There are lots of beaches and old forts from what I read online. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Waves and a long stretch of beach lie in the background. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“We could all be together in the tiny beach.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

There was the green of the headlands, the white, red-roofed villas, patches of forest, and the ocean very blue with the tide out and the water curling far out along the beach. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

But all that happens is that the one who was being dragged collapses on the beach. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It got cold at night, even on the beach in the summer, so he built fires with the remains of Calypso’s dining table. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Royal Odysseus turned and crossed the door sill, a herald at his right hand, sent by Alkinoos to lead him to the sea beach and the ship. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

A white policeman who was on duty at the beach saw the entire event. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

When I reach the harbour, I turn left and walk around its edge towards the stretch of beach along which I could walk, if I w'anted to, all the way back to Holkham. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its members were murdered almost immediately upon setting foot on the beach by a party of Nootka slave raiders. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Its shore could not be called a beach, there being neither sand nor pebbles, and there was no pounding of surf either, since the waves that fell upon the island simply vanished into its porosity. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“But, do you know, I have a notion to go down to the beach and take a good wash and even a little swim, before dinner?” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had lost sight of rocks and beach alike, and did not know what way he faced. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He got dressed and they set out down the beach carrying the last of their plunder. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

At sunset, the taxi dropped us at the beach in Santa Monica. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Running where the waves touch the beach makes it feel like I’m running faster than I am. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

They gathered driftwood and stacked it and covered it with the tarp and then set off down the beach. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

They scan the beach, illuminating shells and sleeping gulls, then focus on her. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I scooped handfuls of soggy cotton away from him, like wet sand at the beach. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She arrived not on a public beach, like most of the bottles and floats. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

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

They had pulled the boat pretty far onshore, and when they returned to the beach they had to push it across the sand. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

James wandered to the far end of the beach. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

"There are Germans on the beach!" he shouted. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Finally through extreme effort and much cursing he manages to beach canoe on jetty and collapses exhausted on sand at sun-down. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mouse mistook my toe for a mole crab, and I used the excuse to duck away and off down the beach to sit by myself for a while. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The first thing that caught my gaze was the gleaming stretch of beach on the southern slope of the sandspit. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the air, the beach reminded me of Cuba with its coconut palms, turquoise water, and white sand, but as we went farther inland, the rest of Miami looked very different. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Instead of having cheeks like my father’s sharp-edged points, mine were smooth as beach pebbles. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was down on the beach at Fletcher’s Bay, raking for steamer clams busily. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The heat of the tropics, the descent, the search for food, and now this sweaty march along the blazing beach had given them the complexions of newly washed plums. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

During the summer she would take us to the beach at low tide to dig for clams. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The transmitter in the attic, the women in the kitchen, the hundred trips to the beach. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The announcer was talking about a breakthrough on one of the beaches. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

They took me a roundabout way to the fake beach, and then I knew what would happen—a good, old-fashioned dunking in the lake—and I calmed down. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Stark white bedding, plush headboard, framed picture of the beach. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He’d walk us up the bluff like that, making every other kid on the beach with their flimsy fathers out of their minds with jealousy. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Mom wrapped herself in beach towels and released them all one afternoon when Dad and I were at the movies. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were beautiful, the way the women dancing on the beach were beautiful, with kohl-rimmed eyes and long black hair. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Dicey left him there and went back to the beach. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had seen that chest on the beach during the battle but did not remember that the hunters had taken it with them when they fled. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

We lugged the coolers up and down the beach. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I followed her obediently over to where the sand dunes dropped sharply five or six feet to the beach itself. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The AO lay along the South China Sea, where things had the feel of a resort, with white beaches and palm trees and friendly little villages. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were wonderful trees along the promenade above the beach, and there were many children sent down with their nurses before the season opened. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Alone on the dark beach, Adina had to laugh at her lousy luck. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

It looked exactly the way L.A. beaches do in the movies, only it smelled worse. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Only I pretended my hands made up a dark cave like the one me, Mong and Rondell went in by the beach. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

For those two afternoons, the Tillermans could go off to a park or a public beach after they had completed the morning chores, or after Maybeth had returned from church with Cousin Eunice. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Twenty-Sixth Street beach was fully equipped with suits, towels, and lockers available at no charge; the beach manager proudly stated that he was looking to make it “the bathing point of the south side.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She’s touched, because Sierra has changed her profile picture to an image of her and Annabelle at Green Lake, sitting on their beach towels. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

As they stood side by side a crane rose slowly from the beach, with a graceful lift of its great wings, and they followed its flight, a leisurely line of white against the dark trees. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

She hears Madame Manec’s raspy breathing, and the deep sounding of the sea among the rocks, and the calls of someone down the beach echoing off the high walls. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

To make certain that we shall at all times be prepared to repel insects, an exclusive New York store advertises a pocket-sized insecticide dispenser, suitable for the purse or for beach, golf, or fishing gear. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Across the street, a frosty black sand beach led down to the sea, which was as smooth as steel. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“We often went to the beach,” Jack said. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Others played by simply lounging on a virtual beach or enjoying a virtual safari. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There on the beach it had been the one thing that had held her back when Nat had offered her a chance to escape. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Because it would be pretty great to have a house on the beach. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“How can a person start off from Grand Isle to Mexico at a moment’s notice, as if he were going over to Klein’s or to the wharf or down to the beach?” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dicey carried the clothes down to the beach. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the light broke over the beach again he saw that the boy was bent over and was whispering to himself. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

It seemed so simple when he sat beside his mother, gliding in the evenings back to the beach house. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Out there was the gray beach with the slow combers rolling dull and leaden and the distant sound of it. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

We could see the moving dots of color below, and the other rides, and even the beach and the horizon. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

To hasten it I went down to the beach for dry seaweed. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched as a white heron circled the beach and then headed north toward the open waters of the tropics. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

I walk closer to the water, the thin stretch of beach that is littered with crumpled seaweed and broken seashells. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The weird gray light broke over the beach again. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The water was shallow, and the way the beach curved made it private, too. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The Princess Andromeda, Luke’s demon cruise ship, was docked at that beach. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Daddy bought it when I was nine after the former owner, Mr. Wyatt, left Garden Heights to go sit on the beach all day, watching pretty women. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

She walked to the beach, climbed onto the ice, and looked back. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went down to the beach to take a moonlit walk, and I was happy for them, though the scene reminded me of Silena and Beckendorf, which made me sad. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

It’s like this is my house, and the truck stop is my beach house.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

One Sunday, we drive out to the beach and cut down a small sea grape tree, paint it white, and hang it with our lights that look like nose droppers filled with colored water. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

She knew that those waves would push her inexorably toward the beach, and she and her brothers used to laughingly skim along their crests until they were spit out on the sand. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They were not so close, but she followed her husband as he climbed over the rock, holding Safiya with one hand, over the jagged ridge and down again to the next stretch of beach. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I crawled through the shallow water and up the beach. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was swept with sadness, a sadness deep and penetrating, leaving him desolate like someone washed up on a beach, a lone survivor in a world full of strangers. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the desk stands a photograph of a boy in breeches on a beach at dusk. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“In other words, every time we buy a gallon of gas, we pay a penny to keep the beach up so the whites can use it,” he said. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was about twelve, and we played on the beach together every day. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The beach at the end of this road was backed by low, rolling dunes, which flattened out to a narrow belt of sand before giving way to the placid gray water. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

We looked all around, at the beach and the cluster of stores down the way and the trees and bushes behind us climbing up the steep cliff. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“We can even leave the washer. Sonny’s almost worn out the top of it anyway. We’ll buy everything new at the beach.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Behind on the beach, the remaining twenty-two men cheered and waved. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

A lot of men who passed were irritated at not finding the beach just beyond the canal. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

So they went down to the little beach, leaving James behind. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Exploitation to finance a beach house in Hawaii was one thing. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Is he smart? He's not one of those dumb boys who drink beer at the beach all day, is he?” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Jinny spent the next hour combing the beach, with Loo running ahead on the dunes. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Rain padded softly on the beach and water. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the night I feel that thing again, the hunger that overtook me on the beach, I know this would have happened anyway. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The three brothers made clothes for the woman and the man, to cover themselves and to keep them warm, in the chilly sea-spray on the beach at the edge of the world. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“All I have to do is walk down a little path and I’m at the beach. It has five bedrooms, too. Mine’s the biggest.” P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“This beach was one of our settlements for whaling expeditions. And there were a lot of families here. A lot of lives were lost.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Together we trudged down the beach to a paved lot where her Jeep was parked. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

She takes my hands in hers like we used to do on the beach, like I'm freezing and she can warm me. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Auntie tells me he went to the beach in France. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The remaining Corporation employees screamed and ran, panicked, along the beach. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

But no one’s racing down the cliff path, the quickest way to the beach. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

On Monday, Tía Mari sent the girls and Oscar and Doña Margot away to their friends with the beach house. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Like waves breaking on the narrow beach down at the river. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Sybil was sitting insecurely on a huge, inflated beach ball, facing the ocean. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Darkness had fallen by the time the Wills ground onto the shingle beach again. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Waves broke and crashed implacably on the night beach. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

She walks to the beach on her skinny brown legs. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The beach was cleaner than he’d ever seen in his life. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The boy was still far ahead of him, and Roy was gulping like a beached trout. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, and why do you think I did not want to cross to the other beach?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

‘Tou have Vera, you have money. Just go away. Buy some beach property in San Juan and you and Vera can lie on the sand and watch the world go to hell.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The black-glass beach stretched inland about fifty yards, then dropped off the edge of a cliff. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I see your proud smile as you hand the balloon vendor your very own money at the beach. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Or they could have been at Clairmont, listening to the aunts argue and eating beach plum jam on water crackers. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Miles below me, the children playing on the beach were the size of beetles. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

The surrounding beach was peppered with smaller pieces of burning wreckage. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Back on the beach, The Peacock examined the bulletproof vest, which had taken the full brunt of the gunfire. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He walked me off the dock and up the beach after practice. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

I made certain Mom was settled back into the house she loved, near the great brown strand of beach that runs along the Atlantic. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

In my dream I stood on a sandy beach, my back to the sea, the moon over my left shoulder. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had a collection of pressed flowers and many shells, not only the local kinds from the Bournemouth beach but exotic ones collected by my adventurous great-grandfather during his travels to Australia and such places. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

From her perch she watched young sea lion cubs and their mothers tumbling on the beach. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Something glinted inside her ear, grains of sand from the beach maybe. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The shore line was peaceful and flat, and the calm sea bumped it playfully along the sandy beach. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Not on this beach, I know, but on other ones? We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

There’s a reason why I won’t tell her what happened at the beach yesterday. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Inlets formed rocky beaches and harbours where red-roofed houses and white stucco churches nestled against the shoreline. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“The vision was very clear, but it was also quite limited. I only saw the beach, and the ocean...and you. You were important.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

A little gray-coated sand bird came tripping over the beach ‘peeping’ softly to itself, as if enjoying the sun and sea. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now imagine a field a million times that big, packed with people, and imagine the electricity has gone out, and there is no noise, no light, no beach ball bouncing around over the crowd. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It takes four men to lift each crate, with its groggy bonobo contents, onto the beach. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

To the north, past the beach, the Long Island Sound glittered in the sunlight. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It had green fields and tropical fruit trees and white beaches. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I laughed when I saw little Caroline run on the beach in a tiny swimsuit and when John John paraded around his father’s Oval Office in his sailor suit. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Both he and the men in the store had spent the entire day hunting for Emma Lee’s assailant in the brush and swamplands of the beach. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The seagulls chirping, the sandy beach in the distance, the shirtless surfers—and then, despite myself, I think of Will. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Nailer drank again, enjoying the view of the beach. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

His apartment house was not far from a beach, he explained, and he would transfer to someone's permit there after I went back north. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the Wonder Wheel was the boardwalk, and beyond that the beach. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

But I can’t find the beach anymore—there’s too much road between us. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Her wide skirt opens like a beach umbrella. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Men and women who had done heavy crew work and then slipped out of the yards and into the twilight life of the beach with its nailsheds and gambling dens and opium holes. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

We were a few coves down from everyone else, hidden from the beach traffic by rocks. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

At the beach Mrs. Moss gave Toby and Mitchell, another of the foster boys, an inflatable shark. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The only point that everyone understood and agreed upon was that it was too risky to go back to the beach for the explosives. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“After twenty years of living in America,” he said, swerving the truck to avoid a pothole the size of a beach ball. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The beach was cut and scarred and padded by the feet of animals that had come to drink and to hunt. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were one of the first team interviews on the Today show’s beach set on the picturesque Copacabana Beach. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Along the coast as much as we could because then we could sleep on the beach where nobody would bother us. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The green palms, the warm turquoise ocean rolling in to white beaches meant nothing to him. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not much into the beach,” he replies. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

In another reality, Leo might’ve enjoyed a walk on the beach with a pretty girl, but the farther they went, the edgier he felt. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to mark the ones where we know the Gamemakers’ weapon follows us out past the jungle, so we’ll stay clear of those,” says Peeta, drawing diagonal lines on the fog and wave beaches. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was standing on a deserted street in some little beach town. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Not long after dawn the Aleuts took down their skin tents and carried them to the beach. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wish you could see these beaches with me. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He headed down to the beach and whistled. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

And there were three other pictures, and they were very small, and they were a palace and a beach and a palace. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He turned away from her and walked up the beach and through the brush line. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. A beach with a fifty-story condo on it.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said their house was right on the beach, and they had a tennis court and all, but I just thanked her and told her I was going to South America with my grandmother. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Since the first time she had envisioned that beach of ice, she had seen it twice more in dreams. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

If Pima weren’t such a good crew boss, she’d already be on the beach, hungry and begging for anything that came her way. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Karl was thunderstruck, and he turned and stumbled back to where his own family had set up their picnic on the beach. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Even the beaches, man— they put up all these giant hotels and only goober tourists are allowed. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Phil walks over to the beach and lofts the plaid blanket in the air; it billows out as he brings it to rest on the sand. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“This ain’t landing day,” Georgia Boy said as we sat watching more and more troops and equipment follow us up onto the beach. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He makes one of his first oil paintings, View of the Sea at Scheveningen, with a fishing boat and several figures on the beach. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The Mancinis, who were away at the beach, didn’t even know that the airlift would be that day. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Once, I went down to east beach to sit near the signal fire, hoping to hear the drone of an aircraft. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many people from Century Village walked the beach where there was a sidewalk with markers for every half mile. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

And as the shadow came to the beach, as the first quail began to call, Mack and the boys awakened. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A beach chair rolls along the sand as if it wants to fly like a plane. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Other campfires were dousing out, and there was an increasing scurry of activity as the beach residents started tying down meager belongings in preparation for changing weather. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He returned with my mother and found work in a food factory; on weekends he did domestic work at beach cottages and rentals. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

When the other two had trotted down the beach to look back at the mountain he had followed them for a few yards and then stopped. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

It’s a public beach on the Puget Sound waterfront, with concrete trails and grassy picnic areas, huge stretches of sand littered with driftwood logs and chipped seashells. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Took her hand, and led her away from the beach, up to the table. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“So you still want to go to the beach?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Stretchers and wheelchairs were beached here and there against the hissing, knocking pipes that ran and branched in an intricate nervous system along the glittering walls. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The Fiat’s windows had shattered, sending brighter glass like frosting across the dark beach. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The next day, Catherine had her sit fully clothed on a rock on the beach as she painted her on canvas. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Ramo had disappeared from the cliff and I knew that he was now running along the trail that led to the beach. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were two different pools and a beach that spread out in a long white arch with a dock at the far end. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Whether it was staying with the boyfriend of the month, or in a foreclosed home, or luxuriating in a mothballed beach house, I’ve done fine. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The beach shed its deadness and became a spectral gray-white, then more white than gray, and finally it was totally white and stainless, as pure as the shores of Eden. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he decided he would take the first landfall he could find, beach the dory, and go for help. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Then Gram opens her present from me, which is a bracelet made of shells from beaches around the world, and she right away puts it on and says it's just what she wanted. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Imagine two dozen ships and a dozen different landing beach sites. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just to be safe, though, we decided to wait until dark to continue down the beach toward Mexico. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He loaded the flarepistol and as soon as it was dark they walked out down the beach away from the fire and he asked the boy if he wanted to shoot it. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“On the beach? By himself? Does he behave himself on the beach?” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

When the curling surf raced back to the shore, Tater let it chase him up the beach. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I sat in the sun and watched the bathers on the beach. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

That evening, while Ess was busy arranging shells in the wet sand along the beach, Jinny offered to help Ben with dinner. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

You had to wade through them like sand on a beach. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Afterwards he went for a walk along the beach, admiring the gulls who flew above him like white quill pens whose heads had been neatly dipped in ink. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a member of the Amphibious Forces, whose job it was to transport troops to the Far East and assist their storming of beaches. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The beach wasn’t very far, but we’d get there sooner that way. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

He had been meant to meet her on the beach as a child and then to pass his life with her. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Within the diamond haze of the beach something dark was fumbling along. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

That instead, they went down to my dad’s workshop, stole the drill and the glue, and sneaked back to the DiAngelos’ beach. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then his wife comes along the beach singing a song and sees the 2 halves and recognizes them and picks them up. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

And in the garden, and in the woods, and down in the stone cottage on the beach. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“When you have the right moves and the cool tools, women just melt in your arms. I’m going to try to talk her into parking out at the beach.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They made us run a mile from the park to the beach, so I was covered in sand and still gasping for air. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I would go out onto the cliffs, with their pine trees and gorse bushes, or down to the beach. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

With weather like this, the regatta promised to draw throngs of people to the beaches at the north end of the lake. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He had simply walked down the beach to them and changed their lives forever. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

“You’ll love it when it can take us places. To the beach? Six Flags?” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

This happened the day he did a U-ey on the beach and instead of heading up the bluff, he took the two of us, perched there on his shoulders, back into the ocean. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The women all stayed in the wattle huts, peering out the door, hiding their children behind their skirts, drawing back fearfully into the darkness of the huts as the strangers came up from the beach. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Then I, too, went down the steep twisting path through the dark woods to the beach below. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I talk and talk to my cousin Pilar late at night on the beach. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have the desalinization machines down by the beach. Mom and Dad are going to stock up, remember?” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Some ran for the beach and the disguised black shirts shot them down. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Then come to the beach, my hero. And we will send you on your way.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Kino and Juana came slowly down to the beach and to Kino’s canoe, which was the one thing of value he owned in the world. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered the whole time as we drove to the beach how she had learned to drive overnight. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she stumbled he put her on his shoulders, and high above the beach she saw thousands of birds diving toward the sea. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marching up the side of the mountain, from the beach where the Princess Andromeda was docked, was a great army. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Again they were driven back, until they stood fighting on the beach where their ships were drawn up. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And who knew how many beach rats she’d drugged and collected into the mysteries of her church? Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He smells like spearmint chewing gum and the beach. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

About a hundred miles north of the Peru-Chile border, the coastal highway passes by an uninhabited beach ringed by a tall chain-link fence. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Stuffing my hands in my pockets, I find Grammy to tell her I’m going for a run on the beach and I’ll meet her at home. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The beach was only a few hundred yards away when the sphere turned lava-hot and the helicopter exploded, shooting flames in every direction. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He had stored them in the box as if they were seashells collected from a beach. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

A crowded beach frequented by whites, a few miles south of the Twenty-Ninth Street beach. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Still, I push forward on my bike, flying down the last stretch of road, which dead-ends into the Pacific Coast Highway and the beach just beyond. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Bay Minette, where the hearing took place, is about thirty minutes from the beautiful beaches on the Gulf of Mexico. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Then three of the four started climbing back down to the beach again. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She knew she did not bore him, and she buffed or painted her fingernails studiously while he dozed or brooded and the desultory warm afternoon breeze vibrated delicately on the surface of the beach. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

And then she spread her arms out, smiled broadly, and began to fly across the beach, bobbing and weaving until she turned the corner of Malaga and was gone. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Instead of going straight home, I took a detour to the beach and sat on the rickety staircase to watch the tide go out. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

They were a wild lot, chasing about over those fog-hidden hills and beaches. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

They left their section of the beach and brawled with the whites they encountered. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

She stood and made her way down to the beach. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Raymond’s friend lived in a little wooden bungalow at the far end of the beach. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I open my mouth to say something to Brandy, but she jumps up before I can get it out and follows Tressa down to the beach. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Rachel Elizabeth Dare was walking along a white sand beach. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t said no to the beach trip till he heard where we were going. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

One very hot morning in July, we were down on north beach where Timothy had found a patch of calico scallops not too far offshore. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man walked on the beach, a small solitary figure in all that immensity. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slate gray sea roiled, scraping the narrow strip of sand rhythmically, tugging at beach grass, digging and sucking loose the rocks at the shore's edge. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

My dad rolled his eyes, gathered up his gear to drive a couple of blocks to the beach. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

There’s a blue, too, in the curves of the palms, and the edges of the words we speak, a blue tinge to the sand and the seashells and the plump gulls on the beach. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I wanted to wear a bikini to the beach, Mom was appalled by the concept. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I could see Grover and Juniper at the beach, holding hands and talking. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

After traveling some distance south, he beached the canoe on a sandbar far from shore to observe the powerful tides. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the Marines of the Second and Fourth Divisions were taking Saipan, our Third Marine Division boarded our own ships and set sail, ready to hit the beaches. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw images of smiling, dark-haired white girls lolling on the gleaming sands of a beach. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Once more he slid die raft off die beach and out into the water until he was chest deep. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

She walked for about a quarter of a mile and then suddenly broke into an oblique run up the soft part of the beach. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Some of the boys wanted to go back to the beach. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

They pondered me a moment, then slithered down the beach and into the water. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But didn’t you feel it that day? On the beach? Didn’t everything seem right?” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Louis took Maybeth by the hand and led her in a galloping dance up and down the beach. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Connor is still chattering about treasure, and Jack is trying to explain to him that we aren’t going to another beach. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The surf washed gently against the stern of their beached boat. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Then they threw me down on the ground; the sand from the fake beach cushioned the landing, but I still hit my head. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

We walked on the beach, fed blue corn chips to the seagulls, and munched on blue jelly beans, blue saltwater taffy, and all the other free samples my mom had brought from work. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The Garfields made plans to vacation at a hotel in the Elberon section of Long Branch, a beach resort town visited by both Presidents Grant and Hayes. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He walked out on the beach to the edge of the light and stood with his clenched fists on top of his skull and fell to his knees sobbing in rage. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“What a nuisance he is,” I said aloud, and I scrambled up the rocks after him, pretending to myself I did not want to go to the other beach. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

"Your mother and I just lost track of time listening to the radio. Did you have fun at the beach?" The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Just as soon as they were no longer touching she leapt up and went for her geoduck pail and ran away down the beach. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then he crossed the little beach and disappeared among the piles and steel posts which support the piers. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the weeks to come, Madame Manec is perfectly cordial; she walks with Marie-Laure to the beach most mornings, takes her to the market. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He bought Lolo rubber shoes at the beach shop, and we ate our hot dogs without talking. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Without strong friends or allies on the beach, she was just meat. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Hassan did get up, but he just stood there, looking dazed like a man dragged into the ocean by a riptide when, just a moment ago, he was enjoying a nice stroll on the beach. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

This morning, the Mancinis drove out to the beach for the day to see the kids, so it has been like a tomb around here. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Even if Mong stabbed me on the beach and I had to watch my blood go into the sand. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It began with a reggae rhythm on guitar, those bouncy, staccato sounds that made me think of being at the beach. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Plus, I read that the beaches in Maryland don’t even have very big waves. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He continued to sit Far off alone the beach, Jack was standing before a small group of boys. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

"Well, you're about to see it for real now. The sky, the beach, and the sea." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Soft and white, these are as large as beach balls. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn't tell my parents when she'd cut school to go to the beach, or that she once missed an entire Aerosmith concert because she passed out from drinking before the band took the stage. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Far off, I could hear the shouts of the children playing with the big, bright beach ball their Tia Elsa had brought them from the capital. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

From a penguin colony nearby, gentoos waddled down the beach to stare at their visitors. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

At night the wind through the leaves would sound like the surf had sounded in Ocean Park, and while drifting off to sleep I could almost imagine we were still living by the beach. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are no sandy beaches on the fjord. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d learned that there were trillions and trillions of stars in the universe, more stars than grains of sand on every beach and desert on earth. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

We have the beach to ourselves, the ocean to ourselves. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Under his watchful eye I lay on the beach and fluttered my legs and scratched away at the sand with my hands, turning my head at every stroke to breathe. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He noticed a beach volleyball court complete with sand. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Once they had gone down to the beach, Dad would take her hand and lead her. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that he had gone down to the beach to look for Maxim. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

As the column of fire reached the beach, Calypso stood and bowed to it formally. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Robin had stopped way down on the beach, a solitary little figure with the waves washing her legs. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Piper wasn’t happy about that, but she stood obediently on the beach, squinting up at the cave entrance and hoping she hadn’t guided Frank into a death trap. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And the stores are smaller with less flashy signs, and all of them have stands outside selling beach towels and sunscreen and Styrofoam coolers. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

But at the same time I noticed, at the far end of the beach and a long way from us, two Arabs in blue overalls coming in our direction. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

By the time Admiral Conolly was done, the Japanese beach defenses were pulverized. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Duff lit a torch and they walked along the curve of beach for some time, back and forth, until Adina’s head was not so rum- muddled. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“You need to leave the beach, miss. Go home. Wait there for further instructions.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Year after year she arrived at the beach with a base coat that the rest of us could only dream of achieving as our final product. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“The beach. We’ll bail on class, and you can show me around Calypso. I've got a car. Well get some sandwiches and hang out.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

And after that we go to a party on the beach. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

After unloading us on the beach, our alligators were supposed to crawl inland another fifty yards to form a line of fire protecting the men who came after us. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lay like a beached whale on the narrow hotel bed and wondered idly if it had indeed been Velutha that Rahel saw. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She paddled toward the beach, puzzling all the while at what had just happened. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

As she walked along the rising road that bordered the sea, Lupita’s eyes smarted from the sharp brightness of the blue water and the white surf curling onto the beach many feet below. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Fifty yards farther down the beach George, another code talker and our most experienced radioman, waved at us. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about the seals that were multiplying off Cape Cod and how if I ever saw them hanging around the beach, I would stay out of the water. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

It made several more zippy runs—one between my ankles—before I was able to steer it to the beach. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

By pure luck, just before nightfall, he was spotted on the beach and picked up by a PT boat. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far below was the beach, and there was the boat she had rowed, a dark mark against the white. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Now her mother guards their beach with binoculars and a pistol against Yankees. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the far end of the beach we finally came to a little spring running down through the sand behind a large rock. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

One night, the four of us ate a picnic down on the tiny beach. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Since the sun rose high that Saturday, I figured it was a good day to go to the beach and collect seashells for souvenirs. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They fought on the beaches and from caves where their soldiers were dug in. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pointed down the beach, to just below the sheep meadow, where a small boat had been run aground ... the other lifeboat from the CSS Birmingham. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

We were instructed to pick up the large pieces that had washed up on the beach, and wade out to collect seaweed attached to rocks or coral. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was cheap, quiet, and on the beach. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We drank beer on the beach and lay in each other's arms until the sun was only a memory burned into our brains. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The walls in Dr. Singh’s office were bare except for this one small picture of a fisherman standing on a beach with a net slung over his shoulder. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Straight ahead he could see more beach, about a mile away, but to the left and northward there was a large bay that must have stretched close to three miles. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I own a well-used library card, an envelope full of dried beach roses, a book of fairy tales, and a handful of lovely purple rocks. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

A manhunt was in progress at the beach and an army of men scoured the whole island, including the black-gum swamp at the northern end. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blood began to stain the beach, but Gregor couldn’t tell whose it was. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It led to the beach he knew best, and the cottage. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I was down on one of the beaches the other day,” I said, “the one with the breakwater. Jasper was being infuriating, he kept barking at the poor man with the idiot’s eyes.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He turned and trudged down the beach toward his own hut. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Were there signs for each of the stars, and grains of sand on the beach? The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Sammy drove along the road that paralleled the beach for more than a mile. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Warm and sunny, with beaches and laughing faces. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The flowers were gone; the birds flocked in great clouds, and among them were eider and old squaw ducks that kept to the rivers and beaches except when they migrated south. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They dragged the body onto the beach and rolled him over. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He moved La Belle Sauvage towards the shore and found a place where a little beach of bare earth lay between the rocks. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, we borrowed a car and drove to the North Shore of Oahu, where we sat on a ribbon of soft beach and watched surfers rip across enormous waves. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I thought about how long it had been since I’d stood on the beach at Montauk, on the opposite side of the country, looking out at a different sea. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Their skin is painted with black and purple and blue, and reminds me of the night sky, or of black stones on the side of the beach, rubbed smooth by the waves. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She opened her mouth and looked around, out and down the beach, then back at Jinny and the line of curious kids. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Farther out, toward the water’s edge, are machines hitched to the backs of trucks—maybe half a dozen of them spread out along the beach—but they’re not producing water. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Navigating with my Clipper Mart map, I reach the declining, and evidently orchardless, beach town at about ten and am shown around Glenwood by Earl. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Immie’s people, temporary and literary friends of the week, acquired on the beach or at the flea market, cycled through the house. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I pictured him stabbing me in the back on a beach in Mexico, me falling to my knees, blood pooling all in the sand. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

When school is out for the summer, Uncle Tim lies and says he needs Joon’s and my help at his small ice cream shop on the beach. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want Tater to start blabbing about the jellyfish incident on the beach. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He leads the family to a Mexican beach. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

We were parking at the old beach and I was puttin’ my best moves on her. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We turn along the beach and round a small headland. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

For most people, it wasn't a good beach day. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Had I been offered all the treasure in the world I could not have turned and gone down to the cottage or the beach again. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They came up over a steep hill and down a zigzag track to Sticklehaven—a mere cluster of cottages with a fishing boat or two drawn up on the beach. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“Do you want to walk down the beach with me?” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He walked the beach, wondering why Khione had sent him here—assuming his landing here wasn’t an accident. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

We are to lay it across the twelve o’clock beach and drop the metal spool, with whatever is left, deep into the water, making sure it sinks. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Rani races ahead, but when I step onto the beach, my feet sink into the sand. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

It was on the sixth day after the storm, when I was exploring on south beach, that I heard the birds. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blue days, as the tide washed away the twin footprints Lizzie and Turner left along the beach. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Still, I could look at the pictures while the demon girl outlined the story about flying carpets and phoenixes and magical amulets and cranky old sand elves who lived on beaches. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Take away the tans, that beach in front of Sully’s was Mayflower, top deck. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without effort, confusion, or much thought, four round stones were rolled together on the little beach. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A child had appeared among the palms, about a hundred yards along the beach. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Her face shone, polished as a beach pebble. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

So Bing wandered down the beach, walking stiffly like an ousted emperor, picking up shards of rock and chunks of driftwood and flinging them with all his might into the surf. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“These other scrapes look like they might be from her journey to the beach.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

She had not slept all the night before on the beach. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

It had always been Tree-ear who skipped out to the beach at the first word of a flounder run, and he had never returned without a fat fish or two for a rare feast. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how, but somehow between my friend’s house and the beach, we ended up in Las Vegas. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t foolish enough to set out for Hollywood, Disneyland, or the beach where they filmed Happening ’68 with rock and rollers like Paul Revere and the Raiders. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a wide beach, and to one end of it a colony of boulders. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re the one who wanted to be in the water of the tiny beach.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

When most of the slaves were able to walk, they were led to a large building about half a mile from the beach. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

What they knew—all they knew—was the island itself, years of running on the beach, singing by the fire, plucking fruit from the trees and fish from the nets. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

See, I had been staying for about a week in a beach house on a cliff that overlooked one of Laguna Beach’s smaller coves. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

On the beach the hungry dogs and the hungry pigs of the town searched endlessly for any dead fish or sea bird that might have floated in on a rising tide. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Remember how the water rises up as if it is looking for the land and then it falls back around to join the sea when it comes close to the beach? A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Walking down my own street after the events at the beach this morning has me on edge. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Ishmael pushed his body up against the seawall; he was not going to run down the beach again to drag a wounded man to safety, though a part of him wanted to try. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

They came out in large numbers in the aftermath of a shipwreck to stand on the beach and stare in awe at the latest foundering vessel; some brought binoculars and cameras. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

They ran, climbed, and dug in the sandy dirt, building sand castles as if they were at the beach. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

No longer interested in the water, we joined our mother on the beach blanket and dedicated ourselves to the higher art of tanning. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

As soon as other beach walkers saw the hovering over the nest, they joined in. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I bring the blanket back out onto the beach and put it down for both of us. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“If you were Lucky Strike, you’d have figured out how to sneak it out, instead of wasting it. Be a big rich man now, owning the beach.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

It’s dusk at the beach, and the drizzle has cleared. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

But whatever is making the sound stays within the confines of the jungle and we keep off that part of the beach in case they’re just waiting for a carelessly placed footfall to swarm out. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the dark, she knelt beside a giant shark that had spilled out of the ocean and beached itself in the sand. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The beach was smooth and firm, and the sand yellow. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The surprised Japanese there had retreated back from the beaches and the first landings had gone almost unopposed. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s pretty trippy, by the way, being on city streets again after you’ve spent so much time walking on the beach. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

On this side, the wall of the cove curved around and protected the beach from both the rough surf and the wind. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I showed Rocco around the city where I had grown up, and we went to the beach at Lake Ontario. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The three of us went down to the beach. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“A mother will sometimes leave her pup on the beach while she hunts. The baby is left here on the sand. Safe. Away from the great whites who hunt them each summer.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

All the towns east-west roads dead-ended into Erie, and that day I glanced down every one to watch the lake spit chunks of dirty foam onto the beach like some angry, stalking beast. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Two nights ago, on the beach, we argued all the way past midnight about our favorite Looney Tunes characters from those old cartoons that always play as reruns. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

And Tar licking Marcus’s face on the beach, and Billy burying his brother, and the theatre in London, and the painting of the angel on the ceiling, and the generations that followed . The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“The Reel is tipped on the beach here, but I don’t see any damage. And Captain Ahab is here to live another day of the eight lives he’s got left.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The beach near the bathing pool was dotted with groups of boys waiting for the assembly. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

A highway patrolman found Emma Lee walking down the beach road with half of her clothes on, hysterical, her face beaten past all recognition. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They made him dress quickly then and they hurried down to the beach. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He smiled foolishly, he beckoned with his finger, and turned towards the beach. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

"What a great day for the beach," said her mother. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Once we’re back on the beach again, the Turks relax a little. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I got a call from Robin. She said that a runner found a white shark. Washed up in Chatham. She and Ray are driving down to the beach for the necropsy,” he said. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Wow, I’m really sorry about that whole thing back on the beach?” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The coast guard installed sounding boards along island beaches and anchored numbered buoys at intervals in the shipping channel, and these measures seemed sufficient to islanders until the next accident came along. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She wanted to stroll, then sit on the beach and play with their daughter, then go back to Ahmad's. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I thought of my father and how he might wash up one day along a beach in England or Greenland or Brooklyn. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“You know, Dad,” Brinker broke in, “the Coast Guard does some very rough stuff, putting the men on the beaches, all that dangerous amphibious stuff.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The picture of your grandmother on the beach was my favorite.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I had a place for it on my dresser, right next to the old photo of me, Mom, and Dad at the beach. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I had coffee and the papers in bed and then dressed and took my bathing-suit down to the beach. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Back in California, on the beach in Malibu, he proposed to her for a third time. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Turner didn’t have to answer, since just then the dory scraped up on the beach a little above the point, and he jumped out the stern and began to push the boat in. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I have no memory of it, no memory of being on that beach with her and my dad and my brother, but she does. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was not difficult to choose between these circles of suffering—the sea, the beach, the front. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

We strolled along the walkway between the road and the beach, past pushcarts piled high with corn and peanuts and hawkers selling multicolored plastic balls and cricket bats, flimsy kites, toys, dolls, pinwheels. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Going on foot, stopping off at whatever beach town we’re at before the sun goes down, collecting money for our fake basketball team, eating real food, then going back to the beach to sleep. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, a huge stretch of grassland lay between them ahd the beach. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

We shed our black coats and loped through the grass, doubled- over like commandos, until we came to the path that led to the beach. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Leave him alone,” I yell, “or I’m getting those officers from the beach!” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He took my face in his hands and looked at me, just as he had before, when Frith had come into the room with tea, the day we went to the beach. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She walked down the beach a ways, but her itchiness walked with her. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Clearwater, Florida, had been her favorite—she’d swum every day and walked on the beach and collected seashells and pretty stones almost as clear as glass. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I saw Lester go into your house,” I said, as we walked along the railing, the beach below us. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

It was Michael's idea to hit the beach before heading back to Montgomery. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I wish I had strong legs to run on the beach with a kite. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

He shouldn’t have had to ring the bell too and stand there on the beach, waiting alone. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I glance out the window at the long stretch of beach buried in fog. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

There was a beach house and a woman standing in front of it looking out to sea. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

My mother never speaks to me, but sometimes I sidestep along the beach until I pick up radio stations in Key West. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s late—9 P.M.—so we can’t really see the blue of the water, just the whitecaps of the waves as they crash against the beach. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

A few hours after my Crenshaw sighting at the beach, he appeared again. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I teased Mouse down to the beach with a string and watched her chase it in circles until she keeled over. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Another loggerhead turtle surfaced in the chop off the beach. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

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

Sometimes when my whole body aches like this, I close my eyes and pretend I am lying on my favorite beach in Cuba. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Six days later, we knew when the second wave of the invasion force hit on the beaches north of here. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shouted at them and when they did not move he came down on the beach and his dog barked monotonously. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The defense wall seemed unconquerable, and so, the Germans reasoned, if the Allies did attack, the attack would not take place on the Normandy beaches. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Docked near the beach. It looked like a cruise ship.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Beyond the water, wherever you look, a narrow beach and then dense greenery. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She guided the boat along the shore until she was able to drag it up a sandy beach. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every patrol car in the county raced to the beach. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cops reported their own car stolen and found it later on the beach. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When you think “monster island,” you think craggy rocks and bones scattered on the beach like the island of the Sirens. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Now the beach has a fort near it, taken over by Germans and used for training. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

In the morning Max pulls her through a gap in the old walls and out onto a beach. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

We stay on our own side of the beach, like we’ve drawn a line in the sand between the party and us. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

In the morning he built a fire and walked out on the beach while the boy slept. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Slender and sinuous, olive green, mahogany red, scarlet, and ash, they were weighted with broad, gleaming leaves and velvet berries and shaded the beach stones and mud flats. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

No fighting or bombing or invading other places, just living out in the open, on the beach. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Her master, who had been but a little behind her, saw on the long stretch of beach only the figure of a man busy with his fishing lines. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

So there we were, the nine of us: my father, my mother, my two sisters, four brothers, and myself, so confident as we walked along our first beach. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“C’mon. Let’s go down to the beach. I have a tan to work on.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I didn’t get the chance: the wide beach with fine, golden sand, the calmest waves and the clearest blue water, a few blocks away from the hotel, was reserved for whites. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had no answers to their questions, and he made no attempt to deny his responsibility for the absence of Spitfires and Hurricanes over the beach. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He and his friends took pictures of one another in bathing suits at Coney Island beach, the salt wind from the Atlantic blowing their hair. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She left the hut and made her way to the beach, where she realized that something really was wrong. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

It will be fun to run on the beach with you so I hope you can push me pretty hard. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

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

In a few minutes the signal fire was roaring, and I ran to south beach where I would be able to hear the aircraft without hearing the crackling fire. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

When night came and the women had carried back to the village those who had died on the beach of Coral Cove, there remained only fifteen. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two figures rushed at the fire and he prepared to defend himself but they grabbed half-burnt branches and raced away along the beach. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

That evening I sat on the beach, watching the sun sink down behind the mountains of Zaire on the opposite shore of Lake Tanganyika. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The restaurant sits right on the beach and our table faces the ocean. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

They wouldn’t try to defend the beaches, but would wait instead until the Marines were massed in front of them and then fire from cover. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And then,” Tressa continues, “we went to that fire pit pizza place out on the beach. So cool. Have you been there?” she asks. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

On account of the heat, there are still a few actual bathers on the beach, but I am content to sit in shorts and T-shirt and watch the ocean pummel the sand. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Relieved, I start down the wooden steps to the beach, but by the time I’m halfway down, I see Tressa walking out of the waves with a boogie board. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

At first, whenever I went to the spring or to the beach, I left Rontu behind to chase them off, but he did not like this and howled all the time I was gone. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the slope leading down to the beach, we could see that there were already some people swimming. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

On calm days the island was enveloped in cold, wet mist, and the offshore ice crowded against the rocky beach. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

A feeling came over me, like I was lying on a beach at the edge of a lost world with a wave of hurt washing over my body. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

For humans, there was a good biological reason to enjoy sunsets and long walks on the beach, candlelight on the mistletoe. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The girl with the braided caramel hair, the one who'd called herself Calypso, was standing at the beach, talking to someone. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Soon the River broadened and grew more shallow; long stony beaches lay upon the east, and there were gravel-shoals in the water, so that careful steering was needed. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

For almost an entire week I lay in bed, getting some much-needed rest, occasionally joining my family for dinner or a walk on the beach. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

She claims it, this beautiful country with its beautiful mountains and splendid beaches—all the copy we read in the tourist brochures. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went down the beach and. busied himself at the water's edge. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Want to go for a walk on the beach? Fresh air would probably sober you up some.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

But we had to cross a small plateau which overlooks the sea and then drops steeply down to the beach. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

It was going to take some time for him to descend to the sandy beach below. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

When the girls reached the beach, the tide was high, and the ship — a magnificent reproduction of an eighteenth-century sloop built on a studio lot in Hollywood — listed and limped in the high winds. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He got up on hands and knees, and began slowly crawling up the beach, away from the water's edge. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

At this those faces, cloaked in desolation upon the waste sea beach, were bared; their eyes turned toward me and the mighty lighting, foreseeing pleasure, one by one. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we leave the beach, she takes my hand and walks me to waterfront, and stands there and watches me leave on Mister Lochana’s speedboat. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The blurry memory swims into focus, and I can see my dad standing next to me on the beach, the tide pulling at our feet, our toes digging into the sand. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

They stood and started down to the beach. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her publicist and her financial adviser are sitting on towels on the beach at Golden Gardens. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The tide was coming in and there was only a narrow strip of firm beach between the water and the white, stumbling stuff near the palm terrace. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He was not gone long but he felt a strange unease and when he got back the boy was standing on the beach wrapped in his blankets waiting for him. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The waves were huge and he could hear them well now, thundering against a beach he still could not see. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

So we talk about beaches and the weather instead. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The last thing he saw as they darted out of the cavern was the beach bursting into flame. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes to shower and another ten to find the perfect spot on the beach to watch our first and last day together come to an end. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Only a certified moron would dive in when the beach was posted. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

But they blurred as she ran down the sandy path to the dunes and the beach. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they drive out of the town altogether, to one of the beaches along the North Shore. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

That was what he was thinking about as he stood on the beach with his boots off. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Admiral Halsey thought that too many of our boys would die on the beaches. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or the time I got caught in a rip and she and Dad had to drag me out of the ocean in front of a whole beach of surftards. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“No way. Saw one dock once; they had a whole bunch of half-men for guards. Wouldn’t let beach trash paddle close.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The storm had made a mess of the beach, dredging up everything in the ocean and dumping it on the sand—seaweed, logs, and trash. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The two of us sit in silence on the beach until the others have gone to sleep. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Because snakeskin agates are usually found in dry riverbeds or along beaches—places where there’s water.” Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Would my first trip to Europe be spent evading drunken maniacs and watching birds evacuate their bowels on rocky beaches? Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He cleared the T. rex trap and reached a sandy beach where some smaller dinosaurs were building nests. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

He smelled of ginger and onion root tonic and, when he smiled—teeth large as old beach stones—of powdered garlic, too. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He ended up pitching a more permanent camp near the footpath, where the beach met the hills. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They would be forming up in the road outside and marching to the beach. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“But, you guys? I’m worried. Tater’s telling me he hasn’t been this frightened since a time when a jellyfish almost attacked him on the beach.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

They walked out down the beach and sat in the lee of the dunes and studied the map. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

If she made it back to the beach, she’d warn the others. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He moved several yards down the beach and began a new equation, captivating his audience with a lengthy explanation of each new and complex symbol. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Here and there, on slender patches of beach, shirtless young men tossed footballs back and forth. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He was as much a part of her life as the trees, and he smelled of them and of the clam beaches. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

In a moment they were all there—all of them—trembling on the beach beside her. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Carp floated belly up onto the beach, and the doctors at Mercy knew, but did not announce, that ear infections were a certainty for those who swam in those waters. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we strolled along the beach, Mama pointed across the water and said, “I first met you there, on the other side of the ocean, in Africa.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound grew louder, then shut off at the beach. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The beach, the boat, Kaede’s face when she pushed away from the shore. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

We ran down to the tiny beach alone. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

We reached the beach late in the afternoon. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I bet Charlotte Hamilton is romping in some cool beach water down in South Carolina.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

There we would have to cross the reef to land on two western beaches that lay below sheer bluffs. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

First, the drive to the beach took two and a half hours because of traffic. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

They went back to Mexico City, where their new friends told them to go to Manzanillo, a port town situated on the Pacific Ocean with beautiful beaches. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Thousands of people were jammed together on the beach. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Realizing that I was alone on the beach I became frightened. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, I returned to east beach and sat down in sea-grape shade. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a pond, but it’s not far. There’s a raft and a little beach that anyone can use.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the beach I stretched out on my stomach alongside Masson and put my face on the sand. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

The ice fortress swam into focus almost immediately— she was there again, standing at the window overlooking the beach. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I went back over what I had already told him: Raymond, the beach, the swim, the quarrel, then back to the beach, the little spring, the sun, and the five shots from the revolver. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

On the beach behind him was a cutter, her bows hauled up and held by two ratings. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Maybe he had time to pull up on the beach and hide in the tunnel. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I guess. ... So are you going this weekend? To the beach?” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

By unspoken agreement, Tree-ear joined the other potters’ assistants one morning in the area between the beach and the village that served as a marketplace. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Yes, it is a nice day,” Mr. Poe said absently, staring out at the empty beach. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

After a time he got out, walked down to the beach, and waded into the lake without undressing. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

True, he would have preferred living on the beach in California, but it was still kind of cool to have someone in your family robbed by a famous outlaw. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“We aren’t going anywhere near there, dear. We re just on the beach.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She b-b-born right here on this beach and like it so well she come back and have her kids.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

By day’s end, everyone had made it back to the camp on the beach. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Immie! Come on. Let’s go to the beach,” the boy called. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

When we get to the beach, sand spilling onto the road, she doesn’t waste any time. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

As the four came to the beach a sliver of the sun broke over Tom Work’s land across the head of the bay and it gilded the water and made the rocks yellow. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s a beach community out there, Lena. Your father wants to look at it.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom was sipping coffee in front of her tropical beach. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Down on the beach, Jinny walked past the fire circle and the long wooden table and headed for Joon, who stood under the tin roof of the outdoor kitchen. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The lifeguard’s turned to talk to someone behind him, and the beach girls are on the far right, peering at a sand castle. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I didn’t answer, because right then Nyame strode forward, his golden robes absorbing the light and scattering it across the beach like a million pieces of glass. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

She was used to running on beaches, where the sand gave way under your feet and each thrust of your legs was hindered. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men took the trail that led to the beach, but the women hid themselves among the brush on the cliff. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

If any cops were gonna find us now they’d pretty much have to scour every section of the beach, and even then they might miss our hiding spot. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

By nine thirty the crew of the Docker still hadn’t found a beach, and there was no sight of the other two boats. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

It's possible that Gramps would have been fine with Mabel and me going to the beach at night to sit and watch the waves and talk. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“He took some cigarettes, and then went back again to the beach. It appears there is a ship gone ashore.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Erin held up an orange beach pail three-quarters filled with brightly colored phones and keys. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The Aleuts who had fallen on the beach, we burned. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the sun went over it at about two o’clock a whispering shade came to the beach. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were quite a few people in the water and on the beach. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I was more grateful than ever for those few stolen days we’d had on the beach. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Only instead of heading back for the long walk around the beach, the two girls took a shortcut, up the sandy path behind the dunes that led over the ridge. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

That weekend she took the family to the beach. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn't think of what it was like for me when Jennifer came bounding over after she got back from the beach so we could go to the community center to check the cast list. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

From where Abbey and I had been sitting earlier on the beach, the water had looked normal and safe. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Look, bad news I may be, but I’m not a stranger. You said so yourself. ‘I’m so familiar to you,’” he mimics me with perfect beach girl inflection, then snaps the cover on his lens. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The homes of these islanders might soon lie in drifts so that only the sloped roofs of the beach cabins would show and only the upper stories of the larger houses. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

They saw no immediate reason to join the enormous queue, but they were unwilling to come away from the beach in case a boat should suddenly appear. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

We’d beach the canoe and walk around for a bit, then paddle back home against the lazy current. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

They were just strolling along the beach, not a care in the world, happy. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I was in that part of Florida once. Swam in the ocean. Coloreds-only beach.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She pointed down the beach at Ess but then noticed the little girl had abandoned her letters, and was now seated and burying her feet in the sand. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

This time, she had left the beach behind entirely; she was floating, hovering up high, ascending toward the glass windows set into thick, frozen walls. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I tied it to a cleat and he towed us off the beach. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

And now here they were on the beach. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I also hung a beach towel around my neck or wore an alligator shirt over my suit. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Then the beach was so crowded that they could hardly find a spot for their blanket. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Nailer cradled the spyglass in his good hand and peered at the distant beach. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Later, and little by little, feelings, like sea trash expelled on a beach—strange and recognizable, stark and murky—returned. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We could grow flowers in the garden and talk to songbirds and walk on the beach under perfect blue skies. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Yes, top of my class, but what does that mean now? Can you believe I used to study instead of going to the beach?” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

They were on a sandy beach under a brilliant moon. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

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

I wished I were back on the beach with her. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

And then the Lord rose from the beach. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

And on the beach the white and blue canoes that came from Nayarit were drawn up, canoes preserved for generations by a hard shell-like waterproof plaster whose making was a secret of the fishing people. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden sand was churning under my feet as I sprinted across the beach. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am reminded of a beach, an ocean. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I shared a ride with some tree planters to the head of Thomas Bay, where I was put ashore on a gravel beach. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We set off together down the valley to the beach. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Located nineteen miles southwest of downtown Los Angeles, it has a fine stretch of beach on Santa Monica Bay, where Shin sometimes went for walks. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Fangor and Shed could easily leap ten feet in the air, and the sparkling ceiling of the cavern over the beach was not much higher. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Remember that wonderful seafood place down the beach from our summer house? Didn't they have the best shrimp?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Their shelling was supposed to soften up the beaches, drive back the enemy, and destroy his positions. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They took her to the beach for the sea air, sometimes,” Ruth corrects her. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He ran down the beach, laughing, and Pima chased after him. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was warm enough to sleep on the beach at night. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All day long me and Rondell wandered down the winding beach, following the water’s outline. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

A man walks along the beach and unfortunately gets hit in the head by a cocoanut. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“I love that you included the golden ratio and the shells on the beach with the holes in them,” Ms. Solomon said about the moon snail. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Sheltered by the dark, the agent watched the girls sleeping on the beach and shook his head. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She crosses the beach and picks up the cylinder we took from his belt when we were bathing him. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nailer described the beach and his father, the way things ran on the wrecks. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

She danced around the beach area, swinging Tidbit in the air. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the Keys are made of hard coral rock, and there aren’t many soft beaches like you find up the coast at Pompano or Vero. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The vines on north beach might make dark smoke, but the leaves on them were very small The sea grape! The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Depressed by the turn of conversation, people started gathering the leavings of their meal, dousing the beach wood with sand, and getting ready to return to whatever families or caretakers or safe flops they had. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I should have stayed on the other beach, on the white shingle, and come home by the Happy Valley. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

That beach is filthy now, but back then people used to go swimming there and sunbathe on the sand. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Leo and Calypso sat on the beach, near the spot where Leo had destroyed the dining table, and they ate a picnic dinner together. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Scamper across the mined beach with no cover to one of the locked gates. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then the road took a slight turn inland at the point where private homes and private property began and the state beach ended. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

An hour later they were sitting on the beach and staring out at the wall of smog across the horizon. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I flew so high that the beach looked just like a strip of blue paper set down beside a pane of green glass that was the sea. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He undid the snake-clasp of his belt, lugged off his shorts and pants, and stood there naked, looking at the dazzling beach and the water. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Pima nodded down the beach to where men from the heavy crews had started their bonfires. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, the beach swarmed with activity, people moving skiffs deeper into the trees, chasing after livestock. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“He says his ideal date would be a sunset walk on the beach and a picnic supper she had prepared.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He leapt down from the platform and ran along the beach, paying no heed to the steady fall of his tears; and until he dived into the forest Ralph watched him. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

As the sun rose high the tide came rushing up the beach and filled the hole with sand. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mike was disappointed he’d never gotten to stage his snowball fight, but pleased that the beach trip would soon be possible. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Did you dream about the beach last night, Hela?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I return to the beach whenever I can. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

That meant we would be called upon to attack the beaches, jumping out of boats and landing craft. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two men came out on the beach, not twenty feet from where they hid. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I said “Howdy” back and watched them walk along way down the beach, touching my split lip and thinking how different their lives were from mine. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t known he was in the landing craft with me, but it must have been his hand on my shoulder, urging me forward as we hit the beach. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Weighing in at 184 pounds, Sputnik I looked like a metal beach ball with four legs. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

“So,” he says, “have you been down the other end of the beach? There’s something kind of cool. You want to see it?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

To have him this way, just walking on a beach for no real reason, just to feel the water between his toes—it was a side of him she rarely saw. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I described my dreams, and the feeling I’d had on the beach, that momentary breath of evil that had seemed to stop the world, and made Ares back off from killing me. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The same signs were on the bathing beaches, the restaurants—almost everywhere. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

We sat on the bench and stared out the window at the slim beach and the river beyond. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

There was a long curve in the road that led them to an arch of trees that covered the dirt road before it died in a series of low sand dunes near the beach. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama and I had no interest in fishing, and so we would walk along the beach. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, the Coast Guard discovered the items the men had dropped on the beach. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

A maelstrom of sand and copper screws and plastic shards swirled around him, the debris of the ship-breaking business ripping at his skin as he ran barefoot down the beach to Pima’s shack. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Rounds from our destroyers passed over our heads to strike the beach. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Princesse sat on the cooling sand on the beach staring at the spots on her otherwise immaculate undershirt, seeing in the blank space all kinds of possibilities. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

She explained about the turtles, their life cycle, and our walks along the beach up until the morning after the storm. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Clementine beaches on the shelf, with me on top. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

You were standing at the beach, squinting out at the water with your bathing suit strap digging into your freckled shoulder. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

We wait until the giant wave has flooded out of the ten-to-eleven-o’clock section, wait for the water to recede, and then go to that beach to make camp. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The poster showed a wide expanse of beach, a sweep of sky with a lone star glittering far away. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We rescued a big floating plank and carried it up the beach above high-water mark. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“The beaches are nice. The water is crystal clear. Plus, everyone is super, super friendly and chill.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

We use old coins that Papa found on the beach with his metal detector for those. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

They walked for four hours in all, up and over three hillside towns, across fifteen miles of beach, before they were finally close enough to the rock to touch it. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I draw some inspiration from beaches I’ve gone to before and imagine a setting not too different from Golden Gardens. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Later that afternoon I found Tyson at the beach, talking to Briares. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The wind of the morning ruffled the water of the estuary and whispered through the mangroves, and the little waves beat on the rubbly beach with an increased tempo. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I miss the hot sun and sweating all day and the beach and eating cold fresco with my friends and long walks up and down hills and Cola Lakay and deep-fried beef patties. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

When the boat came back it held a black chest which two of the hunters carried to the beach. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the jungle had been too forbidding, and the girls had stayed close to the beach. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“But I want to stay on the beach and watch.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Catherine sifted through a portfolio of recent work and pulled out a small painting of Princesse lying naked on the beach rock with a candle in each hand. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The bonobo reappears on the shallow beach, and I know it’s him. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

They would be there while the search parties scoured the swamplands and marshes, the rivers, the beaches, the forests, and the surface of the sea. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stage lights come on, and suddenly the whole set is glowing like July at the beach. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

We caught a bus and went a few kilometers outside Algiers, to a beach with rocks at either end, bordered by shore grass on the land side. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

He fixed his gaze upon a white sunshade that was advancing at snail’s pace from the beach. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bruno searched the sandy beaches, and the public parks...” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Have you ever sat on the beach and watched the tide come in? Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“It is kind of like being on the beach,” I say, growing more and more elated. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

All I had to do was stop by the surf shop or show up at the beach at dawn, and I'd be handed free Mollusk shirts and thermoses full of tea. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I have a funeral where my ashes are scattered at the tiny beach. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I saw him watching from the beach as I walked along the boardwalk with the handful of islanders coming home. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Watching the fireworks from the beach was the best.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

He sees her with streaks of gray in her hair, her face still beautiful, her long body slightly widened and slack, sitting on a beach chair with a floppy hat on her head. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The seething hiss of it washing over the beach and drawing away again. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

"You can put that picture of Mama and Papa with us at the beach in it." The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Jessie's mind skittered like one of those long-legged birds on the beach. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

I was watching a light coming toward me from the beach. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The thing I want to see is those swabbies storming a beach. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take off running down the beach, jumping over shells and boulders and strands of kelp. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The various museums came in for their share of attention, together with the parks and the beaches and the aquarium. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Though it could have been any beach on any part of the planet, I knew it wasn’t. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Across the island we went, single file, along a trail that meandered over the rolling moor, through the beach plum and sea heather, toward the northernmost point of the island. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

We head away from the lights of the restaurant and toward the darkened beach. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Coughing and blowing her nose, Mother started for the beach. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were hidden in the changing rooms beside the sandy beach, where they’d left their interface rings and a spare set of clothes. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She says that crews are busy locking away the beaches behind a network of concertina wire and huge wooden jacks called chevaux de frise. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

My parents lead me down to the beach. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He stumbled toward the beach and he came to his canoe. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Won’t even be a worm left alive on that beach by the time we get there.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

When John Turner Harris and his friends left the beach that Sunday afternoon in 1919, they were focused on the tragic death of Eugene Williams. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Her nose came around, past the beach, aiming more and more out to sea. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that day on the beach, in the gray-light sky, that fantasy just wouldn’t hang. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

They dragged their remaining stores and gear to the beach, waving their arms and shouting to the ship. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“Not here. Not like this. At this abandoned building I just discovered by the beach. At sunset. I have an idea.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

We have to leave our beach soon, anyway. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He swam for the beach, still laughing and drunk on survival. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I let my feet decide where to put themselves as I followed Osh down to the beach, my mind busy with other things. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Ralph climbed out of the bathing pool and trotted up the beach and sat in the shade beneath the palms. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Yes, it was a good day for the beach. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

As they emerged from the woods, Dicey saw the boy and the girl who had talked to her on the beach. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

They must cross the river Ocean and beach the ship on Persephone’s shore where there was an entrance to the dark realm of Hades. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Tourists descended onto our beach, sat in our usual places, so we borrowed Ana's car and crossed the Golden Gate to find a tiny piece of ocean to have for ourselves. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I knew that she couldn’t give him as much exercise as he needed, so I used to run down to the beach with him almost every day. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought we could walk to the beach,” she tells me as she starts the walk. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I sang as I went down the trail to the beach and along the beach to the sandspit. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wears huge white sunglasses and bright red lipstick, and even carries a beach ball tucked beneath her arm. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It was not only that her beauty moved him but that they already had a history together that included this beach, these waters, the very stones, and the forest at their backs, too. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Five minutes after John Cullen ran into George Dasch on the beach, he burst through the door of the Coast Guard station. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The top half was a black-and-white photo of a tropical scene, full-bodied girls with enormous bangs and vintage-looking swimsuits smiling on a beach. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The sound of mock hunting, hysterical laughter and real terror came from the beach. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

More than a dozen dried beach roses spill out. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

We had picnicked above the beach among the sand dunes, almost on a kind of plateau. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mami and I are walking along the crowded row of new bikes inside the shop while the owner rents some beach cruisers at the register. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The warm weather had Chicagoans looking for fun at the parks and beaches. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In Kingston, Suzanne had taken me to powdery white beaches where we dodged waves in water that looked like jade. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

That was the tiny island with the black volcanic rocks, a wildlife preserve with beaches. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Everything stood out separate from everything else, a rock, a rounded lump of sea-polished driftwood on a beach, a roof line. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

On January 16, McCandless left the stubby metal boat on a hummock of dune grass southeast of El Golfo de Santa Clara and started walking north up the deserted beach. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if the balloons that hunted us on the beach were based here, and we’d unwittingly stumbled into a nest of wights? Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Down the beach about a hundred yards. There’s a secret docking cave.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Instead there was the wind and the collapse of waves and the withdrawing of the water down the beaches. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He stopped and stood looking down the beach. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

It harbored, in the crook of its inner curve, a particular shell that could be found nowhere else on the beach. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I know about what happened at the beach. That’s actually why I’m here.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

But when we got to the beach, where their camp was, the first thing the man who spoke the most did was to tell the other men to make me a dress. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cars filled with unfamiliar white men passed them again and again, turned right at the bridge and crossed toward St. Catherine’s Island and the beach beyond. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

The highway ran for miles along some of the most magnificent beaches I have ever seen—white sands, a beautiful ocean; and opposite the beach, splendid homes. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The long beach was empty under shadows that fell from the cliff out toward the water. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aly, Maddie, and I did go to the beach for a few hours, and that was fun, but mostly we were caught up in a media whirlwind. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I found myself sitting on a sandy white beach, watching the sunset while waves crashed in front of me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He’s bare-chested, straight off the beach, and the heat of him is seeping through my T-shirt. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I return to the beach, and this time Lis races ahead of me, her hair a blue-black banner glowing in the night. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Cliffs rose eighty feet high on either side of the cove, but at the southwest corner they spied a rocky beach where they could haul out. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

When she saw that the others were all soundly sleeping, she quietly got up and went back down the little beach. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

A semicircle of little boys, their bodies streaked with colored clay, sharp sticks in their hands, were standing on the beach making no noise at all. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The storm beat up the beach for two days straight. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Exactly. Loopy old Lemoncello said paperback books were meant to be taken to the beach, where they’d have suntan lotion, melting ice cream cones, and sand dribbled all over their pages.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

I went back to the condo while they all went down to the beach to check on a nest. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was in the backyard of our summer house by the lake, lying on an old quilt my mother used as a beach blanket. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

On Pete’s instruction, he ran his entire paper route for the Torrance Herald, to and from school, and to the beach and back. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

One hundred fifty-four thousand of us G.I.s and Marines were poised to hit the Hagushi beaches. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyday people lying next to each other on a makeshift beach, the mottled spring light passing through the dense trees before softly surrendering to dusk. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I imagine World War II and the Allied forces storming the beaches of Normandy, but with water instead of weapons. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

But somewhere she’d taken a wrong turn and come out on the beach. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I beached the lifeboat at the foot of a giant cypress. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was when I first set foot on the shingle and sand beach of Chimpanzee Land—that is, Gombe National Park. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The next day we made our way toward the beach, every once in a while stopping at a gas station or store to make sure we were on the right track. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

They spent an hour at the beach, no more. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain had lightened to a drizzle, but the cobblestones of the path down to the beach were slick, and she walked carefully. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

They trekked out along the crescent sweep of beach, keeping to the firmer sand below the tidewrack. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Usually he tripped and fell, and the tip of the wave would wet him as it washed up the beach. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know if she would have the courage to keep going if she saw Taisin and Con on the beach behind her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Nathan pressed his palms into the soft beach sands to stand up. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

That spring and summer, once again the pattern of conflict spilled over into the parks and beaches. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He saw thousands of men, ten, twenty thousand, perhaps more, spread across the vastness of the beach. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Where the Argonauts had beached their boat for the night lived a lonely and wretched old man, to whom Apollo, the truth-teller, had given the gift of prophecy. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lives in a high-rise condominium on the beach in Florida. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was at the beach, close to Kapugen, helping him haul in a huge gleaming net. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I doubt they are, because we’ve been on the beach for hours and there’s been no sign of life. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dig trenches, unload railway wagons, push barrows of cement bags, construct invasion obstacles in a field or on a beach. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I follow her finger to where the wall of fog has just begun to seep out onto the beach. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Black and white demonstrators, guarded by police, conduct a wade-in at a segregated beach in St. Augustine, Florida, June 29, 1964. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he went down to sit on the sea beach in his new splendor. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the beach, well-behaved waves zipped and unzipped themselves. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Loudwing escorted Brightbill back to the beach, and a minute later the gosling was in his mother’s arms, safe and sound. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

All winter long her beach plum jelly brought back memories of summer vacation: August on toast. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The spotlight threw our pistoning shadows across the beach, ten feet tall and freakish. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I don’t see Jude on the beach or the street or anywhere on the cliffs. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I was alone on the reef but somehow I always felt he was sitting on the beach nearby. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They're old enough to bicycle with their friends to Cuxhaven on the North Sea where they camp overnight and dive for mussels that they cook on the beach. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Albert pulled his fur coat tightly around himself, opened the latch on a gate, and walked down a long series of battered concrete steps to the rocky beach. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Dark figures are on the beach here and there, sometimes half shrouded in the mist, and seem “men like trees walking.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He planned also to coat the beach with fallen oak and maple leaves to signify the fact that Columbus landed in autumn, even though live palms and dead deciduous leaves were not precisely compatible. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“If I’d known we were going to the beach, I would have worn flip-flops.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Then in 1934 the city decided to open a swimming beach along the shore in front of the house. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The flute climbed again and plucked cellos sounded below and the sea crept in and in toward the beach. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But would Mom and Dad camp out at the beach waiting for water, when they knew that Garrett and I were home waiting for them? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

To the left was the resort of Bray, a cheerful front of cafes and little shops that in a normal season would be renting out beach chairs and pedal bikes. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I studied the picture he was painting: tourists in swimsuits, lounging on the beach. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then the sound of the beach rocks clattering against each other warned us that someone was approaching. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She guessed, correctly as it turned out, that that beach would be a favorite spot, that it would be crowded on this hot Sunday. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

What is so wrong with going to the beach? A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Back then she spent long afternoons with Taft and the twins, splashing at the big beach, while I drew pictures on graph paper and read in the hammock on the Clairmont house porch. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Only affluent Baldwin County to the south, with its beautiful Gulf of Mexico beaches, was atypical, with an African American population of just 9 percent. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I was running along the beach in a storm. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The newsreels and magazines were choked with images of blazing artillery and bodies half sunk in the sand of a beach somewhere. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know how I’d get around the beach with this thing. Too much sand,” he said, gesturing to his foot. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

They jogged down the steps on the other side to continue on the beach. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Why I did not throw the spear, I do not know, for she was one of the Aleuts who had killed my people on the beach of Coral Cove. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meat spilled out, spoiled already in the heat, big floppy steaks better than anything they could get anywhere on the beaches. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The beach patrol officer is a small woman with a big voice. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Halfway down the path to the beach, standing completely unharmed in the midst of a flock of killer sheep, was an old friend. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

"We're headed to the beach. Try to hold on to your money." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I want to run down to the beach, I mean, a beach where you can go in the water. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stuart carried stones from the beach down to the water’s edge and ballasted the canoe with the stones until it floated evenly and steadily. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

After practice, they’ll all go to the beach or out to lunch at one of those fancy places where you can’t go barefoot like you can at my favorite place, Saucepan Lynn’s. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Leo wanted to call to her, but the sail caught the full force of the wind, and the raft cleared the beach. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

We step through the automatic doors, and the first thing I see is a bag display: giant canvas zipper totes and faux-leather purses and, already, a summery display of woven beach bags. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

"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

But the whole beach, throbbing in the sun, was pressing on my back. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Brightbill ran up and down the beach with the other goslings, peeping and laughing and pretending to be afraid of the tiny waves. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

People who live in Fargo must forgo the beach. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I arrived, like, an hour before they said the operation would start, but there were already lines up and down the beach and boardwalk, past the movie theater, running down all the side streets. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The isthmus is a medley of mountains, beaches, wet tropical forests, and dry savannas, and is the most ecologically diverse area in Mesoamerica. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

We headed for town but veered off toward the rocky beach that looked out onto the lighthouse, picking our way down the steep path to the sand. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

After fishing out the seaweed from the shallows, we lined it up in rows on the beach. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"So long as your hunters remember the fire-" "You and your fire-" The two boys trotted down the beach, and, turning at the water's edge, looked back at the pink mountain. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

And Mom took us down to Ocean City for a day at the beach, where we built a sand castle with Emily and jumped around in the waves. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

One night we were eating dinner together at the beach. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He got up in the night and walked out and stood on the beach wrapped in his blankets. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

No matter what ploy Ben tried, Toomer would not explain their presence on this wild and seething stretch of beach. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned and saw that Frankie had stopped beside Albert, and the two of them were picking up more treasures scattered across the beach. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He turned his head as if to face the mine, but saw Mom’s beach picture instead. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The one-armed man blew out his lamp and walked across the jagged beach, away into the shadows that only he could see. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At least not the sort of sand you find at the beach. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

They spent a night on a shaly beach, with no shelter and no fire. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told them about when me and Diego went to the beach by ourselves, the first and only time after my pop passed. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Fifty yards from that steep beach, the guns opened fire. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Abuela used to take me to the beach early in the morning every summer until she got sick.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She had a beach towel wrapped around her legs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Again Princesse stayed until the evening to watch the sky over the beach. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I thought of the three of us swinging at the beach. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I use the Aura arcana to extract the paint and coat the new body-shaped canvas, coloring it the same shade as the sand that lines the royal beach. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He refused and was shot through the spine with a shell that ripped open his shirt front and dropped some of his guts onto the beach. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

We ended up picking dead fish and garbage off the Stokum “beach” as part of the fall cleanup organized by my mom and the rest of the Lake Erie enthusiasts. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The shoreline, Amari noticed as they were unloaded at the place her captors called Charles Town, was rocky and harsh rather than soft beach. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The long beach was a flat crescent that marked the edge of a shallow cove. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He also was standing at the sink, and didn’t notice that the picture of us at the beach was gone. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I just needed to find the right opening, so I lingered on the beach and observed. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

They were going to Destin, Florida, a beach town on the Gulf about four hours away, with long white beaches and clear water. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The disoriented pirates trudged after them and collapsed on the beach. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I went down the hill and headed up the beach toward the reef. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our rooms were in the front of the hotel and they looked down on to the beach and the sea. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Along the beach, everyone was running—bolting for the cove, summoned by the golden clatter of the bell, so bright in the dusk. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Maybe if my dad had never bought that car, I wouldn’t have had a way to get to the beach. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The children who came along the beach, singly or in twos, leapt into visibility when they crossed the line from heat haze to nearer sand. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

His eyes had gone as deep as they had when he had spoken of learning to fly on that strange beach. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The world consisted of only me and Diego and the beach. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Giant waves rolled across the water’s surface and crashed onto rocky beaches. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It heads straight for the beach, where people run to help it land. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I bet three Marines could secure a beach against the whole U.S. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole landscape—beach and headland and sea and rock—quavered in front of my eyes like a stage backcloth. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Amari had had no idea what to imagine, but the land she saw was surprisingly beautiful, with lush green trees growing quite close to a long, sandy beach. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she made her way down the path, past the cabins, and then along the beach in the direction of the bone tree, Jinny stopped to look back at her island. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Your memories stretch from city days to nature reserves to lazy hours on the beach. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Cullen was a "beach pounder," and one of his duties was patrolling the three-mile stretch of desolate shoreline for any suspicious activity. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The sand of the beach was very white, cold and grainy, like sago, like the dust on the surface of the moon, and it was night, too, it was dead and cold and black. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

A rock constantly pushed by millions of drops of water and my brother is on the beach and I’m hoping the water doesn’t wet him. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

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

I tried to imagine how it’d even be like, chilling inside such a big place, right on the beach, but I couldn’t really picture it. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Apparently I walked down to the beach wearing nothing more. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“I think if we follow the stream it’ll lead back to the beach and the others.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She never exactly said, but I knew why the beach was special to her. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I looked down the beach at Mong, though, just standing there in the water, staring out at the ocean in one of his trances, and I could actually see it. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I walked along the whole edge of the island until I found Daisy sitting on an uprooted barkless tree that had beached here as some flood receded. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I was wondering, that’s all. You were mad that day at the beach. She wrote you that letter.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

There was Kapugen’s little house of driftwood, not far from the beach. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crew rushed over the beach, hauling the water casks and sacks of vegetables on board. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

A bitty, sandy cove—the tiny beach—is tucked in at the bottom of a long wooden staircase. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

On the beach she dug butter clams with a pointed stick, raking an arc in front of her. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Tibbets’s mind raced back ten years to a night on the beach in Florida. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sounds of firing were still all around me as the Japanese continued to cover the beach with their well- planned ambush. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we arrived at the beach, she walked immediately down the dirt path and over to the end of the reef ledge, where I had seen Bing disappear. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They faced each other on the bright beach, astonished at the rub of feeling. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The day I came of swimming age, which, to Mothers dis­tress, Mamaji claimed was seven, he brought me down to the beach, spread his arms seaward and said, “This is my gift to you.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The two logs stood on the beach, two naked people. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I met Felicia on the beach when we were both six years old. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we said we didn’t know them, Dad questioned Tom Grieves, who admitted readily enough that he had been showing tourists through the house and lighthouses, while we were at the beach. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I threw a stick down the beach for Plath to chase. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He was picturing himself on the beach, building a hut and eating coconuts. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

So I went down to the sea beach and the ship, where I found all my other men on board, weeping, in despair along the benches. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want her to be able to see behind this body, to see me inside here, to know that it’s the same person she spent an afternoon with on the beach. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

They drew up alongside the shore, skimming past mottled beaches and fields of grass. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The tide had gone out some, and I helped Osh push the beached skiff afloat. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Our alligator would not be the first to touch the beach, even though we were in the initial landing wave of 7,000 Marines. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

In bits and pieces he explained the plan: one night, he would drug the warders on duty at the lighthouse to allow for the landing of a boat on the beach. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the remainder of the day and night, they slept and ate, keeping the fire going in the stove with the blubber from four more seals they slaughtered on the beach. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He picked up a stone and flung it across the beach for Jasper. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes there would be a small diversion, like the time Min sent him to the beach for seashells. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Hotels hired extra security to patrol the grounds and beaches. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The storm clouds had now reached the edge of the beach. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

One by one the boats surged up onto the rocky beach, and the crew stumbled through the water, on solid ground for the first time in sixteen months. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“Let them search the ship. There’s plenty of good scavenge. Maybe it’ll keep them busy and we can sneak back to the beach later. Tonight or something.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

One weekend he suggests going to one of the beaches where his father had liked to walk. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Three North Korean agents grabbed her at dusk near a beach, stuffed her into a black body bag, and stole her away on a ship. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The helicopter gradually began to move, following the colorful current of evidence all the way up the beach, all the way to the marina where the Coral Queen was moored. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

They wandered along the river until they came to the wide beach, bright under the moon, where the low tide was turning. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The north coast of Africa was where they finally beached their ships. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

We followed him to the edge of the bluff above the rocky beach. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The only sound he could hear came from the regular, quiet breaking of delicate waves from the beach beyond the palm trees at the edge of the garden. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

With all his strength and with the staff’s power aiding him he struggled to make for that beach. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He could feel he was inside the current now and he could see the lights of the beach colonies along the shore. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

By three o’clock the beach was in sight, and with a last effort they dragged themselves through the breakers and hauled the boats out of reach of the waves. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The de-sal rigs down at the beach will do their job. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

A narrow tongue of land made a landing beach at the base of the cliffs. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

One of our favorite things to do after a storm was to head to the beach to see what we could find, because a hard rain helps the metal detector pick up signals. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The footage showed sailors standing at attention on deck, or dropping artillery shells into guns, or horsing around on a beach, waving to the folks back home. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In spring, along with the daffodils, crowds on the ferry, and workers raking the beaches, comes the ritual of real estate gossip. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I thought longingly of the black shoes on the beach. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The bird was chirping when Claire returned from the beach, carrying her sandals. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He was about to run up on a beach! The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chances of us flying my kite on the beach at the crack of dawn? Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

They all looked down the beach to where Sloth had been dumped. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The tide was out and the sun shone on the white sand of the beach. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twice I watched him sneak down the beach and I'd put money down he was throwing up. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

These people look a lot like the kid at the beach. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then he says, “My brother and I used to love to write in the sand on the beach. When my family would go to Maine.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“When I think of my own mother. On the beach in San Juan every winter. A tan, a bikini. Dancing, swimming, laughing. Boyfriends.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I call it the madman theory,” Nixon had explained to his aide Bob Haldeman during a walk on the beach before the election. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

A stony beach, a stony ledge or two, some pines—a few toppled over with their heads in the water, a few tilted, most of them still straight. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The boys knew, everybody knew: blacks frequented the beach at Twenty-Sixth Street; whites swam at the beach on Twenty-Ninth Street. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Imagine wandering through the most realistic virtual Paris ever, or lounging in a full simulation of Hawaii’s beaches. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

During the day they trained, playing football on the beach in army boots to build up their legs, and then at night they had the drills. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

From the beach, it looked much as it always had. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

It’s an old photograph of the four of us—me, my mom and dad and brother—standing on a beach, someplace tropical. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She almost fell, put one hand on the beach to steady herself, and then sprinted forward. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

We walk hand in hand down the beach as the sun dips in the sky. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t been to the beach in a long while. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He pulled his blanket about his shoulders and looked out down the gray and barren beach. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Frodo stood still, hearing far off great seas upon beaches that had long ago been washed away, and sea-birds crying whose race had perished from the earth. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He turned neatly on to his feet, jumped down to the beach, knelt and swept a double armful of sand into a pile against his chest. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

We checked her friends’ Instagrams and found a shot of her and Matt Halloway holding hands on the beach the night of the party. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walk along the beach and he shields me with a parasol. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

During family work Mr. Bruce showed us the photos the Mosses had taken the day we went to the beach. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The weather was wet and cold for quite a week, as it often can be in the west country in early summer, and we did not go down to the beach again. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

FBI agents were sent to stake out the beach in case the saboteurs returned. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

She listened to the rippling waves mingled with the voices of the other people at the beach. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The beach was very small, with high cliffs curving round in front, and the sea behind. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Cheers began to rise from the semicircle of boats ahead, from the beaches, from the observation train working its way along the shore, and—loudest of all—from the ferryboat chock-full of students. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

On the beach Gogol collects rocks, digs tunnels in the sand. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Everything went as planned — unless you count Russell’s failing to sink the raft, and Piper’s practically drowning trying to beach it — until Piper returned to the terminal to find Russell still out on the trestle. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They swarmed up the beach, and back down, and finally disappeared abruptly into the pines, Perlie the last in line, looking back at him and holding her nose. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

You remember her with songs, with shrines of shells and flowers and beach glass, with an arm around her daughter and, later, daughters of your own named after her. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He pointed to a picture of the actress walking down a California beach with an unidentified friend who held the baby against her chest. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I wonder if he and his dad are walking along a beach together. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I remember how he stood on the beach, his pants rolled up as he high-stepped, whooping and shouting, through the surf. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It isn’t totally dark yet, so I can see the ocean rumbling against the rocks and the beach up ahead. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

We looked like a cult on our way to the beach, where Mom was convinced we’d find the perfect backdrop somewhere among the dunes. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

When the horse pulled the children up onto the sandy beach, Tidbit jumped off right away and cheerfully ran on the wet sand. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want Rhiannon to ask me to go to a movie, to invite me over to her house, to suggest we drive to the beach. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Spraying sand, a few of them reached the top of the terrace closest to the beach. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

But blessedly, a bag of flour in Des Moines appeared to be a fine substitute for a beach towel in Waikiki. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Finally, I put us on a calm sandy beach with the sun setting into the horizon. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Gran claimed she was drawn to wild open wilderness and it didn’t get more wild than the endless forests and craggy beaches of Oregon. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ralph trotted down the pale beach and jumped on to the platform. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The giant tear in the sky bathed the beaches and coastline of the Golden Crescent in a red-orange blaze. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Pick up a pebble from a Massachusetts beach, and its nearest kin will now be in Africa. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Before they could rest, Shackleton ordered the boat unloaded and beached. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

My first thought was that he must’ve been taking a midnight jog down the beach and strayed inside the camp borders. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

One night a policeman tapped on our window and said we had to leave; it was illegal to sleep on the beach. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were men with shotguns behind logs along the beach just north and south of town. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Looking round for Blackberry, he saw that he had left them and was up at the top of the pool, where the narrow beach tailed away into a gravel spit. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He staggered across the beach, wondering why there weren’t any tourists or hotels or boats in sight. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I’d just turned fifteen and I met this guy on the beach, much older than I was- thirties, probably, possibly even early forties—and he invited me to go sailing the next day. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed like forever until we saw the beach at camp. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I look down by the small rocky beach. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they all went back down the beach to find more driftwood. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the air, I could feel the big salt where it kissed the beach. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He reached down and yanked her to her feet, and they limped together off the beach. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

My mother walked toward the right, where the beach was clean, and we all followed. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The beach, the fort, the small boats—everything had vanished. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

This sums up almost everything I know about SouthernCalifornia: palm trees and sunshine and beaches. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

They were trying to get to the beach. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The beaches glistened with smooth stones and sea foam. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Alone, she stretched out in the sand down the beach under the swishing leaves of a palm and stared at the sky. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“She’s gone down to the beach. Her people are here, looking for her. A whole clipper ship of them showed up an hour ago.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

When I open my eyes, I want to be on the beach. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Not long after that, Gat started lending me his books and finding me at the tiny beach in the early evenings. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He sat down on the beach in the coarse dry sand and pulled off his boots. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have to pout and roll my eyes for hours until she finally wears down and crumbles into a thousand grains of beach sand. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Giants, six-armed Earthborn, and wild Cyclopes charged from the beach, tearing down the dining pavilion, setting fire to the cabins and the Big House. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen the beaches in California, water that goes on for miles and miles, people basking in the perfect waves first thing in the morning. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He, wheeling once above them, screamed the hawk’s scream of defiant rage, and then shot on across the low beaches of Osskil, out over the breakers of the sea. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The fire reached the coconut palms by the beach and swallowed them noisily. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

When we reached the beach, they told me to put my arms at my sides, and the beefiest guy grabbed two rolls of duct tape from the sand. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I turned away and walked up the beach to the path dragging Jasper by his belt. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I’d never met a person who really had skin like that, one of those people who fry at the beach—honest! Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

They built a house at South Beach with a view of the sea and cleared a path to the beach. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

This is the post-graduation beach week they yearned for—on the Great Plains, about as far from an ocean as you can possibly get in America. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

We started walking on the sandy beach early in the morning and saw the sunrise. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

When Osh stirred the porridge, the spoon made a sound like a boat being dragged across the beach. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Such was the case with the Twenty-Sixth Street beach. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

This beach is peppered with round stones and broken seashells. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Rontu did not go with me to the beach because I had let him out of the fence and he had not returned. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could you be safe by the little stream or on the open beach? Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Not the beach or the sparkling blue ocean. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He went on baiting the solitary figure on the beach. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Digger, and I—had come over to the beach beneath the bluff for a swim. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

We take long walks on the beach, where she watches those namesake shore-birds, the sanderlings, leaving no stone unturned. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the story of a poor girl who is forced to marry a fisherman from a neighboring beach, though she loves someone else. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a wave of his hand he indicated the wide two-and-a-half-mile sweep of beach that was now in view. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance, beyond the rocks to the right of the beach, I heard a short, sharp bark. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m off today. You want to go to the beach?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Then Timothy began weaving a rope that would stretch all the way down the hill to the beach and fire pile. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She walked back to the beach and put the Bible down. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s the same beach we went to when we visited you guys.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Besides the lifeguard watching from his perch, there’s a gaggle of girls my age patrolling the beach with younger siblings in tow. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He and I walked on the beach and talked deep into the evenings, and I cried as I told him how lost I felt. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Beyond the circle of folding chairs was a beach littered with broken blue-glass bottles. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the houses on the opposite pavement ran out, areas of flat lawn appeared in their place, and you could see, beyond the lawns, the tops of the beach huts lining the seafront. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy is a ways down the beach now. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

This time while he was there, it was like sitting on a beach enjoying the sun while the tide rose cold around his ankles. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

A moment later, with no warning at all, she turned around and careened back down the beach in the direction of camp. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was past midnight in the seaside fishing village of Amagansett, on the East End of Long Island, New York, and a stubborn fog cloaked the town's ribbon of beach. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The sound caromed off the trunks of pine trees, carrying past the meager beach out over the water, where I floated on an inner tube, reading Love Story. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When the morning fog burned off and the sun was high, the beauty queens and the accidental pirates trudged through the waters to the beached ship to assess the damage. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

This campground lay on the headlands that overlooked the water, near the small beach. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

And you came out of the valley, heady and rather dazed, to the hard white shingle of the beach and the still water. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Days would pass at the beach without Dad saying anything about the coal mine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She pours a fresh heap of bread crumbs on the plate, their color and texture reminding her of sand on a beach. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I got used to the morning fog over the beach, the smell of hot strawberry fields in the afternoon, even the weird noises of monsters in the woods at night. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The contents of opened suitcases and flung purses were strewn across the beach. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Everyone on the beach thought we were the weirdest family ever. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He opened South African beaches to people of all colors, and stated that the Reservation of Separate Amenities Act would soon be repealed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The place looked like a typical summer camp, log cabins in the woods, kayaks strewn on the beach. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I need to talk to you about what happened at the beach.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The children decided we were gonna play abolitionists and slavers when we got to the beach and were arguing ’bout which one each of us would be. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The vast beach, the thousands waiting on it, and the sea empty of boats returned the Tommies to their predicament. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Down the beach, Charlie lay sprawled in the pulsing tide, holding on to his right leg. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

We saw Masson making his way back to the beach to stretch out in the sun. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

At this point, no one was even certain if they were heading toward the beach or back out to sea. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The window was uncovered and looked out at the beach and tall dark pines, and I had my own television and a huge bathroom with an ice-block shower cubicle. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

We'd land on the Normandy beaches, drive south, lie about our ages, and work in vineyards or ski chalets. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“He was only with me for one summer, Percy. Right here at this beach. This cabin.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance, a city was carved out of the wilderness, surrounded by lush green forests on one side and icy black beaches on the other. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I used to hike through those mangroves over there,” he says, pointing to the twisty trees along the path to the beach. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

At present, the blood rain’s falling and we’re on the beach below the monkey segment, far too close to the fog for my liking. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She stayed away from the beach intentionally, it seemed to him in his fretfulness, and gradually he became dark and morose. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

And the scenery is beautiful, especially taking the train down to the beach. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I wanted was jungles and lions and elephants and tall coconut palms swaying on silvery beaches, and Egypt had none of that. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

A moment of panic before he saw him walking along the beach downshore with the pistol hanging in his hand, his head down. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

In a series of calls from a phone booth at the beach, Oliphant arranged a stealthy meeting between a Globe reporter and one of Ellsberg’s people on the streets of Boston. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“But there’s other fun stuff to do near the beach,” I say from the back. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The heat rises from the green hood, reminding her of the ocean the day before it wiped the beach clean of homes, God’s bits of wood. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had pictured Dorothy standing on a boardwalk or beach, tossing Nipper into the air, Nipper soaring over the sand, the foaming surf. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“There’s a local half-wit who spends his time on the beach,” said Favell. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

On Thanksgiving day of Terryl’s senior year in college, she recalls that she and Kathie went for a walk on the beach. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

July passed, with fireworks on the beach on the Fourth. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I noticed the beer can that Shelly had used to clobber the speedboat driver floating about twenty yards off the beach. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

We restocked the coolers, but by the time we got back to the beach another hawker team was working our territory. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

We ride down Laguna Canyon Road, a main street that we’ve always taken to get to the beach. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

When I had finished, I carried the clothes beyond the beach and laid them on the grassy bank to dry in the sun. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She heard herself repeating what Fin had told her on the beach at the Academy: “All you can do is make your decisions based on what you know now.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He would destroy her rock people village down by the beach. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Now, what did you boys see out there at the beach?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Orders were given that if the team ran into anyone on the beach, they were to overpower them. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The beach was strewn with jagged volcanic rock. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It took all three of them to raise the chariot, but finally they’d managed to haul everything ashore to a black sand beach near the base of the glacier. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The page for the Cabo beach party swings back into view. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

We leave our teacups and walk down to the tiny beach. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

"And on the beach just now. This is what I thought. We want to have fun. And we want to be rescued." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

And once, I had won so much I stood on the beach in the moonlight skipping silver quarters across the calm water as the little waves pawed the shore. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Leo watched in disbelief as a large wooden raft floated in on the tide and slid to a stop on the beach. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I slogged bow-legged up from the beach as quickly as I could through the deep black volcanic sand. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

They traveled nearly four miles south to the Fifty-Fifth Street beach, where they left the bus and sat unnoticed, trying to calm down. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was oil, or grease, mixed in with beach sand, and it did not come away easily. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“A house on the beach on the Costa de la Luz,” I tell him. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was no more exhausting careering after Jasper on the rocks than it was careering after driftwood on the beach,” I answered. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Here’s a memory, which like most memories is imperfect and subjective—collected long ago like a beach pebble and slipped into the pocket of my mind. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Ralph jerked away from him and walked a few paces along the beach. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

There are three Smart Aids in Englewood, the small, somnolent beach town where I live. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I could feel his heart beating, but it beat only twice, very slowly, loud and hollow like the waves on the beach, and then no more. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad would lead the way from the house to the beach, dog-trotting, holding a bar of soap in one hand, and beating his chest with the other. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, Princesse walked down to the beach and watched the stars line up in random battalions in the evening sky. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I even go around to the front where you rent beach gear, because I know that sometimes he likes to stand around and talk to random people. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She argues with Abuela’s neighbors, picks fights with waiters, berates the man who sells ice cones on the beach. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The beach, I now believed, was about forty yards wide in most places, stretching all the way around the island. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spotting a black policeman, the boys pulled him down to Twenty-Ninth Street and told their story in front of everyone, including the white cop working the Twenty-Ninth Street beach, Officer Daniel Callahan. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I wondered what that beach must look like now, and I could see it filled with broken vehicles and dead soldiers. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

They stung like when I’d been at the beach all day and gotten too much salt water in them. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Then in the everyday, mediocre tone he used when he was proposing something really outrageous, he added, “Let’s go to the beach.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her name is Jacalyn, and she has two little girls in the Silk Isles, and they drink rose lemonade and lie in hammocks on their private beach overlooking the Bay of Silk. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

She could feel the dream shallowing, like a sleek ship beaching on a shoal. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Lourdes imagines her father, too, heading south, returning home to their beach, which is mined with sad memories. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stayed at the beach for a while longer but, no matter how much we fiddled with the telescope, the stars never seemed so far away. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

A few fish sat in pools, others lay beached on the sand, rotting with streamers of seaweed. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Lost. Totally lost. On the beach. In the clubs. On the streets. Heroin gateway to America, you know?” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Catherine was reading on the beach when Princesse called down to her from the hill. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Jack would hold his hand as they walked along the beach and watched the ships coming into port. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was a back patio that overlooked the beach on the other side of a low hedge. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Back at the Twenty-Ninth Street beach, the anger was gathering momentum that would wreak havoc far beyond Eugene’s death, spattering blood across the city. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Then they walked down the beach to the far side of the island, where the water was clear and there were no waves. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

This time, a crowd of people start shooing the poor dog away from the beach, gesturing angrily with their hands. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I was positive that Timothy was back on north beach cutting on that piece of wood but something told me not to go down there. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our amphibious boats turned around, roared back down onto the beach, and churned their way out into the water fifty yards or so. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s so pretty,” I say as we reach the beach. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The path ran on for several more yards along the front of the bluff, then descended to a small beach. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

All feats on that great field In the long warfare, Dark days the bright gods willed, Wounds you bore there, Argos' old soldiery On Troy beach teeming, Charmed out of time we see. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay. I got one. You know when you are looking for shells on the beach and you find one with a perfect hole in it?” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Max kisses her head and says that when the war is over, he’s going to take her to a beach, where she can feel the sand and play in the wide and salty ocean. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The subsoil beneath the palm trees was a raised beach, and generations of palms had worked loose in this the stones that had lain on the sands of another shore. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

All of them, from different vantage points around the beach. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I dreamed I was on the porch of Rachel's beach house in St. Thomas. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Of the twelve landing zones, our beach, Blue Beach One, was the worst. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was only the frozen, sandy beach stretching as far as the eye could see, and Con, sitting on the ground propped up against the packs they had pushed over the edge. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I must have gone swimming on the tiny beach alone. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I ran across the beach to begin pulling sea grape down. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A few. For the swimming and beach bonfire—and the movie. Not for the sleepover part on the terrace. Obviously.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Halfway across the beach, Miss Peregrine let out a warning cry, and the two zeppelins bobbed up over the dunes and into our line of sight. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

And then there were beach rats like him and Pima. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

A young white man stood on the beach about seventy-five feet away, gathering rocks, heaving them into the water in their direction. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The strip of beach seemed to vanish within seconds, and the girls were calf-deep in the sea. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The beast lay huddled on the pale beach and the stains spread, inch by inch. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

This morning we were walking north up the beach, like every other day, when all of a sudden we came up on a blue beach house that looked exactly like Mong’s. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

As periwinkles etched the beach with their purple trails, and sea foam blew off the waves and tumbled across the beach as if longing for a dog to come out and play. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

At first the plan was to tell each other ghost stories ’cause it was so dark and eerie walking the long stretches of abandoned beach. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Driftwood logs are shoved against the far end of the beach, almost to the tree line. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Once we came to this footpath near the beach we started heading north, who even knows why. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t believe in boredom when there’s so much to do around the house, as if cleaning the apartment were as entertaining as a day at the beach. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Raymond said that my being at the beach was just chance. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Then out through the door and onto the beach, to lie in the cool sand, my head pillowed on my laced hands. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

We’re digging into it here at the beach, and I’m shocked both by how hungry I am and by how painless it is to eat. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Personalizing a submarine that shells your beach every morning by calling it “Oscar” or referring to that one sputtering bomber that flew over Guadalcanal as “Washing Machine Charlie” made them seem less scary. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nailer and Pima forced their stiff limbs to move and stumbled down to the beach, joining a ragged assemblage of other survivors who were streaming toward the sands. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Why would I wear my lion skin? Do you wear a fur coat to the beach?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I’ve also drawn him into a few settings: sitting in the middle of the fireworks stands, in the forest, on the beach. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was my first trip to the beach. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I thought they must have seen us get on the bus with a beach bag, but I didn’t say anything. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Rachel was still dressed like she was on vacation, in beach shorts, a T-shirt, and sandals. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Frankie held his beach towel in one hand and his fishing pole in the other. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

There was a man on the beach, a fisherman perhaps, in long boots and a sou’wester, and Jasper was barking at him, running round him in circles, darting at his boots. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at our men standing on the beach and toward those who had now come from behind the rocks. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

By and by a small skiff motored into Thomas Bay and pulled up on the beach not far from my tent. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sandpipers ran along the beach; gulls screamed and looped through the air. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I order inner tubes, sunglasses, and beach towels for summer. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

She almost sensed the black shirts before she saw them on their way to the beach and the other girls. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

There’s no time to think about anything else—unless it’s raining and we gotta find another place to sleep than just the beach, like the public restroom. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Dug deep into the coral ten yards back from the beach, roofed with coconut palm logs and concealed under a thatch of leaves, 300 Japanese had waited out the storm. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shadows deepened and darkness covered the beach. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The beach was not at all like the one we had practiced on at Guadalcanal. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He chased us down the beach for a ways, but when he saw he wasn’t gonna catch us on foot, he spun around and ran back toward his car. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

One afternoon she stood barefoot on the beach, watching the trio of litde girls. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Sections of the gray skin had been worn away, maybe from bouncing around on the seafloor as it rolled into the beach. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

It’s not a kid’s bike, either, but a twenty-six-inch beach cruiser, deep blue, almost like Lena’s hair. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Good thinking,” I say, noting how different this kid is now than the Kelton I met at the beach. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Not a single car passed us all four blocks to the beach. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

All along the white beach, up and down, there was no living thing in sight A bird with a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling disabled down, down to the water. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shielding my eyes from the glare, I scan the beach. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The sea grape, a few feet tall at the edge of the beach, and higher farther back, grew along the slopes of the hill on all sides. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know it was late May because each day he dropped a small pebble into an old can that he’d found on the beach. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I wish we was at the ocean. On the beach and watching the ships far out on the water. You went to the beach one summer—exactly what is it like?’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Chicago's daily Tribune sported two full pages of beach bathers with wide smiles and dripping swimsuits, proclaiming, “KEEP COOL! There's room for 250,000 like these at Chicago’s Beaches Today.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I wonder if it will feel like those last kisses on the beach in the arena, the ones I haven’t dared let myself consider until this moment. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

South of that were little beach towns, and then Silicon Valley and Stanford. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

This time, I didn’t bother to take a piece of firewood down to east beach. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The beach stretched away before them in a gentle curve till perspective drew it into one with the forest; for the day was not advanced enough to be obscured by the shifting veils of mirage. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

They had been walking two hours when the beach was interrupted by another, much larger promontory, this one big enough that homes and shops had been built atop it. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It was one of those great June days when the sky is completely blue and the sun is shining but it isn’t so hot that you wish you were on the beach instead. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

They were on the beach, gathering driftwood to dry for the fireplace. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The beaches are devouring men—Americans, Canadians, Brits, Germans, Russians—and all through Normandy, heavy bombers pulverize country towns. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

His dark hair is kind of wild and messy like he’s been at the beach, even though there’s no beach in Bartlett, and shines blue-black in the light. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He beached the skiff, took out his tarpon gaff, and flattened every single tire—I think there were, like, eight of them—on the Carmichaels’ RV. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Each addition to Yolanda's beach basket causes a spill from the stash already piled high above the brim. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

This drive is much longer than the one we took to the clam-digging beach, so we’re eating breakfast in the car. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I found it in the cottage on the beach,” I said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Back on the beach, the girls built a signal fire from sticks, palm leaves, and paper from their morals clause contracts, rescued from their official “Welcome, Miss Teen Dream” folders. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He’s got a giant beach umbrella and a folding chair with a cup holder that always has a Big Gulp from 7-Eleven, who lets him use their bathroom. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

They continued another mile, and again the beach was interrupted by a ridge. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

So rather than continuing west to the desalination center at the beach, she decides to crank her wheel right and follow the truck. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

And the beach is covered in sand and big rocks and there is a lighthouse on a point but the light is not on because the lighthouse keeper is dead. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She was putting in a house on the beach. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I led the way as we coasted by the parking meters along the edge of the beach. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Toward afternoon the wind diminished somewhat, but the courts were all taken, and I decided to go down to the beach and lie in the sun and think about my match the following day. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I still need to buy a beach towel for tomorrow.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

At evening, off the fields of Ithaka, they bound me, lashed me down under the decking with stout ship’s rope, while they all went ashore in haste to make their supper on the beach. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Peeta has found a good tree about ten yards from the narrow strip of beach. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The beach, miraculously, was empty, a small, cup-shaped bay where no ship could have anchored—no docks, no port. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There were always plenty of other children for him to play with, and there was the sandy beach for him to run about on, and the ocean to paddle in. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

How strange that it was me sitting here on this beach with them. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Almost as beautiful as the sight of Sloth getting kicked down the beach, her eyes wet with tears for herself, while he was getting stitched up. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The final stretch of the trip—from deep water to the beach in a small rowboat—seemed to take the longest of all. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“The beach isn’t going anywhere,” said Imogen, digging in her bag. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I crouched next to him and looked back at the beach. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Down by Galveston, you set up camp on the beach. The fish, they were this big.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That summer Luke stayed home while I went to the beach with Leanne, her boyfriend, and his daughter, Savannah, who was about my age. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

What unknown covenants led her ultimately to this beach and this hour and this solitude? Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Have fun at the beach . . . good weather for sunbathing.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“We used to take a boat—barely seaworthy—out to French’s Island, sit on the beach, and drink Moxie.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Anytime I was anywhere near the beach, the hippocampi would ask me to help them with their problems. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I cry, falling back down on the sandy beach. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m pretty sure you got on my shoulders,” I said, remembering her parents’ house in Madrid that same summer we’d gone to the beach. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The deep red of plomms and the pale sand color of the beach itself, the black of the night sky and the green of the prairie. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

By the time the Lost Girls returned to the beach, the sky was the color of wet slate and an army of angry clouds massed along the horizon, awaiting further instruction. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She took the wallet out of the bag—it was a man’s wallet, brown leather—and grabbing Sammy by the hand, ran back to the long beach. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took only a few minutes to reach the beach on the place they called Sullivan’s Island. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, I would suddenly have the urge to be on a beach and to walk down to the water. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I think about the deadly jungle, the occupied beach. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

As he scraped away, I looked all around Mong’s beach, trying to think if I was taking advantage of my life. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Seeing them on a beach, like on a honeymoon—pretty tough. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

She hesitated, looked down the beach again to the bonfires and the men. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

A picture of three boys walking along the bright beach flitted through his mind. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Every shelf in his office boasted pictures of his kids: building sand castles at the beach, swinging baseball bats, waving from sailboats. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He thought he had no expectations—until he saw the beach. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“If we’re really lucky. Then someone comes out. Fishing boat or a trader will spot it, even if the beach rats don’t.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I remember the teachers telling us to hold our arms rounded, like we were carrying imaginary beach balls. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

So Teddy was the one who first spoke the words in our code, radioing back to General Smith at his command post on the beach. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe there’s a father and his little boy and they’re sitting on the beach. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The inventory of the beach and the ship breakers continued. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

We sprinted the other way, across the street, hopped an old rusty guardrail and ran along this grassy part near the beach. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

A whole afternoon at the beach without sunblock. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Marston, walking along the beach, spotted the smoke from a ship’s funnel. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

She looks ready to hit the beach compared to me, in my track pants and loose T-shirt. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Ishmael realized, in the early afternoon, that the sweetish smell coming at him from off the beach was the odor of dead marines. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I looked out the window to see her climbing into the back seat of Linda Cruz's dad's station wagon—with her beach towel. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

A run of flounder meant that a school of the tasty fish had come into shore far closer than usual; the waves even tossed fish right up on the beach. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Everything came into sharper focus—the glow of the fireflies down in the woods, the smell of the strawberry fields, the sound of the waves on the beach. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The two sailors hopped out and dragged the boat up onto the beach. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

By the time they got back to the arts center, where they had left the car, Joaquin could feel the sunburn on his nose and the beach tar stuck to the bottoms of his feet. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Carefully, we inched the Miss Amanda around the sandbar without beaching her until we were directly above the deep water. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Gregor made out a glittering beach flanking one side of the river up ahead. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

No surfing at the beach or shaking peaches or plums from fruit trees in the backyard. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rage didn’t appear out of nowhere that day on the beach. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In addition to a beach, The Lovely Condominium complex has everything their Beautiful Home in Bloomfield Hills had. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The beach in the cove was white shingle, like the one behind me, but steeper, shelving suddenly to the sea. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, a waterfall splashed in a grotto, while a spiraling waterslide connected it to the bottom level, where a miniature beach awaited. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Soon as we got back down to the beach with a big bag of Mexican food I told Rondell: “In a couple more days, man, me and you are takin’ a bus up to Fresno.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t going to ask for permission to go to the beach. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“I have to get back to my mom and dad on the beach. They’ll be worried,” I say. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

A cold, heavy presence passed over the beach, slowing time, dropping the temperature to freezing, and making me feel like life was hopeless, fighting was useless. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

She got up and returned to the beach. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they slapped each other’s back and raced off down the beach shrieking. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

One report talks about relief coming to beaches again sometime today, but there’s no way to know how successful this second wave will be. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Have you been to the beach yet, Michael? Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

We followed him up the beach to the storage garage. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys made a compact little group that moved over the beach, four plate-like shadows dancing and mingling beneath them. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

We went to the beach one day, and I’d leaned too far over the edge of the pier. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Sobbing, Adina pushed past Mary Lou, past the girls working on the ship, and far down the beach, searching for some place to run to until she realized there was nowhere to go. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

And they had come upon a low promontory that separated one part of the beach from the next. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The second log they found, beside the first on the beach, so close to the first log they were almost touching, was a log of elm wood. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Felicia used to collect seashells, then rearrange them on the beach before going home because her mother wouldn’t allow them in their house. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the memory, his old man stood before the hall mirror, the stubble on his cheeks poking through his white face makeup like beach scrub. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

John and his friends dashed back to the Twenty-Sixth Street beach and poured out their anger to the black bathers there. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He went down to the beach and crawled under an overturned rowboat and peeked out at the little waves. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry I kissed you on the beach,” said Ishmael. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I do that sometimes. I hadn’t planned on the beach today.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

We locked arms and walked between the dark cottages down to the beach. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I walked along the beach for several hours. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

We had started a tradition of bringing our staff down to the beach each September, and we'd all fallen in love with the clear warm waters of the Gulf. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Mostly, he gardens and takes long walks on the beach.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

We were all blind with the newness of this experience: a Chinese family trying to act like a typical American family at the beach. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

How many lifetimes have I gone through since the riot at the beach? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

How does she remember where she’s left her baby on this beach that stretches all along the southern coast of Cape Cod? Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

It’s a town of beaches and bluffs on the tip of the south fork. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nyame said, and he turned back to the impostor, who wriggled furiously on the beach. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

When I start shivering, I step out of the water, grab my towel, and sit on our beach so I can warm up in the sun. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

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

In this place, there is no kitchen except for an outdoor grill serving up shrimp further along the beach. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Malcolm X said, “Now, just read that, just think of that a minute! Suppose it was your child! Where’s that slumlord- on some beach in Miami! ” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Lost Girls set off down the beach. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Low, shaggy clouds scudded over that part of the horizon where the sea lay, behind the marshes and the beach shanty settlements, and raindrops darkened the black mackintosh I had bought that morning. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I walked for nearly an hour before I found a wide stretch of water and a sandy beach, with boulders scattered about. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out of the darkness, the first of the surfboats came at last, the waves thrusting it toward the shore, and we ran into the water to guide it onto the rocky beach. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

We fill a handful of shells with drinking water and go back to the beach. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I caught the streetcar to go to the public beach down at the harbor. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Instead, she put her hands to her face and ran up the beach. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Eventually he gives up and slumps on the beach, head in his hands, sun glinting gold in his eyes. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The two trackers scurried about on the little beach, and they saw Kino’s progress up the cliff before they drank. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d had hills, beaches, and his own mind to keep him company. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I was barefoot and the patio was hot, so I hurried to where the boys were swatting a beach ball with some branches. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Ivy’s stomach flipped and flopped like a fish on the beach. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Two figures emerged from the trees in front of the beach. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I had seen him wandering hungrily about the beach that morning. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The littles, having been down at the big beach all afternoon, were being forced into showers and fresh clothes by Gat, Johnny, and Mirren at Red Gate, where there was an outdoor shower. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“Your mom dropped her phone at the beach.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

A few days later, on a quieter day, he sketches the beach. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

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

In the first dull light he rose and walked down the beach. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

As the two of them walked up and down the beach in painful silence, Ess periodically stopped to root in the sand with a dirty foot, but it did no good. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

A black cloud of smelting smoke blew over the beach, enveloping them in haze and ash. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Jinny felt herself cutting across the beach alone, carrying her limp bundle beneath the smudgy sky. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

At last he turned away and looked down at the beaches. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

We walked on the beach for a long time. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Soon a light rain begins to fall, and Mrs. Fiester yells, “Oh no! Girls! Please run down to the beach and collect my towels.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

All you can think about is what he was really thinking the whole time he was speaking to you or walking the beach with you or swimming laps or playing fetch with your dog Ginger. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

We walk under trees at the back of the beach. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You coming to the beach?” she had asked. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

John Henry and High John waited for me by the beach. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Ess walked calmly down the beach, while Loo was in constant motion. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Everybody just lived in grass huts on the beach and had to fish every morning to get their food. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She turned, wiping her eyes furiously, and stormed up the beach, the breeze tousling her hair. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Hardly anyone goes to the beach on a breezy winter day except a few walkers. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

We took turns, going down the list, and then the item “Things at a beach” came up. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

And then I walk down to the beach. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

We ride home in the Garcías’ Plymouth with the silver fins that remind me of the shark I saw at the beach last summer. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“This was a pristine beach! Look at it now.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“No TV watching. Me and Annie are going to do some running on the beach, I guess. I don’t know. Maybe go fishing if it’s not too rainy.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

We need beach gear and, according to Olly, souvenirs, so we stop in a store called, helpfully, Maui Souvenir Shop and General Store. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

A hundred yards in from the beach, what had seemed like a walk in the park had turned into a swim in a sea of fire. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the littles ran to find feathers on the beach, Ben carried away the strange fish and then scrubbed the table down. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

As the water left her body, she shrank until she was able to walk on the beach without crushing Nathan. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

They never took beach trips or went out to dinner. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The other fishermen would have barely pulled in the last net when they would hear a splash and see Mohammed cutting through the sea, racing them to the beach. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I turned east toward Sully’s Inn and the private beach where we could hawk our sugar for twice as much. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When the beach empties and there aren’t any little kids in the water.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw a beach made of ice, and she felt her heart breaking. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

My father lay on the beach and the waves were already washing over him. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hair rolled back cleanly as a wave at the beach. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Percy felt exactly like he had at twelve years old, battling Ares on that beach in Los Angeles, when the shadow of the Titan lord had first passed over him. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Liyana had never yet been to a beach in this country. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

We passed all kinds of tame animals, A sea turtle napped in a stack of beach towels. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He leaped up the beach, through the brush line toward his brush house, and it did not occur to him to take one of the canoes of his neighbors. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw the white man turn and run back toward the Twenty-Ninth Street beach. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He picked up his bucket and his jars and his crowbar and went slowly over the slippery rocks back toward the beach. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone was on the beach, having something to eat. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“I saw you—and I—we were on a beach. An icy beach.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Behind the restaurant was a small beach, and when they were done eating they walked for a while along the shore, into a wind so strong that they had to walk backward. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Osh had told me many times—so often that it had become like a bedtime story—how he’d found me in an old skiff that had beached itself on the wrack line overnight. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Who knows, your very flesh may be polluted, dirty as an oily beach, sure death to shore birds and unborn babies. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

In two day’s time they were walking the beach as far as the headland and back, trudging along in their plastic bootees. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He left his feet and came down on Red’s back with his knees, the air rushing out of his lungs as though he were a beach toy. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its rumble could be heard on the beach, like a giant groaning in its sleep. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Without knowing it, that was the beach he had been walking to for days. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But at last, in the late afternoon he was done and the raft—which he called Brushpile One for its looks—hung together even as he pulled it into the water off the beach. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the Solomon Islanders who had been watching our invasion from the jungle came out and began wandering around the beach. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither said anything about their kiss on the beach two weeks before. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I have some really nice runs down by the beach and the woods on Bainbridge Island, which is where we live. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

This beach, so soft, firm and vast, was like the cheek of God, and somewhere two eyes were glittering with pleasure and a mouth was smiling at having me there. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

They waited until dark, then hurried down to the beach and tried to get a boat out to the big American ships. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

At dark the hunters brought their catch into Coral Cove, and there on the beach the animals were skinned and fleshed. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

We decide to head to the beach at twelve o’clock. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

At a nearby waiting area, I noticed a television running a news clip of a beach full of people holding up cameras and phones. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She sprinted across the beach, grabbed some supply bags, and ran them to the raft. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Outside it was a lovely warm evening and I could hear the waves breaking on the beach just across the road from the hotel. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

His boat was high on the beach, and the tunnel...well, he’d rather take his chances in the open than in the tunnel if he had to deal with the rats. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Old guys' legs, at beaches and places, always look so white and unhairy. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

They're sitting next to each other at the beach, shoulders touching. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

There was also some other brush that did not feel like sea grape, but Timothy did not know the name of it To the south, the beach sloped gradually out into the water. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then she stood up and started walking across the sandy beach as though it were a solid paved path, and I was trying to follow behind, struggling and stumbling in the soft mounds. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then beyond the gleam of the beach and the bare rocks and reefs, more than a league beyond them, I saw a great white crest moving down upon the island. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He can walk about three miles to the North Sea coast and stroll on the beach and into the sand dunes. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Jen flicked off the radio and a terrible quiet descended on the beach. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

We had gone to the beach, to a secluded spot south of the city near Devil’s Slide. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

In December, 1959, the Somerset’s “beach facilities” consisted of two beach umbrellas stuck in a strip of sand at the rear of the hotel. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wrapped a yellow beach towel around my shivering body and sank into a patio chair. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“No,” he gasped, surfacing fast to be spilled back into reality like someone beached by the crash of a wave. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

For the next two years, early every morning, before the day got too hot, he drove to the beach where he took a walk. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

It rained so that I couldn’t see across the dorm circle, so that the lake swelled up and lapped against the Adirondack swing, swallowing half of the fake beach. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

And in a flash, Jinny was back a year, back on the beach, and the boat was there. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

But he made it to the beach side. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

For some reason it made me think about that drum circle we did at Venice beach. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She lived near the beach—in a mansion, practically—and she had a pool with a slide in her yard. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

On their annual travels between the foothills and the shore, paleo-Indians seem to have visited the area periodically to feast on the cormorants and boobies that nested on the rocks by the beach. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Something stung her face and hands like sand blowing on a beach on a windy day. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

No longer were they dead logs on a beach: now they were alive. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

I walk down the beach away from all the people because they make me feel squirrely. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

But then the next day we’ll just lounge around the sand on the beach not talking, just watching the waves or checking out the people who roll by. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“You hardly ever leave except to go to the tiny beach.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The campground was nestled between the beach, a creek, and the highway. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Then we went running across the beach, dodging back and forth so that we would not be a good target for the small arms fire coming from above. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents hold hands and walk along the beach. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

We were walking on the beach and the wind whipped Halmoni’s long skirt around her legs. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Lake a myriad of tiny teeth in a saw, the transparencies came scavenging over the beach. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I spend the morning lying on the beach with Tressa and Brandy, and I try to pretend that I like it. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Then the beach parking lot was full, so they had to park half a mile away and walk. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

The video store is David’s favorite place, better than the circus, the fair, or even the beach. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If there’s fresh water at the beach, maybe we should go there instead,” Henry says, having no idea what the rest of us have already been through. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I immediately get a vision of the beach. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Whites and blacks massed at the beach after Eugene Williams was hit by a rock and drowned. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They trudged up the beach with their baggage looking for shelter but they found none. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

In the distance a flat-bottomed motorboat lay beached on a strip of sand scarcely wide enough to accommodate it. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I asked him if the swimming was good there, since the beaches were so splendid. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Never go to the beach on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend. Especially when there's been a heat wave for more than a week." The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

We dragged our boats across the beach toward a sea cave, its entrance a black fissure in a hill of rocks. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

When I look back up, she is spinning around the beach, kicking up sand, calling my name. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He walked at a tremendous pace, and the climb up from the beach was steep. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Then the two girls ran back down along the path, past the sleeping cabins and over the dunes to the beach below. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“We’re going to have a picnic with some other foster families at the beach!” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

They were coming the evening of the Fourth of July and that meant Lily would have to cut short her fun at the beach with her friends and get back in time for dinner. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

This would have been the best beach day of the summer if we were on land. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dicey didn’t see James fall, because when he lost his balance she had taken off down the beach. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

By sunset the beach was pretty much deserted, and the riot officers who were left behind were firing warning shots at anyone who dared to come close to the ruined machines. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

We were on a beach and the sun was bright and I was in my mother's arms. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Ten years ago, Toto was walking with his wife on a beach in Ocean City, New Jersey. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

After a quick lesson, they ran out onto the beach and started combing it for Nazis. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The voices of bargaining beach vendors who sell shiny wares with such charisma that people can’t resist them. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

They carried their new stores bundled in tarps or blankets down the beach and packed everything into the cart. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

A half hour later, Grandma and I are hidden in the brush above the beach waiting, if necessary, to save Noah’s life. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“It was really just an ordinary silk handkerchief—you could see when you got up close,” said the woman in the beach chair beside Mrs. Carpenter’s. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Me and Rondell wake up on the beach and the first thing I think about is food. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Kaede sat still on the beach, watching the flames grow, and she felt a thick, ashen despair settle over her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

"They must walk across their native sand. We think that something registers in their brains that kicks in twenty-five years later because they return to the beach where they were born to lay their eggs." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

And there was nothing she could do about it because she'd be at the beach. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

But then...I come across something on the beach I never expected. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Loo ignored her hand and instead catapulted himself off toward the beach and ran ahead. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She had a beach towel folded under her arm. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“And I want a house on the beach in Hawaii. ‘I want’ is not an acceptable answer.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

He loved her manner of sleepy acquiescence when they lay on the beach at dusk. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Mike followed, talking about an upcoming trip to the beach. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

We walked over to watch the dudes playing ball on that famous beach court, right there between the walkway and the sand. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Immersed in the delight of the game, they drifted closer and closer to the Twenty-Ninth Street beach. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I climbed down over the rocks to the beach below. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Hey, let's get up at the crack of dawn. We'll try it out down on the beach! Just you and me, right? Before all the little tourists stake out every square inch, right?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

From October 17 to 19 of 1943 we conducted landing exercises on the beaches of the Canal. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would be waiting on the beach, for what was the fun of a voyage if no one were there to greet him? Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water at the beach frothed and receded. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I watch him scramble up the beach, then the bluff, with his head down, shoulders hunched, thinking about Clark Gable knows what. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Three or four families already crowded the beach, and the Tillermans had to eat the apples for breakfast after all. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ahead I spotted two familiar figures, one running and the other pedaling a beach cruiser beside him. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

There was more on the boat than they could carry and he thought they might stay a few days on the beach and eat as much as they could but it was dangerous. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Up ahead was another blotch of land—a saddle-shaped island with forested hills and white beaches and green meadows—just like I’d seen in my dreams. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then a second realization broke as clearly and bleakly as dawn at the beach. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stayed put for the rest of that long, early summer afternoon, but when the evening cool came into the air and the families on the beach left, the Tillermans went down by the water. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess I ask because of the thing he did on the beach—that was pretty cool. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I got within ten feet and hit something like an invisible beach ball. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, boats aren’t meant for beaches, so let’s work on getting her back in the water.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The boat guy said he’d meet them on the dock that extended from the far end of the beach. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

During the first week of September, it was my family's habit to rent a beach house on Ocean Isle, a thin strip of land off the coast of North Carolina. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Ice on the roads and the fields, and the beach where his grandmother lives. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sits there like a beached ocean liner, the prow cutting through swells of green turf, windows without number. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just like the waves Peeta and I encountered on our brief tour of the beach in District 4. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

Piggy was only just visible, bumbling up from the beach. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

His living room floor is like a beach after the weekend. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t scared, like I was when the water-zombie kid on the beach was trying to suck the water right out of Alyssa’s mouth. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“We have to be orderly there and not act like idiots. We took our stuff already. And Will caught three jellyfish at the big beach and also a dead crab. Will you come see them?” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I went to the beach with some friends. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She jerked her head back to the beach and the ship-breaking yards. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Just as I opened my mouth to call for Ruth, who always tagged along in my dreams, a thick mist blew over the beach. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I undressed in one of the bath-cabins, crossed the narrow line of beach and went into the water. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“We can go down to the beach and hang out for a while.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

We didn’t eat anything, because we wanted to get to the beach early. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“The time I broke my ankle in football. I like the way this beach looks now. Shall we have a morning swim?” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was the boy of this place, of these woods, these beaches, the boy who smelled like this forest. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

And this time he just has his eyes on mine and a smile that’s fading off his face, draining like water from a bathtub, like sand through your fingers at the beach. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then Masson asked me if I wanted to go for a walk on the beach with him. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

There were several cars parked along the beach road with couples welded together in clenched silhouettes. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

This way, he tells Theo, “on the beach or in a meadow or a field you have a view as if through a window.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

As if we are a happy couple, in love on the beach. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Princesse returned to the beach and found her stretched out in a black robe, in her usual lounging chair, reading a magazine. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

They had a fire on the beach that evening and steamed mussels so hot and chewy they burned their tongues on the tawny meat. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up an ordinary beach shell and looked at it with elaborate interest. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The third message is a photo of the beach: a long stretch of white sand, a cloudless blue sky, and a glittering turquoise sea. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Thing number four: No one else on the beach seemed to see him. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I ran down the beach and waded into the water. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

We four stopped running at the tiny beach down by Cuddle- down House. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

They rode in the back of public buses, sat in the balconies of segregated movie theaters and swam at segregated beaches. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The convoy had parked on a deserted beach. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Satisfied, he picked up his shoes and walked to the edge of the beach and then onto the reef to the point just before it was wet. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing was missing except the knife, and I knew he’d taken it to north beach with him. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, that silly metal detector of his. Naming it Homer and talking like it was a family member. ‘Should we take Homer to the beach with us? Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“I guess I don’t really like your face. Bet it was once pretty though. Pretty beach boy. I got dumped by too many of those.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Nantucket, with its vistas overlooking cranberry bogs and more than eighty miles of beaches, has always had its share of rich people. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

They passed one beach after another, and the shacks, now locked up, that sold frozen lemonade and quahogs in summer. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Ground, sea, and air troops from the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada, supported by the French resistance, stormed onto the beaches of Normandy in France. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Then they went back to the long beach. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The brush houses of the fishing people were back from the beach on the right-hand side of the town, and the canoes were drawn up in front of this area. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

We park at a trailhead and walk down the rocky beach. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

That meant no more walking on the beach. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I turned and walked back to where my bike and beach towel lay. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

There were plenty more dead marines on the beach now, and plenty more of the wounded, too, and the men behind the seawall tried not to listen when they moaned or called out for help. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I knew that he consumed volumes of political philosophy as if it were beach reading, that he spent all his spare change on books. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The home she watched was a single-story box of a dwelling, like many of the homes on the beach. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

There was no answer, so she ran down the path to the beach. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

An hour later we spotted land—a long stretch of beach lined with high-rise hotels. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I could be in the south of Spain, at the beach; I could be in Italy, the Cinque Terre, all those pretty coloured houses and the trains ferrying the tourists back and forth. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man sets me on the stony beach. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

People with money who drive through Altamira to the beach resorts on the north coast, she means. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

For years, the beach had been divided into black and white sections. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

On the far shore was black beach shrouded in haze. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The president felt as if “he was himself again” when he saw people swimming and walking at the beach, boats sailing on the ocean, and the soldiers pacing the perimeter of the cottage lawn. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Well probably do something small on a beach.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In his mind he saw Crane-man making his slow, painful way back from the beach, with only a broken crutch to help him. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Summer days, eight-year-old Dicey was responsible for taking them all down to the beach. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bennie and Tee walked to where Sierra stood, and then the three of them fell into stride together, heading toward the beach. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

When she sprinted down to the beach a minute later, she found the boys had moved on from scales to guts. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The black shirts had been busy setting up a performance area on the beach. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

In a little while he put fresh undershorts back on and set out for the beach in his moccasins, a khaki-colored bath towel draped over his shoulders. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

A tunnel led from the beach into the dark. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then she promises to go to the beach the following day with Ivanito. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps he went to the beach by another way,” I said; “I may have missed him.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of Marines died in the water and on the beaches. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

All at once they were running away, as fast as they could, through the forest toward the open beach. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He presents Gerald and Lydia with a sketch of the main house done one afternoon down at the beach, the first thing he’s drawn in years that hasn’t been for work. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I recall the strife upon Hog and Noddle’s Islands, when the grass burned and the beach puckered with the shot of Marines. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

And along this wall, in its shadow, was a reef ledge that started at the edge of the beach and continued out past the cove where the waters became rough. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I had imagined on that beach in Rabat, my senior year was full of activity, activities that I chose for myself instead of following a never-ending to-do list. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

This part of the beach was nearer the mountain than any other that they had seen. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Runaways who hadn’t showered in a grip and probably smelled like week-old sweat and seaweed and sand from the beach. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Isabella painted an amazing poster of a Hawaiian beach at sunset. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

We walked farther down the beach, the light growing dimmer. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why I went to the tiny beach alone. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Often, when she returned yet again to the sink with the high taps and the soda block, it was beach sand she scrubbed away from between her fingers. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go back to the beach,” Brandy says, and I nod. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

And beyond the dead trunks, maybe sixty yards away, was the boat, sitting beached in the marshes under the weak sun. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Last time I saw them on the beach, my mother had a kriz. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

As I got off the elevator, 320 feet above the Florida sand, I could look out and see the beautiful beach and the calm blue Atlantic. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

On family vacations in Belize, I’d seen girls on the beach with belly rings, and I thought they looked so cool. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Albert scooped up a handful of things from the beach. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

By dark I was away from the beach area and out in the country. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And anyway, I had to do something to make up for being so useless at the beach.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

So, instead of heading home, my friends and I decided to take a drive to the beach. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I focused my thoughts on sunny beaches and palm trees as I finished the enchiladas and put them in the oven. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The beach wasn’t far from the bus stop. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Like tan, from swimming pools and beaches and all. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

He informed us that there were fishermen who were fighting over who should fish from which beach along the lake shore of the Game Reserve. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were no windows, so to give an illusion of light and space one wall was covered in a huge photogram showing a tropical beach, with bright blue sky and white sand and coconut palms. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

There is a tiny curved beach in front of the station, a miniature beach between little reefs. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ahead of him, the beach was covered with stones, their hard outsides rubbed off and smoothed so that they glowed as the waves gathered them up and down. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

There was nothing that could reach the beach in hours. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The kids around him were telling one another about all the fun stuff they’d done that summer—trips to Disneyland, camping in Yosemite National Park, or swimming at the beach. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

A small one, in the open, perhaps on the beach. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

She turns her phone around to show me an Instagram picture of a group of people wearing bathing suits, and sunglasses, and hats, posing happily on a sandy beach. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

From Durban I drove south along the coast past Port Shepstone and Port St. Johns, small and lovely colonial towns that dotted the shimmering beaches fronting the Indian Ocean. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had remained friends, talking over dinner and on walks on the beach. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

We’d be riding donkeys from the train station to our house on the beach when, halfway up a hill, the ocean would suddenly come into view. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As night fell, the leader of the captors ordered small fires to be made on the beach, and Amari soon smelled the welcome odor of food cooking. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t the wound, though it hurt at every step, and it wasn’t the dive-bombers circling over the beach some miles to the north. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Soon the beach Cullen was patrolling would be crowded with vacationers staking their claims on the sand with colorful towels and umbrellas. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Sierra broke into a run and burst across the boardwalk, out onto the milky darkness of the beach. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Miss Montana swept her arm toward the juggernaut on the beach. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

In good faith, Dad moved the dining room table, the chairs and his pew out onto the beach grass at the side of our cottage, where the newsreel man said the light would be best. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

She glanced back to where the invisible hulks of the wrecked ocean vessels lay along the beach. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Dread lay on Gilly’s stomach like a dead fish on the beach. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

The tubby little fighter planes dove like hornets, bombing and strafing the beaches where we’d soon set foot. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He’d heard that sometimes a surge could move the coastline inland as much as a mile, turning beaches and trees into a murky swamp sea, the new ragged tide line of rising sea levels. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

My parents, Kia, and I had taken a weekend trip to Carmel, a quaint beach town about ninety minutes away from our house. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Back in Provincetown, there was a belt of sandy beaches all around the town, except for the harbor side, where houses were built out over the water. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today, she and I lie out on the tiny beach. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

A resort place on the beach where we could live simple. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Even when we went to the beach in the summer he never lay down to drowse in the sun the way I did. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The vine rope would also serve to get me safely down to the beach. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until hours later, that is, when they learned that the Coast Guard had uncovered boxes of explosives and German uniforms along the beach. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“We can’t have the Ophiotaurus tossed around like a beach ball. Be good, my son. We may not speak again for some time.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Leo wondered where it led: probably to the girl’s secret lair, where she roasted her enemies so she could eat them at her dining table on the beach. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Various unusual objects littered the room—a birdcage, a phonograph, a battle-ax, a hanging scale, a mannequin, a globe the size of a beach ball. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He’d continued down to the beach still unaffected, the bad news acting with a kind of discretion, allowing him these last few peaceful, deluded moments. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When Kathy saw that beach, she could only think of the hike, that insane hike her husband had insisted they take. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Roz and Brightbill followed a trail through the fog and over to a beach that was crawling with fluffy goslings and proud parents. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Miles below, Oscar was in one of those tiny beach houses...maybe looking up! Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Soon as the guy turned his back to us again, Mong broke for the beach. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

But I saw it as my punishment: to go out with my mother, back to the beach, to help her find Bing’s body. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no beaches, for the cliffs dropped straight down into the water that lay darkened by the cold reflection of their heights. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Captain Orlov and his Aleut hunters moved to the island that morning, making many trips from their ship to the beach of Coral Cove. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was not surprised at Mademoiselle Reisz’s question the morning that lady, following her to the beach, tapped her on the shoulder and asked if she did not greatly miss her young friend. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back at the public beach the bathing suits were hot pink and yellow. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you and your friends coming back to the beach soon?” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I'd run into him on the beach a few times, but I wasn't usually here at this time in the afternoon. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The beach was quiet, except a few older couples walking by holding hands. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

No one answered—maybe because, like Piper, they had noticed the figure standing on the beach. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Our little alligator had a ramp on the back to be lowered when we got close to shore and swung around so the aft side was toward the beach. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d take me for ice cream and walks on the beach, and we’d have secret jokes and signals like my friends do with their dads. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“Is this the boat you found beached that day?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The water was warm, the fishing was good, and it weren’t no problem to sleep under the boardwalk or even out on the beach. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the moment he was at his home in Málaga, a beach town on the Spanish Mediterranean, in his cluttered office, tracking this storm making its way across Florida. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She walks past the pawpaw tree, past the rows of gangly bird of paradise, past the house of her neighbor, Ilda Limon, and down a sandy path skirting the beach. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the cellar was waiting, everyone on the beach. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The road they were on led through the center of the park until it branched apart about halfway through and went as two roads to the two different beaches. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later in the afternoon, when the beach began to empty, Dicey looked around, to gather James and Maybeth and Sammy together. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

A very small move, little but a slight shift of fingers along the white plastic arm of the beach chair. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He forgot his wounds, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear on flying feet, rushing through the forest toward the open beach. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

But the actual beach, the one he and the corporals gazed on now, was no more than a variation on all that had gone before: there was a rout, and this was its terminus. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“My dear, you are an optimist,” said Beatrice, “I can hardly ever remember bathing here. The water is far too cold, and the beach is shingle.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

When they did, Beowulf knelt on the beach and gathered up shingle in his fists and kissed it. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the wind and sea had gone to his head, for he backed away from me, barking stupidly, and began racing round the beach after nothing at all. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

And, of course, Callie is using my dress as a beach towel so that her precious skin doesn’t touch the hot plastic seat. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Further along the beach, beyond the little river and near a great slab of rock, a thin trickle of smoke was climbing into the sky. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Clumps of rotting, smelly seaweed littered the beach that the tourists were going to use. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Last stop along the beach. Unless you wanna head up to College Station with the rest of us.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

In the morning, Timothy began making the fire pile down on the beach. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes! He’d call them Treasure Trove Mondays because tourists had been dropping things on the beach all weekend. Remember the diamond ring?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Would I maybe like to go for a walk on the beach someday after work? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two teams were organized and, after much debate, names were chosen: The Sparkle Ponies would stay on the beach, tend to the wounded, and try to salvage whatever they could from the wreckage. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Though the weather was cool, the beach at Herringsdorf was dotted with quite a few diehard nudists. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We take a circuitous route back to the ten o’clock beach. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mauve favors outdoor scenes: peasants in fields, men on horseback on a beach, flocks of sheep. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Then I looked up, checked the line of big rocks between the sand and his blue beach house. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I'm sorry. I’m not making sense, but that thought just came to me. The message I wrote on the beach was different. It had your name in it.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The beach was a hard place to survive without crew. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

A hundred feet below, the bay glittered against a crescent of red sand beach. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The music of the words rolled up and burst across Gilly like waves upon a beach. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

I left the cabin and headed for the beach. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

There she rolled a moment in the shallow surf and lay panting, with the welcome grit of the beach on her cheek. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The flower was a beach rose, pink and loosely constructed, the kind that grows along the Beechwood perimeter. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

They were on a cliff overlooking a beach. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

North beach was a very strange beach anyway. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were shouts on the beach, last-minute preparations, the verbal-and-static gunfire of walkie-talkies. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Piper tried to imagine Jason becoming a god when he died, standing on some beach guarding the gates to an ocean long after Piper and everyone else he knew in his mortal life were dead. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Going away for a rest to the sea and the beach. Now, Samuel, get out with your fooling.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

After the hotel burned down, we lived for a few days on the beach. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Osh slid out of bed and along the wall to the window facing the beach. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

It was before the disastrous May when the Allies fled, retreating to the French beaches, before the siege that was the Battle of Britain, before the thunder and flame-filled nights of the Blitz. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

She grabbed the girl’s hand and pulled her off down the beach, heading for the sleeping cabin the two would share until the boat returned. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

On their feet at once, 430 the suitors took the road to the sea beach, where, meeting the black ship, they hauled her in. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course you are. And I’ll walk down the beach a little ways, look for mama some more there. Okay?” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I grabbed a beach blanket and a six-pack of Coke from under my bunk. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He pushed the plastic scavenge door aside so that he could see down the beach. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He transferred all die eggs from die small beach into the shelter, reburying them near his sleeping area. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z