War of the Worlds program later that month. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Samuel Childs, where on earth have you been? You won’t leave this house for a month, so help me. Where have you been? Answer me. Answer me!” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The gypsies sailed along that route for six months before they reached the strip of land over which the mules that carried the mail passed. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Over the next few months I thought about her a great deal. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took then a few months to traverse the Atlantic Ocean and reach what was called the New World, the Americas. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even his grandfather had looked healthy when he’d visited him in California a few months before he died. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I expect things to be better next month, when we’ll get away from the Greeks and Romans and into Mediaeval and Renaissance. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Besides, there’s nothing happening in the capital Nelson could get into, believe me. The Jaragua’s empty. The Olympia has been showing the same movie for a month. No one goes out anymore.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would take months for the men to make the drive and ride back home. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was pleased with everything that he did and learned and the days and months passed quickly. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some residents invite strangers to stay in their homes, sometimes for months at a time. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I am not sure, however, that I could have maintained the seven-day-a-week regimen month after month or eluded the kinds of injuries that afflicted my fellow workers in the housecleaning business. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But best of all, I would earn two silver talents every month. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Every night for a month smaller but more numerous frogs came so that he always had the same amount to eat. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It says, ‘The student delivering this note is our student of the month for hard work and a good attitude.’” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Six months have gone by in an instant. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

That had been more than a month ago. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

“My administration was only two months old,” Nixon later explained. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Though Odile could not follow what we were saying, she was obviously cheered by the fact that Francis was about to bring off his second triumph within the month. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The night before—when he and Scipio had headed off for the Isola Segreta—seemed like months ago, and now he felt like a traveler, returning from a journey through strange and distant lands. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Twelve months since I said good-bye to Kim, seventeen months since the soldiers took Pa away, twenty-one months since Keav—I stop myself from counting more dates. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knows that I spend months at a time ‘writing,’ but she does not press me for information. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Peris was only three months older than Tally, but, dropping her eyes to the floor, she felt like a littlie again. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Still, it nearly killed him to hand over the fund-raising award at the assembly at the end of the month. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

By the way, you are a month older than the last time I saw you. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Every three months he visited our church, stayed at Momma’s over the Saturday night and preached a loud passionate sermon on Sunday. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Once a month is quite enough for a sensible child." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

After the song ends, the DJ announces that Billy Eckstine is coming to Detroit next month for a special concert at one of the jazz supper clubs. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They have weathered nearly five months at sea, and they show it. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Of all the secrets Alex had kept in the past six months, this was the only one that made him smile. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Could I actually make it another seven months? Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Just spend a few more months playing video games,” she said. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Would it not make more sense, he suggested, to put off the entire project for a few months, even a year? Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

One weekend a few months after he’d moved, I heard on my car radio that a vicious blizzard had hit Chicago, closing the airports, shutting down public transit, stranding cars on highways. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Six months ago, he’d started his campaign, dropping hints, a steady stream of little reminders that built and built into a tidal wave. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

For the next ten months, Shin stayed where the pig farmer had left him, tending cattle in mountain pastures and sleeping on a ranch-house floor with two surly Chinese cowhands. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Yet the fair was to open in little more than two months. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Or because Soojin changes her mind about who she thinks she likes every few months? Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The boy estimated that, if he worked for six more months, he could return to Spain and buy sixty sheep, and yet another sixty. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two months and twelve days till your birthday. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Even with Mr. Heller leading the efforts to rebuild the mosque and community center, it was going to be months before it would open. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Mom’s been asking her to clean out her closet for months. You’re lucky—there’s some really good stuff in there. I guess.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Chantal’s light snoring keeps me from hearing every single word, but it’s a song I remember from months ago—one of Bad Leg’s very first riddles, before I realized he was Papa Legba. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I was to spend Thanksgiving, spring vacation, and one month over the summer with Dad. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

He sounded old, like Pa. Not young like someone out of high school for a year and three months. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

We could ease into dating in a couple of months, if we wanted. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I was at the end of my sixth month when my childhood friend Mo- hamed arrived at the center. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Now here she was, nine months later, with the blindfold strapped around her eyes. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Within a few months, word came that a party of English had set up shop at Patuxet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

After that, each month an envelope with a government stamp came for me. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

After two months in the hospital, she came home with a glass eye inserted in her right eye socket. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I was out for over a month,” she said. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Byerley said, prosaically, “But the Canal,—it was on schedule six months ago. What happened?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

It was noble that the scythes saw fit to pay homage to the gleaned, but if they only had twelve hours to complete three months worth of business, she didn’t see the sense of it. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

"Each month it gets whittled away and has to start from nothing and build itself up again. It returns, full and shiny, every month. You shouldn't give up either." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Less than a month later, we packed up and prepared to move to Birmingham. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Setting out with six camels packing food enough for three months, Burke and Wills ran out of provisions while in the desert north of Menindee. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Three months,” he said, grimacing, “but I’ll give you some exercises you can do while I’m gone, and I’m sure Sam can continue to work with you until I come back.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

A few months ago, Junito was killed in a drive-by shooting. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It was the end of October, two months into Richard’s junior year. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Every other white woman also knows that there is a time of the month when you do not talk to Minny. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I did not understand until six months later when I was married to this man and he hissed drunkenly to me that he was ready to kai gaua. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A sweater suit for a seven months’ old baby.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

More than three months on a ship has confused my legs so much that solid land feels like the rocking deck! Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

As we headed home people said to one another: “This paraffin drum will keep the family going for months.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They must be in one hell of a shape if they’ve got to come all the way to Mississippi to steal ten dollars a month. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were born exactly thirteen months apart from each other. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom had decided to bring Grandma Caye to Texas, where she could get some much-needed medical attention and a few months of rest before returning home. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Compared to the diffident, incoherent speaker I had seen six months earlier in Southern California, he was unrecognizable. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“Am I to take it that you are attacking even without the full moon now? This is most unusual... You have developed a taste for human flesh that cannot be satisfied once a month?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

One woman even filed a paternity suit falsely claiming that Walter was the father of her child, a child that was born less than eight months after Walter's release. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Not so long as that,” said I. “Two or three months at most.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

I fished Maria out of the mud and gave her a bottle of peanut butter to lick—the bottle was empty; it had been empty since a month ago. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five months later, he walked into a newspaper office and chose his obituary photograph from the photo archive. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We spent a number of months discussing it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For two months, I hadn’t heard from her, until now. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Over the months, I had gradually come to establish something of a telephone acquaintance with Malcolm X’s wife, whom I addressed as “Sister Betty,” as I had heard the Muslims do. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I think about it, just a few months ago, I was ready to die, and now here I am on a plane to New York City all by myself. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I got news for you,” I told him, “the season ended three months ago.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

“Erm,” he said, smiling for what felt like the first time in months: The muscles in his face felt oddly stiff. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Kind of a big deal considering the last few months you’ve had together.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She would turn fifteen in two months, at which time her father had decided she should be married. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

He did not want to express the doubts and uncertainties about Dumbledore that had riddled him for months now. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Halloween wouldn’t arrive for months, but the people of Bone Gap were throwing a costume party. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

She had four months until that decision would be made. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Mr. Muhammad invited me to visit his home in Chicago, as often as possible, while he trained me, for months. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hand clutching a month of food, warm blankets, and dry shoes came open. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t need to. Just sent me a confirmation number. Electronic ticket. All I have to do is turn up at the airport in a month and show ’em my ID, and I’m outta here.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Trey gives Jus the same kind of once-over he did at the Halloween party all those months ago. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

On her first day of the two months’ preliminary training, Briony’s humiliation in front of the class had been instructive. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

During the months I was missing, Milton and Tessie experienced the same spikes of panic, the same mad hopes, the same sleeplessness. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Only a month after starting the therapy, Father Jack died. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Even if I work full-time all summer and with the money I’ve already saved, I won’t have enough to live on in New York for three months, let alone pay for school. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

"Well, you better get used to it. You're going to be thirsty for the next eighteen months." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

But there had not been a clear day in a little over two months; only this constant gray light and scattered drizzle. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Mark Fossie was busted to PFC, shipped back to a hospital in the States, and two months later received a medical discharge. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

For six months after that, all I did was go to therapy three times a week and do light conditioning that didn’t involve the shoulder. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In two months I could distill liquor until it was too strong to drink, bandage a wound, set a bone, and diagnose hundreds of sicknesses from symptoms. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Did the gift promise anew beginning of love, as the month of January heralds the beginning of a new year? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“For the past month I’ve given you nothing but space. You haven’t even kissed me in like a week. How much more space do you need?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

For the first two months of that school year, Danny and I were able to get together regularly only on Shabbat afternoons. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Exactly one month before the Egypt Game began in the Professor’s backyard she had come, very reluctantly, to live in the shabby splendor of an old California-Spanish apartment house called the Casa Rosada. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had amused and entertained him more than he would have thought possible, over the months, and he realized tonight that the parting would be a real wrench. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But by the next summer, when Emma was seven months pregnant, her fears were realized. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the months passed, I watched people celebrate their lives—Easter, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“That would mean going a month without food,” she said. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had definitely not been a good month to volunteer for shoveling duty. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Far more than the amount of work he faces, he dreads the month of separation they will have to endure at winter break. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s as though I’d been blundering about in the dark for days, weeks, months, then finally caught hold of something. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She enumerated for Gladys, who had been working for us only a month, all the treasures el doctor had brought his girls. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

My dad spent only three months in jail. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was not until many months later that Mei Ching found someone who could read the writing on the back. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

For two months they were on the run, staying in small hotels or with sympathetic friends. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Next it was announced that all the camps would be closed within the coming twelve months and that internees now had the right to return to their former homes. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not only because of what happened nine months ago. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He saw the stream that roared with water two months of the year and was dry as a bone the rest of the time. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But only nine months after Tommy was born, Luke arrived premature. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

In 1942, a few months after my mother died, I told Dennis, “I want to accept Jesus Christ into my life and join the church.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in spring, when I was in the fifth grade, just months before he, like his brother, was assassinated, Big Ma put on a church outfit to hear the senator speak. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Before the month was out, another familiar face showed at the inn. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

A feast that was especially welcome at Small Eid, which marks the end of a month of daytime fasting for Ramadan. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was spring, many months past Christmas, and yet black Santas lined the windowsills. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

A month later, I got a call from Mom. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean, we were together fourteen months. Fourteen months is a long time. God, that hurts.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“We chose a settlement two months ago,” he finally said. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“They died from the scarlet fever three month past.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

I was to leave school for ever in July 1934 and join the Shell Company two months later in September when I would be exactly eighteen. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lemme ask you something: If you send a normal kid to a group home with a bunch of dummies for nine months what’s more likely to happen? We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

In August 1853, several months after her betrayal by the men in the temperance movement, Anthony attended the New York teachers’ convention in Rochester, New York. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

My last jujitsu class was three and a half months ago. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I have less than four months to live.... Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Instead, I was out with Freddie and Hackett, with people—which was more than I could say for the last ten months. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Two years and eleven months,” the girl said defensively. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

We have been for months constrained in scenes of prodigious sickness and desolation; we cannot but feel gratitude that we exchange these sad prospects for new views. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

It’s a strange sensation to pick up a book you read and enjoyed just a few months ago and discover you don’t remember it. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I saw her in the park a few months later, looking more like a red-eyed, scaly-skinned dragon than my mommy. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Its been a month and we need to pay you. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The maiden test flights into nearby space a few months earlier had been successful, but because we’re now leaving so suddenly, this will be the first interstellar journey. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I wait and I wait in the office, she said, but me never comes. o o o ... this month’s 20 Hot Sex Tips for Girls. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

No mess at all, and when the end of the month come I could take my fifty bucks and go into town and get whatever I want. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

At four feet eight inches tall, I looked about ten years old even though I’d turn fourteen in exactly one month. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

My science book says that hair grows at a rate of one centimeter per month. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyone looking at that photograph would have had to conclude that the building could not possibly be finished in the four and a half months that remained until Dedication Day. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Some years earlier Mrs. Clutter had traveled to Wichita for two weeks of treatment and remained two months. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When he went away for over a week for the third time in a month.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, we say that the child is six weeks old or nine months old instead—a clever way of getting around the fact that the baby is zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

This occurred despite the formation, a month before, of the Patriotic Front, an alliance of the ANC, the PAC, and the Azanian People’s Organization around a declaration of common goals. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got detention twice that month before he bought a pack of nicotine gum and chewed it instead of smoking because his dad said if he got detention again, no bike. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

A few months later and she would have cried if she’d been taken out. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Two months later, East Germany held free elections. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Though six months’ pregnant with her fifth child, my mother took the job; in fact, she was ecstatic over it. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few months later, he got off the Andromeda in Houston and began searching for Kathy. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The neighborhood had been all but drained of familiar faces, and now, only four months after fighting had broken out between the Mujahideen factions, Laila hardly recognized anybody on the streets anymore. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

‘The truth is, he didn’t even hold you until you were a month old. And then only to look down once, comment on your longish face, and hand you back to me.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

A month or two later, a crow landed on the shoulder of an old woman who was sitting making rope in the shade of her house. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the almost five months between his nomination and the election, Garfield gave dozens of speeches to his visitors. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Just flunked right out after three weeks and ended up marrying some rich guy. But not two months later, she ran off to Atlanta with that rich guy’s brother.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Within a month the disease had spread into almost every province of Haiti, including Port-au-Prince, as well as the neighboring Dominican Republic. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I had several large bills to pay each month, both in the real world and in the OASIS. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy, a private school for troubled kids in upstate New York. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Can’t you bleeding well listen to what I say? I tell you no number ending in seven ain’t won for over fourteen months!” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He had caught the man stealing from him several months before, and the man had vowed revenge. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Compared to Percy’s last few months, the trip was easy. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

That confidence enabled me, several months later, to overcome my fear of the silence. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the next eight months he worked in Zizmo’s rum-running operation, observing its odd hours, getting up in the middle of the night and having dinner at dawn. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Several months ago the affiliate here in Birmingham asked us to be on call to engage in a nonviolent direct-action program if such were deemed necessary. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

"I came in a couple months ago with my roommate." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

For six months Tom Smith had been holding Seabiscuit in his closed fist. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

To give these up for three months for the terrors of the uncomfortable and unknown seemed crazy. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if she’s upset at the news she just heard or at suddenly realizing that I’ve been listening in on the men’s secret meetings for months. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

During the next several months, Guiteau and his family attempted to obtain a pardon, going as far as sending their request to President Arthur. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You don’t get tired. Not till the tenth month.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

These had five, six rooms; some had ten and if you could manage fifty, sixty dollars a month, you could have one. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I shouldn’t be surprised at this point. The Erudite have been attacking us with these reports for months. And this isn’t the end. There will be more, I guarantee it.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Two months ago, the queen put a man in a starvation box in the Royal Square for trying to kiss Daisy, the Belle at the Fire Teahouse. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I quit school, and after all that talk, James quits four months later. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three months had passed, and Briony had heard nothing from Horizon. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

In the three months he was in the bush, there was only one. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“It’s not such a bad life,” Mom told us after they’d been homeless for a couple of months. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

And so I spent months riding in the rumble seat of my gram’s car to and from Westwood and hours sitting in the waiting room, until the day they let us know their findings. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The strike staggered on for weeks, months, nearly a year. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Two months ago, she was glad to earn five dollars a week. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

You pay £175 and can go anywhere on the trains in Europe for free for a month. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Filling the months in the meantime posed not the slightest problem. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Second, N says “soon our eyes will meet again,” because Neil is coming back to school at the end of the month. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He had to go to the hearing to tell them about my arm...about how I couldn’t use it for three months....” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He could not find the words he had so carefully prepared for months before daring to knock at the door of the patrons house. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It usually takes a woman five or six months to get pregnant,” the doctor went on. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The tenement had been destroyed in a fire two months before, and our friend from Piatra Neamt had been taken with it. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Within a few months I had asked her to marry me and she accepted. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In those early months, we’d somehow developed this idea that how well you were settling in at the Cottages—how well you were coping—was somehow reflected by how many books you’d read. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Agena we were to visit, which had been in space four months, would have dead batteries by the time we got there. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost everyone looks forward to the first Friday of each month, when work and school end early. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

What are we going to live on next month? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Genie’s and Ernie’s clothes—an entire month’s worth—in the drawers of the blue dresser. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

A man could sit right here and figure out when the moon would rise every night next month—or next year—or ten years from now! Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I will glean alone today,” Scythe Faraday told Rowan and Citra one day in February, the second month of their apprenticeship. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“You might have to move to Poland, then. It’s official. She’s leaving next month.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I want to stay home too, pretend none of the last few months ever happened. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

All the cardboard boxes that had been sent to the office in the last few months were piled on the floors and beds. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He looked even better than he had six months ago—tanner and taller, leaner and more muscular. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

After twelve months at Head Office, we trainees were all sent away to various Shell branches in England to study salesmanship. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next few weeks, months, is a snowy blur. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Thus it did not seem prudent to cash my checks, which were still sent to Copenhagen at the beginning of each month. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

On another floor of the hospital, in a waiting room, Ashoke hunches over a Boston Globe from a month ago, abandoned on a neighboring chair. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

For the last eleven months he’d been living in New York, on the Lower East Side. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

After that, I continued to play it every few months, just to keep from getting rusty. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It took me a month to get over the shock of having life possibilities. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t remember what month that was, or what year even. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Every month, we waited to see if perhaps it had happened at last. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Anyway,” she continued, “he’s been there for forever, but a couple of months ago, he just wasn’t there anymore.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

We hadn’t been out there six months when Sophie and I broke up. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She squints at me in disbelief: “And where am I supposed to get a month’s rent and a month’s deposit for an apartment?” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are a dozen small tables with chairs inside for visiting family who come on visitation days, typically scheduled two or three times a month. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But as the months passed and I had the opportunity to ponder McCandless’s death at greater length, this consensus came to seem less and less plausible. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“You calculate it could have been as little as three months?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

But I’ve lived here for six months already...isn’t it time I stopped being such a curiosity? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Ophie had hauled more firewood in the past month than she had all winter, and still the old woman complained of being chilled. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“It hasn’t rained in a month. Your dad’s fooling with you, Sonny. Look, there’s the new walkway. All done. They could’ve hauled the cement and stuff away when they finished.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“His visa is for three months, so he’ll be here for a while.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

My empathy link was really tingling for the first time in months, which either meant a whole lot of people had suddenly switched on the Nature Channel, or Grover was close. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Surviving worms in Louisiana were found to have as much as 20 parts per million of heptachlor in their tissues 6 to 10 months after treatment of the area. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

In those terrible months after Dad died, the twins had hardly ever left her side. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Within months of its debut in 1996, Blue’s Clues was trouncing Sesame Street in the ratings. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stupid goat had broken his leg two weeks earlier, and Anya’s grandfather wanted him to stay in the barn and rest for at least a month. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

For the first few months in the White House, I felt the need to be watchful over everything. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Do you remember when we sat by the river some months ago and talked about Copernicus and Newton?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Here’s an invitation to my birthday party next month,” Deb says, handing me an envelope. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Five months. It’s pretty good. Nice boss, free food, can’t complain. Do you have a job?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

On October 12, 1937, after a month’s rest, Seabiscuit resumed his winning ways in smashing style, bounding home first under 130 pounds in the rich Continental Handicap at New York’s Jamaica Race Track. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kids surrounded it, eager to see the contents that had been locked away for the past eleven months. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Any other woman would have been delighted with all this and would have had her work cut out for her for months to come, but not Clara, who was impervious to these things. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Besides,” Ruthanne added, “kids spend nine months of the year trying to get out of school. I guess they don’t figure anyone’s going to sneak back in.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She liked to learn the printed English words in books, and so a month passed rather happily. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In December, two months after John’s medevac flight to Boston, I am back with Farmer in Haiti, as our truck’s headlights bounce over the endless, back-jarring potholes of Highway 3. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I ran out of real coffee months ago. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I need it so much. I’m dreadfully in debt, and it won’t be my turn to have the rag money for a month.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m less than two months old and I’m tired of living,” he said. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Someone had been in the same work gang with his father for four months last summer on the Walker county road. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, more than a month into the trial, a Chicago criminal lawyer who was Scoville’s friend agreed to join the defense team. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

In hospital for four months, multiple surgeries, months of physical therapy. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

A few days later, in an attempt to clean out her courtyard, Petra Cotes exchanged the rabbits for a cow, who two months later gave birth to triplets. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

And within months of her starting the job, tragedy struck: Harold Washington abruptly had a heart attack and died at his desk, thirty minutes after holding a press conference about low-income housing. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The day had been, up until the noon hour, one of more optimism than they had known that month. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

But first, the chief of MI6 himself, known simply as "C" inside the service, granted Blake several months' vacation to recuperate. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I was exactly fourteen and a half that month, and still getting used to the embarrassment of having the monthly visits. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s probably been over a month since my last cut, and the barber wasn’t that great. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

She’d saved for the brush by mending clothes; it took four months, she told me, to earn the money. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“My daughter and I worked on it for months. But when we finished, my daughter said, ‘Father, the horse is so beautiful, but the man is so ugly! When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I would not learn in three months what my father had meant by ‘real work.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

For this, Winnie was charged and then sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t believe we start school in a week. The trip flew by. It didn’t seem like a whole month.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

My brother was concerned too, so he got an extra janitorial job to help us out, but he could not continue beyond the first month. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s a couple weeks after we get back from winter break, which means we’ve got about three months to prepare. And were going to start now.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

For months, it's been as gray as the faded paint flaking off the walls, but today it's blue and gold. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

If you planted pumpkin seeds there, in a few months there would be large plants growing across the ground, and a few months after that, there would be great yellow pumpkins ripening in the sun. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I got by between paydays by neglecting overdue bills and borrowing money from Robin, so twice a month, when a few hundred dollars went into my account, it was gone within hours. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“That is one busy girl. What was it last month? Swing dancing?” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was almost like she didn’t want to remember what she was like twelve months ago, and she certainly didn’t want the boys to know that she knew me and used to be my friend. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I’m more into whatever is trending that month. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Another two months to fortify and hide it from the prying eyes of aux patrols. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I finished my dinner that night for the first time in months. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The house went to the bank, and I lived with various friends for a few months at a time, sleeping on their couches or more often on the floor. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

But even after months of managing egos and matching names and positions, Garfield didn't have the rest of his cabinet in place when he reached Washington. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Apart from those months, for most of his adult life he has never been more than a four-hour train ride away. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It took months for authorities to apprehend Blackie, and, as Hoover noted, “a number of officers had to take their lives in their hands to correct this mistake.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Early in the month we had two days of light, steady rain which aroused a final fullness everywhere. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if that wasn’t enough, paying ten dollars a month to somebody to tell you how to lose it fast, that either dont know anything about it or is in cahoots with the telegraph company. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Today” finally came on August 30, more than four months after the James Caird had sailed away. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

A storm gathered in her deep breasts, as the months of holiness added together. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

After ten months on Maxwell Street and over twelve months in an attic before that, I expected mornings to smell like dust and mildew. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She had first seen Rob months before, in the elevator, with his unkempt clothes and unwashed hair, and he had smiled at her and said, “I see you around.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“They had picked the right month,” Bloom said, “but the wrong year.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

For seven months Dorothy Vaughan had apprenticed as a mathematician, growing more confident with the concepts, the numbers, and the people at Langley. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Five months, since I had seen her body, maybe eight or nine since I’d really touched her. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the following weeks and months, we requested sunglasses again and again. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was after midnight when Barack and I went to the airport to leave Iowa, knowing we wouldn’t be back for months. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Why go to all the trouble of transferring the boys up north only to ship them back in a month? In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anxious to rescue in the course of a few months what had lain in ruins for years, the patron hired every man, woman, old person, and child who could stand on his own two feet. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pa is not only worried about Vincent, he's skeptical too, and he's not happy he still has to send his eldest son money every month. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I remembered his mentioning Jack a couple of times over the past few months. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you remember Bill Tenner? Worked here about three months ago?” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first few months after Sam’s death I was not able to do much more than my basic chores. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How she would have been four months old now.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of them come from the journals written in the last few months. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

As was his habit, he planned to spend the month of August in Normandy, visiting friends and working on his house. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“I thought a house would be nice for a change. It’s furnished too. Had to give a deposit, plus first and last months’ rent for the year. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Many months had passed since the children had written their letters, however. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They spent the next few months grilling economists, sociologists, and marketing experts, wrangling data. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Over the next few months, Molly got bits and pieces of Jack’s story. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Nine months was a whole lot better than hearing “until you’re twenty-one.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Calculating the pressure distribution over a particular airfoil at a transonic speed could easily take a month to complete for the most experienced of mathematicians. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The harshness abated, and within three months of the judges’ visit, we received word that Badenhorst was to be transferred. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Faces looked years older than when we had arrived ten months before. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“I caught wind of some local legends near the Mongolian border. Cost me nearly two months of brutal living to track her down.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Caroline continued at my mother’s breast for another twelve months. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Auditions are at the end of the month and we’re doing Beauty and the Beast. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

That worked for a few months, until they needed actual copper fittings for their equipment, at which point they referred to the genuine metal as “honest-to-God copper.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Unlike her compliant older brother, Sonia, seven months old, refuses all the food. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It seemed to me that I never had so much happiness crowded into one short month.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I thought about all that had happened in the last month or so. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was like the musical hadn’t happened, like we hadn’t barely talked in months. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I had lived for twenty-one years, but the recent months had changed me. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Anyway, it sat in my desk drawer for about nine months, but then I thought, Why not? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“And there was a blonde-and-mysteriously-younger girl that a friend of mine saw Troy out with a few months ago, and he still hasn’t come up with a particularly satisfactory answer for that. So. Yeah.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I knew something of seasons, but nothing of months and years—I had no use for them. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

During those weeks and months after the bombing, I kept on helping Pastor Cross while we waited for workers to complete the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church renovations. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

About a month before school started she was mean all morning as usual and in the afternoon, instead of settling down to knit, she kept getting meaner and meaner. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"About a month ago. You know the nine hundredth text and phone call you decided to ignore?" We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The main point about it was that it alerted me to the fact that things between Miss Kenton and myself had reached - no doubt after a gradual process of many months - an inappropriate footing. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Father spent months perfecting it before inking it into her skin. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Or it could be days and weeks and months and years, for all I know, because time gets strange when every part of you is tired and hurting. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

You didn’t have any money because you’d gone to the movies twice that month. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“During the last twelve months we have gone through a period of grim dictatorship.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I should be crushed that less than a month into my junior year of high school, my latest girlfriend kicked me to the curb like a pair of too-small shoes. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

What gets a steer from 80 to 1,100 pounds in fourteen months is tremendous amounts of corn, food supplements, and drugs. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

As the months went by, we got better and better at flying the simulator, and finally I was ready to stop pretending and really fly. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even though the king had banned magic, most knew the truth: within a month of his proclamation, magic had completely and utterly disappeared of its own accord. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

We heard little from my mother for six months, and just like the year before, she did not acknowledge my Christmas gifts until late in January. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Between them and the stream itself stood half-grown clumps of purple loosestrife and fleabane, which would not flower for nearly two months yet. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But we live on a moving platform, the Earth, which every six months has progressed from one end of its orbit to the other, a distance of 300,000,000 kilometers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a few months, Walter very much wanted to return to the place he'd spent his whole life. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Tai, she got pictures of this little Korean girl she sends money to every month. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Every month she pored over her magazines that came in the mail—The Ladies’ Home Journal and McCall’s. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

A couple of months earlier, all the national parks, along with all other nonessential government departments, had been closed for a couple of weeks during a budget impasse between President Clinton and Congress. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I could not help but think that this could have been me, and holding you—a month old by then—I knew that such loss would not be mine alone. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

There are good months, though, when she can earn $ 1,000 to $1,200 cleaning offices and homes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“That’s our journey this month. Figuring it all out. Home is our starting point for connecting to the past.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“This might sound weird, but do you have any idea what happened to my brother? It’s been six months since we’ve heard from him.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

It’s been a couple of months since you made it to these parts.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Six months after he moved in with Harim, Shin called me to say that they were splitting up. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

His mother was a seamstress, his father a white peddler who passed through every few months. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But Dad took it slowly, and within a couple of months the older children had learned all the tricks involved. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Robbie was only a few months older than Sierra and he was absolutely serious. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I clipped out the fist and kept it for the several months it took me to read all of the titles. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I wrote the unvanquished truth stuff down and then kept on going, for months and months, until it was spring again, and the world was really and truly green all over. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sure this is going to come up in my crttica at the end of the month. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Right, then. Good to know. Only been here a few months.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Over a period of months, the feared black rhino had killed over a hundred people. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

These months mark the longest we have ever been separated. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

They were to meet them in four months’ time at the caravansary in Alkonost, where the full delegation would assemble to strike out together across the Elmuthaleth. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The men worked hard, saved their money, and then headed home once a month with groceries and money for their families. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The same month we met in Padre de Jesus’ rectory, a new law was passed. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For months I imagined whoever had attacked the Islamic Center living among us and was afraid of passing them on the street or at the grocery store. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

There were months when he did not come, but every morning as soon as we awakened we put our hands under our pillows to see. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It had not rained for three months and there had been a drought. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He knew he would have trouble at the bank the first of the month. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A coronation means a month of balls. We will need new dresses.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Yeah...anything...said Harry, his heart lighter than it had been in a month. “You know what — we should make up with Hermione.... Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She is three months behind in school payments for Belky, and the school is threatening not to let her take final exams. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think it’s my birthday,” he puzzled, “and Christmas must be months away, and I haven’t been outstandingly good, or even good at all.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Too well educated for his own good” was what Hanako’s father was accused of, and he spent seven months in the stockade. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I looked at this place about a month ago,” he said, slowing as we approached a white farmhouse on a hill, forlorn bales of hay dotting the snowy pasture. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

After a short vacation at the end of the season, Luma had just a month to find the Fugees a new home field within walking distance of the apartment complexes where her players lived. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Around the first of the month, when the bills came due for the phone, gas, and electricity, Valencia would have me go through the books and make a list of everyone who owed her money. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

When she was in third grade, she’d had a babysitter who took her to the Art Institute once a month. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Even from that distance, Annabeth could smell the spider’s stink, like an entire bakery full of pastries left to go bad for a month. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When I reached our floor and went inside our new place, our second in about a month, it got me down to see it full of boxes. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“He had months to think up something and that’s all he could say?” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sends her $ 100 or more a month. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Once again, Salva and a few other young men walked for months. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Have you had any other sleepovers in the last month?” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

His neck and ears looked as though they hadn’t been washed in months. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I know that no matter what my skin looks like tomorrow or next month or next year, I’m going to keep fighting for that girl. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

But when the seasons brought the fourth around, as long months waned, and the slow days were spent, one of her maids, who knew the secret, told us. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the love of my children after several months I went to find them, located them in San Francisco, my wife not knowing. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first and second days of the month had been crossed out. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Gay pointed out that I was officially missing for nine months. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Their gentle pressure erases the past few months, and I am the girl who sat on the rocks next to the chasm, with river spray on her ankles, and kissed him for the first time. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Earl himself soon followed them to the grave, a month short of his seventy-seventh birthday. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The months leading her toward the end she knew would be far from dignified. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Then, about three months later, on September 12, 1970, Joe was walking down an East Baltimore street with his friend June. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

While he was shaving, he remembered a few months earlier, President Johnson had shown him the hidden safe where he stashed top secret documents. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It must have been about a month before she disappeared. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Season's been over for months, but not the swaggering. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The museum had sponsored a dig in Madagascar for a few months to search for the bone, and I got to go. You remember your father and me telling you about Madagascar?” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Most of them were freshmen and had been in Leon’s class only a month or so but the teacher’s pattern had already emerged. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

For several anxious months, city officials drove themselves crazy trying to figure out who was leaking information to UOCI. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Swing into Spring is a big deal. Everybody’s been getting ready for months. Too bad they didn’t have it yesterday, though, the weather was so great. Did you go to lunch?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Jasmine was born nine months after one such visit, and now the Delanys owned two slaves. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Six months earlier Tamara had been badly injured in an air raid with a compound fracture to her left leg, which left her with a permanent limp. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It was exactly two months since Chester had arrived in New York, and the three animals wanted to celebrate the anniversary. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Duke was captured after the battle of Richmond and spent a few months as a prisoner before being released at war’s end. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Marriage was still more mysterious to him than it was to me, but in the fourteen months we’d been engaged, he’d been nothing but all in. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

As the months went on, the Wide Patrols became systematic; during summer and early autumn there were usually two or three out at a time. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had come to him, this odd and lovable trio, over eight months ago, from the home of an old and dear college friend. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Working closely with a former business editor, Glenn Kramon, David labored for months to create a financial portrait of the richest Americans. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

It has been over a month since Pa was taken away. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The words were reaching him, he later reflected, in a way that nothing else had in the preceding twenty-six months. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“No. Peach’s parents. They want me to visit in a few months, when she’s six months old. We had originally agreed to two visits a year back before the adoption.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I believe many visitors in the last few months of Morrie’s life were drawn not because of the attention they wanted to pay to him but because of the attention he paid to them. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He resumed his job as warden, only to resign three months later. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s weird to me and she wasn’t even inside me for nine months. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

After a month, two months, three, I write Cordelia a note, on flowered notepaper of the sort that doesn’t leave much space for words. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I found a journal entry from September 1973. One month before the bus ticket.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Any barrier that had eroded between us these past few months, I’ve just built back up in a matter of seconds. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

That night, I have the same nightmare I’ve been having for months—the one where someone comes at me from behind and tries to strangle me. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It seemed to her as she thought back over the last month that she had never really believed in her mind that the violin would work. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

During the month each paid twenty cents a week to practice on our piano. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

SJ: I know it's been over a month, but after talking to you tonight...Well, it wasn't my place to speak for you. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Eight months! Thqr vanish to Boston for eight months and then show up with no warning and wanting tea. Tea! I could get tarred and feathered for brewing tea,” she muttered. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Last month, Mr. Ward gave our class an assignment to write a poem about what frightens us most, in honor of Halloween. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was particularly disappointed, I suppose, because I have been devoting some time and effort over recent months to improving my skill in this very area. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

It might be months before they were alone again. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He hasn’t said anything else to Alex about his rant from last month, but he has started wearing headphones to spare Alex his musical choices. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A few months later, when Emmett heard Henrietta needed blood, he and his brother and six friends piled into a truck and went straight to Hopkins. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I have a tiny clothespin at the bottom of the calendar pages, so I don’t cheat and peek ahead — I want each month’s flower to be a surprise. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what hurt, Papa decided I couldn’t drive the Cadillac for two months. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She finally felt the weight of his absence, after keeping it at a numb distance for many months. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Bosses did not pull children out of school, and there were schools within walking distance for everyone; the school year was six whole months long, and teachers got monthly pay of thirty dollars. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The only thing that intrigued Úrsula after almost two months of punishment was that Meme did not take a bath in the morning like everyone else, but at seven in the evening. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The tape disappeared a couple of months after the incident with Madame. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And then Audrey went to visit her sister for a week. This was, oh, a year, thirteen months after you’d gone away.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“Your father had been taken by beasts. It had been several months since he went off to hunt and did not return. And so I would not give birth again. “ Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the month was up, I was sad to leave. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

They’re not ready to be eaten for eight to ten months—in the next winter. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

First of the month, there is always a long line at the cashier’s office. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I only had a few months before I became an official teenager. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Well, you tell your mother we’re expecting her at the garden club next month. No excuses this time.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I don’t think it would have happened six months ago. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Freak goes into the medical research place every few months now, which he says is a real pain, not that it actually hurts. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Only three months remained until the closing ceremony on October 30. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It haunted me for more than a month, not the words so much as its desperation, and I resolved finally to take him up on his story suggestion. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

For months, Mom had been telling me about rumors that Finkle workers would be laid off. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The following winter months brought the first intimation that other life was affected: the western grebes on the lake began to die, and soon more than a hundred of them were reported dead. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

As he passed me on his way back to bed, I noticed his bulging navel, the size of an egg, that had ruptured when he was a few months old. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Maybe they could show me how to write the poem I had wanted to write months earlier. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I had been in the demon land for only ten months, so it would have been about January of the demons’ year 1904, when we met Mr. Alger. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said he was going to get married the next month and was looking forward to it. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The cutoff date for almost all nonschool baseball leagues in the United States is July 31, with the result that more major league players are born in August than in any other month. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Within months, he had been elected to the Congress of People's Deputies as a leading figure of the movement for democracy in Russia. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The man turned to me and said, “I lost my daughter a month back. She got real, real sick, then she died.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He pays for her operation, and for the first few months Theo is consumed with taking care of her. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He calls me in his office every once in a while, scans the month’s articles with a red pencil, marking and slashing and grunting. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Harry wanted to believe that Kreacher had changed toward him in the past month, that he would be loyal now, but who knew what would happen? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“I’ve lived here all my life. You’ve lived here a few months. You think there’s a whole lot of places you know about that I don’t?” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Late that evening, we joined a group of friends and family at dinner, thanking them for their support during what had been a nutty eleven months since the announcement in Springfield. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Once a month, it’s reserved for me and any potential business meetings I might have. I thought you might prefer some Western food, at any rate.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“And what I do remember is almost impossible to describe. It’s all much less clear than it was even a few months ago. I suppose I should have tried to write it down or something.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Several months earlier, Kennedy had given the green light to the top secret Cable 24.3, sent by the US State Department to the American ambassador stationed in Saigon, South Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“It's kept perfect time now for months,” said Maxim. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Three years and four months have passed since Papa left Saint- Malo. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It took me aback for months that they look so much like little boys in ruffly dresses. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took thousands of workers eight months to clear 1.8 billion tons of debris from the sixteen acres of the World Trade Center site in New York. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She entered one of her long periods of silence—I think it lasted several months—during which she used her little slate, as she had in her days of muteness. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few showed January, as if the months on the underlying pages had no longer been turned or torn away. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Henry stares down at his words from months ago. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Pat, a vivacious college beauty queen just two months graduated from Virginia State College, was marrying her college sweetheart, a young army corporal named Walter Kane. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

To keep the fall crop of daikon from freezing during the cold months, North Koreans sometimes bury them in mounds. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The dawn came slowly, so slowly and pausingly that it was impossible to determine when it really had dawned, as it does during the summer months. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to have to improve this or we’ll be a month on this river.” The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Two months ago I got an even better one and I have been working full-time. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“About a month,” said Elizabeth; and then, unwilling to let the subject drop, added, “He is a man of very large property in Derbyshire, I understand.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

“We refined the trigger chemical, created a once-a-day pill. Over a few months, our old faces came back.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

One month between hitches convinced him of that. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Once a month, Ian was allowed to make a phone call. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was again late afternoon when we were ushered into the same office of a month ago by the same black policeman with the gun. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In those three months they had come to love each other with the ecstatic passion that would torment them for the rest of their lives. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, she find out a few months ago that she can make Biddy go crazy if she tease her long enough. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

One was a greenhouse worker in Germany who became paralyzed several months after experiencing mild symptoms of poisoning on a few occasions after using parathion. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Within six months the streets became strangely absent of women because they were afraid to go out to do their shopping. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“So it would seem. He wrote to Downing Street a few months ago: ‘My dear Prime Minister. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

And he said, “He’s two months old. And he’s a golden retriever.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, five months later a blue jay appeared and a wren.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

A trial date for the shooter, who was indicted last month, has not yet been set. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In exactly one month, she would be twelve years old, and for the first time in her life, Papa wouldn’t be there to celebrate with her. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The fighting was so intense during the months at Voronezh that sometimes there wasn’t even time to punish people when they disobeyed the rules. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“You were just four months old, before we knew why you were always sick. A month before the accident.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Still, during those months, Berkeley faculty members continued to assure me that—they were certain—I would be able to work as a special counselor to minority students. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

More than a month’s wages on heavy crew. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

You didn’t finish a month of piano lessons.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

“How are we at the family brunch stage? You’ve been dating him for, what, three months?” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Paolo’s father was a real estate mogul who had been indicted for insider trading some months ago. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

English and I had a rhythm going, and I knew that if we kept it up for the next few months, we’d both be breaking records. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I spent three or four months making up and learning songs for the elders, then I sang them when I was home for vacation. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You guys will get to meet her soon, now that I’ll be staying here for a few months while I get back on my feet.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They may also be held in detention for a minor offense, without bail, for months or more during investigation and legal proceedings. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The man is the fifth or sixth driver murdered in the last two months. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

One month later, Nico sat on the couch in the living room as Beverly poured herself an iced tea in the kitchen and Alma whispered to her mother on the phone in her bedroom. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

A month before, he’d rigged a Greek firebomb in the bathroom of a tour bus that was carrying a bunch of monsters across country. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

That night as I rode the train home, I had to try to psych myself up for working with Sam again for another three months. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Several months after Barack’s announcement in Springfield and with the support of my colleagues, I’d decided to scale back to part-time hours, knowing it was the only sustainable way to keep going. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I remembered that I had said to Arturo many months ago, as we came through in the opposite direction, that it was all so beautiful. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

A long time ago Pa told me that April is a very good luck month. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The revolving door pushes against months of debris as I enter the building. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

When he had been at the oasis for almost a month, the leader of the caravan called a meeting of all of the people traveling with him. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the end, Dinath pulled enough strings to speed up his release and left after serving only four months of his two-year sentence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Twenty-one years, three months, fourteen days,” Bodega said. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Apparently, June hadn’t actually gotten permission to come over, and now she was grounded for at least a month for sneaking out. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A few months ago, she would have plopped down next to me as if she lived here. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Four months after Enrique arrives in the United States, his work hours get cut. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Two months after Diana’s birth, she is fired. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

We said to each other that we were married the first day she had come to the hospital and we counted months from our wedding day. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“That’s the truth. But since Mr. Dawson’s been here I don’t feel so old. Retirement was good for a few months, but I don’t need it.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you had to pay $4.80 a month for a sofa that started off split, no good, and humiliating—you couldn’t take any joy in owning it. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad died in a car accident a month before I was born, so we never met. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

He hated to imagine what it would be like for his mother and father, day after day, month after month, not knowing, living on false hope. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

But at the same time, and for the first time in months, I distincdy heard the sound of my own voice. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

And finally, after months and months of darkness, Mom and I would have another flower. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“He hasn’t given me any warning over the last week or the last month, or, for Christ’s sake, this morning!” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The official death toll in the four months of violence stood at about four hundred; the unofficial figure was twice that. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

On a bright winter day, six months later, Joyous Gard was invested. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the equivalent of pulling a frantic all-nighter to get a paper done in college, only Barack was estimating it would take him roughly a couple of months to get the book finished. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The magistrate gave the defense four months to sift through the eight thousand pages of typed evidence and twelve thousand documents to prepare its case. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But something changed five months and eight days ago. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But when the nearly all-white jury pronounced him guilty, after fifteen months of waiting for vindication, he was shocked, paralyzed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

For the next sixty months I would be quarantined in the same district, seeing the same streets, the same mine dumps on the horizon, the same sky. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Eagle didn’t check that story, because Alaska spent at least one weekend there every month, and he knew that her parents never cared. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Like I said, my father died about six months ago. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Another was cruising the Caribbean for a month. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I could have kept them on a picket chain while I built the kennel—which would take two months; I would have to rent a bulldozer to clear a place, drill holes, build houses, etc. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A few months earlier, he had been given a flight safety award by his airline for successfully handling a jumbo-jet engine failure at low altitude. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

We lived through the months of January and February and the winter was very fine and we were very happy. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

When she objected to his ranting, he broke off the conversation and didn’t call back for months. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was not particularly tasty, but month in and month out there was lots of it. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

In almost ten months of dating, Joaquin had never seen Birdie cry, not even once. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Even now, seven months later, there was still a huge pile. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Grandma and Grandpa Miller brought her home from an orphanage when she was only a few months old. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He lives across the street and around the corner and he’d been at camp for the past month and a half. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, just the interest... In two months you’d owe me over thirty-five talents.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A lot can happen to a person’s appearance in three months. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Every month a bookmobile drove into the schoolyard. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I had to promise a decision by the tenth of the month. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I’d been working at the museum for nine months, I had saved up enough money to give Mum a surprise—I sent her a check that would pay for her to visit me. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

It would be months before Rush truly regained his strength, but within five days he was back on his feet and valiantly seeing patients in his home. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“We have dined with her. She visited us just a month ago.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

On the way home, all Suesetta can talk about is the boycott we will be having next month at one of the local grocery stores that still refuses to hire coloreds. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He’d hoped to recruit the Heartrender Nina Zenik at some point, but now she looked like she might not last out the month—all jutting bones, dark hollows, and trembling hands. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Until it's enough to remind me what it feels like to be close to another person, enough to last me for another span of months. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

This is hard to believe when she has to tell him a million times how 2,700 miles divided by sixteen equals five months, give or take. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Dutchy completes his technical training and aircraft carrier flight deck training, and after he’s been in San Diego for a month, he learns that soon he’ll be shipping out. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Copernicus was given command of a castle at Allenstein, and held the town against the invaders for several months. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

There’s always the basement, but no one ever goes down there, and it could be weeks, maybe even months, before Mom and my sisters would find me. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

To be honest, due to my nine months of experience, my shifts fluctuate from night to day week after week. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

After all those tumultuous months, filled with turbulent thoughts, anxiety attacks, and headaches, it was finally settled. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For months and months we couldn’t see you! Are you all right?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It took less than a month for our household to fall into chaos. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d spent a month training with them one burning summer, and her muscles still ached at the memory of their grueling exercises. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Fezzik really felt idiotic then because, after months of forgetting, now that he didn’t need to remember any more, he remembered. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Weeks go by when Jutta does not allow herself to think of the war, of Frau Elena, of the awful last months in Berlin. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

That seems like a long time of working at something, since the medical definition of infertility is twelve months of well-timed physical union without any results. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The class listened to one opera each month—at least made some effort to listen over the thunder of groans and barely suppressed expletives from the athletes who populated the last row of seats. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

For many months he had trained for this, and now he finally understood why Goddard always let the last one go before Rowan could strike, stopping him one blow short of completion. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Mom has talked about nothing else for months. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

After six months on the job, Cullen knew it was inevitable that the sand would creep into his socks despite the canvas gaiters covering his pant legs and shoes. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Samantha was Jones and Agnes's daughter, and she'd been so nice to me in the months I lived with them when I was eight and Gramps had to spend some time in the hospital. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I could not but shake my head-, knowing not where Pro Bono had been this seven months. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Every month, it’s a knife fight or money trouble or wife trouble or mistress trouble or just plain trouble. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The web of shops and ships and rotting bridges changed so often that after a month, the port would become an entirely new labyrinth. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

As the months went by, I learned more and more. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

But try as she might to reach for that anger, that rage that had sustained her all these months, whenever she grasped for it, she saw Palo Kanta. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It had taken them three months to learn the girl even existed, and another two to figure out she was still in Oxscini, but they were close now. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

‘The Lytes will stay in Milton about a month,’ she whispered. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d e-mailed me a few months earlier in response to an article I’d published in Johns Hopkins Magazine after meeting the Lacks men. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was an impossible job, was the thing—it would probably take months for an officer to gain any real measure of control. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But there’s so much to do. And I try to get to San Francisco at least once a month.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But what me and Rose had gone through together over the past few months had been the main cure for me. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

And not only on paper, I’m only on paper for ten months when I leave here, that’s all the parole I have. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Towards the end of the month, her mother became ill, and she spent much of her time at her bedside, nursing her and encouraging her to get better. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The symphony was performed repeatedly in Allied countries in the months that followed. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

That time of ecstasy for me and three of my brothers, each of us with a birthday that month, plus Halloween to look forward to. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I know for sure Mama won’t be giving me any kind of allowance, and my birthday’s two months away. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“My little niece calls him Wilbur. She’s a rather queer child—full of notions. She raised the pig on a bottle and I bought him from her when he was a month old.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“I hadn’t seen him in months before the party.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

In my reflection, I see a narrow face, wide, round eyes, and a long, thin nose—I still look like a little girl, though sometime in the last few months I turned sixteen. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

But Humphrey, despite his size, didn’t last for long—only for eighteen months. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Freedom brought problems; I needed textbooks and had to wait for months to obtain them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was because of this continuous stream of undocumented human souls that, a few months after our arrival, my mother warned me about the perils of a favourite habit of mine: begging for food. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were supposed to be wrapping up our magnets-and-electricity unit, but really, there’s not much more to learn about magnets after you’ve been talking about them for almost a month straight. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But here she was, nearly three months later, and the apparitions hadn’t gone anywhere. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I only heard her in my head and once a month on the telephone. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

She liked the outdoors, and a particular friend of hers had been assigned Farm some months before; she hoped to spend the next part of her working life in the company of someone she enjoyed. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I been bailing Rose for months, getting up before dawn to pump out the bilge and keep her floating. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I have not paid attention in the last few months to news of any kind. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

And ultimately, I suppose that I did show that college counselor, because six or seven months later, a letter arrived in our mailbox on Euclid Avenue, offering me admission to Princeton. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I was gone, without seeing her, for seven months. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A month ago, Danny Brooks, the eighth grader with a scoliosis brace, was picked six slots ahead of me for a round of dodgeball. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“And you’re in your final year here, only a few months left, really. I hope you feel well enough to see it through. To finish with us.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The last time I stopped by Elizabeth’s house was a month ago. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“You ever disappear like that again, you little punk, I’ll knock you into next month!” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Where was you last month when me and B. J. was lookin’ for somebody to help him? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I haven’t seen her reading the Learn About the United States booklet in months. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She also had news of her own: She was ditching her job as a computer specialist at the Federal Reserve and going traveling—not for weeks, but for months. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Two months later, Project Vanguard, managed by the US Naval Research Laboratory, also managed to launch a satellite, though the achievement was overshadowed by Vanguard’s many rocket failures. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Mama said they had to disconnect it today or pay for the whole next month plus a contract renewal fee.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

In fact, it seems we’ve outgrown punishment altogether in the last few months. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

It was now November, and although the sixth of the month brought a blizzard, the Antarctic summer was reaching its peak. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Instead, Sam made it his mission to make the next three months unbearable for me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Before I moved you in with us, you were eating rancid meats and hadn’t paid your water bill in three months.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“It depends. Hank thinks I’ll be ready in two or three months. They want to make sure my leg is all done changing.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Twenty-five dollars can feed a family of four for a month.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dedication Day was only a month away, and Harry Codman was again ill, incapacitated by the same stomach problem that had struck him during the summer. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

And then his grandfather had explained how to count forward by months and days. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

They had been advertising for months—discreetly, Madeline added—for a surrogate with the right characteristics, and had found no one. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My mother had died a few months before and I had been getting things in order for my father, a little bit at a time. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of months before publication, I called Charles Greiner, who was still the superintendent of Sing Sing, and told him about my project. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Last month, after Esperanza’s mother found out about her crush on the neighbor’s son, she wouldn’t leave them alone together for two seconds. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The park gets some three million visitors a year, mostly in the three peak months of summer. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“We've known for months. But it wasn't until you hid your supplies in the tunnel this morning that we understood you had committed yourself. We knew then we had to speak with you.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“That was three months ago, and I did not act like a jerk.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

If I don’t stop drinking, I may not have more than six months to live, ’cause my liver is down to about thirty percent. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was a month behind on the rent. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

"After the excitement has blown over and not more than six months after the trial, you will be freed with full presidential pardon and complete exoneration of all charges on which you will be tried." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

In fact, a study by the Vera Institute found that during the first month after release from prison, people consistently were more preoccupied with finding work than anything else. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

All those readers, growing month by month, Linking and cross-posting, knowing so much more than she did; they had always frightened and exhilarated her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Three late afternoons a week I spent in a dentist’s chair, where, within a period of a few months, I had eight teeth extracted, three of them front ones. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

You could tell how traumatizing the last eighteen months since Walter's arrest had been. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“But,” he said, “you’ll learn more in six months at Sing Sing than in two or three years someplace else.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw the streams that roared with water two months of the year and were dry as a bone the rest of the time. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Daniel and Patricia would continue thinking about each other in the months ahead. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Then again, in 1928, physicist and Nobel Prize winner Max Born told a group of visitors to Gottingen University, “Physics, as we know it, will be over in six months.” A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She began, circumspectly, by talking about Mirabelle, as she had been for months. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Over the next several months, on nights when it was not too suffocating, she preferred that corner for sleeping. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

We had been in the doldrums for months, but as we staited to prepare ourselves for our testimony, we were eager to go on the offensive. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His last book was published a couple of months before the election. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The infection did not spread into the bone and within three months, new skin healed over the stumpy finger. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Then I would rip off my visor and leave my apartment for the first time in six months. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was the second miscarriage in less than six months. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Thank you! I don’t have the money with me, but I’ll bring it to you by the end of the month.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Why would they live like this for salt beef, hardtack, and twelve dollars a month? Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A week. A month. Depends when the baby comes.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I live in a subtropical area where even the inactive can expect to be moist nine months out of the year. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several months later, once he decides she is ready, the magician writes a letter of his own. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It had been barely three months since Hamlet and I exchanged our vows in the wood, but it felt like years had passed. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“There was no light and no water for a month,” Aunty Ifeoma added. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

For months she had lived a closed life whose every hour was marked on a timetable. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The monstruo squinted its enormous eyes in the light, the moon probably the brightest thing it had seen in many months. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Well,” he says, “we’ve got one month to get two wild cards up to speed.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mom stored Ivy’s great-grandmother’s hope chest up here in the attic, which became Ivy’s room a few months ago so the twins could have their own space. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I find pediatric sick-visit reports for rashes, allergies, eczema, colds, fevers, and two ear infections, all before I was four months old. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

In February, it’ll be fifteen degrees and you be wishing spring would come on, and the next day it’s ninety degrees for the next nine months. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

There have been, of late, journeys of weeks or even months, to France and Germany and Greece, filled with more studying than sightseeing. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Every year during the month of March a family of ragged gypsies would set up their tents near the village, and with a great uproar of pipes and kettledrums they would display new inventions. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I can’t believe a few months ago I wanted to grope the breasts skewed between the straps of her translator. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The people Dr. Cottam interviewed were puzzled by what had happened in the months following the treatment of their land. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The closest person to him in age is a girl named Moushumi, whose family recently moved to Massachusetts from England, and whose thirteenth birthday was celebrated in a similar fashion a few months ago. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The night had been one that he had been looking forward to for so long, the culmination of months—of years—of work. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

The copayments on her prescriptions came to about eighty dollars each month. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

When a month had gone by, I walked around the mountain to her house and knocked on the door. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I can only watch helplessly as it drags me into a day that I’ve been dreading for months. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Right down the hall. She was here for a couple of months. She was a real mess. I’ve never seen anyone so devastated.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t expecting me that night, but same way you can’t always expect someone to just up and die and leave this world, I jumped right into it a whole month early. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Later, in a month or six months, and certainly not more than a year, he would walk along here again, alone, and keep right on going until he caught up with the people. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some princes were tolerant and allowed freedom of worship; others insisted that all their subjects convert to the new flavour of the month or forfeit their property at once. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I wore a cast for months, and when it was sawed off at last, the arm was discovered to have healed crookedly. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The first month of the trial was taken up by the state’s submission of evidence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

These images were now rapidly available thanks to wirephoto services, which had debuted in Life in the month that Pollard, Howard, and Smith formed their partnership. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He expected her to look around, to inspect the place that she had been asked to stay away from for months now. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

This is partially because things that took a few hours or days outside would take months or years in prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jo will stay at home with her parents, and for the next two months she and Theo will be living in different cities, in different countries. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

These forks in the road can happen so fast for young boys; within months or even weeks, their journeys can take a decisive and possibly irrevocable turn. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Her message had been waiting for me for eight months. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

There came a point, in the months before Mandela’s release, when we could live less furtively. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“We just called off yet another strike, even though no lecturer has been paid for the last two months. They tell us the Federal Government has no money.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Rocco kept telling me it would help to see Adele, to ease my way back into the family after several months of sporadic messages. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

When the end of the month arrived with no birth, Jody grew frantic. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Listen, Tally, these two months are our last chance to do anything really cool. To be ourselves. Once we turn, it’s new pretty, middle pretty, late pretty.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The hours and days, the weeks and months and even the years, grew legs and began to run like an antelope. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few months ago that comment might’ve stung, but Piper was way past that. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

For the first time in their long months together, Jonas saw him look truly happy. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Mira,” Mom sighed, “it could take up to ten visits to get his blood sugar in line. We’d need enough money to cover expenses for at least three months.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Amazing what can happen in just a few short months. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He would have no short-term memory for several days and no depth perception for six months. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They quit looking, a month, no, almost two months ago. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one will know if you wear the same sweatpants for the entire month, if you eat every meal in front of television shows and use T-shirts as napkins. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It had been annoying at first, since I had to wait to get my own phone till my birthday months later, but now I was used to it. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Aside from two television appearances right after Reykjavik, it had been almost twelve months since Bobby had made any statements or, for that matter, been seen in public. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was aboard Fair Knightess, who was making her first start since she and Pollard went down in the San Carlos three months before. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They calculate the many months that they were in that distant city together, on trips that had overlapped by weeks and once by months, unaware of each other’s presence. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Three months after his sentencing, the judge would receive an evaluation of his conduct at the Division of Juvenile Justice, as California’s juvenile facilities are called. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Not about Mom. Not about me. If he did, he would have made us leave months ago. That’s how you know if people really love you. The ones who do let you go.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Sending it forty-eight months early gives it plenty of extra time in case fuel reactions go slower than expected. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

After we’d been together for a month, I took Adam home with me for his first family dinner with us. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within six months he was the size of a sheep, and at the end of a year he was as big as a colt. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Even at that speed, it would take me a month to read the whole thing. Sad to say, I don’t have that kind of time.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Serakeen’s dogs bring another one to the Cage every few months.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Championship, Buschke gave him a $100 gift certificate, and he took months to select his gift books, picking nothing but the best. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Each month, he found, was on a separate roll of microfilm. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within six months yellow fever was all but gone from Havana. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“Even if they can come up with something, it may take months, even years, before they can implement it,” the scientist replied. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Finally, at the end of the month, he decided to risk a salvage mission. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“A couple of times a month, maybe. It varies.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

My vacation is not due for six months more but I think I can arrange it before then. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I was here a month ago when the pastor talked about faith. I remember when he said that Jesus told Jairus, ‘Don’t be afraid; just believe.’ Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“I doubt you’ll last more than a month in that part of the Barrel.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I’ve been going around for months thinking no one has suffered like I have. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had taken Estraven six months to arrange my first audience. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

"On September first we moved into Sunset Towers. Two months later, on Halloween, smoke was seen rising from the chimney of the deserted Westing house." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she stood before him, small and blond and pretty, less than a month past her twenty-first birthday, the German ace thought his Soviet captors must be making fun of him. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

You were only going to have that belly for nine months, and then it’d all be over. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It would be months before it was back to normal. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And part of the idea was to make sure that Redding Tories wouldn’t be able to do to the Continentals what the Minutemen had done to the British at Concord and Lexington six months earlier. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Aren’t you supposed to ask us if we would rather have a million dollars now or a penny doubled every day for a month? That’s the riddle math teachers like to give.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“There are only twelve months in a year,” she says. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He had tried to kiss her a month after they emerged from the tunnel. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

This was the first time in months that he’d had a chance to use it. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He said, “You and your mama were a single lot. See? The girls, they’re cheaper when they’re pregnant. Masters lose some months with her coming to bed, and the baby suckling....” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Two years ago, only six months before the accident, my parents had come over for Christmas Eve dinner, bringing Maribel a dress from Diseño y Artesanía that my mother insisted they wanted to give her. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

No one else has had a sister die in childbirth and then been lied to about it for almost nine whole months. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

And her people, insisted Fujiko, were Japanese—the events of the past months had proved it so; why else had their father been arrested? Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I had been in this ship with the dead lady for a month, Galahad was brought to us. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her family was headed to her grandparents’ farm outside the city of Hiroshima, and she’d been hearing for months that a single big bomb had been dropped there and destroyed the city. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Within a few months after the match ended, Vasiljevic’s financial house of cards began to collapse. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

For months, Johnson had been assuring Americans that he had no intention of expanding the country’s role in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But in the winter months, the map changes. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not only was this the first time Menda had ever spoken, but she recognized his voice as the same one that had spoken to her in a dream, months ago. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Been a month of Sundays, son. Long time no see.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

For months he had moved along the edge of the furor that raged among the adults of his family, of the neighborhood, and even of the church. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a girl who’d had her first sewing lesson in home economics only six months earlier, it really was pretty nice. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

One of the boyfriend’s cousins left behind a wife and son, two months old. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He devoted a full two months to revising Washington’s draft, amplifying Madison’s earlier account of the need to rise above party differences and rally behind the elected representatives of the national government. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The movie you’d been waiting to watch for months sucked when it finally came to theaters. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He wondered if his talents had failed him, if he had, in trying to compensate for months of undertraining, thrown too much work at his horse at once. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

For months, she had raised gold and gems from the earth to create this monster. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

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

His job involved a lot of traveling, but this time he said he was going to be around for a few months. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was that I’d let Nan think I’d called her, or maybe it was that she hadn’t called me back—or called at all in months. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

After months with his mother, he can no longer contain it. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Wang Lung stood there in his dooryard where year after year he had threshed his good harvests, and which had lain now for many months idle and useless. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

About a month later, Aunt Mirian wakes up again in the middle of the night. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

On August 17, almost two months after the first round of arrests, the police superintendent again warned Alice Paul that there would be another round of arrests if the protests continued. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He’d served nine months in prison, and the few people who visited him said he looked wretched. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, Tanner came back three months later with a forked tongue. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

For months the book was both a treat and a threat. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had talked with him perhaps half a dozen times in the past month and found, to my disappointment, that he had little to say. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

We could go months without even looking at the dolls, then other times we played with them for hours. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I’d been on the feedlot at Poky only a few months earlier, yet I had trouble connecting that place to my cheeseburger. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Over the next few months, as the extent of the devastation settled in, the trickle of ragged refugees that Joe Rantz had witnessed heading west the previous summer became a torrent. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A month from now, he will begin a new job at a smaller architectural practice, producing his own designs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Luckily, I only had two months of school left, and I’d already earned enough credits to graduate, even if I coasted from here on out. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I picked it out and had Zahra approve it last month. I’m not an animal.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“He doesn’t know that. Maybe he thinks it’s time for next month’s Chamisaville fiesta.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had big ears, too, and the last few months a peculiar knot came on one side of her throat. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

In one sense we have launched into the Cosmos a direct transcription of the thoughts and feelings of a single human being in the month of June in the year 1977 on the planet Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But at the beginning of the third month, the first pair reproduces: you’ve got two pairs. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I remember how proud I was when, months later, I was able to read and understand that whole sign. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

All went okay at the ranch for a few months. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

For months, the ad played repeatedly on network news stations and was the subject of incessant political commentary. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

For months after the hurricane all people talked about was money. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

After subsisting for three months on an exceedingly marginal diet, McCandless had run up a sizable caloric deficit. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was summer, and tryouts were two months away, but the coach, Kanue learned, would let kids join summer practice so long as they understood that they weren’t guaranteed a spot on the roster. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

But in the warm months Min preferred to work beneath the eaves behind his house, open to the breeze and the view of the mountains. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

After months of talking about the Olympic year, it was finally here. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I had had my eye on one horse in particular, Prancer, the one I had dreamed about during all those months as I saved up the five pennies I needed to ride him. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My stupid breasts seem to be getting bigger by the month. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I guess the history books has got to be rewrit; it’s took forty-three year, two month, and a day or two for the Finger of God to steal its twentieth soul.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Besides, it was now almost two months later, and the boy’s mother had said he might be back in a week. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They recorded their first income three months before the Panic of 1873 snuffed the nation’s economy. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“And your mother,” Uncle Leang says, shaking his head, “two more months, just two more months, and she would have made it.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each month, trains disgorged thousands of deported Jews into the camps. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

After working on the project for a few months, I was made acting supervisor of essays and straightway I ran into political difficulties. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, sitting closer to him than I had in months, I realized with a sudden coldness how very old he was and felt the tears start in my own eyes. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ve been holed up ever since. It took something like six months to get word to my dad that I was out and safe, and another three to get some kind of response from him.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“I sent a letter a few months back about your son competing for the scholarship in Kolkata,” Headmaster said. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Galileo’s discovery of the moons of Jupiter had been confirmed within a few months. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

We were only permitted to write to our immediate families, and just one letter of five hundred words every six months. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I read an article about what babies do at four months. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“This number hasn’t come up in four months,” he told them, showing them the tickets. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

MapleG: They come to see me once or twice a month, usually on Sundays. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within two months, she had solved almost everything. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The last few months have not been easy. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Ivy didn’t get how a lot of the words worked together, things like insurance claims and rebuilding and months and years. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“July, August, September, October. Four months to finish the proving-up requirements.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Over the next several months, as it often happens, I managed to erase the story’s flaws from my memory, taking pride in a shadowy, idealized recollection of its virtues. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beginning that very month, Harvey's wiretap commenced recording thousands of classified conversations among Soviet and East German military officials. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Made it look like I was just another trainee. Took me months to get it just right.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

She posed the question not long after Terryl arrived at Cypress, a few months after high school graduation. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

A second shock came several months later, when DNA extracted from the fossilised finger from Denisova was mapped. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I waited in silent terror for at least a month before I even spoke to him.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

For the first time in two months, I laughed. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Normally, inventory check wouldn’t happen until the end of the month. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

They were set free, however, within three months because of the fact that the government and the banana company could not reach an agreement as to who should feed them in jail. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“We’ve been eyeing that bike through the window for a month,” Styx added. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It happened less than a month after my arrival, on a Saturday morning. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

My father had been killed in the mine accident three months earlier in the bitterest January anyone could remember. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I was going to greet my boy dressed in the sunshine he hadn’t seen in a month. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I realized Mr. Greene had repeated a column from the previous month. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He remained in the hospital through the winter months, working to regain his memory and physical movement. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“She suffered so much the past few months.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

After six months in the Blechhammer concentration camp, Jack was thin but still healthy. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

It took several months for Father’s broken bones to mend—and he was always to get aches in them during our cold, rainy winters. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two months later, however, he prepared for a second attempt. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within a matter of months—maybe weeks—I would be in Michah's bed, getting annoyed at his new recruits, especially the pretty ones. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Three months and three days,” she says with a certainty that makes me wonder why she would know this, how she would know this, unless she was a regular visitor of the spirit world herself. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

At the end of each month, Miss Garcia says, “teachers take a half day, talk, discuss what they can do better.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Correct me if I’m wrong, but have you been having a tremendously happy last few months? Or years?” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Even if the war ended in six months or a year, a much higher salary even for that brief time would bring Dorothy that much closer to assuring her children’s future. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ray looked at me, surprised at how hist two months went. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

For the first time in months, the RAT, tat, tat, tat, tat of war faded from his mind. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

There had been one other time in his life like this, when he’d been flat on his back for months. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She must've been deteriorating for months, because her skin is cracked and bleeding everywhere, and I find myself wondering how the soldiers could have missed this one during previous inspections. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

On my only other trip to the courthouse a month earlier, I had gone to the clerk’s office to pick up files and the staff had asked me where I was from. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I have been on a transplant list for over six months, and I probably only have a few years left to live unless I receive new lungs. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Two months after the flight that earned her the Order of Lenin, the fateful wind behind her would make her an international celebrity. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Imagine! Living with baboons for months! It’s no wonder you look—ah, you look—” Oppah stopped in confusion. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The study was halted, then resumed a few months later using consent forms. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Parents would schedule appointments for their children with licensed psychologists and closely monitor them for the days, weeks, and months ahead. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Within a month, we had finished the floor. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

On my way to the Eolian I bought a pair of low boots, good for walking and warm enough for the winter months ahead. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was good to see him after so many months. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

More than a month had passed since Salva had run from his school into the bush. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lucy’s door is closed, like it has been for the last two months. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I’d gone away for nearly two months and come back yesterday—the same day I left home. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Nearly a month had gone by since Portia had told about what they had done to him—but still she couldn’t forget it. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He was doing 6 months on a stolen property charge. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

My negative feelings about Sam were finally confirmed when he was fired from the foundation some months later. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

My mom pulled me out of school and switched me to homeschooling with a side of international hospital tourism when I got diagnosed with B. cepacia eight months ago. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The first year after we moved to Bridgeport, our parents tried really hard to get Auggie and me together at least a couple of times a month—either at our place or at Auggie’s. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The stench was overpowering—men unwashed for months and puke and muck and rot that was eating living flesh. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the middle of November, it was pretty obvious that November in stupid Marysville, New York, is about the crummiest month there is for running. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Besides, a man has to lie for months on his belly in the hospital, and afterwards he would be almost sure to have a limp. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t remember much else because he came and went in less than two months. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The Eastern man, though he has been told, feels the earth is sick in the rainless months. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I spun round you a satellite for a month, but shall swing out soon, a dark star in the orbit where you will blaze. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I was thinking, Hey, I did that months ago and everybody dropped me. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

There I was, five months pregnant, trying to look like Jean Harlow, and a front tooth gone. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lived with them for three months, finally running away when the farmer woke him with a beating one morning because a raccoon got into the chicken coop. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Why, just last month I sent him a very friendly letter, which he never had the courtesy to answer. See for yourself.’ The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Or any of the other fifty I’ve been in for the past eight months of my life. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Tension rose still further over the next few months as a routine decision about the placement of new public housing escalated into a battle over ghettoization. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow it is going to be two months since my cousin was murdered and my parents left the country. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

And for the month or so that we lasted, and everywhere that we went, the kisses were wonderful. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Shin feared it would be months, even years before they would be allowed outside the factory at dusk near a section of fence that could not be seen from a guard tower. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Those cars never lasted more than a couple of months, and like the Oldsmobile we’d driven from Phoenix, we never named them, much less got them registered and inspected. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

How lucky I was, I thought, to be going to study them for months and months in their own forest home. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Charlie Mahan was beaten to death three months after arriving at Pontiac Correctional Center. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Six months of wearing black passed and not one suitor had ever gained the house porch. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The Dream lives twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, twelve months a year. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had already been here a month and never left the Tang people s town. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z