Few people in history have achieved greater fame in a shorter period with less useful activity in the brainbox than Gen. Thomas J. Jackson. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

When the Wabash Cannonball steamed in on schedule, the town bulged with people, but the lovebirds, Junior and Vandalia, were absent. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’m branching out into variations: maps in people’s bodies, maps in animals, maps connecting two people together. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Good afternoon, Mean Lady Ming. We would like to put the people’s flyer in your window for the people’s rally this Saturday. Free Huey. Power to the people.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the summer, the older people of the neighborhood liked to sit on benches and scold the teenagers who cruised by on dirt bikes. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes roots are like that. Very deep. Much deeper than people can see.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She believed that people would support the movement if they knew more about it. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

There, people “cast their nets outspread into the river, at night; and when morning comes, they find in their nets such goods as .., ginger, rhubarb, wood of aloes, and cinnamon.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Grabarek continued his talk, asking for the cooperation of all people of good faith to make Durham a better city. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

They were the only people sitting in the back of the bus. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Never in her life had she seen even one of her own people with visible wealth, let alone several. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Although newspapers had embellished incidents and inflated the numbers of panicked people, their stories weren’t totally wrong. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Nothing travels quicker than scandal, especially among supernatural people, so the four queens knew that he was in Iove with Guenever. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stands up for what she believes In and doesn’t care what other people think. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

South African whites had always struck me as people who would have been happier living in the nineteenth century, or the eighteenth. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

They don’t care if people are dying in the bed.They don’t care if people are legless, lunatic or crawling on the floor. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She demanded, right up in my face, “Don’t you believe there are any good white people?” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The class didn’t have enough people to complete the final letter of the message. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

As ages passed, people learned from their ancestors. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took his hand away and a few people screamed as they saw blood. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Maybe I don’t like people asking so many questions.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The snowbird people from cold places like Michigan and Canada suddenly start to wander into El Caribe to make it even more crowded. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Outside, in the dim first rays of light, soldiers were ordering people to begin walking to the village square. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then he lifted his right foot —he was right-handed, though people say only men are— and took hold of the mouse. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sure he had more than two people to say goodbye to. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

In 1993, three people rolled a measuring wheel along its entire length and came up with a distance of 2,164.9 miles. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The Roman people did not want a king. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

She learned about sixty-percent-cacao chocolate, she said, in Switzerland, where her parents had bought her a lot of it, along with a little silver watch she was always shoving in people’s faces. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

His parents were shiftless and unsuccessful farm people--his imagination had never really accepted them as his parents at all. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He looks over his shoulder at some of the other people waiting to speak with him. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

And then they found us, a crowd of people with tears streaming down their faces, shouting at each other, shouting at us. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Among the few people I had met who’d been at Hampden awhile, I asked what the story was with Julian Morrow. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

If Francie saw the good in her father, even though most people considered him a shiftless drunk, maybe I wasn’t a complete fool for believing in mine. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

We pass one house that has voices coming from the porch, but the people are sitting in the dark. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I think the carvings mean something, because shapes and details, which I never seem to notice until after they’re pointed out to me, always mean something to Chinese people. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The higher we get, the fewer people there are, and when the street is empty, I speed up and pass her. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A person ought to have respect for other people all of the time, but especially at two times during their life. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both veterans were now standing in the middle of the pavement, letting people with pushchairs move round them, waiting for us to put up a challenge. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room is cheerful, filled with light, with a tomato-colored carpet on the floor and people reading the paper around a big, round wooden table with forsythias or cattails arranged at its center. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And besides,” added Sheriff Elwell, “teaching those people is like teaching dogs to walk on their hind legs. All they know is living off others.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The crowd was slow to break up, but a few people followed the man to continue trading. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

When I finally look up, the courtyard is a jumble of people and voices. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

For a while, I just watched people walk up to the coffin, which was on some kind of cart covered in a purple tablecloth. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Those people standing around the car, trying to calm the driver, waiting for an ambulance to arrive, could they have done anything at all? Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The dancers, the music, the lights, the people in the theater are all so beautiful that I want to wear them on my skin for the rest of my life. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“We’re magic people. We always have been. Remember that ten dollars you found in a book—remember when your cousin sent you five dollars? Nothing can happen to us.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’ll go at night when there are fewer people around—just a few lab assistants running experiments. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t surprised, but I didn’t quite know what the end would be for this kind of gathering of young people. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“It happens every year with that cursed fiesta. All those people drinking and picking fights. They should outlaw it... But Chacho—” He stopped and looked at the boys closely. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d met so many new people, seen so many new things. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

And I didn’t feel like I knew a lot of people. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“They eat well, them white people,” said an old man nearby. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, her landlord has threatened to kick her out for housing so many people. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Then people would want to join the ranks. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The far end of the walkway had crumbled away, but still people crowded into the remaining area. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu enjoyed the Sunday ritual of those meals in the ornate hotel dining room, full of nicely dressed people, silver-haired couples with their grandchildren, middle-aged women with brooches pinned on their lapels. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

A crowd of people was begging to be let in to search. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I liked how she stayed with me in a booth instead of having to go wait on other people. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but then people would stop to buy firewood and get a lecture about objectifying women.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The most important thing had always been what other people thought—appearances before herself or her family. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“But people think that the shoe fits better on you.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The towels are skimpy and thin, the sheets have worn places in the middles, rubbed there by other people’s bodies. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Horrible, horrible gangsters! They cut off people’s ears and things!” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes ago, incidentally, shortly after the lights came on, I did turn on my bench a moment to study more closely these throngs of people laughing and chatting behind me. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I was struck by the similarities between black and white people’s stories. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was wearing a newly altered, totally revamped military-style jacket with epaulets and brass buttons, and I’d embroidered the back, by hand; it read, in a loose script, people are strange. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Last of all came a crowd of people on foot: all very hot with running, but obviously enjoying themselves. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Many people in the audience didn’t even realize that he was on the bill. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“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

The truck began to move, jerking forward quickly, throwing people off their seats. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

A people who came up with any excuse to throw a party and danced with their hips and shoulders in full swing. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

They'll put me in Dauntless, at first, because I already have tattoos, and that would be hard to explain to the people inside the experiment. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Tell me, Lord Snow ... where were these other kings when the wild people stormed your Wall?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I suppose this is why people have children, isn’t it?” she muses. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

You could blame people who were too lazy to read a newspaper, who were bored by the daily body counts, who switched channels at the mention of politics. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now even more people were like us—refugees on the move. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know there was a terrible massacre of Armenian people, but I couldn’t say the exact year. I’m sorry it happened.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Now that he’d grown a beard, most people didn’t recognize him, and he recaptured the peace and incognito of his earlier trips. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“This only goes to prove...that the intelligent people were all listening to a dummy, and all the dummies were listening to you.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

In a certain village there lived people who were both happy and rich. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The left front leg was hanging at a broken angle, and none of the white people at Prewitt wanted to bother with the bull because the meat would be tough. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She rubbed her eyes, stared at Lupita and Salvador in astonishment, and asked, “Who are these people, Mamá?” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The second study showed how people who were charismatic could — without saying anything and with the briefest of exposures — infect others with their emotions. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even after the birth of the United States, Native peoples would not get out of the way. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Of all the people in my life, she knows what it feels like to run on empty. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She began to speak as Elena did—as if she knew people wanted to hear her thoughts—and to hold herself taller, like a dancer. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

"But you can't get around the fact that you're the first of our people to attract attention to it, can you now?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

And we are entering a phase where more people than ever before in the history of the world are going to have access to these tools—as innovators, as collaborators, and, alas, even as terrorists. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

From all the fast breathing going on you’da thought the five other scared people had come back and brought a couple of scared friends with them. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Most people were dressed in dark and rough brown clothing, but some were very elegant in bright colors and fur trim. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Several people are walking along the subway platform down below. Now they’ve stopped.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“No matter. The more people out driving, the more cars I sell. Someone sees you driving and someone else will buy it. That’s just how it works.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

By rights I am as American as anyone, as graced and flawed and righteous as any of these people chanting for fire in the heart of his house. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at the people from our train car. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

His mom named him Sir because she wanted people to show him respect. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

There seemed to be a couple of dozen people in each house, men drinking beers from paper bags, young mothers nursing babies, old ladies sunning themselves on the sagging, weathered porches, and hordes of kids. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I never thought about whether prisons had the wrong people before. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

How many of the people around us were spies for the wights—or wights themselves? Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“The world had little sympathy for the suffering of the German people after the war,” said Jack. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Several people made a last-minute dash to the bathroom. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

One or two hundred people in a day. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

As you get older you hear mostly about people you knew that died. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“What if you’re seen by the wrong people? You know what can happen!” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were so many people that Moss could no longer see anything but bodies. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“And before you left that house you killed all the people in it.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You think white people are the only ones who dream about going to the moon?” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’re not far from the border, and the people of this region look and speak so much as they did in Kilanga. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But each time the master chained Mary in the carriage house, she would break the chains and return to her people.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then and earlier, therefore, it would have been safer for her not to be hated by her people than to have had the fortresses. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Whoever picks up Bernard is always already waiting, so he’s one of the first people to leave. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

He remembers how he used to read that in some countries, the rain is cold and makes you sick, forcing people to stay indoors. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is an untouched stone path that takes us through the budding gardens that are well-kept for the people who don’t live there. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The people who got off the train with us all started walking in the same direction, so we followed them. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

And you can hear glass breaking, which is part of what makes me wonder if people were jumping. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I lowered the telescope down to the street and watched people walk up and down the sidewalks. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

That silence got so big and real that it felt like three people sat on the porch. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as the set was over, he’d practically ran over people getting down to our table. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Train cars were lined up, people thronging so thick it was impossible to make out individual bodies. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

One of the most sinister things about apartheid was that it taught colored people that it was black people who were holding them back. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In Seattle a news flash from Oakland interrupted regular radio programming, and people who had been sitting dejectedly by the radio stood up and slapped each other on the back and shook hands. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

By contrast, there was very little exchange of people, goods, or ideas between Mesoamerica and the Andes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Africans were at the heart of this great change in the economy, indeed in the lives of people throughout the world. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

On the sweltering race day, special trains and buses poured in from San Diego and Los Angeles, filling the track with well over twenty thousand people, many more than the track’s official capacity. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And how the fire lit up people’s faces. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

And if there was anyone people would obey, it was Lucky Strike. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was found not guilty, but I suspect that the local people attributed this not to my skill as a lawyer, but to the power of the medicine man’s herbs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My, oh, my, Mrs. Trotter. I can tell how old I am when I can’t even understand the language of the young people about me,” said Mr. Randolph. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

He wished that the people of Bone Gap could forgive, and that he could forget. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Skyping with my shrink from summer camp—I don’t know a lot of other people who could say that. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Teasing classmates nicknamed William “Eugenics Bill,” but the record shows that he was interested in improving plants, not people. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

We provided them with information about people working against their vested interests. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the article came out, a number of people who had been neutral threw their support behind the McCulloughs; some who had been on Bebe’s side found their passions cooling. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

This honor belongs to all the survivors and their children and, through us, to the Jewish people with whose destiny I have always identified. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

A group of people came out of an office building—perhaps the tallest one in town at about ten stories. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

But only for the people who managed to get there, which wasn’t easy. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

And I’m sure some people in school would give me hell, but my friends would be fine. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I didn’t like them all, or, in fact, any of them very much, but they were people. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other people on the bus are mostly workers on their way home. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In the thirteenth century God was good to the people of France and especially to the people of Chutreaux. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

Rich people pretending to be gods and goddesses. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In other parts, people moved about in underground tunnels. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Englishman prodded him, and the boy asked her about the man who cured people’s illnesses. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But all the people around her were standing and cheering. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Why did people want to hurt my father?” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There’s none of that extra care most people have when they’re in a new place for the first time. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

"And no way you could walk there. Plus, in Bengaluru, people speak another language." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Just remember, people have never heard this story. They will be hanging on your every word,” she said. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Guns were fired, and people hugged one another in the streets. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, that’s what he always says. That people out here are fake, and that Garden Heights is real.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Stick had lifted me up for a minute so I could look over the people next to us. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The sea of people parts for him like he’s a brown-skinned Moses. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Then Frith said to El-ahrairah, ‘Prince Rabbit, if you cannot control your people, I shall find ways to control them. So mark what I say.’ Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t say anything, because there’s no reason to talk to people who are just waiting to pounce on your flaws and put their fingers in the holes. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

At the very least, it made sense to keep a distance from the people shot with darts. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

They had families and illnesses just like people. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Craig said the problem with things is that everyone is always comparing everyone with everyone and because of that, it discredits people, like in his photography classes. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

What if the information would only cause people pain? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I’m in a place where people have no teeth and eat liquid food. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

A dozen or so people were seated around a large table. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You just look like one of those people who can dance well.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

To hear Delly describe it, I had next to no friends because I intimidated people by being so exceptional. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“I know. You can invite her to Midsummer Night. You said she’s a catalog model. Tell her there’ll be media people here to make it interesting for her. She can’t turn something like that down.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Elephants and clowns and giraffes and trapeze people. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

May my people understand the resemblance soon so that I can return to them. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn't counted on the beach being overrun with summer people. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

But the German people were desperate for change, and many believed Hitler's message that he was their savior. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

In Orlando, Duma Nokwe and I then burned our passes before hundreds of people and dozens of press photographers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Clarkston, resentment was building toward the forces and people that had caused the town to change in the first place: the resettlement agencies and the refugees. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“I thought it might be good to get some signatures while people are in a compliant state.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

She told me that a lot of people think me being in here is “a grave injustice.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I think about Madge and the way she makes people laugh, and Melba and the subway performer. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Reading is how I visit places and people and ideas. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

All the people I loved most stared back at me: Thomas, Sir Fig Newton, Dad, and Mom in her Star Trek outfit. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Clancy had tried to show me how easy it was to affect the moods of multiple people at once, settling an argument between two kids without saying a single word. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Where were all of these helpful people when Herbert was three and his mother died? Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Grandma sang out again as people started looking over at the table and smiling. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Teach him about the ways of my people? A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“By the way; I don’t want to hear you say that people hate you,” she calls out. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

And based on my decisions, a film will evolve—one that has the power to start conversations and get people talking about things like feminism and art. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“All these people, in conjunction with the State Department of Education in Tallahassee, have helped to devise this emergency relocation plan.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Depressed people do things they wouldn’t ordinarily do.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see platforms crowded with people wearing drab Western clothes, with spots of bright colors: little children wearing pink and yellow, red and peach. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t sing so I just assumed that the people in front of the microphones wrote the words. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What’s their big interest in colored people all of a sudden? The young men gave out already?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

To me that meant the big lesson Pizarro learned from history was that it was okay to kill innocent people and steal their gold! Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The line for her lures and dip bait was never fewer than twenty people deep. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I firmly believe that people’s souls can splinter off when they die. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

A few people in the audience giggled or gasped at that, but Kaisha pushed on once more. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Where they tortured the people and fed them to the tigers.” Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

By the end of the 1500s CE, the total population of what we now call the Western Hemisphere was about one hundred million people. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

My people, the Dinka, raise cows in Southern Sudan. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before such people can act together, a kind of telepathic feeling has to flow through them and ripen to the point when they all know that they are ready to begin. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thought of being surrounded by people, with all their worlds crowding out hers, of being swaddled with their noise—it felt like maybe it could be a comforting thing. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

But in fact, murdering innocent people and burning their homes and fields requires very little courage or sacrifice. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Straddling the border of France and Switzerland, it employs three thousand people and occupies a site that is measured in square miles. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Ishmael knew he would not ask for help, in part because San Piedro people never did, in part because such was his character. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

And just on the other side there was a mob of people standing restlessly, third class passengers from the looks of their worn clothing. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

I would reclaim his disordered days and cast them into a form that people could grasp, see, understand, and accept. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I hope is that tonight is great for the people whom it’s supposed to be great for. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

At this supreme moment, the people cheered the man who, after a shaky start in office, learned how to command armies, brought down slavery, and become a most eloquent and moving speaker. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Me and Rondell were watching these guys surf yesterday. Do you think Mexican people surf?” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“We’ll be sending people from the party to watch the polling places and make sure they seal the ballot boxes.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other people see him as an opinionated man—too opinionated, maybe—but he’s also loving. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“I mean, yeah...bad choices. Like not trusting people’s brothers who, you know, might need saving. Hypothetically speaking.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“You have to understand that ghosts are not people,” she said, quiet and intense. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

"Young people should live. People who have already lived their lives can die. That's the way my mother and father would want it." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Captain Newport has also brought orders from the Virginia Company to place an English crown on Chief Powhatan’s head, making him a prince under King James and making all of his people English subjects. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Nice to hang around people who sound like they know what they’re doing. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I loved these people and am still in shock that they’ve been ripped from, our lives forever.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Talking to no one, the way fidgety, homeless people do. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“Ma, we are starving to death. Many people are dying in the village. Yet the government trades our crops to buy guns to kill more people.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boat overturned and dangled, spilling all of the people into the deep black to drown. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Being Chicago people, Mother and Dad didn’t have a tar. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Wafer” was too secular, wafer was what one of Papa’s factories made —chocolate wafer, banana wafer, what people bought their children to give them a treat better than biscuits. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The people who would do anything to score. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Though dubbed a “front-page detective” for his incessant self-promotion, he had an impressive track record, including catching those responsible for the 1910 bombing of the headquarters of the Los Angeles Times, which killed twenty people. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Some people might think of the work as tedious, Wilson said, “but it keeps you busy.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

There were two white men and eight of my people whose facial expressions told me I had a lot to worry about. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I'd like to just walk along and talk with her, but there are other people on the sidewalks, too much else to deal with. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arm saw paintings of huts, fields and people. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’d rather pretend that I’m not sure what people think of me instead of being forced to carry around physical proof of it. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“The funny, sort of crazy, nerdy people who played video games and watched anime and read manga.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

A crowd of people blocked the entrance of a police station and wouldn’t move until cops started arresting everyone. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I heard a lot of people yelling, “No on Prop 187!” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Of course, our friends in Houston were kidding, because the moon doesn’t have any cinnamon trees or even any air for people or rabbits to breathe. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you want people to like you you have only to spend a little money. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

To the people he said, “You can have the mattress.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

A sunny spring day, people strolled seemingly carefree through the crowded streets. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’d been several more reports around town of people being accused of sedition. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The general and all the cryptographers and other military people were gone. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

It’s no big deal for somebody to go running past our house; half the people in town seemed to jog around. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Probably because not enough people cared, like Grandma said. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

But as the fund received more press attention, ordinary people gave amounts as small as a dollar. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

"It was a hotel where people live when they don't have anywhere else to go," I tell Mabel. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I think the Cartwright farm was as decent as anywhere else, but it was like that for a lot of people then. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a commensal tradition, where food is precious, the powerful older people made wrongdoers eat alone. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ashima frets that there will not be enough rice; Gogol and Sonia take people’s coats and put them upstairs, on the guest room bed. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They would reveal their actual preferences later, in confidential e-mails to the people they wanted to date. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Only a few people were still sitting—Anna and Terri, and Danielle and her mother—when Mom and I rallied ourselves to leave. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

He and the handful of other blacks who lived in this town of thirty-eight hundred people could do whatever they wanted inside that wall; no one really cared. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the beautiful people were past, Valencia questioned her funny-looking husband about war. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found pleasure in how quickly the civil defenders’ suspicious glances at his special duties pass changed to wide grins when he greeted them in Igbo, in how willing people were to answer his questions. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They tried offering me cows: Our people believe even an infant understands about the cattle. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the right type of propaganda was directed at the German people, he believed the Nazi regime could be overthrown. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I don’t even know why, but I was sort of curious about what people were doing there. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I would go with Deborah and my mom; other times I would sleep in, waking to people singing and clapping—happy sounds. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Stanton addressed the crowd on the issue of women’s rights, arguing that the topic was relevant at a temperance meeting because many people in the audience still questioned whether women should be permitted to speak. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She spoke to Abby: “They are not rags. They’re clothes that are still good that people donate to be sold. The proceeds go to the hospital.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

My fear of what white people might do to my family or to me was becoming a monster. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It costs money to take care of the people you love. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

What if we are each other’s in-between people, a way station on the road to someplace else? The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Charles was beginning to think that people were more closely related to orangutans than to angels, if angels existed at all. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing all of those Black people in the room was such a contrast to what we were used to seeing in the world of fencing. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“Anything that creates turbulence creates the opportunity for people to get rich,” said Christopher S. Jencks, a professor of social policy at Harvard. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Go ahead,” I grumble to the people waiting, and I let Fiona finish pushing me inside. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“There’s bound to be people out there, and who knows what kind of mood they might be in. Sometimes folks get downright nasty when they think the world’s about to end.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

‘It’s early days. He’s only been missing a few hours. And in the vast majority of cases, young people who disappear like Salim are found within forty-eight hours.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just wished the white people would disappear in a puff of smoke somewhere forever. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Stevenson, it's okay. Please don't worry about us. We'll have a few people be our representatives today and we will be here even earlier tomorrow. We won't let nobody turn us around, sir.” Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He gave cash bonuses for the top five people registering the most voters each month, bonuses for pledged future votes, bonuses for signing up immigrants for naturalization. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He was laughing. Those people died and Ivanov was laughing,” I said. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

White people used to own it, and we never knew exactly how Baby Tell’s family got it. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

If people remain standing, there are too few seats. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

There was not enough charity for so many poor, defenseless people. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We began looking for people we knew, asking the “veterans” which work Kommandos were the best and which block one should try to enter. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was therefore necessary for Moses to find the people of Israel slaves in Egypt and oppressed by the Egyptians, in order that they might be disposed to follow him to escape this servitude. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

There are two types of people: those who kiss and tell and those who kiss and run. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And, having thought of it as the face of a stranger, he tried to look at it as a stranger might, and tried to discover what other people saw. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

And the man was croaking, ranting, not to Maniac now but to the people. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like most people, I knew of the three worlds and the spiral connecting them. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“Of course he’s not your friend. A Hillburn usually has better sense than getting mixed up with people like these.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Inside, it was packed with people, both boys and girls, way more than the number of bunk beds. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Before he left, Schindler asked that we not take revenge on the people in the nearby town, since they had helped him to keep us alive. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Not long after they’d taken Cloke into custody. They told Henry they had enough probable cause to arrest half a dozen people, including himself, either for conspiracy or withholding evidence.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Like most people, he had never been really sure what a river was—just that it was water that somehow flowed on its own. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the train, people were strapped to the coaches and some stood on the steps holding on to the railings. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. And the Berlin Wall. Did you learn about that in history? Some people made it over in a hot-air balloon, or by digging a tunnel under the wall.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

There were lots of people who came up to me who needed legal help for all sorts of things. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The place was deserted but for two cars, and I couldn’t see any people. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

A few people are still at stations, folding blankets, cleaning floors and ceilings, preparing bioloaf and mystery diluted juice drink. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Because it’s wrong! It exploits women. We’re parading around in bathing suits and evening gowns, letting people judge us for the way we look. No wonder the world doesn’t take us seriously.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“That is not good news! That was not in the plan! That means there are twenty-three people who the Eagle can eliminate as suspects. Twenty-three people who might figure out it was us and rat!” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Because I’m not ashamed of being open to people. Who cares if it doesn’t work out?” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

We watch white people on the TV screen for a while, but even the movies with guns and fast cars and explosions get boring after a while. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It is the biggest dam in America east of the Mississippi and something of an attraction for people who like concrete in volume. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

There was a great scrambling and jostling as people separated, banged into each other, and ordered others out of their space. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“I don’t go around putting potions in people’s drinks...or pretending to, either, which is just as bad...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The bus makes a few more dangerous stops and a few people get on or off. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I realized that if Salim had spontaneously combusted or slipped into a time warp, only twenty people would have got off. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

On this trip I wanted to talk firsthand with our people in the field. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Retreat” ended, and the soldiers folded up the flag, and the Institute people continued on their way. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dram, boy,” somebody say, and they push me through the people to the tall drum. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I realize that they have no mealtimes, no rationing of food, and I think that these Powhatan people must be the wealthiest people on the earth. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

What Netscape did was bring a new killer app—the browser—to this installed base of PCs, making the computer and its connectivity inherently more useful for millions of people. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Anyway, the kind of wisdom younger people sought from old age was not to be acquired in this life no matter how many years they lived. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I had heard that rich people in Zimbabwe have parties and get presents on their birthdays, but mine always passed like any other day. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

There are a lot of people looking for her, he thought. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Hana shows me pictures of other people who were in the Black Panthers, and when I see the black jackets and berets, I think I have a good costume idea. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

So close to hills where smugglers cut border fences to let people through. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

And I guess maybe looking different from most people means I’m just going to have to be resilient now, too. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

That didn’t happen too often—people tended to see Sasha as male. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

There were still remnants of my childhood dread of white people somewhere in the recesses of my mind, but nothing major happened to rekindle it. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw marriage as the loving alignment of two people who could lead parallel lives but without forgoing any independent dreams or ambitions. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We were busy looking at the buildings and all the people hurrying by when we suddenly saw lights all over the place and shows playing on huge screens. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s easier for them to accept than the truth, which is that they can’t know everything about people and why they act the way they do.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

But it hardly mattered how much noise the little boy made because the people in the room were shouting even louder. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But no conclusion was forced on people who disagreed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The reason so many people are starving is because we’ve wrecked the planet. The Earth is dying, you know? 'It’s time to leave.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“How many people are sitting in their homes right now, watching this same news report, and justifying death? Who else is deciding that Javier deserved to die?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Summerland is a city on a hill, a place where people can raise their families without worrying about any of this nasty shambler business.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

But Vincent does not come from such a family or have any connections with the kind of people who could be patrons. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps, but,” she added meaningfully, “the demons would just as soon beat up the Tang people for no good reason.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once outside, we encountered the problem that had always plagued our people in Little Rock. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt for people, sometimes more than he felt for himself. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Any hope Turner had that they might slip in quietly was gone when he saw the score or more of lanterns down by the docks, and the crowd of people watching. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

If you have a heterogeneous class make up of many different ethnicities, abilities, races, providing activities validates who they are as people, and sends a message that their voices are valued. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

That of all the people lid ever met these were the ones. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Now the corn began to push out people too. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“You don’t know anything about the future yet. Who knows how you’ll feel in a few weeks. You don’t have to be one of those people.” P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The inevitable result is that the people who wind up in front of a judge are usually guilty of some crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

‘Dark is the hour, yet maybe we shall return to the Golden Hall. But in Dunharrow the people may long defend themselves, and if the battle go ill, thither will come all who escape.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Granny unraveled sweaters and picked apart dresses and jackets and pants; she wound the yarn into balls and the thread onto spools, and people bought them to use in making new clothes. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing they’d achieved, coming to the alternate world, was to doom more people. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Oppenheimer recognized that Lawrence’s politics had evolved to reflect those of the people who had become his patrons and friends, men like Alfred Loomis and Jack Neylan. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

There were so many times when I felt shame, and all the hope drained from my soul as I watched the adults in my family kowtow to white people. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Kufa made them in the shapes of snakes, animals, and people, and sold them at the trading post. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And God is loved in Mississippi, Home and church her people hold dear. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man utterly devoted to his people, but at the same time he was bent on reconciliation between the races in America. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

When people walked here, they weren’t usually going anyplace; they were just out for the air. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If people hadn’t been so afraid that you were from Penikese, they would have taken you away for sure.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

It was shot in black and white, and had subtitles and a plot heavy on symbolism, so fewer than a dozen people came, even though it was free. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The ban on remote detonators was adopted—not because of bribes from the gun lobby, but because blowing people up was determined to be crude, cruel, and beneath the Scythedom. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

It shows a row of people in front of a chain-link fence, their arms slung across one another’s shoulders and backs. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He must have done that to make sure people wouldn’t recognize him, and now he was lying. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

We had better do a better job of controlling our young people. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room was jammed, and people sat on the floor. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How many people gotta die to prove to these fools what the rest of us already know?” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“They wanted to keep her, I guess. The woods does funny things to people.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“And it’s for the people that miss the person that has died. Not for the dead.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Palmer, they kill pigeons in this town, not people.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

In the east the sky was lightening gently, a pearlish, pre-dawn luminescence that made the people of the graveyard uncomfortable and made them think about returning to their comfortable homes. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

That I want to have friends—that I need other people in this world besides you! The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Momma, when you were telling me about Black Lives Matter being like a bone, were you saying that Black people are broken?” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Since those patients had all had cancer to begin with, Southam wanted to see how healthy people reacted to the injections, for comparison’s sake. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Of course, he did not mention that some of the interesting people you would meet might be holding guns and sharp samurai swords, shouting Banzai! and trying to kill you. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw kind faces, people who loved her, a thickly frosted cake, a little sister and cousin by her side, a new year ahead. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“They said that the people would be cold and unfriendly, but the opposite is true. They’re very kind. And you’re very kind, coming to see me again.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains—whole generations followed by more generations who knew nothing but chains. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Certainly, my dear, nobody said there were; but as to not meeting with many people in this neighbourhood, I believe there are few neighbourhoods larger. I know we dine with four-and-twenty families.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Most of them look like people I wouldn’t have gone out with in high school. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She explains that certain creatures are allowed to scare and harass unsuspecting people if they wander someplace generally acknowledged to be spooky—like graveyards, old abandoned mansions, dark caves, and under beds. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

It was especially fun to think that people all over the world were having similar conversations in their equivalent of the Big Boy. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

As Matt and Lydia go back and forth about what imaginary things these imaginary people could have said to each other, I sneak looks at both of them. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The same skills he had once used to further the ends of the Ku Klux Klan he now employed in the service of working-class people of all races. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She seems impressed by how many people I know. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plus, people eat at the Pizza Pit year-round, and we can walk there from the trailer. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I had something of value—even if it was just a truck that brought out a sweet nostalgia in people. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

A few people on the other side of the bleachers stood up for a better look. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“Is there anything you want me to tell people?” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I just couldn’t wait to actually get up there and play the drums for all these people — that was the part I was living for, anyway. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Zoology Department is throwing itself open to the public, to give people a crack at Science and improve their minds. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Like most people in the Midwest, Embryo doesn’t believe in humor, especially when it pertains to sensitive subjects. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

People didn’t help other people just for their health. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

In every single American slave state, the population of enslaved people kept rising even after the slave trade was abolished. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

She was proud when people stopped her on the street and said, ‘Is that little angel your sister?’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

—Actually, I like colorin’ Africa pictures better than this kind of pictures—with no people in it. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s lines of people all coming from the village. Dead people...” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It took him a few clicks before he finally said, “The world looks at Black people differently. It’s not fair, but it’s true.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

At least it will stop people from staring at my eye. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Momma and Daddy don’t want me watching the videos of Black people getting shot or choked or beat up by police. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I saw small people dressed in red and green flitting between classrooms. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“They only want healthy people. If you are sick, you won’t be chosen.” A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are lots of words—some of them choice—that people generally use to describe me. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

In one, there are two other people standing with her. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Gaylyn even wondered about how people come home after a failed mission. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Central Mexico, they said, was the most densely populated place on earth, with more than twice as many people per square mile than China or India. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I stared at the clean, well-dressed people, busily moving from place to place. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Or all the people who owed him money. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Searching for a way out, I said, “Why do Granny’s white people all of a sudden want to see me? What’s so special about me? Why not someone else? George or Uncle Piet, for instance.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This will mean terrible things if people know about it.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I had spent a lot of time in local communities, mostly in the favelas outside Sao Paulo, where I met hundreds of desperately poor people who were intensely interested in talking. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Don’t believe all those nasty things people are writing about you kids on the Web. They’re just jealous.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Someone, out of all the people who thought he was no better than a dog, believed he could be something more. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although each of those systems used distinctive sets of signs not borrowed from Egypt or Sumer, the peoples involved could hardly have been unaware of the writing of their neighboring trade partners. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

All told, more than seven hundred shots had been fired into the crowd, wounding more than four hundred people, including dozens of women and children. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But my reactions were limited to the attitude of the people about me, and I did not speculate or generalize. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He treats all the important people in East Africa: the corrupt politicians, the actors and actresses who get sick on safari, the decayed English-African nobility. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was always an Easter-egg hunt on the church grounds, and a parade of people in special hats. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told Billy to encourage people to call him Billy—because it would stick in their memories. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many who lived here, Farmer told me, came from small villages in the distant Andean mountains—handsome people with jet-black hair and high cheekbones. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Lina approached it cautiously and peered out over the swarm of people assembling in Harken Square. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Elsewhere, people were discovering that their cellar walls and floors were hot to the touch. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“A miracle. God spared my life and extended to me a great calling. To testify of His power. To show people there’s another way besides the Medical Establishment.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was hard to convince some people, though. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The Constitution’s Second Amendment, the right to bear arms, does not mention Indigenous peoples, but it had a significant impact on them. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Some people could see what was coming,” Ben says. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Another cop car pulled up and then another, then all eight cops started asking the crowd to disperse, only holding a few people back to ask questions. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

By the time they reach the embassy, hundreds of people are pushing their way through the gate. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But maybe if people know the truth about us, about our mother, it would be a good thing and we wouldn’t have to be on a side,” said Amil. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Gregor thought of his grandma, who was old and dependent on the kindness of stronger people now. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Voices rumbled in the other houses as people cursed the Greeks, the Turks, and started packing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

His kitchen had always been a loud place, even in the months after the funeral, and he was glad that his mother kept people in their lives. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

"Why do you insist on interfering? Your people hate you now." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

And I’m more comfortable with the leg; more comfortable with people’s curiosity. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The party badly needed people and Severo was anxious for a seat in Congress, so they had no trouble convincing the downtrodden voters of the South to choose him as their candidate. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If there is anything I can do or offer,” Devin said, “please let me know. I’ve healed many people but never a water monster.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

They walked in silence, and in silence, behind them, came the brothers and sisters and cousins and all the troop of old people. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked out a window and saw people outside on the street. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

With a loud cheer, people surged forward to touch the names on the Wall. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I remember when people used to think I was smart. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Man, all these Grand Rapids people really do talk funny. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The right people were being overrun by the wrong people, they argued, and the right genes corrupted by the wrong ones. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I saw all these things and more on the people in the Capitol. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had invited friends, summer people she’d met a couple of days earlier at a farmer’s market. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

When I walk past the entrance, I see a small group of people gathered by the stone sculpture, one of them in a wheelchair—Nita. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Somehow, in all the world, with all the people in it, in all their wonky shapes, they were shaped to fit each other. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Have you ever noticed how on all the ads on TV, people are watching TV?” my friend is like. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

But it is only a little exaggeration to claim that everywhere that liberty is cherished—Britain to Bangladesh, Sweden to Soweto—people are children of the Haudenosaunee and their neighbors. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Without the help of the Internet or dating apps, most people back then met their future spouses through family or mutual friends, but months of courtship usually followed before getting engaged. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Not long ago, all these half-dead creatures around me had been people, I realized. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Where do you get the time? I thought you people always studied Talmud.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Take her people to registration. Maybe one of the ships has space.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe then he’d hire somebody to keep it clean, or an armed guard to stop people from plugging up the toilet, smoking, or writing on the walls. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I doubted him and warned that he shouldn’t get people’s hopes up, especially the little one. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Had Victoria not noticed that people were so not drawn to me that I, in fact, seemed to repel them? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Grief can twist people in ways they’re not supposed to twist. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

But in those days, people used guns to hunt and live. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tired of working up the energy needed to talk to people like Marilyn or Sister. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s more of a feeling. My family’s from a part of the world that people associate with spices. It’s a whole stereotype. Someday I’ll tell you about my neighbor Mrs. Miles.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“That dog you people are using in your TV show? The new star of Dog Squad. Fred? The one on all the talk shows this morning? He’s mine.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Here is the conundrum: by the time most people pick up a parenting book, it is far too late. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The sarcastic question “What part of ‘no’ don’t you understand?” reminds us that negation is perfectly easy for people to handle in everyday speech. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The white people danced as though somebody had trained them—left, one, two; right, three, four—the same steps and patterns over and over, as though somebody had wound them up. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d heard stories on TV of traitors being executed, but those people were trying to harm us. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

There were some people in Cold Sassy who called Miss Love “that Yankee woman” or made fun of her for being a suffragette. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

If she approached when someone was speaking of him, people immediately changed the subject—and here was Grandmother revealing the secret to a whole crowd of strangers! A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the farther bank of Ocean were mysterious people, whom few on earth ever found their way to. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

So what if people end up thinking he was a thug and never care? The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

You’d have thought we were shooting people, with him making speeches and even holding onto a man’s gun when they came over. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Some people would lock us up in a cobwebby basement for hollering.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

It is funded by the European Union, and we hope to try to reforest the hills and mountains along the shores of Lake Tanganyika, helping the people to live in better harmony with nature. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Millions of people around the world had fallen in love with this musical, but I squirmed in my seat, trying to rise above the inexplicable torment I felt every time the melody repeated. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Earlier Stone Age people, it seems, were content to collect pebbles in whose natural shape they saw something that rendered them “magic.” History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picks Pa to be the leader of the new people, a position that comes with a raise in the food ration. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You people going to block up the whole place?” the manager called over to us. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Do they give up their white status to go and live as colored people in a colored area? Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“A reader. The daughter of two of the most powerful people I’ve ever met. You, Sefia, are what makes him special. Of course we want him.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Upon closer inspection, I noted that it was, of all people. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘And none of this comes from white people. All from colored.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was early morning and not many people were around. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

A few people around me giggle at his joke, and someone yells out, “Hubbard!” before a teacher hushes them—but all I can see is that smile. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I did manage to get a few scraps of information from him, though, such as my mother was buried in Virginia where her people came from. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was about four in the afternoon when we got to the Tang people s town. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around the cafeteria, people were doing the exact same thing we were doing at our lunch table: staring at Auggie and Summer eating together. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

But it’s not all that useful for, say, a group of people trying to spark a literacy epidemic with a small budget and one hour of programming on public television. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In London, most people were used to Indian accents, even if they didn't like them much. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“There’s trouble brewing, son. This trial’s got people riled up, and no telling what some hothead might do, especially if he knows you’re on the potential witness list.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

It was an odd feeling to be suddenly sitting in a cafe having breakfast, watching perfectly ordinary people outside in the street, going to work, shopping, or just standing around chatting. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It doesn't really matter what people want to call me. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

What I wanted to know was how people ate breakfast, lunch, and dinner with the smell of cows—and worse—overwhelming their nose buds. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t have to remind you of how people everywhere scoffed at Cassius Clay’s chances of beating Liston. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mars has fascinated people for centuries, and they have made countless wild guesses about it. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He should just be grateful when people acted normal around him. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“But if we have a record of people’s scientific discoveries or histories, they can relearn them in the hazy period after their memories are erased. People are very pliable then.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

This year, the strange, lingering winter, combined with the unexpected spoilage of much of the Kingdom’s food stores, had led to growing panic among the people. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“We tried hard to build a cooperative community and a local food system, but at the end of the day it wasn’t successful. This is just lunch for most people. Just lunch.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I really need to know what people are saying. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

April 15—I feel a lot better today, but I’m still angry that all the time people were laughing and making fun of me. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Leanne Washington's days as a volunteer at her church did more for Lambert's children than most people will ever know. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You know as well as I do. He never wanted us to mix with . . . people. He’s very strict.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or what if people just laugh at me and crack jokes about throwing stones? The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing there, gazing at the endless rows of headstones, it feels like we’re the only three people left in the world. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s standing room only at St. Martin of Tours Roman Catholic church on Hancock Street, and it’s a sea of all shades of brown people wearing either black or white. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

That night I wrote in my diary: It’s hard being with Little Rock white people. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That most of the people around Rufus know more about real violence than the screenwriters of today will ever know.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Right! And it shows I’m not ashamed of it. Sometimes people say mean things, and I want them to know I don’t care. Plus, I think it’s a good name, don’t you?” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He walked among farmers and mountain people, among the swamp people and fishermen. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Could it be the people in the districts are right? Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Other people had been paying me forty dollars for a lawn that big and that seemed fair. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

“You only care about your perfect family, not real people.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen this before—old people in Delmas who see and say too much are often beaten up or killed by young vagabon who have no respect for elders, for life, or for themselves. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The Capitol has no end of creative ways to kill people. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Although I was only five, I knew it shouldn't be locked now, as some people would come in late, even after the sermon started. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The graphic part in which people trample each other escaping the Martians would have to be cut. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Depending on people, trusting them—it’s what gets you hurt. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Sorry you could find nothing better to read. I write that rubbish because it sells, and ordinary people like it. Are you going to New York this winter?” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe your brain works on a different operating system from other people’s like mine and you’ve worked it out too. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most people actually seemed scared to death of them. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t begin to figure out why other people did the things they did. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Then he would tailor the speed and specifics of the changes according to what his people were ready for. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

While writing that scene, I knew that it was unlikely that so many people would ever be allowed to come into a murderer’s cell. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the ghost people were looking up apprehensively, but more of them were staring at Will and Lyra, and then they began to crowd forward. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They are rewarded in cash—through drug forfeiture laws and federal grant programs—for rounding up as many people as possible, and they operate unconstrained by constitutional rules of procedure that once were considered inviolate. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Tehlu gathered the people who were watching and chose a priest among them. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The sheer volume of people is nerve-racking, but the joy in being able to leave his flat whenever he chooses outweighs his fear of accidentally bumping into passersby as he attempts to traverse the streets. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But she didn’t care about the flowers; her eyes had fixed on the two people in the garden’s center. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t until later I learned that, on that night, unlike me and the people on the news, my parents already knew what was going to happen. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

These people lost their child and then they lost each other. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

There have been rumors that wealthy people in the Philippines who own private estates in the rain forest have been importing African animals illegally, releasing them into the Philippine jungle, and hunting them. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sea Dragon Point had not always been as thinly peopled as it was now. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When my turn comes, he asks why I want to do this and I say something, without thinking, about wanting to help people with asthma. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

As one man commented, “Rent goes up whenever people think of it.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I was reading on the Internet, and there are lots of people like you. Did you know you can take hormones so that your body, you know, doesn’t go all manlike?” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Oh, He will send down so much rain that all his little people are drinking from one another’s sewers and dying of the kakakaka. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course if you had to choose an audience for illicit love based on the people you’d least like to have hanging around, Piper and Isaac would win hands down. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I went and I hated every minute of it, and I especially hated how people kept feeling sorry for me, as if it was me who died. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

At that time, lawn bowls was seen as a sport for older people, and all the volunteers that day were in their sixties and seventies. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The people of Turner Station just watched me, smiling and shaking their heads like, What’s that young white girl doing driving around in circles? The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But thank God we did not see any of these, only humpbacked lizards as big as your arm which the people here catch and eat They love meat All the people in this village. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Historians, Butterfield argued, must learn to see the past as if the future were unknown, as it was to people at the time. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Botanically, Chimaphila umbellata. It stays green all winter, and makes a very useful spring tonic. Most people use only the leaves, but I have found the roots even more effective.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, you walk a couple of quick blocks and then stop to look around: people with their coffee cups, people with their phones, people with their friends. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“We age slower when we move quickly versus standing still. So right now time is passing slower for us than for people on the ground.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Today: It is clear that some people are without either a heart or a soul. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Before leaving I had a conversation with some other people in the township, one of whom struck me as an undercover policeman. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stated differently, fully half of the time that twenty-three randomly selected people are gathered together, two or more of them will share a birthday. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The war brought thousands of people to the city. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Adolf Hitler had declared that Polish people were subhuman. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I don't appreciate anyone throwing shade at my neighborhood, especially from people who say words like “totally” and “dude.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Above the ceiling of the main waiting area was a cluster of secret apartments that had been built for the people who ran the train station years ago. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

It showed a gigantic picture of a family of four rich white people sitting in a car driving somewhere. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

As if to justify his crime, Ramsey said that even now “white people in Oklahoma thought no more of killing an Indian than they did in 1724.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It was early spring and there were a lot of people out. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I read, I saw, how the white man never has gone among the non-white peoples bearing the Cross in the true manner and spirit of Christ’s teachings—meek, humble, and Christ-like. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

"He ought to stay with his own people. He shouldn't mix in that stuff." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The cruelty of fate is that I must travel with the people I hate when the people I love are dead behind me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Oh, these people’s minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they’re not like you and me,” said Uncle Vernon, trying to knock in a nail with the piece of fruitcake Aunt Petunia had just brought him. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He spoke so softly at first that the people near him shushed the others so he might be heard. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A Jewish politician named Golda Meir said the Palestinian people never existed even though there were hundreds of thousands of them living all around her. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Since I only inhabit people around my age, I look for the teenagers. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Benny Kilmartin would be surprised to know that so many new people moved into Merrimack. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

She didn’t normally feel anxious about meeting people. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Were they bad people, or bad police officers? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

She concluded by telling Judge Willmore: “Please send a message to people everywhere that texting and driving are dangerous and the effects can be both heartbreaking and devastating.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“He could get shot just going to the gas station,” I sometimes tried to remind people when they brought it up. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Emma felt this sentence would give people “an opening to say, however unjustly, that he considered all spiritual beliefs no higher than hereditary aversions or likings, such as the fear of monkeys towards snakes.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

For half a century people had been trying to work out the size of the Earth, mostly by making very exacting measurements. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The judge's voice crackles over the JumboTrons' loudspeakers, but the people continue to shout, and soldiers push back against them. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“Panic rooms are what rich people have in their houses, where they can go and be safe and lock themselves in if someone breaks in. Or if someone is trying to kidnap them.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Most people I knew were at a healthy weight. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Very few people on earth had seen Ebola do its work on a primate, but she knew exactly what it could do. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I live now in Bethesda, Maryland, among people whose levels of income, education, and importance are still a marvel to me. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

And when the rockets began to rain down on Kabul, people ran for cover. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

All of the cars following the gunners’ car are flatcars loaded with people. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“It’s a very complicated situation. I can understand now why Janice has so many problems relating to people.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

And Mapper would stick by them; all three were probably ducking between people’s legs toward the exit. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Two thousand seven hundred and fifty-three people from over ninety nations were killed. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

More cars pulled up, and a few people approached with bags and balloons and flowers. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“That’s why I’m talking to you. You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Barstow, quieter than inner Los Angeles, is still overcrowded with people. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“Is this how you normally get to know people, by interrogating them?” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Conversations stop, heads turn back, and people nod along. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The people of those little islands had nowhere to get away. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a smattering of claps and cheers as people rush off to grab their tools of protest. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Lucky Strike was grinning, his long black dreadlocks tied back, but Nailer knew he was also telling people there wouldn’t be any rioting for food. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Wallerstein discovered that people would buy more popcorn and soda—a lot more—as long as it came in a single giant serving. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Poirot passed along the corridor, a somewhat slow progress, as most of the people travelling were standing outside their carriages. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most states have partially opted out, affording exceptions for people in drug treatment, for example. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

And maybe say something—anything—that would prove to her he wasn’t the unthinkable criminal people were saying he was. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Any thinking person is aware of this paradox; but in dealing with conventional people it is advantageous to treat them as though they were not hypocrites. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Prejudice rules to make the Capital of the Nation ridiculous in the eyes of all cultured people.” The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

“She claims that some people who work with numbers sometimes get creative.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Ophelia peppered him with questions, like why were so many people here hopelessly sick, and why weren’t the roads better? Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

As a result, hundreds of millions of people were now susceptible to getting yellow fever and other deadly diseases carried by Aedes aegypti. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“That’s a sensitive topic. Some people say Greek influence is still around, like it’s still a part of the gods’ personalities. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“The people in your cuentos and the people in the book I read, they do things I’d never be brave enough to do.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Some people said the lake is named Turtle because it’s round and green like a turtle’s shell. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

And then there were all the people James mentioned in one sentence—a great-grandmother, auntie, cousins—all right here, nearby? Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

A darkness comes with winter that these Southern people don’t know. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

NOTE: Although a large group of people who play classical music together is often called a symphony, the more accurate term for the group is orchestra. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“But that isn’t necessarily a big influence on the 99 percent of people who are not entrepreneurs.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Objects began to rain down onto the sand as the people threw flowers, laurels, coins, pieces of jewelry, articles of clothing. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

He bombed Isfahan every night trying to kill people and my uncles fought him. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

By the time we got to Mrs. Holton’s home, what started out with me and Ma and a letter had turned into a wholeparade of people. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

From there we watch as people dressed like snowflakes, like elves, like rabbits, like sugar plum fairies, march past us, strangely truncated because we’re looking down on them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Frankie had laughed and said something like sometimes the only way people took something seriously is if you forced them to. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

They show a little more restraint than the people from 13 do, although it may just be from embarrassment. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

We let some people in the stairway pass. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

But it’s also a picture of unity, the interconnecting links like a long line of people standing arm in arm against intolerance and hate. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Not surprisingly, one element is African blacks, but the other consists of people instantly recognizable, from their appearance, as tropical Southeast Asians. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The people on the ground had really been helpful, especially in thinking up ways for us to save fuel after we had used so much in finding our first Agena. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, when people die, they say prayers to thank God and—” A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Yes. It’s very silly, but I want to tell it, because I hate to have people say and think such things about us and Laurie.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some people think they know who you are, when really they don’t. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost look like a crowd a people the way some got they lids open talking, some with they lids closed listening. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It had never occurred to him there’d be so many people there. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The other people in the ward were yelling, “Shut up! Would you all shut up?” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The few people on the street were moving quickly. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blending in was as much about performance as about costume, I realized, and my friends and I carried ourselves with none of the slump-shouldered, shifty-eyed attitude that these people did. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Not that many people like us actually go to college,” I tell her. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because people always talk about me. I have amazing intuition, and right now my ears are ringing.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

There was a bare handful of people inside, not surprising as harvest was in full swing and there were still five or six hours of good daylight left. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

People often told me, “Why do you let people talk to you that way? Speak up for yourself,” but I didn’t have the courage to do so. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I suddenly felt hot not from the crush of people, but from shame. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The people I passed would look me up and down, and I would look back, give the traditional head nod, and then go back to practicing my crossover dribble. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“The people revered the statue of Bel and went every day to worship it, but Daniel worshiped the Lord our Saviour. And the King said to him, ‘Why don’t you worship Bel? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I bled and thought about the people to be killed; I bled and thought about the people to be born. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing worries and antagonizes a female bear more than to have people between her and her brood. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

If Mr. Robinson was struggling and risking his safety for his equality, there must be many other people up North doing the same thing. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The late bell rings, and the last people in the parking lot sprint for the door. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

The walls showed cracks, and clods of mud had fallen where people had bumped against them, but these I left for patching in the morning. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe us three are just tougher than how some people might be. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

If things got that bad that fast on a day when at least some people got food, what would it be like if no food at all was available? The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

What had me the most confused was how people saw things the way they wanted to. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

A few people shrug, but no one says anything. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“It sound like you peoples havin more than sabotage,” Jones said. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among the rowdiest people of all were gangs of boys, teenaged and younger, who at last had their chance to defy authority. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Did people who committed acts of violence think their victims and their victims’ relatives would just forget? Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The people on the street seemed very far away from us. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I like being around different people even if I don’t want to talk to them. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“How are we going to help these people, Will?” she said. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The chaos of so many people moving about and talking over each other didn’t seem to bother her at all. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

What she thought was how the city would have been full of people going about their lives before they were burned, flattened, ripped open. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Soon the people were upon him, beating him with their knobkerries and shouting angry words at him. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The Ainu people of Japan made the experiment by routinely rearing grizzly cubs as part of a ritual. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, some people would claim that sightings of UFOs are evidence that we are being visited either by aliens or by people from the future. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

One difficulty in talking about class is that the word means different things to different people. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

But never in a million years would I take up a gun and force people to give up being mean. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The enthusiasm of the people in these great meetings, the thrilling oratory, and lucid arguments of the speakers, all conspired to make these days memorable as among the most charming in my life,” Elizabeth wrote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Later, some people found religious significance in the men’s experience. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“True. It feels amazing. What also feels great is to not care at all anymore what any of these people think of me.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

That watching the people from inside the fence makes him feel like an animal in a cage. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

—He’s got a good job workin’ at Proctor and Gamble, where his main function, as far as I can tell, is kissin’ up to white people. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had very little respect for most people who represented religion. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had learned to know these people better in five hours than I had learned to know my own family in five years. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Street police who are unhappy with their bribes sometimes break up Skiz fights, arresting people as they go, and as a result, I never stand with the crowd when Tess and I watch the fights. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“Well, take it easy,” he said, “and keep out of trouble tonight. These people are not fools. They know the way you feel about them, and even if you don’t need them, we do.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“There are so many people looking for her, even your old schoolmate we ran into at the United Nations Refugee Agency’s office,” added Habib. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Unsurprisingly, people with stone implements wanted metal tools as soon as they encountered them—the prospective reduction in workload was staggering. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In a loud voice, I said, “You may have these people fooled with those expensive-looking feathers in your hats, but I know what they are. They’re goose feathers painted with iodine.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

My people lived in small round mud huts with pointy roofs made of dried grass. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“I don’t mean to nag, but couldn’t you people stay home and watch holovision some nights?” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes not. Some people are always like that and just pretend to be civil.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I say, wiping my horrible zitty nose against my horrible plaid shirt, the shirt of a pirate out to prove that he doesn’t care what people think of him. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

There are many examples throughout history of people acquiring power and wealth through conquest. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of miles of track crisscrossed Pittsburgh, taking people to work and play, back home and out once more. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Back at our hotel, Farmer asked me why I thought people made such a fuss over him. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

There are so many people looking for her. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I want to throw pinecones at Divino heads, and more heads, too: those peoples—the American man and his daughter—who moved into Casa Rosa. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

I knew she wanted it to be the Ministry of Environment that confiscated bonobos, in order to make it clear that it was the government of Congo taking peoples property, not her. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Several people standing near-by observed the white Communist trying to find a black Communist a place to sleep. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were plenty of people riding bikes and others walking, enjoying the hot June day. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Besides, why would I choose to marry one of those mean Little Rock white people? Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people in the crowd only noticed his big, friendly smile, which lit up his face. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

All those numbers now decorating the walls, those were all people, somehow. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“I knew a lady once, Miss Leeds in Springfield, Illinois. She could tell all manner of things about people just by the way they tapped out their messages on a telegraph machine.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

"It was my idea. Besides, the same people who made up the son rule probably made up the oldest child rule. Let's break both at the same time. Come on, we have to hurry." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There were a great many young people present, and they were angry and eager for action. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it rains in New York, rich people’s dogs wear miniature raincoats and plastic slippers that pinch their paws, and kids giggle and shriek and splash in the puddles. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Instantly uncomfortable, I wondered how, for so many centuries, people wore such stiff, formal clothes all the time. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

According to Meeks, all kinds of people set up shop in the Central Port, using a network of catwalks and rickety wooden planks to connect their barges and narrow boats. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

What had been worse than all the other people’s houses – perhaps, in some ways, even worse than here – had been the private hotel. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

To her surprise, though, people were wary of taking on twins. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

But even as the abolitionists spoke up for the rights of Africans, Parliament was finally seriously considering giving more English people the right to vote. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

When she tilted her head, she seemed to break into three different people again...misty afterimages blurring together, like a photograph of someone moving too fast to capture. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Four hundred? I spent a year on each one. I’m selling them to you, not pawning them,” Nali said, her voice loud enough that other people in the pawnshop looked over. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

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

There was always somebody at home, with six people in the five-room apartment. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Ten people sat in a room which would have accommodated a few dozen, but Fuller showed no signs of disappointment with the low turnout. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“After a day or two, people will forget.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

In that moment, dozens of people came tearing out of the surrounding woods with fists raised in the air, yelling. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

New pretties worked or studied, if they wanted to, but few people got serious about a profession until their middle years. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Maybe I was just one of those smart people like Mom was talking about who mixed up their numbers. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The first time it happened, I got really mad because people kept walking by and scraping what they didn’t want onto my tray, which wasn’t very sanitary, especially since I hadn’t finished eating my lunch. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, how do colored people get where they want to go?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were too many people, too much noise. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps that was why Dad hadn’t wanted me to come: because he knew that by living with them, with people whose faith was less, I risked becoming like them. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

While the organist played church music, more and more people filed in, smiling and nodding at one another. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Only a handful of people in the CIA and MI6 knew about the operation. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t work because I knew not to give the best of myself to the worst of people. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She didn’t like sleeping outside, even with a crowd of people. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s just good business. And how are ordinary people supposed to move up in the world without a little extra help?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

And when it was time for the actual show, we paraded out there and people applauded. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

If you take the monkey bars and the people and blur them together they get soft and fluffy and kind just like a stuffed animal. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The right way is to not talk about people at all,” Levi says, staring at his carrot sticks. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

We knew the Old Man of the Moon had given us a string of destiny, one of the very strings he used to bind people together. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

In a matter of days, though, they’d shed that pale yellow fuzz for tough new white feathers, and in just a few weeks, the chicken people, Perdue or whoever, would be back to collect them. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Professor Albus Dumbledore agreed to provide a foreword that met the case, and we were both delighted that the book raised so much money for some of the world’s most vulnerable people. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was very difficult to decide which of the diagrams was most like the face they were making because people’s faces move very quickly. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And, “That’s why you don’t poke your nose in other people’s business.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

This was one of my favorite tales, the story of our people. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

When we got to Hotel Barba and she saw the dead eyes of the people—not even begging to stay alive—she told us, “No. No we won’t do that.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He searched the faces of his listeners, the people of the village, to make sure no one interrupted the quiet. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

At seven PM on October 22, 1962, President Kennedy went on television to explain the crisis to the American people. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes people just need a little time to figure out what’s right. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“I can’t believe you make a living from beating people all day.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

A hundred years ago, the white ethnics hated being hated, but it was sort of tolerable because at least black people were below them on the ladder. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Sigurd’s icy eyes ticked over each of the people facing him. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“From other people’s point of view, it was ridiculous when I appeared in my slippers in uniform!” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The constant sound of traffic going and people blowing their car horns and sirens blaring. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Mostly, though, the chaplains simply sit next to people in silence. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Ironically, people back home in Congo had called us Rwandan, but here in Rwanda, people called us Congolese. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Our people have been watching him run around the county, stirring up things. He’s planning an attack soon. When he arrives, I want to be sure you’re not confused about your loyalty.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

—Maybe black people dream in color, and white people dream in black and white. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“These people are the worst kind there is in the world,” he said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout recorded time, and probably since the end of the Neolithic Age, there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle, and the Low. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He was a Connecticut Yankee in Milagro’s court, and a blind man could see that whatever he might know enough about to teach somebody would be totally irrelevant to these people. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You meet plenty people over by the alley. Nice people. You could make you some friends.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d served nine months in prison, and the few people who visited him said he looked wretched. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

There were more dead people than living in Daffodil Manor. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn’t bear not to. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The guards had walked him down a gray stone stairway and out into a plaza filled with brightly colored things, with people and with objects. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I had hoped there would be more new people this year, but September is almost over, and it seems like poetry is destined to stay the lowest-attended club at Amsterdam Heights. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

And what’s more, our white dentist believed that Indians only felt half as much pain as white people did, so he only gave us half the Novocain. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

You have to talk about something, and money seems to have filled the conversational niche made available when people stopped discussing the Constitutional Convention of 1787. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

There were only two other people in the store. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“What do you think about people who focus on the not-so-good aspect of him?” she asks. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I walked home slowly, asking myself what on earth was the matter with me, why it was I never seemed to do things as people expected them to be done. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She called out to the people on the sidewalk. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I didn't want to touch these people's hands or see things from their point of view, I just wanted to continue hating them. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

And an elegant, beautiful young businesswoman, who people regard with respect. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What is the effect on the people? We don’t know.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

More than nine million people a year come to the Smokies, many of them to picnic. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was big enough for two people, but we designated that one for Dri whenever she wasn’t on watch. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

That, and so many other smaller incidents in my life, made me realize that language, even more than color, defines who you are to people. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

That still left nearly 65,000 people in desperate need of help. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dark and rank, and too tight for two people who don’t want to be there. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Filthy poisons. The government not going to trouble to keep the ditch dean, because the people who live along the ditch are all kongos “So there are many kongos living along the ditch?” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the same sense that our judicial system presumes us to be innocent until proved guilty, a medical-care system may work best if it starts with the presumption that most people are healthy. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was so wrong that surely all the black people round him would do something about it; so wrong that all the white people would stop and listen. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I pass a breadline—a long row of shabby dispirited people leading to the door of a mission. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

"Why? You afraid of me or something? Only brave enough to shoot people's mothers?" Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

It was as though the masked wizards on the ground were puppeteers, and the people above them were marionettes operated by invisible strings that rose from the wands into the air. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Mom loves doing the things that other people are afraid of. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“There wasn’t nobody but me. I don’t care what happens to me, but you can’t make me say things about other people.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I noticed there were some Hispanics at the next bus stop where some African American people were waiting. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She pointed to a bunch of people who were clustered around a redheaded boy and a girl in braids who sat on the couch across from each other, sketch pads poised on their laps. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She might be the person who taught me not to let people in, and the thought of letting her in seems impossible, but I take it. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I said, irritated that Sim of all people would presume to give me relationship advice. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We passed through the outskirts of Norfolk, and the people of that town surveyed our bedraggled carnage with a gray, defeated mien. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Come now, they always said, and then you arrived to find two people waiting to get micro braids and still the owner would tell you “Wait, my sister is coming to help.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It seemed like all the people left in Manhattan were fighting to get into the bus terminal. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Three people have had the luck to get through during the night and bring some provisions. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hair was dark brown and his skin was a bit lighter than most Lakota people’s, but his eyes were brown. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

In the script, the spa was the front for a sinister criminal mastermind who was spying on very important people by planting listening devices on their pets. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

A few snowflakes blew past in a hurry, which is how most people went by too, all huddled together and their heads down and their arms close in. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

And we would lie quiet until unsuspecting bullfrogs appeared, and we would spear them, cut off their legs, and sell them for a nickel a pair to people who lived up and down the road. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And sometimes the brain needed dreams to get rid of all the things that made people afraid or anxious. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

And when I locate civilization again, people will ask, “How did you survive, Valencia?” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

As soon as the intercom clicks off, people are up and talking. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The valley had never recovered from the recession; people needed work. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The people who entered the ballroom were not searched at the door. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

By this point I was fairly certain I was about to get a dose of just how much Little Bob really liked people. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Were white people coming after all of us? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember my mom asking people for a bathroom for what must have been an hour. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Now, preparing to jump off a moving train is nothing, because I have done more difficult things in the past few weeks than most people will in a lifetime. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

They are now able to meet people, go shopping, and not be so isolated. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not many people were getting ice cream in the middle of November. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe fate did bother with people like him. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

And I really have gotten better at illustrating people. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“So, like, everyone—oh my God, everyone—is telling me they love the way my voice and Nick’s voice blend together. Like, so many people have told me they just got chills listening to us.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

These two didn't seem like exceptionally mean people. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Wednesday is gender bender day, which basically amounts to southern straight people cross-dressing. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“But what we need right now are people with the skills to get out of the city unscathed, and I think Dauntless training makes them highly qualified for that task.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

By the front doors are metal detectors manned by large grumpy people who perform random bag searches. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

After three months, I knew most people, but I regularly talked to very few—just the Colonel and Alaska and Takumi, really. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Later, he would learn that at least a thousand people had died trying to cross the river that day, drowned or shot or attacked by crocodiles. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could imagine people bundling up and waiting to hear a band whose every lyric they could sing or enduring a snowy Super Bowl for a team they'd followed since childhood. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Some of the undertaker’s people may have stolen it.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I had always thought that people born before Generation Freak were the lucky ones. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Then as the ages passed and people no longer believed that the earth needed blood to be fruitful, all that was cruel in the story would be dropped and in the end forgotten. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

You know how many people in stupid Marysville want to hire someone who doesn't have legs? Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

For some reason people are more afraid of black dogs than dogs of any other color. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

By the end, all I could think was what these people must feel like when they go to their class reunions. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

He also said that many people came to visit the Mahatma and offer him good wishes, but Gandhi wasn’t joyous. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen police beat people in the street—beat ’em with fists and with bats. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Most really broken people don’t know they are broken,” Rashid said. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She’s all into meditation and raw vegan food, I suppose as a way to cope with how much she hates cleaning meat out of people’s teeth for a living. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

But in small towns like these, people didn’t have horses to spare, especially not with harvest fast approaching. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Adam found himself talking and boasting about his son, telling people who weren’t very interested how smart Aron was and how he had jumped a year in school. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I guess he was never taught that it’s impolite to point at people. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

This suggests that languages have tended to evolve along with the people who speak them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

There, under palm trees, the park is full of people. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Since then the calculations have been repeated in a number of different forms by other people. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man looked out of his door and was surprised to see the people standing there. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Sometimes people just didn’t like the way you looked. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

By midafternoon, seventy-eight thousand people had crammed into the track, more than ten thousand in the infield alone. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes people broke too hard and you could never put them back together the same way. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

We’d never seen colored people eating with them, and here was our mother eating with chopsticks like the Chinese men that I had read about who worked on the railroads. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not really. It wasn’t really his fault, Mama. There’s a rally here for some guy who got shot last week, and a bunch of people from the old days were here. They...” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

So many people passed in and out of the collapsible gate, so many others clogged the alley at all times, that there was no point in keeping track of them. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Some of Birmingham’s public facilities were now open to black people. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“We didn’t know Allegra would have people call him,” she added quickly. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“I hear lots of people saying all sorts of things. If he comes back, shall I tell him I’ve seen you and you don’t know him?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She decided to have a look at the people. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no particular day on which I said, From henceforth I will devote myself to the liberation of my people; instead, I simply found myself doing so, and could not do otherwise. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“These people make me crazy, you know that?” she says. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

How come all the people in your picture got yellow hair? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Don’t people have talks anymore? moment of truth. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But there are only two extra people,” Harry said. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I stuck my elbows very hard into the ribs of the people who were crushing in around me, and kind of wedged myself in. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s a zoo, Ruby. See the walls and the grass and the people looking at you?” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

There are maybe fifteen people dancing, while everyone else spreads out on the bleachers. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But now that we’re standing here like boulders against the relentless flow of people entering the evac center, it doesn’t feel like much of a choice at all. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

This was what I wanted to do—go to college and hear people talk about important things. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Some people were walking toward the house—a small group, fewer than a dozen. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I realized I was one of the few people still standing in the room. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Here’s what’s so hard for us to understand today: The ruthless, paranoid Josef Stalin, by then the uncontested leader of the USSR, commanded a bizarre and absolute power over his people. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“No,” I said, but there was, because happy people did not seem to cry like she did. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman ignored him and looked at the broken and empty cake box on the bar, saying, “Somebody’s been having a picnic in here. Goddammit. I already told you people about ants and rats.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes old people have really old-fashioned ideas, but that doesn’t mean I have to go along with them. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I don’t like when people stare at me. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Apparently, throughout history, people who acted strange had been accused of being inhabited by the devil or a demon. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

I wished that Cate could come and take me away from them, back to the only people who would ever embrace me for the monster I was. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

By the time the people left the fields the procession was constant. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

He saw the chairs, the pictures, the red roses on the carpet, and new sharp things—almost people things but friendly things. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Yet somehow there were people who found that strange ideological mosaic to be enticing. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

When Charles Darwin indicated that Homo sapiens was just another kind of animal, people were outraged. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The view extended for perhaps fifty miles, but people said you would never again be able to see for a hundred miles. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He recalled what Hades had said about this public square, where the Inquisition had burned hundreds of people alive. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

If she was really with Patel Global, there should have been ways to contact her people, right here on the beach. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I twist to look at the sea, the scattering of people struggling out of the water, the wreck of our little dinghy. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

She said two people were out sick, which meant she was the only cashier. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Would the people of District 12 join in or lock their doors? Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Actually, there seemed to be a lot of people who needed comfort these days—especially the eighth-grade varsity runners, who were taking the Salisbury Park race way too personally. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

That is what the Bureau—and the entire government, probably—is doing: conditioning people to be happy under its thumb. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He kept his head down to avoid seeing the paper people swerving and bending here and there, and he lost his way. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“There are people who do that,” Duff said. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

As people shouted out orders, Moss was helped up. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The people formed in a procession round him, and the mayor of the village took him by the hand. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

As in Christian’s case, he knew he couldn’t step on toes or force his views on anyone, not without offending important people. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Ancient and shriveled, many people said he hadn’t noticed he was dead. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I passed along Tyler Reich’s insight—that Levittown was full of people who once felt a part of the middle class but had fallen down the ladder. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He didn’t like to have people over and I had been there only once, and then only for a minute or two. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

In any case, Euergetes acted decisively, defeating the dissidents and importing vast amounts of grain to feed the people. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Under the recorded names were other names, just as “Macon Dead,” recorded for all time in some dusty file, hid from view the real names of people, places, and things. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Could the people behind the Maze control them somehow? The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Norma had to dress well; the house had to have fine furniture; Charlie had to be kept inside so that other people wouldn’t know anything was wrong. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Would you stop being paranoiac, woman? They were here just last week; how can they come again this week? Need I remind you that we’re not the only people living in Alexandra?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think If people didn’t feel like they were behind bars when they were walking outside at night, a lot of things would be different. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pauses and speaks real slowly, “I have been young and now I am old. We have come a long way as a people.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“But Ignatius, they help out a lot of people got problems.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t these people realize what you’ve been through? What danger you are in? The unique position you hold in the hearts of the anti-Voldemort movement?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Once again our rations have been reduced and many people are becoming sick. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, they revealed a crush of people, jammed body to body. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course I am. My mother said that everyone is selfish,” I say, “but I became less selfish in Dauntless. I discovered there were people I would fight for. Die for, even.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Several people had walked past the fire, and not one had stopped to ask about it or tell them off. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I was looking for two people,” Jason said. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she did not seek new people; rather, she fled from them. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I’d gone from being the kind of person people pretended they weren’t staring at to being the kind of person who was openly gawked at. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I can find only two people who, after the publication of Waldseemüller’s map, sought to defend the old theory against its attackers: the new reality was incompatible with the old theories. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Now another group of people arrived from the forest. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember that at Pinyudu I could always hear the sound of pounding, as people pounded the dry corn kernels into meal to boil. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

"My thanks to the people of District Eleven," I say. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Finally, Newt put his notepad down and stepped out from the semicircle, screaming at people to shut up. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Most people’s understanding of what it means to be an American is founded upon such tales, which together form a myth-like origin story. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the people simply stared, as unsurprised as they would have been if this had happened in a dream. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“Don’t make fun of me. Even the people on her crew are richer than Lucky Strike.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Tang people’s cemetery at that time was not a permanent one. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lean forward, trying to see if I can see TaShon or Ginia in the sea of people on the screen. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“He says words and phrases, some of which people may find inappropriate, but he can’t help it.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It’s just a word for a particular sequence in my DNA, like a word for all people with brown eyes or blond hair. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The line of people waiting to stare at the empty body snakes out the front door of the church and down the steps to the sidewalk. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Most times people would look at him like they had no idea what he was talking about. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got people who love me here, too,” I say, quietly, like I’m trying to convince both him and myself it’s the truth. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Charles thought dogs were easier than people. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, there is a part of me that groans, I have to wait for seven people? Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Many people have died, mostly from starvation, some from eating poisonous food, others killed by soldiers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t you have any white people back in Spartanburg you could stay with?” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was exhausting remembering his manners when talking to all those people, but Angie smiled and chatted as if she didn’t mind seeing the same baby over and over in two dozen pictures. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Through the windows, as if in a stop-motion photograph, the place looked as if it had been hit by nerve gas, everything still and lifeless, even the people. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Native people today are still involved in protecting their communities and their resources. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The few people they pass give the corporal a wide berth. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

These people seemed excited to see us, and they gave us each a little wrapped box with a gift of earrings. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, they wanted the chair to be comfortable for people who were stuck at their desks for long periods of time. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I go straight to Ellis’s table and say, “Hello, fine people of Unity Valley. I’m taking the day to talk about perfection. Do you have an opinion one way or another?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The bar is beginning to fill up, small groups occupying each of the booths, people sitting on either side of them. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I have been put back to work till whenever they run out of people to keep an eye on me. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The Unification Ministry said it could search only for people who had registered to be reunited with lost family members. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Thousands of people were on the sidewalks, going home from work. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although some people stayed home to listen to the broadcasts, many celebrated, taking part in midnight torchlight parades that snaked throughout other German towns and cities. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe the bus wreck was in the news, but people forget.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The clipping had clearly come out of the wizarding newspaper, the Daily Prophet, because the people in the black-and-white picture were moving. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

There was, however, a measure of contempt in their indifference, for they had little patience with people who took themselves that seriously. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Currently there are approximately five million people gleaned per year worldwide—a tiny fraction of the death rate in the Age of Mortality, and nowhere near enough to balance population growth. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I think you meet people you need at crucial times in your life, and he was one of those people. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I saw in the fog the forms of people. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think it would be even harder if I knew the people I’m sent to. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

How on earth could prehistoric people of Borneo, presumably voyaging in boats without maps or compasses, end up in Madagascar? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

More than 1 of every 100 people were homeless? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Bankers are considered smart people, and they make a lot of money. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is an independent record store. That means it’s family-owned. You’re stealing from real people. Do you know how hard it is for small businesses to survive when people like you just take stuff?” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“And people burning. Me, most like. With leaves up my nose. I always feared I’d bum, but I was hoping to die first.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t pay any attention to these people, son,” he said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Of all the people who could have logged into Gmail after me. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Our Father could not seem to accept what seemed clear enough even to a child: when he showered the idea of baptism—batiza—on people here, it shrunk them away like water on a witch. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Julio, don’t you hate it when people from the neighborhood who somehow manage to leave change their names? Instead of Juan, they want to be called John.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

As I enter I see that their large living room is packed with people. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

This way, they made people nervous before they asked them for money. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was staffed by forty or fifty people, some in white coats, others in overalls, all wearing armbands of different colors: red, yellow, blue, and green. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The medicine man exerted tremendous power in the area, and many people both worshipped and feared him. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lots of people had already talked about it. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Of course some people have a morbid dread of it,” said Colonel Julyan. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

All sympathy for the little people vanished instantly. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He'd told me all about human traffickers who offered to deliver people to the safety of the West—for a price. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“So she can go where black people are loathed and be fine. He’ll no longer be black, he’ll just be Obama.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Oh. Well...wait. You’re kidding now, right? Because we don’t really need to have people manage the people who manage the people who manage the business. That would be just silly.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

We get out and join the river of people heading into the building. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Nok spun around to see Somkit standing among a cluster of people holding poles with Gold orbs swinging from the end. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980s: that Afghans are an independent people. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I searched through the list of people who RSVP’d yes, but people, like yours truly, often don’t RSVP, so I have hope.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

If he crooked his elbows and knees, he reminded people of one of the wall spiders that lurked in dark closets. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

They weren’t very subtle with their attempts to segregate us or at making a safe space for people of color, but the truth was, I appreciated the sisterhood we’d formed. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

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

You could send messages from your own email address to other people with email addresses, and whatever you wrote came to the other person in a matter of seconds. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The less people saw of us, the better. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Secretly I was wondering whether these people were going to take care of us or whether we were still all on our own, only now in a slightly different form. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he grieved on my shoulder, I wanted nothing more than for Papi to go on losing people he loved so that he’d always turn to me, so that I alone could bring him comfort. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

They were on the fringes of the bazaar, the way ahead blocked by a solid wall of people. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Whose whims had been taken seriously by adults and who grew up to be the stingiest, greediest people on earth and out of their stinginess grew their stingy little love that ate everything in sight. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu watched the people already there, in line, waiting for the door to open, and she willed them all to vote for Obama. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Instead, there were at least a dozen people milling about the lawn. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I wanted to see new — and old — sights, taste different foods, speak with all manner of people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hence we should not be surprised that modern Japanese and Korean people resemble each other far more in their appearance and genes than in their languages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, I am unaware of anyone’s even seriously suggesting any supposed distinctive biological features of the region’s peoples that might have contributed to the potency of its food production package. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Prometheus had stolen the fire because he wanted to help the people he had created, yet he was still punished. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He shakes my hand and says, “Fare thee well,” which strikes me as the kind of thing people say in books. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an unfamiliar position—me, counting on a white man to defend me against other white people determined to hurt me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lived in warlike times, when the lives of young people were as short as those of airmen in the twentieth century. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the streets of Black Bottom, Desdemona was appalled at the way people lived. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Therefore, one who becomes prince with the support of the common people must keep them well disposed. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

When he wasn’t winning other people’s races, he was organizing his own and pressing other Buick agents to join him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some guy drew it a hundred years ago, and people have been forcing kids to memorize it ever since. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

In the morning people stood up and dusted themselves off with their hands. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Once in a moment of thoughtlessness I asked how he would contrive to pay all his staff when the hospital was finally established, for it was certain many people would be needed to run it. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

My brain runs on a different operating system from other people’s. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Hamiltons were strange, high-strung people, and some of them were tuned too high and they snapped. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the bus screeched to a halt, and people crashed into each other. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's almost as if when they started this academy, they didn't expect there to be so many people who would actually come to get academied. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

What kind of person takes action without thinking about who might be locked in an upstairs room, trusting the people who have always kept them safe and loved them? We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Lovey stood there obviously embarrassed as people walked by watching me act ridiculous. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“You of all people should know that. I thought it was great. I love what you guys did with it, mixing the old and the new.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

In many places where the train slows in Veracruz—at a curve or to pass through a village—people give. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Things most people only thought but knew better than to say out loud. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

There were no furnishings, no sign that people had lived here but for some ashes beneath the smoke hole in the roof. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Attacking his sister wasn’t enough; he wanted to destroy people’s memory of her too. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I went back to the drawing room and thought for an instant that they were chance visitors, all these official people who suddenly filled it. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Often, the speech of people in public seemed to me very loud, booming with confidence. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jon had seen an abandoned hold-fast once, a drear place where nothing moved but the wind and the stones kept silent about whatever people had lived there. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

People in Omaha are not, as a rule, friends with people who live halfway across the country in Sharon, Massachusetts. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the real importance, Reverend Hunt says, is to bring the good news of Christ to the native people who live in Virginia. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Deborah had started scrubbing people’s floors and ironing for small amounts of money. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The entire forest echoed in song from the people of the Baltics singing of their homeland. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

My uncle says that sometimes two people come into the world having the same fight they left the world having. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

It was technically illegal to bury anyone on company property, but the colored people had a cemetery somewhere up Snakeroot Hollow. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Now I know who the Dauntless leaders are, because they are the only people who are awake. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

In some small prairie towns people looked at me like they never seen a colored man before. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We need to find the thing that’s been really killing people.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“All wild creatures avoid contact with people. Like you said, you’ve never even heard of the draccus. There’s a reason for that.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Of course, Tally. You understood immediately what this all means. Most people can’t believe it at first. They say the authorities would never be so cruel.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

How could Caleb have chosen to be one of these people? Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

But once in Suwon, the streets were chaotic, with people in a panic. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He bought a beat-up blue Buick and gave people rides into Santa Fe. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Whatever it means, Flame is kind and good. Ector, when people trust you and depend on you, you can’t hurt them. You could not treat a dog so.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most people who live out here have trucks since some of these roads can be pretty bumpy. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

In a religious context, cult refers to a relatively small group of people dedicated to a set of beliefs that are outside mainstream theology. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

All sorts of people went about their business—tradesmen and soldiers and officials and many monks. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

But having a cruel and bestial spirit, in order to practise his greed upon the people, he turned to pleasing the armies and to making them undisciplined. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

The three-bedroom home always managed to somehow stretch itself when people were in need of a place to stay. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

When Mom mentioned Jackson Pollock once, Lucy Jo said that she had Polish blood and therefore did not appreciate Mom using derogatory names for Polish people. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

We would be in a crowd of people, and he would say, “I don’t think you have met my wife.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Once the main entrance bottlenecked, people crawled over the windowsills. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Some people said it contained spells for turning salt into gold and men into rats. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

There are people who say I’m a wonderboy—one who got jinxed—or that I knew some secret—which I fumbled—or that I had this big, hairy plan. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

We watched white people eating in the mezzanine, but we never asked why we couldn’t go up those stairs. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And you’ll be surprised to learn that hunter-gatherers ate better, grew taller, lived longer, and were healthier than “civilized” people. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Dear Dean O’Neill, It occurs to me that the people who will be reading this letter are faced with a difficult decision concerning my admission to the University of Chicago. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Seeing him with his wife, I understood why people in the neighborhood said he was distinguished. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

On my good days, I can out- think most people. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It shouldn’t be surprising to learn that elderly people are not very criminally intent; the average sixty-five-year- old is about one-fiftieth as likely to be arrested as the average teenager. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Noting the irony, he said, “The shoes were picked up in minutes by some of the nicest people in town.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

When I was your age the only people I knew were black, and all of them were powerfully, adamantly, dangerously afraid. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Bill looked at me looking at people, and after class, he asked me what I was thinking about, and I told him. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Not the all-out love the people in the park had for Cool Papa Byrd and the Bluesmen. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

I join the people who stand at the back of the church, waiting for Father O’Reilly to come out. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure what I was running from, unless it was people. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Adding another person to that rarely makes it better. So take it from me: If he’s already cool with you and your head, that’s a step above most people I’ve met.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Paul Farmer, the renowned physician who has spent his life trying to cure the world's sickest and poorest people, once quoted me something that the writer Thomas Merton said: We are bodies of broken bones. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As they talked to people, they began to understand the hardships suffered by so many during the almost six years that the war had ravaged Europe. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the streets and around white people he would keep the dignity on his face and always be silent. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

And then, when the rush of excitement fades, he says, people feel rotten. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“You always hear white people trying to minimize the size of the aboriginal populations their ancestors personally displaced,” according to Lenore Stiffarm, an ethnologist at the University of Saskatchewan. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Arabs from Zanzibar convinced them to become Muslim, then recruited them to capture our Chewa people and put us into bondage. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The window above her was open, the still night air thick with the odors from the gutters behind the house, where people emptied their toilet buckets. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Everything they did or said was to gain the approval of the white people with whom they interacted. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The Mist wouldn’t fool Rachel like it would most people. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

But our own young people had no share in this, thank goodness. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The people looked like extras on a set, watching in a tight group from across the street. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Hades’s dungeon was meant for dead people, and they don’t breathe. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s not a costume I get to take off when people are rude. Or racist.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

"So you just want people to think you like the Smiths?" Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Zach Powers, Lena Young, and their crowd ride roughshod over a lot of people. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Some people in the hospital yard are staring through the rain across the street. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

As he stood there in utter bewilderment the terrified people who were watching him from a distance saw that the mad fit was over, and Amphitryon dared to approach him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not many people are on in the middle of the day. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

That night, as firemen fought the flames, lots of people slept there. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then I read that the year before, a record number of innocent people were freed from prison. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

‘They used us to look like better people in the community. My whole goal is to make sure they never get children again.’ Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

There were business and professional people, such as the militant former Brooklynites Dr. and Mrs. Robert E. Lee, both of them dentists, who had given up their United States’ citizenship. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s satiny and puffy and looks like one of those bridesmaid’s dresses people make fun of in movies. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

It was something new to add to the mix of street noise and people. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He would prove to us, dipping into die science of human behavior, that the only difference between us and outside people was that we had been caught. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The master of ceremonies asked people to say what they thought the function of the novel might be in modern society, and one critic said, “To provide touches of color in rooms with all-white walls.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

If a white guy chooses to immerse himself in hip-hop culture and only hang out with black people, black people will say, “Cool, white guy. Do what you need to do.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, I realize that I’m mouthing off to one of the world’s most powerful people—to my idol, someone I’ve watched and read about and obsessed over for years, someone who had changed my life. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

This virus is deadly to monkeys, although it is harmless to people. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never saw her again, though I wrote now and then to the people who lived with her. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Other people move up to the stage, and soon the place is packed. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

He was angry at being tricked, and the people heard his roars from many miles away. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

On the contrary, since the Harlem idea of seduction is, to put it mildly, blunt, whatever these people saw in me merely confirmed my sense of my depravity. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Into this narrow triangle of greenery between a road and a river, surrounded by starving people. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

This trend was driven in part by an expansion in the rights of people accused of crimes—a long overdue expansion, some would argue. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I thought about this more often now that I was an adult, especially when people applauded me for my achievements, as if there weren’t a strange and cruel randomness to it all. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Noon came and the store was crowded; people jammed to the counters for food. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some people cut up their old plants with clippers and dug them back into the soil. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A real wedding, in a church, with a real reception afterward, was rare among the people of the Bottom. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

No matter where we go or in which direction we turn, there are people marching ahead and behind us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s unclear how Tate was able to persuade Holman’s warden to house two pretrial detainees on death row, although Tate knew people at the prison from his days as a probation officer. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The vomit that yellow fever patients spewed forth, as well as the blood and offensive odors, were particular horrors to most people, even those medically trained. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The Indigenous peoples’ land base has also been drastically reduced since first contact with Europeans. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

As he made friends among people who understood and appreciated what he had endured, he gained confidence and began to try to fill gaping holes in his understanding of his homeland. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Some people put flowers by the sink, or framed pictures on the walls. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Over 20,000 enthusiastic people showed up for the Black Christmas parade in Hayti, cheering as groups representing dozens of black organizations marched by. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I had not had in mind when I spoke the contemptibility of suicide to these people. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ella’s right: the place is full of people my own age. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the expression “come to lunch” was something people said in books. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The two of them worked for the Post-Flares Coalition, an entity people in the settlements had heard of but knew almost nothing about. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Indeed, the local people were now observing a polite silence, awaiting my next remark. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

When Hanako looked at such pictures, and at the pictures of the people who’d left their homes behind, she felt in her heart that she knew those people. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She would like to make an example of certain people. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

We selected them as the most immediate burden pressing on the lives of the people, and the best way to engage the greatest number of people in the struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he approaches, I see that he has one green eye and one brown eye, like he’s two people in one, two very intense people in one. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Very soon you will start to adopt an American accent, because you don’t want customer service people on the phone to keep asking you ‘What? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I—I can’t believe all the people who came out today,” I said, holding the Team Apptitude shirt tight against my chest. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

During that summer of the seed selling we thought about the money, thought about the seeds, and listened with only half an ear to what people were saying. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

If one-tenth of all people have a certain blood type, what is the probability that, of the next hundred people we randomly select, exactly eight will have the blood type in question? at most, eight? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trub’s laughter floats in the air behind me, and all three people in the tent turn in my direction as a red cloud of dust rises at my heels. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

They returned with bad news: the buses and trains were filled; people were ignoring the strike. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That summer was the summer when all of the bees came out of the walls of those suburbs and went crazy, and people couldn’t figure it out at all. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mai cut pictures out of magazines and put photos of people she didn't even know, but just liked, up on the walls. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

On news shows and on fictional shows alike, it was a constant parade of black people getting arrested and thrown in jail. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Its banks were crowded with people and its glittering surface teemed with boats. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

We joined the stream of people claiming their baggage. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I’m thinking of people who smile a lot. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, if there were people up there, they’d waited this long without doing anything. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

How could Tali, of all people, have been lured away so easily? Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Indigenous peoples of what came to be called the Americas were citizens of self-governing nations. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Suppose the boat was sailing south, straight into Kush, where men are barbarians, and the gods are not true gods, and people speak gibberish instead of talking sensibly as Egyptians do? The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The Klan leader genuinely liked young people and had a knack for communicating with them that was rare for men his age. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I suppose these things are as real, and as oppressive, to the people who grew up there as this place is to me. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The more rugged vehicles pulled on in to the muddiest sections, and the people inside would scatter to the bulldozers and backhoes that had been left outside overnight. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

And the threats from the militants to stop associating with white people hadn’t ceased. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In short, the Apple-PC-Windows phase begat the Netscape browsing-e-mail phase, and the two together enabled more people to communicate and interact with more other people anywhere on the planet than ever before. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

They had put him into a cell similar to the one he was in now, but filthily dirty and at all times crowded by ten or fifteen people. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

That had really surprised Papa, because he had always believed that there were special people—people born special, just like he was born to cook. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Let’s get Harry and set him back before he becomes so mean people will hardly recognize him any more! Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Are people going to be afraid of me forever, then?” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Let me tell you, you don’t want to be in the seventh grade and have people hear you snore. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

That was a lot more recent than the Holocaust, and already half the people in Chokecherry claim it never happened. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

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

“I don’t know how people can jump high enough to throw the ball down into the basket,” she said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

My dad shook his head and said, “There are evil people in the world, Caitlin.” I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Ten: Quite a few people showed up for the museum performance, and I stood before them wishing they were half as high as I was. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I watched you walk down the long stretch of hallway, with people knocking into me. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“These are a sweet, gentle people, very indulgent, very peaceful,” he said. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Our upper lips are stiff, and it is possible people are curious about us because we do not show them our hearts. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She told herself that her actions had been motivated by love for her people and her country. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Have to admit it, I feel a little vindicated in how I’ve lived my life because people can be the worst. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

And Sefia could see how much that meant to him, losing his wife, his daughter, the only two people he’d ever really cared about, besides himself. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Consider this: Chinese people were classified as black in South Africa. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He was risking his own pro-Lumumbist neck to stay near me, but many people were now taking risks for what they loved, he said, or simply for what they knew. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It means that a very small number of people are linked to everyone else in a few steps, and the rest of us are linked to the world through those special few. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time we get to a new town we cruise into whatever shopping center there is and ask random people to make a small donation to help our hoop squad. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

But I’d thought it was a small conflict, like the Boston Massacre, which Dad talked about a lot, in which half a dozen people had been martyred by a tyrannical government. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Walter at times expressed frustration that people didn't believe him when he told them he had received nothing. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In the museum, with so many people roaming around, Luba Luft would tend to do nothing. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

You’re doing the same thing the people who took E’s dad are doing. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Two, the Anne Frank quote you see as you leave this somber memorial: “Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Harlem’s numbers industry hummed every morning and into the early afternoon, with the runners jotting down people’s bets on slips of paper in apartment house hallways, bars, barbershops, stores, on the sidewalks. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s fair to say the broadcast fooled thousands of people, at least temporarily. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“But Umuahia will not fall. There is no need for people to panic and start packing.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

United among themselves, united with their own kind, they could have benefited black people all over the world! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd parted as he boomed, “Let’s go, people. We’ve got dead men to discuss.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Just an excuse to show people with no clothes.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

These six people scattered like quail hit by buckshot. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother looked so worn out, I thought, the result of her working long hours for white people who she said “worked her like a mule, treated her like vermin, yet paid her noth- mg. “ Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in high school, people are always watching so there’s always a reason to pose. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Many of them, indeed, know better, but, as you will discover, people find it very difficult to act on what they know. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

The inside of Madame Sabbar’s tent looked a whole lot smaller without all the people piled up in it. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Then things got real confusing ’cause ’stead of greeting the people and making ’em feel comforted the way it happens most times, Miss Duncan-the-first started up asking questions. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

But Dad said exactly the opposite of how people needed to get there. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I mean, how do people even begin with this stuff? Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I’m wondering how many people in the world would have understood right away what I meant about the word bounce, the way Safer just did. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

There were a lot of smart people working on that project, and I guessed they’d figure things out, sooner or later. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Immediately a second is ordered; people know how much they are indebted to the soldiers. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

These people didn’t look like any white people I had ever seen. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Win all three races there and, Ulbrickson figured, he might just convince the people of Seattle to again finance sending all three boats to Poughkeepsie for the national championships in June. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Then they don’t think white people know about long division, either?” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can no longer be your president but I will never leave my people or our country. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Did he tell you,” asked the King with interest, “that it was wrong to kill people for any reason, and especially when you were looking for the Grail?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was walking fast, like he had someplace important to be, but he stopped at a couple of stoops to say hi to people. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

When years before they had first come to the people living on the Cebolleta land grant, they had not said what kind of mineral it was. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I had grown accustomed to people staring at Danny, at his beard and side curls. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

A natural extrovert, he would leave the hotel as soon as we arrived and hit the streets, learning by seeing and talking to people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lots of people were scared to leave their own kingdoms. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I guess a lot of people like football. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Severed people had gathered around us, watching the emotional reunion. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“I found something in here yesterday that I think will be both useful and enjoyable. I’m especially pleased to say this opportunity comes from the newspaper that represents Negro people all over the state.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

There were about twenty people in the car, but most sat at the other end, avoiding the four teenagers, because they were, as eyewitnesses would say later, “horsing around” and “acting rowdy.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The notion that giving a relatively small number of people of color access to key positions or institutions will inevitably redound to the benefit of the larger group is belied by the evidence. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“You must come! The people here will do bad things to you.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“You’ll get to read everything we—” “What makes you think colored people need your help?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Even though this isn’t church, there are a few people who say amen, and heads are nodding in agreement. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Hardly a day passes without him being invited to visit the studios of painters of repute, or people come to him,” Theo writes to Ma. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Those segments were then shown, with the sound turned off, to a group of randomly chosen people, who were asked to rate the facial expressions of each newscaster in each segment. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to know as little as possible, to feel only enough to get through the day amiably and to be interesting enough to warrant the curiosity of other people— but not their all-consuming devotion. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spending time with these people had made Charles think of ways that pigs, children, primitive peoples, Englishmen all were related. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything Will could see spoke of wealth and power, the sort of informal settled superiority that some upper-class English people still took for granted. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Peck used to operate by a code with people like Rufus. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I say, as people murmur around the sanctuary. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Being a people of close family ties and weekly fiestas they suddenly understood the situation. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why are there so many cars in the white people’s homes?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother could contend against the hairy beasts whether flesh or ghost because she could eat them, and she could not-eat them on the days when good people fast. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear the quiet rumble of the street, the people walking around city hall. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

With that smile of his, and those depthless eyes, beneath the towers of the white city, with people, white, hurrying all around them. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The peoples of the corn remain connected in spite of the heavy influences of colonialism. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The good people of Butte seemed to get it. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When danger suddenly approached, he needed only to protect himself from a few of his subjects, but if he had had the common people hostile, this would not have been sufficient. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

In my frustration, I began to curse him in the Tang peoples language, using some of Uncle’s more memorable curses. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look! This is what white people look like,” I said as I held the fluttering magazine out to her. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Upon receiving the word, people again left town and headed for their various hiding places in the forests. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

We want an immediate end to police brutality and the murder of black people. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The clinic treated hundreds of people every day, who came sometimes from great distances, by foot, on donkey, or on the overcrowded passenger trucks on Highway 3. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

If they were normal Noisy people, it wouldn’t matter how far back on the trail I was, we could all talk together and nobody’d have no automatic secrets. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The city fathers bragged about the way our people and white folks were working “side by side.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you spend your whole life being ‘accepted’ by white people, it’s easy to ignore history and hard to face stuff that’s still problematic, you feel me?” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

‘Quiet! 1 must say you people are a nuisance. If this is retirement. I’d rather be back at that Lew Pants.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go through her closet and pick the outfit that most looks like something Rhiannon would wear; I’ve found that people tend to trust other people who dress like them. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Come on. If people didn’t have guns in the first place, we’d be way better off.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Babulya mixed potions and salves for people all over the village, but she never wanted anyone to know she was the one making them. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

I will call people by different names or generic names because I don’t want you to find me. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“The angel touched the man’s shoulder, and they were both projected far into the future. They were in an immense setting, surrounded by thousands of people speaking a strange language. “The man wept with happiness. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

August liked to keep a little pollen in her honey because it was good for people, so we saw to that, too. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ran to find Mr. Henry, all the while trying to puzzle out why Mrs. Caruthers was so unsettled by the idea of more people in the house. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The officer smiles, motioning for his men to stand down, but then the guns jump back up again because people are pouring down the ladder from the attic. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

‘Dreams,’ he said, ‘is very mysterious things. They is floating around in the air like little wispy-misty bubbles. And all the time they is searching for sleeping people.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

"They'd be better than-" He would not name people and Sam finished the sentence for him by nodding along the beach. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

They find they enjoy resolving other people’s issues via suggestion more than doing all the work themselves. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I just hope people can learn something from what we’ve done. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said he’d seen people swimming in the lake and rowing boats. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I like the way the City makes people think they can do what they want and get away with it. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only people who stayed were Aunt Zo, Father Mike, and our cousins, because they were related to us. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I saw ducks and geese, mothers with strollers, people walking their dogs, joggers, some boys riding bikes. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Who brought this creature into a place for people? The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The instant the hymn ended, the choir coach began to give her lengthy opinion of people who can’t keep their feet still and their lips sealed tight during the minister’s sermon. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Well I went to college on some. Eva banked the rest. I’ll look into it, though.” “... and explain it all to the bank people.” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

One or two lynchings went a long way toward inducing docility among even a large group of people, for people respond strongly to strong incentives. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

It could deceive humans, even demigods, into seeing monsters as harmless animals, or gods as regular people. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And all those old photographs from the 1960s, all those films I beheld of black people prostrate before clubs and dogs, were not simply shameful, indeed were not shameful at all—they were just true. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

There were people pressing against her from behind now, as well. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

It was hard news; many people preferred not to talk of it at all. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in all of that time I’ve yet to find a place where black people like cats. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Any diversion that took him away from his books or used up his time was a betrayal of the people he had sworn to serve. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

See, people of color have—not all of them, but a lot of them—have poor self-esteem, because we’ve been branded. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“But you know,” he added, “these are some of the finest people in the world about everything else.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why is it sports is the only thing white people see us being successful at? I don’t want to play football,” he said. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly evil isn’t punching people or even hating them. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Scientists in Britain had found a few people who seemed particularly adept at multitasking—potential supertaskers—for Dr. Strayer to put through the paces. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

There were wounded and injured people among those who had fled. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Dimple felt her guard go up, that unbreachable wall laid with bricks of cynicism and aloofness that kept people at bay. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Wainwright, the Supreme Court ruled that poor people accused of serious crimes were entitled to counsel. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

First she starts talking about all the people who work on my case. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

After the repast lunch the people at church made for us, we walked home along the hard-packed dirt path that led from the cemetery all the way to our house. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

For a fleeting moment, I wished I could see the hugeness of that achievement from the perspective of other people. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

At this hour, no people were around the pigpen, so the rat and the spider and the pig were by themselves. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

How lovely would it feel to sing like that, to change the air with my voice, to fill people’s ears with such pleasure. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I saw people out raking leaves, walking dogs, and sitting on porches. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

To have even a hope of achieving this, the railroads would have to reduce their fares, and Frank Millet would have to intensify his efforts to attract people from all corners of the country. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I was pleased that people seemed to value the information I shared. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The two people I loved most in the world were down there somewhere. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

We had held ourselves and the people who worked with us to the highest standards of ethics and decency, and we'd made it all the way through. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A few people have what is called perfect pitch or absolute pitch. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I had forgotten that people slept in sheets. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he wears suits to work and helps people file their taxes. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I only got engaged to save people’s lives, and that completely backfired. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Suited people get on and off, talking loudly about Very Important Things. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not what people really do out there, in normal life, if that’s what you were thinking.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in the same way that a freedom fighter subordinates his own family to the family of the people, he must subordinate his own individual feelings to the movement. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up ahead I see three people walking fast like me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Before Dr. Treisman and her peers, there was a sense that people could control the direction of their attention, even if their reaction times weren’t instantaneous. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Anyway,” he says, “it’s pretty obvious that you don’t want people to know.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Myers insisted that there were other people besides him and Kelly involved in the Pittman murder, including a corrupt local sheriff. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Three or four times a week after dinner, the new people sit through an hour or more of meetings. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was liberated there, surrounded by people from all over the planet. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

There was this feeling that everything I was going to say was either too loud or too strange for a world in which people did normal things. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found Dolorous Edd at the fire, complaining about how difficult it was for him to sleep when people insisted on blowing horns in the woods. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She said the only people there to help her were my parents. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

They looked up at the young man as, perhaps, only people in deck chairs can look up at someone. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

But just think of all the millions of people all saying to themselves: It doesn’t matter, it’s just me. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The survivors around me—people and animals who had been trapped within its planks—cheered weakly as they clung to their own pieces of flotsam and kicked toward the shore. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I looked, but all I saw was three people moving through the dark, carrying stuff from a pickup truck to unit 2D. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Other frequent themes included lepers, the pathologically obese, and people with thyroid deficiencies, all portrayed with a cool eye for anatomical detail. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

This is a color-blind society, my brethren...people are judged by the content of their character instead of the color of their skin.Kyle: Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

One way to summarize the views of people like Erickson and Balee would be to say that they regard this picture of Indian life as wrong in almost every aspect. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

"That's a diamond," somebody said, and a lot of people burst out laughing. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The people, I said, wanted democracy, and political leadership based on merit not birth. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The train jerked forward suddenly and a couple of people clapped. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Even if I did, I have no desire to throw myself before people for their applause. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were patterns in the way people moved, the way they clustered around power. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“I thought people got on Instagram just to be on Instagram.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Two people can be in the same car crash, he says, and describe it very differently. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“To begin with, I should like a plan of the Istanbul-Calais coach, with a note of the people who occupied the several compartments, and I should also like to see their passports and their tickets.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

But whatever keeps wages low—and I’m sure my comments have barely scratched the surface—the result is that many people earn far less than they need to live on. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Drawn by my mom’s screams, people step out of their trailers as I’m escorted down the steps. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“How could he hate black people when his junior wife was black?” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m so used to our house that I forget it probably looks weird to other people. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

This is perfect for implementing one of the essential elements of West African dance and music, where people take turns “showing their stuff” in a playfully confrontational way. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

One hotel even has slot machines in the elevators for the people who can’t wait that long. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Those thirty white people, rest their souls, have purchased an all-out invasion against the pro-independents. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew by then how people often say ‘dead’ when they mean ‘very’ so I didn’t need to ask about that, but I did ask her how a city could be fast. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Jamison a lot of people thanked him. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

For a good part of the eighteenth and all of the nineteenth century, the populist, light, tuneful Italian style of opera was what most people went to an opera house for. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She had the oddest sense that people might be able to see her secret. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Devon’s hair is brown and people say his eyes are big and beautiful and brown but really there’s a lot of black and white in his eyes. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“People who want you dead. Or people who have experienced it themselves. Firsthand. Or secondhand, like me.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The site, described as a system for matching people who want to establish contact with their “next-of-kin by birth,” seemed reputable and aboveboard—nonprofit, no fee required. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

In the Yang house, shoe removal is part Chinese tradition, part Mrs. Yang likes people to be comfy. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

But it was also clear that people had been traumatized by what had happened. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Who would have thought twenty flyers could have brought more than a thousand people to the park? One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hears noises in the background, people speaking. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He filled us in on an integration parade in St. Augustine that got attacked by a mob of white people, about white vigilante groups, fire hoses, and teargas. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can you imagine what people would say if it were known that Hanoi has met all these conditions and then Nixon’s conniving with them kept us from getting it?” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Some people very much want there to be life on Mars; others very much want there to be no life on Mars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or most simply, he is representative, easily drawn and iconic, the idea being if you know him you can know a whole people. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom had to get down and explain everything, that she always liked Daniel cause he was in the Bible, and that people couldn’t say Khosrou. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

But it didn’t seem to take much evidence to rouse these people’s suspicions. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Benton smiled back awkwardly, thinking that perhaps Rameel had convinced himself that he could convert tribal peoples to a complex faith like Christianity in as little as twenty minutes. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Most people used their motors to get out of the marina, firing them up in the slip and backing out with great noise and smell— that’s how Owen put it. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I walked home I looked up at the windows above the shops, where the people lived. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I felt such intense pride at that point, not as an African, but as a Xhosa; I felt like one of the chosen people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though the men of the Seven Kingdoms might call them the children of the forest, Leaf and her people were far from childlike. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Moss glanced toward the south and saw more people trying to claw their way out of the line of cops that stretched across the street. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“So he was a man,” he went on, “and then...Do people become angels when they die? Is that what happens?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They spent some time on the college lawn, watching other people wander about. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He heard another roar come from Alec and then the man tackled one of the people holding Mark. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Before them people believed Aristotle, who said that the natural state of a body was to be at rest and that it moved only if driven by a force or impulse. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t feel like this space could have anything to do with Creekwood High School, but Creekwood people are everywhere—on the paths, by the aviary, seated at picnic tables on the grass. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Why did the Long Knives attack our people?” he asked. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

You know how some people have those voices? All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Moreover, the new agricultural tasks demanded so much time that people were forced to settle permanently next to their wheat fields. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Libra not only could help earth by providing clean solar energy, but could also relieve overcrowding on earth by giving people someplace else to live. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I needed a gaelet, one of the dangerous men who lend money to desperate people. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The more he thought about it, the more he realized that even after he had been living here for five years, most people couldn’t get past what they saw on the outside. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I didn’t like what this did to my interactions, the way my presence sometimes caused people to stammer or go silent, unsure of how to be themselves. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“A great many people would have believed it Jenny. I expect a great many will.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all my time in the work camps, it was strange to see people in the real world, eating dinner and going to school and watching movies. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was listening, and jotting in my notebook, as press, radio, and television people called, all of them wanting the Muslim reaction to the quoted attacks of these black “leaders.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shop doors were wide, as if people had run off without using their keys. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mark turned to face the people behind him. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Lots of people don’t. I could name you people in this neighborhood that hate him like poison.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lectured me good, right there in the store, but it was about mill people. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The first question on the minds of many people released from prison as they take their first steps outside the prison gates is where will they sleep that night. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

If all the people that has consumption in Limerick were to die this would be a ghost town, though I don’t have consumption meself. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I went to bed with the Whitman, flipping to the part I’d liked before, where he spends all the time hearing the opera and the people. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

At school, people kept asking Phoebe about her mother’s business trip to London. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

And these two very old people are the father and mother of Mrs. Bucket. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it’s a good thing to take a break from all that, but it does get tricky when surrounded by people who don’t always say what they mean. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

When the hydraulic lifts let the cars down, the air escaping from the pistons sounded like screams of people being crushed. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

But the first chef in our block had been a gardener all his life and suddenly found himself preparing three meals a day for 250 people. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have people die here every few days,” he explained later. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

And many people came to him— many to trade with him, many to deceive him, many to listen to him, many to elicit his sympathy, many to listen to his advice. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

I search the faces of all the people passing me and think of my cousins—the oldest, Chantal, and the twins, Primadonna and Princess, who are my age. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I hate talking in front of people, and all this teacher does is talk. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

So I was like, You got to believe in the people, it’s a democracy, we can change things. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The team was growing rapidly, with experienced people recruited to look after the finances and handle advance planning on events. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

‘Some people,’ I said, ‘say the Bible flood was real. And that it could be coming again.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The melding of passion and fashion is the song of my people. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Why, then, had peoples of those outlying areas not already begun to grow them of their own accord? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And everybody kept coming in and going out all the time--you got dizzy watching people sit down and stand up. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“I heard her talking to Tom. She was so—so happy about it. I didn’t know people could be that evil.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then what shall we do, if there’s no city, and no people?” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The guy drove off, and people were screaming, but Noodle said I just walked right across the street to where Tariq was lying. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It seemed they weren’t prioritizing the governance of the country or the fact that people needed jobs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He had no idea that people thought he was clowning. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘It looks funny, people walking around like signposts, or billboard adverts.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between other people The knock comes at my door. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anya had heard stories of vodyaniye attempting to capsize smaller boats or drown people who got too close to the river. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

They are kind people, and though I have on more than one occasion tonight offered remuneration for their hospitality, they will not hear of it. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

There’s music, bright lights, people cheering, and awards. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Maybe he’s one of those people who holds a grudge forever. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Two sailors scrambled down to help people up. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I’ll search for a place where there are other people, people who will welcome me. To stop me, you will have to kill me, too.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Or did you let him down on the sidewalk, and he walked along with the people?” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Inside, the walls are covered with mirrors and more pictures of beautiful people. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We went out and did another test with two hundred different people,” explains Darrel Rhea, another principal in the firm. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

But she found that the barn was not nearly as pleasant—too many people. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

They were the important people, he realized, the ones with connections, the ones whose families were safe. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I forgot that there were people behind and around me until I heard a few snickers and a scattering of claps, but I didn’t care. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were middle-class people, had lived all their married lives in a butter-colored middle-class ranch house in a stolid, middle-class town. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There were people behind and in front of us. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It wouldn’t be long before the lanes were bustling with rickshaws and people. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, the Spanish wanted native peoples to use as a source of forced labor. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

That’s when I learned that when people die, they sometimes take the living with them. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

When the four people had gone, Singer slipped on his warm gray overcoat and his gray felt hat and left his room. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

After all the people he had hurt, after the generations this family had haunted, we helped bring Jawad Sahib and his father to justice. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Oh, what I would like to do to those people,” she said. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“The Shaper has people to talk to,” I said. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. My people can’t live here. I was wrong, but luckily so, since I found you. What are your plans now?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

In a few minutes they’d be open to the entire horde of Bruce’s people, open to them charging aboard and ending it all. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Duke knew some people on the school board and smoothed things over a bit, but he told Kitty that something had to break soon. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Washing cars, like I was doing every day when I was nine, ten, eleven, you get to know the people who have cars in the town. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there was an oddness, thought Bod, as he watched the people heading home. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

In South Africa, it is hard for a man to ignore the needs of the people, even at the expense of his own family. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was such a gusto about the landscape which stretched before their window, such a riot of unexpected people and things, that you hardly knew how to begin describing it The Dark and Middle Ages! The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then we’ll be able to revive those poor people in the hospital wing.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

This is wrong: landscape and people remain, though greatly altered. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

While I waited for my turn, I saw several people pulled out of line when the scanner found a subcutaneous minicomputer or a voice-controlled phone installed as a tooth replacement. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Most of the people of that country lived on the borders of the Wood in pine-board houses built up close to the trees, where the old magic lingered. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The vast Reading Room thrummed with silent energy: people thinking, writing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Sure, the water crisis is bad, but not every one of these people could possibly believe it’s so bad that they’d need to leave for greener pastures. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Of course they were religious people, and the men who could read and write, who kept the records and drew the maps, were the tough untiring priests who traveled with the soldiers. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Gallup people knew they didn’t have to pay good wages or put up with anything they didn’t like, because there were plenty more Indians where these had come from. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Urvashi refused to rent space anywhere, because I have an image to maintain, and I’m not going to put my feet on a floor that’s been stained by other people’s shadows. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Red Queen is bossy, impatient, and orders people’s heads chopped off unless they do what she wants. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I had to mute my comlink because so many different people were trying to hail me, asking who the hell I was and where I’d picked up such a sweet ride. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Some people were killed instantly, in the pyroclastic surge and blast of rock and ash. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

These people had struggled for a quarter of a century to reach their understanding, and now their Indian Summer was before them. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I want you to make sure that these people are at the meeting, that you tell them how the thing can be made safe, so that they really understand.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

How do I deal with the fact that I DO need them to get ahead without feeling like I'm turning my back on my own people? Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Helen said that she had read articles about people like him in magazines. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The remark was probably intentional hyperbole, but I heard it quoted as fact by a number of media people. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, Emerson had a strong belief in the power of the individual. He believed all people were important. No matter their race.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Father and Mother are out and Margot has gone to play Ping-Pong with some other young people at her friend Trees’s. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The fisheries of fresh and salt water are a resource of great importance, involving the interests and the welfare of a very large number of people. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

When Lewis Hicks could not hire enough local strikebreakers, he went south, offering jobs to people who didn’t know what it was like in the Black Valley. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

These people fed her scraps of food, much as they might have fed a dog. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like two blankets, two cities, two dates, and two people. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

All people have multiple types of HLA, which means that they can bring almost every potential problem to the attention of their leukocytes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The saying that people who have nothing to do become busybodies is not the only truth. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were waterfalls and a swim-up bar, and more beautiful people happily bobbing. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

My eyes started scanning the crowds of people rushing past. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“I know people say it isn’t what it used to be,” he says. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Those big, empty rooms with no peoples and the lipsticked napkins and the leftover smell of perfume gave me chills. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

And I wouldn’t say I hated people who did, because that’s just about everyone. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of miles away, he was homesick for her, for her house, for the very people he had been hell-bent to leave. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the Queen was paying her own price: She was dying, and so were her land and her people. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“And you know, it will be good for Jade to speak about her work and meet and greet people who are interested in supporting young women. They need to meet her,” Maxine explains. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I imagine that it is the future, and that all the people have disappeared, and I am the only human left in the whole world. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Human populations of only a few hundred people were unable to survive indefinitely in complete isolation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t have to tell anyone. But it’d just be a shame if you had all these people willing to support you, and you never let them.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Some people thought so little of death that they actually took their own lives. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

And the people who were sitting on the seats got up and walked away because he was a policeman and we sat down facing one another. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Nhamo explained gently that she came from a proper village full of people. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A doctor in Insterburg confided that the people on the registry would be killed. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

How different they are from his own parents’ parties, cheerfully unruly evenings to which there were never fewer than thirty people invited, small children in tow. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He would later joke that he had been around white people so much that he had forgotten how to dance, but at the time the situation was excruciatingly painful. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The lawyer’s unguarded remarks about race were still the exception among “quality people,” however. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The immense collection of people and animals began to travel faster. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few people laughed and, gradually, a babble of talk broke out again. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Some people have already started to file in. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Next, he asked how many people lived in their house. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Every Muslim minister is always hearing the problems of young people whose parents have ostracized them for becoming Muslims. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most people she liked right away, and they usually seemed to feel the same way about her. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

But will has edged out shall as the people’s choice. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

This integration was a huge flattener, because it enabled so many more people to get connected with so many more other people. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Hanako had never understood why she must respect people who weren’t even there at that moment. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

We spend most of the day together at school, but not in a way that limits our interactions with other people. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He keeps waking up in DC, and Henry keeps waking up in London, and the whole world keeps waking up to talk about the two of them in love with other people. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Who is allowing people to die like that?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Did she mean that she liked colored people? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

And yet, even here, people noticed us, their heads turning subtly as we passed. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I took in the people in the courtyard. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

They do surgery in the Capitol, to make people appear younger and thinner. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

A few people smoked cigarettes, and some, only the white people, sipped ice water the deputies had brought in. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

She managed to glide to earth and made a crash landing on a hillside, where local people greeted her armed with pitchforks, sticks, and rifles—they’d thought her falling plane might be a German fighter. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen cat whiskers on people in the Capitol before, but none so long. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“What have we done that we must be punished? Am I not clean and healthy? Have I not borne a girl so fair, people turn to gaze when she passes?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

First, could it have taken a long time after 11,000 B.C. for the Americas to fill up with people? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It couldn’t be very hard, many people would be proud and glad to have such a dear boy care for them. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m happy to see that Ellis is as annoyed as I am, but I’m working really hard not to get paranoid about why Ellis said anything about people thinking I’m gay in the first place. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

And they don't look like people who would want to swing a pickaxe. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

A crowd of young people waits near me to board the ferry, joking and jostling each other about school and movies and some farmer they must have passed on their outing. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“All power to the people,” the crowd responded. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

A small crowd of dark people had gathered to hear all this. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the absence of an open space to form a line, people pressed in on me all around the bookseller’s table. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ya know, people say money can change someone, and they don’t usually mean for the better.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “Do you think those people are nice?” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

These people murdered your parents, Tobias’s words echo in my head. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The only thing I could do was to stop talking to people other than Bailey. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

If smart people are parodying it, that’s a sure sign that some less smart people are believing it. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The house was filling with people and the hours passed in a dreadful streaky blur of relatives, neighbors, crying children, covered dishes, blocked driveways, ringing telephones, bright lights, strange faces, awkward conversations. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know what tribe my people came from, so it came out kinda generic.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

But in fact, the settlers’ demands and actions led to federally sanctioned warfare against Indigenous peoples much as they had before the revolution. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

If you appeared successful, people would automatically assume you were successful. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

After each new piece, the people applauded and congratulated the Bellinis on their remarkable cricket. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Langley, full of talented people with varied interests, was a bonanza of recruits for her many volunteer activities. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I knew that, just as I knew Madoc could do gruesome things to people he cared about. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He had more trouble opening up to people after his dad left. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Trees have a rather complicated relationship with people, after all. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

When you care about other people, it takes the spotlight off your own drama. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He was not a gung-ho cop; he wasn’t quick to make an arrest, or to pull a gun, or to nail people just on general principles. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a shyme that people are allowed to top their walls with broken bottles. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

A few people are tagged in the snowball series, but not Box Boy. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

India was a very big country with about a billion people in it. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Some people even said he could look at the pattern of the waves and tell you where they’d come from, where they were going. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It was fun observing all the different kinds of shoes people wore and then looking up to see the face of the person wearing them. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Loud enough that the people at the tables beside us glance over. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It says, You don’t get people into trouble by naming them, even if they deserve it. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person’s life. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The few people around are staring at us. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

At seven-thirty the bell rings, and the front door is left open as people and cold air stream into the house. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

As darkness set in, crowds began to grow and mill about, many people curious to see what the city would be like with almost no police presence. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

But it was as though during my walk I had been getting used to the idea that years had passed for these people since I had seen them last. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You shouldn’t ever let him, Chrissie said. She told me we’ve got to help, because when he gets interested in showing people things, he just forgets.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The avenues are alive with people, late afternoon. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Half an inch of skin and sinew holding my neck on, Harry! Most people would think that’s good and beheaded, but oh, no, it’s not enough for Sir Properly Decapitated-Podmore.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“The soul lives inside a person when he’s alive. It’s the part of a person that feels. A poet’s soul feels more than regular people’s souls. And that’s what makes him write poetry.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

How could I sleep in a home where the sight of my face struck fear into people? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chiapas, he says, “is a cemetery with no crosses, where people die without even getting a prayer.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“It affected you. I would try not to get on a personal basis with people.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

In some of the small towns, people thinking I was with the band even mobbed me for autographs. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

That I feel guilty about leaving Jupe alone in a bed very few people even know we share? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

To his right, the flatlands of Berkeley and Oakland marched west—a vast checkerboard of neighborhoods, with several million people who probably did not want their morning interrupted by two monsters and a filthy demigod. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“It’s the Panthers’ ideas that people fear most, not our guns. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I had taught him the little I knew of reading and writing; now he could have taught me and most other people in the town. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a boy, he’d been used to people giving Baba this kind of attention when they saw him in uniform, but with Kamau it was harder. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I can’t miss things like that anymore, because if I do miss things like that, people are going to find out about me. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

I had never seen so many people, most of them reporters, squeezed into that space under hot glaring lights. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I decided to find out how people at school might react if one of the students never came back. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“You know how people are in the outside world. Only interested in themselves and their own mindless fun.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

At the hotel, there’s better lighting, and tables and chairs, and plenty of people nearby to help with hard math problems. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Birdie liked people, liked when they did embarrassing things like talk too much when they were nervous, or act shy because they didn’t know how to hide it. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Sometimes people who appear great can be the real deal. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Massasoit shepherded his people through the wave of settlement, and the pact he signed with Plymouth lasted for more than fifty years. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how any of those people in line will get in—this place is already super packed. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It’s an option taken by a lot of successful people: Ernest Hemingway, Socrates, Jesus. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

What was more, ever since arriving in Boston I’d kept catching glimpses of people I thought were him: dark figures dashing by in taxicabs, disappearing into office buildings. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I just know that it rubbed me in a weird way, because ROTC, especially to people like my dad, was the first step to the military, and ultimately into law enforcement. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

There was a time I didn’t think I needed anyone; now I wondered how could I need these people so much. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He wanted the German people to learn the virtues of democracy. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I am overpowered with the fact that at this very moment, we are killing people in Vietnam with our tax dollars.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The old people sent me out into thunderstorms to pick the red-cloud herb, which grows only then, a product of dragon’s fire and dragon’s rain. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in the hearts of the people I met. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Every time we left the house, people came out on the road and blessed us. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d had very little experience with wealthy people, but she had never met anyone with attitudes like the Derby men seemed to have. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am proud of these people not because of their color but because of their intelligence and their spiritual force and their beauty. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Funny, like old people do, and I laughed for real. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five people, all of whom looked like they loved what they did, whatever it was, came into the room and sat behind a long table. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

In particular he spoke of the backbreaking work he had to do on various white farms, and on chain gangs digging trenches and roads in the white people’s world. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was a celebrity now, newly elected to the Red Guards Committee, one of only nine people elected by all the Red Guards in the school. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between the sirens and the people shouting and the helicopters whirring overhead, there was no chance anyone could hear him. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Sitting Bull and his people had crossed into Canada. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The door stood open and people moved in and out freely. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I yelled, remembering previous fights which had erupted when families fought over rights to dig up white people’s leftovers. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those were the words that I shouted at school the day of the election, so that people who forgot today was election day would vote for me. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The local people along the border, the Anyuak, were good to us, and we went from village to village. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has condemned the harsh mandatory minimum sentences imposed on people convicted of drug offenses. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

And speaking of alleys, what kind of people put their baby on top of a pile of cardboard boxes in a dark alley? Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t text normal, and he doesn’t wake people up normal either. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Some thirty people were left in the building, holding out in the drawing rooms on the second floor. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Business was good—or rather it would have been good if we had had anything to sell, and people had had anything to pay for it with besides commissary scrip. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fighting for the people she cared about and doing everything it took to fix her mistake? Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And the people no different from animals: Leah and all those men licking their lips, already tasting roasted meat in the smoke of the fire. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, that’s not how we knock people off here. We fry ’em. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a good instinct for people too. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“You and Bobby Gene are my responsibility. Styx is someone else’s. We all care about him, but what he was doing was wrong. And the people responsible for him needed to know about it.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

More people came and wandered over the cliffs to look at the ship. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The United States will have done something the French don't like, and people will behave as though it's all my fault. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

My brother will sometimes murmur these initials when there are other people around, my parents for instance. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The line of people outside the classroom shortened very slowly. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Rumor was that the boy who robbed him had killed people. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Among the group were a few people whose home villages had been near rivers or lakes. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A young waitress named Helen Lanier, at Harlem’s Twenty Two Club where Malcolm X now often asked people to meet him, gave him a layette for the new baby. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people from downstairs called up to me once again to hurry. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom greets a few people working at the gate. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the Soviet Union was happy and friendly, unlike America, where crime made people afraid to leave their homes. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Bob the Titan. You’re good. You’re awesome, in fact. But some Titans are not. This guy here, Hyperion, is full-on bad. He tried to kill me...tried to kill a lot of people.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Other voices intrude: I hear the voices of my brother and sister and the people who have married into our family. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But, Mr. Dawson, sometimes people need advice and they’ve got real problems to solve.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Great beasts that people once rode, before the shamblers made them a ready food source. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

After all, people do not hand over their land, resources, children, and futures without a struggle! An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

But mostly folks are so busy, streets so loud, people miss seeing them. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was like a blood-cleaning club, complete with magazines and newspapers, but most people were looking up at a TV screen showing one of those early morning shows like Good Morning America. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

There will surely always be people with straight hair and blue eyes, as there have been for all history. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It’s not just having to stand up and talk in front of people. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The shoes kept slipping off his feet at every other step, and the more he tried to put on a dignified face, the more people kept turning around to laugh. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Despite all the helpful suggestions offered, people continued to die. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

His bark comes next, ready to alert people for miles and miles about the truck approaching. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Wondering why white people would bother giving a black person anything, I said to her one afternoon: “Granny, why are your white people giving you all these comics?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

That they were giving an award named after a beloved prime minister who had been tragically murdered by a deranged man to someone who represented people on death row revealed a lot about their values. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Some people, like Pearly, knew who they were and where they came from. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Or a group of science people doing research about plankton or the chemicals found in floating seaweed, all these waterproof monitors beeping and flashing next to ’em on deck. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were vacant, like the eyes of those mad people who wandered around the roadside garbage dumps in town, pulling grimy, tom canvas bags with their life fragments inside. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

There were few people beyond scythes and their apprentices who ever witnessed this. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

To Las Casas, the Americas seemed so thick with people “that it looked as if God has placed all of or the greater part of the entire human race in these countries.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“They’re rêveurs. Some of them follow the circus around. They always stay later than other people. The red is how they identify each other.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

After consultation with the NEC, I announced the suspension of our talks and warned Mr. de Klerk that he could not “talk about negotiations on the one hand and murder our people on the other.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All across the continent - and beyond it - people were constantly thinking up new and ingenious ways of making music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

We regarded this confrontation as a victory, for he was wary of us and knew that we had alerted people on the outside of our complaints. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then people figured out how to grow it, just as they learned how to plant apple trees or berry bushes. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

There were a bunch of people—like Maya, for instance—who couldn’t stand her. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

What must people think when they see me in goal? Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which was nice except I don’t really like it when people touch me. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“In my mama’s garden, I saw two or three right in front of the gate. There were dead people all over. We had to bury them.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

How are they transporting that many people at once? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

This way, people can detect where a plane is even if it’s not trying to contact them. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“I knew he would have liked to. He thought reading was so important. But back then, there were more people his age that never learned to read than there is today.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After three years of silence, banning, and internal exile, I looked forward to the chance to speak out before the people attempting to judge me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was easy to tell the people who had not fallen: they were the ones with the highest piles of snow on their shoulders and heads. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He'd just made the shot of a lifetime in front of thousands of people, and for the first time in a week, he actually hadn't been thinking about money. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

We were assigned two of these for the twelve people in our family group; and our official family “number” was enlarged by three digits—16 plus the number of this barracks. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I assumed people only slept here at night and went out during the daytime. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Stories about ancestral spirits and tribal totems were strong enough to enable 500 people to trade seashells, celebrate the odd festival, and join forces to wipe out a Neanderthal band, but no more than that. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I realized that if I kept doing this, people wouldn’t just think I was drunk. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

As lawyers and national pundits became more prominent than clients and citizens, we isolated ourselves from the people who were our anchor and on whose behalf we had labored. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

There was a space of beach about a half mile in length between Twenty-Sixth Street and Twenty-Ninth Street that was a favorite for people who lived on Chicago’s South Side. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Most notably, they provided meat, milk products, fertilizer, land transport, leather, military assault vehicles, plow traction, and wool, as well as germs that killed previously unexposed peoples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I guess we both knew that, given the way people in Welch thought about mixing, it would be too weird for us to try to be close friends. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

We counted different kinds of funny-looking cars and laughed at people and their pets walking along the streets. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“The thing about dead people,” he said, and then stopped himself. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

What she didn’t notice was that the Costas ware alert every second for unusual signs of interest in Lyra from the waterside people. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

My time of birth wasn't listed on the certificate, then got lost again amid other people's bad memory. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Here in Oklahoma people don’t poison each other except with canned green beans that have a vague medicine flavor. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“You can’t ruin them. They’ve traveled hundreds of years, and through many people to find you. Now, go make them your own.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Other people were darting in and out of the traffic, disregarding the deafening horns. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Joey pouted and said, “Well, if they die in it all the time how come we don’t see any frozen people when we go to school?” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people coming out of the station move like a swarm of bees and bump against us as they climb the stairs. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Or the fact that so many people looked up to my dad. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

When people saw who it was they let me pass. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got stuck checking this tall athletic dude people were calling Slim. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

There were many people passing in the fog. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Every now and then, the lights flickered, and people stopped and looked up in fright. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“If I do all the talking, people will think I did all the work. And that’s not fair.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Society of Sentient Insects had gone and invented ‘people repellent’ spray. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

These people were really getting into whatever it was they were doing. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Too many people, in my opinion, maintain a “Why me?” attitude toward their misfortunes. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aside from the usual insects and the well-publicized starving people in India, we failed to see any potential takers. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“I got people all over this kingdom,” he said, “and if I hear one more word ’bout you capturin’ children, I’ll take my ship, and I’ll hunt you down like an animal. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“What is the problem with people?” said Uncle Amin, his grip on the steering wheel tightening. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

My pay was better, my hours would be more reasonable, and there were other people designated to keep paper in the copier and fix the laser printer when it broke. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Aside from my uncle, there were four other people who bonded my cousins and me together. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Her face smoothed out and she said: "What an interesting idea, honey. But I'm wondering . . . will people make the connection? Maybe it's better to wear a brighter color. Like something red. You love red." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I might find a job that paid more than being lifeguard, and I was one of two people picked, out of 150, to represent the Freedom Writers at an award banquet. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I mean, maybe they were, like, really advanced prehistoric peoples. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Since that day in Momingside Park, I can hear fragments of people’s thoughts, glimpse scraps of the future. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in the snail-mail era, people usually only wrote letters when they had something important to relate. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess I thought it would be like visiting Constantine, where friendly colored people waved and smiled, happy to see the little white girl whose daddy owned the big farm. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I can understand the ’70s TV because everyone loves hairy people with huge collars. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I used to think that. But then I realized, believe it or not, it’s actually beautiful to some people. It must be, because enough people live here, and they can’t all think it’s ugly.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He and other people at the company had been cutting into sick monkeys since October—and yet no one had become sick. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we slowed to a walk, people started talking and laughing. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was also the subject of a lot of questions people were asking my mother. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“I don’t understand how people can eat fungus. But fine, one mushroom pizza. Just one.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

We step into the huge terminal, filled with people of all shapes and colors—wealthy women in furs trailed by servants, men in top hats and morning coats, shop girls in bright dresses. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

They are strangers to our character, ignorant of our capacity, oblivious to our history and progress, and are misinformed as to the principles and ideas that control and guide us, as a people. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

On the night of April 11, a torchlight parade of a few thousand people, with bands and banners, assembled on the semicircular driveway in front of the Executive Mansion. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had things ordinary people hadn’t had in years. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Usually the peoples who see me are the ones who are in great dangering or are very sickly. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

These places, these people, this strange shot of freedom. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

"I mean you are. Tell me, where did you find this young hero of the people?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

And of course the ruins were very large; finding seven people in what had once been a city of millions was no simple matter. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She said this quite softly, and because people were still shouting, she was more or less drowned out. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they entered the main door on Fifth Avenue, the guard clicked off two numbers on his people counter. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bring her up to be one of my people, of course.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“And then there are people just living totally regular lives, raising babies and driving cars and doing everything people with arms do.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

And there were people who had been inside the cave who might be infected with the virus by now. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's the Capitol's way of reminding people that the Hunger Games never really go away. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

What must we look like to people here? The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Using surveys from two polling companies, the researchers calculated that 6 million people across the United States heard the Mercury Theatre broadcast. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

When people asked, he always said his finger was “something” that had happened at home. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I have learned how to observe, far better than most people observe. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Only people whose mistakes were very serious were sent to these classes. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She believed that young people just starting out in their careers should not feel burdened by obligations, no matter how unselfish the offer of help might be. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Still, the most unusual requests often came from the most normal-seeming people. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Do you remember seeing these people at the last adoption picnic?” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“I won’t have this namby-pamby, wishy-washy nonsense about not hitting people who deserve it. A good thrashing is what’s needed in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred. Have you been beaten often?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Many show people in various settings, and a few have animals, while some of them have cups or coins, and there are more swords. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We kept most things from the old people, but sometimes they caught on and then we rotated the hot seat. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Looking for Miss Love and Grandpa, I saw some mill people and wondered if Lightfoot was there. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t let people use it around me. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The people had no idea they were walking straight into a trap. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z